The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-11-05
ADDRESS
OF the Union Republican Congressional Zee
eutioe Committee to tile People Of the States
that are to cote in N0Uena6er. -st

OF the Union Republican Congressional Ere
eutioe Committee to the People Of the State
that are to cote in Nocem6er. s.
FELLOW CITIZENS: The Importance o
YOUR action to the cause of our common
country, still imperlled by a perfidlou'
Executive on the one hand and the defiant
spirit of rebellion on the other, impels us &c
make this appeal before the approaching
elections The members of the Union he
publican Executive Committee, having been
80 impressed by the extraordinary success
which has attended their efforts IN the unrc-
constructed States. and by the vital neces-
sity of strengthening these efforts by tile aP
proving voice of the great party that Con-
tributed so effectually to the overthrow OF
the rebellion, that they cannot believe the
American people are ready to allow the enc
mics of the Republic to gather new courage
in their opposition to the restoration OF the
Union on the basis of equality and justice.
Since our circular letter of the goth of July
last, in which we laid before you an account
of our stewardship up to that date, the cause
of humanity and of liberty has so rapidly
advanced in the South that we now look
forward to an early realization of our most
confident hopes, and believe that not many
days will elapse after the next session OF
Congress before several truly Repubhcan
commonwealth will be restored to our be-
loved Union; and nothing can arrest TINS
magnificent political contamination but the
Indifference or hostility OF those great COM
munities which have been alike the pre-
servers and the protectors OF the pubic I'D
critics. What motive can mlslead RepuD-
lican who believed in Abraham Lincoln, and
who gratefully followed the victorious STAN
dards of Grant and Sheridan, to refuse to
act with his party in crisis as great as any
that awakened the patriotism of the one or
the courage of the others? Our enemies are
not only unsubdued, but, from the apostate
in the Presidential chair to the perured and
pardoned rebels. they are absolutely looking
to the Republicans to encourage them In
new treacheries and atrocities. The effect
upon them of the October reverses In Penn
sylvania and Ohio should admonlsh and vi
talize the Republicans of every other State;
and when we tell you that every mail brings
us intelligence of new outrages upon the
Union men of the South, white and black,
and that the difficulties that have beset these
patriotic multitudes ever since Congress es-
tablished its reconstruction policy have
been increased by the recent elections, we
feel that we may implore you not to add to
the Civilizations of our enemies and the bur
dens of our friends Every moral and mate
rial interest is deeply concerned in the tri-
umph of reconstruction That measure is
more than half completed, and it will be a
sad supplement to all their sacrifices of blood
and treasure if the American people should |
prove Indifferent to their own duty or anita |
gonistic to their own welfare The rebel |
newspapers do not attempt to restain their |
ecstacies over the late elections. The Char |
lesion Mercury of a recent date says:
"The only question for the majority in |
Congress now to consider is this-shall they
urge this policy upon the Southern States,
and thus keep in action and intense exasper
alton an issue OIL which it is plain they have
been and must be beaten. and which, there
FORE must fall; or will they give it up at
once and leave the public mind to he en-
gagged on other issues, which may give them
some chance of recovering their lost popu-
larity and power If they insist upon cling
ing to THIS issue Of negro suffrage, and at
tempt to force into operation By revolutionary
oiOlence and the 6ayonet, their fall aoW only
be deeper and more damning 1t mag eyen
bring acith 1t personal and bloody retri5ution
on the reoOlutionists and tyrants acho shall at
tempt to enforce it."
The Richmond Enquirer says:
Negro suffrage will not be established here,
except through our own fatal and mistaken
cooperation, if We will be firm, patient, and
discreet.
LII SuOTC, Guc results III fcQnSylVaula anu
Ohio, with the other like indications, are
the knell of that plan of " settlement" which
is such only in bitter irony, and the public
mind will now turn TO move rational views
The road to national tranquility is still long,
1t may be; but it is shorter than it was
now that we going to the front in the
right direction The Radicals had put up
false fnger-boards, and turned the backs
of the people upon peace, and led them
away, while protesting TO travel toward
it
The Mississippi Aoalanche says:
This Radical faction is simply a band of
political asssasins and public plunderers, of
whom disappearing Brownlow, the beast
Butler, and the devil incarnate Thad Stew
ems, are the genuine types and head men
the truest representatives and most accepta-
BILE leaders. We cannot even feel in
different, but must of necessity. hate so foul
and miserable a faction with hatred that
naturally grows more intense with each new
act of daily and hourly oppression. The
Almighty Ruler of us all is God of Truth
OF Piety, and of Justice. He, therefore, re-
quires such antIpathy at our hands and un-
til He shall see fit to change the eternal stan
dards of right and wrong it will be the duty
OF every honest man to detest and make war
upon the American Radicals-those assas-
sins OF liberty and enemies of mankind.
1t requires no prophet to foretell that, if
the November elections should end in Re-
publican defeats, the threat of Andrew John
son on the 22d of February, 1866, and fire.
quently repeated since, will be fulfilled at
whatever hazard. Enabled from our oppor-
tunities at the national capital, and from our
extensive correspondence with our agents
and friends in the Southern States, to weigh
the sincerity of these threats, we declare to
you, our countrymen, that nothing more is
required by these violent, revolutionary, and
desperate men but the belief that they are
sustained by the pnblic opinion of the con-
querlng States to adventure another consul
racy, and to demand, if necessary by force,
their restoration to the power they welded
at so terrible cost to the public peace
What patriot will not shrink from contribu-
ting to such catastophe9 That the Amer
lean people are equal to any new trial, how
ever terrible-that the apostates appeal to
orce, though backed by the whole rebel ar
ny, would end in his own overthrow. and
heir perpetual disfranchisement, may be
confidently anticipated; but when, by the
cordial and united performance of a plain !