The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-11-06

g It is -nowlmanifest that the Reconstruction !
acts will become failure, as it regards North
Carolina, if the late 4th of September Convention
is to be held up as the representative of the Re-
publican party The moderate Republicans
would be faithless to the cause of restoring the
StatectO the-Union, as well as to republican
principles, -ifthey should for moment ielaxsin
their opposition to that tspurious organization
The immediate effect would be the formation OF
a formidable party on the basis Of Governor Gra-
hams letter; and withlsa majority of thirty
Thousand white men in the State, there can be
no doubt of it's successst Butso long as the Re-
publicans adhere to the course they have taken,
State may be restored oii q basis Of freedom and
equality, and so far from offering; opposition,
they viii cooperate In the work. 1tis not suf-
icient that the men who organized and managed
the September Convention, have professed to
was uPpermost in It; they cannot be trusted;
/ they must be east aside, and upright men, who
wish well to the State and to all classes of athe
people, must take the lead. This necessity has
begun to be appreciated in. Washington, and
further North; the falsehoods which were in
dustriously circulated in regard to the motives
of those who denounced and opposed the Con-
ventiOn, are. beginning to be- understood; and
there is now prevalent tendency to listen to the
counscls ofmoderate men, since the folly of the
opposite. course has been demonstrated by the
late Northern elections" -
The above is an sextract from letter
written by Mr.. Goodloe to his paper, the
Register, dated Washington City, October
24th. sft 8rfs eefiy,.ff5 zgrl or
/ It will beiseen. that Mr.. Goodloe is, still
assailing the September Republican Con
yention. No Republican in the State was
more anxious to have that Convention called
than Mr.. Goodloe He was not pleased
with the 27th of March Convention he
| did not like the :" organizers and "man-
ayers y of that body, and insisted on another
Convention. Well, it was called. 1t was a
peoples Convention--a delegate Convention,
the very body Mr.. Goodloe wanted. As a
member of the, State Committee he joined
in the call for it.. He attended as delegate
from Warren. He acted on an. important
Committee, and when the Convention ad-
journed he allowed his name to be announc-
| ed, and it was published for weeks withshis
consent, as member Of the State Committee.
But as soon as the Convention adjourned, to
the surprise of every one except small
circle who happened to know his peculiar
views, he pronounced the Convention a
failure, assailed its plan Of organization, and
declared that he would not serve the Repub-
lican party as thus organized and constituted.
He thus cut himself off by his own act from
the Republican party of the State. we de-
| plbred his course but could notlquestion his
right to do as he did. It, would have. been
more candid and upright in, the gentle
man if he had done all this ir open Conyen-
ton, in the presence of all the delegates, be-
fore they left Raleigh for their homes But
be waited until the Convention adjourned
before be assaiIed it and he now goes so
far as to declare that If the existing Repub-
lican organization shall continue, and not
be changed to suit his peculiar views, the
reconstruction acts themselves will become a
failure 5in[ North Carolina. Mr.. Goodloe
looks to; the formation of 2 Graham white
party, and has no doubt of its success. The
fact that he despairs of reconstruction under
the auspices Of the Republican party Of the
| State, and looks to tile success of q Graham
| party as certain, furnishes conclusive proof
that the Republican of a few months ago has
become the Conservative Of to- day; and we
may expect soon to find the, gentleman in
full political communion with those cup
right" public men who handcuffed con-
scripts and tortured women to make them
tell where their sons, brothers and husbands
/ WERE s,f ss is's'si os5 q iAaia aiaaa
Mr.. Goodloe writes generally IN the above
extract, but his remarks were intended spe-
cially for us. Heintimates that the Repub-
lican State Committee, and especially its
Chairman, do not enjoy the, confidence Of
the leading Republicans Of Washington
/ THIS is done from no personal animosity on
his part towards those who compose the
I Committee, but to impair their influence,
and thus to injure, and, as lie hopes in the
end, to PROSTATE the Republican partyof the
State. In reply we say-and we wish Mr..
Goodloe to'pay particular attention to the
statement that we havelthe fulhconfdence
Of the Congressional Committee of its
Secretary, the Hon. Thos L: Tullock- the
/ Hon ]. M. Edmunds, the Grand President
of the National Union League Of America
Of the Hon. John w. Forney the Clerk of
the Senate, and the distinguished Editor of
the Plliladelphia Press and the Washington
| EOlt,vnicls, land of the Republican party
generally of the Northern and Western
States. We dohot say tliis by way of boast
ing, but tosmeet the falsehoods soindustri-
ously circulated by the Register and Others,
against the September Convention and the
organization Of the party under that Con-
yention. The following letter from Hon,
| John w. Forney, addressed to the Senior
Editor of the Standard, speaks for itself: =
]Ys.s 6a5 PH1IADELPH1A, Oct. ~, 1857,
!. Ny DEAR GoyEKNo :TT Our mutual mend,
Tullock, sends me your most interesting let
ters for the purpose of giving me an insight
| into the workings of reconstruction in North
Carolina, and I need not tell yop how vel
come they are. ] write now only to wish
| you God speed, Nothing grati6es me more
than to see you, my. old Democratic friend,
following out true Demo ocracy to its logical
conclusions. / have passed through q terri
| bic experience, and now at the end of more
than ten yearso sofc6nfict with the Copperheads
of the North. lean conceive whatyour strug-
gle must be with their twin brethren, the
traitors Of the South, j have been SO much
impressed by your letters and by your speech
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