The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-04-17

roll great stone upon the sepulchre, and
put an army there to guard it, but there will
he asresurrection as sure as there is peo-
pie" ~
Party, faction, and frequent elections,
have DESTROYED every republican government
the world ever saw. When this one perishes
it will beSby the hands of its own people,
caused by an election. Parties will think
themselves the government. When the Rad
ical party is voted down you may look out
for another war. Just the other day in
Maryland, the party was outvoted; they
appealed to arms, commenced organizing ana
drilling, they said to put down treason"
but if they had succeeded in the election they
would have wanted no arms. SO, II the
Democracy had succeeded in the PRESIDENTIAL
election in 1860, they would have whipped
any other party attempting to secede ana
so the little Holden faction IN this State,
after reconstructing to their own satisfaction
under President johnson, and denounclng
and threatening all who did not vote with
them; when the people voted them down
they want to reconstruct again; and they
never will be satisfactorily restored until they
are in office.
The little Holden faction is mainly COM
posed of my old Wing friends, In whom l
thought was to be found all the political
virtues; but they seem to prove as desperate
as Radicals and Democrats when they are
defeated He used to think the Democracy
was the only party of desperate deeds when
defeated, but the experiment of his old Wing
friends under the Democratic lead OF Holden,
Dick and Settle had convinced him that any
party was desperate under defeat.
Lieut.. Porter, of the United States army
and Bureau, from Connecticut here entered
the court room. Mr.. Turner inquired Of
Mr.. Porter if he had ever known any man
white or black, prosecuted because of his
LOYALTY to the Union Mr.. Porter answered,
Never; he did not know ola single instance;
| even the deserters from the Confederate army
were undisturbed.
Mr.. Turner alluded to the false cry of the
pseudo loyal men of the South. that they
are prosecuted, and here was a officer all the
way from Connecticut to protect them, and
| he returns them non est anventus. When
true man is sent out to look after them
they are not found, they exist only in the
| newspapers
The father of his country, in his farewell
| address, solemnly warned US against such
patriots, /" One Of the expedieuts Of party
| said WashingtonD to acquire influence
within particular districts, is to misrepresent
| the opinions and aims of other districts
Let me warn yon in the most solemn manner
| against the baneful effects of the spirit Of
| party. This spirit is inseperable from our
| nature, having its root in the strongest pas
| sions of the human mind. 1t exists in all
| government; but in those of popular form
it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly
their worst enemy The alternate domina-
! ton of one faction over another sharpened
by the spirit of revenge natural to party
discussions, which in different ages and coun-
tries has perpetuated the most horrd enormi-
ties, is itself frightful despotism It
agitates the community with i'll fourded
| jealousies and false alarms kindlcs the ami
mostly of one party against the other; and
ferments occasional riot and Instruction"
What Washington in his wisdom toresaw
You and l, Mr.. Chairman, in our misfortune,
have experienced. 1t is a great mistake to
suppose that because slavery is abolished we
shall have no future cause of quarrel. Since
the abolition Of slavery, the spirit of party
has shown itself more despotc and intolerant
than at any time before. When the radicals
are voted down they will be ready for war.
The meeting having adopted the resolu-
tions, after vote of thanks to the chairman
and secretary, and the passage of a resolution
that the proceedings be published in the
Hillsborough Recorder, adjourned sine die.
.,'4 THOS. WILSON, Charm.
NELSON P. HALL, See'y.
xMons Blonden was Frenchman who was
then walking wire suspended over the Falls of
Niagara with man on his back.