The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-09-11

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There are certain class OF men wno Wn 80.
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they don't want 70 pays theln'mucl foF Mr.
IWant to get rid Of that GET Of people. ieay
s. mn freedmen here night be careful
hoj9 IN make your "a kfa You have
your AVE- and obi d1eif a Re careef y
not nikkeI them too 6est 4 slody VOL uQZee
your cqptFsciS male 4. y (pod one, ept BE
q Il, but tick to Il good of bad Slew
thai {oii nave got nobl5 blood IN You, ahd
chat tbe same God made you that made me.
They ssys tile negro is lazy, and will do
no good I don't believe word OF it You
have got to work, you have got to make 2
livinc honestly: and if Won do not I've hon
estiv the reason of if is because you fare der
prigeda by the. white men, of compensation
for;you services. applause. sf8.. s
Another little idea 1 see th' Il dls-
position on the part Of some Of your enemies
to deride you for the position you have "a
ken. heard q man say last evening, de-
risively. that he was going to vote for q nig-
ger to 90 to the Legislatures Now 4 want
YOU when YOU are competent, when you can
do Justice to Yourselves. When you see q
suitable Office, prepare yourself for it. 4
will be willing to see you get in. II will
tell YOU one, thing. Don't make fools of
yourselves, and be laughed at. Take hold
of such positionsas you can occupy, and fill
it with credit to yourselves applause
Col. O. II. Foster was then introduced to
the Convention by Mr.. Galloway, and spoke
as follows: 3sHl5l's q 1850 is1'eit''i
The call which has been made for me to
speak before you tonight is entirely unex-
nectpd 7syf.| i1flots - 1851 ~ ~
NV presence ut this Convention, gentlemen,
is only incidental did not come to this
city for the purpose cf participating in the
proceedings Of this evening. I came entire
ly upon other business 2 ~ -
I have been exceedingly pleased at
the sentiments which have been uttered
here tonight. ] accept the sentiments
uttered by my respected friend, james b.
Harris, when he said let by cones be by
cones Ibelieve it to be 8 truth that the
North is equally with the South, responsible
for the sin of Southern slavery. (Applause.)
Fe low citizens: I anna Union man by birth /;
but arrogate to my section Of the country
no credit and no merit, for its freedom from
the sin of slavery, for the last forty or fifty
I claim by the National compact, the
North was made a party to the institutions
of slavery, and you will find me one of the
last men of this country to stand up and
abuse any man of Southern birth because he
was in favor of slavery, and you win never
Es,y
reproach of those men who entered the con-
federate army believing that their cause was
just and right. (Applausc.) ii !
I say, fellow citizens, that accept and re-
1terate the sentiment of Mr.. Harris, which !
believe to be the prevailing sentiment Of the
Republican party, not only of North CARROLL
ma, but throughout the entire Northern
States, let by cones be by cones let the dead
things Of the past be hurried with the insti-
tuition of slavery which provoked them. aci
did not come here to abuse, cannot
sanction as Northern man, any abuse Of
the Southern people who were against us
equally against me as against the colored
race which has been so 9 happily and SO
pcaceably closed, eby the Inauguration Of
freedom Throughout the, whole length and
breadth of the American continent, and by
the coronation Of the people as the only
king known to our commonwealth si'i'
Fellow-citizens, my trust is in God, and
his providence ofswhich we form q part.
During the,last struggle, we saw two rep
resentative men, on the one hand, Abraham
Lincoln, on the other hand Jefferson Davis
standing as the representative men of two
hostile and clashing civilizations. The two
systems which it had been predicted by the
prophetic lips of VIM. H. Seward, must
come into conflict, and that the one must
yield and be submerged by :he other
We saw these men at the outset desiring
the overthrow of slavery. Abraham Lincoln
did not attempt its extirpation until after
some two years of war, and these formidable
armies that fought on so many battle-fields
all over tile land were the blind and uncon.
scious instruments in the hands of the AL.
mighty to bring about that great historical
result, the emancipation Of the slaves and
the obliteration of slavery in America. 4
say then, let no Northern man take credit
upon himself for the abolition of slavery
and let him not disparage or insult or defame
ta, Southern man because he tried to
preserve it. gti,ii. a. y R bob 70
I believe, fellow-citlzens, that it is the duty
of every, true and earnest representative o.
the Republican party and I wish no man
to call me Copperhead or to call me arebe
sympathizer because I am willing to do the
same Justice to these Southern men, who op
posed us openly and conscientiously in the
mighty struggle. / wish the same justice
done to them which is done to the freedman
just SO soon, fellow-citizens. as they show
themselves ready to recognize the constitu
ton and meet the colored men as their equals
before the law, and concede to him that jus
tice which the Caucasian race-dominant
upon this planet dominant even in the
South by a majority Of two to one-can Ger;
tainly afford to concede to them Fellow.
citizens Isay, then, that am q Republican
l am willing to do justice to to all men.
have no malice in my heart towards any mar
because he was rebel and STAKEHOLDER
l say, then, that the doors of the Republican
party should be thrown wide open to al
those let thom come in under our ban
ner, x we are convinced that, i, they
come in not as agitators- mot to disturb
not to mar its excellence, but to accept the
constitution and unite in the great work ioi
the reconstruction of North Carolina. Is,s,,
say fellow citizens, our trust should be
in that Providence, part of which we and
our doings, arc, 1--WE are the instruments in
the hands of the Almighty. I believe that
the Republican party had mission assigned
to it by the Almighty, and believe that that
missionis not yet completed Ibelieve that
one great mission of the Republican party al
this time is to carry all the Southern States
now unhappily outside of the Union, with
their relations towards the Federal Unien
disturbed and out of joint, back into the
fold ofthe Union. ] believe that our party
has.a duty to perform in the, work OF recon,
struction, and would say to every Southern
man: would say to every officer and soldier