The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-11-02


Mr.. Goodloe writes generally IN the above
extract, but his remarks were intended spe-
cially for us. He intimates 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
Committee, but to impair their influence,
and thus to injure and, as he hopes in the
end, to PROSTATE the Republican party of the
State. In reply we say-and we wish Mr..
Goodloe to pay particular attention to the
statement-that we have the full confidence
of the Congressional Committee-of its
Secretary, the Hon. Thos. L. Tullock-o of the
Hon. j. NJ. 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 Philadelphia Press and the Washington
Chromicle,-and of the Republican party
generally of the Northern and Western
States. We do not say this by way of boast
ing, but to meet the falsehoods so industri-
ously circulated by the Register and Others,
against the September Convention and the
organization of the party under that Con-
vention. The following letter from Hon.
John W. Forney, addressed to the Senior
Editor of the Sfantlard, speaks for ITSELF
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 81, 1867.
MY DEAR GovERNoR:-Our mutual friend,
Tullock, sends me your most interesting let
e
into the workings of reconstruction in North
Carolina, and / need not tell you how wei
come they are. 1 write now only to wish
you God speed. Nothing gratifes me more
than to see you, my old Democratic friend,
following out true Democracy to its logical
[ have passed through terri
BILE experience, and now at the end OF more
than ten years of conflict with the Copperheads
of the North, I can conceive what your strug
gle must be with their twin brethren, the
traitors OF the South. 1 have been SO much
impressed by your letters and by your speech
at Raleigh on the 10th inst, that could not
refrain from writing to you. Nothing so
saddens me as to see Irishmen in the old free
States who have come from land of slavery,
voting with the party of slavery
in this country, simply because they hate the
poor colored man. Nothing, except to see
native Americans, mechanics and laborers
with hearts attached to their country voting
under the influence of the same unthinking
prejudice, and forgetting that without the
,olored men OF the South the authors of t e
'ebellion would be restored to full command,
md white patriots like yourself in every
Southern State ground under the oppressors
leel. I can well understand how you must
eel when you hear the traitors and rebels re-
oicing over Copperhead victories in the
North. won by the aid of these misguided
nen. My only hope is that God may guide
hem Alright to see the truth, and that before
ong Republican reconstruction will be COM
,lete amid the acclamations of united and
'ictorious Republican party. I am quite
ure that Congress will be your good friend,
ome what may. My receut experience in
Washington cOnvinces HE that if the betray-
rs of the country do not yield to the last
lternative, they may prepare themselves for
heir present ideal Andrew johnson in his
peech at Nashville, nn the 9th of June,
$685. and in his deliberate instructions to
ou after he appointed you Governor of
North. Carolina. If there is white Union
nan in your State. or colored man who
ares to hear word from me in their pres
mt struggle, tell them how fervently pray
or your conjoined success, and how anxious 1
M to serve them to the extent of my poor
bility To-morrow's Press will contain Il
trong editorial allusion to your speech, with
xtracts from it. l go to Washington to-
light. where I will be glad to hear from you
and freely.
Truly your old Friend,
J. w. FORNEY.