The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-06-19

lion shall cheerfally and in good faith re-
organize their governments upon the princi-
pies Of the laws passed by Congress, there
win then remain no causes Of difference be-
tween the various sections Of the country.
The Republican party is hostile to slavery
and opposed to its spirit and purposes. If
the spirit Of slavery is permitted to control
the institutions and civilization of the South,
there can be no restoration of the Union in
factif there should be in name The restora-
ton of the Union means the establishment
of those relations of friendship between the
States of the North and of the South which
now subsist between the States of the North.
When that moment arrives, as it will soon
arrive if the purposes of Congress are met
. ina proper spirit by the people of the South,
the nation will at once employ its immense
resources and power for the development of
that region of the country, and in a short
period Of time not only viii the evidences of
war have disappeared, hut the reorganized
States will be in the enjoyment of q degree
of prosperity not before experienced
There can be restoration, Cancellation,
friendship, and prosperity for all, if the
States lately in rebellion rebuild their insti-
buttons upon the principles of justice; but
if they dwell upon the past, revive and
strengthen the hatreds that were engendered
by the contests about slavery, if they deny
land, education, or equality of rights in any
particular to any class of their citizens, then,
in some degree, the malign influences of the
past and the present will be transmitted to
the future" s4ssi.ss 4 isas
We endorse every word of the above. We
stand just there and no where else But if,
from indifference on the part Of the people.
qor from the perversity, ambition and wicked
ness of certain so-called Southern leaders,
the Sherman act should fail, we shall then
go again with the Congress, and shall adj
.vocate just such measures as may be necessa-
ry to suppress the rebellion" and restore
the State on loyal basis. But not now
We are in good faith with the Congress, and
we shall go with it even unto the end. If
( that body should find it necessary, in the
last resort, to confiscate property in order to
do justice as between classes, and in order
to restore the Union on loyal basis, we shall
go cheerfally with the Congress. This is
our position. We trust we are understood.
But it is said we are Radical. Terrible
word We are hardly worthy to be a Re-
publican, but we are one We believe in
tearing up the last vestige of secessionism
and treason, and then planting in its place
: the tree of liberty. If this makes US radical,
then we suppose We are Radical. But we
call ourselves Republicans, and VIC are with
Congress which is called Republican. The
party is known, not as the Radical, but as
the Republican party. 1t is called Union
{ Republican to distinguish it from pretend
ed Republicans sailing under false colors.-
1t is easy to give names. Wings used to be
called t. Federal" or "British" Wings, and
Democrats were called Locofocos." But
this did not change the fact that they were
respectively only Wings and Democrats.