The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-12
NEGRO RISINGS,


deep-seated feeling of distrust that underlay
the structure of Southern society.
There never was day, when the masses
here could not be run stark mad by the cry
of Abolition! Insurrection !! Negroes ris-
ing !! The more intense the Southerner,
in his sectional procliv1ties, the bigger the
fool on this subject.
We have now lived to see and learn what
little ground there was for this cruel suspi-
cion of the colored people. We have seen
them pass through terrible civil war,
without even the slightest attempt at outrage
or violence. We have beheld them sudden
midst, and abolition emissaries thick amongst
them. Still no massacres. We see them
invested with full citizenship, backed up by
all the appliances of the Freedmen's Blu
| reau. Still no attempt at instruction. We
sec them enfranchished by a Radical Con-
gress, and the whites DISTINGUISHED. But no
risings. And now we have just witnessed
them register by the hundred thousand--in
many instances far outnumbering the whites.
But, alas! for Copperhead politicians-still
no violence. They have met together in
thousands, for political and other purposes,
in public and in secret. But oh for the
alarmists, not single we'll established charge
can be laid to this people-as peaceful, re-
spectful, law-ablding citizens. Meantime,
they have borne, with marvellous patience,
the sneers, and the scorn of the white man
not to say his wrongs, his violence and
outrages
But the risings are ever ahead! Day by
day we hear this insane cry. Night by
night people dream of negro drills secret
meetings, yankee emissaries, and all the ter
rors of St. Domingo.
Will these persons never come to their SEN
ses9 Will they never learn the difference
between the temperate and torrid zone Be-
tween the benign influence of free govern
ment, and the grinding expressions of mon
archy? Between the Anglo Saxon, and the
int1ammabe Latin race? Between the col
ored man. in the United States, and the same
creature in the jungles of Africa Between
the negro when in close and constant prox-
unity to the white man, in the field, the
workshop, and the marts of trade, and the
barbarlans who swarm together on the vast
plantations OF the West Indies, out number
ing the whites ten to one, and knowing
nought of that race, except what they learn
from the stupid policy, and cruel exactions
of the old French and Spanish planters p
viii they never free themselves from the tyr
amy of opinion tyranny that has made
them slaves to their fears-and which has
proved curse to themselves, the negro and
We claim to know the African as man.
We have sought to study him in the philos-
ophy ofthe human heart, reason, Christiani-
ty, society, and government. We tell the
people, despite all croakers and alarmists to
the contrary, there will be no more negro RI
sings in this land. The politicians, street
corner !ogicians and cross road orators may
cry aloud. They may vent their spleen on
this humble race. They may taunt and
goad them by deeds of malice and revenge,
and provoke an occasional Individual retort
or act of retaliation. But the great heart of
this peope-these lowly followers of the
Lambs right. They long for harmony
with the white race. They sec in this policy,
not only the hope of peace, prosperity and
improvement; but existence itself AS free
people, they are now in the infancy of life. A
false step, and they go back and down to the
degradation of Observation-Disclosures
probably slavery, and final extermination-.
They will not make that false step Char.
Republican.