The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-04-24
The Meeting Monday.

The meeting OF colored people IN this City
Monday, called by Gov. Worth, Mr.. Pell
and Others, was palpabie failure. About
three hundred persons were present, and, as
the sequal showed, they were oil Republicans.
Speeches were made by Mr.. Gales, Mr..
Battle, and Gov. Worth. They were listen
ed to respectfully, but there was no sign of
approval of what they said. The getters-up
of the meeting could induce no eolored man
to act as Chairman or Secretary. and no col
ored man was present who claimed or adj
mitted that he had any hand in calling the
meeting.
TWAS the most palpabie, egregious, not to
say ridiculous failure that ever occurred in the
State. The predominant feeling in the crowd
was rather that of pity than any thing else
for Gov. Worth and his friends.
After the rebel or Conservative meeting
was over calls were made for Nv james H.
Harris, James F. Taylor and James Jones.
They spoke to an applauding audience, and
announced themselves Republicans. Mr..
Taylor called on the Republicans in the
crowd to show their hands by lifting them
above their heads. and the hands of the entire
mass of colored people were at once en-
Enthusiastically raised.
So much for this insidious rebel attempt
to divide and control the cclored vote, and
thus defeat the work of reconstruction.
A fuller account of this meeting in our
next 1t was called as Conservative meet
ing but adjourned as loyal, enthusiastic
Republican meeting.
The Richmond Examiner, referring to the
late Republican Convention in Richmond,
says:
"We shall, of course, give a faithful re-
port of the proceedings, for it hehooves us
to know the plans Of the enemy, in order
that we may the more intellgrntly combat
his dark, reasonable, revolutionary and dis
organizing designs. and save the State from
the horrors of organized anarchy"
Here it is assumed that those who are en-
SoSSi III N"i yiiiS Out thO ObCluidP uCG diC
enemies to the country, and that their de-
signs are REASONABLE and revolutionary
We have no doubt the Examiner really
thinks so.
The rebel papers of Richmsnd gave pretty
full reports of the Convention, but in doing
so they omitted nothing calculated to bring
ridicule on it. They put broken and imper-
feet language in the mouths of the colored
speakers, thus taunting them with the igno-
rance which is the result of their former
condition of slavery. Among other things
Rev. George Williams, colored, who opened
the proceedings with prayer, is ridiculed be-
cause lie prayed NTH his eyesopen N Many
a one has gone to torment with his eyes shut
AS a further specimen of the unfairness
with which the colored people are treated,
we copy the folling teleginphic dispatch
which we find in the papers:
LARGE MEETING OF NEGRoEs
TORY SPEECHES.
MOBILE, April 1S.-There was large
meeting of the negroes last mig ut. 5000 being
present Inf1ammatory radical speeches were
made by both black and white speakers
Resolutions were adopted atfliating with
the radical party, and demanding the right
to sit on juries, hold office and ride in the
cars. The meeting adjourned at late hour
Most of the colored persons present were
armed. and great many shots were fred in
the air after adjournment.
Here it is assumed because the colored
people meet to assert their rights. that their
conduct is inAammatory." The meeting,
which was no doubt orderly, as all the COL
ored meetings are, is characterized as violent
and dangerous This is by the 6 Associated
Press" as it is called, which is under the ex-
elusive control of the rebels.
The colored people will see from all this,
as from every thing taking place around
them, that the only safe place for them is in
the Republican party, under the old flag
The man who calls himself Conservative
or a Democrat, or who refuses to al nit that
he is Republican, is an enemy to he color
ed people.
AttorneyGen. Stansbery is said to have
recently remarked to the District A .tOrney
of Virginia that Jeff Davis must be disposed