The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-24
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REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING IN robson

MEssRs. EDITORS A large body of the
Republicans of Robson County, numbering
about 200 persons met in Lumberton, on
Saturday the 14h inst, and ratified in full,
the proceedings of the late State Conven-
ton. The meeting was addressed by B. A.
Howell, Esq, E. K. Proctor, ESQ.,, and Rev.
James Sinclair. Harmony, enthusiasm and
an invincible determination to stand for the
principles of the Republican party and by
the reconstruction policy of Congress were
the leading characteristics of this meeting
Fhe Republicans of Robson are unit
White and colored pull together. AS an in
stance of the spirit of the people, it is proper
to mention that though the colored element
is largely in excess of the white i'll the party
in this County, the former preferred to NOM
mate white men for the Constitutional Con-
vention; taking the ground that capacity
not color entitled a member of the Republi-
can party to the suffrages of his fellow-citi-
zens. Duringthe meeting, the members of
the County Convention, then present, in or
der to elicit the opinion of the people, as to
their choice of candidates for the approach.
ing Convention, submitted several names for
their consideration, whereupon the Rev. Jas.
Sinclair and o. S. Hayes, ESQ.,, merchant
doing large business at Shoe Heel, were
chosen by reclamation to represent the Coun-
ty of Robson in the Constitutional Conven-
ton.
The County Convention met on its own
adjournment in the afternoon, and nominal
ed the above named gentlemen as the candi-
dates of the party in the coming campaign.
Mr.. Hayes is gentleman of influence in the
section of the County in which he resides,
and will secure many votes for the party that
would otherwise go to the Copper-J ohnson's,
Or reptile party.
In the interval, between the adjournment
OF the Mass Meeting in the morning, and the
meeting of the County Convention in the
afternoon, few of the councils of the q. l..
A., numbering present in all about 600,
marched In procession through the town.
am happy to state here, that potwithstand-
ing the efforts that have been made for the
last two or three weeks to provoke the col
ored people to retaliate some of the insults
which were heaped upon themselves and
upon their friends, the day and its proceed
ings passed off pleasantly and peaceably. So
sure were the reptile party Of their success
in provoking collision between the races
on this day, that they sent to Col. Frank
for amilitary force to euell the trouble which
they fervently hoped would arise. Having
done all they could to bring about trouble,
they invited the commander of the Post to
help them put it down, not at all expecting
that the Colonel would accede to their re-
quest, which he did not, but for the purpose
OF covering up from the public eye their own
nefarious purposes. To their chagrin and
disappointment, however, the colored people
carefully avoided every snare that was set
for them, and left the town after discharging
the duties they had come to perform, as they
had entered it in the morning, soberly and
peaceably.s These !" Heightened gentlemen .
must try some other method of bringing
about Memphis or New Orleans saturnalia.
They are laboring to bring about this state
very secretly, but their machinations are
properly watched, and when their schemes
have reached the required stage of de-
velopment for the strong arm of the military
osinte rpose, they will be dragged forth to