The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-07
to the embrace of her mother Union cloud ar

plause.)
derson, who spoke as follows:
This is one of the proudest moments o
nv life, to have the opportunity of stand
ing before so many citizens of h-Carolina
ali of whom claim to be Republicans. 1
there are any persons here who are not Re
! publcans they came here as, spectators,
suppose for the purpose of picking some
| flaw or for the purpose of taking some ad
vantage of the Republican party of North
| Carolina. | shall dwell tonight on stub
| born facts The Republican party OF North
Carolina is in its infancy, it is not thorough
| " organized, and unless the leaders of the
Republican party of North carolina stand
up firm without shrinking, as my friend Mr.
Harris, has said, white and black. we cannot
CONQUER. We have enemies all around us
who are striving to dsorganize this great
Republican party OF North Carolina
1t is very clear to me that until the Re-
publican party that holds the reins of TINS
government in their hands. see that by adj
hitting North Carolina into the American
Union, it will give strength and power to
that party, we are going to be left out in the
cold. There are many responsibilities rest
ing upon us; there are great many men IN
North Carolina who say they are Republi-
cans; but am afraid they are little gal
vanized. These men who were willing to
fly off at every little technicality; who are
willing to take exception because the freed
men all belong to the Republican party
Some of them say they can't go the negro.
tell YOU gentlemen, when any man says he
can't 60 the negro, won't give dime for
his Republicansm and all he wants is to be
protected by that party, and receive the bene-
fits of it, and whenever he gets an oppor-
tunity he will deserve it. The Republican
platform is large enough to hold every Re-
publican in the American continent, white
or colored (Applause.) Its banner now
unfurled from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, speaks to the nation-"Li
ertv. Justice and Equality before the Law"
to every American citizen without regard to
race or color, (applauseO butternut, Sc
cesh, and Copperhead excepted OF every in
stance. You can't find man in North Car
DINA, who SAYS he is not "A Union man, but
they can't come up on the Republican plat
form, for fear the ''nigger will hurl them Off"
Applause and laughter.) They are like
the fellow who went to see his sweetheart
He got there a little before shutdown. His
sweetheart asked him if he loved butter
milk 80, yes" he said. She poured out
some buttermilk and while she was going
to get some cake a big bug flew into the
buttermilk, and, when she came back
fearing he would offend her, if he did not
drink the buttermilk, he shut his eyes and
drank buttermilk, bug and all. Laugh
ter The body polite is sick, and if it
does not take the African pills, the body
polite will die, and the dead may bury
the dead, and 1 will not go to the bury
ing. Applause The Republican party
is in its infancy; and have seen demon
STATIONS in this Convention here to-day,
that [ have felt mortified at l saw dem
onstrations here to-day-men who came up
here claiming to be Republicans, willing
to fly off on trchnicalties. Now, every
body may fly off, but the freedmen, and
am going to stand on the platform of the
Republican party. [Applause.
The first time that ever the freedmen of
North Carolina assembled in State Conven-
ton was on the 9th day Of March, 1867,
what did our enemies say? How many men
were discharged from the North Carolina
Railroad for attending that Convention p
Every man who attended was denounced as
a free negro equalizer He was denounced
as being Radical Republican. l thank
God l accepted the name. And some of
turn their leaves over, aud blot out few
marches they have made, and few remarks
they have made. They are pretty good
looking, but they can't come in" APP
plause.
Now. gentlemen and w-citizens, they
all want you to shout that song from the
to the mountain tops, Let by
cones be by-gones.' I'VE are all Union men
now But they wont say they are Repub-
Iicans. l want them to come out and say
they are Republicans. l want them to come
out and say they are Black Republicans 1
want them to come out and say they are
willing for freedmen to sit in the !jury-boX
want them to acknowledge their SINS
They swore in the Legislature of North Car
olina they would not 90 up to the ballot
box with the negro. They denounced the
Congress of the United States but they
fooled them on it. How did they do it q
They gave them the Howard Amendment.
They swore they would not take it. They
swore they would not pnt the halter around
their necks. But as soon as Congress put
it around they walked up as tame as camels.
[AppIause.]
Let by-gones be by-gones ~ In the name
Of God, ask you herc-I ask the old gray
headed men in this Convention will they let
y-gones be by-goncs? We passed through
a bloody war. The whole Southern country
is bankrupt, and to-day there are hundreds
Of thousands whose bones are bleaching in the
soil of Virginia, and there are to-day hun
lreds of thousands of widows and orphans
in North Carolina, and these poor men who
we're forced into the army by prescription
their little children are now crying for
bread, and the magnanimity of the United
States government is now feeding them
Let by-gones be by-gcnes. Don't the blood
If these men cry out? Don't the tears of
hese poor widows, don't the walls of
hese orphans demand that these men shall
AXE the lower seats in the synagogues And
S it not written upon the walls that they
Ire unworthy to take the name of Union on
heir polluted lips? [Applavse.] They ask
he Radicals of North Carolina now not to
lisfranchise them. I say "let justice be
lone, though the Heavens fall" Cries of
Yes" "yes."l These men are responsible
or the beggary of their country, and they
'ught to be satisfied that the government of
he United States did not hang them. APP
clause. They ought to be satisfied to be
permitted to live upon this glorious CONT
tent DISTINGUISHED. They ought to be
aught that treason should be made odious.
Their children ought to say, my father was
on the ground of endeavoring
o destroy the best Government that ever the
un from high Heaven looked down upon"
Applause. That is the kind of Republican