The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-12-25

S''S'" eannot pOSSiOAy 'W CAPCStcu W Ouetoos |
the next two years. And, whenever the old
masters shall have wit enough to say to their
ex-slaves, ?" We conceelc to you all the rights
that We claim for ourselves; why should we
be antagonists any longer 2"-they will car
ry large part if not most of them away
from those who now run the Republican ma
chine at the South. The recent Conserva
tive negro meeting at Mobile is ominous of |
what must surely come. So long as the Re- |
actionists who absurdly term themselves |
" Conservatives shall see fit to stand on the |
platform of '.white mans government
whereof blacks must be serfs, this gravita-
ton OF the negroes toward their old masters
will amount to nothing more than the Irish
vote for Know-Nothing tickets; but, the
moment the old aristocracy of the South
concede the right of suffrage to the blacks,
the whole situation will he changed Aud
that they will do, so soon as they are salts
fed that they can do no bettcr.-Nep York
Tribune. Hi
The Tribune does not seem to understand
"the situation" in this part Of the country.
In the first place, all the old masters"
were not secessionists or rebels Thousands
Of shareholders in the South were ready, in
1860, to give up their slaves to save the
Union-were ready, in 1868, to reconstruct
thegovernment, though they knew that under
Mr.. Lincoln's proclamation they would lose
their slaves were ready, in 1865, to submit
uncomplainingly to osuch loss, and are now,
and have been earnest advocates of negro
suffrage. These were the Union men before
the rebellion, Conservatives or Peace men
during the rebellion, Unionists again as soon
as they saw the old flag, and Republicans
now. We insist that the Tribune should not
habitually ignore this large class of patriotic
citizens sst
Nor will the old masters" who are still re-
bellious ever detach the colored people from
the Republicanparty. This was fully tried by
Gen. Hampton, Gov. Worth. Gov. Vance.
and many Others, rebel leaders and "old
masters" par excellence, soon after the passage
of the present reconstruction acts. They
then conceded the colored people "all the
rights which they claimed for themselves.
They addressed them, they appealed to them,
they coaxed them, they offered to bribe
them, they threatened them; but the colored
people, after having heard them patiently
and respectfully, went and registered their
Lames and poured all their votes into the
ballot-boxes for the Republican party. They
viii do it again and again. The insane
folly of the ex-Bourbons" will continue
The next two years"-the next ten years
will not witness any such desertion of the
Republican party by the colored people as
that apprehended by the Tribune. The
colored people have solemn conviction that
the "old masters" who are opposed to
the reconstruction acts are not to he trus-
ted, and that the only hope there is for
themselves and for liberty in this country, is
in the Republican party. They are honest.
and they are thoroughly in earnest In this
business. They will never contide, in any
event. in those public men who have oppos-
ed and are now opposing the acts of Con-
gress by which their freedom is to be made
sure to them-never! No one asks the :" old
aristocracy OF the South" to "concede the
right of suffrage to the blacks" This right
is theirs already. 1t will never be relin-
quished. The loyal people Of this State,
white and black, care about as little for such
| concession from such source, as the
Tribune would for the opinion of the Alias
kans on the Fenian question. Neither the
"whcle situation" or any part of the situa-
4 tion in these Southern States will be chang
ed by any thing the "old aristocracy of the
! South" may say or do. This " change of
which the Tribune speaks, is the very thing
we are now striving to guard against. Our
| all as people is involved in it, and when
we say this we include the loyal, fire-tried
4 Unionists of both races No calamity could
be SO great to the South or to the nation at
large, as that which, by changing the
"whole situation, would place the votes of
the colored people, and consequently these
Southern governments in the hands of the
old aristocracy of the South" These old
masters who are still rebellious, are all of
this /" old aristocracy."' They win never
| change. They will die detesting the gov
ernment for having robbed them, as they
say, Of their property. Did a Bourbon ever
changea Have any OF these !" old masters
ever shown any "wit," for themselves or
their countrya Never. They may make
concessions but fortunately no one will con-
fde In them. Their day is over. ~.
Nor can it be correctly said they have
arraycd the blacks against them" They
are rather arrayed against the blacks The
colored people nave simply voted their hon
| est sentiments on the side of their own free
dom. Their whole course has been as re-
specttul and as just to Others as it has been
| natural in itself.
We appeal to the Tribune to consider these
things, and to forbear expressions which in
dictate the probability that, in any event,
the colored people may ally themselves with
their own enemies and the enemies of the
government itself. sa3sa 80
In Bankruptcv.o
The attention of Registers, Assignees and
Others, is directed to tine Rules laid down on
this subject by his Honor Judge Brooks,