The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-30
For the Standard,
K. ]. kennedy, Sec'y.

the columns of your paper, to reply to an
article appearing in the Goldsboro' Daily
Morning Star, of the gath. The Star is one
of the REASONABLE sheets in the country, aud
in every degree equal to the Raleigh Sentt-
mel, whose lustre is enshrouded by the Edi-
/ tors tears over the dear lost cause" But
to the subject. I wish to lay before the pub
lie the true condition and hypocrisy of these
would-be-friends of the negro. He claims
tile black man is get ignorant, regards deceit
as q 0irtue and is prone to superstiti0aa." What
lamentable facts, that the negroes though ig-
norant, are not ignorant enough to be made
the dupes of the Star, and his colleagues !;
80 prone to superstition" that they would
not believe William Robinson when he told
them to unbosom themselves to their former
master; $50 prone to superstition" that when
| he told them that Southern men were their
liberators instead of Abraham Lincoln,
they couldn't see it $50 prone to supersti-
tion," that our truthless friends of the Star
could not make a colored man believe that
he was not colored; " so superstiti0us," that
they wont vote like the Star would like to
have them vote in the coming struggle
There's where the trouble originates on the
part of the Star and his friends.
So ignorant are these blacks that they still
continue to join the Loyal League. And
notwithstanding the honied eloquence and
pretended friendship OF the Rev. G. J. Mel
son, and the fox-like cunningness of the
Bourbon of the Star, the Thaddeus Ste
vens Council of the u L. A. in this town
numbers over three hundred and fifty mem
bers, and it is heart-rending for these trait
ors to know that the harder they try to de-
ceive the negro the further the negro gets
from them, and that the Leagues are daily
growing stronger and secesslOnlsts weak
er and weaker. We would say it is not a
Cataline or an Arnold that sits in the Coun.
Gil of the Loyal Leagues but men who loath
and aDhor the principles of the Order better
known to the rebels as Knights of the Col
den Circle, and such like fiendish institutions.
Men and true patriots are the only ones capa-
BILE of becoming members of our noble Or
der. Let the black man and the white man
also, if he wishes to be man of honor and
not a traitor, let him join hand and heart
to the noble institution and then he will be
instructed in the duties of American citizen
ship if he is not fully prepared to discharge
them. We will use the same words of the
Star. "But from liars. hypocrites and trait
ors may God defend both the black and the
white man." Another passage. 1.-THE ne
gro is taught in these midnight conclaves
that the great majority of Southern men are
his enemies-that they are rebels and not to
be trusted. For these reasons, the black
men are urged and sworn to form black
mans party, to vote together, and only for
such men as shall be named to them. They
are told if they do not vote and vote as these
imposters tell them. they will get no lands,
and be again remanded to slavery"
The entire passage is an absurd falsehood,
and none but traitor, man false to all the
obligations of christianity, and a curse to the
oh he how in,
vented such a lc 1st. The negro is just ig-
norant enough to know who are his enemies
and who are his friends, and as a tree is
known by its fruits, a rebel is known by his
acts and sentiments; therefore, on this score
the negro needs no teaching, nor is there any
one so anxious to take the negro in his bosom
and do all of his thinking, acting and voting
as our truthless friend of the Star I'd. AS
the Loyal Leagues are composed of both
white and colored men who have stood by
the national ensign and the government in
its darkest hour, it would be to their injury
to form such thing as party based upon
the hue of a mans skin, or the kink of his
hair. On the contrary, all men regardless of
color or previous condition here meet on the
broad Republican platform of political equal
ity, and each man is known only as a man
with all his rights. But why this party fear
on the part of our friend Star Because
the negro is just ignorant enough to rally
around the old flag and its friends. and wont
allow themselves to be the tools of the Star.
Sd. The negro is just industrious enough, if
they were protected and dealt fairly with, to
purchase all the lands they need. And it is
one of the principal points stated by every
intelligent man that the negro does not look
for his future prosperity in confiscation, but
by their honest labor, and slavery being now
counted with the things of the past, it never
once enters the brain of the negro. We
have heard enough of the Star lately upon the
negro question. We would suggest to him
that the same omnipotent Ruler who has
brought Ethiopia's children from under the
yoke of oppression will still continue to take
care of them, and his BRAIN ink and paper
is spent and used in vain on the negro; for
as Moses has proved false, they do not feel
safe to be carried about in Abraham's bo-
som lest he should engulf them in this lake
that burns with fire and birthstone, for that
is surely his portion, unless he repents Try
again brother Star, Loyal Leaguers don't un-
derstand your raps. Take the mantle of
secession from around you and be converted.
BEUNA ESPERANZA.
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