The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-11
The following letter from Pitt Co unity


| Hon. c. L. Harris presided, were very much
mortified to find that in the selection of delegates
to meet in Raleigh on the 9th instant, there is
no one named from Pitt County. We beg to as
| sure you, that we have very many good and true
loyal Union men in our county, who have been
consistent in their devotion to the Union and
government of their fathers, and rejoice as truly
at the prospect of our ultimate settlement of all
sectional differences, and the complete establish
ment of Constitutional freedom as can be found
in any portion of our State, and we should be very
glad to know if men of unquestoned loyalty who
not named in the list of delegates would be
welcomed in the proposed meeting, if they should
attend. We have hundreds such men in cOun-
ty, but they have been quiet for the past two or
three years, because they that they could
effect no good by different course, but they have
all the time been longing to the time arrive
when they could avow their sentiments without
We are most truly your friends,
SAMUEL H. LANGLEY,
j. L. LANGLEY,
BENZ. S. DANIEL,
JOHN s. DANIEL,
THOMAS H. LANGLEY,
H. HARRINGTON,
EDWARD HOELL,
SAM'L. A. DUDLEY.
From Buncombe County, Rev. L. L. Stewart
writes as follows:
AsHEv1ILE, N c.. March 22d, 1867
Dear Sir Il have been sick several days, and
will not be able to attend the Convention of 10y
al Union men in Raleigh on the 9th inst.
Approaching very highly, as do, the invita-
ton of the Loyal Union men of the State to take
part, at this crisis, in measures looking to the
restoration of North Carolina to her constitution
al place in the Federal Union, can but regret
my inability to be present
Allow me, sir, to assure you, and through You,
the patriotic Union men who will assemble In
Raleigh on the 9th, that I hold myself ready to
cooperate fully in the great work now upon us,
and will take my share in the labors and respon-
sibilities 1 conceive the only issue before us is
Union or Dsunion.
l hope the friends of the government will allow
none other.
But am now, unable to discuss this great is
Suffice it to say, accept in good faith the act
of Congress embodied in the Stevens bill or Sher-
mon amendment as it is called.
/ do not think, however, this long delayed act
of Congress faultleSS.
1t is not all the Loyal Union men had right
to expect at the hands of the National Congress.
If it has not been, or is not hereafter supple
mented by that body, do not see how we shall
be able to secure its benefits or carry out it's pro-
Wis ions. The provisions of the bill itself, right
throughout the State from its execution.
Who then can execute this law?
This, 1 think will be the great practical ques-
tic IN before the Convention on the 9th. So far
as now advised, I can only suggest Let the
work be thorough. Let no Traitors hand desc
era tie this holy work. Let Loyal Union men,
white and colored alone, do this work. A
th CROUCH, and careful registration-a stringent
tc t-Oaln-and neaVy pains ana penaltleS annex
ed, are, in my opinion absolute indispensables to
cceSs.
Without something of sort, we will assuredly
fail.
Ifpower to this effect do not vest in your BODY
when assembled on the 9th, to carry into eff
feet some such machinery as the above, think
it will be infinitely better to await further action
by Congress
Better defer action, than act and fail.
There was not sufficient time to call general
County meeting, after l received notice of the
meeting in Raleigh calling the assemblage on the
9th.
But primary meetings, in different parts of the
county have been held. The proceedings, of the
only enc of which has come to hand, l enclose,
that your body assembling on the 27th, may know
the: wishes and understand the spirit of the Loyal
Union people in this county.
The earliest possible intelligence from your
me e4Ing on the 9th, will lay me under lasting
Obligations.
With great respect,
am your most ob't,
L. L. STEWART
4 friend writes US from Salisbury as fol-
lows:
"Now, my dear sir, do not wish to die
tate but let me say that now or never we
rnust do what We are going to do with all
our might. Let us reestablish the Union on
a sure and everlasting basis. We must get
hack In that way, or perish as people,
Congress has removed the stumbling block
On which We have been wrecked hitherto at
every trial If we do not now succeed or
the plan of black and white suffrage, Con