The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-11
For the Standard.
REPUBLICAN CELEBRATION In MURFREES-
RORlEGU.

In accordance with previous notice, about
fifteen hundred Republicans, mostly colored,
assembled on the 4th day of July, 1867, in
the large and beautiful grove opposite the
Baptist Church in Nurfreesborough.
The assemblage was called to order at II
"A. NJ, by Mr.. John T. Reynolds, colored.-
Prayer was offered by Rev VIM. Reed, Pres
ident Of the Union League, in Murtreesboro',
colored After which, Mr.. Calvin Moore
colored, was appointed PRESIDENT and Mr..
VIM. ID. Newsom, colored, Secretary.
The President then introduced Mr.. John
T. Reynolds, who proceeded to read the Dec
laration of Independence.
Mr.. Roswell c. Parker, white, OF North
ampton, then made very able and instruc-
tive speech of more than an hours duration,
followed by Mr.. VIM. D. Newsom, colored,
after which the following resolutions were
read by MIR. Reynolds and unanimously
adopted by reclamation:
1. Res0lced That we recognize the great
Republican party of the Union as the author.
under the providence of God, of our deliv-
erance from bondage, and of our enfranchise-
ment as men and citizens, and that
as the divinely appointed guardian of
our Liberties and rights, we will yield to it
cordial and earnest support.
2. That we desire to live in peace and
good neighborhood with all men, and that we
deprecate violence and passion and resent
ment but we here and now declare that we
shall seek to learn our rights, and knowing,
to maintain them at all hazards, and to the
last extremity.
3. That in the sublime and Christian
spirit of the martyred Lincoln, "with char
ity all, and malice towards none" we will
gladly welcome, and forgetting their antece-
laofc oh Ill, 4,1JL
the principles of Republicanism, repelling
no man because he was STAKEHOLDER or a
rebel, provided he now comes out as gen
uine Republican.
4. That we desire to enjoy the fruits of no
mans labor save our own, and we want no
mans land nor anything that is his, because
we honor the Tenth Commandment and COW
ct not our reighbor's goods; but we want
what is ours, and we shall labor to secure
adequate wages for our work.
5. That we believe in just and equal taxa
ton, and that the property of the State
should bear the pecuniary burdens of the
State; that the children of the State should
be educated by the State, and that the poor
should be relieved from the heavy burdens
now imposed upon them.
6. That we are conservatives for pursuing
all that is good and true, and Radicals for
extirpating all that is wrong and false.
z. That government should be practically
and actively benefcent rather than merely
protective, and that future legislation should
be directed to the progress, advancement and
welfare of the masses of the people.
s. That property qualifications for office
are no less hostile to true Democracy than
property requirements in order to the right
OF suffrage and that all such conditions and
limitations should be abolished everywhere
in the code of North Carolina
Speeches were then made by Mr. John T.
Reynolds and Calvin Moore, colored, and
Mr. G. FL. Foster, white, whose remarks were
well received
The audience was then dismissed and re
paired to the bount1fully spread tables
which had been prepared in the grove near
the speakers stand. During the collation.
the following regular Toasts were read by
Mr.. William D. Newsum, Toast-master, and
heartily cheered.
ToAsTs.
l. The day we celebrate-dear to the
memory of all freemen as consecrated by the
immortal words of the Declaration of indie
pendence.
2. The Congress of the United States
the champion of popular liberty and the
steadtast opponent of despotism in America
8. The President of the United States
we honor his loyalty to the people and to
the Union IN the past, and we hope that he
may yet recognize us as portion of the
people of the Union.
4. The memory of Abraham Lincoln.
s. North Carolina, our native State-we
love her as our mother and will endeevor to
be her loyal sons.