The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-06
For the Standard.
REPUBLICAN MEETING In CHATHAM.

Pursuant to previous notice, large NUM-
Der of people assembled at Haywood, Chat
ham County, N c., the list day of June,
1867, when on motion, w. G. Thomas, Esq,
was called to the Chair, and Thomas Taylor
1 and Thomas Gunter, colored, were appoin-
ted Vice Presidents, and ]. K. Gibson, white,
! and Thomas Blackwell, colored, appointed
| Secretaries.
A committee of ten, five of each color, was
appinted to draft resolutions for the meet
ing, viz: Silas Burns, w. T. Gunter, James
Womack. j. II. Blount, ]. B. Masimore,
whites, Daniel Blackwell, Sanders Smith,
Willis Byrd, Elias Mckay and Richard
Barnes, colored
The meeting was then addressed at con-
siderable length by Messrs ]. r. Mcdonald
and G. P. Moore, of Chatham and JAS H.
Harris and James Jones, of Raleigh, and w.
J. Barrett, of Moore. They all avowed their
warm attachment to the Republican party.
After which the committee reported the fol-
lowing preamble and resolutions which was
unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, An awful crisis of affairs has
| arrived in our country, many OF our pubic
men having long since turned traitors to the
government. and in addition to the general
devastation which they have already brought
upon us, they are determined, it seems from
their present course, to sink the country
deeper into ruin, destruction and despair;
and whereas, nothing short of the most
powerful, prompt and vigorous exertions of
the men of the great National Republican
Union party can avert the impending storm
can save us from unutterable and irretrieva-
BILE ruin; therefore, be it
Res0lced, That it is the highest and most
solemn duty of every patriot, of every Union
loving man the State over, to arouse himself
and buckle on the armor of truth and justice,
and make one mighty, one powerful effort to
redeem his country from the very jaws of
oppression, and place North Carolina once
more in the glorious old Union upon safe,
firm and lasting foundation.
Resolued, That we hail with pleasure and
accept with delight the various acts passed
by Congress, the law-making power of the
nation, looking to reconstruction civil rights,
universal suffrage, &c.
Resolred, That although we endorse and
are highly pleased with the acts of Congress
to reconstruct the recently insurgent States,
yet we feel it to beour bounden duty as loyal
men to say from every days experience and
observation, that, before we shall be restored
on an Enthusiastically loyal basis, the present
rebel State orwaniZaiiO must be abolished.
Resolced, That it is disheartening and
hard for US as Union men to be taxed and
oppressed to keep in existence disafected
State government through which traitors
and disloyal persons are permitted to and
do rule over u.s. throwing at the same time
every conceivable obstacle and obstruction
ill the way of reconstruction which the in
genuity of the ignoble brain can invent.
ResOlDed That we favor and do recon-
mend that system of free schools for the
benefit of all children without regard to
race or color, should be guaranteed by con-
stitutional and legal FORM
ResOlcel, That we heartily and cordially
endorse the platform of principles as set
forth by the Republican Convention which
assembled in the City of Raleigh, on the 9th
of March, 1867.
Resolred, That the North Carolina iStan-
dard. that reliable and never-finching Re-
publican journal in its untiring and unceas-
ing efforts to maintain Liberty and Law,
Truth and Justice and equal rights to all,
meets our approval.
Resoleed, That the proceedings be forwar-
ded to the Editors of the Standard for pub
lication, requesting the Salem Observer, Neac-
bern Republican, Hendersongile Pioneer, and
other loyal papers to copy.
After which W. IT, Gunter requested all
the Republicans to hold up their hands,
when nearly all present did so, after which the
meeting adjourned with the best of feeling.
". C. THOMAS, President.
THOS. GUNTER, '"e L ''''"o'''
J. K GIBSON, o,,,
THos. BLACKWELL, { 'e'' '''' '''