The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-18

la source of continual of trouble. In other
words, that six hundred thousand people in
North Carolina once governed three hundred
thousand-the word of the white man was
law to the neoro-.he had no will of his own
obeyed from fear, and consequently sought
every opportunity to evade work and the
performance of his duties. He could only
be kept in subsection by harsh means-he,
therefore, sympathized with his own race
and color and concealed runaways, &C., &C.
But he was suddenly set free from personal
restraint or accountability to any particular
man-and held accountable to the laws OF
the country wherein he lived. Yet those
laws were made and administered by white
men, in the interest of the white race. What
was the consequence AS in slavery ne
sought to evade the commands of his mas
ter so in his new relations he would seek to
evade the laws of the land-he would sym
pathise with his own race and color, when
ever those laws were enforced upon any one
of them either rightfully or wrongfully-be-
cause having had no hand in framing those
laws, and seeing them administered by
whites alone, he naturally believed that in
Justice was done to his race, and that his
rights were respected not in Courts OF law
or in any other place.
This was the line of our argument in that
portion of the address, and in order to show
more plainly what we meant, we told what
we saw in this City, sometime last Fall.
Several persons were incarcerated in Jail
one in particular on the charge of burglary.
These parties broke out-an alarm was
raised, and they were pursued. They were
all colored men and all who pursued them
were white men. Observing a concourse of
colored people looking at the chase of the
fugitives, We went close to them. One lit
tie colored boy was sitting on the fence.
Just then a prisoner ran out of house into
a kitchen. The boy cried out "yonder he
goes" A colored man standing by imme-
diately spoke and said ''hush hush p
Now, the question with us afterwards was,
for the prisoner was captured almost imme-
diately, why that colorcd man, whom we knew
as a Christian said "hush ~ and further
why no colored man joined the whites in
pursuing the prisonersjust escaped from Jail ?
Here was one third of our free population
living under laws, which they would not
help to enforce, but which on the contrary
were enforced upon them. Why was this
Plainly it was because they had had no
agency in making those laws; under them
they were not entitled to the rights of free
men-and naturally they disliked their OPP
Grafton, and sympathised with those of their
color, who sought to evade those laws
whether they did so rightfully or wrongfully.
This, then, was a threatening danger, and it
could be avoided in no other way than by
all men to an equal share and re-
sponsibility in government, when all would
unite to uphold the government, capture
prisoners whether white or black, and enforce
the laws upon all offenders without regard
to race or color, and with an eye single to
the public good.
Now, we ask, was there anything incen-
diary or seditious in that2 anything calcu-
lated to promote internecine strife?
With this statement we close Such as
saults upon us are worthy of the source
whence they emanate. On our trip home
wards it so happened that Mr. Furman took
a seat in the same hack. Unknown, unin-
his outside looked we'll enough,
and he deported himself agreeably in con-
versation. After our arrival at Franklinton,
Mr.. Harris informed us who he was. Since
then the Lader has published an aggravated
tissue of falsehood, personal defamation and
groundless charges OF incendiarism, political
and demagogueism. Mr.. Fur
man has shown himself very poor crea-
lure. We can afford to dismiss him to
original obscurity.