The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-10-09
this this order Of the President reside enforced No.

this order Of the President enforced No.
Did the Provisional Governor urge its ensf
forcementg No. Did he not, on the const
trary, do all he could to restore to The former
owners the forfeited property Of corpora
.tions He did. Did he not labor, most
earnestly and anxiously, to. restore the, State
under the. Presidents plan, and mean
while. did he not avert confiscation, thus
ordered by the President He did. Did
he not, when the Presidents plsn failed,
urge the acceptance Of the Howard amend
ment, though it excluded him from of
tice He did. The Howard amendment
having been rejected, does he not now
for the sake Of the Union, from his regard
for the great body Of the people, and to-
avert confscation, most earnestly urge his
fellowTcitizens to accept the present recon-
.struction measures, though under them per-
sons formerly his slaves can vote, and he can
not2 He does. And yet he is denounced
by, the so-called Conservatives as q conisca-
ZIONIST, as a tyrant, as 3 mean white man, "
as an enemy to his State, as demagogue
who would sacrifice every thing to his own
interests Is not all this passing stranger
And now, gentlemen, so-callcd Conserva-.
tiyes and professed Republicans who are
warning on the late Republican State Con-.
vention-do you know sohat you are doing p
There are thousands of white men in this
State who would like to see confscation and
a division of lands, There are 10000 color
ed voters, the most OF whom are poor and
landless, who would like to have some lands.
But the miracle is that all .his vast body of
voters prefer the Union to every thing else,
and because Congress, in which they have
full confidence, has directed certain things
to be done to restore this State to the Union,
they are anxious to do these things, whether
they ever own, an acre of land or not And
now, gentlemen, so-called Conservatives, and
professed Republicans who are warning on
the late Republican Convention, We repeat,
the question, ,ohat are yOu doinga Are you
sane? Have you no common sense 9-no sa-
gacity? Will you still trifle with the sleep
ing thunder2 Those citizens who composed
the late Convention in fuckers Hall, and
those whom they represent, are the only per-
sons in this State scho can reconstruct and re-
store this State to the Union under the present
acts Of Congress- If reconstruction should
fail under these acts, confscation is certain.
| The order of President johnson, in May, 1865,
will be vitalized and put in force by the
Congress. You may not mean it, but by
your course you are appealing to every voter
above named to go forward and defeat the
reconstruction measures. 50 as to ensure cOntfs-
cation. Gentlemen, are you mad9 So far as
we are concerned, time and again we have
tried to save you from yourselves, and to
save and build up our poor, afflicted, and i'm
| poyerished State; and the thanks we have got
have come in the shape of the bitterest de-
| nunciations and the harshest abuse. If you
have any reply to make to this article, let us
have it. We will consider it candidly, and
lrejoin in any but a bitter or revengeful spirit.
We cherish malice towards none Little
| personal differences amount to nothing. We
look to the good Of all !; and as we expect
to answer at the Great Day of Judgment, we
solemnly declare that in all this business we
have acted from sincere desire to save and
benefit our country. egs.,t,i,. t.';iIs