The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-01
REpUBJJCAN MOVEMENTS SOUTlI---ONLY ONE
coURSE FOR THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE.

COURSE FOR THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE.
We published yesterday circular from
the Republican Executive Committee of Con
DRESS which shows Il remarkable degree o.
zeal. activity and success on the part OF sale
committee in behalf of the republican party
in all the ten States of the five Southern
military districts. The committee has the
names of twenty thousand loyal persons In
the South to whom documents are regularly
sent, and the list is being daily augmented
The Committees correspondence is very ex
tensive, hundreds of letters being received
weekly from all parts of the South. 1t has
a republican organization and agents at
work in every Southern State; Union League
councils in all are being rapidly formed, and
a largely increased number of intelligent
men, white and colored, could be put In the
field at once, if the committee only had the
funds Hence this circular, in pursuance OF
a resolution of late republican Congress
sional caucus, pledging the members on their
return home to use their best personal efforts
to the work of raising money for the use OF
this committee.
We have heretofore detailed the numerous
powerful agencies and instrumentalities
through which, within few months, the re-
pubIicans have organized party movement
in each of the ten unreconstructed States,
which, from all the facts disclosed, and all
the signs of the times, promises to carry
everything before it, We have in this Con
gressional committee only the central direc-
tory through which all these agencies and
their operations are carried on. But how
has this vantage ground been so rapidly and
extensively gained? 1t has been gained by
the republicans through the folly of the
great body of the Southern whites of old
democratic proclivit1es, in listening to and
in adopting the foolish State rights counsels
OF Northern copperhead politicians. These
pernicious politicians had much to do in
leading the South into the path of rebellion,
and during the war and since the war their
good offices as peace makers have brought
only disappointments and disasters upon
themselves and their followers.
The constitutional amendment which was
first offered by Congress as a basis of Southern
restoration would have answered for all the
other rebel States as we'll as for Tennessee,
had they only availed themselves like Ten
nessee, of the easy conditions thus laid down.
Unfortunately, however, under the cncour-
agement of President johnson and the cop
perhead leaders and organs of the North, all
the ten remaining rebel States, from Fir-
ginia to Texas, Indignantly and deiantly
secuted what they called these usurpations
by Congress of the constitutional rights of
the States and the people. The people
directly concerned. who ought to have known
better, stupidity consented to follow those
bowling dervishes for the constitution whose
broad and dusty high road is the road to
ruin Thus with the indignant rejection of
the first conditions emanating from Congress
by the ten excluded States, the two houses,
in the exercise of their lawful authority,
proceeded to impose the more stringent and
astonishing terms of their Reconstruction
bill, placing these ten incorrigible States
under military supervision and under a
programme of State reorganization, embrace
ing universal negro suffrage-a perfectly ap-
palling innovation and revolution from the
old bred Scott discipline.
This was a severe ordeal; but as the right
full authority over this business belonged to
Congress, and as Congress had manitestly
resolved at last that there should be no more
trif1ing with the refractory States wrested
from the foreign government of jeff Davis,
the only course of sense and safety to those
States was a graceful and prompt COM
pliance with the terms Of the supreme law
But again, still adhering to bad advisers and
exploded party dogmas and claptrap, the
Southern whites, from Virginia to Texas, to
a great extent, still looking to President
johnson and the Northern democracy, and
disguised with negro equality, resolved to
let the contest go by default rather than
be registered in the same book and on the
same footing with niggers." The results
are that Southern registrations of lawful
voters according to the acts of Congress
show decisive majOrities for the blacks over
the whites in all the Southern cities and
towns from Richmond to New Orleans
And as the blacks are en- masse republicans,
and as only the men registered can partici-
pate in the work of recognizing said rebel
States, we see that the republicans, as mat
tiers now stand, hold possession party of
those States by default of their white popu-
lation, who still adhere to the fallacies of
Calhoun, Buchanan, johnson, and the
Northern copperhead press.
The excluded States have surely had
enough of this. At all events, there is now
no other way of political safety and material
prosperity before them but the way marked
out by Congress, and the sooner the people
of these outside States, of all creeds, parties
and coloTs, act upon this conclusion, in
order to be restored to the Union as fast as
possible, the better it will be for them and
for their future peace, harmony and prosperi-
ty, as well as for the country at large. The
issue is now with these ten States of the five
military districts, whether they shall partici-
pate in the Presidential election of 1868 or
remain excluded from a voice for the sue
cession till 1S72-NeD York Herald.