The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-19
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A Good one from s. Nasby.''
Our Southern readers will recollect that
the staple talk of secession orators in 1861,
to induce our people to engage in peace
able secession" was that if we submitted to
the election and rule of Mr. Lincoln the slaves
would, be set free-negroes would be made
thee4pals of white people, and "big buck
negroes would ride in carriages with our
wives4nd daughters" Hundreds of thou
sands of honest voters were iDaamed and
misled by these appeals.
Well, the Southern States took the advice
of these secession orators. They seeded
and fought, and what did they get by it,
We are as far as ever from the social equali-
ty which they pretended to fear, but the ne
groes are now free-they are going to vote,
and to have all their political and civil
rights and we are still met with the cry of
NEGRO equality" The whole question of
the emancipation of the slaves, and of their
present and future status, may be stated
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Who went to war to spread and perpet
uate savery2 The secessionlsts. Who lost
slavery by involving it in civil war? The
secessionists. Who set the slaves free? The
armies of the United States, under the COM
mand of Abraham Lincoln. How much
credit do the secessionists deserve for taking
such steps as led to emancipation Just as
much as Pharaoh did for letting the Israel
ties 60 When Miriam sang her song of JOY
"on the other side" of the Red Sea, she gave
no thanks to Pharaoh and his host for the
deliverance of Israel. Why should the ne
gro have all his political and civil rights q
Because it is anti-republican and unjust to
tax him. to make him work the roads and
! bear arms, and give him no voice in the gov
erlment; because he is loyal, and will stand
by the Union under all circumstances against
treason and traitors; because we shall have
no peace in this country, and no adequate
protection to the negro himself, until he is
placed on the same footing in his civil and
political rights with the white man. If there
be any thing wrong or dangerous in this,
who is to blame for it? The secessionists,
who involved the country in a war that res
ulted in giving freedom to the slaves. But
as we nave stated, they deserve no credit for
this, for they labored and hoped for differ
ent result.
The Copperheads of the North are affiict
ed with the same fear of NEGRO equality"
When the secessionists of the South take
snuff these Copperheads of the North invari-
ably sneeze. Mr.. Petroleum V. Nasty, in a
letter addressed to the President, thus touches
off this subject:
"My liege on my return from the Phiia-
delphla Convention, tarried awhile in Berks
County, which is in Pennsylvania, and is
distinguished for the unanimity with which
they vote Democracy. My liege, they learn
ed down there morn six weeks ago that the
war WIZ over, and therefore 700 coodent
stir elm up OH drafts. Taxes they had got
used to- and that didn't move EN-, and so the
speaker wuz emptying school-houses by talk
ing NV the results NV glorious war, which
they all opposed. and praisin our mutual
friend Seward, which they had alluz hated
as a Abishnist and hedn't herd yet that he
had jined the Demokracy. Wuz it any
wonder that we went under? Their amt but
one thing left to u.s. and that we strangely
neglected My lege, why wuz the NIeGER
not msfle the central igger this year ez be-
fore 3 they is the capital Nv the Democrisy
-itsfefdSe-its tower of strength. l spoke
in Befks County myself, following one of
them newfangled Democrats who had set EN-
all asleep talking stuff to en- that they didn't
understand. Mountin the rostrum, ejacu-
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| omen AND BRETHREN DO 700 WANT TO
MARRY A NIGGER2 No! no = they answer
ed, strengthening up to wunst.
60 Do you want niggers for sons-inslaw?
'No!no!'
"'Do you want laws to prevent you from
marrying niggers9' Yes! yes!'
"'Do you want to be marched up to the
polls, by those who tell you how to vote, be-
side niger p No mol
"'Then vote the Demekratic tiket,' and
they all replied We will we will = and
they did.
"You see, your Exslency, the Demekratic
mind isn't betty enough to comprehend them
fine arguments ez to constitootionality, ct
setry, and when speaker deals in EN- they
I suspect his Dimocrisy and fight shy Nv him.
But nigger they kin all understand. It's
soothin to the Dimekratic mind to be con
tinyooally told that there is somebody lower
down in the skale-they desire inferior
race, and, therefore, hev bin pullin the mig
ger down toward EN- tor years. Did 700 moi
motifs whenever we went it on the nigger, we
succeeded in awakenin an enthoosiasm witch
when we neglected, or selected other issues
we failed to get 2"