The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-12-25

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Further information by correspondence
with the Secretary. Post Office, Fayetteville,
Cumberland Co.. N. @. gAA Nh - = (
Letter From BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
M Correspondence Of the Standard
BRooKLYN, N. Y. Dec. II, 1867.
A few weeks since, sat outon tour OF
observation at the South. Ny purpose in
visiting your section was two f,ld. First,
desired to satisfy myself and inform my
friends, touching the prospects of recon
structionI under the plan of Congress.
Second, desired to look over your section,
that / might be the better able to judge of
the South, its degree Of improvement and
its capacity for future development. Nor
was this secondary consideration without
great weight in determining me to look over
your section.
I am Northern man, a Yankee, if you will,
though born and reared in Western New
York. Politically, I am o Republican, rof
Radical Democratic antecedents, and was
early schooled in the doctrines of Jcferso
MAN democracy. AS sequence, never be-
lieved in slavery. and am, and have been du-
ring my whole life, what has been deemed
at the South an Abolifionist. True, up to
he day of firing upon SUMTER saw no way
in which slavery could be constitutionalIy
abolished, and was always in favor of
standing by the covenant in the bond., -
Your secessionists in the South, however,
found out a way to abolish slavery. They
made war en- the Union and accomplished it.
Though myself mourning the loss Of friends
and kindred during the rebellion. I am not
so much mourner as should have been,
had the Union been preserved and slavery
left alive. In short, greatly rejoice in the
success OF jeff Davis & Co., in abolishing
slavery. They did in four years what all the
Abolitionists of the North would probably
have failed to accomplish in century.
With these views and sentiments, visi-
ted your section. Nor with these alone. I
went there with feelings of generosity to-
ward your whole people. desired, and
shall ever desire to see all of your people
both prosperous and happy. Your section,
so far as soil, climate. and capacity of pro-
duction is concerned, is the more favored
portion of the continent: One cause alone
has left the South far behind the more ster-
lie and rigorous North. The system OF
slavery has been the curse and blight OF your
entire section. Ims system has kept igno-
rant and degraded your bond slaves not
only, put has shut out your own sons from
the lights OF progress. l was largely aware
of this from reading, and vet, confess be-
fore travelling in the South, had no concep-
tion OF the distance you have been left be-
iiir ~ ~ ."c n'"on =, p'"s'ess-
VI 1easmS sou' wy soMe Two weeks
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moasa nos e" .i: ny name !nese',ue'ess
and Ta sf,veyt;sed 90 IN ;nnand r. .nS r,1;,;
cai .dvsn.nrsr n o.lss Ia, anu pl =.
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'in a. $685. o. : =. e. ~. :.
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after bave occssson 70 Lnnw ~ 1870 u,e
NAV not mistake INV che roct,c M ,,,;ss;.,,,
There .re in the North tbonsan.Is of MOI,
oil of them hav;ne, n,o,o a. TO- oa ,,;tol Nh
have their ewes tnrned southword r. No. a. :,
These men woulJ nrefer WITH their s.,n;I;es
| to 1ocate in tho South rotl,ar 49, .ha W..
They are most of them Renubl;cars in tha;,
nolitics and believe in fraalo,n with T.. cor,-
com;fa,ts fraa schools frso ,,ross anJ g..
dom Of thouc,,, and action Mrss IS s.. ,hau'
too believe in tree snffrace anil DO not tn;nS
that the exercise of this r;o hts sbnnId he 1le.
termined Inv national or;o;n comnIsx,on =,
previous condition Of serv;tnde y
Now Won NAV ,oot and IN. e.n,,,., -,
only its con,luctors Int ito rss,7srs w.
for the advent Of some tbousands nf ,ho I'D
Families in vonr midst dur;n~ The 49, Z; -
wears. We are coming how.yar ,,n,,,, nne
Condition onlu wv. sha,, lron W.
,hara !. Iovai ,,,vara,, sa. ~ guy mnSls
American iIn;en and T;hs.tg a' T rss. ~ ~.
nnn,bsrs Of ne vii; ill., oor,a . n na gIea'
State have No sonh. W. - ~! yUa. 0'u Nors.
nots down there The fac. ., nm ZIG way W.
sands Of white mon "a so"ad !. M Mail. s"ou
very encouraging Welike the way your re-
cent bondmen vote too. We think. indeed
they vote more nationally, if not more intelli
gently than the majority of their forner mas
tiers. They certainly vote more for their owr
interests md the interests of the countr,
than do the same unlettered class of Whit
voters at the North. That your Convention
will make an unexceptiona6le ana free Con
stitution, l have no reason to doubt. Le,