The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-07-17

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FOR the Standard.
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MEssRs EDIToRs For the first time since
1860 the birth day fof our nation was celet
brated, on yesterday in this village, with Jap
propriate honors and for the first time
also, did the stars of our national emblem
shed the benign light Of liberty upon the
worthy countenances that clustered around
its folds, as it gsyly futtered4 in the brecxe
on this 4th of July morning. It was an in-
teresting sight to behold on the occasion, 60
many Thousands Of the colored people
pouring into the village, at an early
hour, in order to see the old flag un-
furied for the first time, after 80 many years,
during which loyalty. to it, was deemed the
height of disloyalty to the country. y
Early in the daya procession was formed
composed of the various Councils of the q.
I. A. and the Fl. o. A under their respec-
tive Presidents and other officers, who cons
binedon the occasion to show both their
loyalty and their strength. And they sue
ceeded in showing both TO some purpose,
for the procession numbered over two thou
sand voters, white and black. The usual
white vote of this County amounted to .
little over 1900 in the stiffness, but Il be-
low those figures, I apprehend, now. Now
though, we had no more than two-thirds Of
the Republican strength in the procession
on this occasion, we had more than sufficient
to carry the whole County for the Republic
can party, even should the white vote De en-
tireiy pumped for our opponents But the
White vote Is 1ar rom beng secure TO our
friends, the Conservatives, as was mani
TEST on the Atm INST. by the number OF white
men who IN defiance OF the scorn and hatred
Of their rebel feliow-citizens boldly took
their places Dy the SIDE OF their cotoreo TEL
low-citizens IN the procession, keeping step
with the African to the music OF the Union,
as the band, at the head of the column,
discoursed eloquently those stirring and pat
riotic airs which'ye loved 90 well IN the
days OF aud tdng sy''ep 81.
Nor was the entire strength OF our wnlte
vote present; iar from It. Friends ana Toes,
when the electloncomes round wlll De some
what surprised. have no doubt, at the
strength OF this same vote, on the re
publican side. This element OF strength IS
being developed more and more every day.
Andy johnson and Governor Perry with the
new battle cry, OF no Contention are DO
ing great work for US in this respect. l
hope Andy will never beimpeached BY Con
gress, except for confirmed lunacy; and that
the shadow of the astute Stanbery will never
grow less until his manipulations will; render
Worth worthless, for my polio" and inca
pable Of inflicting any more injury upon
our people The conservatives with their
"nO Convention motto. will find that the
foxes have earned frebrands into the stand
ing corn. The white people Of this State
are weary of STAYING out in the cold They
are not going to allow themselves to Be de-
luded the second time by the quack nostr,ins
of South-C Carolina politicians. This, no
Convention movement. like notification
and secession, had its origin in that prolific
matrix of mischief, revolution and ruin,
from which have sprung our carnage, our
orphanage, nur desolations and our ma
tional tiibulations. And the party who
adopts and fosters this malignant spawn
and sends it abroad to delufle and curse our