The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-19

them cannot possibly he expected to outIaut
the next two years. And, whenever the oJd
masters shall have wit enough to say to the;r
ex-slaves, e" We concede to you all the rights
that we CLAIM for ourselves why slpmld ,rS
be antagonists any longer l'-thev will c,r
ry large part if not most of them awar
! from those who now run the Republican M.
chine at the South. The recent Conserya-
tive negro meeting at Mobile is ominous of
what must surely come. So long as the Re-.
actionists who absurdly term Themselves
d" Conservatives" shall see fit to stand on tho
platform of white mans government"
whereof blacks must be serfs, this grayIt,.
ton of the negroes toward their old masters
will amount tonothing more than the Irish
vote for Know-Nothing tickets; but tho
moment the old aristOcracy of the Sonth
concede the right of suffrage to the blacks
the whole situation Will he changed. And
| that they Will do, so soon as they are satis>
fed that they can do no better-Neu YORK.
| Tribune.
The Tribune does not seem to understand
" the situation" in this part of the country
In tile first place, all the " old masters
were not secessionists or rebels Thousands
of shareholders in the South were ready in
1860, to give up their slaves to save the
Union-were ready, in 1863, to reconstruct
the government, though they knew that under
Mr.. Lincoln's proclamation they would lose
their slaves-were ready, in 1865. to submit
uncomplainingly to such loss, and are now.
and have been earnest advocates of NEGRO
suffrage. These were the Union men before
the rebellion, Conservatives or Peace men
during the rebellion, Unionists again as soon
as they saw the old flag, and Republicans
now. We insist that the Tribune should not
habitually ignore this large class of patriotic
citizens. Trsa A 1-,-sa
Nor will the " old masters" who are still re-
bellious ever detach the coiored people from
the Republican party. This was fully tried by
Gen. Hampton, Gov. Worth, Gov. Vance.
and many Others, rebel leaders and odd
masters" par excellence, soon after the passage
of the present reconstruction acts. They
then conceded the eolored people all the
rights" which they claimed for themselves
They addressed them, they appealed to them,
they coaxed them, they offered to bride
them, they threatened them; but the colored
people, after having heard them patiently
and respectfully, went and registered their
Iames and poured all their votes into the
ballot-boxes for the Republican party. They
will do it again and again. The - insane
folly of the ex-Bourbons" will continue
The " next two years"-the next ten years
will not witness any such desertion of the
Republican party by the colored people as
that apprehended by the Tribune. The
colored people have a solemn conviction that
the "old masters" who are opposed to
the reconstruction acts are not to be trus-
ted, and that the only hope there is for
themselves and for liberty in this country, is
in the Republican party. They are honest,
and they are thoroughly in earnest IN this
business They will never confde, in any
event. in those public men who have oppos-
ed and are now opposing the acts of Con-
gress by which their freedom is to be made
sure to them-neverl No one asks the 6 old
aristocracy OF the South to 'concede the
right of suffrage to the blacks" This right
is theirs already. 1t will never be relin-
pushed. The loyal people of this State,
white and black, care about as little for such
a concession from such a source, as the
Tribune would for the opinion of the Alias
kans on the Fenian question. Neither the
" whole situation" or any part of the situa-
ton in these Southern States will be chang
ed by any thing the e old aristocracy of the
South" may say or do. This change" of
which the 1ribane speaks, is the very thing
we are now striving to guard against. Our
all as people is involved in it, and When
we say this we include the loyal, firetried
be so great to the South or to the nation at
large, as that which, by changing the
d" whole situation" would place the votes of
the colored people, and consequently these
Southern governments, in the hands of the
old aristocracy of the South" These " old
masters" who are still rebellious are all of
this "old aristocracy." They will never
change. They will die detesting the gov
eminent for having robbed them, as they
say, of their property. Did Bourbon ever
changea Have any OF these old masters"
ever shown any "wit," for themselves or
their country2 Never. They may make
concessions, but fortunately no one will con-
fde IN them. Their day is over.
Nor can it be correctly said they have
q arrayed the blacks against them" They
are rather arrayed against the blacks. The
colored people nave simply voted their hon
est sentiments on the side of their own free
dom. Their whole course has been as. re-
spectful and as just to Others as it has been
natural in itself. .aF
Weappeal to the Tribune to consider these
things, and to forbear expressions which in
dictate the probability that, in any event,
the colored people may ally themselves with
their own enemies and the enemies OF the
government ITSELF
In Bankruptcy.
The attention of Registers, Assignees and
Others. is directed to the Rules laid down on
Ind