The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-08-19

e Isdse Fsssrisos's Letter.. j 8
The people Of North Carolina need not be,
told who Judge Pearson is. Formore than
thirty years he has been the ornament of the
judiciary of the State. His integrity is be-
yond the breath ofisuspicion and his sound
judgment on all political matters and his
disinterested patriotism have given his opin-
ions consideration which is accorded to the
opinions of few other men. W. p
Judge Pearson never was politician. He
has rarely been before the people:and when
he has felt this duty to make his views.
public, it has been from conviction that
the Importance of the occasion demanded
it, His whole life has been devoted to
maintaining and unfolding the la~ The
appeal which he makes in his letter is an
other plea for law and order against revolu-l
tionary violence and bloodshed. ~ F
is Judge Pearson is Seminently Conservative,
! in all his views. As, "a Conservative he,
wishes to save the government and to avert
the horrors which thermadness and folly of
reckless party would bring about. He
appeals to the Conservatives-to all lovers
of peace-to those who have real interest
in the welfare Of our State and country-to'
those who still have something left from the
almost universal wreck of tile late rebellion
to those who wish to save something for
wives and children from the desOating fu-
~ of another revolution. 1t is to these that,
Judge Pearson appeals. He calls upon all
moderate men, all men who are not utterly
blinded by party rage to take calm view
the situation and to act accordingly.
We believe that his warning will not be
unheeded. As we have said, the writcA is,
not Radical, nor does he speak for the Raj
ical party. He speaks as a Conservative, anN
he speaks the words of truth and sobernesS
He thoroughly exposes the miserable pretexe
that the reconstruction al IS are unconstitu-t
tional. Upon this point he tands upon high
Radical ground He holds,\ as all sound 10
| gicjans must, that these acts are ertra consti
tutional That is, they were framed to meet
an emergency nft contemplated. and which
by no possibility could have been contempla-
ted, by the authors of the constitution. For
what government can contemplate its own
destruction in its organic law In this view,
the Chief Justice was sustained by the late
| Supreme Court Of this State.
It is gratifying to know that the entire Su
preme Court will go with. the Chief justice
for Grant and Colfax It is gratifying to
believe that every single District Judge in
| the State viii support the same ticket. Will
not the people listen to the voice of their
| Judges7 Will they turn aside from their
counses to listen to the rawlings of the in
cendiary and the mailman Vance who has
nothing to lose, but who would put the torch
to ten Thousand homes, if, by SO doing, he
could retrieve his lost fortunes and crafty his
hellish passions of revenge and power by
grinding this people once more beneath, his
heel.
Have we learned nothing by the past
Are the lessons referred to by the Chief
| Justice TO have no effect? We sincerely
hope not We believe that there are enough
| ,,ho II ,sa---v-r-->I'rc VINO WIT Ponuef
them well and who will be able to save our
State from the dangers which are impending.
There is no longer any doubt about the
issue. 1t is peace or war. And such war
Four millions of colored people who have
tasted liberty will not be remanded to polit
ical bondage without a struggle which we
shudder to contemplate. The white repub-
licans of North Carolina will suffer and en-
dure all things before they will submit to
see the government wrested from them by
force by tho men who murdered their sons,
starved and plundered their wives and chill
dren and forced them to the front in hand
cuffs to die that they might save their slaves
| Death would be preferable to the misera-
BILE lives that the Republicans in North
Carolina, must drag out, should they once
more succumb to the red demons of rebel.
lion. Of this fact the Republicans are all
aware, and may God IN his mercy, put of
the day when it shall come to the test.