The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-09-09
The white sulphur spring Development

The White sulphur Spring Development.
1t ought to be said and shown plainly to
all men, that the Developments put forth by
Gen. Rosencranz as the result Of his confab
with Lee, Beauregard, Stephens, &C., at
White Sulphur Springs, although put forth
under the cover of peaceful professions, are
really nothing but the reiteration of the ut
terances of Wade Hampton, Forrest, Toombs
&C., on the same point, to-wit: that the
cx-eaders of the rebellion viii; not submit to
manhood suffrage 1t is true that there is q
great amount of paraphernalia and cast
ing parts, and great attention to dramatic
effect. Rosencranz. the self appointed em-
bassador, approaches those bibulous shades
in great circumstance, long-heralded, and
with many watchful eyes following him.
When he arrived there were hand -shakings,
and compliments and dinners, and wine
drinking. A bal masque appropriately fol-
lowed his departure, and so the double pur
pose was served of advertising the White Sui
phur Springs through all the papers of the
country, and of advertising the remarkable
conference" Thus advertised, the result of
the conference" goes forth clothed in spe-
cious garb, in order to allay. the apprehen-
sion which the declarations of the New Yolk
Convention, Frank Blair's letter, Wade
Hampton's and Forests speeches, and the
platform of the Southern Conventions, had
created. .!a
We are unwilling to believe that Gen. Ro-
sencrarz would be party, knowingly, to a
deception so gigantic as this, and therefore,
We conclude that his credulity has been inn
posed upon. Undoubtedly, all the rebel
leaders talked smoothly of peace, but Gen.
Rosencranz ought to have known, when they
said the Southern people would not submit
to the domination of the niggern what it
meant To what purpose is it, let us ask,
to urge the people to vote for Seymour and
Blair, when it is the avowed purpose, in case
OF their election, to subvert the present State
of things in the South-a thing aohich cannot
be done aoithout cioI acar-and to do all this
under professions of peace2 Why declare
for peace and at the same time proceed to do
what will inevitably produce war9 Because
there is no man, unless his judgment be
blinded by passion, but knows that the right
of suffrage cannot be taken from the col
ored people of the South except by force. If
we want peace at the South, the present
laws relating to suffrage must be submitted
to. They cannot be abrogated without civil
war. The gentlemen who were luxurlatine
at the White Sulphur Springs. may think il
a light thing to overturn the legitimate re
suits of the late war. Let them touch the
great body ofthe people and they will dis
cover their mistake. Let them attempt tt
carry out their insane project, which is, in
deed, only perpetuation of the ideas upon
which the rebellion commenced, and they
will discover, perhaps too late for them, tina
the aroused masses of the people are not tt
be trifed with. We, therefore, set aside thi
Rosencranz embassy as fraud, humbug
and an absurdity. 1t does not change til,
status of things at all, that Lee 6 Co., or!
"peace" while their purpose and the purpos
of all the ex-rcbcls of the South remain un
changed. ~ '"-'.'..s .'a ti rs a5"
| We therefore come back to the phras
which cannot be too often repeated nor to-
devoutly believed, that 'the election of Gran
is peace, and the election of Seymour
war" Disguise it as We may that is th
substance of all this contest The first toucl
of the finger of Seymour's administration
should he be elected, upon the Constitution
and laws Of this State or of the other recon
structed Southern States would be the sigma
for such internecine strife as never has beel
known in the South. The rights of all tn
people of this commonwealth are to be pro
tected with the ballot at whatever cost
Ex-rebels may may not like it, but they d
not compose the majority of the people O
the South. In good time they will have t
submit to what is inevitable, with the grac
which should become them, inasmuch Us
was brought on by their own folly and mad
ness. He,sT ndi et tli1's5 rg47 n78I1