The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-09-09
emo Hope in Courts or President. !, 4

"a. t"ssNO Hope in Courts or President. no
1--WE have lost all hope in Courts or Pres
hident.9 There is as much relief to be found
in the clouds as in them" Thus cry out the
organs of the Democratic party in this and
other Southern States. Therefore" say
they, two must appeal to the negro to save
J us from the Brownlows of our country and
rid us of the grip the everlasting Yankee has
got upon our throat" ,His5l
:, We are in the habit both from early train.
ing and in obedience to our own sense of
what is becoming and proper, to treat all
supplicating appeals to superior power for |
: deliyerance from present or threatened dam
ger, with reverence. But this appeal of the
Democratic party to the negro to save it
from obstruction, instead of exciting the
emotion of reverence stirs every, risiblc fac
ulty in our nature and keeps US in constant
good humor with ourselves and the rest Of
mankind. 1t is better antidote for The
blues than Jefferson or Owens and the ply
sicians in the Republican party are all t,.ying
of starvation having no sick or dyspeptic
Yankees to prescribe for. .-9''r .'a' ''5-
mo hope in Courts or President" Let
US examine the logic of this appeal to the
rnegroe. The Democratic party has always
held and still holds that the negro is nothing
but an animal with no rights a white man is
bound to respect that he can be kicked
and beaten like a dog, driven like a mule,
sold like cotton, and on the perpetration of
any slis hit offence, killed like wild beast,
if the avaricc or cupidity of his master does
not weigh down the scales in. favor of his
life. .,..;rs a. b., -ai,,r, ,rs aoa..i,, ,arni
To- And what has been and is this dear hope
in Courts, and President |? q, More fancy dc
cisions from the Supreme Court and more
treachery from the Executive Think you
we would see these lords of the lash, the
| whip and the sword, the revolver and the
bouic knife, bowing down to the negro and
with crocodile tears, supplicating his aid, if
they had succeeded in corrupting one more
Judge of the Supreme Court and a few more
members of Congress. Think yon they
would have called him a citizen like them
selves. equal before the law, entitled to the
same rights in Schools in churches and in
public conveyances, if they had succeeded in
obtaining from five old men on the Supreme
bench five or six words in their favor and
against the right of Congress to legislate for
all the people. Think you they would have
+ given the negro single natural right, or
rather We should say, have they ever given
the negro single natural right? Have not
all the rights the negro now enjoys been
dragged from the Democratic party by over.
whelming votes at the polls, and when ii
appealed to arms, by overwhelming muskets
in the field2 ''''s4 1,i..
| And think you the same Democratic
party can conceal its hoofs and forked tai
under the cloak of the old Constitutions OF
any other device to cover up its hideoul
form. 's42t
/ mo hope in courts or President" "Had w
the least hope we would see you all in perdi
ton before we would walk arm and arm will
you at thepolls; before we would divide tn,
school fund with you and your children, ant
your children's children; before we woult
read and study the same books, under tn
same roofs and for the same righteous pur
pose; before ne would ride with you in tn
same conveyances, and strike from our civi
codes all the odious laws which have KEEP
you down at our feet for centuries" ..l
Il mo hopes from court or President.
'IIad We thu least hope we would reman'
you all back to slavery, or if not to SLAYER
to serfdom, OF if not to serfdom to the low
+ est position and with as few rights we coui
: possibly give you. "No hope from Court
or President, or We would again raise til
blood-stained banner of secession and flaun
1t defantly in your faces. mo hope j
3 Courts or President or we would see gras
grow in all the streets of our cities ever
Northern capitalist driven home if he dared
l swear by any other god than that of slavery
every effort to develop the resources of til
9 South embarrassed, thwarted or ruined
I every railroad in the hands of the very me
D who, through the war they brought abou
, made the stock as worthless as Confelcrat
9 bonds. mo hope from Courts or Prcsider
e or every dollar we have lost by the enlanc
!. patton of our slaves we would make tn
e North pay back with interest No help froi
G Courts OF President, or this vast debt "
0 saddled ourselves with would be thrown o
r and repudiated forever. mo help froi
e Courts Or President, or we would reverse ev
II decision, repeal every law, take away eysl
n rights gained IIy the people in the plenitue
r of their power, and whichpiaced the Matte
far in advance OF all Others in christian eli
t ilizatiou and Enlightenment. sts3 y
/ -" No hoper' "No hope !" is the relnors
y full cry Of the Democratic party as it sees
r doom approaching. No hope l No hop
0 Save us, oh f! save us beloved Sambo, or
4 perish! From our youth up VIC have liv'
81 with you, We have loved you, we have Dor
50 children by you, (and sold them for soint'
cash paid DOWN. Our blood is mfnggl
1t with your blood, your children are our eh
l. tlrcn, our homes your homes. Why, th
j. forsakc us in our dire extremity Why lea
It your dear old masters who brought you
o the way from Africa. not to make money o
e Of the sweat Of your.brow, but to teach y
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