The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-06-03
When will the States be Admitted?

The people of the States recently recon
stlucted under the authority of Congress,
are awaiting the action of that body with
intense interest. .r
The people of North Carolina, for exam
pie, by a majority of more than twenty
thousand, have promptly and cheerfuly ac-
cepted the Congressional plan of reconstruc-
ton They have formed Constitution
thoroughly republican in torn, and they
have ratified it, and at the same time elected
men to administer it, by majority of the
registered vote of the State.
The loyal white men of North Carolina
have also, with a moral heroism never sur
passed. gone forward and engaged in. the
great work of training and fitting the colored
race for self government; and they have
done this for the Congress, for the North,
for themselves, and for the nation at large.
under storm of reproach and obloquy, of
which few persons north of the Potomac can
form any conception. "a +i1'' 11-5 Y
These loyal whites in North Carolina, and
these colored people, are as true to the flag,
and they love the nation as well as any man or
body of men in any portion of the country.
They can be implicitly trusted. II they can
not be, then free government is failure in
these Southern States, and the Republican
party will be unable to reconstruct the gov
ernment. The country has been, practically,
disunitcd for the last seven years. Indefinite
disunion would be precisely what the enc
mics of the United States desired when, in.
1860, they raised the standard of revolt.
For the last two years and six months we
have had in this State 81 the COnfederacy"
in modified form Wehave it now. How
long shall this continue?
The bill to admit North Carolina and
other States has passed the House by more
than two-thirds, and is now in the Senate
We know that nothing we could say would
move the Senate, or any individual membero of
it. Yet we need not conceal the fact that the
enemies of the government, while they are
still ruling us, and taxing US, and proscrib
ing US, are exulting in the hope that the
Congressional plan will fail; while many
plain, uninformed Republicans are fearful
that this hope may prove well-founded. The
material interests of our people are suffering
by delay. There can he no revival of bust
ness-no renewal of confidence between man
and man-no certainty as to the future until
the State is admitted Thousands of our
people are suffering for bread. Permanent
loyal government, giving assurances of bet
ter times in the future, would mark a be-
ginning point, from which the struggling
and the suffering would gradually emerge
into more tolerable condition. -a'
For our part, we have no fears as to the
action of the Senate. 1t will take its time
in this as in other matters, but we regard it
as certain that it will agree to the Hpuse
bill. This may be done day, or next week,
ormonth, but that it aoW be done we entertain
no doubt. Congress will not allow its plan
of reconstruction to fail; and every consid-
Grafton of expediency and policy as well as
of justice, points to the admission of tile
States in full time to organize their Elec-
tional tickets, so as to allow them to cast
their votes for Grant and Colfax #