The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-09-23

were Dound 70 sec Ialr play everywhere.
lEApplause. We were bound to see fair
play to- every man who had been true to the
flag. and we asked nothing of the man who
had been fighting against it. but the duty
| of being peaceable and treating his neigh
bors peaeeabiy. [Applause.]
\ wilire Andrew Johnsons course
| briefly. Our Confederate friends say that
| Congress usurped unconstitutional powers
in reconstructing the South. They were
| very well satisfied with the reconstruction of
Andrew johnson and the Democracy. In
| general terms, most of them approved of his
course But his course failed in bringing
| about the end that Mr.. johnson commended
| for in the first place. 1t was practical
failure in reconstructing the South. Now
Congress went on and used the same DOW
| ers that Andrew johnson used but in a more
constitutional manner, for the same purpose
that he professed. What did he dol First
| be declared that there were no lawful gov
| ernments in these States down here; that
| these State constitutions had the clause
| Confederate States" where they should
have said III. S." and the officers hid sworn
to support the Confederate Go1ernments
| He said they were all spurious Governments.
MIR. johnson may have endesvored to APP
point good men, and know that in some
cases he did right and got tile best men.
| But deny his right to appoint any such
men. Why was Andrew johnson appointing
over any one OF these States If 1t already had
4 q lawful government as the Confeder
atcs claimed He would not have ap-
| pointed Governor over Connecticut
or New York. The right of the President
to appoint Governor does not exist on the
| statute book. You may say he was Gcv-
ernor OF Tennessee. No, he was military
Governor as Gov. Holden was. he assumed
the right to say who should vote and VINO
should not vote He SAID that nobody
should vote except those VINO were allowed
to vote by the old constitution OF North
Carolina. He SAID no men Should vote VINO
were excluded by MS amnesty proclamation.
He DISTINGUISHED much larger number than
any acts OF Congress have ever pretended to
| dislrancnlse. Is not Inat so dov. Holden
| aov. hoIDEN: ihaS Is so, vastly more.
/ lAPplause
| dov' HA"LEY we iet more wmte men
so!e IMAM ne oiu greaI ueal;
las neAs oiu Anuiew 'o l,. assume
10 lei, JUG PeoP'e wno sI,'a,u vots, whers
| tney suoula Vo.e' anu 10 1eii 0neli "heh anu
| =,
assehlpie, ana 10 ueciue al Tue .erins Oh SET
eiement: ne toid you ana an the otner
plates tnat you must aoopt tue Constltu-
tionai Amendment aooilshing slavery.
he told them that they must declare
null and void their ordinances of Sc
cession, that they must repudiate their rebel
debts; That is well enough, and they partly
complied with 1t.
4 COuOrpSSt t0Oetler
| they found that these johnson governments
were practically failure; that the loyal
| people had not their rights here, and they
said "We have as good a right to govern
| this reconstruction as Andrew johnson has,
and great deal better.p Mark this point,
] Congress only exercised the powers that An
| drew johnson exercised. Are we to adopt
| it as the theory of our government that any
man who happens to be President may pre-
scribe the terms of reconstruction Congress
| first divided the South into five districts, and
commenced their system Of reconstruction;
1t submitted the constitutional amendments,
and said who should vote and who should
not vote, and Congress was the lawful au-
thority to do these things, and Andrew
johnson had no authority until Congress
| approved it. In 1865, he said his reconstruc-
tion was SUBJECT 10 tne approval OF congress.
| pop M, s;5 s.;nsu e
IT,. a.. S.'.ses, Co.. iii ado,,t tl,ot oroond-
.naS - Iii sso,,ra ,,s 90 a. 90 ,,o.s;hIe
aoainst future rebellion. II will give us
what we have been FIGHTING for: but we will
consider the whole matter settled. That
| amendment was offered to the people of the
| country. The Democratic party of the North
cried out to the people of North Carolina,
| South Carolina and Georgia, Do not take
| it, we will get all the men who went into
the rebellion back into the Union without
any disablIines anu so they persuaded the
'oiy ~" 'o'oe Aol ~ "e1o' '"o'o S"S'o, wv
er1ors "a. =
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| Co., e e.;a.a IL, ~, e .1'at o,d
49,. - -. .hIa9 "a no;oa e No,o
hera T,onobter
Gov IIa,glav,s sneech will, ha concluded
| nm the second naoe 80 .S
AT stand No 3 sneeches were made by
Hon. A. H. Galloway, and Others. The
crowd then adjourned to the Baptist Grove
TO parssalike OF barbecue.
..j,s THE DINNER.
Inc preparation Q, the eo,oies was supelln'ei,
h;S an+r NJ p with ION hanaa oommsncsd
the work Of cooling at O'Clock ON Monday
morning last, and he and his party worked dill
gently and unremittingly day and night until yes
| terday at o'clock. ~