The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-01-15
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We make the following extracts from the
Inaugural Address of Gov. Bullock, of Mas
sachusetts:
Referring to national matters. Gov. Bull
lock says: "We have destroyed involuntary
servitude, we haze manumitted a race OF
men, and conceded to them equality. civil.
and political rights. In the proceedings of
the Conventions of the Southern States
which they have mainly controlled. 1belierc
that, after making due allowances, they
have displayed a praiseworthy moderation.
1t is sacred duty to insure them protection
in the enjoyment of the rights we have guar
anteed but we must also remember there are
millions of the white race who cannot, and
must not always be retained in the position
of Affect foes millions whose productive
labor is necessary for the discharge of ma
tional obligations which must never be re
pudiated, and whose good will and co-opera-
tion are essential to complete and thorough
reunion. Let US then hear no more of con-
fiscation and attainder for the Southern
masses Let us make an end of illiberal and
uniriendly legislation, and, while compro-
missing no principle tor which we lave con
tended, let usrestore those lately in rebellion TO
equality of rights as speedily as is consistent
with the national safety. The present OBJ
stacles to reconstruction must come to a
speedy end, whether they he interposed by
unrepentant Rebels, bya President who does
not make treason odious. or by those whom
his policy has deluded into renewed resist
ance. The welfare and will of the people
require peace. Peace from turmoil of mind
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their finances, for their industry, for their
commerce; and having the determination
and power, there is no mistaking the agency
by which they intend to enforce it. If en-
Uttered men refuse to accept the boon that
is proffered, the responsibility, the shame,
and various consequences, will be theirs
alone. Ii they are so blind to their own in
terest as to incite hostility between races,
they will1lnd that the nation is strong, that
the nation will maintain its guarantees No
rights of loyal men will he surrendered to
effect any settlement whatsoever. Equality
of rights and universal suffrage are irreversi-
BILE facts. The wheels of revolution do not
roll backward In the march of civilization
and Democratic ideas, this nation takes no
backward step. 51i~ tH}
1t is the record of history that in great
public crises the instinct of nation points
with unerring sagacity to some man of the
people, whom they adopt at once, in the as
surance of faith, as their chosen champion
and dellverer, and by u natural law this
abiding confidence is through its own sooth-
ing power the surest guarantee OF success.
In this dark hour of national exigency we
have a leader whose integrity is un-
corrupted by political associations, and whose
patriotism has not permitted him to descend
to the arena of partizan warfare-of tried
leader of undaunted courage. who will be
swayed neither by popular passinn nor sec
tional pre,ljudicc--o man of cautious re-
ticencc who has no Inconsistencies to ex-
I.lplain, no politics to maintain, no theories
proniulgate-ofa leader who hocnmprehends
the position and relations of all sections of
our common country, and will bring to the
administration of pnihic affairs exccuiive
ability, economical ideas, a clear head. and
an honest heart 1t is manifest that it isthe
same Providence which brought US safely
through the storm of war that gives this
whole people now, with singular unanimity,
to recognize, in plain, unpretending citizen,
him whose energy, discretion, and exalted
patriotism wiltrestore peace ard prosperity
to discordant States and a distracted land.
The man for the crisis. the man for the hour,
the manof the people, is Ulysses s.. Grant.
Before his pre-eminent fitness for the high
Office to which grateful nation woule Fele-
vate him, LET personal preferences y ield Let
faction subside, that peace. good will, and
union may once more and forever abide
throughout the Republic. aaJ =
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A Western editor says, lie heard a young
lady ut table ask for "hen fruit meaning