The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-05-20
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And sothe shapeless incubus, which wrote
ing falsity the name Republican State
rision. 1t was remembered that in Septcm-
Der, 1886, you had bolted from the Loyalist
Convention in Philadelphia, because they
urged upon Congress the enfranchisement of
the blacks of the South, and boldly asser-
ted that colored men could never vote in the
South while Andrew johnson was President
of the United States and controlled its Off
GERS. one of sohich you were
No one doubted your over-weening conf
dence, through the influence and support
of numerous, carefully selected, and as you
thought, trusty deputies, in your own power
to secure any office you might covet in the
State. Upon this dream you had feasted by
night and by day for two years. At first
you relied upon controlling the Republican
party and making it subservient to your
will. This, however, you soon found would
require considerable active exertion, and
though you are anxious enough to enjoy
both the honors and emoluments of tat
places, and willing enough to use any infu-
ence in your power to secure the same, there
is still constitutional opposition to any
thing like active, personal exertion, which
has thus far most effectually prevented your
doing any thing to get or deserve any Office
from the people. This aversion to exertion
which has shown itselfin yonr mature bach
elorhood, is probably akin to popularity,
which in your younger days, some people
were SO ungenerous as to denominate lazi-
ness, the exercise of which virture united
with certain luxurious habits, which have
strengthened with your age, are said, at an
early period, to have resulted in the sale for
debt of certain human chattels, for ceasing
to be master and owner of which. you have
during the past two years, taken to yourself
no little praise. 1t is, however, generally
supposed that neither your sense of Justice
nor your philanthroplc inclinations, nor even
your horror of African Slavery as an untold
evil to the white race, would have induced
you to part with these cherished tokens of
affection, had not the opportunities of your
creditors been added thereto.
Twice before, yourself and small but very
select coterleof friends had assumed to be the
Republican party of North Carolina. By vir-
tue of the most remarkable assumption you
had succeeded for o time, in making some even
respectfully intelligent citizens believe that
the counsels of that party were in great
measure controlled and directed by the
Goodloe- Helper-double-he headed Hedrick fac
ton of North Carolina, and its resident COM
mittee in Washington. And indeed it did
require no little exercise of strength and
judgment to resist the easy impudence and
confident familiarity, with which yourself
and cabinet spoke of the opinion of the
"old man Stevens" Washburne, Fessenden,
and other hosts Of Congressional worthless,
who were, 1t would seem entirely incapable
of forming or holding opinions upon any
important subject without first securing
your invaluable advice. Indeed it was not
unfrequently matter of surprise to your
few admirers how the nation continued to
exist without your constant presence at the
seat of government. Unfortunately for your
self, however, these impressions were by no
means widely entertained, but on the contra
ry, Others far less fattering to your vanity.
| There were those who intimated that if the
Republican leaders in Washington could not
find advisers in North Carolina whose afilia-
tions were less completely conservative and
rebel than your own. that they must be very
ignorant or else very easily deceived. And
so your detection from the party, though duly
heralded and announced. drew away very
few. A few in whose nostrils the odor of the
old aristocracy still fingered. thought they
saw in you last hope of effete gentility,
and so followed your lead and battered your
ambition. Unfortunately, to be Republic
can leader of to-day, requires Drawn, brains
and energy as we'll as earnestness of purpose.
There was shocking lack Of some of these
essentials in your faction. A great manv
Conservatives professed to have considerable
confidence in you, and made no hesitation
in saying they preferred you to any other
professed Republican in the State. No
doubt this. too, encouraged your presump-
tion. Just here was your mistake. You
were just enough Republican to be distrusted
by every earnest Conservative, and not
enough to be trusted by any but weak -kneed,
short wlnded Republicans. Upon this SEMI
neutrality you thought to achieve political
success. 1t was delicate game, and your
nerves are not of the steadiest, Daniel. The
tirst effort to climb upon this parti-colored
ladder was in the election for the Conven-
t'on' 1t looked inviting Warren was your