The Tarboro' southerner., 1868-08-20

anarchy and overthrow, and, if they
should fail, they could, at least like the
soldier falling on the feld, wrap the
flag for which they fought around
them, and proudly die.
1t is charged that We are still disloy-
al, and that it requires the force Of =
Brownlow to keep US in the line OF
safe Reconstruction" God pity the
hesrtless towards who make the charge.
I deny it, (said he, and, in the name
of the State, appeal to her proud re-
cord to sustain me. 1 appeal to the
history Of the past three years, if, in
perfect honor, like brave and true men,
her people have not discharged every
duty, and submitted with proper forti-
tude to every exaetion required of
them. When we laid down our arms,
we gave up all thought of further re-
sistance. Thank God the honesty of
that surrender, on our part, has not
been parnished by the breath ofhonor-
,, oLle suspicion Congress had violated
its falkland an infamous party,
whose infamous essence and embodi
ment 10 North Carolina was its pre-ent
government, was engaged in carrying
out it's cruel and oppressive behests.-
but he challenged the world to show
the first instance wherein North Caro-.
lima had broken faith.
Col. C. recounted the various exac>
,, tions that had been required at our
hands, and he manner in which they
had been performed. eff (said he) We
have sinned, oh l say we have griev
! ously suffered lie drew a
! touching picture of the suffer
! ing South. She, stood amoug the
graves of her heroic sons and only asked
the poor privilege of being let alone to
make bread for her surviving children
Never WAS there people so much in need
Of Peace so anxiously bent on Peace
Never people so ready to sacrifice every
thing save honor for Peace. Never peo-
pie so basely slandered. ooh, my friends, -
| (said the eloquent speaker,) "if the Radi-
| Gals were half so anxious for Peace as We
are, it would long since have prevailed
| They have had all the power-two thirds
in Congress-have had the strength t.
abridgc the prerogatives of the Supreme
| Court have had the Command of thu
army, with their candidates for the PresI-
dency at its head at all times and in al
things, they have had infinite power fo,
evil. Why cannot they SON times exert
an influence for good p
Col. Cowan appealed to the Democrats
and Conservatives of the State,-constitu-
| ting, as they do, its worth aid intelligence,
to appreciate the necessity of jealous,
watchful labor. If we are to have a cour :
try we can call our own,-if this last G. eat
experiment is not to be regarded as fail
ure,-the selfish, mutino Gus, murder ="
| crew must be driven from the decks OF the
ship of State (Cries of "ycs. es ~
No party ever had such p ospect, and
he predicted the triumphant Il lion of
the National Democratic nominees. First,
the Radicals believe it and show it,-show
il by their trembling fear and desperation
| of fraud. Secondly, the character OF oul
ticket is the guarantee of its success
Col. Cowan here paid a glowing tribute t,
| Seymour and Blair, and concluded with al
| earnest and beauti. ul invocation to duty
which was like the blast of silver bugle
| At every stage of his remarks, he was
cheered and applauded.
| The Vice President and Secretaries
| then came forward and assumed their res
pective positions.
On motion of Gov Bragg, the President
was requested to appoint a Committee OF
| tf cen, to be designated the Committee on
solutions, &c. Subsequently, the fol
lowinsing gentlemen were announced, viz.
| Hon. Thomas Bragg, Hon. W. N. II.
! Smith, Col. d. NJ. Carter, Jno. C.. Wash
irrton, Esq, DR.. l.. W. Martin. A. A.
Mckoy, Esq, Col. Jno. D. Taylor, Col.
| F. G. Haywood, Hon. 4. W. Venable,
F. f. Shober, Esq, W, J. Yates, Esq,
W. d. Bethel, Esq, Ralph Gor:ell, Esq.
W. l.. Love, Esq, and W. -. Fieinin-
Esq.
On motion of J. Z. Moore, Esq, of Mar
tin, the rules of order of the last House o.
of the Convention.
lit was here suggested that the number
ofpersonS outside, who were unable to get
in the Hall, was immense, and that they
were desirous of III. ing speakers sent out
to them. The President ofthe Convention
requested Col. W. A. Jenkins, of War
ren to comply with this desire of the peo-
ple.l
Mr.. Dancy, Of Edgecombe, moved thai
| a Committee of fifteen be appointed by the
Chair, whose duty it should be to n dominate
and recommend two candidates fQr Elec-
| tors f0. the State at large. Carried; and.
The President subsequently designated
the following gentlemen:
Messrs Jno S Dancy, Chairman, E
Moore, OF Martin, Chas Latham, of Wash
ington, l. " Humphrey, Of Wayne, Asa
Biggs, of Edgecombe, VIM Eaton, of Wal .
ren, DR. Samuel A Williams, of Granville,
] A Richardson, of Baden, w Richard
son, of Columbus, B Withers, ofCaswcll,
Thos Wilson, of Forsythe, B S Guion, of
Lincoln, J NJ Hutchinson, of Mecklenburg
K A Shotwell, of Rutherford, r NJ Stokes,
of Buncombe.
Loud calls for VIM. NJ. Robbins, ESQ,
the gallant and able Senator +. ON Rowan,
brought that gentlemen to the rostrum,
| where, for more than an hour, he enchain-
ed and delighted the vast auditory with a
powerful, earnest and eloquent effort.
! His dis 'cction Of the Force Bill of the re.
| bel Legislature vas mastery and over.
whelmingly, his exposition OF Radieal cor
ruption most searching, and his allqsions
| to the ladies in the finest taste and spirit.
[We find here that we must defer in o. :
| der to gent in the regular proceedings, any
| lengthy reference to the various speeches,
| until another day. The whole Convention
was 50 glorious an affair, that our readers
can best, perhaps, have it in broken doses ]
A.,er an EFFORT, marked by his patriotism
| and craftsmanship, from the Hon. William
A, Graham, which shall be fully noticed
here after,
On motion of Col. L. W. Humphrey, of
Wayne, the Convention took d recess until
u O'clock,
Al o'clock, P. NJ.
The President took the Chair at the ap-
pointed hour,