The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-01-08
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Z
MEssRs EDITORS The aso-called Con-
servatlve-copperiead movemcnt,n originated
e ls believed, by some few of the aeouzd-be
leaders in Guilford County to overturn the
November election, is beginning to show it.
sell IN this portion of the Second Military
district. The threat has gone out to the I'll
1ect that every freedman who voted the Re.
publican ticket is to be elected from houses
and lands These people are told TO seek
houses and lands of their Republican friends
and 1t is rumored that some have been
charged for all the fuel their families have
burned whilst laboring on the farms. This
Is new item OF charge in this State. and it
may be supposed is done with the object of
balancing accounts with these laborine peo
pie. But, the main object of their move
ment In question, is to defeat what these
sore heads" are pleased to call the negro
pohcy OF the Congressional reconstruction
measures. This element of the defunct Con-
ipderacy IN North Carolina, as of old. still
BOAST that 1t embotlies all the wealth. de-
cency and talent" and all this is to he
Drought directly to bear on the Negroes and
poor whites to force them to vote to re-
Ject the new State Constitution This pro-
gramme 1t not checked, will, it NAV be
reared, cause numbers of these classes TO
abandon the Republican ranks. These peo-
PIE feel that they are unprotected in case of
e]ectment from houses and lands Alarmed
at SUCH movement they may be compelled
TO vote against the policy they have so re-
Gently supported by the ballot; especially
VIII such influence control in sections where
the rebels" have the ascendency. These
people may be told that if they act well and
pay rents punctually they can look to the
military for protection if violently elected.
But now the posts have been contracted. it
is more than likely numbers will be made to
suffer at the hands of those men who onnose
their freedom.
With all the legislation that has been
done to restore the insurgent districts its
work is nothing like complete, nor does it
give the loyal people that protection and Sc
curlty it was designed it should. This NAV
be charged alone to the provisional civil
government. Congress should have provi
ded in the acts of reconstruction for the
prompt removal of every officehoder who
was not in harmony with them at the time
they took effect. The fact of permitting
rebels to ada mister the civil department Of
this district has done much to distract and
delay the peace and prosperity so much de-
sired by the truly loyal, and which would
have resulted to them if the opposite policy
had been adopted. This oversight is now
likely to be remedied by the supplementary
bill introduced some days since in Crogress
The rebels are looking, however, to the ex-
ecutive department of the federal govern.
ment to aid them in defeating the Congress
ional plan of reconstruction, and SO certain
are they of success they counsel that Con-
gress must and will have to back down from
its policy. They say the negro and poor
white folks have the balancing power over
them and will ruin them, and that the few
educated poor white men will hold all the
offices, because the negroes will vote to elect
them, and this course will result in the ruin
to them and their cause. The big uinq
stock" is about to fall Somebody is hurt
" Billy Patterson is struck" But again.
they muster courage and tell some of the
poor whites you have voted against us and
our party (copperhead) but zee have set orr
pegs and you have got to come TO them
This REFERS of course, to the programme
now maturing. They simply forget that
when twenty eight thousand supporters of
their cause, governed these "poor whites"
they were content, but when in The proyi-
dence of God, the great mass of the honest
working people of both races demand JUS
tice and freedom by an equal participation
in making the laws and of governing, these
& sore heads" raise the cry ofagrarianism, and
that these honest working classes are going
to ruin the country, by voting them and
their cause down. Away with their imbe-
cility, and let the bone and sinew of the land
govern. What is it that constitutes the
wealth of the nation if it is not labor2
Does not all the wealth come by labor? Let
the toiling men of this State look to their
own best interest by adhering to the Re
publican party and its principles and secure
tor themselves and their children the bless
ing of freedom and equal rights Listen no
more to the leaders of the rebellion nor per-
NIT themselves to be led by the "so-caled,"
leaders who are wolves in sleeps
clothing. HIGH POINT.
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