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

tile enthusiasm mark q people whose con-
yictions are already settled. I fear there
are but few in this audience to whom 1t
would be of use to address arguments for
the sake of winning them over. i mean by
that that suppose from the demonstrations
yen are all Grant and Colfax men. lap
plause. wish from the bottom OF my
heart there were some 5000 here, or as
many as could address of opposite politics.
wish for it, for it is our object to win men to
truth. We arc not satisfied with carrying
the State by bare majority. We want the
majority overwhelming. We arc not salts
fed with having North Carolina giving five
or ten thousand majority. Wewant q, 1000
or &c, 900, or better still 40, 900 or so 900 ma
jority. Applause] For we want this thing
finally and definitely settled. We thought
it was settled three years ago. But this
was a mistake. We did not go into the
war to see which was the strongest party,
for the sake of seeing which could raise the
strongest army and fight the best and sus-
tain it the longest on the battle field. TWAS
not like case where prize fighters go out
and when one is beaten the other throws up
the sponge. We were not fighting to whip
one another, but to establish certain princi-
pies; and when the fighting was over the
time came to establish those principles. 1t
was then time to put certain things into the
Constitution and on the statute book which
would secure the rights of the people.
The North began the war with the decla-
ration that it was to keep the country uni
ted The South wanted to break of. The
governments across the water had always
said, "You are strong now, but there will
grow up sectional differences. Your South
will get mad with the North, the East with
the West, and you will be broken up.
France keeps five hundred thousand soldiers
under arms n time of peace; our govern
ments have great central power, and we
can crush out a rebellion. Look at your
Republic. You have q President with
scarcely any power at all. You can do
nothing with your small standing army of
fifteen OF twenty thousand men. When any
part of your coontry desires to leave, it will
go. Your people love capital they will
not raise and support armies" That was
our real danger When the war came on
what did we do? Mr.. Lincoln, with little
official experience, came to Washington,
and what was the condition of things
He found our navy, weak at best, scattered
over the globe. The army was partly IN
Texas and surrendered to the rebels.
So many rebels were in Washington
that the President hardly knew to
whom he could talk Our credit was
so low that we had to pay twelve per cent.
in time of peace Where were our arms?
Secretary Floyd had scattered them in the
South where they would fall into the hands
of our enemies.
Mr.. Lincoln and his Cabinet sat down in
council, and 1t seemed as if the Government
would fall to pieces hopclessly. Mr.. Lincoln
said he would trust the people of the United
States. He called for 5000 men and before
that call was out OF his mouth, the army was
at the capital or ON its way. He waited a
few days longer and called for 100000, and
they were on the march Immediately. He
said we must have five hundred millions of
money. The people replied, Here it is"
A thousand millions. Go on still. Five
hundred thousand more soldiers and two
thousand millions of dollars, and still the
voice of the people was go on and accept the
last cent and the last soldier, for this Repub-
lie shall be maintained. IAppiause.l va
That was the answer of this nation to the
aristocrats of Europe. [Applause. 1t is a
Government of this people, for the people
and by the people. Here are oui soldiers in
this assembly, for when the country needs
them they can come to arms, and will be IN
domitable against any government or any
power. [Applause.l We believe that this is to
be one nation, an example to the nations of the
world showing that free people can govern
themselves, and that they are as strong in
war as they are in peace. [Applause.1
The course of this war has been marked
out by higher power than ours. We began
by saying merely that we desired to have the
rebels lay down their arms. We said we
desired to have the Union maintained. Many
of our friends of the South go back to the
resolutions offered at the beginning of the
war, and say, "why did not you abide by
them9 You did not say anything about
slavery then. You only wanted the Union
maintained" My friends, when you have
had law suit with man for three or four
years, you are not going to settle it on the
same terms that you offered when you began.
We were led on step by step by the Demo-
cratic party North and the Democratic party
South, which became the strength of the
rebellion. They always found fault with US.
Mark this point. George q. Pendleton,
who wanted to be the candidate of the false
Democracy, was grumbling because it cost
three hundred millions of dollars and three
hundred thousand lives to suppress
the rebellion. The trouble with Mr.,
Pendleton would have been the same
if the cost had been but 1000 millions OF
dollars, or one million of dollars, or even one
thousand dollars. He was not willing to go
or have his friends 60. He was not so good
as ARENAS Ward, who was willing to have
all his wife's relations go. Laughter. He
was not willing to spend dollar. The De
mocracy were opposed to any contest to
maintain the Union. They said let the South
go in peace.
But, my friends, whichever side you were
on in the late fight, want to say this to you
this peaceful separation which they proposed
is impossible. IF we had consented to lei
the South go of, we could not have lived
three years without getting into war. Thii
continent belonged to one nation. The Mis-
sissippi river belonged to one nation. The
country from Maine to Mexico belonged tx
one nation. Do you suppose that if one sec
ton had belonged to a free nation, ard thu
other section enslaved portion Of its PEG
pie, do you suppose they could have lived to
gether in peace9 They tried to build ma
ton founded upon African slavery. We de
clared that all men were created equal.
This war did not arise by the conspirac,
or plot of any few men on either side. Som
men say Calhoun conspired for thirty years
and got up the rebellion. Others will sa.
it was the aboitionists of the North. Blu
no one man or one set of men was the caus
of it. There was o conflict of ideas, and j
must be fought out at the ballot box or il
the field. The Southern rulers said the CAPT