The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-07

| roan;tv nae. nv them unobservcd. They nave
no ear to hear the great cry 1of chailSo - thn
| comes up from thinking men Throughout. n
| World frhrv have no eve to see the great stfuS
gle which is constantly going on between .H If
and the new French revolutions, reVoi''.; in
'4S revolutions inliterature, IN art, rev IN,
| philosophy ethics and religion, Revolutions IT.,
manners and in social life disturb them hS.
crash OF rebel steel against the walls Oh na
did not awake them. The emancIpau,2Gn ia not
nation as it flashed before the world S 1iu nU'
break their repose and they slept whIle Hmel
marched down to the sea Veneraoie s, enpt;nne
| Peace to their slumbers! Let tAe'h eo
| their harmless dreams.
| But there are those for whom we entertain a Nv
! such sympathy. We mean those lnpiacapic ene
mics OF the Union ana t1e i.,,t;on Of North
| Carolina who would stop short at no crinie W
| snbyert the government ana 10 execute NInse
ance upon its friends. We are happy 10 peile; ;'
! that these wicked men are comparatively le" III
number We are happy to believe, that win
the exception of certain localities, the MASSES oi
| the citizens OF the State will obey the laws
| But we must be prepared to command respect
| for the government. We cherish no spirit OF
| bitterness on account OF the nerceness VI
! nayn We are disposed to attribute this to a
General want of information, all Ignorance OF the
| PROVISIONS of the new Constitution ard TO the
pernicous influence exercised by designing men,
| But it might be well to state once for all, that
| the present Constitution OF North Carolina must
| remain in force until amended in accordance
I with its own provisions. 1t is made the duty OF
| the Executive to see that the laws enforced.
| He will not be reniss in the performance of this
duty, and he will have to surt tain him a vast ma
iority OF all the people of the State and the full
power of the Federal Government. Any hope
of change the present statns Of af5airs before
the sans 81 alss.l IS IS.
| the laws, on whateveF pan Hnd on wnafeyer pre-
text will recon upon the heads of the misguid-
ed perpetrators OF the crime. 1t is an ungener-
GUS task to make these illusions on an occasion of
| rejoicing like the present. We would prefer
Infinitely to say nothing to jar the universal
yph inh g fn- hnt 10
| fact that there arc those who are expecting and
hoping for revolutionary change in the exist
| ing condition of things makes it a duty to give
this solemn warning. Political opinion will be
freer in the future than it has been in the
past. If gentlemen are so disposed, they may
continue to argue that Ignorance is better than
education, that darkness is more to be desired
than light and that slavery is preferable to free
dom. The cause OF liberty, progress, and civil
ization is not advanced by supervising freedom
of thought or of speech, and we are not disposed
to beg N taking Lessons from the barbarlsm OF
| the past
Let me congratulate you, fellow citizens, upon
the brilliant success OF the Congressional plan
of reconstruction in North Carolina and the res
toration of the State otis forfeited relations to
the Federal Government 1t is owing to your
energy and zeal that this restoration has been
effected and you have accomplished the work in
the face ofthe most terrific opposition ever ar
rayed against any political organization. 1t is
unnecessary to speak in detail of the character
of this opposition. 1t is fresh in your memories
and it not probable that 1t Will be forgot
ten. 1t has been useful lesson to the Repub-
licans of North Carolina The intense bitter
ness of the contest and the fierce attempts at So
cial ostracism have taught us proper self re-
spect and we may now be thoroughly our
guard in the future against the savage mode of
warfare our political enemies have adopted. The
men who voted the open reconstruction ticket
in the late election may be depended upon here |
after. They made of material that will never |
yield. Every one OF them will vote for Grant |
and ColfaX in November In addition to these |
W. viii Cui Thousand fi.fu
not cast for reconstruction by reason of rebel |
terrorism and the social pressure. Then count |
ten thousand more votes for the ticket |
from men who want peace and who desire to |
see stop put to this factious agitation kept up |
by the opposition, and we will swell the majority
for the Union hero TO upwards of forty thousand. |
Fellow-citizcns, the prospect before us is a |
bright one. We survey hard fought battle field, |
where the odds were all against US, and where
victory has perched upon our standards We |
have one more battle to fight in November and |
after we shall have won that, there will be re-
pose and peace for the next four years. The
enemy we have to meet is broken down and |
disprited. He does not step into the arena with
much confidence in his own proves as he did
in April last. His spirit has been somewhat
time. Ono more vigorous effort then in Novem-
Der nnder Gen. Grant, the eonqueror of the re- |
bellion, and we will beat the life so entirely out
of the copperhead- secession snake that we will |
not be disturbed by its hssings in North-Caro |
lima for these twenty years to come. |
Fellow Republicans you have cause to be
proud of your record. The State may well be |
proud of your seif-saclifcing patriotism. The |
names of the delegates to the Constitutional |
Convention of 1868 will one day be more illus |
trious than the names of the trainers of the ORR
ginal Constitution of the State in ITS. Those |
men did their duty we'll and wisely. But the |
men of to-day have performed a nobler task |
Long years after the silly passions and preudices
of the present shall have passed away and been |
forgotten, the history of civilization in North !
Carolina will date from the CONSTITUTE nal Con- |
vention of 1868 And then too shall the names
of the actors in the stirring scenes OF the res
ent time be familiar as household words when
the names that now adorn the past annals OF the
State shall have faded into the twilight of his
tory. You have inaugurated a new era. Here
after you will insist strenuously upon the
diffusion of knowledge and the fullest and freest
expression or thought, slavery insisted here
toiore upon the exclusion of intelligence. Under
your fostering care the Tires OF thought which
have been SO long smothered will break out and
give light to the people. You have taught the
people that the day OF potent, grave and rever-
end seniors is passed and gone forever Under
your direction and leadership, advancing cvli-
zation is rapidly leaving this doomed race far in
the back ground and supplying their places with
new men, the representatives OF intelligence
progress and civilization. Under your control,
enlightened spirit of enterprise will be breath
ed into the State and the varied and bountful
resources with which Providence has blessed
us will be made to minister to their full capacity
to the wants of our people. The sectional ques-
ton which has occupied the attention and dwarf
ed the minds of our statesmen is now put at rest
forever and American politics will take Il higher
range and broader sweep and we may go on
without Intolerance working out that mani
fest destiny which has been reserved for this
highly favored land. To your exertions, gen.
tlemen it is owing in large degree that here in
North Carolina, freedom in its highest has
been substituted for slavery, that reason and
justice have taken the place of violence and op-
preston, and that the reign. of infdelity and
barbarism has given way to the mild sway of
Christianity and civilization. 1t has been yours,
fellow citizens to proclaim by your actions
in the face of the world, that you have
faith in God and hope for humanity.
That you believe in the real existence of truth
and Justice And you have done this by recog-
nizins and putting into practical operation the
principles of the holy religion which pro-
TESS and of the Declaration of Independence
which we revere. This you. have been neither
ashamed nor afraid to undertake and accomplish,
and the American Republic stands before the
world to-day in her majesty ana beauty the
envy and the glory of the nations.
Nncty-t two years ago our ancestors emancipa-
ted themselves from the thraldom of the British
crown. To-day celebrate their deeds and to-
day also celebrate the emancipation
not only OF the slave from bondage but of the
Southern mind from the shackles of superstition
and barbarism. We still have our sunny South
with its clear skies and orange blossoms but it's
fair &c llr1ta1 hrf I,.,