The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-06-24


concerns, ProhallyY hereafter, and very
soon, more Just and liberal voluntary con-
struction Of the constitutional rights Of all
men of every color in the States that have
remained loyal, and I,by their loyalty have
never admitted the interference of the ma
tional war power, will come. But the con-
stitutional result of the war is clearly not to
give us a right as victofs, to interfere with
suffrage. under the war power, in the loyal
States and on the other hand, victory
leaves US with full power over suffrage and
every other matter essential to carry out the
republican guarantees OF tile Constitution
in the reuolted, unreconstructed States. ZAP
plause.) In other words, such States, by
their, attempt at revolution or secession,
have lost their national relations to the
federal government and all their right to
control their internal concerns under their
constitutions, until we, the federal conquer
ors, choose to re-admit them to the board of
national directors on such terms as shall
protect the loyal inhabitants against the
arms of the disloyal. s3iiz3 % 9q"24 H.".
Suffrage is the arm--the bayonet of peace.
As victors We may dsarm the rebels, or we
may demand, under the rights of victory,
that the friends of the nation in the revolt
ted States shall have the same power and be
protected by it as fully as our enemies.
Once armed, the loyal voters can protect
themselves, and thus republican govern
ment is assured for the future in the late OIL
igarchic slave States This must be done,
or the nation as u race of dastards must die.
These well settled principles of good faith
to the loyalist to the creditor, to the natu-
rallied American citizen, and to the equal
rights of humanity, are the precious freight
with which we take the main deep 7ehannei
of national craftsmanship to-day. The raft
of so called Democracy, lightly laden with
its seven cardinal principles, five loayes and
two considerable fishes may scrape over the
perilous reefs ofrepudiation and secession to
that celebrated river where it is wont OF late
years to lie in dry dock for repairs to its rot
ten hulk. But we want the deep channel of
statesnanlike principles to float our ship to
the sea. Ia IN -'''A Hu''t .''' 't+
The industrial interests of the nation de-
mand quiet at the South and a settlement of
the grave questions How shall the wounds
of war be healed 3 How shall commerce re-
viye; industry recover; the South be regen-
Grated by the precipitation. of new civil
ization upon it; and public credit, with its
consequences, lower interest and lighter tax
alton, be assured9 Your next President, in
the last four words of his letter of accep.
lance, strikes the keynote of the national
cry, eve MUST HAVE PEACE" Great
applause) Must" from his lips has the
forcible ring of those sharp, quick mono
sylables which came at his order from
iron mouths to the ears of Gen. Lee. APP
plause The great peace-maker of the CEN
tury never says mus" in vain. With him
as our agent-having, as he tells you, no
policy of his own rs apart from that of the
people-you need fear no war. Calm, reti-
cent-incarnatio as he is. OF the square
purpose, good intentions, patient energy and
indomitable will of the American people
no rebel organization will refuse to yield to
the next Presidents commands. Applause.
Under your authofity, if he cannot win the
Ku-Klux Khan to peace by courtesy, he is
the American of all Americans to win them
once forall with canister. Under his rule
the chapparels of Texas will be as safe to the
northern farmer and mechanic as Boston
Common at MONDAY. '''
1--WE MUST HAVE PEACE" not that peace
proposed by the Democracy winch passeth
all understandings peace which abandons
all our friends to the mercy of all our enc
mics but an Ineligible peace that shall
bring mutual respect. Blessed is the great
peace maker of this century, the citizen
soldier who finished this fratricidal war,
and will secure for every loyal man in the
nation its results. f(Applause.) Secession
must be made impossible by making loyalty
master of the situation in all the revolted
States We demand everything for security
and nothing for rsUengs:a [AppIause.] For
one, my heart would leap with joy, if at
some future day, when peace is made secure,
and We are one nation in interest and heart
again, the relics of both armies should clasp
each other by the hand and make in every
year solemn day of pilgrimage to deck
with flowers the grass grown graves of every
soldier dead [great applause; allah
American African foreign-al the slain
children of our dear mother land-the right
and the wrong-the Northern and the South
ern hearts of fire, who but for Democratic
heresies might have stood shoulder to
shoulder together against national enemy
as they did within living memory on the
fields of Mexico. But first we must secure
the rights of the loyal South and spurn the
dastardly proposition of desertion. =
Fellow-citizens, if you doubt as to your
course in this campaign, recall to your
minds the republican principles of the brave
who once made the joy and pride of your
hemes-the dead who have never changed.
Citizen soldiers Applause Beat the
revellie once more! Sound the bugle as in
the old time! [Applause.l Like the arch
angels trump, let it reach the far-otf graves
by the mountain and the river and the sea
Ride down along the line TO night and scan
the old remembered faces of the comrades of
your tents, as they stand in grim review
With the garlands unwithered that you laid
on their graves a week ago, will you tell
them that they died in vain? Will you
look into the caverns of those eyes, and tell
them that the States rights party, whose
| perncous teachings made this war, and
| who were in great measure timid, wrong,
unpatriotic, and inclined to desert them
| during its blacklist, hardest, fercest, most
| glorious agony, are all right to-day, and
that you and the dead are all wrong Will
you with one hand cover their graves with
flowers, and by ballot in the other against
their old leader, abandon for them and
! yourselves all your part in the grand final
achievement, as Democracy has done, and
tell them that the ovation of last week was
little melo drama that we thought proper
to playa Or, dear, gallant men of Massa-
chusetts brothers in hearts and arms will
| you not bring back the old smile on the
proud, pale, dying lips, and shout Victory
| in their ears 8 -fl.9 4H'f6'I. e0
Aye! victory! For what can defeat us I
We have all the Triumphant principles. and
by the grace of the guardian angels of the
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