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New-York tribune., 1868-06-11

Songs may insprit them-not from your Tyre
In the course of week or so we dare say
Mr.. Brooks will have fallen low enough to be
willing to ride in the same car with negro
washerwoman, possibly even to vote for col
ored alderman.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-11

SILvBR.PLATBD WARE
Bay The ELECTRO PLATE Of the celebrated MERDES BRITANNIA
sale at low prices by g. CoLLAnORE Co.. In
pOrs China and Glass 73I Broadway Zone above
wsNeley place. Nev.YOrk
GILNIS CoIrANoRE. HENRY II. HOLLY.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-10-28
Freedom and Education.

The Atlantic Cable, on the 18th inst, an
nounced:
"Free Schools in Spin have been re-
opened"
The next day comes the following: "The
Central Junta have issued decree declar-
ing that all children born of slaves after the
10Th inst shall be free"
Truly new era seems to have dawned
upon Spain-an era unexpected as it is
glorious. If the ambition of her military
chieftains can be kept in check, Spain will
emerge from her long night of darkness and
become again great nation.
Just before the revolution the Department
of Public Instruction published certain Off
cial statistics which are of interest to every
lover of light and progress According to
these reports the national libraries in Spain
contained 1,166,595 volumes divided thus ::
Library of Madrid, 100000; Central Univer-
sity, 3OO,O0O Barcelona, 10000; Salaman-
ca, $4,000; Palma and Majorca, 30 600; Ma
hon, II 900. Universities for general instruc-
ton, 10; for the Fine Arts, IL; for Music,
1 for Manufactures, Q; for Commerce, s.;
for navigation, II; Infant or Free Schools,
$4,000; Normal Schools, n. The amount
expended by Government for Public Insti-
tutions for 1S6s-69 was about $4,000, 900, to
which the commoners added $13,750,OO0.
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Negro Equality.

All over the country the Democracy are
crying out against NEGRO equality" NEGRO
supremacy Every paper that supports the
platform Of that party is accusing the Radi-
cal party ofattcmpting to legislate equality
between the raccs-of placing the negro
above the white man. the inferior above the
superior. All Of them claim that the negro
is an ignorant being, but little elevated above
the brute-that his normal condition is that
of slave, and that he must always be below
the whites, intellectually, morally and So
cially Still they are in mortal fear that the
negro will get above them, and are threaten
ing a war of races to prevent it. There
must be something gery mean about the
Democratic party that makes a man so fear
full that being he processes to hold so far
below himself should rise above him. Social
equality exists and is created by association.
Are they so accustomed to associate with
the negro that they fear an equality between
that race and their party9 Superiority does
not fear equality, but challenges tothe strife.
The Republican party says, Give the negro
equal rights under the law, and if he ele-
Yates himself to our intellectual and moral
standard it is well-but if he should attain
social equality it would be by our lowering
the standard ofour own race-by our step
ping over the boundary of color that God
created between u.s. The Democratic party
says, You are making the negro our equal
you are giving him the same rights tlat we
possess. We, the white race, will not sub
nit to social equality. -.l
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ThanksgiYins Day.

President johnson has issued proclama-
ton setting apart Thursday. the 26th day of
November, as day Tor thanksgiving and
prayer. The proclamation says:
In the year which is now drawing to its
end, the art, the skill and the labor of the
people ofthe United States have been en-
pioyed with greater diligence and vigor. and
on broader fields, than ever before, and the
fruits of the earth have been gathered into
the granary and the storehouse in marvel
Gus abundance Our highways have been
heightened, and new and prolific regions
have been occupied We are permitted to
hope that long protracted political and sec
tional dissensions are at no distant day to
give place to returning fraternal affection
throughout the Republic. Many foreign
States have entered into liberal agreements
with US, while nations which are far of, and
which heretofore have been unsocial and
exclusive, have become our friends The an
nual period of rest which we have reached
in health and tranquility, and which is crown
ed with so many blessings, is, by universal
consent, q convenient and suitable one for
cultivating personal piety and practicing
public devotion. tE
L, therefore, recommend that Thursday,
the 26il! day of November he set apart and
observed by the people of the United States
as day '''r public praise, thanksgiving and
prayer /" Tue Almighty Creator and Divine
Ruler OF the Universe, by whose everwatch-
tul, mercifui and gracious providence alone,
States, no less than families and individual
men, live and move an have their being.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed. ...
ANDREW JOHNSON.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-10-28

F. P. Blair responded to screnade in St.
Louis on Saturday night last, and acknowl-
edged his readiness to surrender. He said:
at will be no sacrifice to me, or, rather it
will be work of pleasure to me to surrender that
position arheneee, bysO doing, can add one oote to
the strength Of the democracy in this State or any
other Of tie States. l am ready to make any sac
ritice, and so am ready to go and do anything,
to take upon my shoulders any burden or lay
down any that may have been conferred upon
me heretofore. And this brings me to alludc to
that rumor in our midst to-day. 1t has been
said here that both the candidates for the Presi-
dency and Tor the Presidency have signiied
their intention to decline in favor OF some other
candidates. All have to say that both the can,
ddaes ,ciH always be ready to lag dorn their candi
dacy aelten ii can no longer be Of service 10 the
Democratic party OF the country. [Cheers.] If it
should be thought now, if it should be believed
that by SO doing we could add to the strength of
the Democratic party and give il better chance
for victory. want you to review it calmly and
without regard to the feelings of any man; be-
cause the feelings of individuals are nothing as
compared with the great objects we have in
view-of success ard the restoration of our couT-
try. 1 do not intend to abandon the field, in one
sense at least. l mean to bear my share of the
battle; whether in the ranks or as an officer,
will depend upon the wishes of the Democratic
party"
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-10-28
Democracy and Assassination.

Z A dispatch from st. Louis says of General
Frank P. Blair's recent speech in that city (:
"Alluding to the recent Radidal victories, he
regarded them as precursors of the defeat of that
party. Democracy, he said, would win. They
had every thing at stake in this struggle, and if
they failed the republic would tall with them !;
military dictatorship would be established.
Grant irold neuer leave the Preside 'idl nIaaSio,s
dlre"
Commenting on the above the New York
Tribune asks Is the assassination of obnox-
iousPresidcnts plank in the Democratic plat
form 2" 1t really seems so. for Brick Pomc-
roy gloated over the murder of " the loafer-
ish President, Abraham Lincoln, by a
gentleman" and he was invited to New York
city where he is the recognized and only
metropolitan spokesman of the Democratic
party, Ghe World having been disowned.)
Not week ago, referring to the law forbid
ding the unreconstructed rebel States to vote
for President, he thus threatened the life OF
Gen. Grant:
eli he is elected by unfair means, or use of il
legal power-if he does not receive majority of
the 3l7 votes OF the Electoral College fairly ca &
ii lie seeks to override n majority in Auleii:.t
he dies before his term Of office shall one fourth
pire, and the party that w"uld thus unjustly ele
vate him to power shall be strangled in the blood
it cries ior."
g If one single Democratic journal in the
United States has expressed the faintest con-
demnation of this atrocious utterance in their
Assassins' Organ, we have failed to observe
it. And now comes their candidate for the
Vice-Presidency to give the official sanction
of his place to their open adoption of assas<i-
nation as political policy.
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ANDREW JOHNSON
Counting the Cost.

To disperse the carpet-bag governments
would require troops. History docs not
record Il single instance of 100000 of peo-
pie, OF any color and race, that ever surren-
dered, at the mere bidding of proclamation,
the political and civil privileges they had
acquired and possessed. Blair perfectly well
comprehended this fact, and hence proposes
to employ the army to enforce his purpose.
Soldiers must have food, clothing, equip
ments, wagons, horses, pay and long list
OF other things. These mean the expendi-
ture OF vast sums of money, and expenditure
means increased taxation, which means more
labor, more suffering, more anxiety.
The soldiers, who should attempt to dis
perse the c..rpeG-bag governments would
he resisted. That means war, and war is
great devourcr of property. Its appetite is
Unsuitable. 1t not only hinders production,
but also eats up the accumulations of pro-
ductiOn. Resistance means, too, call for
volunteers, and that means augmented ex.
penses and reinforced destruction. War,
morevcr, is a thousand times more easily
hHenn than slapped. Once undertaken, it
becomes impossible to predict when whAra
or how the conflict VIII end. Perhaps one
billion of dollars would not fully represent
the cost of dispensing the carpet bag govern
ments. Perhaps $4,000 persons slain would
not cover the expenditure of life. Who can
tell?
The dispersal accomplished, what would
be the gain Who would be benefited
What position in the community would the
negroes be assigned, after they had been
whipped into submitting to be disfranchised2
When all their political rights had been
wrested away, what kind of freedmen would
they be? Would they drift back-those
that rcmained--intn slavery?. Would they
be driven from the country? What would
be the outgrowths of the war; Would our
free in-titutions be made stronger, or would
they be weakened? Would immigration be
accelerated, or hindered? Would civiliza-
tion he purified ? Would we be proud, as
nation, of the new pages We had added to
history
In counting the cost of voting for Seymour
and Blair. such are the questions that de-
mand answer. Who wants to make their
solution necessary? 1t cannot be done by
supporting Grant and Coliax.- Chicago Re
publican.
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Educate the South.

Creation, we are told, has from the first,
been in continual effort to put forth man.
Man embodies the subtlest refnements of
matter and enshrines the highest develop
ments of spirit. Life is but prolonged crea-
ton. The Almighty maker of all things
knows no rest. Creation is an eternal pro-
cession of phenomena, and knowledge is an
eternal, steady recognition of its laws God,
through matter, has built up spirit; man,
through spirit, retines, recreates and idealizes
matter. knowledge and religion civilize
man; man, in turn, civilizes nature. Knowl-
edge reveals the order of nature and ma
lures laws, once known by man, are turned
back upon herself and recreate her in forms
of more perfect beauty, God meanwhile re-
vealing the type as man discerns first prin-
ciplcs.
Human life in its ascending steps, has left
waymarks all along and traces at every step.
Man in history speaks through nature; ma
ture in history speaks through man. When
man shall stand up above all creation as the
perfected image of God, like mirror all
creation will reflect the perfected image of
man. AS the dwelling speaks of the dwell
Ter, as the garden speaks of him who cult
Yates it, as architecture speaks of the archi-
tect as art speaks of the artist, as poetry
speaks of the poet, as eloquence speaks of
the hot and glowing soul that utters it, as
pure life speaks of religion; SO this earth in
all her natural productions, will speak of civ
ilized man as whole.
As mind rises in the scale of creation and
stands out purified and clear from all the
dross Of sense, so will mctter glow with the
inner life of spirit and God shine out in all
His moral attributes, as clearly in the noun
tain and in the plain on the water and on
the land, on the earth and in the heavens.
as He now reveals himself in the glorifcd
face of the saint, whose eyeof Faith sees an
Immortality of bliss opening before him.
The reflex action of mind upon matter,
not only in its grosser forms but in its more
delicate chemical combinations, has become
as well known in all its laws as the move
ments of the planets in their orbits. By
law, deep and everlasting, the cultivation of
man results in the cultivation of nature, and
in return, cultivated nature aids in the cult
walton Of man. Man cannot improve him
self without improving something around
him. There is no selfshness in law; law is
the essence of benevolence. Man cannot shut
himself up within himself and say all my
stores of knowledge, all my treasures of
thought, all my riches of Imagination, all the
grandeur of my ideas, will hoard up and
keep eternally within my own mind. The
same genius that led to their acquisition and
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rate government; we only look at that other
fact that the moment she laid down her arms
she claimed to be in the old Union with all
the rights she possessed before she rebelled.
The justice of that claim we will not now
consider. We only want you, Conservatives,
to think where you would have stood and
what you would have done, had the same
question that is now agitating the whole
country, and that is soon to be settled by the
votes of the people, been sprung upon youin
the Confederacy had that government been
established by act of war. If you would have
voted for Gen. Lee in the Confederate gov
ernment, we cannot see why you will not now
vote for Gen. Grant, who occupies position
similar in all respects to the one Gen. Lee
would lave held had he sind not Gen. Grant
been successful.
And there is another reason why you
should vote for Gen. Grant. Congress would
have been ten times more severe with you had
it not been for him. He has been a check
upon it ever since the decease of Mr.. Lincoln.
This is we'll known to all who have spent
much time in Washington and are familiar
with the origin and passage of the recon-
struction laws. For one word he has spoken
in favor of Massachusetts, radicalism, he has
spoken ten in favor of mild and humane
treatment of the South. You know quite as
well as we that nothing would have delight
ed the Democratic party more than to have
obtained his consent to be its candidate for
the Presidency; and so Conservative a man
is he that at one time his most intimate
friends feared that he might at last consent.
But his good genius saved him from so base
betrayal of his country. He stands to-day
the wisest and foremost Conservative in the
land and his administration, while encour-
aging all healthful, progressive movements,
will be known in history as one characterized
by prudence and discretion and all the ma
tional traits he so strikingly exhibited at the
head of the armies of the nation.
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In 1856 the American people asked,
"Shal we extend slavery over the whole
cnuntry?" Tie Republican party sprng
into existence to record an emphatic No"
In 1860 the nation asked, "Shall We sub
due rebellion aid preserve our country ~
The Republican party answered, I'VE will
60 IIoth.'
II 1875 thc people asked, Shall We re-
store ne CIioii on the basis of universal
Ill, rty:" 4 prumrt and unEis,akablc YES
came from every loyal State. The questions
that III 1858 liaYe been rropounded by the
ic,n c. and are now awaiting answer. are:
i}iai; pec2astrscti1n or tie ias;s Of eqwol
'iqIts for GIimeR Re c0rriel oat!? i-
Shall tf6 r0tj9ns faitk toraTd t:scrcdi:ars
5olTesayre.JP
.ShaNwo lace Peeoe!'
Vermont, Maine. Pennsylvania, Clio In
diana, and Nebraska have !,Fnmp;.y re-
spnnded in the affirmative We wait for
November to make sts sdirms;inR unsni-
nous.
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RALEIGH, N c., WEDNESDAY, oc ToBER 2s, 1865

they would only be clogs to the wheels of
progress, and would block with old fashion
ed impediments the road to advancement.
Young men labor under no such disabilities.
Some ofthe bravest men in Freedoms ranks
are from the younger class of tar-seeing
Southern men. J-ers.
The South is not without excellent mate
rial for her new era She is ever whole
souled in all she undertakes. She was so in
her dark treason She is with many of her
young men now leading the vanguard in
proclaiming perfect equality of all men in
civil rights Turning towards this noble
era, her young men may now come forward
and take rank in patriotic labors with the
foremost leaders of the nation. Our faith is
that we are entering higher national life
To the young men who really accept the
new issues, there opens future brighter than
the fathers ever knew. Those who are wise
will not mistake their grand opportunity
but embracing at once the great ideas
which are marching grandly over the conti-
nent, and adhering to the sublime principles
of free government, will find that they are
on the sure road to great and permanent
success
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"Let us haze peace" That Is tie lesson
taught by the late elections. hnd the country
will kaye peace by elec.ing Graft :.:id Co!fax
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-10-28

The Dispatch Of the Democratic State 'SopMit-
tees of Penn- ylvania, Ohio and Indiana 1--WE
have met the enemy and We are theirs ~
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NATHANIEL -Wbateyermayh have
been the feeling against this gentleman du-
ring the canvass upon the adoption of the
Constitution, in crisis like the present,
high and patriotie grounds should betaken,
and every man should be ''hero in the
strife" which. perhaps decides the fate of his
country. Therefore. we urge upon every
Republican in ihc 9th District, to support
Mr.. Bayden and cxcy: every possible infu-
tHce TO elect him. Air Bcyden is PEACE
piaa. Ills life has seen devoted to peace
and the welfare OF his country His Union.
ism is undoubted His Hllility is everywhere
acknowledged. His gconcss aud purity are
not questioned by those who know him. Re-
puhncans, carry the 9Th District, and not q
War Democrat will Nerth Carolina seRd to
the XII Congress. With a pull altogether,
Mr.. Boyden will be tsiumphuntly eleqted.
-Rgthertor;t Star.
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Only One Box--Opinion of the Attor-
ney General.

ney General.
The question has been discussed among all
parties as to the number of boxes that should
be opened in each election precinct at the ap-
preaching election. 1t is pretended by some
that there should be one box for each officer
voted for-Presidential Electors, Congress
men, State officers, each having box, in
which particular box the votes must be placed
or else not be counted Thus if vote for
Congressman should be placed in the box in
tended for the electoral ticket, or if a vote
for the electoral ticket should find its way
into the box for Congressman, the vote
some confusion, and thus many votes might
be lost. Others contend that the legal and
proper way is to have one box in which all
votes shall be placed. This will give rise to
no confusion, and the voting can be done
Q
without delay, the canvassing officers after
wards separating and counting the votes for
the respective candidates. The question
having been submitted to the Attorney Gen
eral, he has given the following legal opin-
ion, which settles the question:
To HIS ExCELLENCY, w. W. HOLDEN:
1 have carefully considered the ordinances of
the late Convention, and the acts of the last
session of the General Assembly, and 1 am
clearly of the opinion that at the approaching
election the candidates for Congress, for Electors
of President, and for such vacancies in the Gen.
eral Assembly as may exist, should be voted for
on the same slip of paper, and in the came bal
lot box. VIM. NJ. COLEMAN,
Attorney General.
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-02-01
SATURDAY, 251M..

The usual prcliminarics having been gono
through with, and the assomBlagp being r6s5S
for orhusi',css, lcttcr was read from Major D.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-13
~ FROM WAsHlNGToElS


WASHINGTON, June 12-The letter of
the Commissioner OF Internal Revenue,
houins, rendering the resignation of his
once 70 the Secretary OF Treasury, and
giving MS reasons therefor, was, last even
ing raucnei to Mr.. Rollins with the fol-
lowing lndorsment: nHI 10 safsrT asst
The within communications Just handed
me, though bearing date Sth lust, Is con-
. sidered partial and incorrect in7its statp-
ment, and unjust and disrespectful to the
President, II is therefore returned to Mr..
lSigned] HUGH McCULLocH, Sec.-
Thursday evening, June 11th, 1868.
Reverdy johnson.
The President to-day nominated to SEN
ate, Reverdy johnson minister to England !.
Confirmed.
The Senate to-day confirmed the nomin-
alton of Reverdy johnson as Minister to
England, without the formality of refer
ence to a a'committee. 10 . saosa i4fae
Commissioner Rollins has again sent his
letter OF resignation to Secretary Mccall
'loch,. with the following Endorsement:
" Unless the honorable Secretary shall
point out wherein the enclosed commur,i-
cation is either impartial and incorrect in
its statements, or unjust and disrespeetflil
to the President. / must consider its return
to me as unjustiiable and the reasons there
for otherwise than those assigned. .nsTS1i-