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

) to the separe mile, it is obvious that grea
and prosperous future is before, her, if hel
people slould prove true to themselves.
What sneed is capital and mind to brine
out thessresources-to render them conve
nlent, aLtt useful and available for wealth
and power. We need skilled labor. We
need edtfated, thinking, investigating, en-
tcrprisin$ mind, on our farms, in our work.
shops and manufactures, in our mines. on
our raiiffads, at the head of our schools and
presses, ind indeed in every industrial EN-
terprise Dr. pursuit.
Fellow -citizens, let us come out of the
cayerns ot the past, and forgetting whatever
is not worthy to be remembered, let US re-
solve to do our duty in our day and time as
North Catolinians, as Americans. In u eli
| mate and with soil for which Providence
has done so much, let US resolve to do some
thing for ourselves and our children. Let
US devote ourselves to the arts of peace
Let us improve this great inheritance. LIE,
our children and our children's children
when they shall come to take our places, say
| of us, "Our ancestors remembered and did
! what was wise, and what was good for u.s.
Behold, the beautiful country they have left
to us the just and equal laws that are
over US, and the hope that their work has
made strong in us that we Can do even more
for our children than they have done for u.s. .
Let us at least unite upon the one great oh
ject of improving and building up the State.
Let us welcome capital and immigration,
furnishing as they will the indispensable
means to our progress and prosperity. Pre-
iudices growing out of nativity or out
OF the rebellion, ale not worthy to be cher
ished. Let uS discard such prejudices-
We are once more Americans all. Let us
receive with courtesy and kindness every
citizen ot-tT Northern or Eastern States
Nheannx sas lot among US, and measure
~ hi
g persona slilofal sSk b. q cannot hots
TO lmpFbye 4 Conui ZION n we roper capital
and iilAaigr9Aon either,by so acting as to
produce the belief that it is not safe to
settle among us on account Of the want of
law and order, or unpleasant, because of
rude or uncivil treatment to the immigrant.
IL should be remembered that our ancestors
were, originally, as.much adventures s" as
others. OF the three signers of the Decla-
ration of Independence for this State neither
was native. Richard Caswell, one of our
greatest Governors, and sometimes called
the WASHINGTON of North Carolina, was
not native; nor was Joseph Caldwell, who
built up our University and led the way
with Murphey, Yancey, Stanly, Saunders
and others III internal Improvements and
public instruction.
We want the best people from Europe, and
from all parts of the United States, to settle
among US. 1t is men that make State
Let them come, with their enterprise and
money, their muscle and intelligence and
when they get here let the only rivalry be as
to who shall do most for the good and the
glory OF our beloved State
The government of the ITnitp6 States in
the prosecution of the war to suppress the
rebellion, and In the measures it has adopt
eel to reconstruct the Union, has exhibited
extraordinary clemency and magnanimity.
1t has taken no vengeance for the past, but
has required only security for the future 1t
has deprived no man of his property save
Tor war purposes during the progress of the
war; 1t has exiied no man; it has punish
eel no man for the crime of rebellion. 1t has
simply required that those who have been
In rebellion should renew their allegiance,
and that such guards should be placed in
the organic law of the States and the nation
as to prevent future rebellion. Instead of
defining or restricting suffrage permanently,
1t has left it with the respective States, to be
determined and settled us they may choose;
and this State, following in full measure
the example OF the national government,
has made suffrage free to all.
But the war to suppress the rebellion has,
in its results necessarily changed k it has
settled the theory of construction previous
ly held by large portion of the people
On. Ghl1AS,s we laSiI .onsolidated, and
the Union caH in no event, be dissolved. 1t
Is to endure always. 1t must increase, but
never decrease. For all great national pur
poses the government of the United States
Is over the States, and paramount to the
States, and the allegiance of the citizen is
first due to 1t. There is no appeal from the
Will OF the nation, expressed by a majority.
Armed resistance to the national authority,
whether by individuals of their own accord,
or by individuals acting under supposed
State authority or command, is treason, and
must be so held and treated. The doctrine of
States rights, as held by Mr.. Calhoun and !
his followers has ceased to have validity or |
vitality; and the teachings and doctrines
OF WASHINGTON, Hamilton, Webster, Jack
son, Clay and Lincoln now constitute the
true, and the only safe theory of construc-
ton. This has been settled under PrOvi
dence, by the result of a solemn appeal tod
arms among brethren; and he who would
unsettle this theory, thereby rendering it
possible that secession should ever again be
attempted, is no friend to his species, to his
State, or to the general government of his
country. The government of the United
Otdtes Is no longer 1eeDle lumlnafy, recelV-
ing and dispensing light to surrounding
planets; but it is full sun, burning with supe-
rior splendor, pervading and holding up to
itself the entire system, and kindling new
p,anets into life and motion. How benefi-
cent, how glorious. how far-reaching will
be the light it will dispense when it reach
es its meridian, we shall not live to see, but
the generations to come after us will walk
in that light, and be contented, prosperous
and happy. In the fullness of their graft
tude they will thanicGod, as we do. that the
government of the United States, delivered
from the periis of rebellion, and reconstruct
ed on the basis of the equal rights of ALL is
as indestructhle as the earth itself, and as
secure in its position and in the exercise of
all its great powers, as
"The Northern star,
OF whose true, fixed and resting quality,
There is no fellow in the armament"
have thus, fellow citizens, stated briefly
and plainly the great principles contained
in our State Constitution, and have frank
ly announced the policy which will charac-
terize my administration. Cherishing Meth
er malice nor resentment for any thing that
has occurred in the past, 1 shall endeavor
to do my duty. shall keep constantly in
view the welfare of North Carolina. love
the Unicn, because it is the first, the last,