The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-02-19

cret rebel organizations. Why is this What
harm has the Union League ever done any
body 2 What harm does it seek to do. any
one? All, the true secret is the principles
which it inculcates. While they abuse this
loyal organization in one breath, they praise,
in the next, Andrew Johnson, who was one
OF its founders, and who, Judas like, has be-
trayed his trust. He it was who proclaimed
himself the Moses of the negroes, and that
le'would lead them through the red sea of
bondage intoa land of frcedom who, no
sooner than he finds them there, proposes to
turn them into the Atlantic Ocean to perish.
But then, the Radicals. Oh, the Radi-
Gals! Well, what is Radicalism Who are
Radicals Radicalsm means getting at the
root of things. The Destructive leaders of
the Rebellion were so very radical as to de.
sire to root out the Union. root and branch.
! They were so radical as to secede, raise large
armies by coercive measures, and force the
people at the point of the bayonet to strug
gle through four long years of bloody strife,
with the view of Obliterating every vestge
of the old Constitution. And the very men
! who were going to Idle in the last ditch
for the dear Confederacy, but were careful
to secure some bomb proof office, are now
| abusing the consistent Unlonists as Radi-
| Gals, at the same time claiming to be them
selves Conservatives-the Constitutional
| Union party. How conservative these De-
structive Obstructives have become all of a
sudden. They are wolves in Sleeps cloth
J ing seeking again whom they may devour.
The radicalism of the Republican party con-
sists in desire to root out these would he
leaders of the people-the only living relics
! of the dead Confederacy-to make such
change in the Constitution only as the re-
suits of the rebellion require, in order to Sc
cure the American people forever hereafter
| from the perls of civil strife, war and devas-
tation, from which they have so lately
( emerged.
In conclusion. ask your indulgence in
the use of little personality. l was born
, amid your own native mountains, over
which the proud eagle, the emblem of Amer
| lean liberty. scars. was raised on Il farm
and taught to work as did the slaves of my
/ father claim to be white man. / love
my own race better than any other. 1t is
natural ard right that | shonld. fear not
negro supremacy and negro rule. There is
as much difference in the equality of civil
and polcal rights, and of social rights, as
there is in dark and daylight No govern
ment that ever has existed or ever can exist,
can fix the status of social equality. unless
based upon the principle of unconditional
slavery. In a free and Republican Cavern.
ment like ours, every individual is left at
liberty to choose and form his own associa-
tions. If we could labor in the same field.
drink water from the same spring. and
breathe the same free air that the negroes
did whcp slaves, without contamination and
disgrace we Can clio the same thing when
they are free. The negro had no agency
whatever in the causes that produced his
freedom; that was the work of Sc, essiunsts.
though such result was far from their in
! tentions. Whatever my views, as to the
moral right or wrong of the institution of
slavery may have been before the war. it
] was recognized by the Government: and so
long as it, as an institution. did not Interfere
with the Union, was more than willing to
abide its peaceable destiny. But the war
brought about the determination of the last
| vestige of slavery from the dominions of the
| United States Government. Believing that
the result has been in accordance with the
divine will of an overruling Providence,
| however much l detest the human agency
that produced the war. and however much |
deplore the human suffering caused thereby,
| / would not by any means return the freed
race to bondage had the power Nor
would deprive them of the only rights
whereby they can protect themselves and
strengthen the Government.
The very party that is bowling so much
about negro suffrage and negro equality is of
that class whose associations with the ne
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of most intimate character. Any man of
the least observation is obliged to acknowl
edge that. since the blacks were freed, there
has been less intimacy, association, and
amalgamatlon of the white and black races
than existed when the latter were in state
of bondage.
The pretext of those who inaugurated the
war was the want OF slave territory; then
they wanted more land-the necessities of
the negro required it--and they actually
made war upon the Union because they
could not procure enough territory for the
then dear negro. Now, not only the negro
is too mean and british to enjoy any privi-
leges. but the mean whites-the poor trash
who, through motives of humanity and JUS
tice, no matter what their character and
standing may be. arc secuted us unfit to he
allowed an humble abode on the sacred
soil" OF the dead Confederacy. The same
would be lords of creation, if had the pow
er, would deprive the poor, illiterate white
man of the ballot, especially if he is Union
Lacquer and in favor of Congress and Re-
construction. There are badly disposed per-
sons of all races and of all parties, and such.
for the protection of the wel-disposed, and
for the good of society, must be restrained
by the enactment and enforcement of suit
one neighbor makes another better by abuse
and prosecutions. The eternal principles of
equal rights and justice extended to all man
kind, regardless of race. color "r condition,
are the great principles of the Union Repub-
lican party. Governed by these. let the
white Republicans encourage the freedmen
to honest and industrious habits, and in
struct them in the use of the great privi
leges which magnanimous government
has extended 10 them. 1t is much more to
our interests to control the destinies of
the country with the aid of the freedmen
than to he ruled by the iron hand of Seces
sion aristOcratic tyrants, whose only ambi-
ton is to rule or ruin. rT'f
Let me. In bringing this letter to a close
urge Republicans to stand to their posts
There are many good and true Republicans
who have never attached themselves direct
it would be to their interest. in certain con-
tingencies. to do so. it is entirely a matter
for their own consideration. This is tree
country, and every man is left free to join
the League, the church of his choice, or not