The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-30
When will the States be Admitted!

The people of the States recently recon
stIucted under the authority of Congress,
are awaiting the action of that body with
intense interest
The people of North Carolina, for exam
pie. by majority of more than twenty
thousand, have promptly and cheerfully ac
cepted the Congressional plan of reconstruc-
3 ton. They have formed Constitution
thoroughly republican in form, and they
have ratified it. and at the same time elected
men to administer it, by majority of the
registered vote of the State.
81 The loyal white men of North Carolina
have also, with a moral heroism never sur
passed. gone forward and engaged in the
great work of training and fitting the colored
race for self government; and they have
done this for the Congress, for the North,
for themselves, and for the nation at large,
usizlc7 torn Of repraaeli end sohisqp }zof=
- j.;s1 gan
toras ~ Conception :
zz<fbese ioyAf whites n North Carolina, and
tlIess coIorcd people, are as true to the flag,
and they love the nation as we'll rs any man or
body of men in any portion of the country
Then can be implicitly trusted. II they can
not be, then free government is failure IN
these Southern States, and the Republican
oarty will be unable to reconstruct the gov
eminent. The country has been, practically,
disunitcd for the last seven years. indefinite
disunion would be precisely what the enc
mics of the United States desired when, IN
1860. they raised the standard of revolt.
For the last two years and SIX months we
lave had in this State g the Contederacy
in a modified form. We have 1t now. How
long shall this continue?
The bill to admit North Carolina and
other States has passed the House by more
than two-thirds, and is now IN the Senate
We know that nothing we could say would
move the Senate. or any individual memberof
it. Yet we need not conceal the fact that tue
enemies of the government, while they are
still ruling us. and taxing US, and proscrlp-
ing us. are exulting in the hope that the
Congressional plan will fail; while many
uIain, uniformed Republicans are fearful
that this hope may prove well-founaea. lie
ma6erial interests of our people are sui1erinS
by delay. There can he no revival OF DUST
ness-no renewal of confidence between man
and man-no certainty as to the future until
the State is admitted. Thousands OF our
people are suffering for bread. Permanent
loyal government, giving assurances OF oet-
ter times in the future, would marx DE-
ginning point, from which the struggling
and the suffering would gradually emerge
into n more tolerable condition.
For our part, we have no fears as to the
action of the Senate. 1t will take It's time
in this as in other matt ers, but we regard IL
as certain that it will agree to the House
bill. This may be done to-day, or next week.
or month, but that it '0iu be done we entertain
no doubt Congress will not allow Its plan
IF reconstruction to fail; and every consld-
Grafton of expediency and policy as wei as
of Justice, points to the admission 0. '"'
ststes in full time to organize their Eiec-
tional tickets, so as to allow them to cast
,,: ,,o+oS for Grant and COlfaX.