The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-10-21
AN IMPARTIAL WITNESS.


the slogan of the ex.rebels No man must
think for himself, but for his employer No
man must have interests coincident with
his own interests, but with those of his pc
cuniary master. If any elector, pregnant
with desire to elevate himselfin the scale of
humanity, should presume to deposit bal
lot contrary % the self agrandizing schemes
of the man who hires his services, and gets
value received then lie must be put down by
summary process. The individual who
dares to think for himself, unless he joins
with the conclusions of his hirers, must be
made an object of partizan persecution.
The theory of the ex-rebels is, white man
may be unable to read, or to write, but any
attempt tc deprive him OF suffrage would be
infamous; but, if a man has black skin.
he should he DISTINGUISHED for that cause
alone even if he should be able to read the
Word of God in English, Greek and Arabic.
1t is held that the African race is lamentably
inferior to the white, in every case, not ex-
cepting him who has collegiate education,
as contrasted with the white man who does
not even know his letters. There is, accord
ing to the Southern hypothesis, something
in the whiteness of II mans skin which quail
fies HIM for the elective franchise, though he
cannot tell A from z. A negro is disquali-
fed, on account of his color, notwithstand-
ing that he may be able to read Homer in
in the original, or address his fellow citizens
in Latin. This is justice-Democrati JUS
tice. The election of Seymour and Blair
purposes to fasten this sort of Justice upon
the country. What will the people say at
the ballot box ?-Chicago Republican.
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FORD RAILRoAD.--We are most gratifed to
note the progress which is being made in
the extension of the Wilmington, Charlotte
and Rutherford Railroad. The work of
grading has long progressed tavorably, and
the track Is being laid as rapidly as the iron
can be obtained. Trains are now enabled to
run to within three miles of Rockingham,
and it is expected to complete the track to
that place within less than a week. The
Company has iron enough to lay the track
to the Pee Dee river, six miles beyond Rock
ingham, but will he compelled to reserve it
to connect with the new railway bridge over
the Cape Fear, when completed, over the
route now being graded. So soon as this is
done the track running down to Riverside
will be removed and placed on the Pee Dee
connection. The Superintendent is now
contracting, we learn, for the building of
bridge over that river.-WSl. Journal
The Democratic party. led by such trail
tors as Vallandigham and Voorhees,, complain
that the taxes are high; that the public
debt is enormous, and that the price of liv-
ing is unbearable. Well, who is to blame
for it In 1860, the Republican party said
at the ballot box. we will have no more
slave States. We are willing to let those
we have remain unmolested" The Demo-
cratic party said: "Then we will fight We
do not intend to stay in any Union which
does justice. We do not regard the negro
as man; he has no rights which white
man is bound to respect We are going to
have Government in which white men OPP
press black men, and we are going to have
oppression the rule, not the exception" To
bring this state of things about, Democracy
made half million of graves, and got the
nation two thousand millions into debt.
Now it is asked, practically, that the people
shall say by their votes that they want an
other war to restore the South to its privi-
eges-priyilegcs of which it has been de-
| prived Ivy its own acts. Seymour and Blair
asks this-not Grant and Colfax. Chicago
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