The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-12-09
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) condition of the country, with the tcrmina-d
Q tion of the difficulty that has agitated tho
country, and wanted still further to agitate
and to keep off peace and reconstruction.
. This estigmatised as the resort Of partixan
policy. The true issues between the people g
! of North Carolina were the disfranclIisen,ent
i OF portion Of our people nnd the objection 4
> to negro suffrage. There was no objcction
Ito the result of the war, but the Objection {
irested upon these two paints Tile people 9
of the State had settled the question Of uni- q
yersals suffrage, and he acquiesced. This
1i resolution covered the only question now at
J issue. The Howard Amendment proscribts
Il from holding Office number of the best
Union men of North Carolina This wassl
neither right nor good policy. Opposition
u was based upon only the two points mention
aeed, and one being settled, the other would
siiberemoved by tile epassage of this resolution,
Il which he hoped would be done. .ias
at Mr.. SINCLAIR believed this to be the best
';reconstructed State in the South. With
!. IL, ,080 Republican majority II could af;rd
II to ibelmagnanimous.o He would not put it,
eupnn the bare plea of justice, because there
s.wcre many men in bis party who did not be-
hevei it to just. 1t would tall like q balm
of peace upon the people when they were
told that this was no longera partizan body.
There need be no fear that men who were:
prominent in secession would hold office
Show them kindness and they would lose
their strength. The appeal to the peoplethat.
they can now make, that they are martyrs
to the ''lost cause" would give them power
ito excite sympathy; and he hoped the
I House would remove this sting by adopting
this resolution and showing its magnanimity.
|uiil Mr. j JUSTICE, of Rutherford, offered the
following substitute: sf'i q fnh aiia
1 g Resolped, That the Congress Of the United
States be respectfully requested to remove the
| political dis abilities IRON all citizens Of the
State who have not denied the constitutional
right of Congress 70 pardon persons who have
been engaged in re ellion." , -.
Mr.. JUSTICE, of Rutherford, was glad to
hear what was the text of the Republican
party in the political discussion of the late
| contest used now as a text by the opposition
| ~" let us have peace A month ago when
he used it., that text was hissed in, his pres
1 ence as coming from destroyer and butcher.
1 That was hissed by Democratic speakers
and called the expression of hell, and yet
we are told that it is q glorious doctrine
now that we have triumphed. It was glo-
rious with him then and it is now. He
stood there opposed to pardoning any man
tional body. 1t is an, insult to Congress for
7 men to say to them, :" Pardon me, bpt you
are too corrupt to give pardon; pardon me,
you are traitors; pardon me, you are thieves;
! pardon me, you are robbers of this govern
! right to pardon" His position was indica-
4 ~,
who who acknowledged in good faith the
power of Congress to make laws, and its
right to pardon; but he was opposed to
pardoning every man who denounces Con
gress as an Unconstitutional body, and the
Republican party as q thieving party. He
was astonished to hear men talk peace upon
this question, when they would kick the
man who offerSa ~ ors Of this House If they
had the power. If this Legislature Is goiHs
to commit itself to the principle of pardon
ing those who denounce Gen. Grant, the Re
publican party, Congress and its measures tc
maintain the Republic, let this measure
pass. IF treason is to be made odious and
the Republic maintained, let it not pass;
2,l Mr.. MoRRIs was Of opinion that persons
who are banned should apply to the Con
eress Of the United States, for PARDON and
not trouble, those who. are sent here to dt
the, work of, the State. I'd y..oa a.i lq
'sn Mr. French was opposed to this resolution
Lecause it made no discrimination. He woule
forever oppose the pardoning of those mel
who supported the letter of F. P. Blair and
new rebellion, He didnot believe in moment
ary convictions. These men should be kept OF
probation while He had been told Itha
ifthey succeeded in electing Seymour ant
Blair, they would escort him and his carpet
bag to the railroad on the way North, 7 W
would have been sent out of the country
and was there not now war existing in man
parts of the South on small scale2 Loo
at Arkansas and Alabama. We are fortnnat
here in having a strong Union part!
and that is all that, protects us.s Let tn
resolution be amended 40 as to put forwar
men who are entitled to pardon and b
would vote for It; but as it stood he woul
oppose it to the very last day that be b'
slonged to the Legislature 9 .las u
Mr.. HARRIS, of Wake, said his views !
regard. to the removal of disabilities WEI
too well. Known. to require comment ner
He had hoped that whensl we had gette
through with the last political struggle p
more of the peoples time and money waui
be spent by their representatives here IN On
oussine resolutions of buncombe. He sui
smittcd whether any, intelligent gentlema
on the. floor believed that the passage otl q
resolution would have any mop effect q
: relieving single gentleman in North Car
lima than the leaves of autumn. 1t gent
men were sincere, in wishing these. disap
4 ties removed; why not present ysometlli
: tangible in the way of memorials !iWl
, come. forward with windy resolutions a