The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-04
The Admission of the states.

The bill to admit Arkansas to representa-
ton in Congress, which passed the Senate
with an amendment, has gone back to the
House for the concurrence of that body.
1t is stated that Alabama has been stricken
from the bill admitting North Carolina and
other States, and that the bill was to be dis
posed of by the Senate yesterday. This
amendment, with similar one to that made
to the Arkansas bill, will render it necessary
that the bill admitting North Carolina and
other States shall go back to the House for
concurrence. That the House will at once
concur we have no doubt. The bill will then
go to the President. He may either approve
it, or veto it, or g keep it IN his pocket" as
the saying is, ten days. If he approves it
and it is said in high quarters entitled to
credit that he will-the bill will at once be-
come a law. If he vetnes it, it will at once
be passed by the two Houses over the veto.
If he retains it ten days, at the end of
this time it will become a law. So in any
event it is more than probable that North
Carolina will be in the Union very SOON
Nothing would crafty our loyal people more.
We have never doubted for moment that
our Constitution would be accepted. In the
first place, it is one of the best Constitutions
ever made and ratified and in the second
place, as Mr.. Trumbull very opportunity and
sensibly said in the Senate, ON Friday last
Congress Is pledged, the country is
pledged. we are all pledged to the earliest re-
establishment of civil government in the rebel
States that is practicable with safety to the
Union people there, and safety to the Union
itself Every consideration urges it; justice
requires it-justice to the loyal people whom
we have encouraged to labor for the last
twelve month for the organization of State
governments and when they have made
that government complete, complied with
your laws, got through with their labor OF
registration, of elections once or twice. OF
conventions to form constitutions, and have
complied with every condition which you
have prescribed that they could comply
with, and done everything thai it was posi-
BILE for them to do under your laws, with
what face can we sit here and lay aside this
question which we have all sought to bring to
an early settlement, when they present them
selves here in this condition, having com
piled with every requisition that has been
imposed2 What will you say to these peo-
pie of Arkansas whom you have encouraged
to form this government And how, let me
ask, is a government ever to be established
Suppose you were to impose new conditions,
or reject their new constitution, or refuse to
act upon it, will you pass another law, and
tell the people of Arkansas to form another
constitution {? When they have done 1t, will
they be in any better condition than they
are to-day? Will the Congress then In ses-
sion consider itself under any more obllga-
tions than we are under to carry out the
measures that we shall inaugurate 2"
Mr.. Wilson took the floor in the Senate,
on Saturday, in favor of the immediate adj
mission of the States, and in the course
of his remarks paid very high compliment
to the new Constitution of North-Carolina.
He said:
"The loyal people of those States had
fought for fifteen months the battle of resto.
ration upon the basis of loyalty and liberty.
Seven of these States have adopted Constl-
tutions These States can give to-day more
than 100, 900 majority for the Congressional
plan of reconstruction. He would welcome
these States back with bonires and iilumi-
nations, with glad hearts, and in such style
as the country never saw before; and yet
this was the fourth day of debate on
the question of the admission or one OF
them The Constitutions which they had
formed were uneXceptlonahie; an ms 0ptn-
ion the Constitutioaa Of North Carolina aoas
better than that Of any other State an tue
aoh0le Union. Somehow or other these States
are met at every step by bubbles, and all
their efforts to place the control in the hands
of loyal officials are thus set at naught, and
the rebel State officials yet hold sway He
would never agree to the adjournment OF
Congress until the representatives OF all
these States were admitted to their SEATS
South Carolina was just as safe to-day as
Vermont
The italics above are our own. Our loyal
people will thank Mr.. Wilson sincerely for
these noble, generous words. And we may
add. that North Carolina, with twenty five
thousand loyal white voters more than South
Carolina, is as true to the nation and the flag
as any State in the whole Union. She Will
remain 90.
We confidently expect that the new state
government will be in operation, or will at
farthest commence by the 4th of next month";
the anniversary of the nations BIRTH