The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-09-16

be somewhat consoling to their troubled
spirits to reflect calmly on the affecting
lines of Tho Hermit"
"For here, forlorn and lost. I tread,
With fainting steps and slow
Where wilds inimeasurably spread,
Seem frightening as l CO." .s
As they are compelled to surrender, march
out and submit to the memorable logic OF
events, they with seeming remorse OF con-
science cast their "longing, lingering looks
behind"
But what have they done in favor of
Peace, Liberty. the Constitution and the
Union9 What have they done, in the Ian
guage of the Constitution of the United
States, sin order to form more perfect
Union, establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common de-
fence, promote the general welfare, and Sc.
cure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
our posterity
What have the so called Democratic Con-
sentative party done for the promotion OF
the great and vital objects and purposes OF
the Constitution They have done nothing
but try to obsiruct the wheels OF govern
ment the operation of liberal Republican
principles, and the progressive spirit OF the
present age. They are so misguided by
prejudice that whatever their leaders do
| they sanction. They remind me of the
story of man who employed lawyer to
write an affidavit for him, and the only in.
structions he gave were make it strong
1t is your business to write the affidavit and
mine to swear to it,"
As the opposition 60 for party, right or
wrong, in the face of truth, justice and
reason, they may appropriately exclaim:
s'Black is white and coal is wood,
For SO our leaders say,
And what they say is very good,
And we will them obey" ~i d
I do not agree with the Senator from
Rowan, (Mr. Robbins,) in his prediction that
the Republican party will be defeated in the
next Presidential election. We have often
heard of false prophets before.
The Savior of the world, our Great Re-
deemer, in his Sermon on the Mount, warned
the people in these words {" Beware of false
prophets, which come to you in sleeps
clothing, but inwarlly they are ravening
wolves" 'f a''' -t-'7 t
By what authority did the Senator make
such boastful and unqualified declarations
and predictions Invectlve is not argument,
and tlcnunciation is not proof.
Where is the evidence to sustain such vain
and preposterous asserticns2 The evidence
is most abundant and conclusive ON the
other side Of the issue, and his vanity and
delusion, his arrogance and presumption, can
only be accounted fol and justified by reason
Of disordered Imagination and delusive
fancy. r.......... ..l.G5
He denounced the new Constitution as
fragrant imposition and outrage upon the
people, an Infamous and villainous Consti-
tuition, and positively asserted and declared
that it would be defeated by the people at
the ballot box in April last His predictions
were undoubtedly untrue then as they are
untrue now. -
Time must, as in other instances, disclose
whether the four hundred who foretold sue
cess to Ahab at Ramoth Gilead, or Macaiah
the son of Imlah, who prognosticated defeat,
are the truer prophets. '
The Senator and the faction with which
he acts may continue their windy, bombastic
and groundess declarations and assertions,
proclaim their decision at the ballot box, in
language too plain to be misunderstood, and
in o voice which must be heard and obeyed
by all.
"There is q weapon sursr yet,
And better than the bayonet, '.e,sszi
A weapon that comes down as still,
As snow flakes fall upon the rill,
But executes the peoples will,
As lightning does the will of God,
And from its force no bolts or locks,
Can shield thcm-'tis the ballot box"
The omnipotent ballot box is the only safe
and sure mode by which freemen can pro-
tect, maintain and defend their rights and
liberties, and command submission and ODE
dience to their authority. Tho right of suf-
frage is above all price. 1t is right inesti-
mable to freemen and formidable to tyrants
only. .-ar1i| tavets7,T4 fr
The so.called Democratic Conservative
party are decidedly opposed to colored suf-
frage, when the law has pronounced all men,
without regard to color, entitled to that
privilege. Every freeman is one of the peo-
pie and entitled to vote; and no man has
the right to debar any other freeman from
the exercise of his political rights.
Universal manhood suffrage is the only
safety of our people. The colored people
have been declared citizens by the civi!
ted States, and by the Constitution of North
Carolina; and woe to the party that at
tempts to deprive them of their rights and
privileges as freemen. They have been
fully invested by law with all the elements
and muniments of free citizens, and they are
entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all
the benefits and blessings guaranteed to them
by the Constitution and laws of the country.
will now briefly allude to some of the
absolute rights of individuals or citizens, to
which they are entitled under the law. .
In the language of Blackstone, the great
expounder of the laws of England, munich
pal or civil law is the rule of civil conduct
prescribed by the supreme power In a State,
commanding what is right and prohibiting
what is wrong The absolute rights of ipdi-
viduals compose what is called political or
civil liberty. The absolute rights, or civil
liberties of the people of this country are
the right of personal security, of personal
liberty, and of private property. 30 ~
| The right of personal security consists in
the legal enjoyment of life, limb, body,
health and reputation. ..-..,..-....,.....
| The right of personal liberty consists in
the free power of locomotion, without illegal
restraint or Punishment. ~ 20
The right of private property consists in
every mans free use and disposal of his own
lawful acquisitions, without injury or illegal
diminution.
If those cardinal and fundamental rights
are properly maintained and preserved, in
all their vigor and virtue, they will cultivate
''the sum and substance" Of good govern
ment, and the basis of Republican liberty.
In my feeble efforts and exertions to support
maintain and defend che National Declara-
ton of Independence, am strengthene.l
and sustained by the conscious rectitude of
my intentions, the purity Of my motives and
the Justice of my cause 50 7t s'ifas