The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-04-08
A Calmyiew.

" - "A 49, AOWe9eH
.sInTtie,first plsee tie Ccustitptioq will be
ratified and fife entire Republican, State
'tieket elected BY 4Sat .leasto twept I've /
thobsand ,mdohtyl when this is done, the
State will be restored our representatives
ADMITTED into Congress: military ghytrn-
mehhf removed and civil government BE re-
sumed in all its branches In one WORD
peace and prosperity will again return and
our people who have been long sorely vexed
BY unrest, disquiet and pecuniary enbarrass-
ment will begin to look up again. But on
the other hand suppose that by any pos
! Utility the Constitution be defeated and
rhos. 8. Ashe elected Governor, what would
be the result9 Of course Mr. Ashe could
not take his seat. His record as member
Of the rebel Congress his fight it out to
the end war principles !; his voting for all
the horrible enormities of CONSUMPTION, of
tithing, of the twenty negro exemption laws,
and in short, his devotion to the old slave
aristocracy, and his going in to the death for
g the rich mans war. and the poor mans
fight the recollection of these horrors, are.
too strong against him to admit of his &C.
cupying the Gubernatorial chair of this
State for some time at least. Congress has
allowed the Union people of the South to
suffer many hardships at the hands of these
old rebel pppressors, but we are satisfied,
that the Congress of the great and generous
American nation will never subject the loyal
people of North Carolina to be lortled over
by defiant rebels.
Should construction I've defeated, what
might be the result ( Either one Of two
.thingswould most probably follow. Either
Congress might be -magnanimous enough to
save the rebels from themselves and read
nit the State; or secondly, 1t might raise
tine State organism from its very founda-
tons. Should this be done, what has been
known as North-Carolina up to this time,
would be buried in political chaos and RUIN.
! Nothing would remain ofthe old fabric save
its geographical boundaries. Every organ
izatinn and corporation would be utterly
DESTROYED; County lines would he blotted
out: the great seal of the State would be an
unmeaning symbol the inhabitants would
be2in utter anarchy as an.organized commu-
nifty and governed by the strong arm of the
United States government alone And in
this universal ruin what would become of all
titles to land? Would these titles not TALL
with the State from which they were deriv-
ed and upon Which they depend9
Should it he decided that these land titles
fall with the fall of the State, then the ques-
ton of forty acres and mule" would be-
gin to have significance. These rebels would
begin to understand what is meant by dis
franchisement and prescription. Then would
the "iron,t Iads." white and colored, meet in
Convention second time and form Con-
stitution, not to be submitted to the people
but to Congress. No person who had par
ticipated directly or indirectly in the rebel
lion would ecer be allowed to vote and hold
Office Further, rebels would be taxed to
pay men for their property that they took
from them 10y force under the color of pre-
tended tithing and impressment laws. Let
those who are croaking about prescription,
taxation and disfranchisement under the
present Constitution, reflect aohat might be
the consequences should this plan ofreeonstrue-
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