The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-09-16
ercising all the rights and privileges of free

are free, bat they do not tell them it wassthe
Republican party who gave and secured to
them their freedom. This is an undeniable
fact and they knowit. 1.-THE Democrats and
Conservatives had the power tlIthYould take
away and deprive the colsrea plesof all
those rights and privileges bes5swed upon
them by the Republican party. Let all'col-
ored men constantly bear in mind that If they
vote against the Republican party, they vote
TO deprive themselves andxllsir race Of the
fights of freemen at the bSlldt box. They
vote against their own best interests ana the
interests of their posterity. - Z
Every eolored man who &gpiG the
|sRepublican party votes sS>9
i hs;ipIa Of justice libeE's
& When the grand and irresistible triumph
- the great Union Republican party is made
tRie AnnRsecurc, as it will be by the cleo
tts499l k6ldi Grant as PHsi5ent of the
United States in November hext, the. n
called Democratic Conservative humhp
party may then hang their harps upon
the willows" and console themselves with
the sweet rencmbrances of the past" when
sadly rejecting on those touching lines:
"Swect memory, waited by thy gentle gale,
To view the fairy haunts OF long lost hours,
Blcst with far grcener shades, far fresher
flowers"
This only shows the uncertainty and mu
liability of all human affairs. 1t is necessa-
ry and important to learn something from
the pale light of reason, and to draw from
the experience of the past, analogical de-
auctions for the future.
desire to call the special attention of all
reasonable and unprejudiced people to Gen.
Grants liberality and kindness towards his
defeated adyersaries when they were entire
ly IN his power and AT his mercy.
He conducted all his brilliant and sue
cessful campaigns upon high principles of
honor and according to the laws and usages
of war in all civilized and christian nations
In all his proclamations and orders, from
his proclamation to the citizens of Paducah,
Kentucky, on taking command of that post
in September, 1861, to Gen. Lees surrender
at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. on
the 9th of April, 1865, General Grant exhi-
bited at all times his generosity and hu-
mainly.
On the Sd Of July, 1858, Gen. Grant said
to Gen. j. C. Pemberton, the commander of
the Confederate forces at Vicksburg, Miss,
relative to surrendering the Confederate
army at that place:
The useless etfusion of blood you pro
pose stopping by this course can be ended
at any time you may choose by an uncondi-
tio,ial surrender of the city and garrison.
Men who have shown so much endurance
and courage as those now in Vicksbprg will
always challenge the respect of any adver.
sary, and l can assure you will be treated
with all the respect due to prisoners of
war"
This resulted in the surrender of Vicks-
burg and its starving garrison of about thlr-
ty-two Thousand Confederate prisoners of
war. Gen. Grant allowed those prisoners
rations and transportation to enable them
to return to their families and homes, in
stead of sending them away to languish and
suffer in military prisons. Here is the most
conclusive evidence of the forbearance, the
generosity, and wonderful liberality with
which he treated the men whom he had re-
duced into his power. He displayed the
same magnanimity and generosity upon the
surrender by Gen. Lee of the army OF North
ern Virginia. On the evening of the 7th of
April, 1885, he addressed the following note
to Gen. Lee:
~ April 7, 1865, P. M.
The result of the last week must convince
you of the hopelessness of further resistance
on the part of the army of Northern Vir-
ginia in this struggle. 1 feel that it is so,
and regard it as my duty to shift from my
self the responsibility of any further cffusion
of blood by asking of you the surrender of
that portion Of the Confederate States army
known as the army of Northern Virginia.
! o. S. GRANT, 'e5'
Lieutenant General.
General R. E. LEE, Commanding Confede-
rates States Army. q. -. s,.-..
This led to meeting and to the accep-
lance of the following terms of surrender:
APPoMATTox COURT HOUSE, VIRGINIA,
April 8, 1865.
In accordance with the substance of my
letter to you of the 9Th instant, propose to
receive the surrender of the army of North
ern Virginia on the following terms, to wit:
rolls of all the officers anil men to he made
in duplicate, one copy to be given to an Off
Ger to be designated by me, the other to be
retained by such officer or officers as you may
designate. The officers to give their indi-
vidual paroles not to take up arms against
tie Government of the United States until
properly exchanged, and each company or
regimental commander sign q like parole for
the men of their commands. The arms, ar
tillcry, and public property to be packed
and stacked and turned over to the officers
appointed by me to receive them. This will
not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor
their private horses or baggage This done
each officer and man will be allowed to re-
turn to their homes, not to I've disturbed by
United States authority so long as they OBJ
serve their paroles and the laws in force
where they may reside.
r" U. s. GRANT,
.4s lhaE-,.s Lieutenant General.
General R. E. LEE, Commanding Confede-
rate States Army.
Here Is another incident of the kindness
and magnanimity exhibited by General
Grant upon the surrender of General Lee,
and is thus related by an eyewitness:
"After the execution of the terms of sur
render, General Lee remarked, in substance,
to Grant: General, there is one thing for
| got to mention, and it is now probably too
late to speak of it. by our service cavalry
men and some of the artillerymen own their
horses. When General Grant, interrupting,
said, in substance, that, such being the case,
Tue Heh mIgnC Tettln tilelr HORSES The same
as was granted to the officers, and that he
would SO instruct his paroling officers. Gen
eral Lee expressed with much emotion his
gratitude at this exhibition of Grants
promptitude in anticipating his wishes, and
remarked that this generous act would go
far toward reconciling the minds of the
Southern people toward the North. The ar
rangement was faithfully carried out" in
What more generous terms could be ex-
pected from victorious General than the