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

ing the laws and governments framed by
Congress. It is wholly impracticable and
fallacious. You cannot take away the cleo
tive franchise from free people without q
civil war, and the party that attempts it Will
go down beneath the scorn, contempt and
exccrations of the patriotic and loyal people
OF the land.
The question of universal manhood suf-
frage is settled in North Carolina, and it
may be well for malcontents, aristOcrats and
monarchsts to acknowledge the undeniablc
fact. 1899
What measure for the good of the people
have the so called Democratic Conservative
humbug party once proposed from the sur
render OF General Lee to the present day 2
None. On the contrary, they have opposed
every measure that has been proposed.
They are biased and misled BY prejudice
and passion, and melted by madness end
folly. They propose to do nothing but pro
mote agitation, error, discord, disorder, de-
fusion, confusion and unfriendly feeling. II
they desire peace, union, and harmony,
why do they not do all they Can to aid and
encourage those important and desirable OBJ
jects2 But unfortunately they have literal
ly denounced and opposed all the measures
proposed by the Republican party for the
peacable and final settlement of all our diff
culties They are opposed to the generous
and paramount principles OF liberty, justice,
and political equality. They would deprive
colored men of their dearest rights as free
men. They would exclude them from the
high and important privileges and advan-
tages, benefits and blessings of the ballot
box, and degrade them into slavery. They
tried to secetle and establish government
of slavery. They desired to make it more
permanent and secure, and in their efforts to
save slavery they lost it.
The rebellion was put down and slavery
abolished by the grand triumphs of the
Union armies under the command of that
eminent military chieftain, General Ulysses
S. Grant.
The colored people know that the Repub
lican party, with President Lincoln ut their
head, made them free, and they will not
vote for those who would reduce them to
slavery. They will not vote with the So
called Democratic Conservative humbug
party, when its leaders openly declare that
the loyal governments established in the
South must be overthrown by the army,
and the constitution and laws which secure
to the coIored people their rights, abolished.
Here is what Gen. Frank P. Blair, the
Democratic candidate for Vice President on
the Seymour ticket, in his letter of June 80,
1868, says: - ,,i1a
"The reconstruction policy of the Radi-
Gals will be complete before the next election;
the States, so long excluded, will have been
admitted; negro suffrage established and
the carpet-baggers installed in their seats in
both branches of Congress. There is no
possibility of changing the political char
acter of the Senate, even if the Democrats
should elect their President and majority
of the popular branch of Congress. We can
not, therefore, undo the Radical plan of re-
construction by Congressional action; the
Senate will continue bar to its repeal.
Must We submit to it 2 How can it be over
throwna 1t can only be overthrown by the
authority of the Executive, who is sworn to
maintain the Constitution, and who will fail
to do his duty if lie allows the Constitution
to perish under series of congressional en-
actments which are IN palpable violation of
its fundamental principles"
Blair further says: There is but one way
to restore the Government and the Constitu-
ton, and that is for the President elect to
declare these acts Reconstruction acts) null
and Void, compel the army to undo its usur-
pations at the South, disperse the carpet-bag
State governments, allow the white people to
reorganize their own governments, and elect
Senators and Representatives"
5 He further declares: We must have a
President who will execute the will of the
people by trampling into dust the usurpa-
tions of Congress, known as the reconstruc-
ton acts. Iwish to stand before the Con-
vention upon this issue, for it is one which
embraces every thing else that is of value in
its largeand comprehensive results. 1t is the
one thing that inclues all that is worth a
contest and without it there is nothing that
gives dignity, honor, or value in the strug-
gle.n
Here is the deliberate avowal of the pur-
pose to overthrow the present State govern
ments, organlzed under the laws of Congress
and ratified Ivy the people. The so-called
Democratic party endorsed Blairs dangerous
and revolutionary doctrine by nominating
him unanimously for Vice President Of the
United States. ,F@
MT. I ISSlutut, TIC disituiiuS oltuoeiuu WI
the county demands the serious considera-
ton of all who prefer the blessings of peace
to the curses of war. The issues as now
plainly anil distinctly presented to the PEG
pie are, Grant and peace, or Seymour and
trouble. General Grantsays: ''Let US have
peace" The Democratic party say I" The
reconstruction acts of Congress, under which
the Southern States have adopted constitu-
lions and been fully restored to the Union,
are usurpations, unconstitutional, null and
void, and must be overthown 7" Their
abominable policy would involve the coun-
try in anarchy and bloodshed. They would
demolish the State governments, abolish the
constitutions and laws, and whirl the peo-
pie into civil war of devastation, desola-
ton and ruin, which would result in an alb.
solute monarchy or an oppressive dcspot-
ism.
They declare the laws passed by Congress,
the supreme legislative power of the Nation,
null and void" If such absurd assertions
were true, the colorcd people could not yet
mated by the legislation and authority of
Congress, approved aud ratified by the peo-
pie of the several States d a5-.,.s ...g
What have the so-called Democratic party
done toward the restoration of peace and
tranquility, law and order, union and har,
mony9 Ia. sd
They have anxiously sought office under
authorities they have shamefully denounced
as usurpations, unconstitutional, null and
void They have shown themselves utterly
destitute of any principle of generosity, lib
erality or consistency, and wholly unworthy
of public confidence. $500. II.
They failed to carry out President john
sons reconstruction policy in 1865. In 1866
they rejected white mans Constitution in
North Carolina 7tlalra r. III dg e +