The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-11-11

~ anu 1910, and III the remote Fl,
ture, hc!ieve this flag will float unon w.
publican institutions down to the vrrv onI
OF Tune. (Applause) In THINKING 81 ANY,
feeling so, 1t is impossible that shonl1 no.
ADVERT to another name besides those ~
Grant and Colfax, to which we are inde,,oi
Tor great portion of those liberties Will,
we now enjoy. do not believe North O.
oiina would have been reconstructed gu sro
cessiuliy as 1t has been had it not been for
your honored Governor, w. w. Holden
lCheers Tor Gov. Holden) lie has been yonr
leader IN the campaign of 1863 and it onyht
to be your pleasure to rely upon his natrn,
Z ism and Judgment and to 90 forth as he ha.
endeavored TO conduct, and in 50 doino H."
iieve the liberties of North Carolina will be
secured tn us Tor all time to come. Nn.
plause) Eastern Virginia and other States
with population similar to ours. are in fin,
darkness and gloom of their nnreconstructeJ
condition, and they do mt know how lon,,
they shall so remain. They had not the
manhood to do as You have done and there.
tore, they stay out in the cold, while you en-
JOY all that which liberty can possibly securo
to living men. l hope you will retire with
the future before you as it is before me with
greater prospect in this State than it has
ever known since 1776 Nong continued
applause)
SPEECH OF REV. S. 8. ASHLEY.
Rev. S. S. Ashley, Superintendent of Pub.
lie Instruction, was next introduced, and
spoke as follows:
My Friends and Fellop- Citizens: There aro
several things settled, as Mr. Pepper said but
there is one thing said to which wish to
call your attention. and that is this: If i
settled by the election that loyal men must
rule, that throughout this entire country
north, south, east, west, not that white men
shall rule, not that colored men shall rulo
but that loyal men shall rule whether thew
be white or colored. [Applause.1 The
North is in earnest with reference TO th;S
matter, that loyal men in North Carolina
South Carolina, Georgia, that loyal men in
these States shall have the government of
these States now and forever more and That
there is no power that shall take it from
them. (Applause.) Our Democratic friends
talk about negro supremacy, about white
men being overslaughed by black men
Look at Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama
where they have almost majority they have
been prevented from voting by the white
men of these, States. The election of Gen
Grant settles this question that never agoin
while the United States exist, will the White
men of Louisiana, Georgia and Alabam,
prevent the loyal men from voting. AN.
plause) Gen. Grant is a very quiet man.
he talks great deal about horses he knows
how to drive horse, and these rebels will
find that he will drive them as he never has
driven horse. (Applause.) He will drive
them either to become loyal men Or sink
them in the Gulf of Mexico. They threaten
here in this State, rebel presses this very day
have threatened the government of this State;
they threaten the governments of the other
reconstructed States We have gone into
this election forthe purpose of having peace
we have elected a President in order that
we may have peace and now we are goingtO
have peace (Applause) We intend to
keep the peace, and we intend that our
Democratic friends shall keep the peace
every man of them. (Applause.) Let them
understand this, now and forever, that they
shall hang if they do not keep the peace.
(Applause.)
The laboring men of the South have the
ballot in their own hands. They have the
power to compel peace if they will stand to,
gether The only question is whether YOU
will stand together, whether you will main
| tain these governments which are establish. |
ed in these States. Will you do it? ["Y@
yes"] Will you stand by your Governor |
['Yes, yes."] Will you tell his adversariS
and the enemies of the nation that, while he
remains Governor of North Carolina and 4
while you have drop of blood in your veins
it shall be devoted to maintaining him as
Governor of North Carolina2 ('sYes, YES
and applause.) Ifyou stand together your +
triumph is as certain as that the world a-
lists. The Republican party of the North
which has rolled up its majority by scorsd
thousands, from Maine to the Pacific, stHb |
with you; it is ready to give you help u
every possible way, if you stand togetha
Applause.) Ifyou prove true to the great
principles of liberty, if you provetruc to the
doctrine that all men are created equal IN
regard to civil rights, and that all men shall
he treated by you as equal in civil rights
then the heart of every true man at the Norm
is with you. (''We know it," and applause
You have been told that the Republican
party wanted nothing of you but your votes
and cared nothing whether you had thenghi'
of freemen are not, but if you voted fOrtlem
this time they would take away your vOtes
in time to come. Let me say to you that the
Republican party never yet lied TO men The
Republican party came up in the face Oh
slavery. 1t struck off the shackles, and gave
four millions of slaves freedom here in tue
South. 1t has given these people therngIH
and it will maintain them in their nights u
PROOF OF inns las1 igesaay TWO gIedd', ~ stGh
the word white from their constitutions and
to give to the colored men of those Si15s
hereafter the right to the ballot ~ ana lD3
the question comes up in Connectlou! ,, ~