The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1868-04-08

Holden, Col. C. l.. Harris, Stokes ID.
Franklin. W., M. Coleman and d. D.
CoIgrove. sAt- '''ft '"A
A mass meeting of Republicans was held
in the Courthouse in Raleigh on the I'd inst
The utmost harmony and enthusiasm pre-
vailed. Loud and long continued cheers
greeted the speakers as they arose and fol-
lowed the close of their able and eloquent
addresses. The ball rolls on. Victory is al
ready perching upon onr banners. "Once
more unto the breech, good friends, once
more"
81 On motion of J. P. Andrews, Mr.. R. W. Las
sitter was called to the Chair, and on motion of
G. M. Farriss, Joshua P. Andrews was made
Vice President. On motion of Mr. Crossan,
j. E. 0'Hara was made Secretary. 1i.-
Mr.. Lassiter then explained the object of
the meeting, to be to hear an address from
Gov. Holden. Mr.. Lassiter went on to state
that he newthat the respect for law and
order which had always characterized the
Republicans would be maintained here.
2 He had said that secession meant war and
blood, when rebels were inf1aming the minds
ofthe people of the South !; for that hehad
been denounced as an enemy to his section.
Since he had taken the ground that the en-
franchisement of the coloredrace was deman-
'ded by every principle of justice, hehad been
denounced MS traitor to his race. But
while he had the approval of his own con-
science, he was superior to all the petty
prejndices, and the passions that might
be arrayed against him. CA
Gov Holden was then called upon and
said: --..
FELLow-cIT1zENs OF WAKE-After brief
absence, am here amongst you, without
scratch or scar. / have seen bitter and vim
dictive rebels, who were doubtless evil dis
posed. but they have done no damage.
As the result of his experience, from the
Seaboard to Charlotte, he had never seen
the Republicans more united and enthusias-
tic. The Leaguesa all over the State are -four
ishing and increasing day by day. So are
the Heroes. All the fabricatlons of rebel
presses with regard to the disintegration of
the Leagues and Heroes, are frauds practiced
upon the people for their deception. The
Republican party was marching on to GER
tain victory. ....
Such q crisis had never before been before
our people. We were farther off to-day
from peace and final settlement of all our
difficulties, than we have been at any time
since the suppression of the rebellion. The
question before the people, when stripped
of all extraneous issues, is simply this:
"Are we to have peace and prosperity and
q restoration IF the Union, or are we to go
out again upon dark and stormy sea of
revolution, without knowing our bearings,
or whittier we may be drifted9'
50 It was to divert attention from this one
issue that the hue and cry against the black
man had been raised.
Gov. Holden then proceeded to show that
this country, at least the South, had never
been white mans government. The South
ern slave-owners voted for their slaves
They went to war to build up black mans
government. They desired to establish
government in which there should be few
great shareholders ami four millions of
slaves-a government in which labor would
be degraded, and where the free white work
ing man could not set his foot without de-
graduation. Now forsooth, the cry is made,
when the coored people are allowed to vote
for themselves, and are voting with the
masses of our white laboring men against
the old slave oligarcby which degraded both
white and black alike, when the colored
people are acting in this intelligent way, it
is said that they have not sufficient intelli-
rgence, and that the color of their skin
should be sufficient cause to cut them off
from every right of citizenship.
The idea of the colored race ever assum-
ing power as race and governing the
white race, in other words the cry of negro
domination, was treated with the ridicule
and contempt which it deserved.
The Governor then passed to the question
of schools and militia. He exposed in a
mastery manner the frauds which had been
practiced npon the honest people of the
State by designing rebel demagogues. The
colored people were opposed to attending
the same schools. The white race were op-
posed to it. The Bureau has its separate
schools for white and colored; the Northern
States have separate schools for the races
It is satisfactory on all hands that the races
be separated in the schools Those men
who charge upon the Republicans the de-
sire to force the two races into the same
schools; or who state that the Constitution
forces any such things, speak wilfully false.
'pa Precisely the same thing is true as to the
Militia. It was not deemed necessary to 20
over the ground. '
As for the question of intermarriage be-
o tween the races, we have been living three
years under the government of the United
States, which knows no distinction of color,
and which interposes no objection to the
=. greatest freedom in matrimonial relations;
yet, heasked how many instances had there
sibeen of intermarriages Some two or three
And in these cases. both white and black had
= lost caste with their respective races and were
: not received upon terms of social equality
with their former associates. The colored
race was as much opposed to amalgamation