The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-09-23


thousand. gain. but the result is q clear gain
of about 1900 votes. [Applause.1 The
majority last year was / 900; it is now 25,-
600, showing clear gain of $4,000. But it
is not so much as comparative gain, ana
that is the best point for us, as that is an
actual addition to the vote. The people,
the soldiers, the glorious battle-scarred vet
Grams who followed Grant and Sherman to
victory, are coming out and casting their
votes for themselves, for the country, for
you, and for posterity. [Applanse.]
/ thank them for tive all thank them
for it; but the best requital We can make
win be, as I have M doubt we shall, on the
Sd day of November, to go to the ballot
box and cast our vote for Grant and Colfax
bv not less than $4,000 majority. That
will settle the question for US and our chill
dren, and for tue rebels and their children,
world without end. Applause. a voice,
"Grant is elected now, we are waiting for
the Srtl day of November" Cheers.]
My friends, I shall not detain you long,
1 desired in the first place to call your atten-
ton to the condition of North Carolina, and
in the second place, to the bright prospects
all around lis. 1 want my fcllow-citizens
here assembled, and especially my colored
felow-citizens, to carry with them the decla-
ration have just made, as your Governor,
aided as shall be by all true Republicans
in the State, by the Congress, by the Su-
preme Court, and If necessary by Andrew
johnson, because he cannot do otherwise,
Applause, | that under all circumstances the
existing State government will be maintain
ed. Why, gentlemen, all over the State the
benefits ct this new government are already
being felt in restored confidence, in renewed
and stronger protection to the weak against
the proud and the wicked. s
That is the true object of all governments
to protect the weak against the strong,-to
prevent the powerful and the wicked from
trampling on the weak, and that is the glo-
ry of the Republican party in this country.
It is the party of the poor man, because the
poor man needs more sympathy and more
protection than the rich man does, and this
is the party that gives him that protection.
We arc prospecting. Good crops are pour
ing in. The Good Lord himself is looking
down benifcently upon us. We will have
next Year no suffering for bread. The peo-
pie everywhere will have enough to eat, and
suppose they do turn you out because yon
vote against them, it is only about eight
weeks. Applause.] Only eight weeks
Recollect, that for more than four long years
the forces OF the national government toiled
and struggled and labored, and 100000
died on fields of battle and in hospitals to
secure your liberty. Recollect those sacri-
fees made by the treemen of the Northern
States, and portion of the freemen of the
Southern States, who crossing the lines. as
my friend Gen. Bryan and Others did, [Ap-
plause.1 barred their bosoms in defence of
their country.
If at this time throughout the entire
country the best people, North and South,
are incurring reproach, and obloquy and de-
nunciation because as white men they will
stand up for your rights as well as their
OWL say if they do that, the best, the
bravest, the most virtuous, and the most ac-
complished gentlemen and ladies in the
whole land; if they endure all these things
on your account, cannot you also endure it
for eight short weeks Applause Then,
my friends, want you all to go to the polls
and vote for the party of freedom. Any
colored man who does not vote for Grant
and Colfax is no man at all. [Applause.]
Do not hurt him. Let him stand as monu-
ment of folly in the nineteenth century, and
as evidence of the fact that men are free in
North Carolina. Give equal protection and
justice under the law and by the law to all
the inhabitants of the State, white and black,
rich and poor, and this same protection to
all the people of the State, whether they be
rebels or whether they be Republicans.
Applause. "Good."] That is the true
doctrine. VI.
s.
Meanwhile, see to it, on your own &C.
count, and on account of those gallant dead
who sleep in graves all over this land, fallen
in defense of your rights and mine; by your
regard for unborn posterity, while we regard
the rights of rebels so long as they demean
themselves as they should see to it that in
no event does one rebel get single "bite"
at public Office. The past has shown and
the present shows that it is most danger
Gus thing to trust one of those men in pow
er. 'rt.r-t----- r.
Now, my friends, before close will say
one or two things, to you, which the rebels
never hear of. They never hear of the re-
turns of the elections from Maine and Yer
mont [Applause.] They cannot bear that,
it is too serious for them; and another thing
is they never see Frank Blair's letter, breath
ing treason. They never see it. never pub
lish it but at the election they will feel it.
[Applause.]
Allow me, my friends, to express my graf
ifcation, in the first place, at seeing SO many
of you here, and in the second place at OBJ
serving the excellent order which prevails,
the respect for law, and the respect even for
tile feelings of rebels, for you show even res
pect for them. That is all WELL The country
is free-we are all free. The best evidence of
our improved condition is that our people
meet everywhere, in daylight, at midnight
under all circumstances rebels and Republic
cans, and no man molests them. Even rebels
may plot against the nation, and nobody
says nay, except at the ballot-box; but they
are very careful to commit no overt act !;
very careful to avoid that, and, so long as
they avoid that, they are free from arrest and
punishment. Beyond that no one answers.
Now, my friends, we shall have to do a
great deal of speaking. A number of our
friends who are present will be heard from.
We shall have rousing procession and
speaking nearly all night. tell you this to
assure you that you will be we'll entertained
all day and nearly all night. When the
speaking is over at this stand and another
stand, the marshals will conduct the people
to fine barbecue
In conclusion, asking your pa don for
these broken and desutory remarks, do
myself the honor and you the pleasure of in
Producing to you on this occasion the Hon.
Joseph R. Hawley, of the State of Connecti-
cut. Governor Hawley is present by invita-
ton. He was here in 1855, under some
what different capacity, in capacity in
which all true men were glad to meet him,
at the head of his command, and flashing in
his hand his true, good sword, fighting in