The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-07-15

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Gently been elevated from slavery to e re.
participation in the rights of citizensS; iull
fonder stands one of them, holdino tha
OF his country and mine, as if lie nv n nag
chcerfully die in its defence. trust "Uud
are here to day so poor in patriotism none
ne incapable OF any emotion. If any su's
there be who finds no joy in this pros uuea
he is no friend of mine or of his countrr
For M part, after spending every effort -
accomplish the separation Of this coun,r0
l am satisfied with the result. The SIGHT >,
the old flag, thank God, no longer fiiIs M
with any hostile emotion. The promiSss
made to us are fulfilled. Our LegisIatnro
has reassembled. Our delegates are aoa;s
in their seats at Washington. The mlitara
control will soon he withdrawn over c;vS
affairs, and there is to be and there is. if wa
choose it, general and honest reconciliat;on.
Flag OF the free hearts hope and home
By angel hands to valor given.
| Thy staHs have lit the welkin dome
And all thy hues were born in Heaven
And why should we not have peace9 Wouls
to God this Gay that by any words of mne
| l could Irvine in common wreath of glorv
and of flowers the emblems of the Confaj
eracy and the Union, and east them togetbe,
on the graves of our half million eountrv.
men who have fallen in the late unhapnv
but useful conflict rr'
Mr.. G. here asked permission to ston ..
he thought he had said enough to indicate
his sentiments but the crowd INSISTING bs
laughingly alluded TO his want of prepara'
| ton, and told several anecdotes which ada
ed to the hiliarty Of the crowd.
Nearly one hundred years age it was 49,
Al L., r1Tu ~
were created equal. Mr.. j. meant of course
not naturally equal, for that is absurd, but
politically, and in the sight of the law. Il
was left to the men of this day to make that
declaration practical. Mr.. Jefferson sllrank
from offering his scheme of emancipation
Public opinion he said was not yet ripe for
it. We of this day have set the slave free
and have put in his hands the means of de.
Tending and maintaining his freedom.
hundred years ago the Lords and Dukes
smiled with contempt and incredulity upon
the experiment of popular institutions
| They were white men. and talking to white
men, and of white men whom they claimed
the right to rule by articles of conveyance
and deeds of gift from the most high. They
said that no government could stand, when
the common people might outvote the pr
vileged classes and persons of 'noble" blood
The people (white people, were incapable Of
self government, and could not get ALONE
without master. No man here TO-DAY
thank God, calls any man master now. Bnt
the croakers still live and they say that con-
fusion and ruin must result from the aslms
sion OF negro suffrage. believe we haze
tolerably well worked them out OF the 6m
delusion and with the blessing ard. interpn
sition of that Supreme Being invoked in our
new Constitution we Will work them out
of the present Nor is it here only that the
principles of Thomas Jefferson are going
steadily forward. The great State of New
York, the empire State of the North and the
Union, where negroes have always voted
under property qualification has first re-
moved all. distinction of this character be.
tween them and the other citizens. From
this time forth, throughout the length and
breadth of the continent fren the frozen
soil of Alaska where eternal winter lifts her
snowy peaks to other SHOWS alone, in the
clear cold sky of the Arctic, along the fur
rowed lines of the Allegheny and the Sierra
to the Capes of Florida covered with flowers
and redofent with the perfumes of the Tfop.
les, whose shores are washed by the hot cur
rents of the Gulf, the Declaration of Them
as Jefferson is at last to-day and forever the
acknowledged basis of government. All
| men arc created equal, that is to say entitled
to equal rights and equal laws. No man
shall labor for another except for pay, and
| every man shall be entitled to enjoy the
| fruits OF bis labor without disturbance OK.
cept by laws he has assisted to establish
The day will come here in North Carolina
when we will rejoiee that this universal law
first started here.
! The distinction of color is M the sight of
law no distinction. The races that i,habit
| this country now are not the same who for
merly inhabited and owned it. They were
what are called red men, now we have
black men and white men, red and yellow
and all the other shades combined under
our government, and claiming the pp,tec.
ton of our flag IRE men of all the Other
nationalities. No one class of them are en-.
titled to special privileges on account of the
color of his skin. than for the color of his
hair or whiskers. The distinction of color
| is not apt to be obliteratcd The races will
| continue separate; and each race has pc.
| culiar and appropriate sphere in which it
may attain its highest, peculiar and apprO-
| pirate Development. We viii all have to
| live together, and we had better find out
what work we can each best do for the good
| of the whole, and do that work and fill that
sphere, high or low, to the best of our ab.
ity.
SPEECH OF COL. HARGRAvE.
| Col. 81. said he had also been. invited, and
| had come down to spend the Fourth of July
with his cnlorcd friends. He had been born
| and raised among them. Knew good
many. One Of them just before him bad
served in the Federal army and another had
been with him under the Red Cross Of the
Confederacy. All that was over and gone
We are now citizens, fellow citizens, he would
say il he had any right to. vote himself, Of
the United States. Let those who wanted
to Rght any more do so. For bis part the
| fighting was done. If another war came
these same croakers though, would "catch
the rheumatic" as usual. The colored men
are now free, and he would not reduce them
to slavery again if he had the power
Col. II. complimented in terms of GeserV:.
ed eulogy the appearance and demeanor Of
the colered school children and the appear.
ance and good order of the men. He stated
that he had recently been travelling in the
country. The colored people of Granville
were working hard. The crops were better
than they had been since 1885. Everything
looked bright and promising. The colorea
people must not forget that they owed their
frceelens to the Union. They must defend
the flag of the United States with their latest
breath. Their first duty was to God and
to their country and their next to themselves
and their children. They should educate
and elevate themselves. The conduct oil
all to-day showed they were capable Of such