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

to go 10 the nearest JUSTICE anu nave puhlSii-
ment inflicted for this personal wrong. This
must he so all over thcsland 1t is the only
way for the safety of a free community.
Have it sacred obligation and a point of
honor with all men to submit these contro-
versies to the laws. Then you will have
coming into this glorious State a tide of
emigration from the North and Europe
which will fill it with honest laboring men.
Capitalists will take pride: in sending mil
lions.of money here to develop your State
But while it is uncertain that small debt
can be collected, while it's uncertain that u
mans life can be protected, capital will not
come here, men will not come here. They
will 90 where they are safe. at Lawrence,
Massachusetts,, where the manufactures
stretch seven stories high, there is not little
boy who cannot have a suit brought against
great factory and compel them to pay eve
ny cent they owe him. (Applause). And
the obligation is just as strong upon every
poor man and every poor boy. gii4ti4
Ono other point essential to a just recon-
struction. Important as constitutional
amendments are, important as the laws of
Congress arc, important as the election of
your governors, legislatures and judges is,
there is one thing without which all this
will not enable you to maintain true, free
country, and that thingis unicersal education.
[Applausel Let it be considered apoliti-
cal duty, moral and religious duty to open
the spelling book to every child in the State
as soon as possible. Let everybody learn to
read and wlite, and soon you will be better
able to decide upon these questions. Here
are 5000 voters in your great State. You
are a great power. sworn to give justice.
You are now called upon to decide between
two great parties, one led by Grant and Col
fax, and the other by Seymour and Blair.
How could we have free or safe country if
our people who are to decide this question at
the polls have not read or thought about it 2
indispensable basis of free government
is universal education of the people.
We are told when We have got so far to-
wards peace, law and order, that all this is
to be upset. The Democratic party has met
in national convention in New York, and
the man who has been placed in nomination
for ce.President declared the day before
in a letter that all these reconstruction acts
are unconstitutional, revolutionary and void,
and must he overthrown. He said the tax
question, the greenback question and all
these questions are of no account. These
governments must be all overthrown. He
says he will not wait for Congress, because
he can get nothing out Of that Congress.
| He will not wait for the Supreme Court but
against the will Of that court, without the
consent of Congress, they viii drive out
these governments, disfranchise all these col.
ored men, restore the government to the
white men the land, and we know what
he means by that. The Democratic candi.
date for Vice-President declares that he
shall take this course. Frank Blair was
nominated because he said that. He OBJ
tanned the declaration in the Democratic
platform, that "tbe reconstruction acts are
usurpations, unconstitutional, revolutionary
and void" All that has been done since
the surrender of Johnson in this State, all
that has been done to rebuild those States is
nothing Why will not he wait for Con-
gress? Because the Senate of the U. S. is
Union Republican, and will remain
so for at least four years. Applause.
We have enough in it now to make
it Republican for the next three or four
years, and if Seymour and Blair are elected,
they cannots soon get bad laws through. If
they believe all this is unconstitutional, rev.
dictionary and void, why not trust to the
Snh t5e fsn GSnTt CAS-, The SHprsms G9q5t said
ported in 18th Howard, that it is the legiti-
| mate duty of Congress to decide what gov
crnment is established in a State, for it must
| decide what government is in State before
! it can decide whether it is republican or not.
| Its decision is bindin upon every other de-
| partment of the Government, and could not
| be questioned in civil tribunal The Su-
l. Lac, T., ~,
| there is a QUESTION about u State government
the Supreme Court never will go behind
the decision of Congress. Congress has ac-
| cepted the governments of seven Of these
| States, and the Supreme Court never will go
behind that. Frank Blair then, knowing
that he can have no aid from Congress or
from the Supreme Court, declares that they
must compel the army to overthrow these
| governments. .e'tq
I say solemnly before God, that any such
course as that pursued by Biair and the De-
mocracy would only be the signal for renewed
war. 1t could not be avoided I beg
thoughtful men, who are not hot-brained and
crazy, who know what blood is, and who
dread civil war as great evil, I appeal to
them to avert this terrible calamity. Great
God have not had enough of war and
| bloodshed 2 But war or no war, bloodshed
or no bloodshed, there is one thing settled,
that the spirit that sustained slavery and re-
bellion will not be suffered to control this
nation. .[Applause.l We want peace, and
as Grant says, "Let us have peace" and with
Grant we will have peace. [Applause.] =
Now, my friends of the Democratic party,
you have been deceived once BY the North.
ern Democracy Do not he deceived
again, then. In 1860 and 81 Northern
Democrats talked to Southern Democrats as
if they would sustain them in rebellion, in
secession. Franklin Pierce, of New Hamp-
shire, all ex-Presldent of the Democracy,
wrote to Jefferson Davis that if there should
be secession, the fighting would not he
along Mason and Dixon's line, if there should
be an attempt to repress the secession; but
it would be along our streets in the North.
That is what a Northern President told Mr.
Davis. Other Democrats at the North said
there was no right to coerce State Mr..
Buchanan said he could not find that right
in the Constitution. Jeremiah Black, the
legal constitutional adviser of the President,
said he had examined the Constitution, aud
he could find no such right. The effect Of
this was to give the impression that nobody
was bound by the Constitution This en-
Outraged the secessionists, who were led to
believe there could not be any force brought
against them. Oh how they were deceived
by these promises Ia
Sumter was fred upon, Two millions Of
men came from the Northern States and
from these States too-never nobler men ev
er went to war than those men from YOU
State who came up to fight by our side
;, Large numbers of the Northern army wert
Democrats. When the flag called for.volun
teers, they left their party and came out