The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-20
APPEAL, To SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS.

Southern States into the Union, with Con-
situations framed in the spirit of justice and
equality, makes with Arkansas, whose Sen
ators and Representatives now waiting
to take their seats in the Congress of the
United States, seven of the original sece-
ding States that have been restored under
the acts of reconstruction. Virginia, Mis-
sissippi, and Texas will soon follow, and
thus all that voted for President III 1851 VIII
vote for President in 1868.
No eight years in the nations history
have been so full of interest to the human
race as those which began with Lincolns
and will end with Johnson's Administra-
ton.
They have seen nation attacked by
slavery in arms not only crushing its inturi-
ated foe, but emerging from the conflict en-
tirely free, and securing the blessings OF
perfect liberty to four millions of its people
who were supposed before the war to be
doomed to servitude as hopeless to them
selves as it was fatal to every other class and
condition of society.
We are now in the midst of new strug.
gle, upon the issue of which depends the
question whether the fruits of this conflict
are to be gathered in peace or suspended
and lost by the continuance of the distur-
Dances and divisions born of Andrew John
sons unexampled trcachcry.
Upon you, Republicans of the ten origi-
nal revolving States many grave and i'm
perative duties have been devolved by the
exciting condition of public affairs.
You will soon he placed in the complete
command of all these governments. Elect
ing your Senators and Representatives in
Congress, you will also have control of the
local offices and with these you should
take care that neither divisions nor intlitfer-
ence among yourselves, nor the intrigues and
seductions of your willy and desperate adj
versares, prevent you from casting the cleo
toral votes of your respective States for the
Republican candidates for President and
Vice President in November next.
You have besides these advantages, the
experience of the late elections Tor delegates
to your several conventions, tor Congress,
and the State Legislature, and for the rati-
fcatiOn of the constitutions in the seven re-
stored common wealths. This experience
will enable you to extend and to perfect
your organization by Il new canvass of the
voting population, by the dissemination of
documents and newspapers, and by the dis
tribution of your active workingmen in the
several districts and counties.
Although the progress of reconstruction
has alarmed your enemies, it has not des-
troyed their hopes of defeating you in the
Presidential election. Their next effort will
be to demoraize the colored citizens; and
here they will employ not only the familiar
weapons of prescription and fraud, but the
more dangerous influences OF persuasion and
money. And if the rebel Democracy can
secure the nomination of Salmon P. Chase
as their candidate for President, they will
labor with more skill and assiduity for the
ballots ofthe freedmen. His own surrender
to them will be followed by their hollow
surrender to has doctrine OF universal suf-
frage, but you can easily decide how to trust
those who have never known how to treat
you as human beings, even when they are
led by one whom you have trusted.
The only candidates that deserve the ar
dent support of the Southern Republicans,
including delegates carefully selected by the
latter; and they stand upon a platform
strong in itself and clinched by deeds of un-
exampled heroism on the field and unsurpass-
ed craftsmanship in the halls of Congress
The candidates to be chosen at New York
on the 4th of July will be choice of the del
egates of that false Democracy which has
always been in sympathy with the rebellion
and slavery, including the recent slave-lorels
of the South and the leaders in the rebel
lion itself
Republicans of the South, if the rebels
were the Southern wing of the Democratic
party during the war, and the Northern
Democrats the Northern wing of the rebel
army, you were the forlorn hope of the
Union during all that trying period and
now that the Government saves itself by
saving you, millions of hearts pray for your
frmness in the coming struggle.
Fidelity to yourselves is fidelity to the
whole nation, and devotion to the Republi-
can party is the surest and straightest road
to your own enduring prosperity Wash.
Chron