The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-07-08
q the souare mile il is obvious that great


and prosperous future is before her, If her
people should prove true to themselves.
What we need is capital and mind, to bring
out these resources-to render them conve-
nient, and useful and available for wealth
and power We need skilled labor. We
need educated, thinking. investigating, en-
terprising mind, on our farms, in our work
shops and manufactures. in our mines, on
our railroads, ar the head of our schools and
presses, aud indeed in every industrial ell
terprise or pursuit.
Fellow citizens, let us come out OF the
caverns Of. the past, and forgetting whatever
is not worthy to be remembered, let US re-
solve to do our duty in our day and time, as
North Carolinians, as Americans. In eli
mate and with soil for which Providence
has done SO much, let us resolve to do some
thing for ourselves and our children. Let
us devote ourselves to the arts of peace
Let US improve this great inheritance. Let
our children and our children's children,
when they shall come to take our places, say
of us, "Our ancestors remembered and did
what was wise, and what was good for u.s.
Behold, the beautiful country they have lett
to us!-the just and equal laws that are
over u.s. and the hope that their work has
made strong in US that we can do even more
for our children than they have done for u.s."
Let us at least unite upon the one great Oh
ject of improving and building up the State.
Let us welcome capital and immigration,
furnishing as they will the indispensable
means to our progress and prosperity. Pre-
judices growing out of nativity, or out
of the rebellion, are not worthy to be cher
ished. Let US discard such prejudices.-
We are once more Americans all. Let us
receive with courtesy and kindness every
citizen OF the Northern or Eastern States
who may cast his lot among us, and measure
him as we nteasuI Others, according to his
personal and lmorap Worth. We cannot hope
to improve our condition if we repel capital
and immigration, either by SO acting as to
produce the belief that it is not safe to
settle among us on account Of the want of
law and order, or unpleasant, because of
rude or uncivil treatment to the immigrant.
1t should be remembered that our ancestors
were, originally, as much adventures as
Others. OF the three signers of the Decla-
ration of Independence for this State neither
was native. Richard Caswell, one of our
greatest Governors, and sometimes called
the WASHINGTON of North Carolina, was
not native; nor was Joseph Caldwell, who
built up our University and led the way
with Murphey, Yancey, Stanly, Saunders
and Others in internal Improvements and
public instruction.
We want the best people from Europe, and
from all parts of the United States, to settle
among US. 1t is men that make State
Let them come, with their enterprise and
money, their muscle and intelligence and
when they get here let the only rivalry be as
to who shall do most for the good and the
glory of our beloved State.
The government of the United States, in
the prosecution OF the war to suppress the
rebellion, and in the measures it has adopt
ed to reconstruct the Union, has exhibited
extraordinary clemency and magnanimity.
1t has taken no vengeance for the past, but
has required only security for the future. It
has deprived no man of his property save
for war purposes during the progress of the
war; 1t has exiied no man it has punish
ed no man for the crime of rebellion. 1t has
simply required that those who have been
in rebellion should renew their allegiance,
and that such guards should be placed in
the organic law OF the States and the nation
as to prevent future rebellion. Instead of
defining or restricting suffrage permanently,
it has left it with the respective States, to he
determined and settled as they may choose
and this State, following in full measure
the example of the national government,
has made suffrage free to all.
But the war to suppress the rebellion has,
in its results, necessarily changed as it has
settled the theory of construction previous
| II h-,l Ls---t-,e->pk-tion OF the people
Our liberties have been consolidated, and
the Union can, in nd event, be dissolved. 1t
is to endure always. 1t must increase, but
never decrease. For all great national pur-
poses the government of the United States
is over the States, and paramount to the
States, and the allegiance of the citizen is
first due to it. There is no appeal from the
will of the nation, expressed by majority.
Armed resistance to the national authority,
whether by individuals of their own accord,
or by individuals acting under supposed
State authority or command, is treason, and
must be 50 held and treated. The doctrine OF
States rights, as held by Mr.. Calhoun and
his followers, has ceased to have validity or
vitality; and the teachings and doctrines
of WASHINGTON, Hamilton, Webster, Jack
son, Clay and Lincoln now constitute the
true, and the only safe theory of construc.
ton. This has been settled, under PrOyi
dence, by the result of solemn appeal to
arms among brethren and he who would
unsettle this theory, thereby rendering it
possible that secession should ever again be
attempted, is no friend to his species, to his
State, or to the general government of his
country. The government of the United
States is no longer feeble luminary, receiv.
ing and dispensing light to surrounding
planets; but it is full sun, burning with supe-
rior splendor, pervading and holding up to
itself the entire system, and kindling new
p,anets into life anil motion. How benef
cent, how glorious. how far-reacl,ing will
be the light it will dispense when it reach
es its meridian, we shall not live to see, but
the generations to come after US will walk
in that light, and be contented, prosperous
and happy. In the fullness of their graft
tude they will thank God, as we do, that the
government of the United States, delivered
from the pcrils of rebellion, and reconstruct
ed on the basis of the equal rights of all, is
as indestructible as the earth itself, and as
secure in its position and in the exercise oil
all its great powers, as
"The Northern star,
Of whose true, fixed and resting quality,
There is no fellow in the armament"
Ihave thus, fellsw.citizens, stated briefly
and plainly the great principles contained
in our State Constitution, and have frank
ly announced the policy which will charac
terize my administration. Cherishing Meth
er malice nor resentment for any thing thai
has occurred in the past, l shall endeavol
to do my duty. shall keep constantly in
view the welfare of North Carolina. love