The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-30
THE PRESENT DUTY.
'orth Carolina Standard.

From the North Carolina Standard.
The long and heated Presidential campaign
terminated in victory for the Republican party,
and Grant is now President of the United States.
The duty of Republicans is, however, far from
finished. Grants election is but the beginning
of the end By his triumph the country was
prevented from falling under the control of the
traitors who had before used their utmost en-
deavors to disrupt the Government. 1t now
remains to repair the evil they have worked,
and to use our best endeavors to restore to our
country that prosperity which she lost by
the Rebellion. To do this we must keep our
organization full of life and our ranks firm
and mistaken. Without unity of action
nothing can be accomplshed-with it, every
thing. The Republicans of the South have much
to do. They have to perfect their organization
and increase its strength. They have to ad-
vance the interests of Republicanism by dis
semInating its publications and expounding its
principles TO the people, that thousands who
now oppose it from ignorance of its true prin-
cipes may be brought to favor it. They have
to encourage every industry that promises to
benefit the State. They have to replace the evil
wrought by years of Democratic and Rebel rule
with good. All this and much more the Repub-
llcans OF the South have to do. The hour for
victory is not the time for rest. 1t is the hour
for arduous and continued exertion, that the foe
may be prevented from recovering, and that the
victory may be rendered lasting.
There is one thing that Republicans must look
to, one evil which must be rooted out--kebel
otfce-holders. Throughout North Carolina men
openly hostile to the Government and to the
dominant party are in places of honor and trust
This is manifestly wrong. No traitor should be
allowed to represent the Government in any DO
siton, no matter how small LAY be its impor-
tance. There are loyal mcn enough to fiji all
the Offices and they alone shoul& have them
No man can do good work with bASt tools neither
can a political party accomplish great and good
results when represented ny men who are un-
friendly to 1t. The Republican party is in power
and should be represented by none but Republi-
cans, for to bat its friends can it trust the
administration of its affairs.
Wherever a man is found in Office who is not
true to the Government, let him be turned ont
and his place filled by Il loyal man. Wherever II
man is found, elected to office by Republican
votes, who is unfaithful to his party, use every
himself unworthy of the confidence of the
people If any State or county officer gives aid
and comfort to traitors, by retaining them IN
office or in places of trust to the exclusion OF
loyal men, mark him, and let him feel the anger
of the people whose trust he has betrayed In
this manner the influence and power for evil OF
the Copperheads will be destroyed, and the arm
of the Government be strong to protect the good
and to punish the bad.
This is the present duty of Republicans, and
upon its faithful performance depends future
success. Earnest and constant work should
never STOP but those who are true to the Gov
ernment true to the great and glorious princi-
pies of Republicanism, should use their influence
to extend their power As the true aims of the
Republican party become more generally known,
preJudlces are giving way and thousands who
before condemned it, are now arrayng them
selves under its banner The present is bright,
but the future is glorious, and North Carolina
will he far greater in the future than she has
been in the past.