The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-04-13
Come to the Convention

We come forward to remind our Repub-
lican friends that great State Convention
of the party will he held in Raleigh on
Wednesday, the eleventh day of May. We
trust there will be full attendance, not
only of leading men but of the masses of
the party. The call by the State Committee
is sufficiently comprehensive to include all
citizens who subscribe in good faith
to the reconstruction acts, and who are de-
termined to stand by the national govern
men. There is no necessity, as there is no
disposition entertained by Republicans, to
revive the dead issues of the past. LET
the dead bury its dead" Let us take a
new start in the great work of building up
and improving North Carolina We believe
this can be best done by the National
Republican party, and we therefore invite
all good citizens, all the firm supporters of
the government, all the friends of law and
order and of peace and good will to man,
to unite with u.s.
The Republicans must and will carry the
State. The interests at stake are too great
to permit any other result. If the result
were at all doubtful, the calamitous conse-
| quences which would b certain to few
from defeat would nerve every Republican,
every friend of rightand Justice, every ad.
vocate of law and order, to such extraordi.
nary exertions as would ensure victory fol-
the Republicans. The issue is PEACE OF
WAR! If the Republicans are continued
in power, the work of reconstruction begun
in 1868 will be completed; disorders and
violence will be depressed; the rights of all
the people, the humblest and poorest as
well as the richest and most exalted,
will be protected and maintained; schools
will be established; the State credit will be
restored; our works of internal improve
ment will continue to 60 forward and We
shall have PEACE and prosperity in all
our borders. But if our opponents of the
Turner faction should obtain power, the re
construction acts will be practically multi
fed; education by the State will be denied
to the children of the people; power will b
concentrated in the hands of the few at thu
expense Of the many; the State credit will
be utterly destroyed; all moderate men ant
all Republicans will be prescribed, insultet
and oppressed; the Ku Klux, from their de
mon dens, with their masks, their walls o
blood, and their'negro skulls, will dominat
throughout the State, and the colored mai
and the white Republican will feel the whip
the rope and the knife, until forbea-ance will
government will step in with the strong
hand, and the Ku Klux, drunk with BLOOD
and emboldened by power, will resist, ant
we shall have WAR! That will be the emf
if our opponents, by whatever name called
should carry the State in August next w
appeal to all Republicans-to all moderate
men-to all who want peace, good orde
and prosperity in North-C Carolina, to unit
in earnest efforts to avert SO dreadful a re
suit. Let us have no more strife or war
'Let us have peace"
We have every confidence that the Re
publicans will carry the State. They hac
greater odds to contend against in 1868 thai
now. Then they had to contend with al
the patronage and power of the Stat.
government, and with the administratio,
Of President johnson; but now they hav,
the State government with the powerful
railroad corporations; they have the ad
ministration at Washinton, with its grea
and increasing pepulafis aud it's esrcnsg
and influence pervading every County; ant
they have also the argument that recon
struction viii be q failure, and liberty itsel
will be lost, if their opponents should sue
coed in obtaining power. With such inau
ences, such advantages, and such argument
our success is certain. iatdio' TlH
Let every Republican who can do so b
certain to attend the May Convention. Com
up, friends, and let us have glorious time
Such reunions are eminently beneficial. LIE
the regious ofthe Albemarlc, and Pamlico an,
Neuse, and Cape Fear, and Tar, and Pedee
and Roanoke, and Dan, and Haw, and Yad
kin, and Catawba, and French Broad, ant
Watauga-let every portion of the State
from the blue waters of the ocean to til
blue mountains of the West, and beyond
send up their hundreds to mingle in couu
Gil. to renew vows of attachment and fidel
ity to our glorious principles, and to prepar
for the struggle and the victory that are bt
fore us. OUR COUNTRY CALLsi Let us an
swer, and be ready to serve and save tn
country. The cause of PEACE invokes Vi
Let us answer, and swear that PEACE sha
abide with us, and that War shall b
put far from us. North Carolina calls upo
US to save her from those who would plung
her again into civil strife. Let us answe
by holding her where she is, under mil
and just Republican rule, as her only hop
for peace and good will and continued pro,
, perity to all her people.