The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-05-18
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~ 4th district, Charles Sears, W r Richard
son, VIM Cawthorn. -s9lg
9th district, SA Douglas, s g Horney, 7
Cox. i ia M 81 lai .eif', .ti
j 9th district, VIM Beatty, W H Howerton,
w 81 Laurance. M lre1
i 7th district, w Pearson, A Fl Dowell,
E R Hampton, lu efa s.i
And all the Republican members of the
press of the State who are present.
! For Doorkeepers-James II. Page and Jas.
Il. Jones.
By request the names of Messrs. G. 2.
French, James Bowman and o. s. Hayes
were stricken from the report. aH &
The delegates then proceeded to vote for
the adoption of the above report by coun-
ties; and the report was adopted by vote
of yeas II, nays 10.
| On motion Of Senator Abbott, the report
was then unanimously adopted. IS
On taking the chair
MIR. POOL ADDRESSED THE CONVENTION
in substance, as follows:
GENTLEMEN: l have not spoken before
to-day because did not want to consumc
fyaluable time, and shaft uos soW defain
you long.
Let me urge upon you the paramount
necessity of adopting the pledge Of unity.
care not for the complexion of man. I
care not for his race All ask is sis he
4 good Republican" If he is, my interests
and his are identical, and we all have COM
mon cause to maintain and defend. How
can men, situated as we are, even for mo-
ment think of differing on minor political
points which might tend to serious dis
ruption? We have much to do-a great
work yet to perform and what we have to
do involves not merely our personal inte-
ests, but the interest and the welfare of the
whole country. For the good of our country
for the happiness of the people of the State
let US agree upon some great general princi-
| Pile, and calmly lay aside or spurn all bick.
erings and prejudlces detrimental thereto.
Let me ask you, what is our object2 1t
is to uphold against violence, treason, war
and ruin the glorious flag of our country.
It is wonderful to contemplate what the
Republican party has accomplished during
the short time of its progress. The grand
| reforms it has made astound the whole
civilized world. The Republican party
saved the Union, secured American liberty,
and struck the calling shackles of slavery
| from the arms of four millions of men. The
Republican party brought to practical
sense the great principles of the Declaration
of Independence. No just man can gainsay
the rights of what the Republican party has
done. 1t accomplished all that our Revolu-
| tionary fathers failed toattain, notwithstand-
ing their unprecedented valor and patriotism.
During the war, millions OF debt were incurr-
ed, yet at this day the credit of the United
States is good anywhere in the world, and is
/ 4 -,
acknowledge the Republican party as the
wise t, the most energetic, and the most gen
erously just that ever existed in America.
We have to contend with party whose
will is violence and whose desires are law
less; yet firmly believe that the rights of
all men, high and low, aresafely guaranteed,
if we but prove true to our trust. There is an
element that will submerge US if we are not
vigilant. The coming contest will be bitter.
We have never seen such fighting as we will
have to do if we want to secure victory. In
the contest we will need courage, moral and
| physical; and / believe we have it. Who
do see here2 see men whose courage
has been tried-whose firm patriotism can
not be doubtsd-men who have been sorely
scourged in many ways-men who have
faced death ITSELF But, be courageous, and
your enemits will recede, and they will bite
the dust before you next August
They have bit it bef;sre. Let our motto be
THE Republican party, the nag OF
our country, the Union, law and liberty" Il
thank you for the honor you have conferred
upon me-"
On motion of Mr. j. C. L. Harris, the Presi-
dent OF the Convention was then authorized
to appoint a Committee of 10, two from
| ...I, opI rpo from,
the State at large, to draft and report upon
resolutions.
Hon. W. A. Moore, of Chowan. offered
the following resolution. to be read and
, handed to the Committee on Resolutions
| when appointed:
"WHEREAs, The reputation OF the public
| debt in the State is unwise and impelitic
preventing the completion of our various
Railroads, the erection of our Penitentiary
: the enlargement of our Asylums, for thu
/. Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, and the In
? sane, and utterly destroying the school and
e University funds, which should be nelt
: sacred and invioable for the education u
all the children of the State, and above al
:. fixes the stain of dishnnor upon the State
to the latest generation, therefore,
Be it resolued, That the next General As
4 sembly should provide for the educationa
: and University funds which have been was
ted in the bonds OF the State, and for sue
a settlement of the claims of the honest bon
fde bondholders as may be just to the cred
| itors and honorable to the State"
y Hon. Tod r. Caldwell offered the follow
( ing resolution, to be handed to the CON
! mittee, viz;
o "Rssozced By the Representatives of Mort
% Carolina in Convention assembled, that tn
Congress of the United States be most earl
estly requested to so alter and modify th
n. laws now in existence in regard to the di
tillation of fruit into brandy as that ii
d small distilers of the country, who are a
e. most exclusively men of very small mean
70 may convert the products of their orchard
IN and vines into brandy, upon such terms
g. will not be onerous or oppressive, and 1
e. will enable them to supply themselves wit
m some of the necessaries and comforts of lit
20 as their fathers have always heretofore don
il and which they will he unable to procure
ID they are not relieved from the heavy tax
DC now placed upon small distillers."
IS, In connection with this resolution M
ty Caldwell read the following memoirs
drawn up by himself and signed by the ci
izens of Burke county, viz: Ir
To the Honorable, the Congress of the Unit
States: ;c.salg
Id The undersigned, citizens of the County
s. | Burke, State of North Carolina, respectful
be show to your honorable body that they q
ey natives OF the State of North Carolina al
Sc re most of them very poor men, having
e. make their living by the work of their ov
ut hands and the sweat of their own brow
lg that but few of them owned any slaves
I'd fore the rebellion that their property CO
m sisted of few acres of land, lying in t
m mountainous region of North Carolina, We
remote from market, and small quaint
of personal property consisting of horse
two. a few cattle and such other necessa
articles as poor people generally possess.
]y, They further show that they, and tn
ms fathers before them have always been in t
t." habit of distilling portion of the frl
m raised in their little orchards into brant
pit for the purpose of getting money enough
VS., buy their necessary groceries, such as sug
too coffee salt, leather, &C., &c. That thelarg
not distillers amongst them never made mt
aid than from one hundred to one hundred a
= fifty gallons of brandy per year, and Il
ley much the larger number of them did I
- make more than from twenty to thirty 6
ate Ions: that their still-houses are nearly
to rude log huts made OF unhewn timber q
For their stills old and nearly worn out a
be of very small capacity, generally averagi
from fifty to eighty gallons.
the They further show that they are loyal
OF the government of the United States o