The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-08-09
North Carolina.


,r,,o ,,r,oward event which mas !'s' ",,
u IN North Carolina r. 10 DC 'oi"v n,,o
p'"Iu s.,onds of true republicanism. Nv
y! system founded by our atces,0'
"s ~ ~ cbecks and balances. eXhlpi.eu
..,,;.o,jsm in the most rchneu 'nu 80
puo n',a1 ssnect it has ever presented Ia i''s-
.;,,ns And the history OF the recent
w. '," ;, indicates one of the most ia'a,
,'ans over struck Mt that system. Neca'ie''
.,an,;on 70 this yesterday. The ATTORNEY
81 ~ =, Eve Federal Government, in advance OF
.',a, e,ec,ion, threatened the people o.
Snr,,, Carolina with the Federal authority
,ould thew determine to hold conven'
,iou; and the most distinguished OF haa''
%, newspapers in the Union lndu'geo W,
FIRE the election the earnest expression 81
its tears that the North Carolh''nS ~
determine I'm favor OF coh'en''o tho
TING bring about conflict between Wv
c,ete and Federal authority. we cp'N ~ ".
terized these threats and apprehe"s'',r ho
they deserved to be character'zeu'
nore expression Of such opinions, 1ih
aud annrehensions shows how we are VI Nv
;rs away from the principles OF our i;''nei -
and how local authority and loerls nav
loo, ignored and Frustrated Nv p""'l.
Vet !, wou,d he wrong to take tof ''n'
cd tina, there has been AFFECT suDi'''sa. 'a ~,
the y,ll of power and the ''o.. aa,Io
rorcc even in North Carolina. no i"op ~,
I.,,,ra consider their liberties ehtuey
.,,ur until they have eXhausIeu '''' ''''
,ucans in their power to save lhciii al" w
,,riuo back their Government TO tne oaSis
81 is original foundation. The people OF
vortb Carolina have been cornercd, as II
c.cre in their recent election, by TWO
..,u,r. First. q doubt amongst some o'
their number as TO the proprlety OIL aS'a-
ting the proposition to amend their organ,
,,,v q. this time. Second, the fear inspired
in the hearts Of many by the cunhihS
threat of AEERMAN, the unscrupuious anu
unnrinciped tool OF Federal authority, luat
Il The North Carolinians decided to nold
convention to amend their CONSTITUTION
The Federal Government would ihVer'er'
10 prevent their doing so.
ksto the first cause it may be sa'G thA'
III, doubt as to the proprieiy of the propo
SKI 10 call Il convention at this time was one
that. might reasonably have been enter
tniued. But it cannot he question VIII
men of proper spirit whether the threat /"
AyEEaAN should have driven any mar
from his purpose to sustain the proposi'lol
for a convention. Certainly no man shoui'
have becu influenced by the impudence
the Federal Acknowledgements. AS we sac
Yesterday, we have no idea thai liz
threat. would have been put 1h''
execution bad the North Car" IiIila'$
determined in favor of convention; h''
The fear evidently inspired hy that lin e''
will he taken as triumph OF ns''flE'I'"h'
and will be made the stepping-stone 10 l'''-
illcr ASSUMPTIONS and unwarrantahlc iilei-
terence of the Federal authority III TIE '"'ai
alllirs of the States. in vIolatioh o. IN" N'"-
eljtuti0n and 10 the destruction OF the c""-
srryarivc principles Incorporated Ihto our
system of government by our toreiathers
for the protection of the citizen and OF
Ioca, communities from the expressions oil
arbitrary power.
Yet We SAY lei rs Still stand UP for the
ri.h,, and still hope that m error such IS
that lust committed by the North Caro-
linians Is not only uot irrcpara1le. but that
II may he speedily corrected. and It's effects,
if not entirely avoided, at least rendered
harmless.
We all understand the situation in which
the southern people have been placed, ana
the strategies Of the party in power to take
advantage of that situation, and c!lher COM
pei them To support il. or by threat and
outrage TO silence their voice. We all know
HAT IN this way apprehension has seized
uron the minds Of many people and put
them in Il state Of great timidity. 4lliS is
exactly the effect Intended to be produced.
Yet let lis not suppose for moment that
the great body OF those who are thus ill.,
dressed will rally to the side uf oppression
and nelorously surrender every principle
at true rcpubltcan>m 10 the usurpCr. They
may stay II home to-day--thcy may divide
and pat with their friends on some qltcS-
ion rs to the time for action Tomorrow
hut they will not 90 over Ia The opposite
side Tor all that. When the question ~ TO
the men who shall fill HE offices OF the Gov
ernment comes up, they will be found in
favor Of the men of integrity aud capacity,
and opposed 10 ignorance ami raScality.
Let no one. therefore, rycr.eStimstc the
misfortune in North Carolina, bad AS it is
III The light of principle and Legitimate Re
publicanism. North Carolina Will vet vim
dicalc the integrity aCd good sense of her
people. We mean the white men OF the
State, the exclusive poSscsSors of the ca
paclty for government, rs well as the
responsible owners of the property, and
those upon whom muSI fall the horrors
md ruin of misgorclnmcnt--tho triumph
OF barbari>m and corruption over mteli-
grn'r and honesty. In time they will
amend their Constitution, and they will
save their land from the worst OF fates-tEe
rule Of ignorance aud vice.
-
We have had much to say Of late about
Mr.. GREELEY because we thought in him
were embodied the good and the evil
sp!riis Of Republicanism. lie is for am
nr>ty, and he is for persecution of the
South under lying preteNts and unconsti-