Year: 1868

The Republican State nominating Con
vention has assembled. transacted the busl-
ness before it, and adjourned No public
body ever had more responsible duties to
perform. No public body has ever display
ed more frmness and wisdom in its dellb-
erations.


Every county from the seaboard to the
mountains, was represented. There was no
wranging between East and West; no con-
troversies between the claims of men on ac-
count of their nativity. The utmost harmo-
nv prevailed and the unanmity exhibited in
the selection of candidates is beyond all pre-
cedent


This action on the part of the Convention
was to have been expected. The times are
serious. The duties of the hour admit ofno
compromise or delay. Timid men and half
way measures are crowded aside. In the
great struggle for the restoration of the
State and the vindication of the majesty of
the nation, every man who enlists under
the Republican flag must pledge his life. his
fortune and his sacred honor to the cause


The President of the United States has been
impeached. Missouri pledges fifty thousand
soldiers to support the action of the Con-
gress should their services he required. The
dispatches of the Grand Army of the Re
public from Ohio and Illinois say it is ready
at moments notice. To these echoes, five
hundred thousand more veterans as braue
as ever shouldered musket or drew sabre,
are ready for the march With Grant at
the head, victory would not be doubtful


The Republicans of North Carolina desire
to secure the blessing of peace for the nation.
They have seen enough of war AMI blood
shed. They desire to accept the plan of re-
construction proposed by Congress, and to
return to the Union without further delay


They have no sympathy with Andrew
johnson. They hold responsible as traitors
and incendiaries the men amongst US who
would begin another war and again shed the
blood and impress the property of our PED
pie.


The enemies of reconstruction and Repub-
licanism are desperate. Every prop has
been knocked frcm under them. The Su-
preme Court has failed them, and to-day,
their last hope, Andrew Johnson, is held to
trial for his crimes.


Nothing remains for these men but the
hope and prospect of another par. This
they are determined to force upon the United
States and the people of North Carolina, if
this he possible. They expect to succeed in
this Ivy enrolling the names of white men, to
assist them mall attempts to deprive the
black man of rights which have heen ac-
corded to him by the people of the United
States


The Convention understood the situation.
They knew that the future peace of the
State depended in a great degree upon their
action. They performed their duties we'll
The candidates whom they have put in nom
ination are unswerving men. As to the
judges, it is not to be expected that they
will take very active part. The State ticket
is composed of men who will not fater in the
hour of peril. They will uphold the flag of
equal rights for all men at every hazard.


They will stand by it through the smoke
and confusion of battle. Together with the
noble army of Republicans who shall be
nominated in the different counties, they
will march forward, keeping even step to
the music Of the Union until that flag shall
float in triumph. and peace, plenty and
prosperity be once more restored to our suit
fering people. t....