Year: 1868

Republicans Alone Must Rule.


The displacement recently of certain
rebel officers in order that all the affairs
of the government may be administered
by loyal men, seems greatly to disturb
our conservative friends. They can see
nothing ahead but gloom and despair. What
they seem most to fear is, that this course on
the part of the Republican party may prove
detrimental to the interest and success of
our party in the future. They are very anx-
ious it seems for the Republican party to re,
tain its strength. "Allow us to continue in
Office" say they, "and thus strengthen your
you have not asked it, but we volunteer it
most freely-just let US advise you and all
will be we'll" One might suppose from the
course of certain of theirgreat men, that they
were most deeply interested in, and alive to
the interest of the Republican party in the
State.


To see those who were known to have
been always not only in harmony with GIa-
ham and Vance, but abject slaves even to
the opinions ofthat class of men who have
had but one religion, and that was aristo
cracy-wlio have had but one creed, and
that was, that all true greatness and worth
consisted in birth or fortune-whose house
hold deities are the oligarchs of North Caro-
lina-to see these adherents to false princi-
piles and exploded ideas, now lobbying and
tton-holing Republican members, and
kindly offering their own peculiar views and
counsel, and still attempting to control af-
fairs, is more than ridiculous. They mani
fest great concern for the welfare OF that
State whose misfortune has been that its af-
fairs were in their hands, and for those
charitable, literary and other institutions
which they have crippled or destroyed.


Will any prominent member of the Re
publican party even stop to parley with
them? The people of NorthCarolina by
majority of twenty thousand, which would
have been thirty thousand, have said Repub-
licans alone must hold office in the State.
Shall the voice of the loyal people be disre-
garled9 Will the State be benefited or
the party strengthened, or our loyal people
served by needing the advice of Conserva-
tives?


We speak for one hundred thousand loyal
men in North Carolina when we saw let loyal
Republicans alone be heard and alone con-
troll affairs from the highest to the lowest.
The people have placed the State in our
hands. They say take it and administer the
laws. We should obey their mand ate.
Should we fail, then let Others try. But if
we must accept the counsel of our oppo-
nents, or retain their services, we but ac-
knowledge our weakness, and admit the
charge they so boastingly have made, that
we have not the intelligence or ability to
sustain ourselves without their aid That
those who have not only failed to give us
peace, but by mismanagement and treason,
have nearly wrecked our last hopes-that
these, in defiance of the express will OF our
loyal people, should still be allowed to take
part IN public affairs, would be only equal
led in absurdity and injustice by retaining
men to manage and control an institution of
learning or charity which they have shown
themselves utterly incompetent to manage,
or which they have stained with treason.


There has been no instance in the history
of political parties in this country, in which
the course pursued by the Conservative party
in the late campaign, and the scenes enacted,
have had a parallel. Catching the spirit of
one of their leaders, that it should be less
toerable for Republican than for those
cities of the plain upon which the vengeance
of the Almighty was visited, they spared in
their prescription and bitterness neither age
nor sex. To he the wife or child OF seal
lawag," was to be under the ban. And now
these men have the impudence to step for
ward and condescend to compromise and
counsel. "You have no competent men for
this place, continue u.s." To which we reply,
better have. the most ignorant even of our
loyal people, than the most accomplished
traitor But we are driven to NO such
straits. We have competent men for every
position, OF good heads as well as true
hearts