Year: 1869

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For the Standard.


MR.. EDITOR We are happy to report


success to the Republican party in Pitt


county. We held Republican convention


here on last Saturday, Sept. A, 1869, which


unanimously endorsed W. A. Cherry as their
candidate


The meeting was called to order by DR..
q. E. Mcdonald. On motion of DR.. G.. E.
Mcdonald, B. L. T. Barnhill was called to
the chair, and presided as chairman of the
meeting. On motion of F. G. James, DR..
Mcdonald and II. S. Brackens were duly
elected secretaries of the meeting.


The nomination was then made by accli-
nation, after which the chosen one came up
and thanked the audience for the fayors and
honors conferred on him.


The audience was then very ably and sat-
isfactorily addressed by c. G. Stilley, one of
our genuine, patriotic Republicans, followed
by Henry Wilkes, staunch Republican who
will always be felt when he speaks. Next
scame DR.. G. E. Mcdonald, who made some
few moderate and kind remarks, and was
followed by Calvin Cox, who breaches that
harmony is the strength and support of all
societies, more especially of ours. He was
followed by Samuel Humphreys who is
gradually making his way among the ora
tors all favoring the United States, the ad-
ministration of General President Grant,


w. W. Holden, and the Republicans forever.


All signs, tokens, and words of split of
the Republicans of Pitt county have been
summed up into whole, never again to be
mentioned. We say nothing of East, West,
North or South. We are known and recog-
nlzed as fellow-citizens, and as such we ex-
tend our hands, and in return desire the
hand of friendship. And if any of us
should differ about minor things, or certain
things done by some one in office, let Us not
say that is the government, and hate the
government on account of it. So far as we
are individually concerned, we have stood
by the government all the while, though
others did not; yet, Notwithstanding that,
they are far more willing to vote for man
who speaks kindly to his fellow-citizens,
than one who is harsh because they have
not all been like he was We rejoice that
the time has come when men are satisfied
with the condition of the country, equal
rights, impartial suffrage, and impartial
justice


Impartial justice calls on US to reward
men OF merit, whether they have borne the
burden and heat of the day or not, but those
who have borne the burden and heat of the
day are entitled to premium on their merit,
if they actually possess it. And have no
doubt but some of them possess merits to
US unknown. Come up and show it, and
you shall not go unrewarded. We desire to
reward every man according to his merit,
but remember this, that where few can reach
the purposed aim, thousands daily are un-
done. 1t may be that some get more reward
than is due them, while others never get the
reward of merit. We hold to the principle
If we fail in the letter. And now NAV the
blessings of Heaven rest upon us and all
correct statesmen may brotherly love pre-
vail, and every moral and social virtue ce-
ment us. And may we acknowledge that
the United States Governmen is yet power
and we mean to stand by it.


The administration OF the government is
apower, and, through the management of
the Republican party, has been far more
lenient and benevolent to the South than
any other power on earth has ever been to
her conquered subjects. Knowing this to
be fact why should any individual citizen
complain of the "despotism of the admins
tration9" 1t is folly now for any man to
try to make great fuss against President
Grant or the administration of the govern
ment. Such railer disgraces himself for
nothing


When men oppose the power of the gov
crnment, they oppose their own interests and
when they oppose the Republican party they
oppose their own interest. 1t is made up of
enterprising and laboring men, and with
out regard to politics in the least, we direct
our attention to the Republican party with
an eye to national justice and self-interest
in building up the South There will be
great profit to somebody in building up the
South, and who now Is wise enough to see
where the channel will run.


Whenever this great and glorious sunny
South is built up it will be labor and enter
prise of the Republican party that will do
it. Now, you men who want labor, why
not come to the Republican party and get
it in kind and friendly manner, instead of
trying to starve it cut of laborers against
their wills.


You Democrats may think that your land
and money Will force the laborer to come to
your terms, and so it may, but force pro-
duces dissatisfaction and hard feeling be-
tween the parties which will amount
to fuss and separation, and then you say
the negro is no account and will not work.
On the other hand, if their political senti-
ments were the same they would have a kind
feeling towards each other, and work with
much better spirit and profit


We know there has been, and now is a
hard strain between land and labor, and that
is the very wound here in this country. we
desire to heal by building up the Republi-
can party in the South The success of the
Republican party would start up regular
system of free labor, and then men could
have labor regularly according to their seve-
raj abilities


We want system of labor here. The
colored man wants a system of labor and
the power to control labor to carry out his
contracts


Fl You Democrats who have taken so much
pains to abuse the negro and his labor will
see the day when you will be of different
opinion. Suppose you were to see them all
go to your neighbor and not work with YOU
at all, how would you like that? If the
strain between land and labor is not RENE
died many strange things will happen be-
fore we can build up this great and glorious
Sunny South. Laborers hereafter must be
trained to work without slavery or despot-
ism. 1t can be done by rewarding mer-
it, and Furnishing crime; and that is
what we propose to do. We think this the
best course to pursue here as we will be call
ed on at the great day to settle up by that
kind of record.


Men are more generally actuated by their
feelings than by their better Judgment. And
from the condition of this country, what can
we imagine the feelings of the people to be.
We see from the private murders and pub
\ by arrests made about in the different places
That some peoples feelings are bad. And
we are sorry to see it; but the only remedy
is to quietly submit to the powers that be.
If one man, or twenty, be mad with man,
1t is far better for them to forgive that man
than to murder him.


And ifyou cannot forgive him, have no
communication with him but let him alone.


We will now view the cause of these
feelings in national point of view, and see
if the folly of those individuals did not
spoil their own temper. We know of no
nation on earth, from the creation Of the
world to the present time, where one race of
people were held as chattel property by an
other. and then taken away, made free, and
admitted to the rights and privileges Of all
other citizens as they have been in this coun-
try. And while that produces a spirit of
rejoicing to the nation, it creates different
feeling In some of nnr anti ;atrat;on