Year: 1867

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the government in their efforts toward recon-
struction. Well, every cause has its effect.
Such course defeated the Presidents poll
cy-rejected the Howard Amendment, and
it will shiver the Sherman bill into thou
sand atoms. Then what2 Why then. the
dav of wrath soiU come. Mark what we say.


Republican speakers are requested to say
to the colored people, that there will be no
confscation. Well, they do so. What is the
effect2 The colored people are discouraged
and the rebels encouraged. Opposition to
the Republican party rears its ugly front in
all quarters. Now, we submit, this is not an
agreeable fact It speaks volumes against
the policy of saying one word against con-
fscation, and in favor of the policy of per-
hitting the rebels to work out their own
salvation in that matter. But if confisca-
ton comes we are free to say that no one can
lay 1t at our door. If it does come, the evil
deeds of rebels and malcontents will be the
sole cause. And further, though it should
sweep the very Southern earth clean as
church floor, we say stand by the govern
ment of the United States with ballot and
bullet in that hour, as all of US ought to have
done in the past.


Now, the Sentinel denounces what it calls
Brownlowism in North Carolina. There is
one thing that will encirclc the brow of Gov.
Brownlow, of Tennessee, for all ages, like a
wreath of glory, and it is this, that under his
auspices the State of Tennessee was restored
to the Union and the colored people colanta-
rily enfranchised Give US two Gov. Brown
lows we say, if it is necessary to restoration.
'Down with the traitor and up with the stars ''


While there is chance for agreement,
while the colored people of this State are
ready and oilIing to listen, while there is a
disposition towards harmony, We say to
those who are peculiarly interested do not
waste precious time in stirring up opposi-
ton. The flame once kindled will burn to
dry ashes We sound the bugle note of
warning loud and long. that all may hear.


We are now, as We have always been, in
favor of making an honest effort at recon-
struction from sense of duty to our
family, our country and our God. We
have sworn to obey the Constitution
and laws of the United States. Therefore,
it is not our purpose to attempt to defeat the
operation of any law or laws, but to carry
them all out in good faith as loyal citizen.
Such is the spirit that pervades the Repub-
lican party of this State. But if the lave
are to be twisted into weapons for the per
secution of Republicans white and colored,
and if the present system of reconstruction
is to be made machine for skinHing and
quartering loyal men, by the success of trait
ors of high or low degree, we shall again
join in appeal to Congress to strike them
down .torerer from the high places OF power
which they have so oftea usurped and now
seek, and further pray that the whole fabric
of their continued elevation may be leyelled
in the dust.


Now let us unite, while We can upon the
Republican platform of March 2Sth, or if we
cannot, let those who dissent remain silent.
This is the only salvation for some persons.
Ask them if it is BOT SO? They know it,
and De know it, Outside that party, thus
organized, and that platform of principles
almost universally accepted at the North by
Republicans, there is no other guarantee for
reconstruction now presented to the people OF
this State. Put your finger upon a single man
IN that Convention who has pledged himself
to that platform of principles, and say, if
you can, that he is not willing and anxious
to carry out those principles and thus per-
feet the reconstruction of this State after the
manner prescribed by Congress- Who are
those gentlemen Though despised and re-
viled at home by majority of the whites.
they are dear to the hearts of every loyal
man North and South, and are the only per
sons among us, who have any influence or
consideration with the great and leading
minds of the nation. What folly then to
oppose them-unless further and harsher
measures are desirable Are harsher measures
desirable2 IT, you think so, do all you can
to increase opposition to the Convention and
platform of principles of March last, and
you will find yourself upon the right track.
Are we not correct Where then is the Sen
tinel leading its devoted followers Do they
now enjoy its twaddle and approve of its folly
as they did of yorea Verify stripes are for
fools backs.