Year: 1867

dure them in preference to remaining in
political slavery. We are willing that our
employers should vote as they please, but
we demand the same privilege for ourselves.
Will they accord it9 81


We desire to congratulate the white Re-
publicans ofthis State upon the prospect be-
fore US. Success seems certain. We can
cast "a, 900 Republican votes, and if you can, =
as is said, cast between 10000 and 10000
more, our majority will be overwhelming.
So complete, indeed, will be our victory that
our opponents will become elisheartened un-
less they can divide us. This is the great
danger which we are to guard against The
mest effectual method of preserving our unity
will be for us always to act together-never
to hold separate political meetings or eau
cuses 1t may take some time for us to get
to pulling together well. but perseverance,
and honest endeavors will overcome all OBJ
stacles. In nominations for Office we expect
that there will be no discrimination on &C. :
count of color by either wing, but that the
most capable and honest men will always be
put in nomination. We understand full we'll
that our people are too deficient in education
to be generally qualified to fiji the higher
Offices but when qualified men are found
they ust not be rejected for being black.


This lack of education, which is the con-
sequence of our long servitude, and which 90
diminishes our powers for good, should not
be allowed to characterize our children when
they come upon the stage of action, and we
therefore earnestly call upon every member
OF the Republican party to demand the
establishment of a thorough system of COM
mon schools throughout the State. II viii
benefit every citizen of the State and indeed
of the Union, for the well-being Of eaefa
enures to the advantage of ALL In repub-
lie education is especially necessary, as the
ignorant are always liable to be led astray
by the arts of the demagogue.


With education secured to all; with the
old and helpless properly cared for; with
justice everywhere impartially administered,
Alabama will commence career of which
she will have just cause to be proud. We
shall all be prosperous and happy The sad
memories ofthe past win be forgotten amid
the joys OF the present and the prospects of
the future And now, with our eyes fixed
upon the starry emblem of our national great
ness, and our hearts lifted in gratitude to
God, we submit our cause to the good peo-
pie of Alabama, and commend it to the favor
Of the Most High.


If every man in North Carolina, who Is entitled
to vote, will register his name and vote No Con-
yentiOn the plans of the enemies of our people
can be defeated and it is the only way in which
the lands, the honor, aye, the very existence Of
the South can be preserved. sn


We are still willing, as we have ever been since
this question was first mO0ted to grant the negro
the same right OF suffrage which we wish to see
the white man restricted to-a suffrage with
property and educational qalifcation annexed.
This and nothing more.-Weldon STATE.


The above is from a paper that speaks for
the rebels and large land-holders Of Halifax
and the surrounding Counties. 1t is idle to
say this paper does not speak for the gentle
men referred to, for it is sustained by their
patronage and countenance, and no meetings
have been held by them to condemn its
course. -ssi n


The State wants no Convention. Very
well. If that paper and those for whom it
speaks can do without Convention, we are
sure the loyal people can. five are TO have
no Convention, then we are to have no re-
construction under the Sherman act. The
consequence will be the passage, in Decenl-
Der naxt, of Mr.. Stevens confscation bill,
and the enforcement of it, whether there
should be resistance to it or not. If the
Roanoke land-holders can stand confscation,
we are sure the loyal people of the State can.
Confscation Will not touch the estates Of the
unmistakably loyal.


The State wants to restrict the white mans
suffrage, and is willing to give, the colored
man the same. We have known for some
time that there was such disposition among
many of the planters Of the East. Such .
restriction is neither desirable nor possible.
Every man will vote. Every man who may
be chosen by majority Of bis fellow-citi-
zens, will hold Office. Every man who may
be summoned by the Sheriff will sit in the
Jury box Merit, and not property, will be
the test hereafter. Behold, old things haYe
passed away all things have become new y
The State must not "get mad" with %
and call us names, because we have told il
| the truth.


In conclusion, we will whisper another
thing in the ear of the State The l0yal pe0-
| ple Of North Carolina, in Convention assem-
| bled, will be quite as apt TO take such steps
| as will prevent such as the Editor of the


State from voting at all, as the latter will be
to restrict suffrage to . property OF educa-
tional qualification. ~ ...s@s
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