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NOETH CAROLINA. 



IfOETHBEOOZ, FEANCIS T. B. 



posed to the reelection of Governor "Worth as- cepting the issue of the late conflict of arms, and in 



sembled at Ealeigh on September 20th, under submittmg^o the authority of the Government^of the 

 the designation of " the Union Mass Meeting," 

 and nominated Alfred Dockery for Governor. 



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ine following, among other resolutions, were eral Government; and they also declaie that all 



United States, they did so in entire candor and good 

 faith, which have been made manifest in the charac- 

 ter and conduct of our people in relation to the Fed- 



adopted : 



imputations or doubts as to the loyalty and good 



Besohed, That, in order to secure the reestab- f^ of the people of North Carolina are alike uujust 

 Hshment of the State in the Federal Union; the *. the ? e P le of the State > and 1D J unou s to their true 

 speedy restoration of all rights, privileges, and im- 

 munities of her loyal citizens, and the final adjust- 

 ment of the governmental relations of her whole 

 people in harmony with the National Government, 

 the amendment proposed by the present Congress, 

 as article 14th, to the Constitution of the United 



interests. 



Resolved, That it is the most ardent wish of the 

 people of North Carolina to be restored to all 

 their constitutional rights and relations under the 

 Federal Government, and that no honorable exer- 

 tions shall be wanting on their part, or that of their 



States, as a condition precedent to these ends, should co , ns f tu ted authorities to accomplish that great end, 

 be accepted and ratified by the General Assembly of whl ? h the ^ be j ieve to *? identified with the perma- 

 North Carolina peace and prosperity of our whole country. 



Resolved, That, having full confidence in the justice Resolved That it is also the ardent wish of the 

 and magnanimity of Congress that, upon the ratifica- P eo .P le of ?, or . t ? 1 Carolina to be restored, not only to 

 tion of said proposed amendment, the disability to their , constitutional relations to the Federal Govern- 



uu .1- i.- -i:_-'ui_ a.. -rc._ -i ii * ! ment, but to relations of peace and concord with all 



the people of the United States, that the differences 

 of the past may be buried in oblivion, and that the 



hold, or to be eligible to office imposed therein, will 

 be, in every proper case, removed, without discrimi- 

 nation as to any class or party of our fellow-citizens 



on account of their antecedents, and tbatlhe State of goo , d and patriotic of all sections of our country may 



a in f h . unite in the restoration of our noble and excellent 



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North Carolina will be forthwith readmitted 

 Union, we would respectfully urge upon our whole 

 people to consider, and demand that the same be 

 ratified by their representatives in the next General 

 Assembly. 



On the next day General Dockery declined 

 to be a candidate. He, however, expressed his 

 approval of the 'resolutions and address of the 

 meeting, and also said : 



I greatly prefer the Howard amendment, with its 

 reference of negro suffrage to our own Legislature, 

 than to risk the next Congress, which, in all proba- 

 bility, will pass- a much more stringent law upon 

 that subject. 



I also vastly prefer the restrictions upon office- 

 holders, about which the secession organs clamor so 

 much, to more general proscription, with the con- 

 fiscation of our lands, of which there is great danger, 

 should the proposed amendment be rejected. 



Governor "Worth was renominated without 

 other opposition. At the election Governor 

 Worth received 32,067 votes, and General 

 Dockery 9,858 ; Worth's majority, 22,209. A 

 Legislature was chosen at the same election. 

 This body assembled at Ealeigh on November 

 20th. The Governor addressed them with a 

 message in which he declared that law and or- 

 der existed throughout the State ; that the civil 

 authorities were able to impose punishment on 



form of government, as the lasting pledge of peace 

 and union in the future, as it has been in the past. 



A convention of colored delegates from vari- 

 ous parts of the State assembled at Raleigh on 

 October 1st to consider measures for the mental 

 and political elevation of their race. The Gov- 

 ernor, among others, was invited to address 

 them, and spoke as follows : 



In the first place, let me assure you, that I am dis- 

 posed to do every thing I can, as a citizen, and as 

 Governor, to protect you in all your rights, and to 

 encourage you to be industrious, to educate your 

 children, and to make yourselves respectable and 

 happy; and while you may expect my protection, 

 while you do right, I shall be equally ready to have 

 those punished who do wrong. 



You are very poor. Your first care should be, by 

 industry and economy, to provide good supplies of 

 meat and bread, and devote all you can spare to edu- 

 cate your children ; and remember that it is the com- 

 mon interest of both races that no enmity be allowed 

 to grow up between them. As far as I know, the 

 general feeling of your late masters is kind towards 

 you. The whites feel that they owe you a debt of 

 gratitude for your quiet and orderly conduct during 

 the war, and you should endeavor so to act as to 

 keep up this kindly feeling between the two races. 



Let me advise you not to meddle in governmental 

 affairs. You know how few of your race are now 

 capable of understanding matters of this sort, and 



all offenders; that the courts were in opera- you see the strifes and troubles in which party poli- 



tion as efficiently as before the war, and that cs have . involved the whites. Avoid politics. 



justice was administered to all classes. He ex- S u tice . 1 . ndustl 7' tu . e > . and cultlvate the , kind 



pressed his opposition to negro suffrage and the 



amendment of the Federal Constitution, and 



recommended that aid be given to the freed- 



inen to emigrate to any of the Northern States 



they might choose. The following resolutions 



were, at an early day of the session, introduced 



to the Legislature and passed unanimously : 



Be it resolved oy the Senate and House of Commons 

 of the General Assembly of North Carolina, That we, 

 the representatives of the people of North Carolina, 

 feel it to be an imperative duty to those we repre- 

 sent, under existing circumstances, when grave and 

 important questions are pending in reference to the 

 restoration of the State to the Federal Union, to vin- 

 iicate the loyalty and good faith of the people of 



which now exists between the races, and you 

 will thus acquire competence and elevate your con- 

 dition. 



NORTHBROOK, Et. Hon. FRANCIS T. BAB- 

 ING, first Lord, an English statesman and scholar, 

 born at Stratton Park, near Winchester, April 

 20, 1796; died there September 6^1866. He 

 was a descendant of the great family of Bar- 

 ings, was educated at Winchester and Christ 

 Church, Oxford, where he graduated with high 

 honors in 1821 ; studied law, and was called to 

 the bar at Lincoln's Inn, in 1823. In 1826 he 

 was elected for the borough of Portsmouth, in 

 the Whig interest, representing it for forty 



North Carolina, and to solemnly delare, that, on ac- years continuously in the House o/ Commons, 



