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THE WILMINGTON POST.
JOSEPH C. ABBOTT, EDITOR.
WILMINGTON, N. G.
Sunday Morning. Aug. 8. 1880.
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NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
TICKET.
.. KOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES A. GARFIELD
QF OHIO.
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FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, .,
CHESTER A. ARTHUR
' OF NEW YORK.
REPUBLICAN ELECTROAL
-. TICKET.
Fiir Electors of President and Vice-
' President,
OLIVER II. DOCKERY
Of the Sixth Congressional District,
GEORGE B. EVERITT
Of the Seventh Congressional District.
WILLIAM S. O'B. ROBINSON
Of the Second Congressional District.
SAMUEL V. WATTs. k
, Of the Thirdj. Congressional District.
TAZEWELL L. HARGROVE
Of the Fourth Congressional 'District.
. G. W. PATTERSON
Of Mm Sixth Congressional ' District.
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WILLIAM R TRULL
nff lin F.ifrTith Concrrcssional District.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR, 1
RALPH P. BUXTON
OF CUMBERLAND.
. FOR LIEUT. GOVERNOR,
RUFUS BARRINGER
OF MECKLENBURG. '
For Secretary of State,
iUCIIARD M. NORMENT
Of Robeson. -
For Treasurer,-'
; AARON D. JENKINS
'-"-j Of Gaston.
' . For Auditor,
' KILEY II. CANNON
Of Jackson.
For Attorney-General,
AUGUSTUS M.MOORE
Of Chowan.
For Supeiinteudent of Public Iustruc
tion,.. ''I
ARCHIE R. BLACK
: Of New Hanover.
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL
TICKET.
Fur'Cougrcss Second District,
ORLANDO HUBBS
Of Craven.
For- Congress Third District, '
, WILLIAM P.' CANADAY
Of New llauover.- .
For Congress Fourth District.
. MOSES A. BLEDSOE
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Of Wake. ,
I'or Congress Sixth District,
WILLIAM R. MYERS
v Of Mecklenburg.
REPUBLICAN JUDICIAL
TICKET.
be voted throughout tho State.
; For Judge Fifth District,, j
JAMES 11. IIEADEN
Of Chatham.
A
gentleman of the north, who has
;ilwiys beerj, and now is a Democrat,
has been travelling latterly over the
northtind northwest, and bus had great
opportunity of forming opinions as to
the political situation. He " says that
- the Hancock boom has completely
'Hatted out," in the north. States like
Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio are no
longer doubtful, but are certain to go
Overwhelmingly for Garfield. If o gives
it as his opinion, that Indiana, on ac
count of the nomination of Mr. Eng
lish, who has not the first element of
popularity over the state, and who is
odious to most Democrats, will go over
whelmingly Republican in October. In
fact, he believes that nearly ever not th-
' crn state will go like a whirlwind for
Garfield and b rthur. - 1
s,: The saintly character claimed : for the
leading-Demccrats of North Carolina
back in the era of 1S70 and therabout,
ia fast disappearing. It was then claim
ed that the leaders were a sort of super
natural existencies, incapable of wrong
; or improprieties. As soon as these
men I)egan to assume positions.and deal
with earthly subjects like other human
beings, an impression got abroad that
they were afflicted with the ordinary
human infirmities. There is nothing I
ot the former f acredness ... remaining
about the Capitol at Raleigh; either
amopg the state officials or the mem
bers of the Geaeral Assembly.or in the
Congressional districts, as when Frank
AHfriend elevated Col. AVaddell into a
celestial atmosphere and bestowed upon
him wings. Even Armfield and Rob-
bins, the Castor and Pollux of North
Carolina politics, are treading upon the
earth and abusing each other, aftejthe
manner of men. It is rather pleasant, j
on the whole,tb 'see these ancient saints I
walking the earth like other people, j j
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The subject xl marine, railways, tol
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convey large vessel, over land for short
distances has been discussed lor many
years. Some little approach was nude
to it when the canal boats were hauled
over ; the mountains Of Pennsylvania,
from the waters of the Juniata into the
Monongahela. And a plan, complete
in all its parts, to build a ship canal
across the Isthmus of Darien has long
been in existence. This plan was to
fun as great vessels as flat on the
ocean, upon a car in a dry dock, and to
draw it across over ponderous tracks by
immense locomotives. Now, it is pro
posed to build tracks by the cascades
on the Williaioette, in Oregon, to. the
navigable watery above to facilitate the
transportation of grain from Eastern
Washington territory. The freight by
these cascades averages about 1000 tons
per day.
; m. .
The editorial of the South Atlantic for
July relates that when the General As
sembly got together to sell the Western
Railroad, in the confusion of lobbying
an act crept through repealiriga tax on
whiskey the revenue of which was de
voted to the support of common schools,
it seems that nobody objected to pass
ing an act benefitting the whiskey
dealers and injuring , common schools.
The editor also says that ho received
"theso facts from a prominent member
of the Board of School Commissioners
of Wilmington who felt the need of the
money thus suddenly taken from the
educational fund." We wait an expla
nation. " ' '
If ever any man was treated shabby
2tS2Effi
was a Lt.-General
in the Confederate
Army, and without a . spot upon either
his private ot military reputation.
When he announced that he "accepted
the situation" and acted with the Re
poblicans, ho was tabooed, scoffed at,
derided, snubed, and socially as
much ostracised as if lie had been a
leper. Theso facts dp not change tho
character nor fame of Gen. Longstrcet,
but it throws a little light on the eub
ject of southern bigotry.
The.iichest woman in America is
Afrs. fS. H. Green the wifo of the Presi
dent of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad. Shd is the daughter of an old
new Bedford whaler, who left her at his
death $8,000,000. This has increased
ed
,
ly
naturally to $27,000,000, and she ia on
at the acre of 43. Her husband is rich
too. and it is said that the joint income
of the couple is $3,500,000.
i OKIGINAfi FlllNCll'X'lfiH.'
The character of that organization
of men called a party, is as inevitably
mado up by the experience, the acts,
the measures and the career of the as
sociation, as is the character of an in
dividual by his own personal conduct
and character. The character of a po
litical party, therefore, ia as distinct
before tho public, as well known and
defined in consequence of its ac s as
that of the Individual person.
To this rule. 'or rather to these rules,
the so called Democratic party is not
an exception. Ilf we compare the
per-
sonelle aud history of the Defuoyratic
party, from the great canvass of 8G9,
when Abraham Lincoln aj)peared as
the concentration of certain well defined
ideas, as pgainst the different com jina
tions ve? shall find tho material and
the essence of these diflerent cou1ina
tions inside the present Democratic
party, i The present Democratic !party
is, therefore, the legitimate ofKpril)g of
the loins of the combinations which
opposed Lincoln in 18G1, as much as
the legitimate son is the oiDpring of
his parents. . The one has inherited tljie
figure, f features and character of the
other in all the qualities which co'ntri
bute to! an identity.
If, therefore, we descend to .the ar
ticulars cf history, w e will be more and
more convinced, by i mpar tial j udgment,
that the antagonism of the two parties
is essentially the same a.s'it wain lsGl,
when the rebellion y.j (iuitiigu rated.
Not onlyis the persouelie of the two
organizations essentially the same now
as then,' but the conclusion is justified
completely by a close reference to ac
tions. We shall find on close eiamina
tion of facts that the element which
separated from the country and engaged
in armed resistance to the governmeht,
had the sympathy of tho element which
lived in,the north and constituted what
was left of the Democratic party. If
we follow the tone of the public press,
the votes in both- Houses -of Congress,
and general occurrences, we will see
that ther two' elements acted substanti
ally together, as. they are acting now.
The opposition to war measures' in
Congress during the war, the criticisms
of military procedures, not only went
on together, but it went 50 far in 1864
when McLellan
was nominated
for
President that the Democratic coriven
tion which put him I forward declared
formally by carefully drawn resolutions
that the war was a failure, and looked
distinctly towards an abandonment of
i m
the contest of arms.
I Even in 1853 and 1854 when the re
peal of the Missouri Compromiye of
1820, establishing the line of 3G 30' aa
the northern limit of slavery, was pro
posed aod carried through Congress,
the Democrats north and south were
nearly solid ior these measures. In the
Kansas - Nebraska I measure?, and the
Presidential canvass of 1S5& -based on
those measures chiefly, the Democratic
l . .., ( v' ,u
tnrrv nrpro tn!ti1 'nr nonrlv an nnrtn
rou ; Jw throuih theelec-
tion of Abraham Lincoln, his assump
tion of authority,
and the struggle of
the war, both these wings of the party
were iu sympathy.- And when the war
was ended, and the Presidential elec
tion of 1868 came on, there was. a gen
eral hsnd-shaking between the two
northern and southern wings. And in
all the measures of adjustment, it will
be found by an examination of the re
cord3 of Congress, and by cotemporary
events among the people, that this same
element in every single case opposed'
eyery act of Congress and every consti
tutional amendment, seriatim, indefati-
gably and even malevolently.
And when the revulsion occurred in
the south by the use of fraud, violence
and atrocious murders, and the power
in nearly all the southern states passed
into the hands of the Democrats, and
the ex-Confederates appeared in Con
gress, making up a Democratic majority
in both Houses, there sprang into ex
istence not a new parly, put a resusci
tation of the old; party., "with air its'
imperfections on its head." This resur
rected combination, true to their long
and injurious history, proceeded to mu
tilate the statutes, made in pursuance
of the readjusthKnt, to undo the wise
measures of the revision of the organic
and statute law, luntil they were inter
rupted in part by the veto of .the Presi
dent. Even now; in their Becret cabals,
in those midnisrht conclaves of "devilish
enginery," there arc evil schemes being
concocted to put eleven more Justices
tipon the bench of the Supreme Court,
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giving them with others on that bench
a majority, so that they can nullify tho
amendments to the constitution, and
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reverse the whole results of the war.
It Hancock were to be elected, there
fore, and a majority of the House of
Representatives,! tho country would go
into the control of the very clement
which has done its best to destroy the
government in the first place, and to
embarrass all prosperity and overturn
public peace and order,
in the second
place. Wo are just where we
were in
18G1, 1861, 18G8, 1872 and 1676, oppos-
insr tho same mis Ch ievous schemes and
principles under the same bypocrysies
and deceptions. Do the people of the
South, the business men, the farmers
and planters desire to bring back the
wretched days of the Confederacy, with
iii.r- 1 i a
ilUh1crcorrupt,oandoppre8S;o8aDd
dire calamities and disasters? Garfield
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and Arthur will be elected by the north
jvithout the aid Jof the south. The
north has its eyes, open and does not
intend to permit any future, disaster,
such as has afflicted the nation. Let
-he people of the south wake up, and
oin in the glorious, column' for the pre
servation of the country. '-.:-
1IAWCOCK-JAKV1S.
It would be indecorous to Bay that
Jere Black wrote Gen. Hancock's letter
Of acceptance. There ought to be no
great disposition to look closely at ear
marks. But thero are some curiosities
Jin his unsophisticated production.
jSuchas: "The principles enunciated
by the convention (Cincinnati) fare
those I have cherished in the past and
phali endeavor to maintain in the fu
ture." And yet he says : "It is a vital
principle in our system that neither
fraud nor force must be allowed to Bub-
vert the rights of the people. It is only
by a full vote, free ballot, and fair
count, that the people can rule in fact
as required by the theory of our gov-
ernment.
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This
is
just what several
colored and white
thousand
voters believe in t
But it "a full vote,
cunt," were permi
he southern states.
free ballot and fair
ted, Gen. Hancock
would certainly lose at least six of these
southern
certainly
states. His doctrine would
displease Wade Hampton,
Ben Hillj Chalmers el id omne genus,
and perhaps Jarvis and that" disting
uished impartial returning bpard of
which he is the chief, composed of Col.
W. L, Saunders, Thos. S. Kenan, aud
other political saints.
Aud while we ari at thi point, let
Us urge Judge Buxton to interrogate
the fair minded Jarvis on this subject,
at some point; in f.heir mutual peregrinations-
It would be lair for Jarvis to
be at least as explicit on this subject as
lie was ou the special tax vote. There
is almost an unlimited fecundity iu this
present Democratic machinje fpryoiiug.
A Democratic legislature creates Dein
ocratic (mostly) magistrates,; magia
trates; create County Commis
sioners ; and the eaid Commisssoners
create the poll-holders. This" machine
commands the situation, if Jarvis '&
Co. please The stillness of mice reigns
around this subject in Democratic cir
cles. Let them be smoked out I
tm
The record pf Gen. Hancock is good;
tho record of the party which nominat
ed him is bad. V. S. Grant.
BRILLIANT GEMS !
: Ai the Democratic pow-wow i
York City, at k which the vene
mm v nt "No. 10 Gran.
Park" spoke, Gen. Kan; Tucker oil Vir
ginia, miminatea as ionows. .
I know the Renublicans don't lit
Yells and applause. One nun jrea
and thirty-eight solid yotes from l$bat
is called "the south" will be castffbr
Winfield Scott Hancock. New I?ork
will add 35 more. One hundred nd
seventy-three that will make vaere
willthe other 12 come from? AH agout
you New Jersey, Connecticut, Indhna.
And wheh Winfield Scott Hancoik is
elected by the Electoral College oHthe
country and the two houses of Congress,
being both Democratic, to count the
Tote, we Will Pt him in office.
of "We Will." "You bet." and "Yfis."l
Now youiwish to all know why thee is
a solid Democratic South?
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They inaugurated a policy that nlade
every man that had one drop of Anglo-
Saxon blood coursing in his veins l op
pose them , with all his might. You
know what old Virginia was. They
pay sometimes I brag about old Vir
ginia I do not, but I love her with
the devoHon of a child. And here he
thumped his breast bo vigorously that
the boys! in the gallery lauhied j aod
shouted "Bully for you." He went oo:
"Well,' what did the Kpublicans
do?" A voice- 'They stolo the Presi
dency.' I I Yes, they did, and it was not
the first thing they stole. They stole
our liDemes, wny, in ioou iney
brought a Uovernor to Aicnmoau, ana
put him in the seat of power as a regu-
put him in the seat ot power
lar Simon Tu re Governor."
The difference between Garfield and
Hancock was, that with the hand Han
cock wielded the sword against the
rebels in arms, he .helped them up
again after they were down. When
Garfield and the Republicans were
trampling them down in the dust,
'Hancock was protecting them in their
civil rights. Then he asked his hear
ers why they should not be solid in the
state of Virginia for the Democratic
party, when that party had been . their
friends.. ; . A ' ;
Such hodge-potch as this coming
from an ex-professor of a Virginia col
lege, is certainly sufficiently disgusting
without comment. It is a Utile strange
to bcc a man like Ran. Tucker indul
ging in this most approved style of
"plantation manners." j
"dirty shirt," not the "
The era of the
ty shirt," not the "bloody shirt,"
has arrived.'
Senator Jones of Florida followed
close after Tucker, shaking his "dirty
shirt" 'as follows: I
The reconstruction I policy of tho
north he pronounced tho most infamoip
and disgraceful system ever put upon a
brave and generous people. "Talk to
me about patience, about tolerance, and
about submission," he exclaimed. "In
the history of the world there cannot
be found an. instance where a people
ever submitted to half as much as the
people of the south." I
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He claimed that there was nothing
under the nlatform of the Republican
party but a malicious spirit Of misrep-
J resentation of the southern people,
Northern demagogues were seeking to
prejudice the; minds of the northern
people against the people of the . south
by telling them that they are still j re
bellious and waiting for an oppurtunity
w raise ineanaara oireDeiuon again.
This, he said, was as false as anything
thatf could y of theB,; ft
to raise the standard of rebellion again.
shocked him to hear it.
Then came an old fellow named
Barnes from Georgia. The reporter
touched him off as follows: "
MK Barnes was; very sleepy when he
faced his audience, and his eyes blinked
as he rolled them, around on tfie un
terrified Democracy which confronted
him. A glass, filled with liquid, which
may have been cold tea, was placed on
the table by?his side, and he began his
speech in a husky voice. He said: j "I
can only say amid this noisy crowd,
Peace, be still! It is the voice that
comes from Cincinnati. Peace, be still.
We are entering on a great and grand
cauvass. When I went back from Cin
cinnati to the Empire state of the south,
I round that there was enthusiasm once
more in Georgia for the Union." The
speaker here took a long draught of
the dark colored liquid, and wiped the
ing in the south to-day is one of undy-
ing devotion to tne union, i nna mat
feeling prevailing everywhere. - If you
go south, you will find no feeling at all
on the subject of disturbance,"
The crowd of New York roughs evi-
dently didn't lake, any liking to this
old Georgian,. sent on to teach them
politics an$ manners, so they iaised a
tumult. While lie was S3ying" sonie
thing about the "downtrodden Demo
crats of the south,,? the noise became
so great that he stopped short and
closed. We again copy the reporter;
Mr. Barnes after giving expressionj to
this noble sentiment, sat down, and
protested with violent gestured to the
gentleman who sat next him against
the noise which had disturbed"' him
during the delivery of his remarkable
speech. The Chairman of the meeting
breathed a sigh of relief, and the band
played "gbe'jB a Darling" and 'March
ing through Georgia,7 presumably as a
compliment to the , reconstructed 'Geor
gian., . . yi i..
As this venerable Mr. Bar oes saijk
out of sight thero were heard broken
ejaculations of "Lexington," "Bunker
Hill' "Bennington," Saratoga,"
"Trenton," "Germantown," ail mix
ed up with vociferous declarations that
the southern Democrats were allfor
the Un jon, and better Union men than
anvby jfl orth will bp ljkely
to "understand the situation,' ater
little more instruction of this kind.
r With the rebel element making every
or? toward national ascendancy it is
to be 1i oped the people of the north
will have their eyes opened to the
gravity of the situation, and next fall
put an emphatic stop to its further pro-gress.-Rochester
Democrat and Chroni
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raoie
it,
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A GRAND TXTRiraUT.
DISTINGUISHED! SPEAKERS.
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judge buxton co jlon jb i. j.
youko-dr. ii. m. mormeht-
honJ w. p canaday-h. k.
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SCOTT. ... . - . !
From Our Own Reporter. f i
On Monday afternoon persons pass
ing the old market observed a platform
in process of erection, and afterwards
large life-sized portraits of Garfield and
Arthur,: surmounted, by' a gorgeous
arch, wreathed
with the ' national flag. I
Later in the
eveninir
martial strains
were heard on the streets, and Judge
Buxton. Col. I. J. Young and Dr. R.
Mil Norment. had appeared on our
streets. These occurrences on one af
j ternoon were the premonitions of one
of the roost imposing political gather
ings which has ever been ween1 in our
city-. ' ' . . ' i
Long before S p. in., people began to
gather around the platform, and as
soon as 8:30, Market and Front streets
were packed, at the crossing, with per
sons cf both iolitical parlies, anxious
ly awaiting the first gun of the cam
paign for Craifield and Arthur, Buxton
and the rest Vf the state ticket, ancl
Canaday. 5.
II.. E. cottE?q., soon appeared on
lh i ,)lalform aiKi haii0d bv welcoming
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CUtfern, uailcll LUC (iv -u racm uiau i,v
order and proceeded', to introduce
Judge Buxton in a most feticitous
"send off" ,
pf Judge Buxton's appearance jbe
fore this great assemblage, of the pro
prleties ot his address and of its sub-
i' '
ject matter, too much cannot be said.
It was moderate and dignified m tone,
without so much as a touch 'of clap
trap or begging a question, and atyo
gelher .'such au address as was fitting to
be delivered by a citizen of his emi
nence i ii a popular, consultation of
that kiud. Tliere was a comprehen
siveness and' fairness iu his mode of
treating current questions, an absence
of anything to which auy one of the
opposite party could oTj.ectKwhich will,
Dursued during the canvass, render
i
Judge Buxton a favorite with the peo
ple, and win him the confidence and
good will of the better class of our peo
pie. . If the people of the state shall
elect him as their Chief Magistrate, as
we! confidently believe they will, North
Carolina will be honored by a Governor,
not iuferior to the most estimable of
all! in that long, and honorable galaxy
of .names by which she ia already dis
tinguished, ; j j
Col. Young, who followed Judge
Buxton, took the crowd iu his first sen
tence. Ho is ia model as a popular jor-
ator
While he revels in brilliant illut-
trations, in stories, in fun and pathos
I with a lavish reck esshess, there is ney-
erja violation of the smoothest rhetoric
nor any of those little improprities
which are often seen , amoptr popular
orator?. Aud he drives all the time td-
wards the objective point with merciless
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pertmacily J.aml bm,g,don thehouss.
biiurj aiir.L uuiu uiiuuuu n v iul, iiuu iti
ways closes with a rheurical "snap of
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the whip." ( We cannot begin to make.
an abstract of hh speech.
,We think that " Dr. Normeut, the
candidate for Secretary of Stale, made
his first appearance before 4 Wilmingr
ton "crowd.' Ee hit the inaik. His
angular pdsitiveness, his ferocious
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thrusts of bus sabre, his terrific scath
ing?, and hiti domineering audacity of
speech sho V him to be a natnral orator,
His voice w 11 be haa-d over the static
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ddring the canvass and will carry corj-
sternatioti iiito the. camp -of the enemy.
Then followed Mr Canaday, our cit-
izen whom everybody knows, and who
neyer mistakes the proprieties of an oc
casion, but 'jsoe. through a mill-3toTje'
readilj most men.. His speech yas
short, but tdl
tue point, .men came one
At-' i n i
of our other
citizens, Mr. Scott, who
gave the closing Speech, and the meet-
ing broke up
for the natip
with enthusiastic cheers
nal and state tickets
and
the invincib
e Itepublican party. .
This glorious demonstration of , the
people, a sorl of impromptu production
which seemed to spring suddenly into
gxisteru'C' wifliQut mush preparation,
is but the forunner of others whipli arp
before us. The Cape Fear will bp
awake during this coming contest, and
its! united ranks will not be ashamed
of their record after the third of No
vember.
Hon. William i. uanaday.
On Tuesday, July 20th the Kepubli
cabs ot the Third Congressional Dis-
trice, in uqnvention assembled at
Smithyilie, N
C.
without a dissenting
this gentleman as
voice, nominated
i a
ressional standardrbearer
through the
coming campaign, . The
uistrict mav
congrattilatehemselves
never-tiriner Republican
on having a
worker as their candidate. Eyery Re
publican in and out: of his district
should use all honorable means to spi
cure his election. We know him to be
the poor man's friend. "He knows
what sore temptation means, for he has
felt the same " He is one of the Re
publicans whb regards every Republi
can aa a Republican. He stands fjrm
and square ubofr the principles of the
party. We haye neyer beforp hail a
Congressional candidate that stands
where he dock. First, he is the mem
be? of the Republican National Com
mittee reprepenting North Carolina.
Second, he was,the leading member of
our state delegation - in the Chicago'
Convention. Third, he was one
among the first to lead off in the break
lor uen. Garfield who is our candidate
"u A PUBLIC DISGRACE.
Nobody can-read the letter of ac
ceptance of W. H. English J without a
sense of humiliation1 and shame at the
evident baseness of his brain. ! Modes
of thinking and figures of speech which
are common in the columns of provin
cial newspapers of common and cheap
order, seems to be the natural Ternacu
laf of this person who aspires to sit
down as the next in rank to the highest
official of this fifty millions of Christian
people. Bead ' this and then let lis
blush for our country:
Besides it should not be forgotten
that the last four years Or powr held
Dy .inw pinj were procureu uy ,u
creoiiaDie means ana neia in ueuuuuu
of Uie wishes of & majority ot the peo
pie. It was a grieyous wrong to every
voter and t our system of self-government,
which should never be forgotten
or forgivenmany of the men now in
office were put there because of corrupt
partisan service in thus defeating the
fairly and legally expressed will of the
majority, and the hypocrisy of the pro
fessions of that party in favor of civil
service reform, which was shown by
placing such men in office and turning
the whole brood ot Federal officehold
ers loose to influence the elections.
Look at the niggardly language, "pro
cured by discreditable means," "never
to-be forgotten or forgiven" , "partisan
servicet" "hypocrisy of the professions,"
"whole brood of Federal officcholdera
oese to influence elections." He saya
he "Members of the Cabinet are ftroU
ng about the country making partisan
speeches" "their paramount aim to keep
themselves and their satellites four years
Is it possible that we read this despi
cable language, Only worthy of a pot
house, in an official document issued
by a person to whom thero i3 at least a
posibility of silting down in the culti
vated circles of .-Washington? And
what it worse, in the chair of jtho pre
siding officer of the Senate? Is there a
deliberate purpose to humiliate the
natien by putting a person in the Vice
Presidential chair who shows himself
to be o regardless of coranijOn proprie
ties as to put out a semi-state paper,
couched in language not tolerated in
decent society ?
OLD VIRCtlNl A FAMILIES. j
"Ebbitt," a irequent correspondent
ot the Army and Navy Journal,, who is
authority, gives something of interest
about the Randolphs. He says that
William Randolph of Yorkshire, set
tled at "Turkey Island" on the James,
and married Mary Isham of Bermuda
Hundred, and had seven sons
and twd
daughters. One of the sons,
he : say s,
was the grandfather of Peter Jefferson
who was the father of Thonjas iefferson
His fourth son married the great-granddaughter
of Pocahontas. Sir ' John
Randolph, Peyton Randolph of Roan-'
oke, Gov. Beverly Randolph, Edmund
Randolph, and Thoma3 Mann Ran
dolpli, aa well aa the famous Joim llan-
dolph of Roanoke, were of thiJ family
Among the descendants of this family
were Gen. It. E. Iee, Francis Lightfoot,
Ijeo and "Light Horse Harry" Lee of
a 7
the Revolution, and nearly all the Lee a.
-f he cipot contiHes: ( . ; ,,
vi m: v , . i i
a i ii i - ii u v iv ri hi tf nr m a i a n n f 1 1 tr p n rc
in the part of Virginia in which the old
families dwelt. ; A century ago 'the
Virginia cavaliers, with the title of
gentlemen, who owned immense tracts
of land, lived in the style of the! barons
of England. They had their loner re-
inqe of serf ants and they liyed in ele-
gancOjaad profusion. They dispensed
i?" hta.which long
years of decay and subdivision of the
property , have not effaced from the
memory of Ihe thoroughly impoverished
descendants. Many years since, in tho
i'Snl1 Ra,n'
dolph, he wrote bitterly of the desola-
tion and ruin of his native country.
As long ago as 1828 he wrote to his
"leQ (the author of "The
Star Bpangled Banner") as followe: "A
few days ago I returned from a visit to
my birthplace (Cowson's, on the Appo
mattox), the seat of my ancestors on
one side, the spot where my dear mother
was giyto in rnarris jje, a nd where I
was ushered into the world ot woe.
The days of my boyhood seemed j to be
renewed; but at the end of my journey
I found desolation and stillness as 0
death, the fires of hospitality long since
quenched; the parish church, associated
with my earliest and . tenderest ! n!-
lections, tumbling to pieces,! not more
irom natural uecay than from sacrile
gious violence. What a spectacle does
our lower country present! Deserted
and dismantled country houses, once
the seats of cheerfulness and nlontir
and th,e-Temple of the Most High
frowning in portentous silence on the
land. The very mansions of the dead
uamuvic,w violation, scattered
fragments of armorial bearings, and
epitaphs on sacred stone. attftL ih
piety of the past and the brutality of
mo piCBCUl age. ,;!.'!
We have spoken of Rnhert Tlnliin
who married Jane, grand daughter of
Pocahontas, and daughter of Thnmsi
ltolf e. The Bqlling family is one of
iiitsmosi. ancient in Jingland In the
time of Edward JV. ! Boiling Hall,
yorksnirp; England,1 was pno of the
uiub eiegant in tne Kingdom. For two
hundred years the descendants of Poca
hontas have been strongly marked with
the Indian type. . The first Robert
jxing was succeeded by his! son John
thn A. . ! . ! ... . .,
7. :.V , .w Bro" immensely rich, an
wao aieam JL7rj. -He was succeede
oy a son John, and hv Thnmo
Bol hog. A descendant Col. Robert
Boiling is still living at Petersburg.
The family intermarried to such an ex
tent that in one family that of Thomas
of Cohbs there were several deaf and
dumb- children, " who, howeyer, wero
vpry highly, edupated at Ediriburch'
fecotland, by Thomas Braihwood, the
lmAm?rec? t0r the art teaching
the deaf and dumb." i ...f
Up to the time of tha
?u CUl1 Wa.r. the m baronial
style of hying prevailed to a great ex
tent in Virein ai Tr, i
owners left, but the hospitality was as
great as1 ever, and there appeared to be
no great regret fortheir departed great
ness. Thy were happy and contented
l. . 1 l . -mi - -
wueu me great war ua,ua on. X lie sa
cred spots then became the scenes' of
the; most frightful carnage, and when
the cloud of war had passed there was
a desolation there that even Powhatan
and the Analostans would have shud
dered at. I -. , , : (
j JAMES BUCHANAN.
During thj memorable winter of
1S61, whilo tfie last days ef Buchanan's
fated administration were dragging
their slow ength along, it was well un
derstood that the poor old- man was
surround eel by those enemies of the
country who did not even trust him.
He was in fact a loyal man surrounded I
by traitors. ' " V !
Chief Justice Shannon of Dakota,,
an old friend and intimate acquaiut-
ance of Buchanan called to see him;
early in 18G1. During the couversa
tibn, in reply to a question of the Presi
dent, as to the feeling of the people of
the west, Judge Shannon told him that
the northern people would island' by
their flag before tlieir party, that the '
nation must be preserved at all hazards.
Judge Shaunoh proceeds in lapgu?ge
which we give verbatim:
"I remained an hour or more, laud
arose to Withdraw, when President ,
Buchanan jwithout his hat, followed me
to the door, out down the walk lo the
gate, and there, with a voice filled with
emotion, he said : 'Judge, I have no
doubt but that you have told mo truly; -V,
but what can I do surrounded upon all
sides bv Itho friends ot secession, by
men ueneving in. state rignts ; . e?cu
Watched in the seclusion of my own
heme ? For,' said the o'd man Ixitterly,
'that beautiful lady sitting there in our
company this evening, was noise other
than a southern spy upon my homt
speech, and acts, and, tipon one pre
tense or another such has been the case
for months, a constant espionage.
Whither the country; is tending t cai;
not tell. We must. trust in God and
the incoming Administration. I can
do nothingwatched day and night -and
it is too late to call about-me coun
cilors and advisers 'And,' said Mr.
Shannon, fi shalliever forget the pic
ture the old man presented at this mo
ment; his hair streaming in the wind; -the
teara running down his cheeks; hia
whole frame shaking with emotion.
And thus 1 saw"" him for i the last time.
I shook hi. hsnd, bade him good-bye,
and depar
ed;.
History narrates tho
rest.'"
The wri
this recita
er
oes on to observe that
has its moral. If Ilancpck
should by p miracle bo elected, he will
te surrounded by the same class of
men as Buchanan was. Is he a man of
I stronger, .will than Buchanau? No-
body believes that he is. What will
he be led to' do, hemmed iu by a horde
of traitors J as 5 was Buchanan ? The
writer, very truly answers : ,
"Then, subjected to like iuflueuecn,
he will fail as Buchanan failed, and
and stale rights will triumph. . Eel low f
citizens, be pot deceived. . A Demo
crattc victory ia a triuniph of i the mefi-
who mado the rebellion. They are to
day as full of schemes opposed to the
north opposed to the welfare of our
country as they were iu 18GCV Give
them the chance and you. shall see.
That is it give them the chance. Dare
we? Shall
we? Can we?
Crime
A free vote as understood in Ken :-
1-
luefcy :
A special to the Gazette from Alali
son, Indiana, dated August 2nd, savs
P, Smith, colored, was knockei
dowhat the iolls terday at MittoiT,
Kentucky, by Amos Fox, a, whtte man,
and theu set upon by other w hi to men,
ono of whom, named Cornman, stabbed
Smith several times, and another broke
his skull with a club, inflicting fatal in
juries. Cornman was arrested.
A colored Democratic U speaker
from
Virginia, named Harris,
attempted to
make a speech at New Castle, Delaware,
when he was stoned and forced to seek
protection of the sheriff, u
Col. Leo Crandall says :
"While I was in Alabama the, state
ment was boldly made that we (tfija
Greenbackers) might poll the rget
vote; that the Democrats would out
count us. In Lowe's congressional dis- i
trict," continued Crahdall, "we will '
have a big majority , but in the Black :
Belt country the' Democrats .will wait
to seo what majority they have to over
come, , and will then go ahead ' with
their counting process.?
Lewis Ramey, colored, convicted at
tho last terra of the corporated court at
Danville, Va., for the murder of liis
wife, but granted a new trial, was again,
qn August 2nd, in the same pourt, poii'
vjicted of murder in the second degree,
and sentenced to the penitentiary . for .
seventeen years.
At Denver, Colorado, Edward Egan
killed a bar-keeper with a revolver, and
at Council Blnffr Tnwa Onron Arr'.itr
ii i J-IO. r j
vi as pounded to death. -J f
j - In East Middlebury,. Vermont, -a
bjxtel keeper who put up a Garfield and '
Arthur flag, was seized by Democratic
kuklu?, stabbed, poumie'Ued, a opo
tied to his feet and thep pitphco intq a ,
creek, taken out and tied to a tree, bis
itPJlf! bTiQ1T1 nnrl 1 A 1 '
- ouu a3 iouou mere sense
less,' tho next morning. p
Tho Rev. T. B. Miller of PhUade'l
Pyia was arrested for forging, white en .
hi3 way to church. i '
Michael Mackin at Chicago, was .
fa tally shot by his brother.
Oakes, a young man acred 19. was
sttoed to 4eath at Danyille, Va., by u ''
Turner Wilson was; killed . at Bullit
QOUnty, Jvy., in a political firhf
Three armed men waylaid Ysnm -
Germans in Miueesotta, Tatally wound- .
msrone andrebbinir him f m
j o V TXUi
rvu .!-! i . . ;. ,
for President.
Good Samaritan,
wcro dui iew ot the great land-
all cut from tw(j daily papers.
are
f uc yeugQum reminiscennps