THE
EDUCATOR
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1874.
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Fayetteville S t c.
Colored Printers.
Much has been said and done in
this community about “Colored Prin
ters,” caused by the three young col
ored men of this town who have
learned the “craft:” These young
men are: W. C. Smith and C. D.
Waddell, (present editors of Educa
tor,) and Jan. W. Murchison. We
are lair specimen of the fitness of
colored youths learning the business.
Though nothing has been said of
it by the press of the State, to en
oourage these youths and others of
color in such enterprises, the oflice
of the Statesman, was, the latter part
of 1873 thrown in the hands of one
of these young men, who had been
in the office less than three months,
and was managed by him till its sus
pension. Readers of said paper need
only ask themselves concerning its
Kg. We claim that it was respect
printed, and that several weeks
nothing was done in the office by a
white man.
This was conclusive evidence for
us, that we could print a paper.
Though we had to contend with
great difficulties, meeting discour
agement on nearly every side, from
every printer in town, being sneered
at by them, and all refusing to work
with us who had any interest here,
and was to any extent influenced by
the “silly nigger haters.”
A little strange to say though.sev
eral of these white printers have ap
plied to us for employment, and we
of course, have at times taken them
in. We feel safe in saying that we
have made the most rapid progress
of any printers in N. C. Having far
superior education to three-fourths
of the white printers of this town,
all we need is a fair opportunity, to
make far superior printers. For if
an educated man makes a 1 tetter
farmer, machanic, and even wood
chopper, titan an illiterate man, why
will not an educated man make a
better printer?
We are the first and only colored
printers in the State; and having
started a journal of our own, we an
ticipate great good being accomplish
ed by our office. Ail colored men,
and enterprising men of all colors
cannot fail to appreciate our enter
prise; for a lesson is learned in N.
C.—Colored men can be printers.—
And we will teach others to be prin
f ters, and enable others still to be
authors. A channel of communication
is now open to colored men (and la
dies too, for some of them are fond
•f writing and write well,) which
was never open in N. C. before.
But why all this talk about .color
ed printers? Why can’t white men
work in a printing office with colored
men? Every other trade followed
in the State both races work togeth
er; why is this such a peculiar trade
tliat both races can't work together?
That is not the trouble it is very
clear; thank God its over with us; if
we don’t work together, one race
any know as much of the trade as
the other.
Complimentary. —We copy the
following notice of onr old friend
and College mate, O. Hunter Jr., of
Raleigh N. C. from the Gardner
(Mass.) News.
O. Hunter, Jr., from Shaw Univer
sity, N. C., addressed a goodly num
ber of our citizens at the vestry of
the Congregational Church on Tues
day evening, on the present aspect of
the colored race in the South. We
hear very much hear at the North of
tire genera! turmoil and confusion so
prevalent among both whites and <
blacks in the extreme South, but we
do not often have the pleasure of lis-1
tening to so fair and impartial a pre-1
sentation offsets as was given by this -
young man. He was born a slave j
and brought up in ignorance essayed
to icaru his letters, and in these j
months of study, interrupted by'
mouths of manual lobor, he has prov
ed that a man, even a black man, can j
make something of himself if he !
is in earnest about it and improve
the advantages that are so free and I
common in these days of cheap books
and papers. The audiance was at
tentive and wish must ofteu have
come up that the youth, and especial
ly the boys, might take fresh conra
ge and impulse to improve the ad
vantage so abundant on every band
for their elevation and education.
Was tt tke Third Term?'
The Ctesarian press, which has;
been so busily alleging that General,
Grant not only designed to force
himself upon the people or the Re
publican party as a candidate for the-
Presidency another term, but that'
hi had the power to do so, will find
some difficulty in explaining to the
country what baa so suddenly be
come of all that very dangerous
power. Will it insist that he feared
to use it to carry oat the design
which they imparted to him, and
chose rather to see his party so weak
ened by a defeat in this “off year" as
to greatly reduce his alleged power
in the future? This wiil not do.
Neither will it answer the purpose
to attribute the reverses of the party
to the discussion of tlie “third term i
principle. The few leading Repub
licans Whom it succeeded in dragoon-.
ing into making declarations agasnstj
the principle—notably Governor Diw
and Hon. Ellis H. Roberts —were
quite as baiily beaten a« these who
remained silent, while upon the oth
er hand the Hon. Alex. H. Stephens,
who was boldly and unsparingly de
nounced by this same press for de
claring that he could see nothing
objectionable in a “third term per *f,'
was re-elected almost without oppo
sition. The lads of which these are
illustrations fatly demonstrate that
the “third-term discussion"’ had very
little to do with the re rent political
overturning.
The causes of dissatisfaction as we
have foreshadowed can be found else
where. History teaches us that fi-
nancial revulsions in this Republic
which resulted in “hard times’ have
always been followed by
revolutions. The Republican party i
had no right to expect that it should
escape such a sequel to the panic of
1873. Perhaps if its leaders in Con
gress lm« followed the rceommen
' dations of General Grant, by appro
priating money for internal improv
ements and the prosecution of the
! public works, thereby giving employ
meet to many thousands of laborers;
and encouraging manufacturer* by
example to do the same, the diseon
; tent which gave birth to the revolu
tion would not have arisen. We
admonished Republican leaders hr
the House at the time, that a paral
ysis of the industries of the cation
would inevitably produce tissati.-fac
tion among the people. General But-.
ler also proclaimed his disbelief that’
the country was so poverty stricken.
as to be obliged to “pinch here and 5
stave there,” close up our factories;
and workshops in many places, and :
run others on short time, thereby
producing privation and want among
operatives, instead of adding to the.
wealth of tire country by providing :
them with labor. Rut onr great lead
ers, Messrs. Dawes, Garfield and Fos
ter, insisted upon cutting down the
appropriations to the extent of twen
ty millions, the enormous sum of
fifty cents per capita of our popula
tion per annum. This involved a
stoppage of many of our public works
and a Urge reduction of the Govern
ment force, just at the very moment
when the employees were least pre
pared to submil toil. The economy
thus indicted became infections.
Manufactures followed suit and re
duced the number of their cmplyees-j
Hard times stared everybody in the,
face. Congress, at the clamor of a
mendacious press, spent its time in
the investigation of those engaged
in publie improvements, instead of:
laboring to provide means for the
employment of those who were
threatened with starvation. The
money pause turned into a bread
panac, and the "oread panac Las now
developed into revolution. This is:
they way in which history repeats it-:
self.
Public men who team nothing
from the history of the past are un
worthy the name of statesmen. As
the panic of 1837 produced the revo
lution of 1840, amt that of 1857 was
followed by the overthrow of Buch
anan and the N>uthern oligarchy in
1867, so now the unheeded cry fori
tabor, cheap transportation and cheap
bread has been visited upon the
hernia of the Forty-third Congress.
That body couvcned with a two
thinks Republican majority in the'
House. These Representatives were !
fresh from the people; whom they*
" had promised all sorts of financial '
I relief. They had each a plan for
! bringing something out of nothing,
s They were all introduced and refer
• red and discussed, and the members
j then went home to consult with their
; constituents and spend the holidays.
! They returned again fresh from the
people, and said they had promised
to give them plenty of money—pa
per money and cheap transportation.
“They talked and they talked, and
they talked"—and did nothing else
upon either point but talk. Then
they passed the appropriations, and
went home to see to their re-elec
tions.
We thought at the time that they
shirked many of tbeir responsibili
ties, and raid so frankly. The peo
ple do not like cowards. As we
re* d the results of these elections
they are a rebuke to the representa
-tivesof the people for their short
> comings. It is the Forty-third Con
i gross which has been passing in re
view before the people. It is not
'; the President at aiL The people do
; not condemn their representatives
for the faults of the President, or the
latter for the Congressional omis
sions of duty. But in this instance,
; as the President and the Represen
;; tatives differed ui«>u the vital ques
tions at issue—those of finance and
" appropriations for public improve
ments—or in other words labor and
• fi •
. bread, and the representatives have
been condemned, it is fair to con
dude that the recommendations of
■ | the President are approved by the
• people.— H7i Mnfjton Jltpublican.
The Truth in a Nutshell.
Gee. James Longstreet, who was
I among the truest friends and bravest
generals of the late Southern Con
federacy while it was batteling for
existence, has lately made a speech
upon the situation in Louisiana, from
which we extract the following;
“Men can't ail think alike, and the
trouble with the Southern people
always has been that they won’t tol
erate any difference of opinion. If
God Almighty had intended all men
to think just alike, He might as well
have made bat one man. I have de
rided and acted as I thought duty
required, and other men are at liber
ty to do the same. My opinion is
that ik only true solution for .South
ern troubles is for people to accept
cordially and in good faith ali the
(i results of the war, including the re-
I construction measures, the acts of
Coogrea, negro suffrage, Ac., and
live up to them like men. If they
would do tills, and encourage North
*cm immigration, and treat all men
I£ fairly, whites and blacks, the troub
les would soon be over, and in less
than five years the South would be
in the enjoyment of greater prosperi
ty than ever before.”
In these few words we have the
path of the whole controversy and
the cause of the troubles that have
arisen in the South since the war.—
They are the words of a man who
knows whereof he speaks, and wbo
' has the best interests of the South
ern people at heart. They establish
two facts beyond controversy, and
out of these facts all the difficulty
arises. The first is that a large por
tion of the while population of the
| South lately in rebellion do not “ac
| cepl cordially and in good faith the
results of the war,” and the second
j is that they “won't tolerate any dif
terenceot opinion.” Together, they
afford full and ample explanation of
the political disturbances that we
are so often called upon to chronicle,
| and of the “outrages,” that accom
pany them. It would be a work of
supererogation to prove sjiecific acts
of persecution and violence against a
people who will not tolerate differ
ences of opinion, and in the case of
j the Southern people we know that
tliis has been their characteristic for ;
a generation [■art For twenty years -
before the war no man could openly
express his opinions on slavery in
the Southern States, unless they
were favorable to the institution, :
without fear of ]«rsonal violence.—
The ample question, then for the i
North to decide is whether the “re- i
I suit of the war,” ino’uding the con
stitutional amendments which confer
the right of suffrage on the freed
man. shall be accepted by the South,
or whether they shall be rejected
ami trampled under foot. Every
victory for tbe Democratic party is
an encouragement to these unrecon
structed rebels to reject the result*
< f the war and defy the General
I Government—_V 1' RepwhUe.
COBBESPONDENCE.
[For the Educator.]
Egypt, N. C. Nov. 19th 1874. j
Messrs. -Waddell & Smith, Edi* t
tors-Educator. —Gentlemen, allow J
me a small space in the columns of i
your valuable little medium to say |
a word to all ths members and
friends of Zion and Christianity as to
how we are getting along this year
under the Pastoral care of Deaeon
A. B. Smyer. We are all, white and
colored, Saint and sinner pleased
with him, both as a Teacher and
Preacher, and above all, as an amia
ble Christian gentleman. Tlio whites
come out to our churches, and are
delighted with his manner and style
of Preaching. Sinners have been
awakened, mourners converted to
God, back sliders reclaimed, tbe
church greatly revived, and every
thing now looks bright, a good new
church at Sanford is nearly ready
for service, a good Framed Orbcr at
Egypt 30x50 has been built, and he
(the Parson) has managed to raise
the means to pay for it nearly out
’ side of car | urges!l 62 have been
1 added to tbe church this year, Sun
day Schools organized and set to
r work. We are advancing Heaven
ward here.
Respectfully,
1 ROBERT S. REYES.
I How to Succeed. —If your seat is
• too hard to sit upon, stand up. If a
- rock rises up before you, roll it away
f or climb over it. If you want mon
i ey, earn it. If yon wish for confi
dence, prove yourself worthy of it.
It takes longer to skin an elephant
• than s mouse, but tlie skin is worthy
something." Do not be content with
t doing what anothei4fcrs done—sur
pass it. Deserve success, and it will
r come. The baby was not born a
man. The sun does not rise like a
rocket or go down like a bullet fired
from a gun; slowly but surely it
makes its round, and never tires. It
is as easy to be a leader as a wheel
horse. If the job be lor.g, the pay
j. will be greater; if the task be hard,
( the more competent you must be to
j do it.
An Irishman found a government
f blanket recently, and rolling it up
‘ put it under bis arm and walked oft",
p saying, “vis, that’s nroine—U for
" Patrick, and S for McCarty. Be
1 me soul, but this leamin’ is a foine
e thing, as me fayther would say: for
if I had’t an eddecation I would't
• have been sfther Jimlin me blanket.
1 i ■ 1 ■ .i ■
r A young man has been arrested in
. New York so sleeping in a standing
, position. He would stand on tbe
. street for hours at a stretch, with bis
9 eyes closed, and not move a mits
-5 cle. It is hereditary. His father
. was a policeman.
, By the of tin;
United Sliti cm ot
Amcrlvu,
A proclamation.
We are reminded by the chang
ing season that it is time to pause in
onr daily avocations, and offer thanks
to Almighty God for the mercies
and abundance of the year which is
drawing to a close.
The blessings of free government
continue to be vouchsafed to us, the
earth has responded to the latter of
the husbandman, the land has been
free from pestilence, internal order
is being maintained, and peace with
other Powers has prevailed.
It is fitting that at stated periods
we should cease from our accustom
ed pursuits and from the turmoil ol
our daily lives, and unite in thank
fulness for the blessings of the past
and in the cultivation of a kindly feel
ing toward each other.
Now, therefore, recognizing these
considerations, I, Ulysses S. Grant.
President of the United States, do ,
recommend to all citizens to assem
ble in their respective places of wor
ship, on Tlmesday, the 2Gth day ot
; November next, and express their
thanks for the mercy and favor of
Almighty God, and laying aside all
political contentions and all secular ;
occupations, to observe such day as ;
a day of rest, thanksgiving and praise. •
In witness whereof I have hereun
to set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to he affixed. *
Done at the city of Washington this !
twenty sevnth day of October !
in the year eighteen hundred
and seventy-four, and of the
Independence oi the United ,
States of America the ninety- ’
ninth.
U S. GRANT. (
By tlie President:
Hamilton Fisn, J
Secretary ot State.
TIM STABLE.
For our readers anil the traveling pub
lic we have made out in convenient lorin
the following time table, which, if wo
can induce Railroad officials to keep us
posted, we will keep corrected and stand
irg: and ns long ns it stands our readers
may rely upon it ns an exact ami infalli
ble authority.
Wilinitfgtw k VeltlM Railroad
Leave Wilmington 8,16 A M
Leave Wilmington ,0.40 I* M
Leave Weldon 8.15. A M
Leave Weldon 7.10 P M
Arrive at.Goldsboro 12.11 PM A <BOO AM
Tarbore Train
Leaves Rocky Mount daily npon ar
rival ol morning train, iuhl Monday,
Wednesday awl Friday upon arrival ol
night train from Wilmington.
Wilmington, Columbia k iugnta Rnilroad.
Leave Wilmington 3.25 A M
Leave Wilmington 5.45 P M
Leave Augusta 6.35 A M
Leave Augiwta 5,50 P M.
Wilmington. Chnriotlr k Rnlhrrfonl Railroad.
EASTERN DIVISION.
Leave Wilmington 8.00 AM
Leave I.iiesville 7.40 A M
1 WESTERN DIVISION.
Leave Charlotte 8.00 A M
Leave Buffalo 1.07 P M
Richmond & Dairille Railroad.
Leave Greensboro 2.00 A X
Isoave Greensboro 11.10 A M
Leave Kiulnnoiul 12.46 P X
Leave Kichmoiul ‘J-JO P M
iTcliiiTHßd £ DamflTe Railroad.
(NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION.)
Leave Charlotte 7.10 P M
Leave Raleigh 84)5 A M
Leave Goldsboro 14)0 P M
Arrive at Raleigh 7A5 P At
Sill fin Branch.
, Leave Greensboro 3.40 P M
Arrive at KerivcrsviUc 5-10 P 3‘
Leave Kernersville fUK) A 34
Arrive at Greeft&Uxto 10.30 A 31
Raleigh £ Gaston Railroad.
Leave Raleigh 0415 A M
Leave Raleigh 6.00 P it
1 Leave Weldon 0.15 A M
Leave Weldon 8.15 P M
SalterS i ItrgmCa Afr-linr.
Leave Raleigh 3.15 P M
Leave Saiultonl 0.30 A 31
i'rimbnrg Ktilr**d.
Leave WeMoii 7.40 A M
Leave Weldon 3.26 P M
Leave Petersburg 5.40 A M
Leave Peterelmrg AAO P M
Seaboard £ Roaaake Railroad.
Leave- Weldon 7.15 P 3!
Leave I'cfrtjtmonth 5.45 A 3t
These trains voiunrt on Monday, Wed
iieafay and Frida}' with steamers on
Blactwater few Kdentcn ao*t Plymouth-
Wnltra North Carolin Railroad.
Leave Salisbury 5.00 A M
Leave Old Fort 7.1* A M
fniero lailrul
Leave Fayetteville 4JO A M
Leave FajettevUle 74» A M
Leave Sanford a an p M
Leave Egypt lIJO A M
EABOARD & ROANOKE
RAILROAD COMPANY.
Office S. & R. R. R. Co., >
Portsmouth, Va, J*n. J. 1871. J
On and after this date, the trains will
leave Portsmouth (Sunday excepted) aa
follows t
Mail train daily at 6 am -
Through freight train daily at 1:30 p m.
Way Freight Trains Mondays, Wed
nesdays and Fridays at 8:00 a m.
ARRIVE AT PORTSMOUTH.
Mall train dally at s : ts - m .
Through Freight train daily at 4:38 p m.
Way Freight Train Tuesdays,
Thursdays and .Saturdays at l ; 30 p m .
Mail Trains stop at all stations for pas-"
sengers. Through Freight Trains stop
at fifovver » UiH’ Suffolk, Bitcßhorn, Fran
klin, Boykin’s and Seaboard for passen
gers and freight. r—-
trefa connects at Weldon
wit, the tpfas of the Wllwington and
" eldon; Raleigh and Gaston railroads.
And on Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Saturdays at Franklin, vylfa steamers for
F.denton. Plymouth, ami Landings oil
SlaekttTiler aud Chowan rivers.
E. G. GIRO.
nue <-tl Supt. of Transportation