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i THE EDUCATOR. * " SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1874. WADDELL & SMITH Editors and Publishers. Our friends Will see that oar term* are Cash. Wo hope UHf wtU |Hirii them selves ocewSlasSy. ,To Oorroopoadeatfi. Communication* to ua must be accom panied by responsible names, or the same will not be published. PROSPECTUS or THE EDUCATOR-! .-A- P- ________ fe * * A weekly newspaper published every u day in C. *<■’ ; THE E DUCATOR, a journal ol mor al and intellectual advancement, will be especially devoted to the interests of the colored yonth *f Worth Carolina; > ’" and will be the untiring advocate ol eve jy measure calculated to benefit that -olitsH of our citizens who most feel the meed of education and an organ. ■While-not strictly a party {taper, THE lEDUCATOR will earnestly defend the fßepifblican-priuelples and policy, believ ing them to be necessary to the peace, prosperity and happiness of the Ameri can people. lieligiou, Literature, Agriculture and News wjil lie made special features oi THE EDUCATOR. Turks ok Suuscimition : One year in advance, - - - - $2 (X) Six months in advance, -- -1 00 Three months in ailvaiwc - - - .50 WADDELL & SMITH, Editor* and Puhlitlim. Fayetteville N. C. Thu Educator is the name of a •new exchange, hailing from Fayette ville North Carolina. Its motto is: “Fearlessly the right defend— Impartially the wrong condemn.” It is a live paper, well printed, and thoroughly loyal in its tone. It ia printed and edited by colored young men, and we commend it to all who .desire to see a good paper prosper and worthy young men re warded.— • , Washington JU public. No Paper Christmas Week.— For the “benefit of all concerned” the Eiucator will celebrate the Christmas Holidays by leaving off work next week. The printer must have rest and recreation and holiday sport as well as you, my dear read ers. Wo hope you all Will have a mer ry Christmas, and a happy New Year! So Ladies and Gentlemen, and the “rest of the population, adieu.” On Mouday 14th. inst. in the House of Representatives, Wm. H. Moore of New Hanover, introduced resolutions of respect in regard to the death of Wm. H. Williams, Rep resentative from Warren County. In the Senate, Tuesday December 15th. Mr. Morehead introduced a bill to call a convention. Referred to Committee on Constitutional Reform and ordered to be printed. Bill pro vides to meet on Monday, month at 12 o’clock, and to consist of 120 delegates, C3ch county entitled to same representation as it now has in the House, ifcc. • Gen. Butler reported a supplimen tal Civil Rights bill, the Senate bill being adopted as a basis the clause regarding cemeteries stricken out; seperate schools allowed, provied each race has a pro rata of the allow ance and accommodations. The move ment that White’s substitute, provi ding for separate but equally com fortable quarters in cars, taverns and and other public conveniences, shall be voted upon first. The bill was or dered printed and recommitted. The Message. The message of President Grant is a plain matter-of fact document. Itfoontains no flourishes, no extra words, but is replete w'ith common sense from begining to end. Much of the message is devoted to the dis cussion of the financial condition of the country, in which he strongly ad vocates an early roturn to specia pay ments, and, in view of that end, rath er advoctes an increase than diminu tion of the revenue to an extent suf ficient to keek on hand enough gold to redeem at ail times government obligations. In regard to the Cuban insurrec tion, the President unquestionably reflets the views of a large majority of the American people in Intimating that Spain has so far failed to subdue the insurgents as to make it incum bent upon other powers to take steps in the matter. The question in which we of the South are most interested, is treated in a candid and impartial maimer. While declaring his determination to use all power vested in him to pre serve order, the President disclaims any intention to exercise authority not delegated by law over the local affairs of the different States. He declares his belief in the law -abiding spirit of the better portion of the Southern people, but does not think they are acting properly in ignoring the frequent acts of violence in their midst. He announces himself the frends of the South, and expresses a willingness to aid them, but desires to disabuse them of the idea Lhat op pression and wrong will be tolera ted under his administration. The factions and discontented only can earnestly find lault with the tone and general temper of the document as directed toward our section of the country. That there are such we confess, but we feel confident that a large majority of our people see in the production a renewal of the pledges of our patriot President to discharge with an eye to the interests of the nation at large the responsible duties conferred upon him by the Constittit ion and laws.— Era. The Aoe of Lyixg.—There is too much lying. On every hand we meet with exaggeration, equivoca tion, deception. We call it lying, and every man or woman who varies one iota from the strictest fact or truth, is indeed a liar. The express man agrees most solemnly to deliver a trunk to you at a certain hour. He delivers it a day after the hour promised, and thus lies. The grocer promises to send you the best tea in the market. He lakes the first his hands falls upon without any care for the quality, and dispatches it to you without a twinge. He lies. The tailor agrees to deliver a suit of clothes without fail by six in the ev ening. You get them next morning and that tailor is a liar. The dentist pledges his word that your teeth, as filled by him, will be all right for a j dozen years. The filling comes out In six months, and the dentist lies.: A man over the way is in need of * j temporary loan. You lend him a small sum, whieh he promises to re turn at a given time. He keeps it a month over the time, and is a liar. An auctioneer tells you that a cer tain picture is by a master artist, when he knows it was painted by a fourth rate painter. He lies, and is! not worthy of trust. A salesman lies 1 about his goods. A boot maker lies • about your boots. The jeweler lies about your watch. The gossiper at \ the dinner table tells exaggerated stories to astonish the ladies, and is nothing more than a liar. The flo rist assures you that his flowers were picked in the morning, when they! are two days old. He lies, and will lie about anything. The beok-pub- ■ lisher advertises that his book is sell ing by the tens of thousands, when he has not sold a thousand. He is a liar, and not one door from the mur derer. Everybody, everywhere we hear lying, lying. Men and women, who would knock you down if you call ed them liars, lie, every hour. De ception is the rule rather than the exception. The canvasser lies about insurance companies. Brokers about stocks. Editors about politics. Ex aggeration and misrepresentation rule the hoar and are its curse. Gentlemen—ladles—why cannot the truth be told always and ever? Why so much falsifying and cheat ing ? In the name of all that is good, we beg you to reform the habit alto gether.—Ex. SPEECH OF HON. WM. H. MOORE, of New Hisotk. Delivered in the Douse of Eej>resen tatives of the Legislature of North Carolina, on November 25th, h 74. Mr. Speaker: I am opposed to the Resolutions offered by the gen tleman from Ashe, which asks the Congress of the United States to vote down the Civil Rights BUI. I am aDo opposed to the substitute for those resolutions, offered by the rep resentative from Cabarrus. Roth se ries of resolutions have a purpose to deprive the colored people of the nation of the God-given rights which freedmen arc entitled to, —rights, which if denied, proclaim the decla ration of Independence, when it de clares that “all men are free and equal,” a living lie, and half defeats the high and holy principles and de voted purpose, that actuated the noble Lincoln, when he wrenched the shackles from the arms of three mil lions of men throughout this land. These resolutions ask the Congress of the United States to continue wrong and oppression. They ask Congress to stop the car of progress which has been rolling onward for ten years past, —to cease the good work of the redemption cf this land from the sin of slavery and oppres sion, before its task is finished. God forbid, Mr. Speaker, that Congress ■ should do any such thing. I still continue to hope that the American ■ people will yet grent-thi3 last boon that is requisite to make our whole people “free and equal.” I appeal to the Republicans upon this floor to stand firm by the prin ciples which have been proclaimed by the fathers of our party, —princi- ples which have hitherto led it victo ry, and given it power and strength. I appeal to them not to turn their backs upon ns in this Lour of our temporary defeat Principles are eternal, and truth and right most and will prevail, and in this contest we; should borrow from the noble exam-! pie of the ancient Greeks, who, when ' their hands were cut oflf, fought' rfith their stubs and even with their ■ teeth. Loyalty to principle is higher l and holier than loyalty to party. It is a heavenly sentiment, the battle lantern of the sun of troth, whose j beams are reflected upon, and show ! who are brave and trne men. I cannot see. Mr. Sjuakcr. why i any gentleman upon this floor should object to the passage of the Civil Rights Bilk It does not proclaim ! social equality. It proclaims and 1 sustains simply an equality of rights which a freeman in a free country must possess in order to be truly free. The white people cannot fear : that in conferring Civil Rights upon ■ Ibe former slave that he will attempt to transcend his privileges as a free man. Their obedient and docile course during the late war, should be a guarantee of their future con duct. Did they not then feed, and take care of the mothers and chil Idren of the land, while the fathers were away In battle and seige? Did they then assume any right or privi i lege that even a State law denied ! them. As servants and slaves they : labored and toiled patiently on, even when freedom's guns were lumber ing in their ears, and bursting shell and booming cannon at their cabin , doors proclaimed their emancipation and liberty. Then, why doubt us now? I regret exceedingly, Mr. Speaker, to have heard the sentiments expres sed by the gentleman from Ashe, i (From him, at leas*, I had expected ■ better things:. He proclaims himself a Republican, yet one would never ’! imagine him snch, if judged by his * ; language upon this flo ir to-day. Yes - terday. as it were, when the Uepub ■. iican flag was floating triumphantly • in the breeze, and cn its folds were 1' emblazoned “civil liberty to ail? he • then proclaimed his devotion to the -j party and its principles. To-day, t j when the old flag is lowered by tem | notary defeat, and its enemies are > I threatening its safety; he quails be * fore their power leaves hie old posi - j tion, and would fain compromise the , ‘ party by striking from its folds this - glorious motto. His speech, Mr. 1 Speaker, reminds me of the anecdote of the drunken Irishman, who had bought a pig, and passing by a grog shop on his way home the barkeeper removed the pig from the bag and supplied its place with a puppy. Reaching home his wife discovered t : the mistake and sent him back to exchange the poppy for the pig sent for. Passing by the same bar-room > and while taking a drink the bar - f keeper took cal the puppy and put ■ j the p-g back in the bag. Taking the >: bag on his back he wended his way E to the former's, where he. bought the r r pig. and charge*! him with selling .j. him a puppy. On opening the hag - ■ the Irishman discovered the pig > f again. Says be, Mister, please take * Lack this animal, he is pig and puppy i too. , In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, let me - appeal to Republicans to stand firm . in their deTotioc to the sentiment of 1 “civil liberty to aV™ Let us not de > grade ouiselves by voting for these . resolutions. Truth and right and ■ 1 justice will prevail. The angels es >' poure our cause. ICOKRESPONDENCE. [For the Educator.] Our Waahinglon Letter. , VYashixctok, D. C., Dec. 15, 1874. ri A DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE. 1; A mild season has-thus far been [ general over the Country, but in - Washington the weather has been i especially delightful up to the pres- s f ent time. The climate here is cer- I * tainly one of the healthiest and most i enjoyable of any ia the country. — i* The gentle rain from heaven de • * vends for a few hours at a time at ! long intervals. The wind blows ! roughly for a portion of a day and - then during most of the day time 1' the health inspiring sun sends its •; genial warmth through our streets -1 to the great happiness of the many .! poor who can illy afford to make • adequate provision for real winter • weather. Not two days of wealhor t that is worthy of the season has ret I j been our portion and. for the sake of ■ the poop and improvident, we hope ' that old Boseas may make his visi i' talion heie as usual a very shost one. A SKAKK IX THE GRASS' ’ j All reasonable persons will agree [with Geul. Butler in his reply to Mr. Beck in the House that the mur der of fifty persons in the late affair [in Vicksburg. Miss., concerns the : whole United States. The attempt j to muddle the affair !>V a corrospon idenl of the New York Times is no | doubt in the same line of duplicity persued by a correspondent of that paper in Alabama 'just prior to the election. Under pretense of getting facts for a republican newspaper yourcorrespondent personally knows that a Times correspondent put him self entirely in the hands of Demo : crats and directed his inquiries open ly to finding some ground of objec tion to Senator Spencer and other republican officials. , Such a method of securing information would not have been taken without orders from headquarters, and this is the charac ter of the support to be expected from that source by the Republican party. On meeting Senator Spen cer, the New York Times corres pondent, in my presence said that he had tried to find out something tangible against him, but had failed. LIFE. [For the Educator.] The North Carolina Con ference o t the A. M. E- Zion Church- The N. C. Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church, met at St. An drews Chapel in the city of New ,i Berne N. C. on Wednesday the 25th i of Nov., 1874, at 10 o’clock A. M. 1 1 The Rt. Rev. J. W. Hood, Bish- I op of the A. M. 15. Zion connection, j read an appropriate portion of scrip ! t.ure, ami sang an appropriate Hymn. : Prayer by ltev. F. B. Moore, after '! which, the Bishop asked the Gonfer ' | er.ee who they would have for See \ rotaries Ac. The following breth i ren were then elected, and took their > j several scats. Elder J. Moll. Farley, Travelling : Agt. was elected for Secretary, El ’ der, A. M. Barrette, Asst. Secretary, ' Elder J. A. Tyler, Recot ding Secre tary, Rev. C. R. Harris, Statistical Secretary, and Rev. A B. Smyer, j Beporter to the Press. The Bar of the Conference then r being fixed, the Bishop delivered I his opening Address before the Con ference, this was one of the outs' | soul-stirring and encouraging Ad. , dresses which the Bishop ever deliv . ered on a like occasion. The Eulogy , on the liie ami usefulness <>t Eldei r Henderson cannot easily he snrnas - , ed. The Conference then proceeded . to business and was closely engaged .. and attended we'l to their business , during the whole session. The sev , era! committees and officers aequil , ted themselves in a manner very , ored table during the Conference a session. The pulpits of the several . Churches in the City and suburbs were occupied by our Ministers, and ~ the several congregations generally , returned declaring that they had j- been delightfully entertained among . the others who were the Preachers, . on the occasion were, Elders Farley, | Overton, Phillips, Lomax, Tyler, W. . J. Moore, Barrett, Kelly and oth ers. Upon the whole it was a time long to be remembered. One very aged man was happily converted to God. ■ “Business,, was the watchword of . the Conference. Very encouraging reports came up from nearly all qiiar , tors, many had been converted to , God during the past year, i The Funeral of Elder T. Hender- I son was preached by the Bishop, - this we think was one of the Bish t ops happiest efforts in proving up - demonstratively that the “Saints of ■ God go Home to Heaven immedi . ately from the moment that soul and i body seperates, and there dwell with God forever.” Tho Statistical Re ! port reads as follows: ; No. of children in Sabbath schools, i 9,108. * No. ofofficeis and Teachers. 800. Grand total in Sabbath schools, • 0,998. Number of Church members, 21,- i CO. No. Probationers, 4,786. No. Exborters, 876. Local Preachers, 204. Travelling Ministers and Preach ers, 200. Graud total of membership, 26,- 886. Adults Baptised, 2,254. Children Baptised, 1,959. Total No. Baptised, 4.213. Value of Church property, SBO,- 359. j Collected by Conference, 62,66. Amount collected for Bishop, Si,. 015,52. Collected for Chureh extension, $3,129,64. Volumes in S. S. Library, 4,400. Total Benevolent collection for Church purposes, $4,207,82. “The Educator." Elders, J. A. Tyler, W. J. Moore, A. B. Smyer, R. H. Simmons, E. Overton (of the Virginia Conference) J. McH, Farley, H. C. Phillips and ' C. R. Harris, deplored the fact that 1 the “Zion Church Advocate" Lad gone down, they therefore recoin mended to tho brethren and public generally the “Educator,” a weekly paper now published at Fayetteville N. G\, by two very intelligent young ' colored men. These Rev. gentlemen with others spoke highly in favor of ’ the “Educator” and urged the ministers and members of Zion to subscribe for it. Elder 11. C. Phil lips offered a resolution in respect to the Educator, carried unani mous, Elder House also spoke fa vorably for the Educator. W edsksday Dec. 2nd 1874- Conference met pursuant to ad . journment in St. Andrews Chapel, , 2 1-2 o’clock I’. M., and from thence proceeded to Queen Street, accom . pauied by King Soloman’s Lodge No. 1, A. V. Masons, the United . Brotherhood, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, and a large con i' course of the Clergy and people.— - Where the Corner Stone ol the New . Chapel wrs laid according to the . Ritual of the Chureh and Masonic r Fraternity. Tlie ceremonies being conducted by Rt. Rev. J. W. Hood', , Grand Master of colored Masons and . Bishop of the A. M. K Zion connec tion. This grand scenery reflected cred- I it upon this Bov. gentleman and all , participating. Alter the close of the ceremonies many came f rward and deposited, a list of the Trustees, j Coins, Greenback money, copy of tiie New-Berne Daily Times, and . various deposits were made. Before the time to adjourn the Conference voted 2-3 majority or more that tho hex* Session should be held at Concord, C:iHarris Co. X i C. ’The Bishop declared it so or , dered. The B. C. Conference, and ; the Virginia Conference requested „ that Rev. J. McH. Farley, be re ap pointed for the Travelling Agent, unanimously agreed to. Wednesday Dec. 2nd, Conftr puce re-assembled at St. Andrews I Chapel at 7 1-2 o’clock V. M., and the Conference celebrated at Love- I Feast, conducted bv Elder T. 11. , Lomax. About two hundred and j fifty partook, and then testified that r the Love of God was slied abroad in their hearts, this was a time long to be remembered. At the close of ’ the Love-Feast Bishop Hood came forward and assisted by the Clergy ordained two Elders to ? the work of the Ministry, at which time he gave them a very intercst } ing charge and made gome ot the most soul stirring remarks. The p Bishop then proceeded to read the appointments. The writer is not in ’ possession of a list of the appoint ments. but remembers tho following, and will give these few for at least some satisfaction. Elders T. 11. 1.0-rnak, rnak, P. E. Wilmington District; G. ’ I>. Farmer, Wilmington; J. A. Tyler;. New-Berne; W. J. Moore, Charlotte; ' F. B. Moore, Kinston; A. M. Bar rette, P. E. Manchester District; 11. C. Phillips, Fayetteville; D. McCoy, ' Concord; J. Green, Salisbury; P. W. 1 Howard, Tarboro; A. B. Smyer, Washington; C. 11. Harris, Charlotte Mission; &c. &c. After reading the 1 appointments, the Bishop announced that this Conference stands adjourn ed to meet at Concord N. C. on the 4th Wednesday of Novemlicr, 1875, at 10 o’clock, A. M., Elder J. A. Ty ler to preach the opening sermon, Elder J. McH. Farley is the Trav elling Agent lor the Rubli Universi ty another year. Benediction by the Bishop. It is duo to the people of New- Berne to say that no people could be more kind and hospitable than they. They arc a ‘well to do’ set of people in that city and surrounding vicinity. Long may they live, and prosperous be their condition, and may Heaven smile upon and God save them in His Kingdom. COXFERIKCE ReFURTEU. Deo. Bth, 1874.
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