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UEDUOATOR. i ' SATURDAY, JULY “7, 1573. WADDELL X SIIITJI Editors Mini Pnlilitdur*. - ~~ {« Our friciul* wiUsee that our terms are •** ■Cash. We Lope they will govern them selves accordingly. T . Con RES CON l>£ K C K. It must not he understood that the Kui’cator eudomes the sentiments of Its eonrespeudonts in every instance. Its.uolumus.arc .qpou to tine iiauuds of tlie party, and their coinmuuioatious •will l>c given to the public as coutain . 1 Itig the views and sentiments of tlic writers. receiving their • J*»[ier wWi * Blue Cross Make on ••it, i»ro tlms notefiod that the term of *heir StinsompTios has expired, •tmd'unless they renew, we -will be compelled to discontinue the paper. An Election for Delegateeto num ber One Hundred and Twenty, to •amend the Constitution of the State, ■■will be held on Thursday, the bth ot Amyust. 1875. The Convention will onset at .Raleigh, on the (>th of the fvVmmnp Aej.tember. < Xho Convimliou t<*ieis -1 ion. ifnimediuttlj after the general c •lection all ooer the Stale , on the 6 th J .dtffaet August, the Gaekote, among ■the paper;: ot -Earth Caroli w ‘mo, took atspumitionitlUMLY ANI) .'SQUARELY against, the call of a •f •Convention to amend the present -‘Constitution ‘of the State. ...J1 '•*■*’* The Convention question nras :not etui Issue in the August campaign; \ ■ »we- do not suppose any candidate or i any public speaker ever broached the i , Uwiftct an»/ where on the stump; the \ ht-fioofle anticipated, no such iettie —l 'consul, what Is more, thousands who voted with our parly for t he first •? ttKUe, trxmld never have done so had. they seen any reason to expect a call for a Convention', should it be fore d upon them they will have voted with ■us for the LAST time. In'short, the citizens—-the voters of • Worth'Carolina DON'T WANT A •CONVENTION; they are not b< ’■ Mined mfi -hot able to endure the necessary outlay of money which • would be incurred', anal they prefer relying upon Legislative enactment for,the correction of whatever < ion stitutional abuses may now rest heats- j jr ngiou them.—A or th Carolina Ga jfCfle, ot bth Eovember, last. <U. Fuller Ksq. I , "We would like to say to this gen • tleman that his efforts to defeat Judge Buxton as a candidate for the •r Convention are accepted by the Dem ocratic party as a melancholy indica ition of his election. The party .have .Several grave reasons to feel this .ap prehension. The first that might be mentioned is the fact that you were so disgracefully beaten by him last year, for Judge. You Lad nearly a thousand Democratic majority to help yon, and .yet you failed of oloc ition by over «ix hundred majority Against you. How docs your conceit account lor this fearful discrimination made .-against you by the people? If yon think it all an accident, you would make a poor Judge of evidence. It nieaut plain euuugli that the people were afraid to trust you. A further reason tliat renders your assistance in this canvass objec- 1 iionable to the Democratic party, is | the unworthy motives that drop out; 00 plainly in this crusade of yours j .against Judge Buxton. If it was; your devotion to |mrty or your migh ty concern in this eonsveution move- 1 ment, that give direction to your Malevolence against him, it might bear the shadow of excuse; but it's that “raw place'’ that is letting out all this venom. Your presumption and arrogance can't stand t eluiko. Yon may he a very proper man in '’the private walks oflife, and answer the purpose of running a religious ‘ (tewSpapei or be a rosin clerk, bnt you aiut north shucks as a coinpaign i document Your “blood bound ’pur •nit of Judge liuxton will bear but. one Common interpretation. It can not be hidden by your denials on the stump or your Christian character feeble or strong as it may be. The “sting of defeat” is the great solution You are Ids personal and individual enemy, and your public harangues against him have no other signifi cance. Mr. W. C. Troy and Col. Broad foot are hounding with you; one ol these gentlemen has a private grudge an old sore, and the other is anxious to recover his forfeited claims to “loyalty” in the parly. It looks bad enough for them to thrust themselves into the canvass, but as for you, oh, what an everlasting obscure idea yon must-have «f common modesty! Speak «u Mr. Bart., jvhenevor yon lift your olarion voice in this cam paign, you lift a broad shield for Buxton. All your prodigious efforts’ fail to attract his notice, and the Democratic party ought to muzzle you for its own salvation. Tub Gazette ought not to lie so “rabid” in its statements, it it is “dog days”. The declaration that Gen. Abbott required security for the provisions sent to the people ol Fay etteville after the war, is not the truth. It was a gratuitous contribu tion altogether. Mr. McKethan would hardly authorize the statement that lus-cotton paid for any of the provisions sent by Gen. Abbott. It is true that Mr. McKethan did allow his cotton to be sold for the j benefit of U s suffering town; all bon- j or to him as a good man; but it hap- 1 •pens that this generous act was after) the donation of Gen. Abbotttlludcd i to by J udge Buxton. Mr. T. S. Lut- i teiioh can share m the gratitude ol; our people also in lending his cotton j for the relief of our citizens. Both; | Mr. McKethan and Mr. Lutterlohj ! have been repaid by the town lor! j these advances, and Judge Buxton) ; deserves just the credit he claims for \ ; himself and‘Gen. Abbott in this mat- j ! ter. No cause is fa’rly won without ; truth. Will the Gazette condescend i 'to ponder on this fact? M hut (lues it menu? i What are so many lawyois follow- : ing the Candidates for in this Coil vent ion campaign—have they axes to.grind? Here in Cumberland county is '•Ex. Judge Fillin''' who, though lie never was a Judge and never can be. rants around the hustings and on the stump cither to show that he is! a spiteful and disappointed man, or! that he wants the courts multiplied j that his full timemay Uo occupied really at the bar. It he can not be a “Jew;,-;” then let him hive a chance to bo an occupied and sure enough lawyer! We suppose the people understand Mr. Fuller in all this! Then, there is Col. Broadfoot, lawyer, who in 1871 tried to push a convention on us as a member of the legislature and who canvassed the county for the issue, folding the people opposed, he too crawls down from off the shelf and joins the crowd of' other lawyers to I-'OUCE the mat ter now. More still, there is 'little’’ llarry Myrover, lawyer—who with Bart Fuller (tbe “Kx-Judgo’j edits the Gazette, and the same who declared in his paper that a call for conven tion was of would bo “unwise, haz zardons and inexpedient” even Uii, so very consisted aud patriotic, yes iIE Editor and lawyer prances a round on the canvass aud even makes speeches now for convention—exam inc his files! Then there is lawyer Mcßae the man whom the people last summer elected to the legislat ure. and who then did not open' his j mouth one time as in favor of calling a convention, yes this lawyer runs ] | out in the hot sun those dog days to | ! make convention speeches at the ru- j 1 rsl township meetings. It is said j |aml the fact can lie substantiated j j that Mr. Mcltaa finding the people) ! against this convention movement j caused through Mr. Troy, chairman, a meeting of his parly Executive Committee and to them talked both sides adroitly as a lawyer can and bis own leaders with but one dis senting votes pronouocd against the way he voted. Mr. Mcßae and his colleague Jessup, both voted for the convention bill on Rs final passage I when their two votes alone would ! have killed the whole ‘ thing" and our people spared this campaign— this revolutionary and unnecessary, this “dangerous, hazzardous and in expedient” undertaking. Yes, law yer Mcliae with his colleague Jessup though they wore both in formed not only by the people but by their party executive committee that a convention would be “unwise iiazzardons anil inexpedient” and) that they were all opposed to it— actually did veto for the bill on its: final reading and their two votes passed it! It only required 80 votes to pass. The pill passed by 81. Had Mcliae and Jessup voted nay, as their people desired them to do the bill would have been defeated by one vote, instead of passing by I one -vote! Lawyer Mcßae passed thebilL for Jessup only echoed Jiin ! voice and was himself a declared opponent of the measure as his coun try neighbors will all prove. The revival of the old county court sys tem, (good for lawyers) the revival of old judgements through a new system of courts which are now de barred by homestead, and the ap pointment of Judges whom the peo ple will not elect explains all this. \Ye warn the people to stop aud tint k, they \vi soon learn what all this means. Head J Head I ! "The Salisbury Watchman, a Dem ocratic and Convention paper, thus speaks of'the Address of the Execu- j tive Committee of its party: “When such men as Judges Gas ton, Ruffin, Badger, Govs. Bragg.! Avery, B. F. Moore, Haywood, and j others, among the ablest men North Carolina has yet produced, tell ns! that tgpTHKUE 18 NO POWER | IN THE LEGISLATURE TO RESTRICT A CONVENTION.! iff ive feel inclined to laugh at the | pompous, but- WEAK opposition! offered to their opinions by the Ex- i ecutive Committee.” Again we quote; •“When the | Convention meets ISf IT WILL j HAVE THE POWER TO DO Wll AT E VEli ITS MEM BE US. MAY DEEM BEST,ft??— * ’ 1 * * * * —to .give ns,! decent judges, and all necessary re-1 form measures, and if it fails to d j it, it had better not assemble. Let j lit. r ltd tnOTG ft bout tib u liny />j/ the ft n l ctAling the Convention •*, far tus lh \ wit* or.fi th: rciii iat tin * fire cenccnuul." i l'7)«el ion I-uav UueouMti-! tu tionul. Section 2d of the clecliou law: “That when a voter is zslialleugcd j at the polls, upon demand of any citizen of the State, it .shall be the duty of the inspectors of the election to require said voter, before being allowed to vote, to prove by the oath of same otiier person known to the judges, the fact of his residence for thirty days previous thereto an the county iu which lie proposes to vote.” The above the Supreme Court has decided, in its decision, July Vith, 187 a, to be unconstitutional. If any person should be disfran-1 closed by a poll-holder, on account of the above unconstitutional law, the poll-holder should be at once arrested and properly punished. The Pkoposed Oosvexttox.— “If a Convention is called let it bo unrestricted—lut tliere be no pan dering to * * * * imported Yankee ideas—let the old! thne practices be restored, including! the whipping post and qualified suf f'rage. But it is understood, we j think, that the Legislature cannot j limit the action of a Convention, j and if the Convention meets it can i do as it pleases. * * * * i No member of a savcici m State 1 Convention should regard 'he die-! tation of a mere legislative body.— ; | Charlotte Democrat. j Said Mrs. A to Mrs. )’... “Don't | you thiuk that Mr. C. has a remark able stock of common sense?” “He 1 ought to have,” replied Mrs. B.; “for | uo one ever saw him use any.” “Where shall I put this paper «o a* to be sure to find it to-morrow?” inquired Mary Jane of her brother Charles “On the looking-glass.” was her brother's reply. The old gentleman who spent a fortune in endeavoring to hatch coll i:S from horse <-hi I cuts i« now cultivat ing egg plant, with • view to raising ehickt tt -un it COM MUN HATEI). Tli«s "* Ft estrieteU" Con. vention Act- EiHTOKS OP XHK EnUCATWII- A short review of the provisionsj of the Act of the Legislature calling! the Convention dhows upon its face j the anxiety of the “Reconstructed Democracy” of North Carolina to popularize the subject ot Conven lion at tbe expense of the Republi can party and at the same time con ceal from the masses of the people the real object they desire to -accom plish. The Preamble to the Act is as fol lows, ■‘■Whereas the present Con stitutioii ot North Carolina is iu many important particulars unsuited to the wants .aud condition of our people” <fcc. Stop right hero and answer this questiou. 1. Who says the present Constitu tion is in many important particu lars unsuited to the wants and con dition of our people.? 12. Have the p.eqple ever -said so ? 3. if so, when ? 4. Did the Peotle say so m 1868 j when the Convention was adopted ?! 5. Did the People say so in 1871, (only four years ago) when they re- 1 fused to call a Convention to amend, U \ I The emphatic answer is: The, | Pbopi.e have never yet expected j I what is contained in this preamble. ; \Vno then says that the present j Constitution is unsuited to the wants : •and condition of our people? Why.) I nobody bet the self-constituted | j “Solons” of the lest Logielatnre, ) and men they have firettLT f.vh,ea> |T® I’OIXT en OKE HLXttLE tUUEI - j TtOX TO THE COKSSSTX.TIUK. What then is the real object of this 'Convention ? The answer is I ; nowhere to he -found in the Act.— ) j Tbe Act prescribes tliat .certain j •tilings shall .virl be done, Just is swleeit !as the grave as to what SHAM, be t doiu. Taking a somewhat logical | j view of the subject upon the ulil ( ) ; principle of the division oi all crea j j ted things, that every thing m crea- ! i i tion is either a Jackass or not a{ I farkast, one wonld eoiu-.luile that! ■ the Legislature intended to.sry that: 1 every thing in the Ceustittthui ex j ; oe.pt .those named in the Act is l s i : MIT till TO THE WANTS AVI! COS- • i iiition' of oil: fEoiu.K,” ami that i ; therefore every thing in the t on 1 j stitution ought to be abolished and) changed except in the particulars’; i menti ned in the Act. The entire Judicial aud Executive | Departments of the State Govern ment are declared to be fSSLUEi); TO THE WiXTS ASD CO>i>tTl#X Os UUdt people, and arc left to the Couvention to be altered iu any way they desire except the ofiiccs. Judgiug men by their acts we, would naturally conclude from tbe Aet of the Legislature gerryman dering the city of Wilmington (re cently declared by the Supreme! Court to be L’scovsTrtraoxal) the object the Legislature liad in : cailiug this Couvention is to got more power to gerrymander towns and cities aud in the near future en able the Democratic party to get j control of the Judicial and Execu j tive Departments of the State Gov. eminent. Their motto is ‘the end justifies the means." They say’in this Act “The Con vention shall SOT require or propose any educational or property quaUfii cation Jfor office or voting.” Have not they themselves already in de- 1 ; fiance es the Constitution as it now , ; stands, aud in violation of their ! oath, to support the Constitution eti-! I acted Pkoperty qualifications for I | voters at certain town elections in | this State ? Did not the Democrat- j jie Legislature of 1870 and 1871 pse-; j scribe a Puot’EJtTY qualification fori ; voters in the town of Fayetteville ?) Was not this UscossTiTiTloSAL | act passed to take the town Govern j meat out of the hands of the Repub i lie ins (who had aud will have a ma ! jority of the voters in the town) aud j give it to the Democrats? Under | this Act have not the Democrat* | ever since controlled the town Gov- I eminent of Fayetteville ? Dout they j bring voters bore on ejection day ! who reside fi'tee-n to twenty miles in the country and control the bal -1 s buxis :md carry the election by such voters ? See bow the last Legislature ■■ this Convention Act is trying to humbug aud gall the people. Look at the oath prescribed for Delegates to take. “You, A. R, do solemnly swear, j (or affiim) that you will faithfully maintain and support the Constitu tion of the United States and the several axexdxexys thereto jx CLUDIXtI the 13th. !4th and loth" Amksdmexts Ac. Such miserable “Dirt Eater*.”— Didhit tliey oppose these amend ments to the United States Consti tution when -they were submitted to the States for ratification ? Did'nt they-say they wonld not “Eat Dirt” by submitting to such HEtiBADATTOX? Then again Yas not every voter iu North Carolina already taken an oath to support The Constitution of the United States “including the ISth 14th and 15th amendments!" now many times is it necessary for a De mocrat to take an catli l>cfe*e he considers it SIXt«IKU ? Is tkis |*rt of the oath intended as one of the “ResTkictioXs” eti tke Delegates? ) It'so, what docs hin het amoent to ? Suppose they choose tw ganl it, can they strike there teenj janents from tke Constitation tLe I United Stales or is city xrsy aateud I mtr Constitutioa so as v> repeal or j modify these xsesfamiis ? it has ! l»oeu loiig s nee HteliiM a-a rate !to which there is its cwMiaii that ! “The Constitution of the J":ii"<-<1 ! Stati-s an 1 tlie Lr.ws tna*l<* is jrwsu ) ance thereof is the St pc'-tt. tat or THE LANIi any thing in the C-*:isti tetiwi tr laws of any State t* the coat I Airy -veTs-ithstsndiugU No “States Rights D aioe.at, however igiioraKt. wilt deny «i p : -r.,.- tk.v. Than again the Cu-vestiw Art ! preserilw* ~X• > r -halt ar-i-f l -nnvru ! tint, adopt or propone atyykn «i ameufmeot or scheme of eotri-en-a- ‘ ! tion to the owners ot nuvifeitir! jslaves tiorfoc rk- |«ynient of at -. ( ! liability or •irltt inctfnred .vioi’y t.i )j in part in aid es the late war hetwvt-l t i the States.” ;! Thank y >a. tVs- is i,r y isagiiaisi * i molts, erq-voixily silt.- NiwTti Ca--< iiiia iirt-ler c -nt.ru! xirf er - : J a 1 )emiH-ratia-git.; » >kv i> not j»si, i now payiog £*»-<♦.;'t ; kin*!. It,: j t :, sv ever read t-ie 1» •siaentluiei: ! provide ‘ TU: :rcitl r tin- Ut.ilis *‘ States nor any S'atte !'■ ■ rth Cared* ; na is cut errey-Tef) r eel rt— iit:.- ’) pay any d.-bt or obligati**! in is «- ;in ai*l of insrrr?tSti*ni ov r*i-v'!!iot against the Uwited Sitxtaw or any-, claim for the Ios» *r ere ieeijutlioe ot any slave, bet as. se»L fsku. «Uiga tiiK -ttf ckiits skat: lie held ille gal aad void?” Why *lidn'» those “Dirt-Rating fissions' provide liau the Convention should net ik->!isl: • the dice -of Presideat o! the Unite*! States or-rejiea! “Migna Charts?" They waeld have jvst as maeh su j tbority So do tke «r.e as the ®t!*er (Tkis reinitide see of th* advice ■Tomyw" Pstvdergiass gatse his son w hen he staru-d ta the war, said we. “Now Alik, don’t you git ahead the “Governor" («eau»g JCiits) but if you DO catch Abe Lincoln, bring his head right to me.” Don't amend or abolish tke Constitution ofthe Uui ted S'utts if yon pies<e. Again tke t'«n latiw Art pro vides: “S»r shall said Convention have power to propose or adopt any amendment or ordinance vacating any office or term of office now ex isting aud filled or held by virtue of ; any election or »[>poi*tmeiits under 1 the existing Constitution aud laws ) until the same shall be vacated or I expire under existing laws." j Oil no, keep ail the offices, make a ) tew more if necessary for future par ) ty purposes, and lei the present Re publican Governor and other Kxecu ! tive officer* ainl tbe Republican Sa -1) preme Conrt an 1 the ltepuMican • Circuit Judges (WE Lave a few ol' them) serve out their time- This i* decidedly maguainui-Kis, **w«aih I since every lawyer iu the State know* that so long as tue office* re ■’ main the preseut officers have a i-w t ted right and ;*rop*'»ty in their res pectiv* offiees an*l even an unrestric ted Convention of unlimited power* could not remove them of take away i their vested right*. The t’onve'ii ; tion w*»ubl have no more power -o - take away vested light* than the I-egislature would have, tforngh I admit a Convention might abolish the office*. In the case of Hoke vs. Henderson, 4 Dev. page 1, the Su preme Court decided that an office is the property es the incumbent, and no change in the mode of ap pointment can affect the rights of a party already in office. This right is in the nature of a contract be tween the State and the officer, w kick the State can’t violate, by Convention ordinance or Legislative enactments. Wliat a nice, cheap bid to Repub lican officials not to oppose the Con vention ! It is so cool and refresh ing to think tliat they will be per mitted by the Convention ordered by the Domorratic Legislature to ‘ serve the short time lelt them of the term for which tie people elected -them. Now with these useless “restric tions," so railed, tliey mix up the Homestead. Mechanics Lien. Rights of Married Women and other de servedly popular provisions of the Constitution which everybody knuas are due to the Republican party. ; They desire to be considered now the special champions of the princi ples of the Republican party, proved ■ they ean thereby catch vote* and get jiohlical i>ower. No doubt this was the trap set for a few Re üblican members of the Legislature who were induced to vote with the Detn ■ fttv's to call the Convention. Let Ahem he sure their “sins will find them on!-” Tlie people will rise in their might an! again the 3rd time xstilv the Republican Constim ■ tion ol l-s<'*B. Tins l oßunuuicatiou is already longer than 1 intended, bnt I will ere ii-mr recur to the same subject and write y on. Year's lor die Constitution, ANTI CONVENTION. Fayetteville X. C. ) July 12th, In<s. 4 A C ARD. Fayetteville, N. C. July 22<1 '7.1. .l/forn. Editors: Tire Fayetteville Gazette of to -lavs issue upon the authority of it. seif or s**i;»c **tbwr Kur publishes :ue as lu d-iie.' an ii-*ultiug s|-cv-di ii: 7Dt. ruwiaiiji. I jiruaouinw* the wlude a.-t'rl-- a- entirely fitise in eonee - tion and ueiiual delivery; 1 made K<* such -txrdi or announced any such si-Jitimeiilsais the ti.UrJTt. :e --crile.-io- ae ;i»*- e-i:u niry ! charge lisat "Imrslst ly■ Gut-I ol being • g'liity »>f juiilidiiM the t'dhiA ;»_• citaoguc ot LJK- rom-erning me which I will efoifi as tollows. Lie No. L Tliat I called the '• eiy >*d,er t'.ttam* .4' 71 >t. (including \Vri-j-ai Huskey ul being e<h,cate-1 rascals. Lie No. 2 Thrt I applauded A. (•. Tliorutoa fur marrying a negro we ■nan. Lie No. J That! advocated mi*- cegnation »'r declared any foul sen ■ tiiuest* of any mvl I tin as free from any sueii imputations as the UEFOttUKI) editor of the Gazette. Wlat I did sty so lie- e xtcionlinanr respectable fee pic of 71st- which they could u-*t ID:on to. was that the poor ne gro tke abuse ot which make up the whole of Democratic politics, had paid the taxes oi the South for -J" 11 years, and their labor bad educated every swell head Democart in the crowd, and I said also that the blvi, guard attacks on Judge Buxton f-.r declaring Us sentiments in favor ot equal rights for all men. war shame ful and contemptible. So I pro Bounce now. It this simple act nt ju tioc to Judge Buxton ranks me a* I > Tight l*ower’ I would like totAethit place in the regular “pack'' of hi* friends. I have lwen familiar w ith the practice- and teachings of the l>emt> cratie party for twenty years ani ought not to be moved by a tew of tlie common lie* that make up Democratic amnnnion but iu tbi instance 1 *ee prope r to aotioe this w tkir and untruthful nnawnc ot the Fayetu-vilie Gazette. Jonx A. MaJJelNAl.i' The- i institution of the United , StaUs forbid* the Stale to pay v y debt* e*oiUract«d in aid of the rebel 1 isoß. but it •hies not prohibit the • counties tix.ni taxing tlw people te pay them. l • Tha t'harloUe Democrat say* it -• in lavor of getting pay for slave pro perty. There is only one way the can be alone. If the Democrat: party obtain a tr.ajorily iu tbe to vontiou tliev may wo arrange a* t* i have tiie i*eopie ofthe different cous . ties taxo-1 to jiay tlie old aristocracy for the loss ot their slaves. Arc the laboring no n of North Carolim 1 ready t«> lw taxed for such pur ■ po*e?
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