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THE GLEANER. T5. 8. PA It Ml? It, Editor GHAIIAM, N. C., JUNE 22, 1870. [ These columns are open to the free discussion of affairs. The GLEAN Ell is not responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents.'} KRSOMITIONS ADOPTRDBY THE DEtTlttCKATIl'.C'O.'VftEtiV A T I V E PAKTVOF AI.AIttANCE COUNT Y. Resolved, First: That the democratic conser vative party of this county nominate its candi date for delegate to the constitutional conven tion to assemble iii Raleigh iu September by Mass-Convcntiort of the county to be held on Saturday the 3rd day of July at the Court -1 ouee iu Graham. and: Thateyery Democrat and Conserva tive who will attend said Mass-Convention shall be deemed and recognized as a delegate from, his township. 3rd: That each township in the county shall: be entitled to twenty-live votes iu saidnomiua tiug Mass-Conveution. 4th: That each delegate shall have his equal proportion of the vote of his township at his disposal, which proportion shall be ascertained by calculation based upon the .nuinbci of delegates present from is township, and the said uumber of twenty-five votes to vhldi cadi township is declared entitled, and the vote shall be taken by a call of townships, when the Secretary of said Mass-CoffVcntion shall record the vote of each township as in ducted to do by the delegates of that town ship. From the above resolutions it will be 'seen, that the Democratic-Conservative party of this county will nominate its candidate for Convention on Saturday, 3d ol July, 1875. It will also be seen that every Democrat and Conservative in the county is an authorized delegate to the nominating Mass-Convention, and will have the casting of his proportion of the vote of his township under his sole individual control. The vote that each delegate will have depends upon the number of delegates in attendance from his township. Each township has twenty-five votes, and that number will be cast whether it has many or few del egates present. A large turnout is de sirable, to the end that a fair expression of the preference ol the party may be had in selecting a candidate. It is earnestly hoped that no township will bo represented by less than twenty-five delegates. It would be all the belter if many more than that number could be present. No matter how many, each will have his proportion of the tweoty fivo votes to which his township is. enti tled . Come on and let Alamance, the first in the roll of eountics, take a fore" most place in the Democratic column, that is marching to all over this broad laud. J. T. CROCKER, Clinirmau Ex. Com. A OT TV M I OKI: ra- The streets of Jerusalem were kept clean, as wo aro told, by every uiau's 1 sweeping before his own door. By * every county's attending to its own * elections, the result tlirongont the State J will be a grand triumph. That every county may do soevery individual must c do his doty. For the blessing of good ® government we all owea duty in return. We want to amegd our Constitution, not for the good cf democrats, especially r e nor for the inconvenience or trouble of any one, but tor the good of all. To do this, certainly aud without doubt, we a all have a duty to perform,and must, if e true to ourselves and our children, per- ® form it. The first Saturday in July the 1 democrats of this county nominate * their candidate to represent their county in the Constitutional Convention. This 0 selection should be carefully made. The selection should not l>e left to wire workers, if auy there are, and there J are some in almost every county. Nora- a inating Conventions should be conduct- ( ed freely and fairly. When this is not , done, #ie very object for which they j were intended is defeated,andthev serve > to preveut what they are looked to, to i secure. They are expected to reflect c the wishes of a majority of the party tb t which they belong. That they may do i so, the masses of the people must take an iuteGest in them, must attend them and take in their action and delib- •rations. If they do not, it is'just cer- I tarn that there will rise up tricksters to oontrol them. In our approaching i nominating Convention every democrat i or conservative has a voice, and a pow- i er. Let them attend in large numbers, SK and exercise their rights and privileges " iii saying who shall be their candidate. Alter oar nomination is made, let it not be said that undue influence shaped the course of the Convention. Let no vague insinuations, in whispers, stifle the free action ot any one present. Let all be done fairly, and openly, and it will -be satisfactory. We don't want any pro fessional candidate makers at work. The people are tired of it, wherever it has prevailed, and they just won't have it. Come every one, and let our can didate be the choice ot the party, and then, without dissension, he will be elected. Let us de our duty, each one, and pot depend upon others. Col. George Williamson of Caswell publishes a letter in the Milton Chroni cle in which he says under no circum stances will he be a candidate for Con vention. He thinks that no member of the Legislature calling the Convention should be a candidate for delegate to it, or at least it is not consistent with his of propriety. v .. • S - % M. T i ... V/--' 1 ' THE BJESTBICTieiVS, AND TIIE IIO.TIEMTEAO. Tho republican papers would lead one to believe, that, in cage a majority of the delegates to the Convention are democrats, the restrictions in the act ] calling the convention are the only hope of the State. The weight of authority, while there is difference of opinion, is that the restrictions are legally binding, : and cannot be disregarded, even were ■ (here a disposition to do so by the dele ' gates c'ecteil. The moral obligation to - to observe them, is unquestioned, but. " the weight of this does not seem to be r appreciated by republicans,' whether 1 from incapacity or unwillingness we do not undertake to say. To listen at ' them, one would suppose that there : was a possibility of the democratic par ty electing a set of jneu as delegates, who would be as little inclined to serve the best interest of the people, and know as little of what that interest is, as the delegates who framed the preseut Con stitution. Who compose the democrat ic party now? Are there not found in its ranks that class oftnen and thegreat majority of the very men, who have ever been trusted by the people, and who have never betrayed that trust? Arc the democrats not from and of the very class that is most interested in good, wholesome laws? Oh! but they'll destroy the homestead, you hear shriek ed from every radical paper in the laud. How are they going 'to distroy it? Oh! they'll disregard the restrictions. What! disregard the restriction to des troy what they originated in 1867, be fore the complete birth of the radical party in this State; to destroy a provis ion in which they, and their party friends, are almost exclusively interest ed ; to destroy what they have, by re cent legislation, made permanent, in stead of leaving it only for the fife of the man who took refuge in its benefits. Why, gentlemen, with people, who are capable of exercising a thought for themselves, your reputation for sinceri ty, or common sense, must suffer and, if you go on so, will eventually be ruined. Oh yes, but there will beauother set of Supreme Court Judges, and they will hold differently as to the application of the homestead exemption to old debts, they toll us. Well, that is a clincher, and they have relied upon it in every campaign they have ever made in the State. Why, bless your souls, there'll be a new set of Supreme Court Judges there is a Convention, and whether the constitution is amended or not. The time of those on the bsnch is nearly cut, and, ip the course of nature' with some of thorn, it is not distant when time will be no more. The pres ent constitution will keep them alive as Judges for two years longer than the people electAl tliem for, but it can't keep them alive as men, when they are called to trial, instead of to judge. No, gentlemen the homestead will never bo impaired by our 6tate courts. The Federal Courts, over which we have no electing or appointing power, are the courts that are to bo dreaded by the un fortunate man whose shelter for himself and little ones depends upon the ex emption of his homestead. Not a dem" ocratiu the State, so far as we know or have reason to believe, would if he could impair in the slightest degree the benefits of the homestead. No one ever opposed this provision of the constitu tion. There is a large proportion of the democratic party individually and personally interested in the homestead being good, now and forever, against all debts of whatever date. Four fifths of the radical party, the negroes, have no personal interest in this generous provision of the constitution and never will have. Now iu view of this, and it is true,in whose hands would the home stead likely be most safe? B.ut, why talk about it? The contention, if it I would, cannot interfere with the home stead, and If it could it would not, and every body knows this. These radical oditors know it m weH as any one, but they also know that unless they can de ceive and frighten the people there is no hope for them. It is a death strag gle with them, and their desperation must, to the charitable, be some sort of excuse for their reckless assertions, their Wild unfounded charges, and their departure, which, judging from its completeness must be final, from every thing like candor, troth and fair argu ment. Such a course cannot longer de ceive the people. Though not fully a wake, their eyes are sufficiently open not to be led further, by declarations unfounded, assertions without truth, and representations without reason, common sense, or facts to sustain them. The republican party is dear to its lea ders for what it has done for them, it has been dear to the people for what i they hare done for it, and now, as its , dissolution approaches, it should, in the knowledge of the justice of its fate, . die calmly, that recollections of its last days may not be associated with wri things, distortions, and bitter sufferings, ' in a vain effort to avert an inevitable - fate. Be calm. For your misdeeds yon f deserve it. You fooled and deceived } the people a long time. We trust yon are not hardened enough to take oonse * lation from this. Let a nobler 6cnti s ment console you: that what is your loss is the peoples gain. .• V - . * I'HE POOR MAW. What a Constitution our present 0119 is for the poor man to be sure I Radical papers are constantly calling the atten. tion of the "hewers of wood, and draw ers of water," and "delvers," as they are pleased to call the poor man, to something or other. Let us see if it (the present constitution) can't be im proved somewhrt for the poor man. Now let us take tne poor man who lives near the railroad. He has a cow, to give milk lor his little children; lie can't keep her up, and she is killed by a passing train. It is a matter of con sequence to him. He must get pay for her, or he is unable to buy another, apd his little ones must eat their bread with out milk.. Now, if the bosses of the railroad happen to be in the best of hu mor, and don't forget it, they will, after awhile, perhaps, make an order to pay him half 01 what they say she is worth, and, never under any circumstances any more. And to do is a matter en tirely in their own discretion, for, prac tically the poor man has no remedy by which he can enforee hia rights in this and similar cases. Now, suppose the cow is worth twenty dollars, and the bosses of the railroad, either neglect 6r I refuse to pay the one halt that they do sometimes pay, what remedy is there ? Practically none, yet there is a way to enforce payment; though at a trouble and a cost that makes the remedy worse than the disease. Well, Mr. Poor Man, under this Constitution, that was made especially for his convenience, must go to the Court House, and hire a lawyer, (you must get a lawyer when you bring a suit in court,) at ten dollars (that is as cheap as you can get one) and then get some one to stand his bond for costs; 01* if he can't do that, must 6ue as a pauper, and, if he does not sue as a pauper, he must deposit five dollars with the clerk of the court to pay costs as it goes, and then after paying fifteen dollars out to begin with, and after at tending two or three terms of the court, and loosing time and incurring expen ses to tli# amount of perhaps twenty dollars more, he may at the end of two or three years get his judgment for twen ty dollars for his cow. But can this be so you ask, and why? Simply because the present constitution says, that the Superior Court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of everything not founded upon contract, and until that is altered, the legislature is powerless to do anything, that will place a remedy in the hands of the poor man. And so it is with every tiling not founded upon contract. You see the railroad never made any contract, never promised to pay for the cow. Thsre must be a con tract or else you must go to the Superi or court or nowhere. Before the legis lature was forbidden* to do so by the constitution, it made a law allowing a man to go before a magistrate, 210 law yer, no court cost, no bond, with two of his neighbors, and have any stock he had killed valned, and the magistrate would issue execution against the railroad company at once,and the mon ey was paid. We have known it all done in one day. That law has never been repealed, and would be in full force to-day, but for the clause of the constitution overriding it. There are some, yes we think many good things in the pveseut constitution, but there are many very many bad onet, and these latter we want to take out, or amend, so that all will be good. It is lor the good of every one, that, this should be done, and what is anybody opposed to it for? No reason tor -the , people but, there is a selfish reason for those who wish to make party capital, and then capital out of the party. Wo might enumerate hundreds of iustances of hardships growing out of this clauseof the Constitutiox that forbids magistrates having jurisdiction of anything not founded on contract. Two neighbors may have, and frequently do have dit putes about the ownership of stock, a hog, a sheep, or cow. Yet to settle this they must go at once into the* Superior Court with all the trouble and expenses attending a regular law suit. Mr. Smith has your yearling in his field and claims it. Yon know it Is your year ling, yet you cannot "get it, or get pay for it, without a snit in the Superior court. Aricb man can afford to go to law for nothing, rather than be run over as is sometimes said. The poor man can't, lie wants in these small matters to4iave a remedy that will not cost more, in the start, than the property in controversy is worth. He can't have it under the present constitution. Let us all forget prejudices, 'and act together for the good ot all, aud when we differ let it be a difference of judgement and opinion, and not one founded on ill feeling and prejudice. "The past is in the eternal pas?i let us be careful of, and provide for the future. 11l Maryland, the Colorado beetle has landed, and is playing havoc with pota toes: iu New Jersey the phyloxera has attacked the vineyard*; and in Missouri the grasshopers are carrying everything before them. Fortunately, hogs are doing well, and entirely withontdisease, I in Ohio and Kentucky, and a fall crop I is anticipated. DIMENSIONS. Dissensions are disagreeable, always fraught with evil and never with any good. In families, in churches, in socie! tics, in parties, and in countries it is ever, and will ever be, the same. Dis cord aud dis|igreement, but other words for vexations, troubles and failures wherever found. To prevent these we must all be forgetful of petty difterences in the past. There is none of us. but eandor compels to acknowledge faults in the past, words unjustly spoken, acts rashly done, that have been regretted and repented, and nothing but a foolish pride, that afflicts us all, prevents a full acknowledgement. We are 011 the eve of an important campaign, one that will result in much good to the State, or in fastening upon it, and its citizens, an empediment to prosperity, for an in definite length of time. The object ot the approaching election is to clothe del gates with powers and trusts, than which none can be more sacred an im portant. None but men who have your confidence should be thus entrust ed). The power to amend your consti tution, the foundalion of fhe laws un der which you and your children are to be governed, and by' which you are to be protected in your rights of person and property, is to be entrusted to the delegates you sleet, It is made a party question, not by you, but the republi can party.—lts leaders we should say, for many honest republicans, who are not republicans for place or pay, are with us on this question. The cam. paign though will be as strictly party in its character as the radical leaders can make it. They are struggling fo retain t leir power.Tlieir only hope is to weaken and destroy our power by creating dis sensions among us. They are fighting now for next year, when Governor* members of congress and legislators are to elect. They are inscrupulous. Rea son and argument they have none, and ' resort is had to unfounded assertion and wholesale misrepresentation. By these they hope to deceive and mislead some, but no* enough to secure their triumph. Dissensions among us is there only real hope. Let us forget pas l differences,and act together, as we thiuk together, and thus secure to ourselves, and our children, and our radical neigh bors, who oppose us and their children, and all who will come among us, the blessings of a free, liberal economical and just government, one suited to us all, and our condition and wants aud necessities. We are all opposed to op pression, tyranny, corruption, extrava gance, force bills, one man power, civil rights laws, and to sum it up in one word radicalism, for it means them all and more too, then letus, forgetting all past dissensions, and unkind words and hasty action,about and among ourselvcg in harmony aud iu the name of liberty, right, and justice to all and for all let us secure these great blessings. POLL TAX. "The present Constitution does not allow the Legislature to tax the people more than two dollars on the poll." We clip this from The Era , or as not inappropriately called by some of our re publican neighbors "The Error." This is an argument against electing democrat ic delegates to the Constitutional Con vention, and in point of force and truth fulness is the equal of any thdy use. This radical Constitution of ours, inter preted by a radical Supreme Court does not place any such limitation upon the taxing power, aud every body knows it. We suppose this unfounded assertion was intended to influence voters too old to pay poll tax, and negroes who never pay any. Every body else knows better,because they have, ever since tliis blessed Constitution wat a Constitution had to pay ssore. Audacity does ac complish much sometimes, and its pow ers are being tested to the fullest extent by the radical press on this question of electing delegates to the Convention. The impudence that seriously tells a people, that under the present Consti tution their poll tax cannot exceed two dollars, when that very people have been paying more ever since the instru ment was forced upon them, is, as a specimefeof its kind, something to be admired A Tue Radicals unblushingly tell the people that the object of the Conven tion is to plunge the State into civil war again. If democrats are elected and control the Convention, the leading spirits in plunging the State into the last war will have no influence over it. Holden and Rodman, and company who actively plunged the State into the last war, are not so potent now as they.were then. Their last plunge was into the radical party, and they have about dis appeared from view beneath Its dark waters. The war is over, and the peo ple know it, and are glad of it, and its evils including radical misrule are " passing away, passing away." That cat won't Jump. We notice that P. R. Harden ft Bro. are _ receiving an installment of new goods. We would say, that we noticed among them, some of the prettiest cal icoes we had seen, but fear that some Of our folks might be after us to buy Ten cents a yard is the price. BTE»«TH IN II\RMONY J There must be 110 division in the | Conservative party this summer. At | present happily the signs are auspi-' clous for almost perfect union aud ad herence to the principles and policy of the organisation. The great apprehen sion is that the party strength, through apathy, cannot be fully brought cut. Convention will fail—'the crying de mand for a new Constitution bo un-» heeded— if there is not a poweriul effort everv where made to carry the election in August! jßg We call upon all reasonable men, whatever their past party affiliations, to come out and work for the success of the Convention movement. Inaugura ted chiefly by Conservatives, it ia a popular movement if rightly under stood. It behooves the press, and the more intelligent voters to take a deeper interest in this matter. There is far more at stake than is commonly imagin ed. North Carolina can ill afford to tail again into the hands of the mad spirits that control the Republican par ty. How earnest and determined are the purposes of the Radical leaders our readers can judge from the tone and temper of the secret Compact made by the editors of that party and published by us two days ago. That docuinent, which they would not have had reveal ed for any consideration, shows a de liberate and subtle intention to use chicanery, hypocrisy, humbug, evasion, falsehood—'anything to get possesion once more of power in this State. They think, with a show of plausibility, that the failure of the Convention will largely aid them in executing this pro gramme. To prevent so fatal a consummation we invoke more activity—a restless,, sleepless, judicious energy—and invoke the old North Carolina spirit which so ,often (nearly always) has borne our people throngh peril and tribulation' to glorious triumph and on to tranquil peace and prosperity. Sentinels, slum ber not on post! Men, be ye ready the souud of the alarum to respond to the call of your State and ever obey the promptings of duty and the sugges tion ot sagacious leadership Star. » ADVERTISED ENTS. GREAT TASK MADE EASY, * - By the use of the VICTORIOUS WIBKEB IMPROIE]) Hay Rake, . * Manufactured by JOHN DODDS & CO., Dayton, Ohio. This is this only Perfect Scir-Opcrating RAKE ever offered to tne public. Any little girl or boy that can drive a gentle horse, can rake the hay as well as the strongest man. Circulars sent free on application. ~ GEO- A. CURTIS, Agent. Graham, N. C, 1875. 1875. Spring and Summer GOODS !! The very latest Styles and Cheap* DRV oo«Da,Ke'n«HB,(:Lo i niiii[e. LAItIBS TRIMMED HAIH, OBOCBKIRB, AABUWAKK CROCKGRT WOODEN* WARE. Every thin* usually found in a Retail Store will be sold a» • CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST. When you come to town call and see my stock—l am sure it will pay you. J. L. SCOTT. apr27-2m Graham, N. C. J. P. GrULLEY, Retajleh amd Jobber or Dry-Goods, Clothing, NOTIONS. BUKT'S HAND-MADE Boots & Gaiters, If ATS AND CAPS, TAMBKS, TRDNKB.WHITE GOODS, ftC., Ac. ' South Cor. Eayetteville St., and Exchange Place RALEIGH. N. C. I" JONES & SONS, GRAHAM, N. C., Biiggy and Carriage Makers, Are prepared toTfill at the shortest notice all orders in their" line. Repairing promptly and neatly done, at MODE DATE KATES. They also keep constantly on hand for sale at their khop, an assortment of ■ raa, Nail*. Maggy Material, Pftpar* H Patau af all eaUnr, t Plngh*. aa CaSaa. Any style of cofßn furnished at two hoars notice. All kinds of produce taken at market prices. We are thankful for past patronage, and hope to merit its continuance. J fabiaam mHE GREENSBORO PATRIOT BSTABIHKBD 1S91! Published weekly in Greensboro, N. C. by Dirffy A Albright, at 03.10 per year in advance —postage included. It is Democratic-Conservative in politics and labors aealonsly for the material prosperity of the South generally and North r«r»iin» particularly. fyNorth Caroliuianß abroad should not be without it. Specimen copies free. ADVERTISEMENTS. Drugs, Paints, O L A S S & C . We keep constantly on hand a good assort ment of , EBB»H bRtCIn AND t'HEniCALH, different brands of White Lead, alarge stock of WINDOW GLASS, which we are now selling for leee money than they have ever been sold for in this section. We will supply Village & Country Merchants a better article than they buy North for the same money. Also we have a large stock of« TRUSSES AND SUPPORTERS, together witfi a full and complete line of TOILET AND FANCY ARTICLES. Come and see tie, inspect our stock and satifsV yourself of the truth of what we say. The Se' nior member of the firm has resumed practice and can always be found at the Drug Store when uot professionally engaged. T .u „ W. GLENN & SON., In the Benbow House, Greensboro, N. C. AND RETAIL. We keep constantly on band a large and varied stock of GROCERIES, IIARD-WARE DRY-GOODS/ VV . .. ' a of all sorts, NOTIONS,JRATS, CAPS, ROOTS* and shoes, Ready-mark CLOTHING, Car pe tings • 1 AND MATTIJYCS of all grades, from the lowest prices up made a specialty. VILLAGE AND COUNTRY MERCHANTS are invited to Inspect our stock and Lear our BHjces before buying elsewhere. Tliey can examine and select for themselves, and we guarantee that we can them their entire stock or atfy part of It on such terms as will enable them.ta sell their goods at a larger profit to themselves than they could do by nur chasing, by order, from a distance. We are Agenty for, and sell at manufactures prices the following goods, viz : Cedar Falls and Deep River Sheetings, Yams and Seamless Bags, Holt's and Randle man's Plaids, Fries' "Salem" Jeans, Charlottesville Cassimers and Erkerrbi eeeher's Starch. ODELL, RAGEN A CO,, apr 20-ly Greensboro, N. C. Pjjy B, FARKAR, OPTICIAN, WATCH-MAKER, AND JEW EL EE, AND DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, JBWBLBV Silver Ware; Bridal Presents, Solid Rings, Walking Canes, Gold Pens, &c. GREENSBORO, N. C. Which trill be »«rl«f cheap fot Cash. 43° Watches. ClockSi Jewelry, Sewing Ma chines, and Pistols repaired cheap and on short notice Art assorted stock of Guns, Pis tols, Cartridges, &c., always on hand apr 20-ly * SPRING OPENING OF MILLINERY GOODS. At PugTi's Corner, in Graham, on Saturday, the 34th day of Apiil, I shall open for inspect ion and trade, my Spring stock of new BONNETS, HATS, CAPS, RIBBONS, LACES, FLOWEBS, ORNA MENTS*, CUFFS. Switches. Plaits, and everything usiyißy found in a fashionable millinery Store. The ladies of Graham and surrounding coun try are invited to call and examine my stock. Miss 8, J. GRAGSON. apr.l3-lm New Goods. W. R, ALBRIGHT,v (at Bason's old stand,) GRAHAM, N. C., '« Staler ia DBT4IOODB, NOTIONS, HATS SHOES, 6BOCBBIBS, HARD-WARE, QUEENS-WARE, See. Having bought goods on favorable terms I will sell cheap for cash or barter. Polite and attentive clerks to wait on customers and show goods to all. Qaiek Sales and Small PralU wifl make money. Call and examine if yon do not boy. It can do no harm. feb 23-8 m r'"» " ■ 1 AND MAKING. Robert A. Noel], Offers his services as a Tailor, to the public His shop ia at his residence, in GBABAH. If. C. His work warranted, in fit and finish. feb 16-Iy WARDS, BBOUGHTON k CO. "Wen 4l Binder*, RALEIGH, N. C.