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Volume XXIX. GREENSBORO, N. O., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1867 Number. 1,372 N otice in Bauk-ruplcy* District Courtof the ) United States, v j n Bankruptcy. For the Pamlico District of , North Carolina. J In the matter of RUFUS J. FRENCH, BANKRUPT. Pamlico District of North Carolina, ss: This is to o-ive notice thaton the 20th day of November, 1867, a warrant of Bankruptcy was issued out of the District Court of the United for the Pamlico District of North Caro lina against the estate of Rufus J. French, of Ruffin in the county of Rockingham, in said District who was adjudged a Bankrupt on his own petition: That the payment ot any debt and the delivery of anv pioperty belonging to W IEEIAM G-O^LO & SON.. Law Booksellers and Publishers. No. NEW 68 STATE STREET, ALBANY, N. Y. A LAKGUE STOCK OF AND SECOND HAND LAW BOOKS, ALWAYS ON HAND, AND THE PATRIOT sssaHj®^ Sold at the Lowest Rates. Any Law Book in print sent by mail, free, to any part of the Union, on receipt of the price. Liberal Discounts Made For Cash, PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY ). F. CALDWELL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Price, Three Dollars per Annum. Baukruot to him or for his use, and the I Varying with the amount and character of the . , ..,.;„. _. x-....^.,.-. works ordered. transfer of any pioperty by him are forbidden by law ; and that a meeting of the Creditors Lists Promptly Priced, and Returned by Mail of said Bankrupt to prove then; debts and choose one or more assignees of his estate will be held ata Court of Bankruptcy to be holdeu at the office ofthe Register in Bankruptcy on North Elm Street, Greerkboro, N. C., before Thomas B. Keogh, Esq., Register iu Bankrupt cy for said District on the 9th day of Decem ber A. D. 1867, at 10 o’clock, A. M. ’ • DANIEL R. GOODLOE, RARE AND VALUABLE BOOKS FURNISHED OS SHORT NOTICE. Catalogues furnished on application. nov8 70-ly ■PORTRAIT PAINTING- U. S. Marshal for said District. P F. Duffy, Deputy as Messenger. BOV^71-2w N otice In Bankruptcy. District Court of the 4 for the P^D^t of ^Bankruptcy North Carolina. J In the matter of ZACHARIAH C. LINEBERY, BANKRUPT. Pamlico District of North Carolina, ss. This is to give notice that on. the 20th day of November, 1867, a warrant f Bankruptcy was issued out ofthe District ‘’Court of the United States for the Pamlico District of North Caro? lina against the estate of Zachariah C. Line- bery, of Union, iu the county of Randolph, ju said District, who lias been adjudged a Bank rupt, on his own petition: That the payment of any debts, and the delivery of any property belonging to such Bankrupt, to him, or fk his use, and the transfer of any property by him are forbidden^ / law; and that a meeting of the Creditors i’said Bankrupt to prove their PHOTOGRAPHY. DAVID D. CLARK, Portrait Painter and Photographer, HIGH POINT, N. 0., Having a splendid SKY-LIGHT GALLERY, and with the aid ofthe BEST INSTRUMENTS, is prepared to make Photographs and all other sun pictures in the best style of the art.— Having also Woodward’s Solar Camera, he can,make Photographs full life size, equal to PRICES FOR ADVERTISING. Advertisements will be inserted in The Patriot at the price of ONE DOLLAR per square of eight lines or less for the first insertion, and FIFTY CENTS for each continuance. A liberal Induction will be made in favor of; those who may desire to advertise quarterly or yearly. For announcing candidates for office THREE DOLLARS, to be paid in advance. [^ No subscriptions discontinued until all arrearages are paid. The Radical Despotism in the South- a steel engraving. Drawings, Machinery, Pictures, Photographs, Views of Buildings Landscapes, &c., faithfully photographed and magnified to any desired size. Portrait Painting. Portraits accurately and faithfully painted In oil, either from pictures or sittings of the .subject, and satisfaction guaranteed in every instance. July 19 54-tf M ansion hotel. GREENSBORO, N. C. Corner of West Market and Green Streets. The proprietor would inform the traveling pub lic, that his new house is now ready for the re debts, and to choose one or more assignees of bis estate will be held at a Court of Bankrupt cy, to be holdeu at the office of the Register in A. , , , , - , . Bankrupt-., on North Elm Street, Give boro, «e™» of bowers and travelers, and that itis N. C., below Thomae 11. Keogh, Esq., Leister 1 ‘° tear interest to stop at tins house as it is the - - best and cheapest house in town, and near the in Bankruptcy for said District on the lUth day of December, A. D. 1867, at 10 o’clock, A. M. DANIEL R. GOODLOE, nov22 U, S. R.-bhal for said District. TY, Deputy as Messenger. 71-2w Mil ice in IBaskliir^tcy. W District Court of the ) United States, For the Cape Fear District of North Carolina. L In Bankruptcy In the matter of A W. COOPER & T. D. COOPER, BANK RUPTS. Cape Fear District of North Caro»ina, ss: I This is to give notice that on the 30th day of: October, 1867, a warrant of Bankruptcy was is- £ued out of the District Court oi the United States for the Cape Fear District of North Caroli na against the estates of A. AV. Cooper and T. D- Codper, of Clemonsville, Davidson County, in said District, who have been adjudged Bank rupts, on their own petition: That the payment of any debts, and the delivery of any property belonging to such Bankrupts, to them, or for their use,, and the transfer of any property by them are forbidde by law : and that a m eting of the Creditors of said Bankrupts to prove their debts, and to choose one or more assignees of their estate will be heldata Court of Bankrupt cy, to be hoiden at the office of the Register in Bankruptcy, in the Court House at Winston, N. C., Before Thomas B. Keogh, Esq., Register in n nkruptcy for said District on the 13th day of li0ppiNb er - A. D. 1867-. at 10 o’clock, A M V DANIEL B. GOODLOE, | U. 8. Marshal for said District. ; P F DUFF^ Deputy as Messenger. ■ 71-2w nov22 ■Tvrotice in Banimii4cy« District Court of the 1 United States, 1 j n Bankruptcy. For the Pamlico District of 1 North Carolina. J In the matter of Court House. The finest, best and cheapest B AR attached to this house there is in the place. novl5—71-12m W. H. REECE. tOWN & CUYLER, Commission Merchants, 142 Pearl Street, New York. John Potts Brown, Formerly of Brown DeRosset & Co. Rich. M. Cuyler, of Georgia. Wiil make liberal Advances on ments of any Southern Produce, REFER BY FERMI SION TO JESSE H. Lindsay, Greensboro, nov8 Consigu- N. C. 70-3m H owse Sos’ Blent.—On the corner ot Gaston and Cedar Streets, in Greensbo ro, N. C., now occupied by H. G. Kellogg. Ap ply to J. W. DOAK, 70-4w Greensboro. N otice.—I will give Ten Dollars reward for the delivery to me of William Wright formerly owned by D. L. Wright, for whose appearance at Rockingham county Court I am bound. 33-tf M. POWELL, Reidsville, N. C. P ublic Sale.—Will be sold to the highest bidder on the 20th day of December, 1867, Oh the premises of L. Simpson and brother, two tracts of land, me containing 60 acres, adjoining the lands of B. McCray, B, F. Mor ton and others. Also, one of 50acres, adjoining the lands of B. F, Morton and others. Said lands will be sold to satisfy a tax claim of the United States, vs. said D. Simpson and brother. Terms sash. 71-4w W. W. PATTERSON, Deputy Collector, P ublic Sale.—Will be sold to the highest bidder at the residence of G. W. Sutton on the 21st day of December, 1867, the following ROBERT L. COLTRAIN, BANKRUPT. - Pamlico District of No. th Carolina, ss : This is to give notice that on the 12th day of November, 1867, a warrant of Bankruptcy was issued out of the District Court of the United States for the Pamlico District of North Ca.ro- : . described property, viz: 60 acres of land, ad joining lands owned by Win. Simpson and oth ers in the county of Alamance, State of North Carolina. This sale will be made to satisfy a claim in favor of the United States, vs. G. W. Snttop on account Internal Revenue. Terms cash. W. W. PATTERSON, 71-5w Deputy Collector. lina against the estate of Robert L. Coltrain in the’County of Guilford, in said District, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt. .. bis own pe tion; That the payment of any debts, and the delivery of any property belonging to such Bankrupt, to him, or jo? bis use, and the trans fer of any property by him are forbidden by law; and that a meeting of the Creditors of said Bankrupt to prove- their debts, and to choose ■ _ _ one or more assignees of his estate will be held . in favor of the United States, forms cash, at a Court of Bankruptcy, to bo holden at the, W W. PA 1 PERSON, office of the Register iu Bankruptcy, on North I 71-4w Deputy Collector. "OubijC Sale.—Will be sold to the highest £ bidder on the premises of W. F. Simpson, Alamance county, N. C., op the 21st day ofDe- .cemb.cr, 1867, one tract of land, belonging to said Simpson, containing 190 acres, adjoining the lands of A. Harvy, Garrett Barnett and others. This sale will be made to satisfy a tax claim Elm Street, Greensboro, N. C., before Thomas B. Keogh, Esq., Register in Bankruptcy for said District on the 11th day of December, A. D. 1867, at 10 o’clock. A. M. DANIEL R. GOODLOE, U. S. Marshal for said District. P. F. Duffy, Deputy as Messenger. nov22 71-2w P aiaits for Farmers a. Ml ^tbers.— The Grafton Mineral Paiul C are now manufacturing theBest, Cheapest and most Durable Paint in use ; two coa; ■. well puv on, ^;xed with pure Linseed Oil, will last 10 or 15 years ‘ ^ i s o ^ •' light brown or beautiful choc- Kolate cole/, aud can be changed to green, leaU [stone drab, pli-e or cream, to suit the taste of the consumer. It is valuable for Houses, Barns. Flares, Carriage and Car-makers, Pails and Woodei ware, Agricultural Iiupb ■ nts, Canal Boats, Vessels and Ships’ Bottev • ’in- vas, Metal and Shingle Roofs, (it being Fire and Waterproof.) Floor Oil Cloths, (one Manu facturer having used 5000 bbls, the past year,) and as a paint for any purpose is unsurpassed for body, durabilit ,e'nticity, and adhesive- ness. Price super bbl. of 300 lbs., which wi - supply a farmer for years to come. Warranted in all cases as above. Send for a circular which gives full particulars. None genuine unless branded in a trade mark Grafton Mineral Paint. Address DANIEL BIDWELL, 70-6m 254 Pearl Street, New York. P ublic Sale.—Will be sold to the highest bidder on the premises of Wm. McKeel of Alamance county, N. C., (near Morton’s Store,) oil the 20th of December, 1867, one tract of land belonging to said McKeel, and containing 130 acres, adjoining the lands of Joseph Trollinger and others. Also, one still and fixtures.. This sale will be made to satisfy a tax claim jo favor ofthe United States. Terms cash. W. W. PATTERSON, 71-4w Deputy Collector. Mr. Hinton Rowan Helper, author of that once muchAalk d-of volume, “ The Impending Crisis of the South” has, through the columns of The National In- telligencer, addressed from Asheville, N. C., a long and earnest appeal to “The Good People of the Old Free States.” When the “Impending Crisis” appeared, it was accepted by thousands upon thou sands of people in the North almost as a new Evangel. Mr. Helper’s words were quoted as conclusive authority, and his character was said to be such as to entitle his suggestions to considerate and serious attention. We republish, therefore, 1 the benefit of his former admirers, some of his views upon the present condition of public affairs and the situation of the South. We hope the influence of Helper is undiminished in New England, and that he may be listened to as eagerly, now as he was a few years ago. He says: “Almost every day, for several months past—ever since I last returned to the State—have I seen whole families, and sometimes two or three together, leaving North Carolina, some going in the direc tion of Illinois, some traveling towards Indiana, and others, of the more able and venturesome sort, bound for Brazil and elsewhere, far beyond the utmost limits of their own native soil. While thus, under the oppressive and tyrannical operations of Radical military despotisms, our own native white people are robbed of their natural freedom and forced to flee to for eign lands, European emigrants and emi grants from the North are restrained al most eutirely from coming to the South. And thus swiftly and infamously are the narrow-minded and revengeful Radicals converting all the States of the South into one vast Hayti, or Jamaica, or Mexico— driving from the country the white people, who are, whether here or elsewhere, the only worthy and saving elements of popu lation, and surrendering it completely to the pollution, devastati m and ruin of stupid and beast-like hordes of black barbarians. “Of the extreme poverty and distress ot many of the poor whites who are now emi grating from the State, and of a still larger number who, rather than submit to the further danger and disgrace of Radical ne gro and negro Radical domination, are anxious to leave, but are destitute even of the scanty means necessary to take them away, I have scarcely the heart to speak. To enter adequately into details or particu lars upon this subject in a mere newspaper article is quite out of the question, and so I will only remark here, in a general way, but with all the emphasis of earnestness and truth, that I do not believe any people in any part of America were ever subjected to such unjust and oppressive straits, as the poorer glasses ot white people from North Carolina, and of the South general ly, are now having to struggle against; and all this mainly in consequence of the blundering and unconstitutional enact ments, the unstatesmanlike and infamous legislation of that oligarchy of sectional demagogues known as the rump Congress. “Scarcely anywhere can one. travel in the ness the profound disappointment and grief, amounting almost to despair, of the numerous care-worn and indigent mothers who were still unprovided for, some of whom had come twelve of fifteen miles over the rough mountain roads, on foot, barefooted, and with scarcely clothes enough upon themselves to cover, in the usual way, their persons. The sight, I say, the sight of these very poor widowed mothers having to return home empty- handed, but heavy-hearted, as I myself saw many of them returning to rickety, cold, comfortless log cabins, in a manner desti tute not only of furniture and bedding, but of almost every other thing, except a troop of half-started, half-clad, and helpless chil dren, was a spectacle too sorrowful to be hold with any ordinary emotion. “ Because of its gross excesses, its short comings, and its corruptions, the first and most important thing necessary to be done, in order to remedy existing evils, is to utterly oreak down and destroy the whole Radical party—a party which, in its monstrous affiliation with negroes is bring ing utter abjectness and ruin upon at least ten States of the Union, and disgracing and crippling all the others. Here, in the Southern States,, the Radical influence, which is just as black and bad as it can be, coupled, not in name, but in reality, with the old slave-holding influence, keeps the negro unnaturally and dissentiously interlarded between the two great white elements of the South, thus preventing here among the eight millions of people who alone are good for anything, that unity of sentiment and purpose, and that harmony of plan and action, without which it is impossible for us ever to attain anything like permanent peace, prosperity or greatness. Indeed, under the actual military despotisms which an unrepublican and malignant Radical Congress have fois ted upon us, and under the atrocious Rad ical threats of unlimited confiscation and perpetual disfranchisement, leading us to fear that a still more oppressive and gall ing yoke is held in reserve for us, there is already an almost total suspension of all public and private works ; men have no heart to do anything, their hopes and en ergies have been crushed ; their dwellings, their outhouses, and their fences are. in most cases, in a state of dilapidation ; their institutions of learning, their chur ches, and their public buildings of all kinds—such as were not actually burned to ashes during the war, having been greatly misued and abused—are going to decay, and in many places, where at least ordinary instructors and schools are still to be found, the children, if not of necessi ty required to remain at home and work, are too frequently so destitute of clothing that their parents are ashamed to let them go beyond the narrow limits of their own mournfully-foreboding and gloomy obs» r vation. Many of the public roads and bridges, and not a few of the fords and ferryboats, have been so long out of repair that they have become absolutely danger ous ; and unless, in the good Providence of God, the desolating and destructive rule of radicalism can soon be checked' and averted, those who travel here extensively, whether by steam power or horsepower, will do so at the imminent loss of their lives. “Especially among the negroes here crime and lawlesness of every sort is now far more rife than ever before, while, in many cases, under the vicious protection afforded them by the Radical- negro bu reau, before whose Dogberry agents the presence and the testimony of as good white men as ever lived are but too often treated with contempt, they (the delin quent negroes) are never punished at all; or, if punished, punished in the mildest possible manner. I have known instances where white men, coming to a knowledge of crimes committed by negroes—those very white themselves being the victims— would endure the wrongs, and pass the whole matter by in silence, and without action, rather thin submit themselves to the insult, expense and loss of time which they well knew they would be but too likely to incur by making complaint, whether at the negro bureau or at one of those other bureaus of military despotism which have been so unnecessarily and so wickedly inflicted upon us by the Radical Sometimes it has seemed to me that I could discern something holy, something sacred, in the deep and troubled sadness of those about me ; as if, indeed, God, in His great mercy, had come to dwell in their hearts, and to protect them from fur ther outrage. I would that this were so. Among men whose hearts are not entirely callous to every consideration of justice and humanity, there should always prevail a sentiment keenly alive to the suggestion, that there should be both a measure and a limitation of punishment. Yet, strange to say, more strange to say of white men, and still more strange to say of white men in this nineteenth century, the Radicals, as represented in the Radical Congress, seem to be actuated by no such sentiment as this.” Of the Radical party he says : “In the vain effort to exculpate them selves, they vauntingly proclaim to the world that their measures of military re construction were enacted in great part, if not principally, for the protection and for the benefit of Union men in the South, I tell them that the true Union men of the South (the white Union men, and except these there were none, and are none wor thy of the name) detest, with a detestation unutterable, the entire batch, of their dis graceful and ruinous military measures of reconstruction. With few^xceptions, the white Union men of the South feel that they have been most foully and shamefully betrayed and dishonored, and we. reject, with immeasurable scorn and indignation, the imputation that we have any sympa thies or purposes in common with base- minded and degenerate partisans, who, like the Radicals, are abandoned to every high principle of honor and right reason. We were, and are still, Republicans ; not black Republicans, but white Republicans. Rad icals we never were, nor can we be. It is, then, the Republican party, in the persons of factions and fanatical multitudes of Rad ical demagogues, that has left us, and not we who have left the Republican party. ^ t -t ^ * % “We insist upon it that the enfranchise ment of the negroes, and the disfranchise ment of the whites, whereby the supremacy of the negroes has already been establish ed, or is about to be established in almost every Southern State, is a consummate out rage, an unmitigated despotism, an unpar alleled infamy and an atrocious crime. We insist upon it, that our Federal Govern ment and State Governments are, as they ought to be, republican in form, and that the military authorities ought, at all times, except in case of actual war, in the future as in the past, to be held subordinate to the civil authorities. We further insist upon it, that the whole drift of Radical legislation, for the last eighteen months and more, has been and still is unstates- manlike, unrepublican, vindictive -and des potic—perilous to all the principles of en lightened self government, and alarmingly degrading and inimical to the white civiliz ation and progress of the entire New World. * Congress. Everywhere throughout the South, at the present time, without meet-; South the increasing demoralization ofthe ipg. on every hand, especially among the negroes is now, indeed, sadly seen and I sa llhe Uista’ict Onuri of &&© ^« $•, . for the Pamlico District of North Carolina. IN BANKRUPTCY. In the matter of Joseph Hildesheimor, Bank- To whom it may concern. The undersigned Robert M. Sloan, Jr., hereby gives notice of his appointment as Assignee of the estate of Joseph Hildesheimer of Greensboro in the county of Guilford of said District, and who was, to wit : on the 10th. day of August, A. D. 1867, adjudged Bankrupt upon the petition of himself, to Thomas B. Keogh, Register iu Bank ruptcy for said District. Dated at Greensboro the 31st day of October, ^- D. 1867. R. M. SLOAN, Jr. uov8 70-3w P Mb’ie Sale.—Will be sold to the highest bidder ou the premises of H. H. Morton, Alamance county, N. C., ou the 20th day of December, 1867, oue tract of land, containing 108 acres, adjoining the lands of B. F. Morton and others. Also, one mule, one horse, 2 stills and fixtures. The above property to be sold to satisfy a tax claim of the United States, vs. said H. II. Mor ton. Terms cash. ipg on every hand, especially among the poor whites—and there ^re L w now who are not poor—numerous cases of actual want, sickness, suffering and despair; and sadly felt. Nor would it be an easy mat ter to make up a full and complete indict- 71-4w W. W. PATTERJON, Deputy Collector. were it not that I fear to tax too severely your patience, I should feel it my duty to give a somewhat full and minute account of several of them. As it is, however, I will only advert to two or three cases in addition to the one already mentioned. In Marion, the county seat of McDowel! coun ty, in this State, adjoining the county in which I am now writing, and where I now ment against them of all other high crimes and misdemeanors. In every district or community of a considerable size, on the right band and on the left, they are almost constantly committing brutal murder and highway robbery; breaking into dwellings and warehouses; depredating on orchards, fields of grain and granaries; appropria te their own use other people’s cattle, pigs and poultry ; stealing everything that can lay their hands upon; outraging P uLiac S^ae.—Will be sold to the highest bidder ou the premises of T. G. Wharton, near Brick Church, Guilford county, N. C., on the 24th day of December, 1867, oue tract of land, containing 100 acres, morcor less, ad joining the lauds of Jere Klapp and others. Al to, one still and fixtures. Said property to be sold to satisfy a tax claim in favor of the United Stater. Terms cash. W. W. PATTERSON. 71-3w Deputy Collector. reside, it was ascertained a short while! they can lay their hands upon; outraging since that unless the pressing necessities of; pure and innocent white girls, and not un- the large number ot the poor white people frequently, in a spirit of the most savage the large number of the poor white people could soon be relieved, there was a great hurting a single fibre of hair (or wool) up on their heads, but by colonization, in or out of Mexico; and in this effort, which will be in perfect harmony with that wis dom and patriotism which, through the Hilghty energies and enterprises of white men, have brought imperishable greatness and glory to the North, we most earnestly and trustingly solicit your fraternal co-ope ration.” fact which was hailed with great pleasure not only by those who remained in the city during the summer, but by hundreds of absentees scattered throughout the coun try, and anxious to return to their homes. S tate of Norita CaroSiEsa, DAVIDSON COUNTRY. Court of Equity, Spring Term 1866. Thomasville Bank, vs. TheCreditors of the Thomasville Bank. bill to close the business of’ the thomas- T ’ VILLE BANK. this case it is ordered by the Court, that advertisement be made in the The Raleigh sentinel, Raleigh Standard, and Greensboro Patriot, for the creditors of the Thomasville Bank to present their claims, within the. next twelve months, to J. L. Lee, commissioner of said Bank. W itness F. C. Robbies Clerk and Master in ±0r 8a ifi bounty, this 30th day of April, 44-12111 F. C. ROBBINS, C. M. E. X1 reeiasboro Higii SclaooS. — The next Session of the above School will commence on Monday, the 15th of July, 1867. TERMS TER SESSION OF TWENTY WEEKS, (ONE HALF PAYABLE IN ADVANCE:) English,---,... S20 00 Classical,- 25 00 Contingent fee (payable iu advance;) 1 00 JESSE R. MoLEAN, A. M., 51 _ t f Principal. O ^K Box Plasalt Wanted—-! wish to contract with responsible Sawyers, for the delivery of one hundred thousand feet of oak plant, on or before the 1st day of Janua ry, 1868, at any one ofthe Stations of the North Carolina or Piedmont Railroads. The plank must be perfectly sound, free liom wind shakes and full inch thick, from twelve to sixteen feet long, and in width ranging from eight to fourteen inches. Proposals sent to me at Danville will receive immediate attention. T. J. PATRICK, 62-tf Danville, Va. Lime, Plaster and Cement. We have arrangements made for supplying fresh from the MailAIac- turer’s, LIME, PLASTER AND CEMENT for building purposes. July 167 JAMES SLOAN & SONS. danger that many of them, during the en suing winter, would suffer intensely, if not die outright, of cold and hunger. In their behalf an appeal was made to a few wealthy gentlemen of Baltimore, whe nobly res ponded in the form of a liberal contribution of money. There were and are in that county, as, indeed, in every other county, district and parish throughout the South, a great many poor widows and orphans, whose husbands and fathers were conscrip ted and killed during the late war, and who now, without lands, without houses— except here and there a dilapidated log cabin—and without employment, are in a manner naked, resourceless, and starved. In view of the wretchedly ill-clad condition of these poor widows and orphans, it was thought best to spend the money, which, as already explained, had been contributed in Baltimore, for cotton thread, such as is used for the weaving of plain cloth, and to distribute a bunch of that, so far as it would go, to each fatherless family. Mr. Alfred Ewing, a kind-hearted and very estimable citizen of that county, a lawyer by profes sion, was appointed to make the distribu tion. Soon as it became known that Mr. E. had received this thread, to be given away at his discretion to the persons indi cated, his office was literally besieged, un til very soon there was not a single bunch left, and then it was truly touching to wit- wantonness and revenge, setting on fire and utterly destroying the houses and other property of their white neighbors. Terrorism reigns supreme among the white females of every family, and sleep is ban ished. “ Not far from here, I was, a few weeks ago, in a small town, where there were just eight stores, every one of which had, at different times, been broken into and robbed. Either at the actual time respec tively of each robbery, or afterward, it was fully ascertained and proven that six of the stores had been forcibly and feloni ously entered by negroes, and the other two by persons unknown. All of them had been entered since the establishment of the Radical negro bureau. Prior to that time no store in that town had ever been entered by burglars. These facts, well considered, must lead to the most sol emn and profound conviction, in the breast of every right thinking man, that the ne groes, strongly fortified in the morbid and misplaced sympathy of the Radicals, are feeling themselves at comparative liberty to commit with impunity, every species of “Further, and finally, we insist upon it, that the good results which the loyal and intelligent masses of the country had a right to expect would soon follow the abo lition of slavery and the suppression of the rebellion, shall neither be defeated nor in definitely delayed; and we protest that the disingenuousness and treachery of the Radicals, since the war, seriously threaten to neutralize all the wise and patriotic la bors which the Republicans so heroically and so gloriously performed, both before and during the war. We ask for the im mediate repeal ot all military laws which are antagonistic to the spirit and form of Republican government, and, especially, for the speedy repeal of all such political and mercenary monstrosities as the negro bureau bill. We also ask that the expenses of the army and navy may be reduced at least one-half, and that the burdens of tax ation, which now weigh so heavily upon white people, may at once be lightened. “With an eye and a purpose to these ends, we ask that every Radical Senator and Representative in Congress, and every other Radical officer in the land, whether national, State, county or municipal, who is, or has been, an aider and abetter of that usurpatory and tyrannical oligarchy, eu- phemized as the American Congress, shall, one and all, at the very next elections in which their names may be brought before the people, be wholly and summarily with drawn from official life, and that new and better men—men possessed with good common sense, men controlled by senti ments of justice for white people, no less than by sentiments of justice for black peo ple—men sufficiently free from sectional bias, men of enlarged and statesmanlike views—shall be elected in their stead. Let this be done, and all will be well. Let it be made manifest, and let it be proclaimed abroad, throughout the entire length and breadth of the land, that what the short- sighted and fanatical Radicals are aiming at as a mere possible good to four millions of blacks, is a positive disservice and evil to eight millions of whites. We want, and we will have, no re-establishment of slave- ry. It is safe to say that there are not to-day, in the whole State di North Caro lina, two hundred men of good standing or Popular Reactions.—Buckle, in his great work on Civilization of England, lays it down as an axiom which he had deduced from a close study of British his tory, that “ In the progress of misrule aad injustice, while things seem to be at their worst, a great reaction is always prepar ing,” This conclusion is eminently phil osophical, so far especially as the race of people speaking the English language are concerned. The history of the Anglo- Saxon race shows that, in England, every advance to improvement in government has been preceded by a period of misrule. The notorious maladministration of King John gave birth to Magna Charta, the great 'foundation of English libel ty. The arbitrary exercise of prerogative by Charles the First caused the institutions of England to be settled on a new basis of Parliamentary right. The stupid tyranny of James brought in William and Mary, with a new settlement of the crown in the interests of the people. The Anglo-Saxons are a reflecting race; they are patient to endure wrongs to a certain extent, but they are not indifferent to them, and are certain in the end to re dress them, and that with a remarkable degree of prudence. As the people of the United States derived their institutions al most entirely from England, and, in a large degree, their blood, they have inherited the best qualities of the English people, and, to a very considerable extent, have formed their political character on the English model. The conservative features of our Government, as, for instance, the unity of the Executive power, the inde pendence ofthe judiciary, the Senate the republican counterpart of the aristocratic House of Lords, are all English ideas, adapted, with necessary modifications, to our system. The Constitution, in other respects, is full of principles derived from England. As our institutions are instinct with English ideas, so our people have in a cer tain degree the English character. In par ticular, they have two lead-ng qualities characteristic of the English—-common sense andjusti.ee. The axiom of Mr. Buck le applies, therefore, as well to America as to England. Things had’ gone to excess in this country under the persistent teach ings ot fanaticism, and the animosities en gendered by a gigantic civil war had en venomed public sentiment. Some imagined necessity of guarding against the danger ofanew secession had also had its effect. Under the influence of these causes, inten sified by a systematic falsification ofthe so cial status of the South, the people of the North had yielded their approval of what may be, called the repressive policy ofCon- gress. Presuming upon this apparent popular support, and in a certain s use deceived by it, the Radical leaders adroit ly seized the occasion to force upon the Southern States the policy of universal ne gro suffrage, thus practically putting the Anglo-Saxon race ofthe South under the government of the ignorant blacks. But in this experiment the leaders of the Radi cal party had miscalculated. When the people of the North, recovering partially from the animosities engendered by the war, came to consider the Africanizing policy which Congress had set on foot, they began to see that it was a policy stu pid beyond measure, that it promised the indefinite countenance of misrule at the South, and tended to the most violent and dangerous antagonism of races. They saw that if the South was to be governed by its ignorance, and not by its intelligence, that its progress must be vastly interrupt ed, and instead of being a benefit to the North, it would be a barren appendage. They also saw that by delivering ten States to the negroes they put themselves to a large extent under negro rule. The advan tages of this they could not so well per ceive, in that it became very evident to the people ofthe North, that in no sense, ei ther political or material, were their inter ests to be promoted by Africanizing the South Then their sense of justice revolted at the idea of forcing upon the white race ofthe South—a people of their own blood —the horrors and degradations of negro rule. Unwilling for themselves, and in their own States, to divide their political power with the blacks, who were but a handful in comparison with their own teeming millions, they felt that it was an outrage to force a negro domination on their own race in the Southern States. The people are just—they are noble—then in stincts are for the right, and well is it that such is the case; for otherwise self-gov ernment would be impossible. No people can govern themselves without virtue. It is thenobility ofthe popular heart that gives vitality to a republic. What can be imagined baser, meaner, viler than for men in the North to refuse to allow lie- The Mormons Refused a Masonic Charter.—At the late session of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Ma sons for Nevada, held in Virginia City, the matter of the petition of Mount Moriah Lodge of Masons of Great Salt Lake City, Utah, for a charter, c?me before the Lodge for action. _ The whole affair was thorough ly investigated, a large amount of interest ing correspondence read, substantial facts made apparent, and after a patient hearing of the merits of the case the Craft refused to grant a charter that in any manner should recognize the peculiar institutions of the Saints. The Trespass says it heartily con curs in the action of the Grand Lodge, and believes to be meet that any organization professing respect for Christian civilization should refuse to countenance any religion in direct contravention of the laws of God, or the established laws of the country. Idle Daughters.—It is a most painful spectacle in families, says an exchange, where the mother is the drudge, to see the daughters, elegantly dressed, reclining at their ease, with their drawing, their music, their fancy work and their reading, beguil ing themselves of the lapse of hours, days, and weeks, and never dreaming of their responsibilities, but as a necessary conse quence of neglect of duty growing weary of their useless lives, laying hold of every newly invented stimulant to amuse their drooping energies, and blaming their fate when they dare not blame their God for having placed them where they are. These individuals will often tell you, with an af fected air of compassion—for who can be lieve it real ?—that poor dear mamma is working herself to death. Yet no sooner do you propose that they should assist her, than they declare that she is quite in her element—in short, that she would never be happy if she had only half as much to The Presbyterian Union Conven tion.—The committee appointed by this body, now in session in Philadelphia, to prepare and report a basis of union, to be submitted for consideration by various branches of the Presbyterian Church rep resented in the convention, have submitted the following as a basis of union: .First. An acknowledgment of the Scrip tures of the Old and New Testament to be the inspired word of God—the only in fallible rule of faith and practice. Second. That in the United Church the Westminster Confession of Faith shall be received and adopted as contain! g the system ofdoctrines taught in the Holy Scriptures. Whilst the committee recommend the foregoing basis of doctrine, they do not wish to be understood as impugning the orthodoxy of the Heidelberg Catechism and the Canons ofthe Synod of Dort. Third. That the United Church shall re ceive and adopt the Presbyterian form of church government. Fourth. The Book of Psalms, which is of Divine inspiration, is well adapted to the state of the Church, in all ages and cir- cumctances, and should be used in social worship. But as various collections of Psalmody are used in, the different church es, a change in this respect shall not be re quired. Fifth. That the session of each church shall have the right to determine who shall join in communion in the particular church committed to their care. Mrs. Wealthy Whipple, relict of Marma duke Whipple, who was a revolutionary soldier, is a relative of William. Whipple, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. This venerable lady is a resident of Union village, Washington county, N. Y., where she has resided the past eighty years. Her age is 104. She enjoys excellent health and is quite active. She draws from the government the yearly pension of ^96. Don’t Write There.—“ Don’t write there,” said one to a lad who was writing with a diamond pin on a pane of glass in the window of a hotel. “ Why ?” said he. “ Because you can’t rub it out.” There are other things which men should not do, because they can not rub them out. A heart is aching for sympathy, and a cold, perhaps a heartless word, is spoken. The impression may be more durable than that of a diamond upon the glass. The inscrip tion on the heart may last forever. On many a mind and many a heart, sad inscriptions are deeply engraved, which no effort can erase. We should be careful what we write on the minds of others. outrage and crime. “ Broken-hearted over the disastrous realities of the present, and dimly peering into the dark and uncertain future, all the white people here, of whatever condition in life, are dejected and sorrowful to an extent that I never before witnessed.— influence, who would, if they could, have slavery established. Indeed, I doubt wheth er there are five thousand white men in all the South who would now or at any future time be so unwise, so rash and so reckless as to undo the acts of emancipation, even if they had the power. The only persons here who, in any considerable number, would be willing to incur the odium and the infamy of voting for a return to the system of slavery are ne groes themselves, whose instincts tell them that if really put upon their own resources in communities of white men, and in no manner propped up or sustained at the ex pense and degradation of a greater or less number of whites, whether by servitude, under an oligarchy of slaveholders, on the one hand, or by negro bureaus, under an oligarchy of Radicals, on the other, they will gradually fall behind in the career of life, fail to multiply the inferior race to which they belong, die out, and become fossilized. While, therefore, we are firm in the wish and purpose not to have any more slavery in theSouth, we are equally firm in the desire and determination to get rid of the negroes if we can—not by taking from them one drop of blood—not by groes to vote by their side, and yet force the Southern whites to submit to this.— The common sense of the Northern people satisfied them that it was inexpedient to put the ballot in the hands of their own negroes ; their sense of right made them feel that what was bad for them was bad for the South. Hence, then, we had the great reaction against the Radical policy of Africanizing the South. It is the good sense of the American people, and their sentiment of right protesting against an enormity, with which modern history contains no paral lel, and which the more it is considered, and the more enlarged the experience of it, will be found subject to such outrageous evils that its authors will become the scorn, and scoff, and bye-words of our his tory.—National Intelligencer. Franklin Asking for Work.—When a youth, Franklin went to London, entered a printing office, and enquired if he could get employment. “ Where are you from ?” asked the fore man. “ America,” was the reply. “ Ah,” said the foreman, “ from Amer- rical A lad from America seeking em ploy ment as a printer! Well, do you really understand the art of printing ? Can you really set type ?” Franklin stepped up to one of the cases, and in a very brief space ot time set up the following passage from the first chap ter of John : “ Nathaniel said unto him, can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Phillip saith unto him, come and see.” It was done so quickly, so accurately, and contained a delicate reproof so appro priate and powerful, that it at once gave him character and standing with all the office. It appears from an official report that since the 7th of July, (when the yellow fever first made its appearance in New Or leans tins season,) there have been 5,859 deaths, including 2,917 from yellow fever, 719 from other fevers, and 2,223 from va rious other diseases. The New Orleans papers of the 30th ult., announce the ap- ( pearance of the first frost of the season, a The New York Tribune., after saying that “most of the ignorance, depravity and “dirt to be found at the North votes the “ Democratic ticket,” with admirable and exemplary frankness admits that “the Re- “ publican party at the South corresponds “ in social position to the Democratic party “ at the North.”
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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