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VOL. II. WADESBORO,; N. CWBDNESDAj M Alf 15,: 1872. NO. 15. i I 0i A- w Ilk r t If lie Wtt txM. N. KNIGHT, I W.J. COVISGTOX, Editor. - ,Assis't Editor. Wadesboro, Wednesday, May 15, 1872. Subscription Rates: One copy one year, -: : : 2 59 One copy six months, : : : 1 25 Three months, : : : : -75 Those sending $25 for a Club of Ten, will be entitled to a copy free. Advertisements: 1 square of 10 lines first insertion, $1 00 1 square for each subsequent in- " sertion, ;. : , : J : 50 Special Contracts made with jiarties desiring to advertise three, six or twelve months. .1 Our circulation is daily on the in crease, and parjties wishing to advertise in a First-Class Family Newspaper can do no better than to give us aj trial. ADDRESS ALL IjETTERS TO N. KNIGHT & SOM, Props. RESOLUTIONS AND PRAljFOBlI. ' The following are the resoluti ons and platform adopted by the- Greensboro Convention. The Democratic Conservative party of North Carolina in Convention as sembled, do declare, That all experience proves that, in free' government those to whom power has been delegated, are prone to enlarge its sphere, and by usurpation and abures ( encroach upon the rights and liberties of the citizens. 1 The present condition of our coun try demands an union of all parties by whatever name heretofore design a-; ted to avert perils greater than any with whiclTour government has been menaced since its organization. i Constitutional Government and civ il law are threatened with annihilation and military government and bayonet law substituted in their stead.,, Immense sums, not needed-Ifor any legitimate purpose, are drawn from the peophyjy means of a system of taxa 4;nvexatious in the extreme, and as ,Oowffi as thq iueenuitv of the maker .Fiasnion jit, imposing heavy our dens upon the' people, not only to sup V port extravagance and waste by jgov- i eminent officials, but also to meet the demands of wealthy monopolists, who seek to convert the whole government into an immense machine by which the public is to be plundered for their ben efit. , This system has produced an! amount of official corruption, that has' astonish ed the country, and which will, if not soon checked demoralize the people. The administration at Washington, not only fails to correct these evils, but by its conduct, encourages extrava gance, peculation and corruption. In order that tha patriotic men of the north may not be aided m their efforts to reform the administration, by the southern States, a large number of the m:u of most experience in those States are disfranchised aud prohibit ed from taking efficient part in the management of political affairs. In addition to this, and to keep these btates under the control of mere retain ers and instruments of the central pow er, at Washington, oppressive and tyr annical laws have been passed and large bodies of troops distributed to overawe he citizens aud prevenfrafair , expression ot public opinion at the bal lot box. , 1. Resolved, Therefore that the time has arrived when it becomes the duty of all patriots without distinction! of party, to unite in an honest effort to restore constitutional government, an equal and moderate system of taxation, economy in expenditure, honesty among. . the officials and aniversal ainnestvand thus secure the permanent peace and . prosperity of our common country. ! ,12. Resolved, That the present sys '. ' tem of internal taxes on spirits and to- bacco, is unequal, vexatious and tyr- aruical, ought forthwith to be abol ished, and thus, by its extinction, re-j lieve the country from the curse of a numerous horde of officers whose con- spiracies and frauds demoralize the public mind, and who are harrassing and plundering the people, and by their extortions fattening oh the hard earn ing of a helpless, impoverished and op "pressed community. 3. Resolved, Thati the late Radical Convention of this State, by recoiu rnieudingJ. C. Abbott to a teat in the Senate of thz United States, though he did not receive one-third of the votes cast, manifested an utter disregard of the rights of the people of the State, a contempt of the Constitution of the United States, and a plain act of Con gress maie In pursuaace thereof, and a preference for the laws of Great Brit ain i where the minortiy rule prevails, and the rights of majorities are habit ually disregarded. 4. Kesolved,f that their endorsement of W. W.- Hclden, who was deposed from office fori gross violations of the Constitution and laws of the I State, squandering its funds, and illegal ar rests of its citizens, a3 well calculated to alarm our people with the dread that in the event of tne return, to pow er of his associates, the State is again to bo oppressed with military arrest, penitentiary aud railroad swindles, and general waste, profligacy, fraud and cor ruption. ' 5. Resolved, That the general ten dency, both at Washington and in our own State, of Radical action is entirely in the inteiest of monopolists and the wealthy classes, and for the oppression of the masses of our countrymen, and that instead of such conduct, it is the duty of the government to aid, elevate and. dignify the laborer, to whose ef forts, mainly, we must look for; our prosperity. 6. Resolved, That education and en lightened public virtue are indispensa bly essential in a government of and for the people ; and we insist that a fair and just proportion of the public lands or their proceeds which belong in common to all the States in the Union, shall be given to them for the e'ducation of all classes of the people, without distinc tion of race or color, instead of being granted by congress, as they have here tofore been, under the most corrupting influences and in vast quantities to over powering railroad corporations and other monopolies of accumulated wealth so dangerous to the rights and liberty, the labor and welfare of the people. 7. Resolved, That while we accept and faithfully abide by the constitu tion of the United States with all its amendments, including emancipation and equality before the law, thus con ferring equal civil and political rights upon all who are citizens of this feder al republic, we oppose, and denounce th at la t itju d nou con struct ionjsvh id y. makes the discretion of congress or"$Ke ' President superior to the constitution, and under pretence of enforcing the laws, destroy sthe most important pro visions securing the personal liberty of the citizens, and dwarfs the States themselvss into mere provinces or cor porations under the Control of a tentral government with no rights "reserved" to them or the people, except such only as that central government may confer. 8. Resolved, That we desire a real and hot merely a pretended civil Service reform, and that we believe thp 'one term, i principle" for 4he Presidency, would greatly tend to produce that de sirable .result. ' I 9. "Resolved, That the patronage of the government should not be brought in conflict with the freedom of elections, and that the elective franchise should be free and untrariimeled. ' 10. Resolved, That the amendments to the constitution proposed by the last Legislature will, if adopted,' tend ma terially to benefit the State, aud we unhesitatingly recommend their sup port to all citizens without distinction of party. 11. Resolved, That all secret politi cal societies are dageious in a free gov ernment, engender violence, combiua tious against the peace, of society, inse curity of person and property, and ought to be discountenanced m by all good citizens. 12. Resolved, That as an independ ent press is the palladium U American liberty, the Democratic press -of the SjLate, for their able, manly andpersist eqt defence of constitutional ; and civil liberty, deserve, and are-hereby tender ed the grateful acknowledgements, and hearty thanks of the people of this I An exchange relates a story of a farmer whose son had for a long time been ostensibly studying Latin in a popular acacemy. The farther not being perfectly satis-. nea witn the course ana conduct ot the yotmg hopef ul, recalled him from school and placing him by the side Of a cart one day, thus addressed him : "Weil, Joseph, here is a fork, and there is a heap of manure and cart, what do yoiicall them in Latin?" ! "Forkibus, cartibus, et masureibus," said Joseph. "Well, now," said the old man, if you don't take that" forkibus pretty quick ibus, and pitch that mauuxibus into the cartibus I'll.hrcak your damnibus lazy backibus. 1 U Joseph went to workibus forthwith- IDUS, . Frcia the Northwestern Farmer. Florteaitare A Plea for Flower?. plead for them, their friends will a&k, Svhen they plead so elo quently.for themselves V My plea is not to them, for they knotrall I would say, and. more perhaps, but it is to the eminently practical people that I am talking just now. ' I haveone of that class in my mind's eye, and be is just as good i a man as ever ws. He used to look into the garden and watch me at work amcng my plants, and he would say, "Well, I don'tsee how you are ever to get paid for, all that dig- 1 would laugh, and say "Oh, I take my payjas I go along;" then he would turn on his heel and walk away, say ing, "Well I'd give more for a good hill of potatoes than for a whole lot of 'em." What do you thiuk that same man did a fe7 weeks ago? Why he dug up my tulip beds for me, and fixed them splendidly, and without ray asking, too. When my windows are brilliant with gay blossoms, he of ten stands outside and admires them, while they nod smilingly I from the in side. He is fast being converted. In the bleak; cold weather, ton entering the sitting-room,, he saysj4Now, those plants eta make the room jlook a great deal pleasanter, don't' they? and that hanging basket is beautiful ?" "Yes," I would say, "we have a little summer of our own here, with the plants, and basketsj and vines, and I glanced up at Dickey, singing in his. cage, coi scious that he does his part toward our artificial summer No w, good fanners' wives and daugh ters, if thereare any of these practical masculinrmembprs in your households, see if you cannot convert them to your faith in flowers. It will make the gar dening operations much" easier next spring, as me aeep aiggmg is ratner too hard for us: though "where there's a will, there's a way ;"'and a sprained sinew in my hand will testify that my will was better than my ptrength. Some one wisely says, "tne cultivation or a God's love to us, and oar;hearts should be strengthened by them and made bet ter. T)iey should awaken in us tender thoughts aud a love for the good and the beautiful. Their cultivation is a source, of great enjoyment, and tends- to form the habit .of order ud "neatness. Where you see plants in the window you will generally find a collection of good bpoks oq some shelf; or table near by, and everything-neat and tasteful. A little garden where the plants are tended jby one's own haudfv gives far more delight than if it were on a grand er scale, and cared for liy a hired gar dener ;j and you will get health and happiness for a return, and get it not semi-annually, but every day. The time for gardening has passed for the present, and flower lovers have already made preparations for tifeir winter gar dens. ; 'i i Say not, oh gentle housewife, that you have no lima to attend to such things Flowers are our fiiendf, sent by the good Patherto refiaeour natures j and gratify our higher tastes. Let us have more of them. You surely can spare them a window or two, and give . them a little attention daily. Re sure to have a basket of trail'ngi vines hung in your window. Thi efiect of; the drooping sprays is very pleasing both outside the house and in it. ; Plants suitable for- these baskets I will name it some future time, but be fore Ic ose I wish to:seak especially of THE IVY, This plant I consider auite indispen sable for the decoration $f living moms. The most brilliant bipssoms do, not give so pretty an effect to a room as a thiftyJ well-trained ivyt I have one ,which, stands on a shelfpi the corner of the sitting-room. The pot and shelf are partly concealed by an organ which stands! across the eornerj The;ivy forms a dense wreath up the wall, around a lecture, up the coid, and down on the opposite side, encircling a bracket be neath the picture, on which star ds a m ar bio bust,. the whiteness )f which comas out in beautiful coriti"ustfvith the bright green of the ivy. It wreaths itself round and round, while one brinch has started out to enclose another picture on the other side. In Germany jvies are used ex tensively forroom decoritionj they prize them highly, andalmosf regard them as mernbeirs of the family. The English ivies are very strong, f and; wiil live thiough most any treatment: but if we sturdy their wants and gratify ' them, tliey will thrive. PeopU generally keep their rooms too hot , for them, and for themselves, too, for that mattv Plants, as well as people, will thrive better in a temperature of from sixty to sixty- garden isthe purest jMearthi y en joyraents" FTowers alssorjgeis of 1 five degrees Fahenheit. do not give them too mucJi water, that is never wa ter unless thesurface of the earth looks dry, and do not let them be unduly heated and they will thrive, especially if their leaves are sponged occasionally. Some one speaking of an ivy they had seen whose leaves i were covered with dust, at d the roots saturated with water said, "How would you like it to go for weeks with dirty face and hands, .and yen r feet in a mud puddle?" I oTten make this hurnan'application in regard to plants and their needs. The ivy is a great favorite. It is always pretty whether climbing over picture or win dows, arching doors or hiding some ugly, old-fashioned beam ; doing so much to render your room charming, and never minding whether the sun shines on it or not. " FARMER'S DAUGHTER. ResoIutiGns Radical Convention. : Resclvcd, That Governor W. W. Holden deserves from the Republican party of North Carolina the kindest afieeliou and deepest gratitude for his manful and bold defense of 'them in 1859 and '70 from the assaults of the Ku-klUx Democracy, for his universal and consistent defense of he poor and humble when he wa3 Governor, and his" faithful and ceaseless maintenance of the Republican principles when he was with us; and, now that he b a martyr in exilt at Washington, Resolved, That we endorse hi ra in the past ,amL shall ever cherish our love for him in the future, and we have a confident hope and trust that the time is not far distant when he shnll return to his native State again, to battle for the Union,, for equality be fore the law aud for the progressive principles of Republicanism. The- opponents of Radicalism in North Carolina can do nothing to bet ter serve the cause than keep the above resolutions before tbe people. These resolutions endorse the weak, incompetent, corrupt and lawless ad ministration of Governor Holden. They endorse his every action wherein lie played into the hands of Laflln, Deweese and their class, against the advice and over the protest of the bet ter menoJib party, '. natives of the HatetTtThey emlorseiafuduiehfcj sue of millions of State bonds when his party advisers warned him of the re sults that ! have since transpired and the consequences that followed. -I The resolutions endorse the Holden Kirk' war I They endorse the plunder of the Treasury to carry; on that war and they endorse the outrages perpe trated on the innocent victims of Kirk and Bergen and, in effect, call for their repetition. ; These resolutions rebuke the five Republican Senators who voted in the Impeachment Court for the conviction of Holcleu. As a rebuke to the Demo cratic party, they fall harmless behind the shield of truth and.iustice, but they come with telling effect upon that por tion of the Republican pijrty which dis approved of the Kirk-Molden war, and which to this day approves the convic tion of the usurping Governor. , In the passage of the re3plutions the Republican Convention did-good ser vice to. the Democratic party, and reaf firm the determination of Radicalism to carry on its war Gt partisan hatred, to the destruction of the peace and prosperity of the country ind every good principle of free government still animating our institutions.. It remains to be seen if the people of North Carolina will, next August, 'en dorse these resolutions this Radical party and Governor Holden. If they love their-'lives, their liberties, their peace and their; property, they will not. -Cliarlotte Despatch. The Noble, IJolpers -The Brigade, ' which AmiY of Ofeice- "Bread and utter demands the re-elec tion of Graht, tjonsists cf about 31,000 postmasters i 17,000 under the com mand of the Treasury Department, with a signal corps of 3,000 more under difierent lea'ders, making iu all 51,000 noble; patriots who demand that Grant shall be kept in pover ,in order that they may continue to hold office and serve the country for their own good. This number does not include the mem bers of Congress who are dependent upon the breath of Executive favor for their future political existence, through the 'Control of the appointment in tbe district!;. Itdoesnot include the licensed spies who go about plundering individ uals under pretense of la w, but who are all devoted to the cause of Grant, Je ca use Grant and official rascality' seem to be identical in aim and intent. This armv of office-holders nroDoso to dictate what shall be the political action of the people in the selection ofarresulent. Detroit Free Prcss Good Xatnre. Ai welcome as sunshine ' In erery place, Is the beaming approach Of a good-natured face. Ac pentle as sunshine, Like warming to impart, Is a good-natured word, From a good-natured heai Marriage 31axlru3 j The following marriage maxims aro worthy of more tr.tn a hasty reading. Husbands neednot pass them by, for they aie designed for wives : and wives should not despise them, for they are addressed to husbands. ,' The very nearest approach: to do mestic happiness on earth is the culti vation cn both sides of absolute! unself ishness. i ! $ever talk at. one another, .cither, alone or in comp'any. Never both get angry at once. Never speak loud to one another un less the house is on fire. Let each one strive to yield oftenest to the wishes cf the other. "j Never find fault, unless it is perfect ly certain that a fault has been com- . mitted, and always speak lovingly. Never taunt pae ivith a past mis take ' v " ..: "! " . Neglect the whole world besides, rath- . er than one another, Never make a remark at the expense of another; it i3 meanness. Never part for a day without loving -words to think of during absence. Never meet without a loving wel come.: . Never let the sun go down upon any anger or grievance. Never let any fault you have com mitted go until you have frankly con fessed it, and asked forgiveness. ; . Never Yorget the happiness of early love. . lever sigh over what might have been, but make the best of what is. Never forget that marriage is ordain ed of God, aud that his blessing alonev can make it what it should be. v ' Nver let vout hopes stop "short of theteraal.bocac r ; V Remember, ! Remember this Radical party should ers the whole responsibility of the enor mous and dar.i dyed villainies for which you deposed a Governor and diqve out a legislature. Remember what these crimes are: Violations of the Constitution Violations of public confidence ; Violations of personal liberty ; Violations of the publ ic peace'. Remember the Convent:op endorsed the; action of the man who tortured Pattea and Murray, who imprisoned Kerr and Turner, who deprived hun dreds of citizens of , the privilege of voting, and terrorized for months over a whole section of the State Wm. W. Holden, whom your legislature con victed of high crimes and niisdemeaa ors and deposed fron the office of Gov- ernor. . ' , '' Republicans of the West ! , With this damning record re-endorsed in cold blood by a convention two years after the event, can 'you support the party and its leaders? 1 ; Citizens of the State of every party, will jrou net rousjfe inthe great strength of freedom, from Currituck to j Chero kee, and hurl to the earth this infamous party that glories in its convicted crim inals and hue;s to Jt3 bosom id aban doned shamelessness its disgraced and branded villains ! Wil. Star. Power of the Press. -I love to hear the rumbling of to steam power press, better - than the rattle anid roar of artillery. It is silently attacking and vanquishing the MalakofT3of vice arid Redaus of evil, and its parallels and approaches cannot be resisted. I like the click Of type in the composing 1 stick better than the click of the mus-v ket in the hands ot. tbe soldier. jl bears a leaden messenger o deadlier. power, of sublfmer force, and of surer aim, which will hit its mark, though thousand Years awa v ! Ch&vin mm .i A lady correspondent says the first time she was kissed she felt like a tub of roses swimming in honey, cologne, nutmegs and cranberrises; she felt as if something was running through ber nerves on feet of diamonds, escorted by several r little Cupids in. chariots drawn by angels, shaded by hojey-uckles, and the Whole spread with melted rain hows p The Grand Jury of Buncomnecoun tv. have found a true bill ackinst G. W. Swepson, for fraud and conspira cy. . 1 -y . i '. SI i -1
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