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VoL 7, WADESBQROTJGH, N, C WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1870. ITolO. Pee Dee Herald. PUBLISHED Mm WEDNESDAY. 0VB8pjtfFIIOir MATMt flue yew, in advance.......". ....100 ix Months. ... .....60 ?hree Months, " , 85 ADflCRTfSJNa SATES! lw. , lm. '8m. 6 m.. 12m. 918 00 30 00 35 00 45 00 50 60 100 00 JBpOO $100 aoq 8.00 4 00 6 00 taqq $ooo $io oq 5 00 10 00 18 Q0 . 7 SO 14 00 20 00 9 Q0 18 00 25 00 lqSQ 2200 30 00 20 00 4000 6500 Bsqs 1 col ) ooL t'lobl. .3800 75oo iqqoa JL1TTLB CHATTERBOX. Thejf cll fl)flCl,liile Chatterbox-- MynsraeliJittleMay; ; have to talk so rnnon, because I have aqtquch to say. Anil olji 1 bav ao tpiny Mes,lr : So many! and you ae -J cant help loving them, because They. every one love me. love papa and my mama . I love my sisters, too ; And If you re very, very good, I guess that I'll love yon. J5ut I love God the best -of all lie keeps me all the night ; And when the morning comes again, He wakes me wihthe light. , think it la sq nice to live ; And yet if I should, die, JTie Lord would send his angels (jown To take me to the sky. Editorial HARGROVE, We are hot a member (bow's that for grammar ?) of the Metho . (list Church. Jn fvct vya coq't belong just nqw to any church. , But, whenever we feel that onr ' fiiaiii fold sins are forgiven and that we ought so to do, we will .' I'jine" flange one of them. We Jove ail, because we see men, in ull, gooq men, trying to do, gooa. Bo we love and honor good men putside of oi. . But, to. the ques tion.. What do our Methodist ., friends what do the true Chris tians of every and all denomina tions think ot the following facts concerning Jjowery Hargrove, - the nigger candidate for Attorney General of N. C. ? He is only a I'specimen brick" of the whole .flricati, Red-string, HoUen, f Dockery, Settle Jabrie- - Hargrove U 1872 i. (From the Wilmington Journal, 28 July, - . -.. 72. ' . WAlTfPH ATTACK ON MISTEES OF ' THIS GOSPEL! Ministers aad Members of the Metho, ' list Chnrcta, South, Pnkjicly Slan, iered a,nd Denounced by the Had ical Candidate for Attorney Gean . era! la the Presence ot Caldwell. ;' The following letter from the venerable William Closs, D. D.., ' to Honorable A. M Waddell ex plains' itself. We shall not say , anything . about the character of the Reverend William Gloss, The people of Nor,th, Carolina trusted ana loved and honored him, years before we were born. Nor have, we either time or - apace at this late hour for comment on, the gross insult and wanton outrage thus publicly put upon that in telligent, patriotic and Christian class of our fellow; : citizens who belong to toe JHernoaist unurco. The ministers and members of the Methodist Church, 8outh, Seed neither defence nor apology. Strong in the consciousness of good deeds, and noble intentions they may proudly point to their record and defy the malice and slander of all who may assault them. B,ut this uuprovoked as sault of Col. Hargrove waa not directed; against the, Methodist Church alone. It was far broader and more sweeping in its char acter . It was natural too that Radi cal ism, through . its chosen de fenders, conscious of the warfare it is maintaining with -everything that is holy and true, should find its most feared enemies in the ministers and members of Chris tian churches. Conscious that at last right was about to prevail over wrong, Hargrove doubtless gratified the master passion of his heart when he sought out for wanton attack and gross insult the. venerable Dr. Closs : " ? Cpikyoy, Sampson Co., N. C, July 16th, 1876. JT6n. 4. M; Waddell, Drab Sia: Tours of the 8th has been received. Ton state that while in Duplin county you were informed that Mr, T. L. Hargrove in his speech at Mag nolia made assertions of a n offen sive character in reference to the ministers and-imrtabers of thrFf n .,my8el! YiaJ,&th" church to which I belong, and you enquire whether or not you were correctly informed. As I am informed that a per verted statement of the occur rence to which you refer has been mblished in some of the Repub ican papers, and allusions to it lave recently been made by the religious papers, I have no hesi tation in giving the facts as they occurred, ' It may be proper here to state that from early manhood to the opening of the war I was politi cally a Whig, and took as much interest in public affairs as private citizens usually take. I ignored the assertion so often made by demagogues, that a minister of the Gospel loses his citizenship by becoming a minister. Since the war I helong to no political party. I am not a Democrat and certainly no Republican. If I have heard a political speech since the war, until I heard Col. Hargrove at 'Magnolia, I was present by accident or upon busi ness unconnected with political matters. The day Col. Hargrove spoko at Magnolia I happened to reach home. At one time I had been the pator of his father anjUjod-serving Christian ever lived family and I felt as the ColoneTT k . ... w. . . was at my home, some . act ot courtesy was due from me to him. Prompted by that consideration alone I heard the speech. To ward the,closeofit he turned and addressing himself directly to me, made a violent attack . on ministers, in which ; he charged, that before the war they-were all secessionists ; that they made war speeches and brought on the war i induced others to go into it and then shirked, it themselves. I quietly but promptly repelled the assault. He made no reply, but then made a violent assault upon the Methodist Church, South, stating that he knew me to bo a leading minister of that church C- and . - i that i she was ,responsiblfor - the war and its consequences that the Methodist Church brought on secession and that brought on the war. I promptly but briefly repelled the charge. . At this time Mr. -Sherard of Wayne county, (who I believe holds some office, or is a candidate for something), came to the aid of Col, Hargrove by making a personal attack up on Dir. Deems. Both talked to me at tho same time. . I ma'de no reply to Mr. Sherard. He and Dr. Deems, are both known to the citizens of Duplin whiph render ed a reply -unnecessary. The Colonel then closed and Mr. Sherar4 also closed- about the same time. A negro then mount ed the rostrum, poured a glass from the pitcher from which Colonel Hargrove bad, drunk qnite. freely, swallowed down bout half of it and poured the remainder back - into th pitcher and then took his seat by the side of the Governor (Caldwell). The Governor left Hargrove, the negro and Sherard remained. I wijl add. that nothing had oc curred to provoke the attack, either on. the ministers or the Methodist . Church. I have not stjen, the account of this. air as PlVftTl in t.VlA RnnilVllinam nana but have been told by a friend that they represent the Colonel as giving it to me so keenly that! left. That is a mistake. I stav ed until after the Governor left and rode thirteen miles tho next day to the place at whioh the Colonel was to speak, and sat im mediately in front of him during the entire speech to let him know that if he derired to repeat the attack either on the ministers or the Methodist Church, that I was on hand. - He did not repeat the attack on either. The -publio wilt judge which man had gotten enough of it. ' ' !J I will close by saying that some of my warmest personal friends belong to the Republican party; that I was present as an act of courtesy, which I thought due to Colonel Hargrove for the kind re lations that had for years existed and family and that I did not know that a minister of the gos pel could not be present at a Re publican meeting without being personally insulted ; that when the entire Christian ministry was assaulted in my presence they coqld pot expect me to do less than repel the unprovoked assault. But I assure them that they have no need to feel con cerned for any one in connection with this matter but Colonel Hargrove, their candidate for At torney, General that the thou sands of ministers of all denomi nations who were so wantonly as sailed by him and the tens of thousands of Methodists will on the first Thursday in August re member his attack. iWen the negroes who heard him told me they wouldqot vote for a man who talked about preaohers like that man talked. Yours, with high regard, Wm. Closs. Of Wm. Cloas 'twere super fluous for us to speak. No mure honorable or truthful genteman ; no more worthy and exemplary citizen : no mare devoted and no in JNortn Carolina. What be writes is. true every word of it. Christiana, honest, true, men, whatever your creed or belief may be,; we ask yon to prayerfully consider Lotoery Hargrove, the radical candidate for Attorney General ( ; ... , . -; , .. , -' : Vance and Settle at AsheviHe. , . The Asheville Mcpotltor- and Charlotte Observer give accounts of the notable discussion between' Governor Vane and Judge Set tle at Asheville last Saturday. A large crowd was present. Judge Settle made the first speech, con fining himself almost altogether to Vance's war record. In the reply, , Gov. Vance , flayed him! mercilessly, and drew down upon tne aeri8ion or toe- assemoiagev Our informant, a gentleman who has heard Gov. Vance often, says this was the most brilliant and Tvowerful speech he ever heard from him. He arraigned the. re publican party for its numerous crimes, tore the. mask from the face of Judge Settle, and achiev ed a signal and glorious victory. The Republican candidate realis ed, too, the defeat which he had sustained, and hung his head, in shame. It is said that if it had not been known that Gov. Vance wouloV follow, him, V the. entire crowd'Vould have, left before Set tle began, to speak. Vance's ap- Searance was greeted by. thun ers of applause, and as he arose old ' friends w.ept 'tears, of jjoy. The Expositor savs t . "It is now thought Buncombe will give Gov. Nance 1,200, majority in Novem ber Did yon ever have a ten-pound cobble stone- in the heels of your stocking ' If you have. you can imagine something of the enjoy ment of getting a, raspberry seed wedjred underneath the plate of your false, teeth. Whitehall Times.. The Cruwalnc Inlamr John PooPa Appintment, If any one had said a week gotlrat Governor' BrogJen would dare to appoint John Pool to fill the high and honorable position of Superintendent ot Public Instruction in North Caro lina, no man could have been fonnd to believe it. But so it is. John Pool nas-heenrappuinted to tho ottice and has accepted it, and therein is consummated the crowning infamy of Brogden's ad ministration, ; , , ' " A confessed -petjurerj if Sena tor Doolittle, of Wisconsin, is to be believed, and if Mr. Badger is to be believed, a would'be mur derer by proyj there is no man in North Carolina more infamous or more deservedly infamous than is John Pool. Yet Brog den who knows all the facts, ap- poiuts him Superintendent of Public Instruction. ' ' We do not . exaggerate or speak at random. Mr. Doolittle declared on the floor of the United States Senate that John Pool as sured him that la his course dar ing the war, his purpose was to embarrass the Confederate Gov ernment. . A part of that course was to take an oath to support the Confederate Government. If that be not perjury, we know not what perjury is.. Mr.. Badger swears solemnly that John Pool gravely proposed to - Governor Holden tq pat In military service during the Kirk war one Mc Lindsey (now the Radical candi date for Congress in the first Dis trict) for the reason, thathe would (lo9e'' suoh persons as Graham, Bragg and the like,' if they be came troublesome. If this be not consenting to murder by proxy, then we know not what it is. Nor is this all. Unless Oliver Dockery be a. liar, or unless W. W Holden be a liar, it was in John Pool's traitorous bosom that the Holden-Kirk war had its origin. And this is the man whom Brogden, with all the faots before him, has dared to appoint Superintendent of Public Instruo tioa, . '..,.' '. - - . -. No man ever so persistently sought to bring sorrow and shame upon the land of his birth as John Pool. Hated and despised from One end of the State, to the other, ' his name has become a bye-word and a reproach among good meri everywhere within her borders. And yet Brogden, knowing all this, has dared to appoint Kim to a high and re sponsible position. No man ever slandered his native land as did John . Pool, Brogden can not plead ignorance. No man better than he knows who and what John Pool is. - It is time for the people to be on their guard. The aotora in the Holden-Kirk war are coming to the front too rapidly and in numbers too great not to engen- - ra er fear for the liberties of the Seople. Settle, the compliisant uoge who so' substantially sus tained" Holden, is the candidate for Governor. Holden is a mem ber of the Executive Committee, MoLtindsey -is a'. candidate for Congress, and now John, Pool the . arch-fiend of them all, is brought to Raleigh as Superin tendent, of Public Instruction I Kirk only U wanting, but he- too can be easily reached -' Can our people look with in difference upon such an accum ulation of proof of some fell puri pose on the part of the Radical party? Journal.- , There Kow The- Windsor Timet has this version of the. "finger-squeezjng" business t j . : Vance said in his Kdenton speech that he "had been charged with squeezing the fingers ot women under fences in order to extort from them confessions as to where- their : husbands, were during the. war.". There, was a man in Randolph (we think he said Randolph) named Owen who had brutally murdered an old man in his own yard. The sol diers did squeeze 0,eu's wife's Sogers under the fence to make her tell where the minerable mur derer was. But as soon ax Vance i heard of .it he wrote to the 8lio-1 itor of that Judioial District, and directed him to prosecute the soldiers to conviction. This the Solicitor failed to do. Who, said Vance, do you think the Solicitor was? Why nO other than Cap tain Thomas Settle," Radical can didate for Governor! , ' War tike. On Monday night, the 17th ult., an "Indifi-nation", meeting was held in Charleston, S, C, to consider the Hamburg affair, mentioned last week. It was ad dressed by Rev. R. H. Cain, E J. Adams, and A. J. Ransier, all coloredthe two first minis ters, of the Gospel.(?) The speeches, it is said, Mere fullof violence, and much of the pro ceedings wero. of an incendiary character. Among other resolu tions passed was the following : "Remember there are 80,000 black men in this' State who can bear Winchester rifles, and know how to use them, and that there are 200,000 women who can light a torch and use a knife, and that there are a 100,000 boys and girls who have not known the lash of a white master, and who have tasted freedom once and forever" , ; Just here we would say, in the language of a ootemporary : We have always been disposed to give the colored man all his polit ical rights, but wheu ho tells us about the number of Winchester rifles which he can use, and the, number of torohea and knives that can be brought into service, we begin to think that we, too, have some rights, which "know ing, we dare maintain. s If k.d vnui omne to worse, we will show these black, incendiary scoundrels whether or nof their threats and high sounding reso lutions will cause us to quake with fear and quietly .submit to their hellish cruelty. In the meantime we would warn the people to be on their guard, as we believe there is trouble brew ing. Shelby Manner. Shame. Shame. The Golds bore Messenger, of July 27th, tells this, pitiably shameful story which, . for hu manity's sake, we wish we could disbelieve J 'An inoideut' hap pened here Wednesday just after Gov. Brogden had received the nomination for Congress. The Governor met West Brogden. a poor, idiotio brother of his, clad in rags and ' barefooted Mr. Jesse Grant called the Governor's attention to the dilapida ed dress ot his poor brother, and suggest ed that as he (llrogden) had been distributing . hw money liberally among his negro mani pulators, he might give his bare footed brother a pair of shoes. The Governor aeting upon, the suggestion gave his brother the pitiful sum of fifty cents. At this several bystanders wore in dignant, and thereupon Riubard A. Newsome and Jesse Grant furnished West with the shoes. West will hardly vote for the Governor; Haw U Xtec roes Tote la ! Cstjr ot Mew York..,.,. Col. Wm. Blame, commander of the Sons of Morgan, a colored society numbering nine councils and 700 members addressed , a Tilden Club meeting, in New York last Thursday, lie had hereto fore always supported the Ltepub licttn tickett, but uow he as well as the colored men he represent ed, would support Tilde a and Reform, . . Only a Woman's hair ll ' Who has . not. some time ia his life picked such a goMun thread from his' best coat callarw and felt his heart beat quicker lar it? Ur gazed upon a tret Ui4 away in some nook, and felt the in fluence of ; tender memories I Only a woman's hair I And yet we don't like it in the butter. Norwich. Dttlletiru , RADICALISM. Tke Poor, Sick aad Afflloied Pan- : pers of Jones County Hired Oat by - tke If egro Commissioners of tke Coanty to Negroes. Tbknton, Jones Co., N. C, ; July 20, 1876. $ Editor ofiht Raleigh Newt i DeabSir: I find by exami nation of the reoords and from other sources that at January term I 1872 , of commissioners court of this county, that Mrs. Nancy King (white) and three children were let at auotion to the highest bidder, and were bid off by a negro who can neither read nor write, at the prjoe of $5 50 per month. At same time Mrs. Lucy Lochey (white), aged and blind, was bid off by another ignorant negro who can - neither read or write. At the April term 1875, Samuel Metts (white and, blind) having f a wife and several children, was bid off by one of the negro commissioners at $5 per . month. At same time a white man named Afred Davis was bid off , by another negro' commissioner at $4 , per month: At April t term 1876, Samuel Metts, the - blind white man named above was bid off by an ignorant nigger at $4 50 per month. At same time Alfred Davis, named above, who is afflicted with cancer, was bid off by a negro at $5 50 per month, There were many others, bid for by negroes but not bid off, by them. The board of county commissioners consist of three negroes aud two white radicals, 1 If you need any more testimo ny to ooroborate the faots above stated it . can , be . procured by scores of witnesses, , Very Respectfully, 1 Bbhjamin Askew. ! Trriny to Repndla.ts Grant to Save Uaves. j A large number of Republioaq1 papers manifest thoir disgusti with the reoent operations of Grant and his direct movements in the interest of the numerous rings whioh have been plunder ing the government. They ; are! now, after eight years of praise of Grant, laboring to throw him overboard and convince the public that Hayes, instead of Grant, represents the Republi can party. Their pleas are too transparent to deceive anybody.: It is a well-authenticated fact that Hayes next to Conkling was Grant's candidate; furthermore the Administration h&s taken full charge of the ce-uvas for the Cincinnati ticket, and- every effort in its power is to be made to secure its election. The platT form adopted at Cincinnati fully indorses and approves Grant s administration, and Mr. Hayes deolares that his views coincide with the platform. Events have closely identified Afr. Hayes and hi canvass with Grantism. They have become inseparable. A vote for Hayes is an indorse ment of Grant's Administration and an approval of his course. The campaign is to be conducted by the Cabinet, and ' Grant is taking 1 extiaordinary measures to make the cabinet and all sub ordinates a unit for Hayes and Grantixm. . No quarter is to be given to those men who profess to be in fver of reform. The public ' is already informed by those who. are managing : Mr. Hayes's eanyassv that there is to be no change n the system aud policy under Hayes The brwioess is to be conducted at th old stand in the old way, with the same men as advisers. In the event of Hayes's election it will be simply a new name over the door with the same system and the same agents to ma-nags the business. The effort of the Republican organs whioh are disgusted with Grants receut transfer of the whole power of his Administration to. the side oJ the rings, and m direct declara tion to "Let no honest 'man escape'- to disconnect htm" 'from the Cincinnati ticket, rHU,,irt,g toa Damn reliance uon th credulti- ty of "the American peoIo for its succesi. We are not surprised that the Republican papers are becoming arlarmed at the demonstrations. avW s'unton in fvor of ti e thieves. Their alarm comes too late. It is a noticeable fact that before these movements were mad -by Grant, measures were taken to secure the control of the can vass of Hayes by the Administra tion, and to so connect the ticket with it that Bone could donbt the alliance, It is claimed by the President that all of these changes have been t made in the interest of Hayes and to make his campaign more thorough and efficient. All has been done to shape the policy and . mike , out the course - of the canvass, as well as to define the system to be pursued in the event of Hayes's succubs. Whatever the Republi can papers may say; Grant does not propose' that there shall be any miatake io regard to the polioy that Mr. Hayes will .pur sue in the event of Success," nor does he-leave any room for doubt that his policy will be perpetu ated under the present nominees of the party. All arguments that will not, and that reform will in that event be inaugurated, are refuted by j the inexorable logio of facts and the daily de monstrations at Washington. To prove that Hayes's election, under the circumstances, will not be oontinuance of Grantism, is to prove that Grant and his Cabinet have no existence. N. Y. World. Three Skirts aad a Collar. Henry: 1 .Slater entered. Detroit by the dusty highway , to seek his fortune. . He lelt -.a .satchel containing three shirts and a new paper collar in a saloon while he went out to interview leading bankers and- the post masters in regard to a situation , and after walking aroung for two or three, hours he found himself unable to return to hit satchel. ' Some men would iave risen above the circumstance and called it a romantic episode, but Henry Slater got mad, , been mo discouraged, spent his change for intoxicating fluids, and was pick ed up as he wandered over tho commons. , , - 'Young man, go ..'W. homo, said the court when Li heard both sides of the, caso, 'Out in the country'you will drink in pure air and childish innocence with your buttermik and root beer Here in the city you will get sore heek - hunting for a fortune,, and you wouldn't be here a year before you would have two aoes up your sleeve and five more in your hand. It is noble to hoe corn and potatoes and chop down the mighty giants of the forest. . s j - 'It also makes a filer's back ache, put in Uenry. t' Wht is the backe-ache to being good in heart? demanded the court. 'What is the back ache to being pare and - innocent and lamb like? I had a farm once. I know what the backe ache is. Ooce I sat beneath the blossoming apples-trees , and drank in inspiration aud ambi tion with every breath. ; And now you play with seven aces ?' whispered the prisoner. There was a long pause, , and then Bijnh motioned for him to. back out and take the road home. Detroit iVJFVea , How naturally one turns away at this interval, from the work of bardSj sages and philosophers, from visions of . state-craft and the phenomena of politic k scienoH, and sighs for the match less liberty of that civilisation whicu permits, a.-man ' to oik around all dsj.in hi night sli;rk Brooklyn- Argus. It is .(Suggested that tho onljt comforuble y to drcsi t!.ii weH.ll'eB is to toy a suit of j r ToTated buckskin and V.;va t out the biuikskiu. I' i UiUletiuv
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