North Carolina Newspapers

' ' . '' 1 "; - ' ' ' T -. . , . . - j , , . , - . - m i. , ., . M fr . - t ' -v;--;: , -t ' . - - 1 ... . .... . Vol. X7".- lO, 187 t 3S? o; 48. !'-,. lit. " .-1 V 'SXAteL'KAL AS2JI3S3. The ISiiia: ot True Jletal. SJelow vk Publish the Inaug- . VKAL AdDIIKSS . OK ' GOV. .;; VAXCK, lXIVEliED IN- TUCUEU i 'ALL ON ' r Monday the l'lasr day of Jan- ' ' L'AKY, 1877. u JjADies and Fellov Citizens: Therd if retribution in history. For til tii wrongs and iuequaiities of iuli vidual nd na'Uoaal lif there ia coru feusation provided if we do but patient ly await its coming; Twice'bsfore tkis, I took tbe caths of office for GoToirior of North Caroliua ; the first time on the itli of Septmler 1 3c 2, tliff tccaud i'ma oq the let day nf Jauujry, 18Gk I Was 'hot permitted to serve o'.it uiy last j al lotted term. War was then raging J iu tho land aud the star of the Confederacy was already paling towards its tiu:il jol- ' poaration. In April, 1805, the" second and last remaining get . firtny of lis Coufederate Stata surrendered !a,t 5rcenshoro and the hardly contested struggle of the Southern pyplo w8 (en ded. Wc then found ourselves ia a j?e-. - cu-iiar condition,-attributable in a great measure to the complex uatiiro of be tiOTernnieDt under which we 1t. "Tha"t struggle was tha result of tho opin ion of the . Southuru people -of their right to withdraw from the TJntoii Ly .IStatc action ; it wan inauguratad by or diuai.css of secossioa and...,wag ma'ii: taioed by arms.' It was througrroutjaa attempt to escape from the Aiueiiean 1 Union a established by the ; Const it u-. tion. When that escape was prevented by the adverse results of tho: war we naturally supposed wo were still in the Uujoa and subject to the Constitution. True, according to the theory of our ad versaries, individuals enagad ia-the so called rebellion had' inyjarred tlie penal ties of treason, but it liad occurred' fo lie lawyer to suppose that tha Statist composing the Confederacy ' had forfeit ed their poi'ii as niemben of the '.11 ioo, or that they had acquired -by defeat the very object-they, bad sought to at tain by success. It was therefore iid mitted by the . undisputed legic of jail parties, that the insurgent States were --till .at the close, as at the beginning of the war, in the Union, controlled jby the Constitution, bound by' all its cbii pationa, and entitled to all its irot;ec tioas. In fact we were termed . traitors "by. reason of, and only by reason of, the" proviaoius of that instrument : and "liut for The fact, that as was sail, jwe owed an obedience to it, which !we could in nowise avoid by Beoessioc, no one ceuld have had the hardihood to rnture on the use of such a term to ward us. : Uut when the war ended sc eefully for the North, . the situation became embarrassing to our adversa- rle.. The Union Ynd the Constiturjioii : which h;id firnished such excellent bat tle cries in tked-.iy of strife, were now de cidedly in the way. The Constitution said, "These States are Members of the Union; they did not get out, and in deed could not, whilst my provisions were observed ; and being where tiey always were, thsy ar entitled immedi ately to reform their i own governments and to send f-'enfctors and HepreserUa tives t tue JJitional' Congi es?,''., fiut the necessities of the Republican party spoke thus : "If- these States are trea- . ted as being in the Union, and if their Senators and Represautatives are admit ted inta Congress froifl governments of their own formation,, they will add " .so maeh strength to the Democratic 'party that there is danger of their seiz ing the . ("oTern ueut and ousting j us from pDw r.w . Thus the organic law of the land and the necessitiss' of a party overe at war. ; Without hesitation paj-ty good was preferred, and the- Constijtu-. tion wept down. We were treated j as buUida of the Union. Our State Gov ernment was overturned ; every civil of ficer from the Chief Magistrate to thr humblest conservator .of the peace was deposed, and for many months we were abtolutely without law for the absurd term "martial law" means only ! the will of the commander of troops. Test oatbs defeated oar free representation in Congress, and many penalties at tached to treason were visited upon-.Us without the forms of a trial and csn'vic tion, which indeed might have beenf a hazardous proceeding as the Supreme Court was still somewhat sensitive to theiegal opinions of the world. In tlU name of the Union we were thiust out of the Uuion ; in the name of tHe Constitution we were denied all protec tion of the Constitution. In this man lier we existed" until it pleased the Pres ident of the United States to restore us to the Union, desicated of many of our rights, and stripped of much of our le gal power. But even this poor contri vance of a poorer statesmanship was not sufficient for our adversaries, inasmuch m it gave us a semblance of constitu tional protection and left our State Gov ernment still in the hands of our legal And native born citizens who stubbornly refused to" affiliate with the dominant -party. After due consideration the Republican party in Congress under took a second reconstruction, on it own termsrcartaiu amendwents; to i Coh titution having beeu first adopted . by the aid of the States to be reconstruc ted, then were enacted the series of "Re construction Acts" f acknowledged by tlieir principal advocates to be outside (of the Constitution ; again wis the Uri- , ion dissolved ; a ssoonds time were we f hrvt out ; once njore wera we subjected to tho government of the bayonaj new qualidcations . of suffrage were estab lished,! new rules of disfranchisement were imposed ; and j the extraordinary 'spectacle was exhibited to the wor a Constitution being foisted upon a free people of one of the free American States by the illegal! suffrage of somi, aided by the illegal disfranchisement of ethers; and all superintended and con-! trolled .by the bayonets of strangers! Dy this burlesque upon law and frejo government, the political cnaraoter of the Southern States was made to aceord, perforce, with .that of (he dominant par ty ;, aad holdin the check of political disabilities upon the leading men of tbeir bpp'oneits in their own hands, they fancied they bad secured to them selves along Ic&eS of power, "jThe dan ger being thus happily averted. froU their party, aad the!State. Governments of the .South having becu placed in tlje hands 'of tiieir wn creatures, sdme'pf vhom were even provided' with self- perpetuating ' powctaj Called " 13ards;"'if was tliifUsrut sife "to re-ao- nut the :-e States to the Aui';r can Un ion, on -terms of so-icalled absolute equalitf". I pjrfjct and All of tills we submitted to after nnii'vailincr prote st, ftiid by all of Rolotnnly tbesej "tilings -ovo liaTa agreed to abido ill good . faith, f vir it" . 1 . -T ll till the sake of "po-tce land may have m oraer tuat zap ircst. Wo were not tOo withoitt a iroasonablo hope. that having required of tlonei all wnicn was us, aild concurred in rtlaidental law in such S a manner as ; thd victors thought necessarj to secure all tho results of tho wart we might have a rtfturii to strict 'aid i exact consti tutional governnjent, and putting behiml us as ifo rcertailj vrerje dL-iposed to do thai irregularities and hitter memories of tho - pasjt, look forward to bettor times in thje future. Bitterly wei'eN.ve deceived in that fond lurpe. From that daV' to the present, tho armed hand f the Eederal GovtUitment has never ce.tsef I 'to interfere, ;or threaten to interfere, in the domestic concerns of thp Southren Btates, whenev 11 k n " t - -si- tno supremacy or tne -ttepuoiican party was tUougJit to 00 in danger. .Hi: ( .11 liie iexeur-;e loritiiLS uneoustitu f tional action is the" miserable pro teneq of preserving tho, public leaeo. .-. " 1 - f It 19 a matter of decisiofiby ti e Supreme; Court that the Katiohsd Government canhot exercise mere police jwwers iu the States, it is a matter of history that there has been -'no considerabla brcacli of tliG peace m any par t of the country except in tiiat w tich Avas ruled by the execrable creatures Who were j placed in power there by the aid of tho f ederal when-crer the re have thrown off Government; thht onstrncted States this alien control there is not the shadow of violence or discord; that ti 16 only .semblance of pre tended discord existing in any of them, oh which is founded the President's excuse for the use of soldiery, is in those three States which alone remains governed by rcco n st ructi o r -carpet-b a g ge rs, and whose electoral .votes happen to "be necessary to secure the su premacy .of the republican : )arty once more. Within the last thirty days, the world has seen with won der and dis'gustL tho . Legislature of a sister State assembled to hud its Capitol filled with United Stales soldiers, and sentinels wi fixed bayonets guarding the doors of its halls, whilst a sergeant. c!d cided upon the qualifications and election of inenibers,! refusing ad mission to those who were declar ed duly elected joy tho supreme ju dicial tribunal of that State! Nor was this the. first time that this great outrage upon liberty and committed. This law had vr nuij be preserving the public peaep, but it looks vastly more like a de liberate attentat to goad brave men: j to desperation j in order :d shed -their blopd, as well as to rob them of thbir liberties. . The real disturbers South Carolina of tho peace'- m are the President and his advisers; the real '. preser vers of the per, co are the noble and chivalrous Hampton and his long suffering and admiring coun trymen. . J j There is not an honest man in America to-day but -believes this. Such are the results which have flowed naturally from predetermined violations of the Constitution, and the unwarrant ed assumption of power by the military arm. Nor have these been tha only, if the worst, fruits of these departures from the legal piths. By this unnatural pp ca: and schemes of reconstruction, NoTth Carolina was placed in the banjd.i of the designing and ignorant of Uur people, organized and led on by unsoru pulous and disreputable adventurers from the slums of Northern politics ; a base and cormorant tribe, of reptiles, which seem to spring like fungi, from the rottenness and corruption ot reve tionary times. The story of their short lived but evil reign, of how they bank rupted the State in character and means, of bow they overturned our time-honor ed institutions, persecuted decency, 0 Ut. lawftd honor and lionsty, ' and establish" ed fraud as a thing to be j woralnpped in their atead, and bow they rioted in tb trampling down of the most revered tra ditions of our jioeple, jis one too well known' to be repeated t here. Thant Uoa, n is !iiaea at last 1 co iar as !iided at last 1 So far Nortn Carol na is concerned, that rule of conrudtion arril calaniitv is numbered with the past, the lost and the damned ! At first tne column of true men wnicb. assaulted it as a smalt and dispirited on - Not onlv were the enemy stroozlv tatMnched behind the Constitution and laws of their own lnakipg aud interpret ing, but the gigantic i-had:w of federal p-jwer stood between tham and the right- eoas wrath of au orpreoi people. Iv a -disboni'ett twe of .tfee'-i-sa'sred na.neo the American Union, ahd by akiilful ap peals to the -prejudice! excited by war, they re:ured a Urga aad respectable fol lowing of many who were not privy to their wie'iei deiigns.; iimnerous others were tempted to j?in" tljeir ranks by the blandishments of offiee -nd public mon ey, whili was modestly designated "Ac cepting, the situation." 1 'Hut there was a remfiant who bowed not tie knee to lLal ; the:e were a few -names left in Sardis who did not defile their garment. Incessantly mid courageously they charg ed up m toe enemy, thi . every assault their numbers and theirjaphlts increased. One by one, corrupt Isadcrj fell or Hid ; one by oiie, abuses w.re-exposed and remedied ;- one by o-., the diiTdrsn biancl.es of the 'government were torn from their control ; uow it wss the Leg islature; no vit was the I representation in 'CongroKS ;: now & portion of the Ju diciary ; whilst ever ami anon a. cor rupt eountv government woald be seiz- ed and ovarturued. . To hof how the eausa of right and justice Igrew, in 18G8 we could r-. give to oar candidate for Oov crnor,Thjma 8. Ashe, '-oijs of our best and-purest'mcn, but 73,f 94 vote ; in l.72 we gave J udga i'Vefrnuou 96,700 votes. Finally the tiiiy H of great and decisive battle came. ' j Arid I confess' t!i it the' proudest 'day jinj the history lot" my life was tlje one. on j which' I w;n al most unanimously chosen' as the leader, of tb- people of my naiivo Stkte in .hat great it.: A sViajetic spectacle Iff -is ru'esen.ed in tin niakiiii; ready. The ity host in battle-array, stretch ed from eastern sea- boat tne r evoriastimr retrain upon the wliUe-sn shore of liatteras westward to where tho rugged Alpine pak of the grand old jAl'o'haiiies look down into tne jt'harnbers of tho setting son.' UuJer. tuet, p.aex tT the llains', beneath the oaks of ' the roiling midlacd.vterositiH'. hilltof tl'ie Dan, in the valleys of the laJkiti, jOatiwba, Kroad an Cape Far.l, on theii!es and sum mits of th'VmountaiiM and upon ail their highland pushes, tliey stood. Like oar iierinan . ancestors,. tlie whole people went out to but; fa the woine:) and the children as'-'thawivss j and maidens of the Cberusci, standing -behind our array to drive forward the laggard and encour age the timid, ready both to re j fee in our triumph and t'J inspire hone m our despair. In those rkt stood white ha-y-ed age, sturdy niaiilioxl and lusty youth, trio wisest, best and bravest oat of a. .million. people. How could man horid'go backwards in iucli a 'i presence? No. epiinpaigti, perhaps, in o;ir political annals was fought with; sUoh M-dnuKaud univysal eathusiasm. ! ,Tha zeal of the people mounted up to a holy sublimity. Thu tta'ta was public 10'nasty and con stitutiona! liberty, by" your c nnuiand, scribed with these That banner which C 'uutrymea, iu- si'crad emblems, I bore in front of that hpst, sustained by my able and gullaiitj colleagues, has been bUs'sed by the most Mgual victory ! ev.er achieved in our State. The aver age vote for our ticket is about 120,500 ; so rapidly have the friends of rig'vt in creased, I will not affect to deny that I am p8rspuajly grstitiadj in an cspeciai mannai- by the result, ; to. which 1 may be pardoned for alluding. For nearly three years I wis your Governor in the midst of the civil war. In tint capacity in such times, duty compelled me to the performance of many' ungracious and un pleasant things. Some jof them were, no doubt, fairly open tai hostile criticism, especially when looked at in the light of subsequent history. But I was not only assailed with extraordinary harsh ness and injustice for what I did, but bitterly" and falsely for what 1 did not. The ; prolific sourcaa of malevolence and slander were exhausted pi defaming me In response thereto the people of the State, whose cause ;I served and. whose honor I upheld, have isaid by twenty seven thousand more voteis than was ever before that time cast for any baa iu our political history not that everything I did whs right, but that I in all tilings I faithfully performed r.d endeavored to perform the duties whica.thoy had im posed upon me. I hope my fneniies are satisfiad with the verdict. Quito car tain it is that I am. For the victory is not only great, but was ' won by one of the fairest, best matured and most peace ful elections ever bald in ' our Stat or aiy other State. And now cheered by this inagniScent endorsement, I for the third time enter upon the high duties assigned by the Constitution and laws of North Carolina-to- ber Chief '-Magistrate. ; ' ' i' In. assuming once mote the govern ment; cf our native State, we are re minded that with powerj there omes-re-sponsibility. The deep'i wounds which the last fifteen years of war and misgov- eminent have inflicted uoni us still gape unhealed.. Oar publio credit has been almost entirely destroyed iour wealth has been swept away ; eurj educational fund has been loBt; unpatriotic partisan statesmanship has iiei eased bnd embit-te.-bd sectional feeling ; and; worse, per- j haps,, thau all. the races conposiug our people nave been set at enmity against j each other. Though it if almost twelve years siuc the war closed, little ba been done by the dominant 'party to beal tna us AtiaiaJ nf I Si rA aB0TTlt(l . ir t s coocile the antagonism "bf Jh.5 white and the black races. -Much 'indeed, on the contrarjNVTi done ,to aggravate W,:-'CrSS FLr us - lies it is ijj ;i,wuy . tueie -iW weilta, to ildren of the StataJ to mitigate sectional and race animosities. Iu an especial manner should it be bur duty to disabusa the minds of our black eitizens of the falsa impressions which unscrupulous demagogues hare instilled into them that we intend, iri any way, to interfere with their chartered rights. Let us convince tbem by liberal legisla tion and kind treatment, that we not only intend them no wrong, but that we earnestly desire their prosperity and happiness that we constitute the party I'lvuniiJvi.iivuu 11 ...V lxh. v , , maintafns and observes the Constitution upon which their rights depend; that r t their former-owners are, and naturally should ba, their bsst friends ; that as meu of christian affectian we never can forget the kindly friendships which were formed between, master and servant, betiecn jealous protection and faithful service, and finally that as men of chiv alry and honor we scorn to deceive or oppress thoin because they are weaxer in uumbers and intelligence than we are. Their instrumentality in cur opprissioa lias not been so much their fault as the fault of those who controlled and direct cn'thein. Let this fact never be forgot ten: that 'they served u', they served out fathers and grandfathers, with fidel ity and 'patieuw-; always, and, for the most part, not as unwilling slaves serve bated task-masters.but as humble friends and dependents serva. those whom they love. When war was rampaut oyor the land and nearly all our able-bodied men were absent in the army,witii in hi 3annc the very guns w tich were roaring to set them free, the great body of them remained qui etly at home, laboring in our fields, supporting and caring for our wo men, childred and non-combatants, L.,,i.t.c.,,,i 1 n-r.- t-....iV.- si, tnA ', since, their emancipation,iine oitlj of ten of the misdeeds committed by the blacks againts the whites can, in my opiuion, bo ' traced tci tko instigation of scoumlrels of of our own color. They have most ly done evil because they were in evil hands. ; I firmly believe thaf every semblance of personal hostili ty toward the negro will pass away when his almost unanimous pplti cal hostilit' toward the whites shall have passed away. A wise' states manship already recognizes in him under favorable circumstances, ail element not" only of public wealth but of conservative- power in poli tics which may become a cherish ed bulwark of the South. Labor, though it be never so ignorant, if it be closly allied to capital, is not unfrequehtly the real strength of society. Jt also becomes our es pecial duty to look after tho rights and liberties of the people, with out, which all material interests are as the small dust in the bal ance. Poor as we are we would be poorer still if we had more wealth and less of liberty. The freedom and integrity of elections constitute the very corner-stone of out representative government. When they cease to be perfectly fair and unforced, bloodshed and anarchy are near at hand. We are now approaching a crisis in i'the fate of this country which all honest men should honestly face. No one, I presume, doubts the maxim thaVar-vgjerve the blessings of liberty wen"rofTBavefrequent recurrence to. the first principles oj bur Constitution. They are the embodiment of the wisdom of ouj ancestors elimanted, tested and approved by their experience of many hundreds of years. So well Lave they become established as the organic law of politics and so perfectly d they indicate the normal condition of a free State, that anv departure therefrom is follow ed, sooner or4ter, by results precisely aimiliar to those which . follow violations of the laws of nature. ; AH corruption, civil convulsion and degeneracy, flow n itarally from a failure on the part of a State to observe the laws of its being, just as heresies flow from a nonobservance of the txt of the Scriptures. ! This is the certain source of all the confusion and threatened evils that no-w distrao .the land. There is no plainer or '., more important principle in ; our constitutional policy than that of the right of the State, to control and regnalate thair own domestic affairs within their own borders: and this principle lias been selected for the most repeated and persistent attack, tS cause it is the great and almost only barrier to centralisation Its violation is also the parent of nfJ&SaraTIie ch ;nearly every danger which threatens the .individual liberties of .the citizen. : For ;bo it remembered that no power in this ibuion hs ever suceas.fully defied; t!e daw and tha courts except Federal power; iand no pfcr has ever atemoted it ex cept when ia.-ited thereto and upheld by Federal power. 80 lon .! m! ;Br iong, as the tetares are left in the un Idisturbed exrei F ti.;u .,..t; sovereignty can the public peace ai.d public freedom be" preserve i.. ' Tha gever x ents of the three States of South Carolina, Flo. ida aud Lousiana; are now iu poessession of men who were placed there by the ..unwarunted inter ference of the Central- government; they iive rjeen kept irrpowcr byx the same barioT,in defiance ofnhe will of the oitizens; they coasider themselves re sponsible, not to the peop'.e over whom thej rule, but to the real authors of their power at W ashinnr'ton T diffioulty they appeal not to their con- j erery stituems as in representative govern ments, but to a distant and alien tribu nal. Thay are mostly meu of evil re putation, and honest people every whare look at their best deeds with justifiable suspicion. Now it so happens, that up- ea the electoral votes of thesa threa States depei-di the choice of a ohief . . iiaaS,cr!ite:;r forty ni.lhons of people ; r , Y a,J1Uea t"aJ1)1ty tha a unt. f W I r i: 11.. 1 .iw.uio ui oaiuui u. iiiaoii ana Thomas A. Hendricks has been giren in Florida, and a large majority of many thousands in Louisiana. The returning boards of these dispute 1 States are tha reatures of these Federal-appointed State governments. They owed fealty not to tho people, but to the powers at Washington. Their duty was te re turn tl:e Republican eloctors- as duly: elected. Many of them were taetn salve candidates or the same ticket, I but they properly conduced that mod esty shouid not restrain them if honasty did not. Ly throwing out votes co the pretence of fraudand intimidation, they create a maj rity -for tlieir party elec tors and the-melvks. . T.11 South Carolina, while there is strong re.isou to believe that at least a part of tho Democratic elsctars huve been chosen, and such was loadly claimed to ba tho fact, an at tempt to investigate tha matter by a judicial inquiry was smothered by Fed eral bayonets. The returning board re fusing to obey the-, mandate of the Su preme Court, its mambers were im prisoned for contempt and a heavy fine imposed upon them, jinmediataly a partisan Fderal juJga appears upou tnT'oa "aiid re!eaSesthe43 culprits, whilst some i'avisable band . furnishes ihe money to pay their fine. Grave charges of c irruption ani fraud ire made against all these returning boards, aud it is safe to say that the honest men of t'aa nation are not satisfied that, the thiag was fairly- done. Universal du- couteut pi e.vails, ar-tl the peace of thes country is endangered. The que-tion simply comes to thi ; If Mr. Tiidin and Mr. l'Indricks are fairly and hon estly alea ted. shall the will of the ma- jority prevail, or f-htll Federal loter- ferenca prevail? Shall the: Constitu tion and the laws rule, or shall the Re publican party rule? Shall tha people elect a President, or shall- the Praetor ian cohorts appoint coi Emperor? For if our votes are thrown out of the ballot boxes by interested partisan re returning boards, incited and sustained by Federal coldiers f.t-j tiwit who shall say it will not be done next time, and for all time? If so, why go to tha polls at all? Why mock the hopes of free doui by swearing our oaliers to sup port an instrument which is ia fact dead or obsolete? I have said this much in regard to this matter, because I con ceive our situation to be critical iu the extreme. fOur only reliance now is up- I . 1 ''it - t . . f t on the moderation ana patriotism ;0 ongress. If the representatives of the eople and of the State, shall not ba able to find a peaceful and constitutional solution of tbo difficulty ia which the country finds itself, one of two things will happen ; either the majority of the American people will quietly submit to a gecit wroog involving the destruction of their Constitution, or there will be a resort to violence. Lst us look things in the face. ! The circumstances of 'North Oaro- una, as well a 01 tue ooutuuru ocaies generally, imperatively demand tLat she should not be forward iu this mat ter. More th.in. all things ' else, except good government, wo need pesjce. In eonimon with the oons'titutioual party in the North, we think we have fairly elected our candidato for- President. Upon that party arid not upon ourselves devolves tha propriety and the duty of Uking the needed steps toward secur ing the rightsof - the maj rity. 'Hut let it not be supposed tla.it we aro in JifFjr eut to '.heir action, or deolinc to cjme tothe front becau.se less entitled to do so than ofhers. ) , Blasted ae we- have been by the deso lation of war ; purged of rashness ; by the fires of revolution, and sobered both by publio calamity and private sorrow as we have bean, we yet cherrish the love of liberty in our "hearts. As the mouthpiece pf more than a million people, I believe I can with propriety say for them that North Carolina may confidently, be- relied Hpoii to sustain that portion of the people of the United States which shall convince .us that it is struggling for the Constitution, the laws and riublic iustic.e. which are the fife nd the soul of the American Umou , r . Ou the one hand we do not wish it to b8 understood that we are ready or wil ling to embark in revolution ; nor en the other that wo are willing to quietly sub mit to any outrage that physical force disected by party zeal may see Ct to i ra ! po-e : ! voke 1 the one course tending to pros violence and the other to invite pppreision. Ave do wisli n umierstoou that 'we will follow the lead of. the constitutional men of the North. "Short . 1 1 1 . - rv ' j T and iu all ages lias been, the "shield of us una law anu it suincein us. Jiaw is the woak, the refage of the oppressed. the parent of liberty, and national life. We "earnestly, desire to stand by- it. Truly the Constitution of our country w tue sK ql the corenaut ot our liber ties, which our fathers made for them selves and their children. hen it is properly enthroned ij the hearts of our people Us pre?eu3e is' a blessing and a protection; when dishonored and put away calamity a:d confusion inevitably ensue. Uur only possibla safety is to bring it-back among us and re-establish its altars. When the ark of the coven ant of the Lord was taken captivo from Israel into strange lauds, it overthrew tue image of the false god" in whose temple it was placed, and smote his worshippers round about with a terrible slaughter. The -Priest of JDagon, to esoape its vengeaurje sent it away noon a new cart, diawn by kine upon whose neck no yoke hd come; which without any but tho guidance of the tJod whose coveuant tbey bore, took tho way of Belh-Sheruith, lowing as they went, and turning neither to the right band nor the left. The harvesters in tba valleys of Judah, pausing amidst tbeir goldeu shtaves, lifted up their eyes and re joiced to see the approach of that sym bol of the presence and favor, of their God. And though it journeyed in tri umph through the land wh )e people re ceived it-with hosannas, yet did many pensn wua uar'd to lay r isii - 1 1 - 1 1 . a.u pro- lane hands upon u. Witii'us in North Carolina, though the nation at trouble is beyond our means of control, we cau at least see that the ark is -kept at home and duly honored. Iu 1870 liberty Wa3 assailed in-North Car olina, and the ark was carried away cap tive. Each branch of the State govern ment was consenting thereto; the legis lative and the exeoutivo by -direct aud overt action, mod the judicial by non action. Hut in due tio Dagon was overturned, the people rose as the waves of the t-ea rise before theterope-t, aud .brought back their ark with triumph and rejoicing, L"aw "once more FeigneJ" iu North Laiohna. aud only the stump ! r rv ' l.fi. 1... i...... .i ui j.'a'jii -was icil iiuiu uiui, nuu whither sliould the kine draw the ark of the people's liberties if not into the borders of N. Caroliua, "a fortress form ed for freedoms' hands." Where should the genius of liberty euide them if not here ? It was on the soil of INorth Carolina that the foot of the first English co o list was planiel in America, and the sontud-iS of her forests first of all befard the gloj ious tongue of Shikes peare and of Milton : it was in -North Caroliua that the first blood was shed in behalf of American liberty; it was in North Carolina that the first Declar ation of Independence was promulgated against the power of the British Em pire ; North Carolina's provincial con gress, first of all, instructed her . dele gates to unite in a national Declaration of Independence ; it was North Caro lina who, with one Other State to assist her refused to agra to a provision in the Americm , Censtitution permitting Congress in any emergency to suspend the privileges of the great writ oK hu man liberty; it was iu North Carolina, and I believe only in North' Carolina, that in the midst of the greatt civil war of modern times,- when forty millions of people were engaged in desperate strife, a-nid the gleaming of bayonets, the roaring of cmon, the thunder. of charging squadrons and the iWht of burning cities.the civil power maintained its supremacy 'over the military,: the judge was obeyed. -Inter arma aadie b iittur le jes. ' , North Carolina of to-day Jis tho lineal descendant of the North Carolina-.of the past. Her sifis and daughters an; the legitimate heirs of this glorious heritage. With s.ich a record I think all who struggle for liberty and law throughout the" Americm Union may rest well assured of tha sympathy and, support of North . Carolina. Having briefly glanced at the political condition ' of our State and her relations io the federal government- which at present have such an absorbing interest for us all I will defer speaking of our material home interest and the many suggestions I shall de sire to make concerning our do mestic welfare, until I shall have the honor of officially communica ting witli the Cieneral Assembly. : In conclusion, my countrymen, permit me to express how heartily 1 participate ia tne general joy which this auspicious occasion in spires..! humbly . trust in God that thi3 day, which is so proud a one for us all, may. prove the ber ginning of a happier and. a", better one for our people. Thanking Him sincerely for His mercies to wards us, let tis take courage to work out. the fjrjiition of our pleas ing hopes. Let us remember that good gov-. ernment confers notof itself wealthy prosperity and happiness, but only places them within our reach, and renders it possible for them to bo: acquired, by those who seek them with energy, industry and integri ty. These when properly protec ted will build up again the walla of ! i our political Zion. .A bore all, let us learn to use our great victory with moderation and justice- and ' striTo to wield the power which is this day given us, as those who must' render an account, both hero and hereafter. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. ' . - j : s. n. Webb, r - ATTORNEY AT LAW, DURHAM, N. C. Will practice in tlia Superior Courts of Alamance, Orange, and Person, All business prompt! attended to. 1 , Ko. 11 12m. t JONES WATSON, " AT T ORN E A T LA W . : " : . i , ' Will attend Durham every Wednesday and -ran be seen at his office ia Caapel liil. every other day. 5-tf. , ''.." ..' A. W. GRAHAM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HILLSBORO, N. C. Will be at Durham every Wednesday where ho can be seen at bis office over Styron'sj store. Office also in Hillsboro Claims collected in all parts of the State ' ' J ' i No. lly H. L BUMPASS. . fl. LUHSFORD. BUMPASS & LUNSFORD, ATT O R N.E YS ATL A IV, ROXBOROrN: C I 85-ly. ATTORNEY aV LAW, - AND REAL ESTATE AGENT, DQHHAM.,Hf'CL'; Special attention given to the collec tion 01 Claims. Office in, Mayor's office. 9-tf. Dr. Geo W Graham i RALEIGH, N. C. PRACTICE LIMITED TO ETE, EAR AND THRO AT, 0f3ce over Pescu 1 Lee & Co'. Drag Store. 40 Gm. - ' DENTI8TR 1 J Dr. J. DAVIS, Dr. J. DAVIS, Dr. J. DAVIS, D. D. J. DAVIS, Dr. J. DAVIS. Dr. J. DAVTS Dr. Sanicai i Mm MM. Office over Markharu's stoj-, "All work warrantel tojrive satisfaotionj DR. A . F. MALLETT. PH YSICIAN & SI7RQEON, 1 " Late of Memphis, Tenn.,J HAS LO'CATED AT DtroUAU. Calls left at Lyon A Carr's Drag Store, will receive aWentisn promptly. obtained for mechanist devices, medical, or otb er compoundi, oraams UI designs, trale-markt. Caveat. AsKiTntnanta. Intarw ferencesj'eto., promptly attend! to. In ventions that kave besn by tha Patent OSe nitty still, in most , be Kccured by ns. !-Be . ing opposite the Paters' " Office, we can make closer saarcbm, a 1 cure Patents more promptly an-i with broad er claims than thesis who are remote from Washington. en J as a model or sVatcb ofjyour de vice; we raake jex aminationa fret Hf charge, and advise as to patentability.:. All correspondence strictly oonfidenticL TuOtm "low. nnd no charge uMM;B!te i tec tr ctl. "We refer Uoacials ia the Patent Oase,' and to inventors in eyery State la the Uniosw dJress, C. A SSOWt Oa, .Opposite Paim Offie WtukkyS J. . PATENTS and label. Rum mm i - K.