.... - I 1 1 ' ' 1 Ill iMWW I HI i run
Jffres will pass tlioso attending the
Ilcnry crriher; of Atwell's Township, rc-
cotto at his house with 8 leaves. .
gereral jralnablp contribations from
j- W corIHile"ta uoavoitlabl j cro'w
jlout of lhi 1PK :Such of them as
not poU br keeping shall appeiir
le j J i 10:"r -: r Z
My,Ltji Franca w P. 0. only 15 or 10
ye dif tap . oa$ht to received a package
3o tbid ojBice every week with perfect
ff -ularity, but we learn it doea nt.
W'bere ihn4 it lodge t ,
Bottiid tfe tickets to Tliomasville will
ie tuM o" the North Carolina railroad to
leron8 wishing tojattend the commence
ment exercises of the Female College on
tbe 2ml, H and 4th of June, gool fur six
STIIA.Y. There is a stray sow at
Uhe
ifm. Jewy TriMlden's which the owner
in inl to call and take away. She
;.lil:ick.iwith a crop id a hole in the
..ft ear, and has , three piga following
hr
Tobi vs Kestleiu We are glad to learn
UU4 thist tizesn Vf Providence Tow n sh i p ,
who las been fir Weeks ti terrible suf
fcrerroin arbuncle ori i the back ofhis
.iwk. isnoSv out of danger and couva
-Icsccnt. 1 s
-
Tiiir Comet." The 'book bearinir this
title by the late lli W.JJtriox, of Lincolu-
on, X. CM has again 'come into notice by
? the prefcft, and is prim ou ueel by a d U ti n
Mlnhed western. gentleman, "Mic most re-
markabletiook I evey read."
.Mr. Hakvev Deai., and Miss Rebecca
CoHBKU.. 'ere married in Raleigh Wednc -'day
evening. Thcyikre botli well and fa
Tortbty, knefwn Jtcre, and we feel authorized
to tender tlj'em JIuj congratulations of their
galijibury friends. - They will- make Charr
lotfe their home. N ,
: 1
. To-morrow is thejHlayApiointed to
itrew ftowers on the gnires of the Federal
dernl in tliej Cemetery at this place. There
irill'he Excursion trains ; fnm Charlotte
xnil fnm JSwananuoa -to .accommodate
those who desire to take partriir the cere-oimiies-of
tjie occasi)h. -
lr. I. W, Jones of this vicinity, s col-
lfcting Indian relieswhich he.proposs to
wud to Col, C.X,'. Joues, of Augusta, Ga.t
ulio is wiitiiig a book on the Indians of
tlie Southern iiortion of the couutrv. The
n-lies picked up here and there iu every
BHghlMirluMM.1 . almost, brought, together
and coiuiiait'd, it in le)ieved wilt shed
mndiT light n theaiitiquities of the
twuntry. If ' ' ;
-o-
Statk CfvENTiox Y. M. C; A. We
tiHN-ived this, morning a circular from the
Secretary -of-the. State Kx. Com. of the
' YtMinj; Ajeu's Christian Assiw ijition, from
nhuli we"h'iirii that the thud annual
coiiveationlof this ImkIv of christian wrk
ers will btield in Salisbury, commencing
Tb n rculay .Iu ue HG t li a n d coi 1 1 i u u i u g u u t i 1
JMiUath, following. It will be iiiLoceas
i(u ctf unusual interest to the reljgious
lmblic. J 1
In
, ForxD'HfcAU. Jesse . I. Trexler, aged
ilout 40 years; left the liouseofGeo.. Miller,
lirotlier-iii-law, Wednesday, May 14th,
taking wit lr him, a bundle of clothes and
ittxc, sndiwas riot: heard of again until
ma dead body was j found m a; piece of
WOfiljs.tvmjiuiles from hU sfarfimr iwiint
' HifMMly ; found in a path tending fo
JohnLongl place. 1 lie had Wen dead for
week, it ia supposed, and was only rccog
nittd by Ins clothing, his bundle and his
x A coroner's jury examined the Case
aud returner! death from natural causes.
- - i . , m
Enochrille Items..
Rev; J. R. Davis, OrD., of Mt. IMeas
preached a very! able and instructive
;rioHl.efe lakt SundaY. On the same
U4j . Lt 1.1 takorr tin RiiiMriiitoii1onr. of
me Sunday schoid resiiriied his lHisition
1 A. Yor, Esq., Was elected to fill his
. - iti .
i no closing exercises of the 'Academy
' nils place will mine off the (ith day of
T' 1 m publU is inyjted to attend
tta giHxj; (1nie isiocpectejl. W
-- ;Vs. -i - ; ' ', .
Sonth Elf cf Ripples.
rrankhu Township is iuvestingin $30.
S iVl0 only to the
yalle Ungd6ni but to thenimal and
"imerai.'l
"V
trill t:il- t.l...... .... l-..:.i.. .. ..: -i. .
a,wV i uTf: 1 uref Will jbti-two frizes
r, Vi , Fne'r scholarshm and on
ill m Hndiicr;- In connection with
uiDiuou tlu i(j will be a Tableaux.
; f 5i yApi-j in i f. s. s.
Opliottf rnth Conqaers."
tlittet .: inrtlele la the Watchman ot the
K(imm'iH:nR, 'Statement of the Questton"na
w.uPh'rthe'dtacasl0tt'has not Ueenan-tih.ie-CAMitalne(l
la It, , to show
w.toMey ?.t".1 lQe "quor txanic has been made,
So um dMeud L6 nas not been accepted.
fcapenJin .?nds untouclied. True, It drew lorth
to hi.?h .k 01 "summtaif op" ot Its cv
fWth?Sih'.8al(Iutll0'l -terribly used up"
X aeeinrtn" ln whlch allirue reforniers of eve
'btad ave been terrlblr used up" by
tttnnXTs of the blind." Tn the order of
eS-ViT 13 Der pelted with stones. A
"to Is h felted with stones and that peh
"Bi. An w-wuii avanaoie. to ins an
ort pril n tue workman does not undo his
J?fw t&lon ls ays behind time ; it seeks
lte v ?)w.e.rJltt,f eaa" sown his seed. It
Hrris ,r.;!a 'rlr truth It ls immortal and the
WxL " - . ' greater It watered with the Bowel's
1h nttiSr.?'?? 111 tne telle! that be was only
MoWtKK2"UIl'nat mnanerable and Immortal
"Tnith ' s i ruth, of whom lis said :
AM EV1 n pain, .
55M,df monstrat1on that his "fnlth ls well
'Aic.r yoo do thmw-hlm down. N
jmtS? cks" thm thpir ora ftnd
liiiT, .?5Jle Question of vk-torv Is smtlpd. Let
tUfc-wlf PUUeth son tha tmrne boutt
l OK
"J now lay mine aside.
Mr. EDlTOR.Thronirhi the inlinm
of your colaninsrthe officei-s and'eonshe-
gation of the 1st Uaptist Church, ''colored;
u oniwuui ut-Miu w to r express iueir
heartfelt regreU, at the departure of their
muusier, tne uev a. 31, uonway, tram
the scene of Pastoral labors for nearly 4
years, to the 1st Uaptist Church, colored.
of Wilmington. , The Rev. Mr. Conway
has laboreu among ns with great zeal and
success, bringing imany souls within his
church, and thus (largely i contributed to
the extension aim iunuence of the Bat-
tist Charch here. May he be rewarded.
with even greater success, in his new held
of operatiou. - ' y ;
John; w. Baktox
Washington i Hexdeeson
Calvin Harris,
spfiEcii pp J
HON; ZEBULOK B. VANCE,
-OF NORTH CAROLINA, . !
In The Senate Of The Unite! Slates,
MONDAY,
MAY 19, 1879.
The Senate bavin under consideration the
bill (H. B. No. 2) tnakintc appropriations for
legislative, executive and judkial expensesi
oi tne Uoveriimcnt lor the fiHcal year ending
J uue 30r 1880, and for other purposes
Mr. Vance said : j - ! ;
Jin. President r Before entcringj u pon
the remarks which I propose to make, I am
requested to say, and that request accords
wiiu my own jucunaiion in Miemaiier, mat
the school literature retered to by the Sena
tor from Maine (Mr. Blaine is non-existent
iff the Southern States. During the war
there. was some literature of that -kind .pre
valent, but even then it met with-little fa
yorlaiid l am assured that since the war no
child, white or black, in the southern States
has ever seen any such literature. ;
.Andnow Mr. President, it seems to be
the peculiar misfortune of the section Irom
whkbI come, and I believe it to be also he
misfortune of the whole country that no
question in any way ptriainiug to theSouth
or originatingwith any representative from
the South has been able- to obtain a fair
hearing in these halls upon its merits. In
nans upon ns merits, in
tm as it the day for thatT
n had passed away forever.
deed it would .seem
kind of discussion
I had been taught to believe that the object
of. all -discussion was mischievous if that
was not the object to be attained. If this
indeed be so, luilUt apeal with confidence
to every tair-nnndetl mauiin the united
States who hears or reads our debates here
and ask if the discussion of the qucstin
now before tle Senate has been fairly or o
gically handled with the view to ascertain
the truth, it is proposed
A
First. Bv the legislation wihich is now in
part before us andjvhichhas been, to repeal
the laws under which authority is assumed
rto interfere with the elections of the coun
try by the use of the military.
Second. To repeal the law bv which the
United State maihals and supervisors were
authorized to control .the elections of the
couutry. t '
; Third. To repeallthe law requiring jurors
in the federal courts to take the test oath.
Now, these are the questions, plain and
simple, which have engaged the attention
of the American Congress jiud the jieople
for the? last three months. : Common sense
and a decent regard for the public inter
est require that thev 'should receive at onr
lainl the calmest and most dupassion:tte
consideration winch it is in our power to
to bestow' upon them ; that they should be
abstracted and dissociated from every pas-
sion or prejudice amrviewed solelv withl'"
egard to their effect upon the pnbli wel
fare. Has this been done? The record
of our proceedings is, evidence that it has
not. 1 he staple ot the amuments in op
position has been as wide of this obiect is
t is possible .for human imagination to
conceive, tine hen a tor. in his argument.
lies out rebellion : anotiier cries out Heren-
xiou ; another exclaims, with alarm, that
euei Kouiicnt are nere in inese nans; an
other claims that the North lmys thetarg-
r part ot the turect taxes' and nearly all
of the taxes collected on iuiNrts; another
sees a goblin iu the shape of a Democratic
caucus ; anotlrer holds up his hands in hoi v
jorror in contemplating the fact that there
s absolutely a Democratic majority iu
both branches of Congiess ; and vet an
other sees ruin in a solid South ; aud last,
Lut not least, one Senator exclaims in the
amine of argument, -4,Jeticrson Davis;"
aud that is the contribution that he fur
nishes to the literature of the country.
1 hese 'various and logical appeals have
uot even the merit that the old negro
room attributed to John Minor lotti
race-noi ses ; lor wlien taunren wnn the
fact that his horses could not beat any
thing, he congratulated himself that at all
events they could beat each-other! These
apologies for arguments cannot even beat
each other "in 'absurdity. An honest judge
will be compelled to decide that the race
is a drawn ope and all bets are oft'.
If our proceedings, Mr. rresiucnt, wore
in the nature of a complaint and answer
there is not a court in the laud but would
be compelled pa order that the answer put
iu here by 1 life Republican: defendants to
these bills be stricken out as frivolous,
ami that u judgment be rendered iu favor
of the plaiuti&s. 1 will not recapitulate
the arguments in fivyor ot these bills. I hey
are belore the country, and will be prop
erly-judged in due season. 1 desire only
to inake-niew"observaftn in reply to
these sectional appeals. .
Jlr, rresident, who made the houth sol
id T The answer is as plain and uunns
takeable as it is possible to make any
thing to the human intellect : the Kepub
Iic uupaaty is responsible for this thing.
At the tiegihni ig of the late xvar almost
the' entire Whig party of the honth, with
a larijejutd iiitluontial portion of the Dem
ocratic were .'in fa vor of the ITniou, aud
deprec'fel with their wholes souls the at
tempt at its destruction, but tlirough love
of their native States and sympathy with
their kindred and neighlors, they were
drawn into the support of the war. What
. . ..... .,.. m.
LH'-came oi inem aiicr uie war-, men-wis
dom in opiMsing it was jnstftted by Jhe
rninons results; tneir patriotism ano
courage wtie highly appreciated, aiid
when peace? eame this class jvere in high
favor atthe South, while thTsecessionists
as the original j advocates ofja disastrous
policy were down in public estimation.
If you geiitlerhen of the North had then
come forward with liberal terms aud tak
en these men by the hand, you would
have established a party in the South that
wonldhave perpetuated ywiir power in this
government
for a generation, provided
you had listened to the views of those
men and respected their policy on ques
tions .touching their sections, lint you
pursued the very opposite course ; a course
which compelled almost-every decent, in
telligent man of Anglo-Saxon prejudices
and traditions to take a firm aud deter
mined stand against yonj a course which
consolidated all shades of i political opin
ion into one resolute mass to defend what
they conceive to 4ms their ancient forms of
govern meiitl la ws,f liWrties; and civiliza
tion itself. ! Rr' confiscation aiid-the de
struction of war, you had already striy
, tied. no. of property to the extentid at least
asti.l ;i (Rjo.oUiXO ). and left our land desolate,
' x ' . '. y ''''--' : -' - ?-. ' : , . '.v
I'.'. :y-'y '.'---' ' i-':, :: '-- .1- r I' , y H ': y
fire and oar pleasant places a wasted wil
derness.' i , .. ". r ' i
Peace then ca meno,4 ot penciy bn t
the end of war came-no, . u ot the end of
war, but theVnd of legitimate, eivilized
war and for three years you dallied with
us. One day we were treated as though
wrweie in the Union and ns though we
had legitimate State- governments in op
eration j; another chiy we were treated as
though we were out of the Union and oui
State governments were rebellions usur
pations. It was the regular; ganm of
Now yon see it,' and now you don't."
We were iu the Union for all purposes of
oppression ; we were out of it for all pur
IMises of protection. Finally, seeing that
we still Temained Pemocratic, the Union
wiVs desolved by act of Congress and we
were formally legislated outside in order
that you might bring us, iuto the Union
again itr such ai way as to guarantee us a
republican furu'i of government, that is,
that we should "ote the Republican tick
et ; and you cited article 4, section A; of
the constitution, as your i authority to do
this.,. Yon deposed our State govern
ments arid ejected from office everv official
from Governor to township constable, and
reniiweq us io a siaie or cnaos in which
the only light of human authority for the
regulation of human' affaira and the cou-
trol of human passious was that which
gleamed from the polished Point of the
soldier's bayonet Under this simple and
easily conmrehened system of iurisnru-
deuce s consonant to the great assertion
of the great declaration, that "govern
ments derive their just 'powers from the
coustiit of the.goVerned,"i you began and
conipIeteI the task of -guaranteeing to. us
a epnldicair' form of government. You
disfranchised at least ten percent, of our
citizens, embracing the wisest, - best, and
moct expeiieuced. You enfranchised our
slaves, thejowest and most ignorant : "and
you placed over then? as leaders a class of
men who have attained' to the highest pd
siti;nH of infamy known to modern ageS.I
Iu order to preserve the semblance of
couseMt, con vent ion sTweru called to forin
nev"c6nstitutious, tlje tlelegatea to which
were choseu by tliis new aud unheard-of
ciistitueucy. Th'e military counted the
v.ites, often at the headquarters in di
taut States, the-general iu command d
fining election aud ipialiticatiou
of tie delegates. Many of these delegates
were u.Kr,M.K. ou w hom the right to votM
and hold office "had not yet been besrowedj.
They framed constitutions in which they
give themselves this right, and it was sub
mitted for ratification Utthe same constit
uency who chose the delegates, and none
other that is- to say, they propounded
the question whether they should' vote
and hold office to thethselves, and decided
this question by their own votes, while
white men were not permitted to, votes.
Perhaps the annals of theracefroni which
we spring, with nil it3 various bruLchcjs
spread througliout the world, cauuot tui
nili such a parody upon the principles
free go'vei umeut based upm the consent
of the governed. . -
These constitutions were declared adopt
ed by the general iu command. Perhaps
they were adopted. And at the samcclefjr
tfn, so called, were also chosen Statje
officers for a long term of years, and cln-s -en
by the same -constituency. The new
governments went to work, aud in the
short apace f four years they plundered
those eleven Southern States to the ex
tent of ,000,000; that us to say. they
took all that we hud that, was amenable
to larce-ny, and- they would have takejn
more doubflcssbut for- the Siitue reason
that the weather could hot get any cobb r
Minnesota, as descitied by u returueji
emi";i;iiir iioni
ti... tit.-.t.
"localise the
iennomerer was too short.
f Laughter
And now lecalling these tacts and a hun
dred mom which I cannot now name, can
any amli I man wonder tiiat old Whigs
and Democrats, I'nion men and secession
ist, should uiii.e in a desperate effort pt
throw off the dominion of a party which
had indicted these things upon them f Add
your .military, interference, your abuse,
and your denunciation continue unto this
da v. I
Can you wonder that your following in
that conn try has dwindled iuto iusignih
cance
Tl
ie
fTe:ro
alone is vonr friend
there, and a very few whites, and his eyes,
blinded as they have bceu, are steadily
opening . to" the great truth which you
ought to have taught him, that his pros
perity and welfare are inseparably con
nected with that of his white neighbors.
Ope by out.the Northern adventurers who
led them hilve packed their carpet-bags
and silently stolen back to the slums of
(-Northern society, whence they originated,
and tlicl mcly native Republican makes
his solitary lair in some custom house or
post office or revenue headquarters. The
broad, free, brig'it world outside of these
retreats in all the South I is Democratic,
thanks to you, the Republican party of
the North. It would be well enough for
Republican leaders to remember that the
inflexible law of compensation exists iu
politics as well as in all things else, ill
we violate the laws of health, we suiter
bodily pains or early dissolution ; if we
violate the laws ot society'we sutler in
pub.ic esteem ; if we violate the laws of
man, we are subject to-its pains and pen
alties ; if w. violate the laws of God, we
will suffer the penalties of sin ; if we vio
late the-laws of nature, we cau reap none
of the benefits which our knowledge Ol
them now enable ns to derive therefrom.
So it is iujolitics. Vou outraged all 'of
our sensibilities in your treatment of us,
ami we naturally became your political
enemies. There is no impiinity for trans
gression. . . Jv
Vou now affect to treat fhe jiresence of
representative Southern nierrin these hajls
MO 1KHI1 HII Hill u vniuiii;,
the tone of yoHr speeches win inuuee an
intelligent stranger sitting in these galler
ies for the. last three months to belieVe
that you were sorry you spent so much
ldooil aiid treasure to force us buck into
the ITuiuii. Isthis-realy true ? Do you
regret that the proper sentiment of socie
ty in the South is -represented here f And
tather than this should be, would you pre
fer that the South had staid where she
tried to go! I hope not. For the sake of
your patriotism, 1 hope not. Had you,
rather that the Union had lieen lost thau
that you should lose power! Was it the
Union you fought :., or vas it political
supremacy? Notwiihstaiiding the wild
blasts of alarni which you arc souudiug
throughout the length an breadth of this
vast country, you well know the only dan
ger which our presence here indic-ites'is
the dauger of your leing ousted from po
litical power. In what way can the De
mocracy injure this country ? What mo
tive have we to injure it? 'Having sur-
lndercd the doctrine, of secession and
abandoned any intention whatsoever to
divide this Union, how could we expect
that the Democracy to which we belong
could obtain and hold the; control of Jhe
government except by showing the jieople
hy our acts that we are patriotically. de
sirous of promoting its' welfare and its
glory. But yon s iy you distrust the so
expressions. My friends, in your hearts
you do not. Ou the contrary, a man who
has offered his blocd once for.his plighted
f ilth von believe when he plights his faith
(again There is not a Southern rebel, no
'matter how bitter aud 'rampant he may
have been, that you have,, not -received
wuu arms ;wiie spread, - and rewarded
with offices of honor and trust, who came
to you with craVeuvrepentauce on his
tongue,; ready to vote -the "Republican
ticket and eating dirt writh the same glut
tonous appetite:! with which he once ate
fire. You profess to believe him, but you
despise him in your hearts. - You are not
alarmed to receive him, and yon cast no
suspicions npoii his professions of sincer
ity, though, as has more than once hap
pened, he asks you to believe he tell the
truth to-day because he told a lie yester
day. . $ . . -1 .
' Mr. President,! it seemed to me not a little
hard snd inhospitable that Southern; Sena
tors whose States were forced back into the
Union should be so often twitted with their
presence on this floor. We are here in ole
dience to thej constitution and the Union,
and if I recollect: aright some of the Sena
tors on this flooicatne to the South to in
vite ns back into these halls. And I have a
distinct recollection that the Senator from
Illinois Mr. Logan and the Senator from
Rhode Island (Mr. Burnside came all the
way down to: North Carolina to invite that
State to send; Senators here, and they came
attended with such a numerous retinue and
were so urgent in their solicitation that I,
for one, found iti impossible to resist so
weighty an invitation. Laughter. i
Mr. Loganj When 1 got, here I did not
find you. Laughter.
Mr. Vance, ' But I came as soon as I
could. Laughter The, honorable Sena
tor found nie arid he would not open the
dewrformeafterf)ehad invited me. Laugh
ter. ; Mi
Now that we are hre the Senator from
Illinois com pjaiiis of our presence, and the
Senator from New York accuses us of wish.
ing to "dominate" at the feast to which we
have been incited, and says that we are
like McGregor, Who claimed that the head
01 tne table was wherever he sat. For one
1 disclaim all desire to dominate at the
feast, unless, indeed, voting for Democratic
measures be domination. I do desire, how
ever, to be equally honored with the other
guests. Aud i desire, in vindication also of
the good name and rude hospitality of Mc
Gregor, to say that in my opinion he would
have been the. last man in all Scotland,
riever and eat t Witter as he was, to invite
a man into his house and up to his board
and then ileUouuce him for being there.
Mr. President, would there be any real
danger to the best interests of this country
if it were again under the complete contro'l
of the Democratic party? Surely not. It
is history that this country owes its chief
glory and development in the nastto that
grand historic party. But for its sagacity
and patriotism itj is safe to say that we
would still bu a feeble and inconsiderable
people. The democratic party have exten
ded the boundaries of this Republic from
the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. Its
po icy acquired the territory of Louisiana,
which extended from the Gulf of Mexico
up the Father of Waters to the British
Dominion, emb.acing Iowa, Minnesota,
Dakota, Kansas, and all that vast region
west to the Rocky Mountains. It acquired
Florida, Texas. New Mexico, California, in
eluding theic jrrand exfjent of countrv.
piains, rivers. land mountains, with all their
wealth of gold j and silver and precious
metal, embraciajr more than a million cf
square miles, j As I now remember, not a
single foot of land ha been added to the
empire yby thej Republican party except
Alaska a broad stretch ot icy waste.
land where iVoen earth contends with fro
zen water, inhabited by seals and savages.
iu a climate-h hp h I have heard described
a- nine months of winter ami three months
o. damnation culu w earner." l.a iiihtt r. I
In addition ;o this territorial wealth and
i power which iLMuoi-racv Khs -given -to the
i itepublic. its great lawyers ami magnificent
t itesinen hate. i)i all generations of our ex
; istence lieen t'he Special champions and ex-
pounders of flic Constitution the lxnd if
our Union and the verv ark of the covenant
of our liberties. S They have striven to havt
its principles unuerstoo, it provisions
maintained iii their puritv, and its blessings
extended toiill ;";and great as their services
h.rve been in enlarging our boundaries.
spreading our commerce, and elevating our
diplomacy abroad, their services to our
people and to mankind in the exaltation o
constitutional principles more entitle them
to the confidence of American citizens than
all things else nut together. In addition
to their services jn maintaining the ennsti
tution they lmve;in the main been the chic
promoters of pulmc cconouiv nna enemies
of corruption. Under Democratic ru
there has been in this countrv no Credit
Mobilier, there has been no Black Friday
no Sanliorn contracts, no roblK-ry of freeil
men's savings banks, no Belknap, no return
ing boards and no electoral commission
no military interference at the polls, no test
oath for jurors in the United htates courts.
no Federal snies and overseers when the
people were! choosing their rulers. An
now that weiareiseeking to restore this state
of things and to bring back the govern
ment to the paths in which our fathers tiod
the attempt s denounced as revolutionary
and the trumpet: is blown to warn the conn
trv that the end: of all things is about to
come when, iwe trust, nothing is alout to
come to an end except the domination of
the Republican party..
Coming briefly to the real questions, I ask
why should the law authorizing the military
to be used at the polls not le repealed and
why tdiouldjthe law authorizing Federal
supervision also j be not repealed? -I take
it to be indisputably established without
further argument, that the whole subject
relating to the elective franchise is placed
bv the constitution under the control of the
States, and all that the Federal government
can do is to see that f he States, as such, do
not discimiijatelagainst any on account of
race, color, or previous condition of servi
tude. This-is the whole duty and jower
pf Congress fas; declared by the Supreme
Court. When any.Iiepublicaa Senator has
ventured fori one moment to abandon the
lineof inflaM'story appeal to .the sectional
feeling of the country, the excuses given for
the retention of this law iijon the statnle
look are illogical almost to puerility.
One Senator gravely urges that it should
not he reneated because the great bulk of
thearmv is in tile distant West, only some
few huudrcdi being east of the Rocky Moun
tains. He tells us in the course of his enu
meration that there are only alout thirty
in the State jof jNorth Carolina, and asks
the Senators from that Stat if they are
afraid of that number of soldiers. Passing
over the obvious fact that within thirty
davs ten thousand could be sent there if de
sired. I answer that wc do fear them, be
cause they represent the powxT of the United
States jTovernment ami the enmity of the
Republican jiartv which wields that power;
we fear theml asthe Hollander fears the first
small leak in the dikes which bear back the
waves of the ocean trom deluging the mead
ows of his homestead ; we fear them as the
phvsician fears the first speck or gangrene
in the system5 of his patient; we fear them
a the sailor fears the piling up of the storm
clouds upon jtheihorizon, knowing that their
flpcpntivo bekntv covers the fierce desola
tion of the tempest; we fear them as the
shepherd ofj the mountain fears for his
lambs at even Jthc flitting of a' shadow
athwart his path, for he knows it to be the
shadow of the eagle, the remorseless tyrant
of the air; weifear-them. as Charlemagne
feared the rude wooden ships of the Norse
Vikings on theirj first appearance in the seas
of h!s empirl; we fear them as all patriotic
Romans feared the crossing of the, Rubicon
b cer e passage of which, with arms
in his fiand; marked hjui as the enemy of
Roman liberty. ; ; . f
.Even so we fear and believe 'that when an
American Executive crosses the Rubicon j of
his constitutional powers and appears at
the place of choosing our rulers, armed ei-'
ther with the sword or with illegal powers'
of arrest, he thereby proclaims himself the
enemy of the liberties of our oeoole. A fla
grant illustration of the justice of this fcarj
io ue iouna m the various orders of the
War Department directing the concentra
tion of troops in the States of South Caroli
na, Floridand Louisiana on the occasion
of the; election of 1878. The excuse that
these soldiers were not intended to inter
fere with elections or to be placed at the
polls, but only to be sufficiently near to keep
the peace, is not sustained by the facts of
that reign of military violence, nor will it
be if tried again. 1 quote from an order
dated f headquarters Department of the
South, Columbia, South Carolina, October
8,-1876, issued by General Ruger: j
Should the barracks or camp la any case be so
tar from the place ot voUdj? that prompt assLsUace
could not on occasion arising be rendered the civil
omcers, the commanding officer will tto place his
command or a sufflclent part thereof that such as
sistance It required may be promptly given. No
troops, however, will be placed c.Ug t a9 poll
or election except upon rtquircmtnt to U.at rf lct by
the martkat or hUaeputg. .
So it seenis that the discretion as to
whether the law should be violated or not
was vested in a deputy marshal ! In fact
they were so illegally "disposed and used,
in a hundred instance. The President, as
appears by the order of General Townsehd
to General Emory, dated October 27, 1874,
seemed anxious to have the troops placed
at the polls without the appearance of do
ing so.; In that order he propounds a phys
ical problem or conundrum ' to General
Emory which that officer had to give" up.
He says :
cannot points Deselected near polls where at-
w;uiiji w v era we voters, niceiy to result in noes.
uia ins uiuue, auu iroops siauonea mere a uay or
two beforehand 7 it would not be deslreable to
have soldiers at or two near the polls, aa all apjtear
aiteeqf Uiilitarg iutererettct, except to aecurt colrr
inetr tight to vote, thotlia be avoided.
Not to "keep the peace.'
mind vou, but
to secure voters their right to vote ! Now,
Ins was a hard problem : to place troops
so far from the polls as to avoid all "appear
ance of interference with the elections, and
yet so near as to actually interfere by se
curing all men in their right to vote. Quod
eti demvnttrandum. It was too much for
General Emory in fact, it : was too much
tor common sense and common honesty
All these orders show palpable and shame-
ess determination on the part of the Exe
cutive to control both the elections and the
counting of the votes of presidential elec-
well as the organization of State
governments. The manner in which the
troops were shifted about from one to the
other of these three States, on which the
presidential election depended, exhibits the
animus of this infamous transaction in a
manner so plain that the wavfaring man,
tlmugh a Republican, need not err there
in.
But the President tells us m his veto
message that there lias tcen no interference
during his administration, and promises
that there shall be none. So we are to take
his royal promise to respect the people's
liberties and not to have them secured by
law ? Here is the promise of one President
of the United States, and one who stands
exceedingly high in Republican estimation,
dated Novcmlier 10, 1876, to General W. T
Sherman, Washington, District of Colum
bia :
Instruct General Auger, ln Louisiana, and General
liuirer. in r londa, to ue violent with the force at
iueir command to preserve peace and good order,
aud to see that the Drooer and letral boards of can
vassers are unmolested ln the performance of their
duties. Should there be any grounds of suspicions
oi irauauient counting on eitner siae n snouia ue
reixirted and denounced at once. No man worthy
f of the oilice of President would be willing to hold
tne ouicc if counted in, placed mere by fraud. .Ei
ther D:irt y can afford to be disappointed ln the re
sult, but the country cannot afford to have the re
sult tainted by the suspicion of lUegal or false re
turns, f U. S. O rant,
On the same day the following telegram
is also forwarded to General Sherman:
The President thinks, and I agree with iilm, that
it w ill be well for you to give to the Associated Press
Lis telegram and mine to you, referring to affairs
now In the South. J. P. Cambkon. ;
Secretary of War.
Of the vast, open-jawed, and cavernous
liellied nature of this promise I have Uot
the heart or the time to discourse. I shall
content myself with imitating the discre
tion of Mr. Rodman, who, returning home
one night full of tax-paid, and fearing that
his speech would betray him, to the many
questions of his wife, for a long while main
tained an obstinate silence, until at length
toendthe matter, he solemnly remarked,
' Mrs. Rodman, you know I-am a man. of
few words, and now I am plumb done talk
ing." That subject immediately liecame
vt nd judicata, lam done talking on this
subject so well calculated to make an Amer
ican citizen blush. .
The argument made by the opponents of
these bills, especially those of the veto mes
sages,strike me with ji good deal of amaze
ment. To illustrate their absurdity let 'us
frame them into the semblance of mathe
matical propositions, thus:
Prjjtithm Jirtt : Theorem. The troops
of the United States are two thousand
miles away on the frontier and could not be
used to control elections if they were wan
ted. Senator from Maine.
The troops could not be so used if they
were here, as the law forbids it. I promise
not to use them. The President.
Hence it is revolutionary and dangerous
to liberty and the purity of elections to pass
this bill forbidding such use of troops. Q.
E. D.
Corollary fust. The necessity for troops
at the polls to secure fair elections is" in pro-
portion to the squares oi ine distance o
their present location, i. e., the greater the
distance, the greater the necessity.
Corollary, tecond.-i he necessity tor -the
.M-Mpnr "ofSronnat the bolls is also in uro-
noriiod to 'the legal Inability to iselhcni if
thev wpre oresent. and if the President is
determined not to use them at all to control
elections, then the necessity becomes abso
lute. ;
Corollin third. The revolutionary and
dangerous character of a law consists in the
fact that it is useless, there being already
in existencc.laws sufficient to effect the pur
nose.
Scholium. In the above it is assumed an-
xioutatieally that the terms ''liberty" and
"nuritv of elections'" are synonymous w ith
the term '-Republican party." Prolonged
lauirhter.l
Proposition second : Theorem. The right
of citizens of the United States tovotcshall
not lie denied or abridged by the United
States or by any State on account of race,
color, or previous condition of servitude.
-Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to
enforce this article by appropriate Iegisla
tion. The fifteenth amendment quoted by
the President.
The Supreme Court in the United States
against Cruikshank, and in Myers vs. Ilap
jiersett, have declared that the only right
uuarantecd by this amendment is the right
that citizens shall not be discriminated
against on account of race, color, or previ
ous condition of servitude: Hence "nation
al legislation to provide safeguards for free
and honest elections is necessary, as expenr
ence has shown, not only to secure the right
to vote to the enfranchised Tace at the
Bouth,but also to prevent fraudulent voting
hvthe large cities of the .SJorth." The
President.
Corollary first. It follows that if John
Smith gtU drunk at an election in North
Carolina and punches a negro's head he im
mediately, by preside itial logic, becomes
the State of North. Ca olina 1 embodied in
the flesh, and he, or it, discriminate against
the said cegrd within the meaning of the
constitution and the guarantee is called for
At once.. v
Corollary second If it be a white man
whose head is punched by the embodied
SUte-of-John-Smitb-North-Carolina it i a
discrimination all the same, provided the
said white man was about to vote or had
voted the Republican ticket, that being the
true meaning and interpretation of the
worda "race, color and previous condition
of servito'de." .. V
Corollary third It follows necessarily.
thatif a New York repeater vote the Demo
cratic ticket five times in one day, he be-
comes usewise me great atate or .cw
York (including the Senator) or ecottrerso,
the great State of New York becomes the
repeater, aud by so voting he discrimi
nates (the Lord knows how) against the
right of somebody (the Lord knows who)
to vote oo account of race, cohir, or pre
vious couditiou of serv itude ; and the
only avenue opened up by which this
guarantee cau lie cnfoaced is to send in
the aruiytand Johnny Davenport, f Lanirhr
ter.l x
Scholiifm. The "previous condition"
referred to in ther foregoing is that of Re-
luhlicjiJiism, and implies also present
condition; that is, being a Repnblicau.
beJioltHiH second. Luforeiug the right
to vote by soldiers is not an "interference
with eleetiona."
Scholium third. This doctrine of "dis
crimination" does uot apply to the State
of Rhode Island, where man's right to
vole in ay be f reel v abridged on account
of his present (condition of itnpecnniosity.
Proposition third : Theorem. Ti e prac
tice of tackiug to appropriation bills
measures not pertiuent to such bills did
not prevail until more than forty years
aftei the adoption of the constitution. It
has become a common practice. All par
ties when in power have adopted it- The
public welfare will be promoted iu manyv
ways by a return to the early practice of
the government and the true principles
of leg;ation.v The President
Hence the practice of tackiug legisla
tion to appropriation bills having been
practiced, by all parties for more than
fifty years, it should be immediately
abiindoued when disagreeable to the
President, or inconvenient to the party,
its antiquity not being sufficient to jus
tify it, though greater thau the period of
its non-use.
Corollary first- It follows, therefore,
that the practice of using troops at the
pols, which did not prevail for more
than seveutv-tive years after the adoption
of the constitution, should now become
of general and indispensable use ; four
teen years being amply sufficient tune to
legalize it, and it being now absolutely
necessary for the preservation of the
Republican party.
Scholium. For the purposes of the next
presidential election fouiteeu years of
military interference are equal ro seventy -five
year of free and unrestrained elec
tions, on the well established -principle
"that circumstances alter cases." (The
Lawyer's Hull vs. the Farmer's Ox, 1
Webster's El Spell.)
N. R. It is said on high authority that
the Secretary of War and the Secretary
of State once held this problem unsound
but were coerced into assenting to it by
party necessity. But quien sabe! Laugh
ter. So much for the absurb deductions
which may be logically drawn from the
premises cpntained in the veto messages
aud the arguments of Senators. .
Now, Mr. President, why should not
the peace at the polls aud the purity of
elections be entrusted to the authority,
the virtue, and the patriotism of the
States, where alone our fathers placed it T
s it because the States are unable with
their civil machinery to preserve the
peace T They have invariably proven able
u the past except in cases ot such unu
sual violence as is contemplated iu the
constitution, article 4, section 4. Are
they unwilling T feurely they are willing
to preserve their autonomy and perpetu
ate their own existence. Arc they cor
rupt t Surely if their inhabitants us citi
zens ot the States are too corrupt for self-
govertnent, it is not possible that their
virtue should be unproved and their cor
ruptions cease the moment they are in
vested with authority by the United
States.' On the contrary there is always
Found lesst repousibihtv and more of
corruption in aggregated than in separate
communities. How can a corru t State
officer become an incorruptible Federal
officer !
To suppose, that the States are eitlier
unable, unwilling, or too corrupt to hold
leacetul and honest elections is to declare
unmistakably that the people thereof are
incapable of self-goverunient. "Let each
Senator have written ou his brow what
ie thinks of the Republic," said the Sena
tor from New lork, quoting the old
Roman. So say I. Let each Senator say
for himself what he thinks of his State:
are its people incapable of self-govern
ment, of choosing- their rulers peaceable
and honestly f For one lean say with
unspeakable pride aud with absolute
truth that the people of the State of North
Carolina who sent me here are able,
willing, and virtuous enough to fulfill
these and all the other high functions of
free government; that they have ever
done so ! since the keels of Raleigh's
ships first grated uoii the white sauds of
her shores; and (Jod helping them, they
and their children will continue to do so.
if not' destroyed by centralization until
chaos shall come again. It is with ex
treme sadness that 1 hear any other Sena
tor intimate that it is uot so with his
people.
Mr. President, did , you ever consider
for a m anient the manifold and extra-
orinarv uses to which we are subjecting
the soldiers f Aud did you ever think that
all this means in tact the. fail ure of the ci vil
authority, that our liberties are declin
ing more and more as we employ forcef
Sir, in flic uses to which we put the sol
diers I am reminded of what 1 read about
the bamboo iu Asiatic co;iulr!cs. It i
said the natives do almost everything
with that wonderful arborescent grass.
When young aud tender it is eaten aud
preserved : it is made into houses aud
boats, astronomical instruments, orna
mental wrk, yards of vessels, aqueducts,
ram-cloaks, water-wheels, feuce-ropes
chairs, tables, hats and umbrellas, fans,
pipes, cups, shields, tool-handles, lamp
wicks, paper, knives, and a hundred
other things. Iu this way it seems to me
that we-are forsaking the civil functions
of our institutions and utilizing the sol
dier. In addition to their legitimate business
as defenders of the country, we have
made of them governors of States, legis a
tors, organizers of legislatures and judge
of the election and qualifications of the
meiulers thereof, judges of law and equi
ty and ot the criminalsxonrts, policemen,
sheriffs, marshals and deputy marshals,
revenue officers and still-house hunters,
managers ' of railroads, controllers of
churches nud of schools, justices of the
TMaee. supervisora of election, mathema
ticians to ate a fair count, protectors of
r . h . . ...... s , i f i
witnesses, foster-fathers of return i -V
boards,: and, above 4 all, aa RepuMi ' '
propagandists. In the language t i
sewing-iuacluue -companies, "uo faini.
should be wiUiofttoue llanghter; thi
Republican political bamboo. Ia t
not great danger J Does it not indirai ;
th! decay and the dins f Xhe efvih ar i
of the law, which is the hat end and o . 4
safe protector of! ur liberties f Lr
sir; discard this miserable Ikuuboo j '
ami cease to make the soldier .our i.
cal maid of all work. -
.Mr. President,' it seems to me that tu
Msitioit of the Republican party in r .
ecence to the use of soldiers and Mii;if- 4
visors at the polls, on the pretense
preserving the peace and -securing I v
electionk, is the most, remarkable j r
that reasonable men ewer ussuuicjI. . 7
may lie formulated thus: The elecii .
shall be free if wier have to surroumK
pt Is wj tit bayonets: the elections '
be accordiug to the laws of the . Stte.i v'
we havej to overaivc t lie civil magtstra"
and State officials by an exhibition
power; the elections sliall be pure, it ,i
takea Daveniwrt and all the convict ,i
Ci-imiuals and occupants of all the dens
of infamy iu our great cities t ma lit ;
them; the election shall be uuforceil u I
without the appearaueoof violeiiot j r
battery of artillery hat to lo traimsl 'oa
evefo- ballot-lmx Iu the land : aud lastly
the election shall lie fair if we have to
arrest without warrant and imprison
without bail, until the electious ure o . r,
every man rho offers to vote the Den o
cratic ticket -- '
The sjeeche8 of RepnLlican Seuati r
mean this, the vetoes of the president J
mean this, and they menu more, thau
thii Mr;. Pi-esitleut in effect -thy s'.v
that nn ess we can use the aruiy at tV
lolls we will let that army dissolve, "ir
w ill leave our forts and arseualst uugut
risoned, we will strip the fron tiers, ot 4. I
pm tec tion and let the men, women, I
childreu of that border country btrlaii
tered and scalped, and the unchecki
savage extend hi bar bar iocs sway o4 -4f
all that lnnd of promise, ouce wore Vend - '
ted to its ancient wilduess. We will 1. 7
only do (his but j we will denounce in
Democratic members of Congress wu
offei-ed us the money to support this ariu,
as the authors of this disaster. All the-,
things will we do rather than lose uuc
changes to count in the next Preside! . .
aim we win cover me tacts ami ouscmo
the logic of the case by rein darning fU
bitter prejudices 'of the war iu the hen.
of our constituents ! Can it le possible
do this 1 1 Is thereto be no end to pasl t,
no restoration of reason? We sh..
see. "
I confess that I do not -believe .tlie
absurd, methods! of dealing with l In
American mind can much longer pre v. .
I regard them as the desperate iffnt 1'
a sinking party, and I iM-lieve the peoj
wilt so regard them. I have been nm
touched by the affectionate warning gi
us by the other side! that we were 1 i
ing our; elves iu i trying to repeal th a
I laws. The kind-hearted Senator li
mW! l 11 .1 . ...
. !11 . .1 j . 1
iuicuigau notiueu us iruuKiy mat 11
persisted we would go down iuto K.c
waters of oblivion to rise nrt more for
ever. He did not even give us a chaiu-t
at the general resurrectioni Laughtci.j
It seemed to distress him, and if I thong -it
was true prophecy I would fre ;
mingle my tears with his at the conte.
plation of so dire a calamity. Cani..
compels me, however, to ncknowleilf
that I cannot reciprocate his charity. .
I thought tho Republican party w
standing upon the briuk of a prccipic .
beneath! which seethed those cold wiitc'
of oblivion, instead of warning then. .
pledge you my .word I would try to in
duce them to step oyer the edge in . i
I might lend them a push. Langhl.-. J
At least I should feel as indifferent ob....
it as the lodger at an inn did, who
-was awakened in the night when h.
meteors were falling, and-told that tTi
day! of judgment had corae "Well, we. .'
said he, testily, "tell the landlord abo
it: I am only a boanler." Laughter. .
And now, Mr. President, if the br
was-about to leave by body and I
permitted to-say but one word as to wf t
my j country -most needed, that w
should be, liest ! Rest from strife, 1
from sectioual conflict, rest from seethe ..
fliitteruess, rest front inflammatory y-
peals, rest from this constant, most
wise, and unprofitable agitation. Rcr
in all lands and in all literature is u- .1
as the symbol of the most, perfect state ...
felicity which mankind cau attain in t!.i
worU, nnd t,,0 next "And the land I
d
rl
rest,'" said the old Hebrew chroniclers
describing the reign of their good kin :
"and his rest shall be glorious," say t
prophet Isaiah in foretelling the con ;
of our Lord when Ephraim should hav
ceased to envy Judali and Jndnti slit '
have ceased to vex hphraitn.
Heaven itself is described as resttti
place "where the weary are at re;.'
"lhere remametu therefore a rest for 1 1
people of God," faith the apostle. C.1-1
we uot give this rest to our iieopleT I
know, Mr. 'President, that those fr -;n
whom I come desire it above their ci. 1
joy. I J ne excitement inrougti which tiiey
have passed for the last twenty yea
the suffering and: borrow, the calami 1 .
public aud private, yvhich they have 11.-
dergoue have filled their hearts with in describable
yearnings for national pco r
for a complete 111 oral. as well as physn ...
restoration ot tne L111011. 1 here is . im
policy , and but one, to effect thbobjeft.
and that is the policy of conciliation, '
restoration, so steadily pursued by ii-o
1 1 iiiovi n iv Piai:nijit:ii uuu ui x. t i
North. It is the only true fttatntin
Mliiji for our condition,, the only pfini
ltfliaY XT t)g lltl StfcAa UiTH U.llft1aU
are nfflictetl. Nature eVejrywheTe telle?., s
it, aud her thousand agencies, sileut a I
mysterious, constantly inculcate it ev
as day unto day nttercth speech a !
night unto night showeth knowll .
f!ro&s this noble rivei-which ilowa liv -
capital and search fur the battle-field
blool-watered V irgtiua. louj scarce i- i
hud them. Dense forestsof young sap
lings cover airthe hills, and plains iJi.-.t
were so lately-swept bare by marehTr
and; encamping armies. "For there .
hoje of a tree ifjlt lie cut down thai it
will sprout again,; aud the tender bran-it
thereof yill not cease." Waving sea- ,
wheat cover the open fields solattty
plowed by the bursting sliells whii
charging battalions met in deadly shv -.
and green grass has so covered the li!
ef inticnchnient as to' cive tl.eii all t .
iseciuuij; tu me cuuuiug lariuera uucie -.
Restoration is nature law. Let ns iaii-
..f .1 .. L...J r i
tiiut ifr. lion oi nil loercv ana frr.-
Jl.ru U4 . nil IIKil,! Mix
tse gaping wounds of civil r
A to hoal, if they will T ' -
may not then
lie permitted
f ,.
Tlie Okolona Sbile bnecaneerj
weir paid for hi? slush hy tliellepti.
Iican leaders. thurto-Jovrnab !
The Winston firiWcomd tides an a'rtr-n-on
the Atlanta tragedy with the fulio. -ing:
j . .., - J v -.'.-.
"An ungovered temper, a fewlglasse
liquor, and a pistol, are all that is necesfp
as in thease aiiudea to, to enect a mu
despair. b!ightel
blot ibution."
tves, ui.4grace