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SATTJTRDAY.
JULY 27, 1872
Platform and Resolutions Adopted by
the Democratic-o nservative Con
vention at Greensboro', May 2, 1872.
The following resolutions and plat
form were adopted by tbo Conven
tion :
The DrmocEctic Conerrative party
of North Carolina, in Convention as
sembled, do declare that all experi
ence proves that in a f roe government
those to whom power has been dele
touted arr prone to enlarge its sphere
and. by usurpations and abusefi, en
( roach upon the rights and liberties
of the citizens. The present condi
tion of our country demands an union
"f all parties, by whatever name heie
toforo designated to avort perils
greater than any with which our Gov
ernment has been menaced since its
organization. Constitutional Gov
frr.mrnt and civil law are threatened
with annihilation, and military gov-
rumfiit and bayonet law substituted
in their stead. Immense sums not
:i"ed-d for any legitimate purpose are
ir.wn fr'.'.u thf po.iple by mpansof a
i ; ( . i t.-ix'ition vexutions in the
x t r -t: : and as unequal as the ingr
: . -a : v ':,' ir.ak. r could fa-hi.'n it
i::.p.-ing heavy burdens upon the
. -. pi... r. : (-nlv : support extrava
(;.nr.. dv, . I waste by government offi-
u: alu ; nifet ;ne
demands oi
v a . ;
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::i.tiiujKjlint, hu seek to
tli" whole "uvernmont into
.n in
rir.i. Tise nuichine bv which the
is to h,. plundered for their
t.-n.-ti:. This syotem has produced
an ai::.' in of.,(!icial corrupti.m that
. - : -!. tli" countrv, and which
u .l .. -..on checked, demoralize
: : 1 The Adminsitration at
Vn-, . :ij't .n not only fails to correct
here evil, but by its conduct encour
ages extravagance, peculation and
( . rruption. In order that the patri
otic men of the North may not be
aided in their efforts to reform the
Administration by the 8outhern
States, a largo number of the men of
most experience in those State aredis
franfhid and prohibited from taking
an efficient part in the management of
political affairs. In addition to thU,
and to Vep "those Stated uoider tb
control of mere retainers and iDStru
Aonants of the central power at Wash
iii''.on, oppressive ana tyrannical laws
have been passed and large bodies of
troops distributed, to overawe the citi
zen -t and prevent a fair expression of
public opinion at the ballot box.
Kesolved, therefore, That the tima
has arrived when it becomes the duty
of all parties, without distinction of
party, P unite in an honest effort to
restore Constitutional Government, an
equal and moderate system of taxation,
economy in expenditured, honesty
among official and universal amnesty,
and thus secure the permanent peace
and prosyerity of our common coun
try. Kesolved, That the present system
of internal taxes on spirits and tobac-
' o is unequal, vexatious and tvranni
tal and night forthwith to bo abol
ished, and thus by its extinction re
lieye th- country from the curse of a
numerous herd of olRce-seekers.w tiose
conspiracies and frauds are demoral
izing the public mind, and who are
harrasMug aud plundering the peo
ple, and, by their extortions, fatten
ing on the haid earning ofa helpless,
impoverished and oppressed commu
nity. K. - .ivea, That the late Radical
1 ' j:.v-n:ion of tins State, by . return
mending J. C. Abbott to a seat in the
S.-na'.e "i the UniU-d States, though
lie did not leceive one-third of the
vu'' ea-A manifested an utter disre
gard ' . i ' t tie rights of the people of the
tav- ; a 1 ontempt of the Constitution
:' the I "cited States ; and a plain art
of 'oiigress, made in pursuance
tie-roof: a preference for the laws of
Cre.it Britain, where the minority
rule prevails, and the rights of ma
jorities are habitually disregarded.
K -olv. il, J 1. at their endorsement
r W II. if leu, who was deposed
Iiomi (lire 1. r (.toss violations of the
' . ,-;-.:. .n-i ot the State, squandering
' - : . a ml illegal arrests of its
. .:.:.. ..- well calculated to alarm
o'ir pci with the dread that in the
event vl the return to power of his
associates, the State is to be oppressed
with military arrests ; penitentiary
and railroad swindles, and general
wante, profigary, fraud and corrup
tion. Resolved, That the general tenden
cy both at Washington and in our
own State, of Radical action is en
tirely in the interests of monopolists
and the wealthiest classes, and for the
oppression of the masses of our coun
trymen. And that instead of such
conduct, it is the duty of the govern
ment to aid, elevate and dignify the
laborer, to whose efforts mainly, we
must look for our prosperity.
Resolved. That education and en
lightened public virtue are indispen
sably essential in a government of and
for the people and we insist that a
fair and just proportion of the public
lands, or their proceeds, which be
long in common to all the 8tatea of
Union, shall be given to them at
onco for the education of all claasea of
people without distinction of race or
color, instead of being granted by
Congress, as they have heretofore
been, under the most corrupting in
N; C., SATURDAY,
fluences and in vast quantities to over
powering railroad corporations and
other monopolists of accumulated
wealth so dangerous to the rights
and liberties and welfare of the people.
Eesolved, That while -we accept
and faithfully abide by th constitu
tion of the United States as it is, with
its amendments including emancipa
tion and equality before the law, thus
conferring equal, civil and political
rights upon all who are citizens of
this Federal Republic, wcypppose and
denounoe the latitudinoiB? construc
tion which makes the discretion of
Congress or the will of the President
superior to the Constitution, and un
der pretence of enforcing the laws,
destroys the most important provis
ions securing the personal liberty of
the citizen' and dwarfs the State
themselves into the mere provinces or
corporations under the control of a
central government, with no rights
reserved to them or the people except
such only as that central government
may choose to confer.
Resolved, That we desire a real
and not merely a pretended civil ser
vice reform, and that we believe the
one-term principle for the Presidency
would greatly tend to produce that
desirable result.
.Resolved, That the patronage of
the government should not be brought
in conflict with the freedom of elec
tions, and that the elective franchise
should be free and untrammeled.
Resolved, That the amendments to
the Constitution, proposed by the last
Legislature, if adopted, tend materi
ally to benefit the State ; and unhes
itatingly recommeud their suport, to
all citizens without distinction of
party.
Resolved, That all secret political
societies arc dangerous in a free gov
ernment ; engender violence, combi
nations against the peace of socie
ty, insecurity of person and property,
aud ought to be discountenanced by
all good citizens.
Resolved, That as an independent
press. i the palladium of American
liberty; the Democratic press ofjhe
State for their able, manly and per
sistent defence of constitutional and
civil liberty, deserve, and are hereby
tendered, the grateful acknowledge
ments and hearty thanks of the peo
ple of the State.
There was an tmtie&ittjle Henje of
fitness in unrolling-at te -Philadelphia
Convention the pictorial repre-
' sentation of "lhe Man on Horseback,
i It was the outward and visible sign of
j the military will that has already
manifested itself, booted and spurred,
I in many of the States and on many
i occasions, and of the representative
! Chief of a faction that has burthened
I the country with debt, harrassed and
oppressed it with a swarm ot spies,
corruptionists and office-holders ;
plundered, or wasted, its enormous
revenues; destroyed the ocean of com
merce and made the administration of
justice odious to the whole body of the
people. Are these charges too strong ?
Let us cite facts in support of them :
Who rewarded the iulamous doings
of Holden in North Carolina with an
official position ; the ruffianism of Kirk
with a South American Consulate, and
the malignity of Settle with a mission
to Peru 't
The Man on Horseback.
Who sought to buy Saa Domingo
of Baez, for the benefit of speculators ;
sent war ships to protect him ; men
aced Hayti with war if she interfered,
and was indignant that the Senate
should rej ct his schemes and criti
cize his conduct ?
The Man on Horseback.
Who revenged himself for his de
feat by causing Mr. Sumner the most
prominent Senatorial opponent of tho
San Domingo swindle, to be deposed
from the Chairmanship of tho Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, and put
in his place Mr. Cameron, whose ig
norance of international law makes
him totally unfit for the position?
Tho Man on Horseback.
Who packed tho Supreme Bench
with partisan Judges to reverse the
Legal Tender decision, in the interest,
not of tho public at large, but of
wealthy corporations ?
The Man on Horseback.
Who was it that held Congress in
session until it passed a law clothing
him with dictatorial powers, and au
thorizing him to ride rough-shod over
the South ?
The Man on Horseback.
Who was it that parcelled out all
sorts of offices among his relatives, as
if they were royal chiefs, and he him
self invested with more than royal
prerogatives ?
The Man on Horseback.
Who was it that suspended and en
forced the Bayonet Election law, and,
not content with the authority already
given, sought, in the interest of his
own ambition, to have it extended to
every election precinct in the country ?
The Man on Horseback.
Who was it that interfered in the
local politics of Missouri, and vindic
tively undertook to decapitate all the
prominent Federal officials that with
stood his arbitrary will ?
The Man on Horseback.
Who was it that was suspected of
having more than a vague knowledge
of the gigantio speculation in gold in
which his brother-in-law, Abel R.
Oorbin, was engaged, and which cul
minated "Black Friday ?
The Man oa Horseback.
THE PEOPLE." Constitution of N. C.
JULY 27, 1872.
Who let Badeau and Leet locae
among those very records of the War
Department of which six chests full
have mysteriously disappeared and
rewarded the services of Badean with
the office of Consul General at Lon
don,' and of Leet by a letter of intro
duction which turned over to him the
most lucrative appointment in the
gift of the New York Collector of
Customs ?
The Man on Horseback.
Who dismissed Mr. Grinnell, and
made the notorious "Tom" Murphy
Collector of Customs at New York, in
spite of the frauds perpetrated by him
in his war contracts, and simply be
cause of his unscrupulou6nes8 in pack
ing political conventions, and of his
infinite capacity for doing any amount
of dirty work that his chief might re
quire ?
The Man on Horseback.
Who made his brothec-in-law, Ca
sey, Collector of Customs at New Or
leans, and connived at his use of fed
eral troops and Gatlin guns to pre
vent recalcitrant Republican dele
gates from assembling in convention 'i
The Man on Horseback.
It is this man, by nature reckless
and self-willed; by military training,
despotic; the associate of adventurers,
speculators, and desperate gamblers
in potitics, and as absorbent of gifts
as a sponge is of water ; beforo whose
Equestrian Portrait. as the New York
Tunes tenderly described it, his white
worsnippers fell into ecstacies, and his
black ones yelled. Acting under or
ders they nominated him to the Pres
idency for a second term, not caring
what became of tho country, so that
they fattened on his bounty.and were
assured of being duly whitewashed
when detected in picking and steal
ing Bah. Gazette.
Speech by D. W. Voorhees, of Illinois.
lie Consider Mr. Greeley Pledgsd to a
Fraternal Policy Toward the South.
Tekbk Haute, Ind., July ISth. In
accepting the Democratic nomination
for Congress in Spencer to-day, Hon.
D. W. Voorhees made a long and
elaborately-prepared speech. He said
he gave honest Republicans the same
credit they now give Democrats ; that
they would sufficiently arise against
party to vot against a corrupt Ad-nairuafamtioat-r
withoni . rgvd to- titm
company with which they performed
so noDlan act. , Ha thought any one
of four or 'five Democratic statesmen
who might be named could have been
elected President over Grant, and be
lieving this, he exercised his right as
a member of'the Democratic party in
pointing out what he coneidered a
proper course. He had no apologies
to make for the past.
In opposing Greeley'6 nomination
what he had said was directed to the
Baltimore Convention and not beyond
the action of that body. He regret
ted that his views were not adopted
at Baltimore, and would abandon
public life, but he felt that hi duties
us a citizen compelled him to accept
the nomination, and make one more
campaign. He thought the Demo
cratic party infinitely preferable even
with Greeley as its candidate to the
Republican party under Grant and
his managers. No thought of re
creaney or infidelity to the Democrat
ic puny entered his mind.
He would submit to all i s counsels,
hoping time would show its WAjr.to be
wiser and more beneficial to fte coun
try than he preidcted. Others might
be more enlightened than himself on
points at issue, and their plans should
have a fair trial. He then reviewed
the national political field, and said
tho Republican party, but for its abu
ses of power, would have had before
it longer life than was ever granted
to a political party in the history of
the world ; but its career had been full
of wickedness, gradually but surely
forfeiting the confidence of the people,
and driving the best elements out of
its organization.
He illustrated this with the history
of Indiana Democracy, which had re
duced the Republican majority of 21,
000 in 1864 so that the Republicans
barely saved their State ticket in 1868
as he claimed by fraudulent returns
by a few hundred majority.
Then came the fifteenth amend
ment, never legally ratified a fraud,
in his judgment, on the American
people which gave an increase of
100,000 votes to the Republicans ; yet
the Demociats swept the State by 3,
000 majority.
He tnought this showed the decline
of the Republican party, and if the
Liberal Republicans could ever mod
erately well fulfil their expectations,
the vote of the State would be cast
against the Administration party in
October and November by larger
majorities than were ever known in
her history.
He thought the administration of
public affairs in the South for the last
three years had beeD the worst ever
known in the history of a civilized
people, and he could not wonder at
the demand from that section of any
body to defeat the re-election of Grant.
They believe the election of Greeley
will afford them relief, and, therefore,
they demand his nomination. It has
been accorded more in deference to
their condition and their wishes than
to any other cause.
If Greeley is elected he will stand
pledged by the strongest obligations
that ever rested upon a candidate to
accord the South the policy of a just,
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and fraternal jovaumsnt .
trailing In this, 'he would be accursed
ataoirgst min.
Mr. Voorhees declared -himself op
posed to protective tariff, to negro
suffrage, to the resumption of specie
payments, to the. redemption of bonds
in gdld, and tho exemption from tax
ation of national banks.
Letter from Senator Thurman.
SigniJicptKx of tht North Caroline Election
Beneficial RetvlU of Mr. Greeley's
Suesm-tTht Peoph are Znzduy.-
The following is the letter of Sena
tor Thurman, sent to the mass meet
ing in Raleigh, N. C, on the 16th
instant :
Wa9hi-gtox, July 11, 1872.
Mr Dkxr Rassom : I most sin
cerely regret that it is impossible for
me to accept your invitation to visit
North Carolina and speak to the peo
pie. . The ill health of a member of
my family puts it out of my power to
do so. The approaching election in
your State is of national importance.
If the Democratic and Liberal par
ties succeed in that election, it may
safely bo predicted that Horace Gree
ley will be the next President of the
United States. Then we may hope
to see an end of the violence and dis
regard of the Constitution that has
marked the Goverument since the
present Administration came into
pover.' In truth, the gr.at question
now before the people is, Shall we
have constitutional government or a
government of mere force and corrup
tion ? The leaders of the dominant
party seem to havo no faith in any
thing but force and corruption. If
t ley ever had confidence in man, they
seem to have wholly lost it. If thel
ever believed in the persuasive and
beneficent influences of reason and
peace, they seem to have cast their
belief away. Hence their harsh
measures of legislation and their never-ceasing
efforts to misrepresent the
condition of the South, and to keep
alive the bitterness engendered by the
war. But I confidently believe that
the time has at length come when the
American people have resolved to
have peace in fact, and not merely in
name. They have been too long de
luded with cries of "Let us have
peace," when peace wu not intend
ed. hy now mean to have the re
ality and net the shadow. They mean
to have constitutional government,and
not despotism. They mean to teach
their rulers that the interests of the
people are of higher moment than the
selfish interest of a party, and they
mean that reform, shall not be a mere
idle word, but shall be an existing
fact. Upon no other theory can the
union that has taktn place of the ele
ments of opposition to the Adminis
tration be accounted for. It is not a
union of politicians or a coalition of
schemers. On the contrary, it is the
result of a movement of the peoplt.
themselves, that has overwhelmed
mere potitician3 and schemers. It
means this, and nothing else than
this, that the people are resolved to
have a change of Administration, and
will not let impracticable men or im
practicable theories stand in the way
of success. It does not mean aban
donment of principle, but it coes
mean that common sense shall prevail
once more.
Regretting that I cannot be with
you at your meetng, I am, yours
truly,
A. G. Thceita.
Horace Greeley Forty Years Ago.
Letter from Mr. J. S. Redfidd on the
WhxU-Headed, Isinky Boy Who Set
Typo for Him.
From 1S31 to 1834, I was carrying
on the business of steretyping at 216
William street, and most of the time
was employing a great many compos
itors. It was in 1832 cr '33, I think,
that, being at one time much in need
of more compositors, I asked those in
the office to let the fact be known at,
their respective boarding houses.
Among those who applied for work
in response to this call was a queer
looking chap brought in by one of
the hands in the office. He was of
rather more than medium height ; his
hair was almost white, his face quite
so, and entirely beardless, and he
walked with a shuffling and uncertain
gait. He wore a very old white hat
and fustian pantaloons which did not
come down to his boots, and these
completed personality which I had
never before met with in a compositor,
and turning to Seymour, who brought
him in, I inquired if that fellow was
a compositor. He replied, " He's a
queer-looking fellow, but they say
he's a good workman." Being too
muoh in want of help to be very par
ticular about the personal appearance
of a compositor, I gave him a case
and copy, and you may judge of my
surprise when I tell you that his
weekly bills exceeded by from 30 to
50 per cent, those of the other com
positors by his side who were on the
same work. And what was equally
remarkable, no matter how rapidly he
picked up the type with his fingers,
the stream of talk that rolled off his
tongue was never interrupted. He
talked incessantly. When I made
out his firwt bill I learned that his
name was Horace Greeley.
In those days he was a compositor,,
and he was a good one. He set type
Of every deecritio pal ap i at mkllf u!
ac d workmn-liio smc e:y mad the Uwrte t
notice. Prices will favorably compare wrth thoe
of Baltimore or New York.
tSTQfderfl so Retted tnd "satisfies
ttQrtguajrttoteft ; .iauu.
Whence was a y q y n g" rn RnftQ' rTir?
his work well, and now that he is an
old one, and there is, a big " take "
ahead to giTe putj I propose lhate
give it to him. J. 8. RedtixLd.
It Might Have Been.
The following dialogue is supposed
to have taken .pla.ee last Sunnier at
Gen. Grant's cottage, at Long Branch,
after the latnentaVli sickness of his
favorite colt,and just after the Custom
House troubles at New Orleans. It is
so much like a paraphrase of the scene
in Moliere's Tartuffe that we accept
its entire correctness under reserve.
But when we come to consider that
the most popular plays are those
which represent most accurately the
sayings and doings of a r al life, and
that truth is, sometimes at least,
"stronger than fiction," we are dis
posed to say with Wbittier, in his
Wfll-known lyric of Maud Muller
"It might have been."
Scene. A room in tltc Long Brandt
cottage Gen. Grant seen dimly through
an aromatic mist cf tobacco smole. Oh the
tabic near which he is seated, and with in
easy reach of hit hand, a decanter contain
ing an ambr-colored lipuid also an ice
pitcher and drinking glasses 07ie of iJ
latter hi If emptied.
Enter Dent, hastily.
Grant Well Dent, what brings you
from Washington '1
Dont Bad news.
Grant (anxiously) Is the colt worse 7
Dent The colt is doing well, and un
less he should got a touch of
the distemper
Grtiut Poor thing.
Dent -Casey hue made a vrctci?d
bungle of it in .New Orleans.
Grant (interrupting And the colt '.'
Pont Improving finely. He has lost
some of the hair from his tail,
but otherwise he
Grant Poor thing !
Dent That Casey-Packard business
is giving us great annoyance.
People say
Grant And the colt0
Dent A good deal better since you
loft. The bran mashes you or
dored scoured him some, but
Grant Poor thing !
Dent Peple say that Casey had no
right to make use of the custom
for the Convention. That
scoundrel Packard
Grant And the Colt ? '
Dent Was exercised this morning.
Took to his oats heartily, and
whinnied for more. His tail
Grant The poor thing.
Eent As for Packard you ought not
to have allowed him to place
Gattling guns in front of the
custom house, and put troops
in the corridors. There's a
delegation coming to see you
about it. Judge Durand
Grant But the colt ?
Dent As lively as a kitten. A little
routfh about the root9 of the
tail from loss of : but then you
know how i-oon
Grant The poor thing.
Dent Warmoth and li is people aro
making a deuce of a fuss about
beinjj shut out of Convention.
The delegation is a strong one,
and will i nsist ou the dismissal
of Casey, and while so many
rumors are afloat about the
general order business over
yonder, you can't afford
Grant (eneageticallv ) I tell sou what
it is, Dent, I wouldn't have
anything to happen to that
colt for a thousand dollars.
Here his Excellency threw away
the stump of his cigar, and seizing
the glass half filled with amber fluid,
buried his face in it. Exit Dent
Baltimore Gazette.
A Touching Pokm. A German poet
has lately written a touching poem, in
which the hero is represented as de
voured by an alligator under a palm
tree on the shore of Lake Erie, in A
merican. The heroine hears of the
terrible fate of her lover down in the
everglades of Florida, near the banks
of Lake Superior, where she is living,
and rushes down south to Lake Erie
and lies in wait for that crockodile,
captures him, cuts him open, extracts
the bones of her dead lover, purchases
a rich coffin, and has him buried in
magnificent style in Greenwood Cem
etery, in New York, in the State of St.
Louis. The poem is truly affecting.
Ar.AB.MiNG. Opium-eating in this
country, as a national habit, began a
bout thirty years ago, and within that
period the importations of opium have
increased nearly ten fold while the
population has only somewhat more
than doubled. It is computed that
there are from eighty thousand to one
hundred thousand opium-eaters in the
United States.
The smallest steam engine in the
world is said to be in Greenwicb,'Eng-'
land. It will stand on a three-penny
piece ; so small are some of the parts
that they require a powerful msgnify
ing glass to see their forms. The
w hole weight of the model is less than
three pennyweight. When working
its crank shaft performs from twenty
to thirty thousand revolutions in a
minute.
A person intimately acquainted with
John S. C. Abbot declares from his own
personal knowledge that that prolific
author never allowed himseli to write
a chapter of bis "Life of Napoleon"
without first offering prayer that he
might be guided aright.
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