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s n VOL . X. NO 260 WINSTON, NORTH CAHOLIN A; F EID AY, MAY 2 5, IS 66; 2.00 PER ANNUM J - THE 4 ; ' WESTERN SBKTINEL. 1 of Subscription--"The Wkstk'kn c Tria",a published every "Friday morning ar. c "5lcii to subscribers ut Tvvd Dollar a eui :i. iU, j11 ice Two poi.iiA.ns and a half niter six months TDK5E dollars after the close of tbe.su bscrip .r ..air To acv. one procuring six subscribers. twj 4ying the cash in advance, the paper will be -Terms of Advertising ixi tlic SciHincl. Our regular rates of advertising are as follows: a. a square (14 lines or less) first insertion, $1 00 I suA ul--eqiint ierti"n, - - - For one ?qu:ire -Fur six mouths - - ' - - : Lr twelve months, - - - - t Liberal deductions in favor of regular ud vertiera. pn,fesional of Business Card?, not exceeding fivt-lines in length, five doixaks a year longer one " proponion. pg Postmasters are required y law to not fliers when papers tire not taken from tb pose an absurdity. The cotldensation4 of value, Which is gained by reducing "the bulk of the raw material into tlie 'more portable forms of marketable Jab vies for: instance, of compressing a hogshead of to-! bacco leaves into compact and convenient boxes of chewing tobacco ; or of reducing a bale of cotton to cotton cloth ;,or a bush el of wheat 1o its proper.-. measure ot flour is a great point gained in international commerce besides the profit?? realized and retained at heme by the performance of every function necessary to. put the raw material in these shades This eondensa- rights .thai-the man who is robbed of all to change to Episcopal Methodist church, His property loses the right to hold proper- provided that three fourths of Hi) the ihem- iy.- -n. uiuu .may iinve rigtus v,nicl lie cannot for tho moment exercise, because of defeat, misfortune, or of some wrong or illegal torce .in his way but does he, therefore,, lose the sacred quality of his rights? Does he, therefore, passive!7 sit down and consent that he has been .trans- formed into a. creature without riglits, and without uianhood ? No, certainly, .unless he be l he veriest fool, or coward that ever disgraced tbe human form. Because a war has fur the hour overcome! State sov- tion of values increases exports for it en-. weignty, are we therefore to acquiesce in w hiin tmtltM'S fll'ft llOt IMKeil irOIIl U'Cil JjjjicA; and tnse fedinit to do so become respon sible fur the snbscriptiou Office on West Street below the M. E. Church ables hs to send abroad what would other wise be too bulky tor transportation. The smaller tiie bulk the less the cost ol trans portation, and .much of production has been, and will continue to be, lust to the commerce of the world by reason of its to notify ! not being put in portable shape at the ; point ot production. lhe great exporting nation is iLnglanu. Why ? Not because it is the great produ cing nation, but because it draws the raw materia! from all parts of the woild, man ufactures it into fabrics and then t-ells it at high profits to the producers. Its ex ports are its manufactures, and ihey are made out ot the productions ot other" and less shrewd and enterprising nations. It has been appropriately said that 'England elopineni ol which it is capable when j pi dl,.u l u1 Scuthern staples ot corn, wl.et, rice, I . "l -"r, .ur-i,. tobacco, and those numerous otlier 1 11 'r','.1. ..:u;..u .r,,) ;c u.vmtur! various-tabnes, her profits would be so system -and a judicious management a new occupation, scarcely leSri profitable' than agriculture, will bj opened to ns uianufnc cures. Hitherto our planters and far.ners have been in the habit of investing the profits o: agriculture in negroes and lands. The abolition of slavery has rendered the for mer mode of investment ot capital impos sible, and that renders further investment, in land undesirable. How will, how W should, the profits of agriculture be invest ed? Obviuusiy in. ujauutacturing lacin ties. It Is to the interest of every people to make all they can out ot the raw material they produce. We, of-course, do not mean that the fai mer shall himself turn manu facturer. One pursuit is enough for one man. We simply mean that when the producer lias performed his function, and got the raw material ready far market, it would be desirable for the manufacturer to be at hand, and work it up on the spot, iu the various tine fabrics suited to the markets of the world. The perfection ot an industrial Commonwealth is, that it shall make all that can be made out ot its crude productions. Why sell these pro ducts to a New Yorker or an English man, to be shipped to the jNTorth, or to Europe, and there manufactured, and to be return ed in those fine and costly fabrics. that are in almost universal use.' - When thu3 re turned and purchased by the original pro ducer,, he has to pay, as part of the price lhe cost of transportation to -and. from the point oi manufacture. -With: manufactur ing establishments on our soil, and at our doors, this important element of cost will be saved, not only to lum but ins neign TilE SOUTH MUST BECOME A MAN UFACTURER. It the time ever comes, says the Rich mond Whig, as we hope it will betore miiiv veaifc shall elapse- when Sou? hern sericulture shall reach that high point of i dev the s r . . i i i : mr.ch the greater. 1 hat is !recisel v what i ii ... i i'wiiuiii in iif :in inn; :ii-K ii . rr . i ' :ilr attainable under an adequate labor ! the South should do, and doubtless will Jk9 ill U' IU nVJ KJk 1 1 1 1 1 vJ MllU U'MHiJ I (UCVO tiiese products, she ought to mannfactuie them; supjdy her own population on cheap terms with all the needed fabrics, and throw the surplus into-all the .markets ol the world. The home consumption would be inconsiderable compared with that without her borders. The manufacturing advantages possessed by the South are not exceeded by those of anv part of the world. The extent of them was not tally comprehended Until recently. Living in comiort, nay luxury, noon her agricultural resources, the need of other resources was not telt. We think we may go so far as to say that the manu facturing advantages ot Virginia are great er and more varied than those of any oth er locality in any part of lhe world. She h.s a boundless water power inexhausti ble supplies of wood, coal, iron and mine rals of every description She has it hi her power to manipulate all her raw pr duc ions and manufacture them into all the diversities of fabric needed in the mar kets ol the world. ; The time cannot be far . distant when Virginia wiii take the lead not alone in agriculture but in manufactures, hi this age of enterprise, development and prog ress, 'it 'is 'hot 'possible that her immense rebohices and capacities can be long neg lected! She has hitherto been known as the Mother of States and Statesmen ; the time will come when she will be known as the great centre of industry and capit al. : .. ' ;-- ; ' ' 1 :- '' 'r this great crime against -liberty, and ad mit to be our deploiab.e aViorali time to conies ? Not unless the war has also made us a nation of sneaks and cowards. And even admitting ihat, for the present moment, we are thus cowardized and be- littled by the war, has the devil so far got possession of us that we mean to lie down forever in swinish rest and sleep? No, in God's name, no ! Rather let ns cherish at least so much' of the pluck and decency of manhood as shall make us trust the time will come when we shall arise in our wrath and seize thif gigantic, monarchical, des potie, centralizing heresy by t lie throat and assert aain the liberty which can never be lost except by our own weak ness and -crime ! R is the nature ot sov ereignty that it can neither be destroyed, alienated, 'divided, nor given away. It is to the State what the will is to the man. A State can no more lose or give away its sovereignty than the man can lose or give WHAT THE WAR DID NOT DE--: -; ' CIDE: ;!' . "' We !are indebted to Mr. Channcey d. bors, his whole community and section, Burr, the veiy tearless and able editor, of andaU the immense man nfact if ring pro that sterling tnagame,, The Old Guard. fits will go to swell the coffers of that com- tor a .timely and powerful reply to all the munkv and section, and to build up pri- ignorant, vicious and unmanly bosh which vate tort tines. The industrial system .ot has lecently been written and spoken up- tbat eountrv that makes cotton, for in on the text "that "State sovereignty is dead, 6tanceT and fcells that product to a foreign having": been determined against by the manufacturer, and then bujs his fabrics iate war' : : - ' ' , " at a hiih price, is immature and imperfect. -We aree.with !MfJ Burr, says the !Ri ch it involves an unnecessary? sacrifice of mond .Times, "that the war has no more Kins tbt should be reaped by itseH'.-r- killed State sovereignty than it has habeas There is but one Southern, staple- out of cwtrial by jury, or those manly j?nd which the South has made .what it ought splendid qualities ot head and heart which make tobacco. That has 4not only been belong to the" people who tailed ,in their made but it has been mamitaetured in: its great effort to, achieve a d various torms at the South-not only,- to fy. 1 "It is not 'in the'power bt war to kill any considerable extent:.' for chewing and State sovereignty ; it can overcome it for Biiml-ino. nnmhRW. " ' ' a moment, as giaat can overcome a If maiiufacturing eb6uldy as it' ought to, vveakerman, i but can never destroy the become 1aHinfr business' at the. Sontfcit prineiple,? nor alienate the .right of sover- trill duplicate if reuplic eignty. States stripped of tn& power tor , that this would diminish exports is to sup- creigti rights, 'have no more lost their awav Ids will. No war can so far kill State sovereignty that it will not, during all fuiuve time, have the sacred and eter nal right, to hang whomsoe.N er has attempt ed itc destruction. When old John Brown made his attempt upon the sovereigntv-of Virginia, all admitted that he was justly and legally executed There can never come a time when Virginia will not have the right to administer a similar -punishment to any party violating her sovereign ty. Her inability to enforce her sovereign rights cannot be, quoted as proof to the contrary. On the. other hand, that, very inability must be received as a presumpt ive evidence that her people will never cease to watch and pray' and struggle to re-assert their sovereignty, and Jo punish the criminal violators of it. In this State for twelve months the strong baud of the military subordinated civil to martial law. The will of the soldier wa omnipotent. It overrode the .organic as well as the statutory law ok the common wealth. It determined who should and who should not hold office. It set aside constitutional e'octions,and utterly ignored every article ot the bill of rights. It nul lified acts of the Legislature, disregarded the orders of the Executive and the de cress ot the Judiciary. It asserted and exercised the most rigorous censorship of the press, suppressed public journals, and imprisoned editors at will.' Rut this ex ercise ot the most absolute powers by the army bt occupation did not destroy a sin gle constitutional or legal right of the Vir ginia citizen"; ' It did not change the char acter ot our State Government, nor per maneiitly "... 'disqualify any gentleman, who was excluded from .office by order of the military. With the President's proclama tion ot 'peace we Were at once rehabilitated in those rights which martial law denied us for twelve mouths. f . i : As soon as the proclamation 'of -peace announced our liberation trom the thral1 dom of tlie sworiy with the noble manli ness of a free peobfe d straightway as serted those rights." Nowhere was this as- seriion. or our civil ngu.is more ,speeuoy than in Richmond. ; lhe late charter elec tion show that our people did not regard some of our best citizens as disqualified from holding offices because they were not acceptable to, the military authcri ties. The war has not "destroyed" a 6ingle civil or political right, State or Federal which is guaranteed by the - Constitution and laws of the citizeni ; ?; ; 4 bers ot the several annual conferences shall - concur therein. '" 2. Lay representation four laymen, one of whom iny be a local preacher; (to be elected by the dhstrct stewards or. in auch way as the annual conterence -may direct) to each presiding elder's district iu the annual conferences ; an equal number of laymen and clergymen as representa tives to the General conference, excepting the number be given to the advantage of the odd number-to be given to the cler ical portion- the lay members ot the an nual conference to elect the lay represent tatives to the general conference; and the clei icrtl members to elect the clerical representatives. Upon the the request of one-titth of the general conference, the laymen and the clergymen can from two distinct houses, when a concurrent major iry will be necessary to pass auy law. This action, however, is subject to the same confirmation and approval of three fourths -of all the preachers iu the several anuutd conferences. 8. The limit of the pastorate has been extended from two to four years. 4. A system of church, meetings was adopted, to be held once a month if prac ticable, otherwise once a quarter to be presided over by the preacher in charge The object of it is to put the membership more thoroughly in connection with vari ous enterprises of the church. 5. The probation system has been ab rogated members are to be received for mally by the preacher in chargc,according' to the form of the baptismal service, or some other form iu an appendix to the discipline. b Class meeting is placed upon the 6arri8 footing with prayer-meetings and is no longer a test ot membership. 7. This missionary society is divided into a domestic and a foreign missionary Society, with district boards, secretaries and treasuries the fomer located at Nash vilje, and the latter at Baltimore. B, Everything Li the discipline in regard to the men and won'ien sitting apart iu the church, has been taken out. 9. The whole matter of the quarterage has been merged into a real support. 10. Everything advisory in regard to dress is taken out ; and so too all tiiat part winch requires preachers to consult the presiding elder upon the delicate subject ot ' matrimony 11. lo travelling preacher can be pre posed to an annual conference for ordina tion, except he shall have passed an exam- -iuation bef re the conference committees to their satisfaction in the prescribed course of study. 12. It is recommended that, . for the' present a Bible chair be established in connection with each of our colleges, for the theological education of young preach" ers. 13. Several important changes in the boundaries pf Conferences were made,' for which we reter to the report of the com mittee on bouhdaries ; and Northwest Texas, the Cplumbia, the Mobile, and the Montgomery conterence were iormeu. The name of the "Rio Grande" conference; ;j was changed to West Texas, and that of . the "Ouachita" conference to Little Roqki The 'Kansas'' conference was divided be tween the Misscuii and St. Louis confer ences. The St. Louis, the Missouri, the Baltimore, the Virginia, the Georgia, and the East Texas are permitted to 'divide; during the next four years, if ther shall, deem it expedient and desirable to do sov 14. 'She vote on licensing preacherB and recommending persons for ordination, is to bo-thken by ballot in the quarterly con ferences. 15. The colored members of the church' are to bo formed into their own qnartely , and annual conferences, the latter at the discretion of the bishops, with a view to then ultimately tornnng their own Gen eral conterence. r Meanwhile the "bishop of our church are authorized to confer with the bishops- of the African M.1 E. Ui! KdrrjiiL.iAij JM.r ZjXLEjss cnurcn won a view 10 a timon uetwcen We gather the following acts of the Gen- our colored churches ahd that cKnfch." Jt erai Conference, from the New 'Orleans iralsb recommended that -'day schobts "and " Advocate: . sabbath schools bo formed amoug th l.The name of tho church it was resolved colored people where practicable, '. It m I-' i 4; - a;
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