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illl: VVILMiNtiHlN .'OyfAL'lgUiuKitc than the cndeavorof the Auli- - . - "- " ":: i Slavery Society fanatics to arraign the WIIiMtNOTON. N. C. : whole Honth for the acts of its criminal Carolina Immigration AoiatIoi. We learn that the President, Dr. S. S. Satchwem has appointed Mr. Henhy Nctt, of this city, a member of tbeExecn firfl Committee of the Carolina Immigra tion Association, in place f Dr. A. J-1 DeKobskt, reftigneii. Mr. Ncrr has accepted. This is h very fmo appointment. mere is no more acuvu iuu, uui more interest iu all matters in regard to the introduction of immigrants or the ag ricultural and commercial prosperity of tliis Feci ion. j -n TC Dtmlory for 1SGO. Bronson's Directory, published by o. a. Tone of ltaViHi. is to hand. It is much ; larcrpr fnlW-r :nid moro accurate man any . former edition. Fourteen classes of prom-! ineut men und establishment! are given in each county. The book will bo a very valuable nide to all business men. A t'reat deal of information in detail is also fjiven, that must prove very valuable to immigrants. The general surface and the staple products of each county ; also, the averago price of land per acre. Much in formation is given about the various manu factories, and especially the cotton facto ries, showing a progress in that line that is indeed gratifying. The book is pub lished in handsome directory style by J. A. June, of Iialeish. at the moderate urica of S2 25. aent by mail. Call on Mr. Brecon for copy while he is in the city, He can be found at J. D. Love's Book- tore I 8 ' j spriiMBciwna spring.. . We direct attention ouieuvciiucunru of Col. J. Goujex WYArr, announcing the summer opening of the far-famed Spark ling Catawba Springs upon the first of June. There are few places which offer to the tourist, the pleasure seeker or the invalid, more inducements than are held out by the Sparkling Catawba Springs. Comfortable rooms, good faTe, cool and healthy climate, and medicinal waters of unsurpassed excellence, arc among the chief attractions of the place. The Proprietor i a liberal aud geuial gentleman, and spares no pains or expense to provide for the comfort and pleasures of his guest?. .His terms are extremely mod erate, much more so than at any similar resort in this State or Virginia. We can fully testify from personal experience to the many iwcvtllencie-s of the waters, the salubrity of the climate, and the liberality and attention of the management. I.uw ttittl Onli r in llic South. For some- en use or other a new outcry againot the South bus been raised by the ultra Hadie.d prsss of the Not th. Anew; warfare f-ee-'tis about, to be waged. We have referred to this matter ourselves, and ' have shown h- little mii people were guilty of She pretended offences Hgaint law and orilr with whieh 1hy are being eharged. The New Yoik Tim' contains an article : much in keping with tho true condition of atlaiis, und so much iu unison with what has appeared in The .loTio'Aii, that vre give it an in.sertiou in our editorial columns. The Tim at is one of the k-adiug llepubjiean p.ipers in the North, but uuwilling to fo.stcr tho preju dices or give publicity to tho falsehoods aud slanders whi-h aro keeping asunder tho pcoplo of the. two sections of tho Union. Says the Times : " A strenuous effort was niado in the Anti-Slavery Convention, on Wednesday, to revive expiring prejudices concerning tho condition of society in the South, with especial reference to tho rights and inter ests of colored citizens and Northern "loy alists." One of tho expelled (Jeorrjia legis lators was asked whether he considered his life safe in that State, and he responded that no mau'tt life, who stands on the loyal .side, is safe in Georgia outside of the l:trf-e cities. The quest ion was pressed in other forms, and al-.vayn uiiu a somewhat similar re. .nit ; the evident aim being to produce an iuiprechion that Ku Klux and rebels still dominate in the Sooth, and that t lie staunch K-pnoiir.ui, white or black, is all the timf in j-.n.trdy. Mr. Wendell l'hillips likened thu white Southerner to ' the bull dog tb.tt, having been taught for twenty years t spring at every passer by, but not change his nature in a day." Tho ladies weie t qnally ferocious ; a col ored Mrx. Harper declaring that " there is no civilized conntiy in the world where there has been so lauck murdering as has been going on recently at the South." For tho object of these representations wo have not far to seek. A case against Georgia and the unreconstructed States is desired as an excuse for haish action, lud the story of murder for political causes is the best that can be concocted for the jmrpose. We are more thau skeptical on this subject. Wo do not believe these tales of wholesale murder and oppression, nor do avo give credence, to tho allegation that "loyalists" are tjsteinuticaliy persecuted and hunted down. There was a time, un doubtedly, a lieu iu some localities a hostile spirit ran lm;b, and when tho insertion of Itepublicau opinion involved more or lees peril ; but trustworthy evidence seems to show that this state of things no longer exists. So far as we can judge, life and property are quite as secure at tho South as at the North. T.tking population into account, wo are convinced that the per eentage of crime is no greater anywhere in the Sonth, and certainly not in Georgia, than iu the North or West. For every murder committed there we will undertake to find a inn i dor hero. For every outrage that admits of ventuatiou in Georgia, will will trace a parallel outrage iu Indi ana or New York. Nay. we are persuaded that, all tiring considered, tbero ia leas crime in Virginia, in South Carolina, in Alabama, and even in Georgia, than in this State or in other parts of the North. This city could easily supply a chapter of horrors, of xeeeut date, which, by a parity of reasoning, Southern observers might cite as proofs of savagery aud demoraliza tion. Such an application of facts would 11 ho not less le- class. It i absurd to look for a greater average of virtue, or immunity from crime there than we are contented with here. What Georgia and its noighbors may fairly plead is that iu respect of offences against persons and property, they havo nothing to fear from comparison witu aiastacmi- sstt or Michigan. And this is all we arc entitled to expect. .jt we aro told, the South does not welcome loUti-tongned loyalists as cordial ly as they think they should bo welcomed. Mr. Forney, who has been spying out the nakedness of the land in company with a party like auto himself, publicly complains that they went about without being wor shiped, lie does not allege that tney were msuueu. uv they had any apprehension as to their per- eonai eareiy. uoumH.. .... await all who seek them with a decent respect for the feelings and opin ions of the present population. But he objects that the entire South did not take him and his friends at their own valuation, and that it receives coldly those who go there as professional politicians, or who ! insist, when settling, that they shall be esteemed as the only ioyaly, the only righteous, members of the community. These objections and complaints are very foolish. In the first place, Southern citi zens havo as good a right as Northern cit izens to choose their company and friends, and may as properly discriminate in their welcome ro new-coui. LU ' ,Z the men who go South expecting to mac. a business of politics, and woo denounce every one who refuses to vote their ticket, are a nuisance in any locality, and are not Ht, , aDVwhere to courtesy or consider- I illlUU. The Sonth should be judged, not by its feeling toward demagogues and adven turers, but by its treatment of strangers of any nationality who go there iu good faith, prepared to settle down and become useful citizens. In regard to this class we see no reason to doubt that they are gladly received, or that they share the protection of good laws, administered impartially and effectively. There may be exceptional localities, but so there aro iu the West. Indeed, the conditions of welcome in Vir ginia or Georgia do not essentially differ from those which obtain in Kansas or Min nesota. And the supremacy of law aud order is, as a rule, as well assured in the one case as in the other." 1 lt Velocipede Kink. Some people affect to see nothing in our strictures upon the Board of Aldermen for their permission to Mr. Durfee to erect a mam jutli frame building in th heart of tho city for the purpose of establishing a velocipede rink but an attark upon Dm fee. Nothing of the kind wa.s intended nor can such a construction be plactd upon our re marks. Mr. Durfteis entirely too insigni ficant to form the subject of serious eotn mut in tlie.s-ic 'biuius. Hi uamo or Ids auticedeuts would not hivo been men tioned or referred to had it uot become necessary in order to the character of man to whom permission had been grant ed to erect a stupendous frame building within tho lire limits, and the character of men to whom permission was refused to erect small shanties. We have no fault to lind with Mr. D;ir fee in regard to the matter. We do not blamo him any more for erecting his build ing and establishing his rink thau we do our young friends who patrouizo him and ride his bycicles. The fault is not with him or them, but with those who permit ted the outrage to be perpetrated upon our citizens. Those men who have the safety of the property and the quiet and comfort of the inhabitants of this city in charge are the guilty parties. Never was there a greater nuisance permitted under the forms of law, iu moro direct violation of its spirit and letter, to promote no bene ficial object and for the benefit of an un deserving person. H is a daugerous nuis ance and it becomes the paramount duty of our City Judge to direct the attention of tho Graud Jury towards it. Its early abatement is demanded by the safety of the adjacent property, and by the eomfort of neighboring residents and business men. If justice and right are. denied to our peopie by the city government let us appeal to the integrity of our judges aud juries. S. 13. Since the above was in type, we learn that at the meeting of the Board of Aldermen, held last night, further work upon the building was ordered to be stopped and the whole subject referred to a special meeting for Thursday night. We sincerely trust the Board will withdraw their conhent and compel this dangerous building to be pulled down at once. Ma(r ItiftMt-Al Society. We learn with much pleasure that this large and influential association of medical gentlemen, had a most harmonious and in teresting meeting at Salisbury on the 12th of this month. The meeting was well at tended, quite spirited, and continued its sessions for three consecutive days. It ad journed to meet in the city of Wilmington on the 4th Wednesday iu May 1870. Never were the Society more cordially re ceived, never were they treated with more generous hospitality, than did the medi cal profession, and kind hearted citizens of Salisbury, receive and treat this most devoted, enterprising, and useful body of Physicians and Surgeons of North Caroli na. We print in another column the warm hearted welcome extended to the Society by Dr. Whitehead, on behalf of the profession aud citizens of that town, and direct attention to the passing tribute which he to appropriately pays to the lamented Dr. Dickson, of this city, who was -odo of the noblest and most accom plished practitioners in this whole coun try. Over tifty members attended, and nu merous accessions were made. Oral and written communications of a most practical and useful character were made on medical subjects, and the meeting has given a new impetus to tue cause of medical science, and to the improvement of the medical profession. When the proceedings are published, they will make a respectable volume in fixe, and in diameter will be such as to. induce every true North Caro liuiau to feel a just pride in the talent, ability and skill of the medical profession of the old North State. These annual medical meetings are potential for good, do iujustice to no one, and do much to counteract that apathy and want of frater nal feeling in the medical profession that prevails more than ever since- the war. Numerous pathological specimens of much interest were presented, and inter esting remarks and discussions made there upon, as well as upon the character and treatment of medical aud surgical diseases. Dr. J. W. Jones, of Tarboro', presented specimens in this respect of much value. Reports were made by Dr. S. Foote, of Warren, Shaffoei, of Salem, Fayne of Ca barrus, O'Hagan, of Pitt, Satchwell, of New Hanover, Jones, of Edgecombe, Hap- pold. of Burke, and others, on th Topo graphy and Diseases of their respective counties, "and referred to the Committee on Publication. The annual address was de livered by Di. H. H. Winborne, of Chow an county, before a largo and appreciative audience and the Society, and was an able and interesting production on the duties of the Phyeician, the progress of medical science, and the benefits of the State Med ical Board of Examiners and of the State Medical Society. It was well received and ordered to be published with the proceed ings. The following officers which we have heretofore given, were elected for the en suing year : FOl; riiESlDENT. Dr. Chailes J. O'Hagan, Pitt county. VICE PRESIDENTS. Dr. E. A. Anderson, Wilmington. Dr. F. N. Lucky, Rowan county. Dr. W. II. Sharpe, Davie county. Dr. R. L. Fayne, Lexington. OKATOK. Dr. C. T. Murphy, Sampson county. SECRETARY. Dr. Thomas F. Wood, Wilmington. TREASURER. Dr. J. W. Jones, Tarboro'. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Dr. S. S. Satchwell, New Hanover eo. Dr. Charles E. Johnson, Raleigh. Dr. J. J. Summerell, Salisbury. DELEGATES TO THE NEXT MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL. ASSOCIATION. Drs. Charles E. Johnson, W. H. MeKee, Will. George Thomas, George A. Foote, J. W. Joaes, E. Burke Haywood, H. W. Fai son, Walter Debnam, W. A. B. Noroom, Hugh Kelly, F. J. Haywood, Jr., F. M. Henderson. D. T. Tayloe. HONOR UV M KM I : tens. Dr. William C. Warren, Lynchburg. V. Dr. E. Burke Haywood, the President, on vacating the chair to his successor, de livered a very tine and appropriate ad dress on the Relations ot the Physician to the Public and to the Law. He was thanked, r.s was also Dr. Winborne, and requested to hand over the address for publication with the proceedings. An in timation was mad;- tliBf Dr. Charles E. Johusou, ct lvaleigu, had written two medical works recrttly, tho one on In sanity and the other on Diet and Dyspep sia. The Society expressed gratification at this information, aud requested Dr. John son to publish the sme as early as practi cable. He promised to do so, especially to issue at an early day his volume on In sanity, and he will dedicate the same to the State Aledical Society. The subject of the State Medical Board of Examiners was taken up aud a vote of thanks was made to the members of the Board for their jealous and faithful ser vices. Dr. C. T. Murphy, who is a useful member of the Legislature as well as of the Society, gave an interesting account of the proposition made in the Legislature to abolish this most excellent Institution. A committee was appointed to seek a con ference with the Legislature on the subject of the Board and to ask for a change in the time of the meeting of the same. When the facts in regard to the workings and necessity for this Board nre properly brought out, there will hardly bo found a half dozen respectably men in the State to advocate its abolition, or to turn il over into the bauds of any political party. Let it remain, and let it remain too, in the hands of the Society that originated and directs it. The Board met at Raleigh early in May according to law, and then adjourned over to meet with the Society at Salisbury. Fre quent sessions were held and an unusual number of yonug physicians presented themselves for examination. We are glad also to know that a much higher degree of qualifications than usual was exhibited by the applicants. Why so many practition ers, however, should decline to come be fore this Medical Tribunal of the State in the plain faco of a righteous law that no medical man can collect his fees by law, who has commenced practice since the Board was established, passes our compre hension. There is no sectional feeling or cliqueism either in the Board or in the So ciety. No political prejudices or purposes enter into the motives or action of either. The Examiners are every way competent, and command the highest confidence of the Profession and the public, and this law of medical examination is one that is just, reasonable, and demanded by every consideration of regard for the health and lives of all the citizens of the State. The times are hard we know, and money scarce, but young men who can command time and money sufficient to obtain a diploma from a Medical College, which in nine cases out of ten is no test of moral or pro fessional qualifications, surely can afford to avail themselves of the annual pportuuity presented of having their claims to practice tested by a tribunal in our own State, that both the Medical Profession and law making authorities of North Carolina deem just, reasonable, and even indispensable. Even the mast eminent Professors of these very Medical Colleges, where diplomas are so often unworthily bestowed upon igno rant medical students, approve of this Board, and advise their graduates from ? this State to go before it. The Board com mands the highest confidence of the Pro fession without as well as within the State, and it is high time tht our medical men who are practising without its authority should bear more seriously iu mind the in justice they are doing themselves, their profession, the public and the law. A committee was appoiuted to issue an address lo the Profession of the State in behalf of the objects of the Board and of the Society. This committee were instruc ted to appeal to the Profession to arouse themselves to the great work of medical improvement, and of medical organization The State Medical Society stands with open arms to invite co operation from all honorable and regular physicians, and ap peals for the cordial support of the Pro fession in every county of the State, in each one of which auxiliary medical socie ties should be established and sustained in wholesome work and asefrl progress. A committee was also appointed to ask the Legislature for the passage of a law to secure a faithful registration of the marri ages, births and deaths in the State. The importance of such a law is too evident to need argument. The lawyer as well as the physician, the legislator as well as the his torian, the philanthropist as well as the patriot, devoted to the material improve ment of North Carolina, and who wishes to hold her up to the immigrant as she is, the healthiest State in the Union, are all well-wishers, it is hoped, of this wise measure. The Society asserted the right of the Profession to claim compensation when their opinions are invoked in medico-legal questions. Physicians are constantly being taken from their daily practice to the court room to give in evidence in cases of medi jcal jurisprudence and other matters of a niadico-legal nature, and compensation for I their professional services in these impor- tant, often vital, questions is not allowed ! them. The Society takes the position that no physician is bound to give his medical : opinion, unless paid for it by law or the parties at issue, even at the risk of being i sent to jail for refusing until payment is secured. A committee was appointed to report at the next meeting upon the whole subject j of medical experts and their fees, i Thus did the Society meet and transac ted much important business. Much wras done that will redound to the usefulness j of the Profession and the good of the ; whole community. As a means alone of ; social improvement to a profession whose j members are too seldom together these an nual communions nre worth the sacrifice made by all who attend. Let them go on ;and gather strength and influence with each revolving year. And let the next meeting, to be held here in May next, be the largest, grimiest and most useful and pleasant of ali. Mr. J. A. Wmi'mE, of Boston, has the largest establishment, and is one of the , most successful photographers in the ; United iit. Sirinnfield RepulUat,:. (;lrfioro' r-iiaai Col left. j We return our thanks for a complimen I tary invitation lo attend tL Annual Com imencement Exercises of the C4oldsboro' ! Female College on the 25th and 2Gth iDst. Rev. Dr. PiuToum, of Raleigh, will de i liver the Address before the Graduating Class, and Rev. E. A. Yatem, of Beaufort, preaches the Annua Sermon. :oltiiiibii lonnly Agrieuitnrnl Suelely. The meeting of this Society which is to bo held in Whiteville on Saturday next, j 22d inst., bids fair to be large and suc cessful. We are glad to know that jmuch iuterest is felt iuagricultural mat j ters in Columbus, and are certaio that j the county will b3 much benefited by it. j Several gentlemen will go from this city and address the meeting. The editor of the Jourxaij returns his thanks for an in vitation to be present, and would gladly avail himself of tho opportunity did not important business call him in another j direction at that time. j .Voinl Kelatlons in the outli. ! When ( reflect, ays the Charleston j Nei'-xt upon the social ostracism that ob t tnined in the North towards that small portion of the Democrat who, like Mr. ; Greeley and Mr. Cji;isef were willing to ! Jet the South go " out of the Union, jsoine charity should be extended to the j Southern people, who feel that, nearly as jmuch of war has been kept up against them since the surrender of Lee as be fore it. j How can they be expected to throw open their doors and extend their hands to chronic enemies and strangers before the war, during the war, and after it. when Radical journals themselves certify to the bad character of a large portion of the element that is migrating to the South ? j The New York Times speaks of "the ad venturers who have gone into the South," and Harper's Weekly says : ' One wonders that the South does not rebel anew, when he considers the miserable vermin who have been sent down there as Government officials;" and the Chicago Tribune, another Radical sheet, denounces the carpet-baggers the strobing, pilfering, political blacklegs of the North," by whom the South is "ridden and robbed." And it is these "adventurers," these "vermin," and these "blacklegs," whom Mr. Forney would have ns clasp to our breasts as fit companions for sister, wife, and children." Duplin County. The venerable of the Journal visited Kenansville on Tuesday last. The Super ior Court of the county was in session, His Honor, Judge Russell, presiding. A large number of the citizens were in attendance. We recognized many old and familiar faces, pleasant links betwen the past and present. Amidst the many changes which has taken place during the last eight or ten years, we found friends as warm hearted, their heads whitened and their forms bent indeed with age, but their spir its as cheerful And their hopes as buoyant as in yonnger und more prosperous dayp, Indeed time semis to have dealt gently with many of oar Duplin friends. We happened to meet three ic a groupe whose genial faces and hale appearance gave bat little evidence of the half score of yean which had elapsed since we met, whose combined ages were irro hundred and thirty, six, the oldest being nearly eighty-four. We heard of an old citizen of the county, one hundred and one years of age, who walked - twenty miles in one day last week to see one of his children who resides in Kenansville. The farming prospects of the county are not so promising as could be desired, resulting from the unseasonable weather. A late and cold Spring has damaged the growing crops very materially. In some portions of the county there ha3 been too much rain. Yet we did not find the farm ers desponding. With energy and favor ing weather during the balance of the sea son, they hope to make fair crops. We had the pleasure of meeting with the Hon. Josiah Turner, editor of the Ral eigh Sentinel. Mr. Turner addressed the people upon political matters during the recess of the Court. He was listened to by an immense concourse of people, aud his speech was applauded to the echo. He is doing yeoman's service both in the sanctum and upon the stump. We wish him and his paper the most abundant success. Imperialism. A cotemporary referring to the imperial istic movement very justly says: A great many honest, short-sighted people ridicule the movement, but in the condition of the country to-day, and with the temper of the public mind, trained as it has been to submission and acquiescence in every des potic act, a complete change in our whole system of government might be effected iu twenty-four hours without the slightest ef fort at resistance. A people who have sub mitted to so many outrages and usurpa tions are prepared lo submit to a great many more. Human nature is the same port of staff now that it was two or five thousand years ago. Selfishness is the most prominent thread that runs through both the warp and tho woof of its texture. The cunning and the aspiring know how to promote their own selfish views by en listing in their cause the selfish feelings of the multitude. Men, like fish, provided the hook is concealed, greedily swallow the bait. This fact was proven by the ease with which they were carried by the enthusiasm that precipitated the country into a civil war, not foreseeing the dread ful consequences that were to be entailed on themselves. The hook was adroitly concealed by the ingenuity of the unprin cipled demagogues who stirred up the elements of a strife that they might ride into power, place and wealth, and now laugh at the dupes who were so easily gulled. So hero with this movement iu favor of an imperialism, the great moss are to be deluded and the idea that employment and comfortable subsis tence can now only be. attained through the influence of a strong government ; that a republican form has failed to confer it, and therefore let some other be tried. In every profession and vocation, there are daily evidences of tho progress of this delusive and damnable idea. There are shrewd men engineering thi.i seheme, and there are shrewd men, also, ready and willing to be caught in its cogs, who will tell you that there is no danger of being crushed that the Empire is peace, se curity, prosperity, order, law, and justice that republ tilntions havo failed utterly to secure eitht r. In exchange for the evils we now suffer, (and they are ad mitted to be great,) they would have a grand central irou-handed bureaucracy, with branch bureaus supervising and con trolling every man's business, invested with the unlimited privilege to tax without responsibility the labor of alL This was the point to which we started in 1SG1, and we have got so near, that even sound minded men have endured and pitied, until they are prepared to admire and em brace it with all its consequences. For one we cannot consent, and advise that it is better to bear the ills we have than fatuously to leap open-eyed into 6nch an abvss. Tim Triple Alliance limaor. The New York Albion of this week copies tho Tribune's rumor about an al liance between England, France and Spain against the United States, and appends this contradiction: "We havo the best authority for saying that, &o far as England at least is concerned, this report is entirely without foundation in fact, and the infer ence, therefore, is that it is equally untrue with regard to the other powers. A Kentucky tobacco manufacturer threw two tons of tobacco, slightly damaged, into the river rather than pay the Government tax npou it. In New York State, near Lyons, a large extent, of country is planted with pepper mint. A costly monument, to be erected in memory of the Confederate dead, has been received at Cynthiana, Kentucky, and will be dedicated on Thursday, May 2G. The dedicatory address will be delivered by Col. W. P. Breckinridge, and Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, Gen. Wm. Preston, Gen. Hodge, Col. Phil Lee and others have been invited, and are expected to attend the ceremonies. Texas has wholesale thieves. A theft of 1,200 head of cattle rar Fort Cobb is re ported. Reported for the Journal. Remarks of Dr. M. Whitehead on the As sembling In Salisbury or the State Medi. cal Society, on the lth May, 1869. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina : I am charged with the agreeable duty of welcoming you to the town of Salisbury. I regret that I have not language to ex press this sentiment with sufficient cor diality. Wo feel honored by your pres ence, and confidently expect to be im proved and elevated by intercourse with you. Many and sad have been tho changes through which we have passed since you assembled here fourteen years ago to-day. From our ranks we miss many a familiar face ; but especially do we miss the pres ence and counsel of the lamented Dickson and a host of others, who have passed away and now rest from their labors. : It exalts and elevates us to know that such men have trodden our paths and followed oar pursuits, and while we turn aside to mingle our tears of sorrow and regret at their loss, we may yet congratulate our selves that such men have lived and were members of our Society. It is a spectacle of moral grandeur de lightful to contemplate the assembling of so many physicians from different parts of our State not for purposes of personal aggrandizement, not to secure tho success of this or that party, but to concert with each other and devise the best means for advancing the science of medicine and for alleviating the condition of suffering hu manity. Be assured, gentlemen, you have the approbation and good will ot the public. May the consciousness that your efforts to benefit your noblo profession have been appreciated and acknowledged excite iu you the honorable ambition of doing all that you can to alleviate the sufferings and restoie to health those who may be called to beds of pain and languishing. It will be pleasant to each of you to know, amid your daily cares and labor, that your names will be remembered with gratitude and honor for the good you have done to your raco when your todies are resting quietly in the church-yard. In the name cf the physicians of Rowan county and the citizens of Salisbury, we throw wide open our doors, and invite you to tho hospitalities of our homes and to the kinder affections of our hearts. Indiana Legislature Queer Pi owed lags Voting without ft (iaotum tfiftreiitli Amendment Passed by the House. Inmanapoeis, Ind., May 14. The House of Representatives this afternoon, before calling the roll to ascertain whether a quo rum was present or not, concurred in the Senate amendment to the Specific Ap propriation bill by a viva voce vote. A message was received from the Gov ernor notifying the House of the resigna tion of forty-two mombers. Mr. Osborne (Rep.) then moved to adopt the joint resolution ratifying the Constitu tional Amendment. Mr. Coffroth (Dem.) objected, making a point of order that there was not a quorum present. Tne Chair ruled that tho objection might be considered as an appeal taken by Mr. Coffroth, and the decision of tho Speaker was sustained. The House Jthcu passed the joint resolu tion by a vote of ayes 51 ; nays, none. Two Democrats and one Republican pres ent refused to vote. Nothing was done in the Senate to day, no quorum being present. Th; " Man aud Brother " in the South ern Baptist Convention. We take from the Macon Journal fc Mes seuger the following report of an interest ing debate upon the religious education of the negro, which occurred in the South ern Baptist Convention, on Saiurday last : Rev. Dr. Fuller, of Baltimore, from the Special Committee on Missions, to whom was re-referred the report of t-aid commit tee so far as it relates to the colored peo ple, submitted his report upon the report, which was received and taken up. The report is embodied in the following resolutions : Jletolced 1. Thiit God has directly committed to the Baptists at the South the high and sacred duty of giving & pure Goupel and an ecliRbtened colored ministry to our brethren aud foilow-citi-zcds of African descent now living among ua. Resolccd 2. That a new department of the filis tbn lioard created which bhail be styled the "Freedmen'a Hoard department," which ehall adopt pnch measures for the religious education of tho colored people in our raidt as the exigen ei88 of the case may require. Rev. Dr. Fuller, on submitting the re port, remarked that the South had yet a power by which she could rise to a position of higher importance the,n any she had ever occupied; that power was her spindles. Napoleon once said that it was not the armies of inglana that had conquered him, but her spindles. So might the South by her spindles rise to great importance and power. He referred to thejrery profit able investments in factories made in Augusta, Ga., and in Mississippi. Some of these factories were paying twenty-five per cent, on tho capital invested. The Doctor said he intended to clear his con science. The sable prejudice in the South had not been extinguished. It had been overcome, he thought, to a greater extent in Georgia and South Carolina than in some of the border States. Before the colored man could occupy the place for which the Savicur designed him, he must be made to feel that in Christ Jesus there is neither mala or female, Jew nor Gentile, African nor American. The colored churches must be admitted to representa tion in Baptist Associations. In Maryland this was already the case, though not the case iu Virginia : and in the Associations of Maryland some of the very best speeches were sometimes made by colored preachers. These colored brethren had a sense of what is proper, and when they entered the As sociation would take their places together, and not attempt social equality, which he said was a thing impossible. Would not the Rurman, if he were here, be admitted into the Associations ? Why then should the African, who is scarcely a hue darker, be excluded ? Not long since, in Baltimore, he admitted a Burman into his pulpit, and some thought it was a colored man with a turban on his head. The carpet-bagger Baal having got what he came for, was asleep, or on his journey to Congress, and now was the time for Southern Christians to work for the spiritual welfare of the colored people. Rev. Dr. Poindexter, of Virginia, re plied to the remarks of Dr. Fuller. He might be in error, and if he were, he should be glad to get out of it, but as so cial equality was a thing impossible, it would operate as a bar to the admission of colored ministers into the associa tions. The idea of admitting them into Associations as delegates involved the idea of social equality. The Bible never intended, when it said that we were one in Christ, to abolish social distinctions. Dr. P. did not regret that the discussion had arisen, as it would give an opportunity for a full discussion of the subject. He thought that there was nothing that so protected the colored man and gave bim such great opportunity for elevation as the bars existing to their so cial equality with the white man. If you would admit them as representatives in Associations, you would have also to admit them to your houses, to your tables, and lay them upon your beds. Bey. Jesse H. Campbell, Georgia, very heartily endorsed the sentiments of the brother who had just spoken. When were we ever to be done with discussions about the colored man ? The report recommen ded that a department be oDened in the Domestic Mission Board for the theologi cal education of colored ministers ; the Domestic Mission Board was in debt already, and if that was at tempted the Board would, in - a year, be more in debt than it now is. He had been a preacher for forty-six years, and during that time had preached much to the colored people, and baptised, perhaps, thousands of them, but ho was not disw. ed, and never cxpectod to bo disposed 7 bo on terms of social equality with t ' Some of his own color might have disposition, and it might bo well enr.nii for them that they had it; it was a 3h of taste, but he did not believe that anv I his posterity would ever have it. Ue Jyl not believe that God ever intended hu equality. He was against the reconitnfli ation of tho report. Pn'1- Mr. Browne, of Louisiana, tom to dress the Convention. Judge Lewis hoped that as tho qu stin. of social equality was not referred to in thi resolution, no allusion to it would be ma 1 and callod for the reading of tho resol tions, which was accordingly read. The President decided the point nf der well taken. 1 01 0r Mr. Browne proceeded. It Wa.i necessary to raise tho point of order r account of anything he intended to t " He thanked God for the resolutions con tained in the report, but did not belie v that they went far enough to meet tho exi gencies of the case. It was imposuiU,. for our Board if all tho funds in its Troa? ury were directed to that end to fnr,pi v the wants of the colored people in Loom. iana. He favored the plan of taking ni j from the Northern Missionary Board , condition that the ministers preachh, t", the colored people should bo appoint by the Southern Domestic Board, and lt port to that body. Rev. Dr .Williams, of Maryland, th..!-.., that there had already been debate enough aud opposed the report on the ground t'firii it involved too much machinery, haviii'.. learned that the moro machinery th. greater tho loss of power. He the'wf.-.n. would offer the following resolution :i , substitute to tho report : Iieszlced, That we recommend to the litri. . aud State Associations to pay special attention i the religious instruction and spiritual inteif si ,., the colored people in their midst. A call was made for tho previous ju. tion, which call was sustained, but tin main question was not ordered. The original report was then taken wi by paragraphs. Moro discussion iir., upon amendments proposed. The won! "freedmen" was on motion of Dr. Broadm of Virginia, stricken from the report, :u;,; the words "colored people" inserted. Rev. Dr. Burrovs, of Virginia, limu.l to strike from the report the sentcmv which declares that "designing mvn hav. crept in among tho colored people who preach Christ not of sincerity, but tor filthy lucre, and for their own political am bition." Dr. Broadus offered to amend so t!,;i! the paragraph shall read as follows : "Preachers they will have ; and we wl,,, know these people can better .supply ,. teaching they need than those who'lm Ni ne ver lived among them." The amendment was lost, and tho i,,o tion to strike out was also lost. The report made on the recommittal w.i . then road as follows : Resolved, That God has directly commit u J t the Baptists at the North the high and wmrtd duty of giving a pure gospel and an culightoiu-! colored ministry to our brethren and fellow -citizens of African descent, now amonjj ua. Rev. Dr. Jones moved to amend, the above resolution by striking from it tho words "our brethren and fellow-citizens cl African descent," and substituting tl.e words "the colored population.1' 'lie amendment was adopted. Rev. . Shackelford moved to y the whole subject on the table. Lot-1. Rev. Dr. Reynolds, of South Carolina, moved to further amend by altering the resolution so as to read as follows : " Jiesolced. That we recognize it as ourlixh and saored duty,'' etc. Adopted. Rev. Dr. Poindexter, of Virginia, moved to strike out tho word "colored" before "ministry." Carried. Pendiug tho consideration of tho report, the Convention adjourned by a voto of 10'J to 51, after prayer by Rev. J. Kirtlcy, of Kentucky. AFTERNOON SESSION'. The Convention met at o o'clock pur suant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer with Rev. Dr. Armitage, pas tor of tho Fifth Avenue Church, New York. The Convention then took tho unfinished business of the morning the samo beinj the consideration of the report on tho re ligious instruction of the colored people. The resolution of Dr. Williams, of Balti more, was adopted in lieu of tho second resolution, aud the whole report as amen ded was adopted. Mr. foote Vindicates Mr. Davis NAanviLi.E, May 3, 1 it y. W. II. VardceliEi.: My Deah Sib: I am placed undr upecial obli gations to you by your letter just received, en cloning several printed pages, which Iundertaml to be part of a torthcoming volume, entitled .; of Jeft'erson J)avi, by Edward A. l'ollard. rt gret that E'.r. Pollard should havo fallen into lh notable error of supp ling that certain j ;m propositions introduced by LJe in tho Uonft(leiuit (Jongreus, just alter tb necond battle of Mhiitu eae, were yrompted iu any degrco by Mr. Davis, and that ne should have made them the pretext of unjust animadversion upon tbiu gentleman. 1 thought that there were no intelligent pi-mouM n Richmond during the war that did not know tliui there had been between Mr. luvis and not-ii since our painful contest in 1851 in MiB-tidaippi, no intercourse whatever up to the day of my a; rival in Richmond, and that a week or two aJ'tc-r 1 took my seat in the Confederate CoDgrc-a, 1 had felt compelled to commence a course of zcalou.i opposition to hia administration, which Yfmn kt-pt up without an hour's intermission as long an J remained in tho performance of legislative dntic r. To epeak of me, as Mr. Pollard has done, a be ing, at the time of bringing forward these i.earr resolutions, "in intimate relations with hi:. Davie," t-nd to attempt to subject this gentleman to the discredit of having been guilty of cuuni and ambidextrous political management, in the instigation of a deceptious public movement in tended to beguile the northern democracy, secrm to me to be one of the moat extraordinary pro ceedings that I have ever heard of. The trut u in, that never during my stay in Kichmoad did 1 en joy Mr. Davis' political conlidenco for one mo ment. I saw him but throo time in three years, and on all these occasions my interchange ol words with him was most brief, at hia oliice, anl always in presence of others. I did on no occa sion advise or confer with him, or with any mem ber of his Cabinet, in regard to any movement which I contemplated making in Congress, and 1 certainly never had reason to conjecture that Mr. Davis had derived the smallest gratification from any act performed by me, or irom any word ut tered by me, whilst I was endeavoring consca-u-tiouely and independently to perforin my duts as Representative in the Confederate Congress from the Htalo of Tennessee. My re la tions with Mr. Davis could eurely not have betu very " intimate." or even kind, when I was w.rm ly opposing conscription, confiscation, forcible impressment, martial law, suspension of hnbea corpus, and other kindred measures ; or when I was movisg resolutions of want of confidence in several oi his Cabinet officers ; or when I was de nouncing Drgg, Pemberton, and Ilindman, ami vindicating Joe Johnston, btouewall Jackson, Guatavus Smith, Polk, Beauregard, Forrest, Xw gtv, Floyd, and Pillow. The truth is, that 1 brought forward peace resolutions, or counrtoLed others to bring them forward, repeatedly, anl always simply because I prelerred peaco to war, aud thought it better to strike for peace whilst a fur and honorable one could be obtained icsteii of waiting, as other j thought Leet, until mi." armies were all dispersed and we should be com pelled to submit to such terms as 'the conqueror might impose. What I attempted in the iotert-Hts of peace I attempted openly, aad I am cot wijl ing now that the burden of responsibility should be shifted from my own shoulders to thoso of any other individual whatever. To Mr. Pollard's tiibieaptctful allusions and iu uendoes in reference to myself I havo no response to make. My acts are before the country. 'Ibe history of the Confederate struggle, and of the events which have succeeded that struggle, will be hereafter written by some calm, enlightened, and Inst-minded Individual, and what I have done f good or of evil in the past will be fairly estima ted by posterity. some have Y.'inr iihAdifiit Hul'Vant, I Shall patiently ana cneerruny awais wiv scrutiny of talents and of time." With a grateful sense ot your UNtnotLip i . a ll. rf of the moss irymg scenes i v" the honor to be, very trn-y pn c f . mi
Wilmington Journal [1844-1895] (Wilmington, N.C.)
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