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Ii -V Journal WIIjmington, n. c. , rgiPAY. JEWS 19. 1874. TgtB FETERSBUBG TltOlBU", We regret very much that trouble has fallen upon our friends in Peters burg, hnt we trust they will yet have a happy issue out of all their afflictions. The difficulty is but a sequence of the great victory 'won by the gallant De mocracy of the Cockade City in their recent municipal election, for Radical ism dies hard in Virginia, as well as in North Carolina. The greedy cormor ants who have so leng been plundering Petersburg are unwilling to loose their grip upon the city's money bags without another final desperate strug gle. We fear not for the result, how ever, though before it is reached there maybe dark tlouds upon a horizon that but yesterday seemed so clear and bright. On Wednesday last it was noticed that the Radicals seemed to be unusu ally busy in the Custom House in Petersburg, and it was surmised that something was on foot to upset the re cent election. Nothing definite, how ever, was developed until the next day, when the judges who held the re- J cent election were arresieu uuou .v warrant issued by United States Commissioner Pleasants.'of Richmond, upon a charge of violating the Enforce ment Actjof Congress, by illegally pre venting certain parties from voting. The parties arrested, ten in number, were carried to Richmond on Friday, and after a hearing before Commissioner Pleasants, were bound over in the sum of 1,500 each, to the next term of the Federal Court. So apparent was the injustice sought to be done, that it is said the Government At torney was ready to quash the whole proceedings, but Mr. Commissioner Pleasants insisted upon binding the parties over to await the action of the Federal Grand J ury. lint this was only a pari of the con spiracy. On Friday two Radical Con gressmen from Virginia, called upon President Grant and urged him to send troops to Petersburg for the pro tection of certain officers whose lives they alleged were in danger. Upon hearing of this, the remainder of the Virginia delegation, with one excep tion, without regard to political affilia tions, united in a request to President Grant not to order troops to Petersburg, as they believed that the United States Marshal and District Attorney were fully able to enforce the laws to secure the legal punish ment of any one violating them. After duly considering the matter, the Presi dent refused to interfere in the mat ter deeming it unnecessary for the Feder al authorities to take any specific ac tion in the premises. But affairs were not destined to re main thus. On Saturday the good people of Petersburg wer thrown into n, atat of crreat excitement bv the in formation telegraphed to U papers by Judge Harris, one e city of the members of Congress from Virginia, then in Washington, that the U. S. Marshal had been authorized to sum mon a posse and thatif necessary a call on General Barry, at 'Fortress Munroe, would be made for troops, to protect the public buildings and the lives of Federal officials in Petersburg. What produced the change in the determi nation of the President has not as yet appeared, though it may well lie as sumed that the instructions were issued to the Marshal in order to bolster up the Radical cause. It is not, however, by any means certain that such will be the result, as it happens that the Marshal, Mr. Ramsdell, is a man of too much char acter and intelligence to allow himself io be used as a tool by the Custom House conspirators. Mr. Ramsdell, who was in the city, is reported to liave said that he saw no reason what ever for bringing troops to Petersburg, .3 J 1 - 1 t 1. 1 1 . X- ,.1. ana uuu no lur us ne ay as aoie eo oo- j Xpil IcKay, for Congress, was as serve, nobody was exposed to any peril j (lnmb pu oyster npon tho uLjeotj nor was the public peace likely to be but iu imlting forth McKay, so redo broken. He knew nothing about any j ont ith no parior anJ no tite,ien demand for the aid of Federal forces j. the coniJ,linging together of the nntil the telegram putting them at his j aeltgato8 ,,oi,lfT to anJ returning from disposal was placed in his hands. j the Convention, we suppose the de- Truly is Petersburg fortunate in j claration in its favor was deemed snf th&t such a man as Mr. Ramsdell is the j iicient. Yet, the Raleigh Era, the United States Marshal. It is, how- ! Wilmington 7W, the Newbern lie ever, a sad commentary upon the con- j puLliCon ri r, the Asheville J'ioncer, dition of affairs that the safety of the and probably other Radical papers citizens springs not from the majesty ; jiave jcciaroj against the passage of of thelaw but onlyfrom the good sense ! the Civil Rights Rill. The Radicals andhonesty of the man who is charged with its execution. t it i: saw mtoo:vi -mr. TKEASUBY DEPAHTJI K.V!'. The Washington correspondent ef the Baltimore Hun writes as follows: Secretary Bristow has alreaely put on foot several reforms in the Treasury Department, anel wiih a determination that indicates that he means to carry them out. One of his first official du- more, in the city of Newborn, where ties was to send for the chief of the ! the blacks have a maioritv, thev have appointing bureau, aud ascertain from i , ,f. , ,..i " " t i - i -, , eieercu negro trustees over a white him how many persons drew pay audi v-o ov.i .Lt, rendered no services in return.' The j Kl-'.iooI. Iho Deniooratie-Conserva-long list of sinecures wa shown to j fives of tho county have evnrcsseel him, and ho tlirected the clerk to j their just indignation of this action ia strike every name off the pay-roll im- j fi. . , i ...t i .-j,i tt-;i.j. r i l--c ioouwiug lesouitions, aelopted at mediately. Eighteen females were , r, , . L found to be among the number draw- j il 1(-ccliv County Convention : ing pay from the department, and the appointment clerk went so far as to suy 1 that they diel not even take the trou- ' Lie to call for their salary, that it had Academy, , a school exclusively devot to be sent to them regularly, and that i ed to the education of white children) LB unuiiuim-iimauonuiai incy ever did a cent s worth of work in return. Ihe new Secretary intends also to put uujp io many otner aouses, sucii as clerks taking European trips with their families at government expenses, on anaginary inspections or business, and f absenting themselves from their lsk. sc.ine cies as much as Ihree- That bi'-U ihiugs should ever have been allov .d is ample confirmation, as the Macon Tdeyraph and Mcsscnn, , A A Jt 1 well says, of all the Democratic party j has charged as to the rank corruption i and profligacy with which that depart ment reeked under Radical manage ment. One of the strong eat reasons the Radicals have for preventing the Democracy from taking possession of the government is the light they will let ha on the dark places at Washing ton. We expect that work to com mence on the 5th of llarch, 1877, but we fear the Radicals will steal or burn most of the records before they take flight. They dare not let the people know even half the iniquity they have practised ii?oe they stole into power -in 1861. J INDEPENDENT TABMF.BS' CANDIDAIESJINDTIIE GHANC EKS. Mr. E. C. Davidson, late a Granger Lecturer, having announced himself as " an independent farmers' candi date for Congress," in opposition to Mr. Ashe, the Grangers in Anscn county have "gone for him" in a series of resolutions, one of which is as follows: 3d. That we regret and condemn the steps taken bv our brother and Lec turer, E. C. Davidson, in announcing himself a farmer's candidate for Con gress, as we think his course is calcu lated to damage our order, and that we will not support him. The publication of the above reso lution has brought Mr. Davidson out in a card, in which he. repudiates the idea that he desires to be thought a Granger candidate, lie says: I have not been announced as a can didate upon the idea of securing the support of the Patrons of Husbandry as a Granger, and claim no influence on that ground whatever. Therefore the resolutions above cited have done me great injustice, since the Grange has i;o responsibility in connection with my announcement- as a Farmer s Candidate, being a tiller of the soil mvself'. 1 claim not, nor do T ask, the support of Grangers upon the ground of Grange fellowship, and utterly re pudiate any idea of so impressing the public mind as to lead it to conclude that I am a candidate of the "P of II.' We are glad that the Grangers have thus set the seal of their disapproba tion upon the course pursued by Mr. Davidson in so far as it tended to drag their order into opposition to the 110m- iuess of the only party that is battling j for the good ot the country, inde pendent candidates need hope nothing from the Grangers. BKMiHM-n-t-MBMB-a-Btini A OIi'EI5ISAStJ5 E JCO.n WS'Vr i'tuvr. The annual meeting of graduates of the Academy takes place at West Point on tho Thursday before the 17th of June when that day is not Thursday. This was done for the reason that the graduates wished to connect the day of their annual meeting with the anni versary of the Rattle of Bunker Hill. They wi.died also to correct it with the Academic arrangements for the graduating clashes. Hence they se lected the Thursday before the 17th June so that the anniversary of the Bunker Hill battle and the anniversary of their graduation might be brought a: nearly as possible together. In accordance with the custom, the annual meeting was held on Thursday last, at which addresses were deliv- ered and other proceedings had usual ou such occasions. There was one thing done, however, that was not usual to reunions of Fed- eral army ottkvrs, and thatouetoo marks an innovation upon a custom that may indeed be truly said to be more lion- ored in the breach than the observ- ance. What we refer to hi the fact that alter the roll call, under a sur-pen- sion of the rules, Professor Church, a graduate of the class of 1SJ3, intro duced by unanimous consent resolu tions inviting the attendance of gradu ates of Wedt Poinf.Sonthern as well as i Northern, at the Alumni dinner, which "iH take place next year at th? Aeade- j my on the 17th June the Centennial Anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hilh The resolutions were unani mously and enthusiastically adopted. i'nr.vr.FF atsjd pjjai:tici:. Our friends, the enemy, seem in much trouble over the Civil Rights Rill, which having passed the Senate of the United States, by a strict party vote, is now pending in the House of Representative-, where its passage is only a matter of time, as it secured nearly a two-thirds vote to put it upon its passage by a suspen sion of tlie rules. All the precepts of the North Carolina branch of the party are in opposition to the bill, but all their practices are in its favor. They resolve very formally against its iiiriit , uui mr in i j I'ut it nit in tercourse and association and in their political action, its worst and moat dis gusting provisions. The Convention which nominated of Richoionel, Robeson and a few oth- er counties have already proteslcel 1 But Cobb aud Thomas, Radical members of Congress, fever sage and have so votcel. I its pas- Ilugi'O counties gs New Hanover anel craven. and in the negre ConprresFioual Di tricta, colored men have been nomi- 1 nated to the exclusion of whites. Nay li sol red. That ihe recent election iu the city of Newbern of colored men as Trustees of tho Newbern i is an impudent outrage, nerpetraled ! by an overwhelming majority upon i the rights and i'eelinjrs of a minority against which we protest. lie solved, That we are earnestly op posed to the monstrositv, misnamed civil iuguts iiili," recently passed by the Radical majority iu th'e Senate of tho United States, and, we believe, should it become a law, that it will be attemled with tho most serious conse quences to both races, engendering strife and discord, and arousing the most bitter feelings of race and color. Juyoh-ed, I hat the negro element of the Radical party, by its resolu tions, speeches and nominations for office, has shown a Uotermination not to be misunderstood, that during the present campaign, and hereafter, color is to be the line and standard of quali fication for oJiiee, and we hereby ac eept the if-sue. RczrAvcd, That the teoet election of colored Trnstt.cs of the Newbern Academy; the nomination of John A, Hyman, colored, for Congress in this District; of Richard Tucker, colored, for State Senate from this county; and of John Good, colored, and Edward Hill, colored, as Representatives m the ijeislsture, are striking evidences of this determination jand of their in tention to carry it cut. At the recent Cmgreesicei Con- vention of the Radical party for the Fourth District, which met at Frank linton last week and nominated Mr. J . H. Headen, of Chatham, for Congress, one Chapin denounced the Hon. W. A. Smith, the present Radical Congress man from that District, amidst the overwhelming applause of the assem bled negroes, for having voted against taking up the Civil Rights Bill, as the man who had voted against giving them their rights. Smith replied that he would give the same vote again. This announcement was received with disfavor, and we suppose Major Smith could not receive the nomination for Constable from any negro constituen cy in the State. At a Radical Convention in Ran dolph county recently, a white county, in which a great many white men vote the Radical ticket, when dinner was announced tho landlord being only able to seat twenty persons, sealed them by tens of each color, thin carrying out. practically one of the odious fea tures of the bill in advance of its pass age. Thus we .see that while Colonel Dockery and Parson Sinclair, and the newspapers and some of the candi dates protest and write and declaim against the Civil Rights Rill, their political masters, the blacks, demand and are carrying out its provisions Let the party triumph this Summer, these convenient resolutions will be forgotten, or will prove powerless to stop the onward progress of negro social agressions. Wo shall have uc- g.:o enU1iify forced upon us at t point of the bayonet if need be. Let its smallest jrovi.-ions be disobeyed, or let some prepared scoundrel swear before one of Judge Bond's juries that some gentleman h".s violated its enact ments, and woe be unto the unfortu nate victim. White men of North Carolina d-j you Ike the prospect. Wo presume that' it may now be treated as an accomplished fact, that Judge Russell is a candidate for re election. It is true that no party and no individual, so far as we remember, has publicly, formally nominated Mr. Russell for Judge, but that is a matter of very small importance, for a secret nomination is as good as a public one in the Radical camp. All that it is necessary to do is for the right man to give the negroes their votes and the work is done. We cheerfully accept the situation, therefore, and taking j the resolution of the Convention at Magnolia on Tuesday, recognize Hn j Honor as a candidate, I We regard Judge Russell as the j weakest man that the Radicals could have put up, for of course, lie is m j reality their candidate. The pretence ' of not making a nomination is too ; thin to deceive the most unwary, i Plain people will not lie apt to see any : difference between 11 ;e auiH'iuu- men! i of the candidacy of a man by a vention and his "n--minatioi" ! oll- v the same body. That his oliiial life wiii be closely scrutinized and criticised, h must ex pect. It was the Judge aud hh party that introduced the elective judiciary system, and having made in voters, aud offered himself to us as a candi date, it is but natural we f.hould ex amine his record aud ;:ce, generally, what manner of man he is before we make up our minds how to vote. Has ?Jr. Rur.sc-ll been utspni in his conduct na a Judge? lla ; he meted on! justice to white and black, to Radical and ta Democrat alike '? Has lie been courteous and jmIi! his eh i!K-a:ior while on the 1 en h m to client and to counsel ? i ) hh view about fherieht of ncrroes to -- hit theatres and ho'els :d er p places accord with the views of the white people ef this district? 7dr. Rus sell must not complain if the pe;p!e discuss all these question.-1, have a right to discuss the n-r thev q U a i ni c tions of ail men who evme la f. as candidates. So far as we are concerned w. are clearly of the o !'ii ion to that be Mr. Rus-ie-elcet -d, time give 11 ought not aud we shall from time to our reasons for so thinking i! in-a i. u.tit.iiojs v a Fill ST niSiTItf "5'. Our Radical friends have been con gratulating themselves that Mr. Cobb, their candidate in the First Congres sional District, had borne down all op position to him in their own ranks. How little reason they Lave for thinking so, t;.3 letter published below will show. Dr. Ransom, it will be remem bered, was nominated by a bolter's Convention of thn Rjid'ent v.ro-t-..- in tlie ! -p-, -,. -t T. . , , , i i irst District. Dr. Raii'om ev;uently means to stanel his ground : Cor,r?.n;iA, N. C, May :jl, 1871. ('oi. ('. II". .viisoi, ' '' V ' urllfc : .Beak Sii: Yours received vester- ,irfV r t,'ank you for your kind ex- - i j 1 TT j " Al port Cobb. I know no such word as bl7 b. Pvi.rv i.oii'ti.t nv ,voi ,.,.! test have I yet surrendered or ever ex pect to. I am satisfied that I have en tercel into a just and honorable cause, and I intend to carry the war into Africa. 1 have, every county in the elistrict, honorable) au.l influential friends to support ine, to whom! never intend to prove recreant if . iall ic rcr -''"""" "V i i T " I am, with high respect, Your o'o't servant, E. Rax.-.ox. S.l.UIW. CflJS'a V. The Democratic Conservative Con vention for Sampson county met at Clinton, on Saturday, and nominated ! n . .ii - .i- j i l . 1 1 .riii .11 ii . r i . .i i -. j .j, oemae-Avawm xy . i.err. , lor the Uou.sc to.. Bryant and j Jas. ilcCaleb. ' . J I . C - ' ' I - lor Sarlh Barefoot. For lit -a inter W. L. Johnson. . ,- . l o, lUH. ot .the i,)c.'ior Court - , Daniel Culbreth. . For Corn ,i hjione r:; Owen reune'.t, Miles r. Owen, J. C. Hines, Jas. Tur lington, J. C. Williams. This ia a very strong ticket, and one upon which the party can and will thoroughly unite. We look for Samp son to give z manly and united verdict upon the issues cf the pr3?nt canvass. Jio Other fflifljeine 67er attained mill an unprecedented sale as Helmboid's Jluchu. Its name and fame areiznojrs eyery where, and it deserves its great rejmtation, for t ban un doubted merit. It is warranted to care Jj-li dia bases of the kidneys and the urinary oirfttia. fie ware of counter feits. Genuine hasproprle ! pi cBbi'jxis. aim u :en,y to mo reports , . - ., . , , ,T . " I circulated in your "cbmrn:: nity, sav, bo.at' .soinS tlie trouble they were m, when the sun shall rise iu thJ West ; 'TfT 1 moey yroucii, and with ! the perpetrators of the false report !liat Uon peeui!y quelled the dis- . , . . . . - . . .1 A. - AT - j I -'T 1111111.7 . l 1 I 11 t-l'l'll!--T I I I - ,v,.,t, ,, i,i- .,.... i iunmioe. xmrjis some ras?a'ifv at DEADi DEAD. The much talked of Civil Service Reform movement has finally come to great grief. Jealousy, favoritism and self interest were too strong not to throttle any scheme that smacked or pretended to smack of honesty. Beaut Butler we believe was the public ex ecutioner, or rather the coroner who sat upon the dead body. President Grant was the man who squeezed all the breath out of it. The idea of merit controlling appointments to of fice when the appointing power is lodged in Grant's hand is such a pal pable absurdity that the only wonder is that the humbug has not long ago been exploded. Tin' ;is v r imuisii ( .im. The jury in the Grant Parish (Louis iana) cases brought in a verdict last Monday. Cruikshank Hadnot and Irwin were found guilty of conspiracy, and recommended to the mercy of the court. Of the other charges they were found not guilty. The remainder were it-quitted. All the prisoners were again locked up, to bo tried on other indictments similar to those up on which they have just been tried. The penalty for conspiracy is not over $5,000 fine or ten years" imprisonment, ov both. The verdict excited mr.ch indignant comment in New Orleans and it was announced that an appeal had been taken, which was to be ar gued on the 20th. Of the three prisoners found giv ilty, i Wm. Cruikshank is a native of Geor- j gia, aged 51, with a wife and large ! fani'y : John ILidnot, a native Texas, 1 -i, -t i ..,,.1 ageei r, marneei unu. ;i .tun William Irwin, a native of Alabama, 1 .,,f rvtpd Mini b-" - ilVIt rt", ....-.v ......... v. : mg a lanniy. ! The defense admitted that two ol : those were in the tight, Hadnot and i Irwin. On the part of Cruikshauk, it i was r-howii that he entered Colfax alter the court house was burnt to save a ! negro's lii'e and left immediately.--' The other prisoners ail proved ah'iis. Tho ''" says : Tutiei Bradley, .f the. Supreme- Court, has promised j to return to the city, and iu cotisulta i tion with Judge Woods he;:r a motion ! in arrest of judgment, testing the ju risdiction of the United States Court and the constitutionality of the Ivu Klus act, so that this question can reach the Supreme Court."' The X u-x and ( 'om-ic r says a party of Northern capitalists have purchased the old theatre and circus lots in Meeting street, at d have made all the necessary arrangements for the con struction of a handsome block of stores and a new theatre. The new structure, is to be called "Continental Block," and by contract is to be ready for oc cupation by tho first of November. The cost of its construction will be not less than irll'.),(oi, more I'lan half of which sum has already been placed iu the bank subject to the order of the builder. Tiiim the Norl'jik V:riii;.;!;. HiIil. ill it-:-ilii:i. Following close upon den. O. O. Howard's recent successful attempt tat City Point i to put into practice his t revue views eu tue eoualitvot the races, v. similar effort was v some ot his jin-tt f .- in Hampton on Sunday night last. At the usual hour fur o'lei-liif r-i iviivs at. the Raiitist cuureii ei mo lovni, several young negro men c-nftred the church and sr-nir.l f heiye.c! ves in ti-e bndv of the tho town, several voting ; hon asougst the whites. The s- ie-.ii approached them and pohMy iu- iormcil them that the gaileiy was re- ! r-rveil lor colore:! people, re-questing them to remove thither. This thev positively refused to do, when an offi cer of the eh urc h advanced to them, and repealing the information ;ien I'V the ;eton, 1-eqTn'f ted them to take r.rat.i i:s the gallery. They again de clined, whereupon thev were uId they must leave the 1iom.c. 1 i. ey o'-eyi disgu-1 ! Li.cw ti 1 a-; of ; giving vent audibly to their t heir t reutmenf. Nov.", these ; fivii-;: w- 1 rules of this church, ns v.el others in Hampton. Thev 1 ile at a place v.i reserved for colored pie. To which they were v, t Icomed, unless they were willing to oc.-upy allot cd space their presence w a wi'lifed. And yet, in the face i this, thev thrust theniselve;; iu fb ii t a place where thev hiu-w bcioivhum I the treatment they would experience. It was sheer impudence, and deserved severer punishment than it received. These fellows are said and believed to pupils of the Normal School at this place, and have only imitated f he ex-; ample rot them by their special bend amiparrou, jiowaru. F ront tlie rortsiuuut.'i I'-nter; : s... Mor.E civil., lU'iiirs. Yesterday morning while the steamer Hampton was on her way to this city, and after she hael left Hampton, three imgroes who got on at that place, at tempted to procure first-class tickets to this cty. They Were refused, but afterwords, it is thought, through the instrumentality of some white person, obtained them anel took their seats in tho saloon. The mate saw them there and ordered them euit, but they refus ed to obey, and the captain's orders to this eif 'ct were alike disregarded, and one of the negroes struck his hand with which lie was waving them toward the door. Seeing that moral suasion was cf r.o use, Capr. Scher iiKrhorn knocked his assa'lant down aud kicked him down stairs, the other two following him. On the lower deck the three negroes were joined by others, and a genera! melee ensued, th tain and mate being assailed the bottom of these frequent attempts at forcing social equality, aud our rail- road and steambeat oiheials and hotel iieepers cannot be too much on the alert. Eil:licr;2t Ji:i:it!c'Siiic in Sea loth. Since ihe. beginning of the year eliptheria ha been cjuelercie in this and adjacent cities, the mortality from till Vl!l!?tllv ll-H-lnT 1 ."..II I... - - .......... r .......... ' v . J ' . ' ' . v til, ill a,,i.t !., n period last year. 'I he Ileal h Board's i itui-iuiK-i, j.oo, ovj-j jit -ioii.-j :ieu oi ! diptheria, at'aini;t 208 in tho corits- podding period of 1872 "7.J. BJiVoiciaus with whom a itui re- poi ter conversen yesterday agree in caking tho disease epidemic. They , aitriou.e it to tue long ooutluuc-tl liu- I form civil, but thoy are in their essen niidity of the atmosphere. They tie- i tial luiuctr-le. military. Thev urn serine tue maiaeiy as a pustulous ul- i tfi.iuuii oi uuy mucous memoianc. rprai ion t it i The point in which it is usually de-! v?icped is the throat, w1Cre it foims a false membrane, and unless checked in time, thio causes a closing of the air passages. j I Among the eases ot death List week i . T . v wi -''c late Lewis Benjamin, of Canal street j and Broadway. i J JiysiCians b!b r c.orcf.rninsr the lre.'tiient of tho disease, but alt agree the traditions, the feelings, the inter that as yet there ia no specific remedy ' ests, aud the free suffrages of the peo for it. Some prescribe an inhalation j pie, white and black, as if they were of lime vapor, or warm vapor and outside the limits of those States, strong doses of tincture of chloride of i Wlioro ia tho imblie sentiment which iron and sulphate of quinine; others ! prefer an application ed' nitrate of sil ver to the ulcerated purl; still, others favor a disinfectant application, such as carbolic acid or permanganate of paiiil:. Alcoholic stimulants are 'strongly rec-staiiiozisd, as the elisetise i's always accompani'id vitn a;:tom3 .erhaustion. A' liquid diet beef tea or twh c'2.m. is generally -uaed.-r-New York ' &un. ' . " 1 " COLONEL I. AM All'S SPEECH ExtrarU from tite Speech of Col. Lamar, ' rl li-i ppi, lDelivered in I lie House ul ttepresentatives at Wasliin-'toii, on Monday, tlie -lit oi .In tit', IS? I. i- Mr. Speaker, in 1S50 the Presidet tial t-lectioi), for the first time in the history of this country, placed the Federal Government iu the control of a party whose organization, candi dates and voters were all confined to one section of the Union, and ani matcel by a common sentiment of hos tility ty the slavery institutions of the other fection, whose leadiug policy was not only to exclude those institu tions from the Territories, but also to use the powers of the Federal Govern ment to the extent tf their constitu tional authority to effect their ex tinction in the States throughout the Union. There is no proposition better settled than that the overthrow of the civil and domestic institutions of a people ag inst their will, by a power external and paramount to their own, is, in effect, the subjugation and conquest- of that people. To the Southern people, therefore, was presented one of two alternatives: eituer to submit to the overthrow of their civil and politi cal institutions, or to change their po litical reiations. Early in 1801 seven of those States, by tho action cf the people thereof, withdrew from the Federal Union, and by the same authority cs'ablislied a common government, styled the Confederate States of America. With this controversy between the two sections about the relations of race and labor, other questions arose, among which was the one relating to the reserved powers of the several States, and their relations to the Fed eral authority. Ono school asserted the doctrine of State sovereignty, and, as an incident, its right to secede from the Union. The other theory is that the nation, the United States, is the sole indivisible sovereign, and that the lYderal liovernmeiit is cnaiged with ihe duty ef using all its powers to maintain the national integrity and unity of the national domain. This last question antedated tho foundation of our Government and remained un settled till 1S05, when it was adjudi cated by a tribunal from which there is no appeal. Such were the issues staked on the result of the war. Sir, can it be said that iu such a conflict (in which ques tions as old as the Government hud passed from theory into fact) between two great sectional organizations, whose armies, larger than those of the first Napoleon, stretching their line cf battle across tho continent and main taining a war of four loug years of al ternate victory and defeat, the crime of treason could attach to eithtr bel ligerent ? I do nut mean the techni cal treason that the fortunes of war give you the power to record against the southern people, but the moral guilt that lies in treasonable intent i They certainly did not conspire or at tempt to subvert your form of govern ment or to destroy your Constitution or to depose your rulers. When their secession was consummated they left the United States the United States still, a great and powerful uation, with its extended sea-coast, its teernino population, its vast extent of territory, j its mechanic arts, its commerce, its j Constitution safe, its laws unobstruct- I ed, its administration unembarrassed, ' I :i : . i.v..i I ui.. . l l . ; lis ai , l ruriiii, oiun., unu 10- i cal with unimpaired authority. i)j -t ., .. not say, then, that wo attempted to ri.nieiit; tor there ! overtnrow veear Gov it stood, alter we lef L you, one of the greatest ami most powerful nationali ties upon the lace oi the earth. j There was no dispute between the i two sections about th form of goveni- ' I .-.. '.-l. . !.. i '. . o .w . ... ' to the i.mieh.i. s of American f n-edom! was tU fountain at which Ixith m c- tioiis drank in inspiration lor the : tn-i-endoiis war which they maintained. nd when that war eiosi d with defeat f r the South atid victory for the Nortl the controversy was closed also. The een to e:n- result of thjt victory has 1 body in tie- t'ouetitutioii two ;reat principles the h-eal indissolubility f the American Union and the univer sality ef human freedom on the Ameti can cold ilient. But .ir, the North was not satisfied with these reauif.-i. Holding that hav ing plucked tho black race from the shelter as well as the restraints of ex isting institutions, protection to that race to an imperative duty; an. 1 hrld- :ng tnat thev wcrj further bound to ! foitifv th. results of the war aj'aiiist further disturbance and reaction into the organic law of the Bepublic, they adopted the thirteenth amendment, which was followed in quick aud logi cal succession by the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, for stricter en forcement of which were superadded your reconstruction measures, whose pitiless provisions sunk tho iron deep 1 mto the soul of the Southern people'. 1 reter to tfiem not to complain or to ! arraign your policy, out simply to re- mind you how completely and rfi'ectu- ally the logical results of the war have been interfuseel in the very elements of your national life. You have never comprehended how entirely the South realized that the fate of her labeir sys tem and her creed of separate State sovereignty were staked upon the issues of the war. ITom the day of the surrender of her armies to the present moment, in no part of her vast territory has one single hand of insur rection been raised against the author ity of the American Union. Nowhere in the limits of your great empire has the national supremacy been main tained with such absolute omnipo tence, is not thih fact of itself, un preceedented in tiio annals of civil war, occurring among a brave people, a sufficient gage of theur fealty to your Constitution and laws? Have they not abidcei in good faflh by your poli cies as. you have successively establish- ed them? ; i- By persistent misrepresentation a majority in Congress was maele to be lieve that the presence of the Uniteel States Armv would be ueccssarv not. merely to put these governments in loree, out to keep them m operation and to keep them rrom being snatched away and worked to the oppression and ruin of the black race and tho few loyal men who wcie there attempting to proteet their rights. Thus was in troeluccd into those so-calleel recon struction civil governments the Fede ral military as an operative anel pre dominant principle. Thus, with a quick, sudden, and violent hand, these i men tore tho two races asunder and j hurled oue in violent antagonism upon tho other, and to this elay.the negro , massed into an organization hostile to i the whites is an instrument nf nban. lute power in the hands of these men. These governments are in external uc-:-:e. military, xnev are called local governments, but in reality tnev aro Aeiler.il fTP.ntir.. agencies. Not ono of them eman ates from the uncontrolled will of the people, white or black; not one which rests noon the electivo nrineinle in its purity. They have been aptly styled by a distinguished statesman and jurist 1U iiBaia.-i'i'i, ' nun, v. r. xiarnss.) State governments without States, without ioiular constituencipp. VcX thev a;e as comnletelv insii1it-l fmr.i guides and enlightens those to whom is eotifj.h'il the coneluct of public af fairs ? Where is the moral judgement of a virtuous people to which they are amenable j Where is the moral indig nation which fidis like the scathing lightning upon thetlelinquent or guilty public officer '? Sir, that c. ass and race in whia recicie thece p;reat moral agen cies is prostrated, their ir.teresis. fcceir prosperity j eopa cdized, . their protests J unheeded, and every murmur of dis content and every effort to throw off their oppressions misrepresented here as originating in the spirit which in augurated the rebellion. S?ir, the state ment that these Southern governments have no popular constituencies is true, but they nevertheless have a consti tuency to whom they bear a responsi bibty inexorable as death, It is limit ed to the one point of keeping the State true and faithful to the Adminis tration ; all else is boundless license. That constituency is here in Washing ton; its heart pulsates in the White House. There is its intelligence and there is its iron wilL I do exagerate when I - say that every one of these governments depends, every moment of their existence, upon the will of the President. That will makes and un makes them. A short proclamation backed by one company decides who is to be Governor f Arkansas. A tel egram settles the civil magistracy of Texas. A brief order to a general in New Orleans wrests a State gavern ment from the people of Louisiana and vests its control in the creatures of the Administration. Sir, even conceding that tho decision in one or two of these cases accorded with the rights of the jieople, there stands tho startling fact that all the rights, peace, and security of those people hang upon the preca rious tenure of one man's will or ca price. Is it wouderfui that beneath the chill shadow of such a colossal des potism the hope and enterprise aud freedom of that people should wither and die ? I repeat, your policy of securing the results of the war has reached its con summation. There is no class of people in this country who have more liberty and who are more secure from the assaults of enemies than the colored people of the South. Every man, woman and child of them can do precisely as thev like without the slightest restraints from tho whites. Every black man of twenty-one years possesses a vote ami exercises the same right and the same individual freedom as the wealthiest aud proud est white man in America. There not a trace of prlvUvrjc throuyhout the land. Morally, mentally, politically, negro liberty is universal, thorough, and complete, aud their equality be fore the law is without an exception. To go'further is to make it aprivileged race. Would it not bo wise auel statesman-like to pause before you push your policy to further extremes, and see the results of it as time will dis close them ? But, sir, is it true that in the estab hsbment of tho Union and the en franchisement of the black men American statesmanship has ex hausted its resources and absolved itself from all obligations grow ing out of the tremendous con flicts through which the country has passed ? Is no regard to be had for the white population in these South ern States, to the seven million men iu whose veins run the blood of the races that uphold the Christianity and civili zation of the wcrld ; a population in which reside the intellectual culture, the moral strength, the material in terests, the skilled labor, the useful capital of that entire section, as well as its political experience; a population which, whatever heated partisans may say of it, has iu every period of your country's history furnished its due proportion of Presidents for the Fed eral Republic, ministers in your cab- "..I. 1 l tueis, juoges upon your oencn, states- ; men iu your national legislatures, I generals in your armies, and troops of I in surpassed bravery upon your battle ! fields; a population whose leaders I guided your country for sixty out of j seventy years of her existence, and j only fifteen years ago surrendered her to y nr con t red, to use the hiuguago of i one ;f them upon that occasion, "with j out a stain upon her houer, matchless in Iter glory, incalculable in her strength, the pride and admiration of the world." Sir, the inevitable effect, if not tlie j direct object, of such views will be to j ti x upon the (iovernmeut a policy that works tlie degradation, humiliation. wretchedness, and torture, for its own sake, of the southern people. But I believe, sir, that this spirit is passing away even from the minds of my friends on the other side. It is con demned by tlie spirit of the age. Yon can find no sanction for it in tlie ethics e.f Christian or American statesman ship. And the authors of the senti ments might have learned even a no bhr lesson from the al!tgeries of heathen mythology. When Prome theus was bound to the reick it was not an eagle, the proud bird of Jove, but a vulture that buried its beak in his writhing frame. This is not the spirit which animated jour northern people to war upon the South, nor was it the spirit that fired your brave men to follow JlcCiellan and Grant and Sherman. Sir, the issues of that war are well detineel. The people of the South be lieveel that if the States of this Union whose institutions were so discordant that they eouhl not live together un der a common government, "part slave and part free," could elivide into two great American republics, each pursuing its own destiny, its freedom, its pre-gress, anel the greatness of its own people, without interfering with the other, it won Id furnish the grand est example and the grandest argu ment in favor of free institutions th it the worlel had ever seen. The Nenth believed that such separation was eleath to the Americanism of govern rnent ; that it was elissolution to the whole system, and it proclaimed anel waged war to give effect to the princi ple that the people of each State and every section must pursue their free dom anel their greatness and their glory only in tho freedom anel great ness and glory of the American Repub lic, which woulel make them freer and greater anel more glorious than they ODiilel become in two separate confed eracies. And the whole theory upem which your wax was fought was that it was as much for the gooel of the Southern people to tail in their cause ot secession as i was for the good of tho Northern peo- iho to succeed in the cause of the Union. If this be not so, then you must ad mit you were waging a war of aggres sion upon tho Southern people to bring them back into the Union for your own sectional aggrandizement, for then the terms "constitutional lib erty" anel "American Union" woulel be empty indeed. Assuming that it is your elesire anel your aim, having brought us back into the Union, to give to the Southern people the bless ings of good and honest government, to secure to them the prosperity and well-being that ought to be enjoyed in tins great Lmion.l ask you, not by way '. cv.ii.'lai;.'. 1 a: k ion l-.'S such a des.ro been realized or such an aim been attained in that unhappy country? I tlo not propose here to enter upon any elctailed elescripticn of the condi tion of our people. I shall do so if the opportunity occurs on some future occasion. I prefer to-day to take the language of a Northern gentleman, not because ho is Northern, nor because he is Republican, but because when I first read his words they struck me as solid and thoughtful and wise, exhib iting a maturity of judgment aud a tremulous anxiety for the welfare of his country which I did not expect ii oni m yot:i.: i ? : "For tho last lew years the infamy and disgrace of certain Southern State governments have been constantly on the increase. There have been corrupt legislators and corrupt legislation. There have been double Legislatures, double Governors, double Represen tatives in this House, and double Senators year by year in many States. There have been bad men in these States who have bought power by wholesale bribery, and have enriched themselves at the expense of the peo ple by peculation or open-handed rob- bery. Corruption and anarchy have occupied and possessed these unfor tunate states. - - - .- '.' Were not this so, the wrongs, the neurp&tions, and the undisguised tyr anny so forcibly depicted in the record I have just read were not possible. That which has happened to Louisi ana, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama and South Carolina originates iu an abuse of power that is applicable to Massa chusetts, New York or Ohio The appeal I make for myown unfortunate section I make for the entire people of the United States. In what I have said I mean no assault upon the char acter of the President. It is the sys tem against which I protest, a system which is not nierely centralizing all powers in the General Government, but is also permitting one department to usurp and hold them, to the ntter rnin of the other two. I deplore the acquiescence of Congress in these usurpations. There are in our Constitution checks upon presidential power and ample and efficient means by which Congress can protect the States and people against the unconstitutional action of executive administration. It is only the consent of Congress that makes it possible for the will of one man to wipe out all State author ity, auel with that authority all vestige of free government. (i e ii. liooilS Iteplv tm (;etiorn.l Jolicston" IVanative. Geneial Hood has published in the New Orleans Times article No. 2 of his replv to General Joe Johnston's strictures upon his conduct and we regret that our columns just now are so crowded that we cannot publish it in full. The article concludes as follows: As I retrace all these facts and cir cumstances, I cannot think General Johnston in earnest when he says that he intended or desireei to light at the different points mentioneel; moreover, it must seem strange to my comrades of the Virginian army that I, who hael always been ready and willing to elo my duty, should undergo so complete a change under General Johnston dur ing the last year of the war. In truth, I hael no wise altered in my nature, and I will add that no general ever re ceived more thorough co-operatioii of his corps commanders than tlid Gen. Johnston during his campaign from Dalton to Atlanta. He was on cordial terms with each of us, and it should be borne in mind that the animus elis played toward Gen. Folk anel myself never became apparent till after I was assigned to the command of the army of Tennessee, and the noble Polk had been laid in his grave nigh two months. Gen. Johnston was then residing in Macon, Ga., where he wrote his offi cial report in which were brought for- warel for the first time these unjust I and ungenerous accusations. Iff was i so little to be relied upon, ami had j given cause for complaint t-uccessively ! at Itesaca anel Cassville, why elid he entrust to me the importaut operations at New Hope Church, from which it was supposeel a general engagement might ensue? Ihe truth is, he had no real cause of complaint, and I re iterate he had the full co-operation ef his Lieutenants. No matter what the views held by them as to Lis mode, of handling an army, they were all sutli- ; cientlv cood solditrs to foretro making a remark even in the presence of one of their own staff officers, which rnitrht tend to elestroy confidence in their chief. I will give a historical fact, illustra tive of this spirit of discretion and for bearance, which will be peculiarly in teresting as it has never, to my knowl edge, been maele public: Just before leaving New Hope Church, his three corps commanders were assembled aleme at night in his tiuarters then a little cabin near the church when Gen. Johnston suggest ed Macon as being the place to fall back upon. If I remember rightly, this suggestion was receiveel in silence, j fer 1 cannot recall the reply of any one of us at the moment; 1 well remember, however,afte.r we had left the presence of Gen. Johnston, and were riding through the daikuess of tho night to our respective headejuarters,the unani mous sentiment expressed on this oc casion. It was te this effect: "In the name of Heaven what is to become of us ? Here we are with the depots for re'cruits elraiueel from Mobile to Rich mond, all the troops having been semt either to us or to General Lee, in Vir ginia; our army fifty or sixty miles from Dalton, no general battle fought, and our commander talking of Macon, one hunelred miles beyond Atlanta, as being the place to fall back upon." This gloomy outlook brought about the comparison touching our losses up to that time, ami to which I referred in my first reply. We linally separatee! and each rode oh" to his own teut;how soever dispirited, I am eoutkleut not one of us so far lost sight of that co operation so necessary in time of war, as to even mention to any one Gen. Johnston's contemplateei retreat to Macon. Shortly thereafter we found our selves at Kenuesaw Mountain, the last stronghold of the many piney rielges passed over elm ing our retreat. It was to tho left of this place, ou Pine Mountain, that we lost the brave and magnanimous Polk, and with him much of the history of this remarkable campaign. We remained some thirty days at Kenuesaw Mountain, when Sherman resorted to what ho hael learned from experience would prove effective: he sent a few troops to make a rumbling sounel in our rear, anel we foleled up our tents as usual, uneler strict orelers, to make no noise, and under cover of elarkness marchetl to and across the Chattahoochee upon the flat plains of Georgia. After our passage of this river, on the night of the 9th of July, Sherman moved rapidly to the eastward anel across the Chattahoochee, some tlh tanee above Pcachtree creek. He formed a line parallel to this creek, with his right on the river, aud ap proacheel Atlanta from the north, whilst Schofield and Mcl'hcrson, on the left, marched rapidly in the direc tion of Decatur, to destroy tho rail road to Augusta. See map, page 317. General Johnston says, pages 348-'-l'J-'oO: "On the 17th of May General Wheeler reported that the whole Fed eral army had urnsscel the Chattahoo chee. :i- The following tele gram was received from Gaueral Cooper, date el July 17th: Lieuteuant General J. B. Hood has been commis sioned to the temporary rank of Gcu eral, under the late law of Congress. I am directed by the Secretary of War to inform you that, us you have failed to arrest the advance of the enemy to the vicinity of Atlanta, far ia the interior of Georgia, and express no confidence that 3011 can elef eat or repel i him, you are hereby relieved from the i command of the 'Army anel Depart 'opart- ment of Tennessee, which jou will im- ! mediately turn over to General Hooeh I General llood camo to my ! quarters early on the morning of the loth, and remameel there during the day. Intellierence pooa camo fiTrn Major General Wheeler that the Fetle- i rad army was marching toward Atlan- ta. and at General Hood s earnest re-. quest I continued to give orders through Brigatlier General Mack-ill, chief of staff, until sunset." Ahtmt 11 o'clock p, m., on the night of the 3 7lh, I receiveel a telegram from the War Office ordering me to assume com mand of the army. This totally unex pected order so overwhelmed me with a sense of the responsibility thereto attached that I remained in d-fw-p thought throughout Jthe night. Re fore day I starteel for General John ston's headquarters, a short distance from which I met Lieutenant-General A. P. Stewart, one of mv division commanders, who had been recom mended by me and recently promoted to the rank of Corps Commander, to replace General Polk. We rode on together to Gen. John ston's quarter's, which we reacheei a short time after dawn. I at once sought Gen. Johnston, and inquired into tue cause of this order. Jfen plietl that lie did not know; the Presi dent had seen lit to relieve him. 1 then insisted that he should pocket that elispatch, leave me in command tf my corps, and light the battle for At lanta at the same time tlireeting his attention to the approach ef General Sherman; alleging that the enemy un less checked would in a few days cap ture the city. To this appeal "he re plied that the President had seen fit to relieve him, and it would have so lo be, unless the order was countermand ed. Lieutenant Generals Hardee and Stewort then joined me ia a telegram to the President, requesting that the oreler for the removal of General Johnston be postponed, at least till the fate of Atlanta was decided. The following extracts from a le-tter of Lieutenant General A. P. Stewart will show that I was desirous that General Johnston should remain in command: St. Lolus, August 7, 1S72. General J. Ji. Jfocd: My Deau Gexekai. Your letter of the 25th ultimo was received some days since, anel I avail myself of the first opportunity to answer it. You ask me to send v on "a state ment of the facts as you (I) under stand them, of the circumstances at tending the removal of General J. E. Johnston from the command of cur army in Georgia in 1&G1, aud your ap appointment to succeed him.'' It gives me pleasure to comply with your request. Monday morning (July 18), you will remember, we met about sunrise in the road near Johnston's headquarters, and I then informed you of the object of seeking an interview, and that was that we should all three unite in an effort to prevail o:i General Johnston to withhold the oreler anel retain com mand of the army until the impcneling battle should have been fought. I can bear witness to the reaeliness with which you concurred. We went to gether to Johnston's quarters, and you ami lie liael a Ion with each other. I.UllltItillUII which I did not hear. At the close of it. however. you aud Gen. Hardee and I went into tho Adjutant General's office anel to gether prepared a telegram to the President, btating that in our judg ment it was tlangerous to change com manders at that juncture, anel r, quest ing him to recall the order rcmoviug Johnston, at least until the fate of At lanta shoulel be el eci tied. That was tho substance; cannot remember the language. An answer was receiveel that afternoon from the President de clining to comply with our request or suggestion, on the ground that the or der having been issued, it would do more harm than good to recall or sus penel it. ;: Very sincerely, jours, Alex. P. SrtiWAKT, Late Lieut. General C. S. Army. I here give the President's answer to j i RVhmonu, July IS, bsiji. yo ,icrurs jool, Jt'ird't (nul Sfr tract Your telegram of this date received. A change of commanders under exist ing circumstances was regarded as ?o objectionable that 1 only ucccpted it as the alternative of eonf mimic a ioli- ! j "hic.i had proved disastrous. Re- Iuetanee to make the change, induced i me to nd a telegram of inquiry to the commaneling general on theldth inst. Jlis reply but confirmed previ ous apprehensions. There can be but one epiestiou which you and 1 can en tertain, that is, what will best pro mote the public good ? and to each of you I confidently look for the sacrifice of every personal consideral ion in con flict with that object. The order has been executed, and I cannot suspend it without making the case worse than it was before the order was issued. JeffiiHsox Davis. After the receipt of the above tele gram, I returned to Gen. Johnston's room alone, and urged him, for the gooel of the country, to pocket all the eorrespomlence, remain iu commanel and tight for Atlanta, as Sherman was at the very gates of the city. To this, my seconel appeal, he made about the same reply as in the first instance. I then referred to the great embarrass ment of the position in which I hael been placed, saying that I elid not even know the position of the two remain ing corps of the ai my. With all the earnestness of which man is capable, I besought him, if he woulel, under no circumstances, retain command and tight the bat tie for At lanta, to remain with me, at least, and give me the benefit of his counsel, whilst I determinetl the issue. My earnest manner must have impressed him, as finally, with a tear of emotion gathering in his eye, he gave me tlie promise that after riding to Atlanta, he would return that evening. Al though our relations were the same they had been throughout the cam paign, frienelly and cordial, he not only faileel to comp.'y with his prom ise, but, without a worel of explanation or apology, left that evening for Ma con, Ga. J. B. IIoou. OIU 1B1I.1.SEIOKO toiti:ii'o- DKci:. Hillseoko, June l.'ih, 1S74. Editors of the Daily Journal: I see by your paper of the 10th that you are in the full enjoyment of the hot spell too. It has been a week to remember here, the mercury running up to U( and SJ8 iu the shade. The only advantage we can claim over you, is in tue nne character ot the nights. We tlo always rise iu the morning re fresh tl anel invigorateel against another day's battle with the solar heat.for our nights aro almost always deliciously cool, anel the atmosphere so absolute ly sweet and pure that miasma anel the dreatl of exposure never enter the imagination. The hot weather i:t acting finely on the wheat crop, which is ripening rapielly anel soundly. There is little complaint of disease, except rust on the blades, which is not much regarei eel. Harvesting has already begun, anel the crop, it is thought will be rather above the average. Speaking of crops calls to mind tho very suc cessful enterprise of J ames Norwood in the culture of the gra sses. He has between seventy-live and one hundred acres in clover, timothy, orchard grass anel Egyptian oats. Much of this is now being cut, and the yield is very nne. I have heard that from a portion of grass land already cut, balcel anel sent to market, he has received Sl.CCO. This land is all upland, and illus trates what I have always believeel, that the reel lanels ef Orange might be maele to rival in the productions of the dairy those of our namesake of New York; for wheie there is grass !a! 1 1 1 1 t 1 " . . . mere win do catue, ana wnere cattle. plenty of milk, butter and cheese, The fact is, that our people are or nave been too lazy to test their ad- 1 vantages, and it is rmlv bv tho n- I cessful examples of James Norwood, f and one or two others, that tln-v beo-in i --w. j,H II 1 10 a wane to tne Knowledge, that there are new source.,' of pros-:pfntv opened before them. The Senatorial Convention for tho counties of Orange. Caswell and P r sou rue t at Prospect Hill, in Caswell, on 'Tuesday, and, after a harmonious session, nominated Col. George Wil liamson, of Caswell, and Calvin E. Parish. ef Orange, as the two candi dates fr tho Senate'. The ticket is thought to be a giKd one, and will command a hearty support and draw out a full vote. The Radicals here have been un commonly busy, impudent and jubi lant for several weeks, and act and talk as if they had the world in a sling. They start all sorts of rumors and play upon the fears and crednUf party until one might u,,pJ - " - r the use. Jt is not such .is n, has been accustomed t. i r ia eon iity s tt right to expect. 5ur, it is nt r,,,!,,,, . Z one additional Radiod vole excV t -hat is gained by direct pmvhai The county will be stirred to the h,)t' tem before the campaign is ov r v you know what Orange can ,1 ' she is roused. 0 On the subject of accession to th Radical ranks, I will refer again t. th rumor e.f Col. Thomas Ratlin's ,!ff ' t.ion rut. ns n f;wt l.i.t :i . pres-ent, an unauthenticated a-sertion of the Radical leaders here. Tluti scrt i,wt positively, that Col.lt' lJ" B i, t,iau,H t consented, in v ritiny, to accept thP nomination of the Radical Convention of this Judicial district for JmW not as an independent -u,ulhhite hut as an out and out Raok al Kepi bt.icv It is certain that the quid imi,,'.a" were much exercised on Monday last 1 y the presence here of the notorious Jim Boyd, of Alamance, and tlieelns conferences during the tlay between him, Col. Ruflin ami members of the Radical Executive Committee fur thin county. And tho result of the con ference is as stated above. 'inoso who have known Col. Ruflin and recall all his antecedents aiul re member his pronounced acts and opin ions, are loth to credit a statement so discreditable to him. I will not ex press an opinion here for fear of do ing injustice. I can only say, that if, for him, it is unfortuuately true, his example will be without followers, and that he will stand alone in a deed, the shame of which will be the sole re ward, so far as his judicial aspirations are concerned. Yours, C. The Cttiiinlrii in Carturt!. Sandeks' Stoke, N. C, i June 1:2th, 1S71. s Dar Journal: The campaign in the fhirel Congressional District be gan here to-day. Hon. A. M. Wad tlell opened the eliscussiou in an hour's speech, portraying tlie gross r.suip:. tions and high-haneleel crimes orf"i nally and persistently practiced hv the, Radical party. He paid his resp. ci ; to tue civil rights bill, aud when Lo had done his white auelitory v,,.ie shockeel with the enormity of the. measure, ami shueldered in contem plating the elcgradatkm aimed in it at the white people of the South. His speech was listened to with marked attention, and next August WLito Oak and our whole county will be found true to the principles of the white man's party. Col. Neill McKay, Col. Waddeil's opponent, next took the stand and ad elresseel his hour's reply exciusivefjj to the vhitcs. Indeed, had his politics not been known, one would have taken him to be a Democrat of the "stricest sect," who had become disgusted with useless appeals to his black constitu ency, so chaste was his language ami so regardless was he of the negroes present. Col. McKay made a most re markable speech for a Republican candidate for Congress. He went back on Grant, denounced Sumner, and said, though ho was dead "he had elone an infernal sight of mischief." I quote his words. Upbraided Col. Waddell for his centennial speech iu Philadel phia, "a city whie-h eluring the late war expended such enormous sums te tail jngate the South and reduce her to degredaf ion." I again epiote lu'a1. He opposed Sumner's civil rights bill, out cnel out, as degrading to las race and color, ami iromised, if elect ed, to frown elown every such measure looking to the elegrekatiou of his color. Col. McKay's whole speech was ve hemently anti-Republican, and, if he is an honest man, is strongly persnadi-il in his own mind to be a Democrat. In deed, upon Col. Waddell's charge that he had made a Democratic speech lm said, "No woneier, 1 was an old lying Dem ocrat before the war." Will he repeat his speech made hero in Wilmington and other negro districts ? Let us t-ee. In that event he will lose the only ele meut from which he can hope support, f e . however strongly L-'emocratii- he may talk, he is the cauelidafe of the party whose corruption is a stench in the nostrils of every true North Caro linian and no good Conservative will vote for a Radical candidate. Oar cause is just, ami for our motto htb'n omnia viucif, our triumphant bantu r will be thrown to the breeze next August bearing upon its ample foU-i in leltirs of living light the death knell to Hadicalisni Victory ! Yours, Ac, White Oak. Ciiika:erlaii(I Coiml)' .11 u.1 tors. F.YKTTr.viT,nE, N. C, June 15, 1871. M sxrx Editors: The Cumberland County Convention was held here hit Saturelay, and was very largely at tended, and the greatest harmony and enthusiasm prevailed. Old Cumbi-r-land is now fully "armed and equip ped according to law" and I hazard nothing in saying that, with the excel lent ticket put out, Radicalism and social equality will receive a blew in August next, from which it will scarcely recover. Messis. Pool, Wad dell, Fuller, anel Pegram were ail en dorsee! anel a candiel anel undivided support pledgeel tfiem. It was cer tainly the most harmonious Con vention I ever saw, cemsidering there was a eliversity of opinions as te) who should be the nominees: everyboely acteel with charity one to ward another, antl the entire ti ket gives universal satisfaction. Messrc A. A. McKethaa and II. McNeill, members of the eld Board tf Com missioners wero renominated by accla mation, I ut as their associates were1 not eo fortunate. th?3 both dech'nid the nomination unless they should he elected by ballot, which was dom; aiitl three other excellent gentlemen :; rc put out with them. Mart down "ii your calendar my prediction that Cumberhuiel will give 7S majority t.r the! whole ticket. The following is the ticket: For House of Representatives M;iJ. J. C. McRae and J. Mel). Jessup. For Sheriff R. W. Hardie. For Register of Deeds W. S. Au trey. For Treasurer J. 1). Nott. For Clerk cf Superior Curt--A. McPherson, Jr. 1 or County Commissioners -v- MeKethan, C. Parker, H. 3I--V W. J. Kelly, W. H. Melviu, For Coroner Howard Massey. Yours, Vc, Consei-vathi:. ltALEItill. THE SWAZEY AND SELF Si l l'. THE BEGINNING OF THE EN!'- sl'EflAL, TO 1IIE JOi'IiNA!-; RALEisn, N. C, June U'. In the F. S. Circuit Court to , ho, Chief Justice Waits rendered tin .,, ihat to1 stock of iho Slat? in the N. C. 1:- tllll l.nil t ' . l v , uvie v-A I ' of the interest due on the Loinl-- hut I postponed the sale until the am ' I April, 1 S7.. so as to give the State th ; opportunity eif providing for the p:'.v' 1 ment of interest due j In the Self case, the hands of the 1 caiuiot be enjoined, in issed . that the funds in Public TieariiKi Tlie bill a: .bs W. The Neubcrnian says: Th rough a letter received from Tarloro last eve ning, we learn that the negro party ut Ederecombe nominated Mabson, negro, for the Senate, and Bunn, negro, and Godwin, paleface, for the House. Ihe other county offices were distributed about among the faithful, McXDabeJhe j CiMWJ.OiVr.nl ''-"'-'', T". tin ami Radicalism in the nsrent. Vf 1 you lelieve a word of it. 'j, mt dissatisfaction in nomo mrt of ! a.i.-L f-i.-vi lltflllUITil.. 1 - ' omiiut i it Mi T.. II. - Jr-!,: 7,
Wilmington Journal [1844-1895] (Wilmington, N.C.)
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