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Where an advertiser oontracta for the paper to be sent to him during the time his advertisement is In, the proprietor will only be responsible for the mailing of the paper to his ad dress. The Morning Star. BrWILUilS IX. BERNARD. WILMINGTON, N. C. Fr.iDAT Evening, Jtjly; ; 18;; 1884. EVENING EDITION. MANUFACTURING STATISTICS. . . - - - .. ' ? : .' We have before us a table, of the manufacturing statistics of the United States for 1S70 and for 1880. In 1870 there were 252,148 estab lishments, against 253,852 in 1880. There were 1,615,598 persons em ployed in 1870, against 2,019,035 in 1880 above sixteen years of age. -The value of manufactured products was $4,232,325,442 in 1870, against $5,369,579,191 in I8S0J The statis tics of all the States are given. By comparing the tables for the ten census years, it will be seen that the increase in products and hands em ployed is about 25 per cent., and yet there is an increase of less than 1 per cent, in the number of manufactur ing establishments. This is remark able. Why should there' be no in crease, or but little, in the number of establishments? The country has been plethoric a part of the time, and thousands of rich men were seeking investments. Why have they not sought to build more manufacturing establishments Can there be but one or two answers ? ' There were already erected far too many v establishments' in 1870, for healthy operations or what? This, and we believe it to be the correct answer: the market was far too Urn 'tied for the number of establish ments. Hence, those in Deration in 1870 only worked a part of the time, as may be seen by comparing the increase of 25 per cent, in their products in ten years. " The High War Tariff had put np a Chinese Wall,' and there was no market for the large surplus. ; ' What did this hedging in of Amer ican prod ucts cause? . The prices have been fluctuating, uncertain, un stable; over-production followed and thu constant stoppage of mills. JVlen of capital seeing and tinder standing these things hesitated and ; declined to put money in new enter prises. There has been some in- crease in the South, but an actual decrease in the North,'; Men who .. :are confident of the, f osterin 4nd r enriching character of a Protective ; system might study" the figures - with profit. .In keeping out ".foreign goods the Republican legislators have i succeeded admirably ; in keeping in ; v American products. ' Ma. Samuel J. Randall says of the work done at Chicago T . v ' r "I heartily indorse the National platform 'and candidate. The platform is in accord ; with my repeatedly expressed convictions on the tariff, and was cordially commend ed by me before . it was repotted and adopted." -- ; . ; - -o-i- -v, i . . We are glad he likes the platform and the ticket. .The platform is nn- '".2. dp.TRt.rww? Vtt 11 .'- v r rn -ce "r- form andTariff Reduction. Mr. -f RandaUledthe42Demccratioholters .;r;aa Tariff RefoW in the House ? v only a short time. ago. We rejoice -- . : ' that he has"pented himself." We hope Ka Will ctanA snnarelv bv the mean- " 3 . . . fT, " phipaco t)lat- I wg and intent of:tbo unicago v1" I form. But does Mr.Kanaaii give " anti-Reform twist in his interpreU- tion of its meaning? ; : Governor Cleveland has been 4uietly talking over his record a Governor of ' New York with a fe- pbrter of the New York Herald. He thus speaks plainly ia denial of charges that are urged against him. He said: , 1 "But to say that I have ever failed to em brace every opportunity offered me to ele tA thn rendition and subserve the real in terests of the workingman and. to protect j him in all his rights is false. Tbia, how- j .cr ia Knt otMotim of the readiness of some persons to make careless statements when engaged ift a struggle, and of others to accept such statements as facts instead of ascertaining the truth from the record. TTntlomtanri wna - T An nnt nrofeSS tO- be lDr f aUible on this or any other question, ouv ; W UUVtOlUUU tUV4 A t m t do claim that no sincere ana nones ww ingman can examine my record , and find from it anything which tends to show a lack of sympathy with and care for the true interests of those who labor. - I am sometimes afraid that at least a few of those who pose as friends of the workingmen do not keep themselves fully informed as to what is done for them by way of legisla- 1 a a n iiinetratinn T see it stated in the papers as coming from one who pro fesses to be especially the friend of the workingmen. and claiming to be a leader among them, that I vetoed a bill preventing contract labor by children in the reforma tories and institutions of the State. In point of fact, this bill was promptly signed by me, and no other measure touching this question has been presented to me." He says his record has -been mis represented and that falsehoods of a general, charaQter ; have been circu lated against him. The Democratic National : Committee will . circulate freely a fall record of Gov! Cleve land's Administration. BLAIXE'S LETTER ACCEPTANCE ; ( ; August a, Mk., July 15th, 1884. The Eon. John B. Henderson arul others of the Committee, etc., etc. Gentlkmkji: In accepting the nomina tion for the Presidency tendered me by the Republican National Convention, I'beg to express a deep sense of the honor which is conferred and ; of the duty which is im posed. I venture to accompany the accep tance with some observations upon the questidns involved in the contests-questions whose settlement may affect the future of the nation favorably or unfavorably for a long series of years. ". : In enumerating the issues upon .which the Republican Tarty appeals for popular support, the Convention has been singular ly explicit and felicitous. It has properly given ine leauiog posuiou w uie muuguw interests of the country as affected by the tariff on imports. On that question the two political parties are radically in con flict. Almost the first act of the Republi cans; when they came into power' in 1881, was the establishment of the principle of protection to American labor and to Amer ican capital. This principle the Republi: can party has ever, since steadily main tained, while on the other hand the Demo cratic party in Congress has for the last fifty years:. tersktentlj warred, upon Twice within that period our opponents have destroyed tariffs arranged for protec: tion, and since tb6 close of the civil war, whenever they have controlled the House of Representatives, hostile legislation has been attempted never more conspicuously than in iheir principal measure at the late session of Congress. ' THE TARIFF QUESTION. Revenue laws . are in their very nature subject to frequent revision in order that they may be adapted to changes and modi fications of trade. The Republican1 party is not contending for the permanency of any particular statute. The issue between the two parties does not have reference to a specific law. It is far broader and far deeper. It involves a principle of wide application and beneficent influence against a theory which we believe to be unsound in conception and inevitably hurtful in practice. In the many tariff revisions which have been necessary for the past twenty three years, or which may hereafter become necessary, the Republican - party has maintained and will maintain the poli cy of protection to American industry.' while our opponents insist upon a revision. which practiaally destroys mat policy. The issue is thus distinct, well defined and unavoidable. The pending election may determine the fate of protection for a gene ration. The orverthrow of the policy means a large and permanent reduction in the wages of the American laborer, besides involving the loss of . vast amounts of American ; capital invested in manufactu ring enterprises. The alueoftbe present revenue system to the people of the United States is not a matter of theory, and I shall submit no argument to sustain it. f I only invite attention to certain facts of official record, which seem to constitute a demon stration. : ! ' . In the . Census of . 1850 : an effort was made, for the first time in our history,- to obtain a valuation of all the property in the United States. The attempt was in large degree unsuccessful. Partly from "lack of time; partly from prejudice among many who thought the inquiries f orshadowed now scheme of taxation, the returns were incomplete and unsatisfactory. Little more was done than to consolidate the local val uation used in the States ; for : purposes . of assessment, and that, as every one knows, differs widely from a complete exhibit of all the property. ' ' In the Census of 1860,bowever,tbe work was done with, great thoroughness the distinction beween "assessed", value and "true": value being - carefully observed. The grand result was that the "true value" of all the property m the Slates ' and Terri tories (excluding slaves) amounted to f our-t teen thousand millions of dollars ($14,000, 000.000.) This aggregate was the net re sult of the labor and the savings of all the ' people within the area of the United States from the time the first British colonist landed in 1607 down to the year 1860, It represented the fruit "ci the toil of two hundred and fifty-years, -.v - r v After 1860 the business of this country was encouraged and developed by a Pro tective TarifL At the end of twenty years the total property of the United States, as, returned by the Census of 1880, amounted to the enormous aggregate of forty-four thousend millions of dollars ($44,000,000, 000.) This great; result was attained, not withstanding ther fact that countless mil lions had in the interval been wasted, in th& progress of a bloody war. It thus appears that ' while our j Population between iRfift and 1880 increased sixty per cent, the ag gregate property oi the country increased two hundred and fourteen per cent show ing a vastly enhanced wealth per capita I tons of dollars ($30,000,000,000) has been amwug iae peopie. Anirty tnousana mil added during these twenty years to the per- uiaucui. nouui OI.IOO jMauon. - These.results are. regarded by the Older Nations of the world as phenomenaL That our country should surmount the peril and the cost of a gigantic war and for an en tire period of twenty years make an aver age gain to it wealth of one hundred and twenty-five million dollars per month sur passes the. experience of all other Nations, ancient or modern. ji.ven uieuppwucuw of tb-e present Revenue system do not pre tondtiattat whole history of eivUizatidn. anv narallelcan be found to the material progress at the United States, since the ac cession of the llepublican party t6 'power, ; The period between 1860 and to-day has not been.one .ot " material .prospeniyoniy. At no time inthe history-of "the-United States has there been such progress moral and philanthropic field. Reiigiois and charitableinsumuon. sehoolftjemma: ries and colleees, have been vfounded ' an endowedfar more geherously than at any previous time in our history, weaies ana more varied relAernas peenexenaeg to man suflering and the entire progress of the country in wealth?" has been accom panied and dignified by a broadening;. and elevation of our National character as a people.'";'-?''--5'--- ,ri f '" :'rT i"'' -Our opponents Jnd. tbatr our Revenue system produces a surplus, But they should not forget that the law has given a specific purpose to which all of fn surplus is profit ably and honorably applied the .reduction of .tbe Public debt and the consequent relief ofthe burden ortaxation. N dollar has bean wasted, nd theh only extravagance with which the' party stands charged is ithe generous pensioning of soldiers, sailors and their families ah extravagance which ett bodies the highest form of justice in the te. co&rnition and navment of a sacred deb. When reduction of taxation is to bts made, the Republican party can be trusted to ac; complish it in such form as will most effect tively aid the industries of the Nation. . : OUR FOBEIQN COajMEHCIL, . , A frequent accusation by our opponents is that the Foreign Commerce of the coun try has steadily decayed under the influence of the Protective Tariff, r In this way they seek to array the ixnport interest against the Republican party.' . It is a common and yet radical error to confound the commerce 6f the country with its carrying Urade-ran er ror often committed innocently and someT times designedly but an error so gross that it does not distinguish between the ship and the cargo. 'Foreign commerce - represents 'the: experts Andtimports of -a country re gardless of the nationality of the vessel that may carry ine commoaities oi -exenange. Our carrying trade lias for obvious causes suffered many discouragements since I860, but our foreign commerce has in the same period steadily and prodigiously Increased increased indeed at a 'ate and to an amount which, absolutely dwarf all previ ous developments of our trade beyond the sea.' From 1860 to the present time the Foreign Commerce of the United 8tates, (divided, with approximate equality, be tween exports, and imports,) reached, the astounding aggregate of twenty-four thou sand millions of dollars ($24,000,000,000). The balance in this vast commerce inclined in .our favor, bur it would have been much larger if our. trade with the countries of America elsewhere referred to, had been more wisely adjusted. ' It is difficult even to appreciate the mag nitude of our export trade since 1860 and we can gain a correct conception of it only by comparison with preceding results in the same field. The total exports from the United States from the Declaration of Inde pendence in 1776 down to the day of Lin coln's election in 1860, added to all that had previously been exported from the American Colonies from their original set tlement, amounted to toss than nine thou-, sand millions of dollars ($9,000,000,000). On the other hand our exports from 1860 to the close of the last fiscal year exceeded twelve thousand millions of dollars ($12, 000,000,000) the whole of it being the pro duct of American labor. Evidently a Pro tective Tariff has not injured our export trade when, under its influence, we export ed in twenty fouryeara forty per cent, more than the total amount that had been ex ported in the entire previous history of the American commerce.. All the details.wbcn analyzed, correspond with this gigantic re sult. The commercial cities of the Union never had such growth as they have en joyed since I860. Our chief emporium, the city of New York, with its. dependencies, has within' that period-doubled her popula tion and increased her wealth five fold J Daring the same period the imports and ex ports which have entered and left her har bor are more than double in bulk and value the whole amount exported by her between the settlement of the first Dutch colony on the Island of Manhattan and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1860. AORICTJLTURE AND THE TARIFF. Tha Agricultural interest is by far the largest in the Nation,: and is entitled in every adjustment of Revenue Laws to the first consideration. Any policy hostile to the fullest development of Agriculture, in the United btates must be abandoned.: Realizing this fact the opponents of the present system ot Revenue have labored very earnestly to persuade the farmers of the United States that they; are robbed, by a Protective Tariff , and the effort , is thus made to consolidate their vast influence in favor of free trade. ' Bnt happily the farm ers of America are intelligent, and cannot be ' misled by sophistry when . conclusive acts are before them. They . see plainly jthat daring the past twenty-four years, jweallh has not been acquired in one section pr by one interest at the expense of another section or another interest. They see that the agricultural States, have made even more rapid ' progress than the manufac turing States. . t ; -j , f . .,. I The farmers see. tha't 'in 1860 Massachu setts and Illinois had about the samfi wealth 4-between eight and nine hundred million dollars each and that in 1880 Massachu setts had advanced to twenty six hundred millions, while UlifioiS'had advanced to thirty-two hundred millions. They see that New Jersey and Iowa were just equal in population in 1860 and that i twenty, years the wealth of 'NewJersey was in creased by the sum of eight hundred ' and fifty millions of dollars, while the wealth of Iowa was. increased by the sum of .fif teen hundred millions. They see that the nine . leading . agricultural States of. the West have grown so rapidly in prosperity that the aggregate addition to their Wealth since 1860 is almost as great as the wealth of the. entire country in that year,,. They, see that the South, which is almost :exclu-j siyely agricultural,,, has-shared -in the gen eral prosperity and. that' havinc: .recovered from the loss and devastation..' of war,' has gained so rapidly that its total wealth is at least the double of that which it possessed hi 1860, exclusive of .slaves, -a- -' ..',.:. ' f In these extraordinary developments the farmers see the helpful impulse of a home, market, and they see. that the financial and revenue system,' enacted since the Republi can party came into power, Has established and constantly expanded the home market. They see that even in the'.; case , of .wheat, . which is our chief cereal export, they have , s61d, in the average qf the .years since the close of the war, three busqels at home tj one they have sold abroad, and that in ihe cftse of corn, the only other cereal which we 'export to any extent,' one hundred bpshels - have been used at home to three ana - a nan , ousneis exported. : in , some, years the disparity has been so great that for every "peck of corn exported one hun' dred bushels have been; consumed . in the home market. The farmers see that in the increasing competition'; from the grain fields of Russia and from the distant plains of India, the growth of the home market' becomes daily of greater concern to them and that its impairment would depreciate the value of every acre, t of tillable land in the-Union, .r ' , , , : l ( . OUB IKTERilAl. COSlKERck ' 1 r Such tacts aa these touching ther growth and consumption of eereals at home give us 'some slight conception -of the r vastnesa ofthe internal commerce of 'the United' States. They suggest also that, in addition5 to Jhe advantages which the American peo ple enjoy -from protection against foreign, competition, they enjoy the advantages of absolute free trade over 1 a larger area and 5 with a greater rjonulation than anv other Nation. The internal commerce of our thirty-eight States and nine Territories is carried on without let "Or . hindrance, with out tax, detention of Governmental inter ference of any kind. whatever4 It . spreads freely qvef an area of three and a half -011-lion s'quare mileSr-almctet equal in extent to the whole continent' of Europe. Its profits are enloved to-dav bv flftv-six mil lions of American freemen, and from this -enjoyownVne-monpoly-iis- created.riACv cording to -Alexander Hamilton, when he discussed the eameisubiect in 1790. "the tpwiaLeomrtalionwhich takei place does awarwith every thine likfr monopolyf and by degrees reduces the prices of artocles to the mini mum of a reasonable profit on J the capital employed." It is impossible to point to a single monopoly in the r United. States that has been created or fostered by the In dusmai ystem-whica is upheia by ine ue publican; party.fi a. j li.CivrrJO ! J t :l' ul ' Compared withvonr! foreign commerce these domestic exchanges are inconceivably great In amountn-rcquiriflg merely as one instrumentality as large a mileage of . rail way as exists to-day in all the other nations of the world combined.! Theseinternal ex changes are - estimated by 7 the -.Statistical Bureau of the Treasury Department, to be annually twenty times as jreat in amount as.pur foreign commerce. . It Is into this vast field of home trade-rat once the .crea tion and the heritage of the American peo plethat foreign nations 'are striving ; by every device to enter. It is into' this ' ffelq: that the oDnoncnta of ntir ' nreaenf! ' revenue system Would Jreejy admft the, pqn'ntrfeS of Europe countries into whose internal trade we could hot reciprocally .entert ' countries' to which' we should be surrendering everv advantage of trade; fr6m which we should be gaining nothing in, return; .t ; 1 s EFFECT -UPON THK MKCUANIC ABTD HB o; u--f 4 ;! . ; ' Vr iatBOKEit5 l Vu ! , A policy of this kind would be disastrous to the mechanics 'and Working-men of ' the United States' Wages .are Unjustly reduced when ati industrious man is not aple by his earnin gs to ; B ve in' comfort" 'educate .his children and lay by a sufficient i amount for the necessities of age. ' The yeductio of wages inevitably consequent " npori1 throw ing our home, market .open to the w6rld would deprive them of ttfepiWef todothts. It would prove a'great 'calamify !tg bar country: It would produce a"confliSt bef tween the poor and the rich, ahd in the, sof rowful degradation, of labor . would plant the seeds of public danger. ' f ; ' The Republican party has steadily aimed to maintain Just relations -.between ' Labor and Capital guarding With care' the rights" of each. A conflict between the. two has always led in the past and will always lead in the future to the.injury of both Labor is indispensable to the creation and profit able use of capital, and capital increases the efficiency . and . value oi labor. . Who ever arrays the one against the other is an enemy ot both. That policy is wisest and best which harmonizes the two on the basis, of absolute justice. . The Republican party has protected the free labor of America so that its compensation is larger than is real ized in any other country. ; It has guarded our people against the unfair competition of contract labor, from China, and may be called upon to prohibit the growth, of a similar evil from Europe.- It is obviously unfair to permit capitalists 4o , make con tructsfor cheap labor in foreign countries to tbe hurt and disparagement of the labor of American citizens Such a policy, (like that which would leave the time and other conditions of home labor exclusively to the control of the employer,) is injurious to all parties not , tbe least so to the ? unhappy persons who are made the subjects , of the contract. . The institutions of the United States rest upon the intelligence, and virtue of all the people. Suffrage is made uni versal as a just weapon of self-protection to, every citizen. It is not the interest of the Republic that any economic system, should be adopted which involves the reduction of wages to tbe hard standard prevailing else where. The Republican party aims to ele vatc.and dignify labor not to degrade it. As a substitute for tho rn Justrial system, which under Republican adjninslralion has developed such extraordinary prosperity, our opponents offer a poUcywhach'is but a series of experiments upon our system of revenue a policy whose end must be harm to our labor. Experiment In the industrial and financial is the country's greatest dread. - as stability is : its greatest boon.' Even the uncertainty resulting from thejre ccnt tariff agitation in Congress has hurt fully affected the business of the entire country. Who can measure the harm to our shops and our homes, to our farms and our commerce in the uncertainty of perpet ual tariff agitation is to1 be inflicted upon the country ? ' We are in' the. midst of an abundant harvest; we are on the eve of a revival of general prosperity.:- 'Nothing stands in our way but the dread of a change in the industrial system which has wrought such wonders in the last twenty years, and which, withthe power ofjhcreased capital, will work still greater marvels of prosperity in the twenty years to come. OUB FOBEKW TOtlCY. Our foreign relations favor our domestic development. ' We are at peace with the world at peace upon : a Sound basis with no unsettled questions of sufficient magni-! tude to embarrass or distract us. Happily removed by our geographical positipn.from participation or interest in' those questions' of -dynasty or - boundary which so frequht-' lv disturb ihe neace of Enrone. we are left to cultivate friendly relations with" all, and are free from possible entanglements in the quarrels of SnyI irThe United ; States has no cause and no desire- W;, engage in con-' flict with any power on earth, and We may rest in assured confidence- that nd power desires to attack the United States. With the Nations of the Western Ilemif sphere we should "Culti vate closer relations and for 'Our common prosperity' andad vencement we should invite ' them all to join with us in an agreement Jhator Jlhe? future, all International troubles n jforth. or Sdnth America shall be-aaiustod by im partial arbitration and not by arms. This roject was part p . the, fixpd policy of 'resident Garfield's administration and . it should in my judgment be renewed. Its accomplishment on this continent would favorably affect, the -Nations , beyond the sea, and thus powerfully contribute at no distant day to the universal acceptance of . the philanthropic and Christian principle of Arbitration. JRia effect even of sug gesting it for the Spanish American States has been, most happy and has, increased the confidence of those people in our friendly disposition. It fell to my lot as Secretary' of State in June 1881 to quiet apprehension far the Republic of Mexico, by giving the assurance in an official dispath that: "there "is not the faintest desire in the .United VStates for territorial i extension ' South of "the Rio Grande. u The boundaries of r the "two Republics .have been established in "conformity with 'the' i best jurisdictional "interests.of both. The , line of demarca "tion ; is not' merely ' conventional. It; is "more.' ' It separates a Spanish-American : "people from a Saxon-American, people. It "divides one great 'nation7 from another with distinct and natural finalityi" . TTT 1 .1 . a TXT j f . icea uie cyaqvesis -oi -.peace. , vv e i desire to extend our commerce, and in an : especial degree with our friends and neigh-l ' V AM . 1. : . Vrr . uuitfctuu, wis uuoviueufcrf ,rwe nave noiim : proved our, relations with Spanish America aa wiao.jr buu aa peraiaiienujr aa wu uuguii have done, i For more than a generation the sympathy of those countries have been . allowed to drift awayqin: We should : now maico every enort toai thtr,jriend-i snip, uur iraae with them is already large. During the last year our "exchanges itf the ; western hemisphere amounted to three hun- ; dred and fifty millions of idoUars-nearly. one fourth of our entire foreign commerce.. TO those who may be disposed to under,-, "rate the value of our trade w,ith the conn-1 tries of North and: South America; it xnayi be well Jto state -that '.their t population, w nearly or quite fifty millions and that, in proportion to aggregate ' numbers,':we im-f port nearly double as much from them as we do from Europe;- But the result ot the whole American traae is in a , nign uegrtso tm8atisfactpry. The imports during- the past year exceeded two hundred and twentyrflve milUon8, while the Sports were less" than' one hundred and twentyfiye millions--showing a balance -against us qf morernanrone nunareu muuuus vi utiam. But the mo'nev does not go to Spanish America, We send large sums to Europe 4nicotn;orritaennivalent:tQ pay . ifiuropean mannfacturera lor. the goods which they, sseml to SpafiisK America. We are but pay masters for this laree amount annually to aropnactorSfflDi'eaTnonntwhlc serious draft, in every nancial depression upon our resources or specie. v r Cannot this condition of trade in- great part be changed ?, Cannot the - market for, our produce be greatly, enlarged ? we have made a beginning in our effort to im prove our trade relations with Mexico and we should not be content until similar and mutually advantageous arrangeraents have been successively made with every nation of North and South America. "While the great ' powere of .s Europe . are steadily en, larging their, colonial domination in Asia and Africa it isv the especial province of this country 1 ta lmproven and expand its trade with -the-Bations- of-America. No flnM nrnmSaPB pa much. , No field has been cultivated so little. Our1 foreign' policy should be an American policy in its broad est and moat comprehensive sense--a policy f of neace. of friendship Of commercial en largementuV i-. j'ii.-si-.?.U'; "J '---V ' The name of American which belongs to us in our Nationarcapaclty must always exalt the just pride of patriotism. Citizen-ship-of the Republic, must b tbe panoply and safeguard of him who .wears it. , The American citizen, rich or poor, native or naturalized, white or colored must every-, whereg - walk secure. in his personal and, civil rights. The 4 Republic . should never accept a lesser duty, it can never assume a nobler one, -than-the protection of the hum blest man .who- owes it loy alty-7-protection at home, and protection which shall follow him' abroad, into whatever land he may go upon a- lawfnl erBft'W.'T "-. ; , TUB SOUTHERN STATES. . h T recognize,' not without regret the ne cessity for apeakiag of two sections, of our common country. But the regret dimin ishes when 'I see that the elements Which separated ; them are ; fast ; - disappearing. Prejudices have yielded and are yielding, while ' a growing cordiality warms' the Southern and the Northern heart alike. Can any one doubt that between the sec tions confidence and esteem are to-day more marked than at any period in the sixty ears preceding the election of President incoln? . This is the result in part of time and in part1 of Republican principles ap plied under the favorable conditions of uniformity. It would be a great-calamity to change these influences under which' Southern commonwealths are learning to vindicate Civil rights, and adapting them selves to the conditions of political tran quility and industrial progress. If there be occasional and Violent outbreaks in the South against this peaceful progress, the public opinion of the country regards them as exceptional ana hopeiuiiy trusts that each will prove' the last. . ; - The South needs capital and occupation not . controversy. As; much as any parte or the jxorth, the south needs the run pro tection of the Revenue Laws which the Republican party offers. Some of the Southern States have already entered upon a career of industrial development and rosperity. These at least, should not end their electoral votes to destroy their Own future. Any effort to Unite the Southern States upon issues that grow out of the memories of the war, will summon the Northern States to combine in the assertion of that nationality which was their inspiration in the Civil struggle. And thus great ener gies which should be united in a common industrial development will be wasted in hurtful strife. The Democratic party shows itself a foe. to Southern prosperity by always invoking and urging Southern po litical consolidation. Such a policy quenches the rising instinct of patriotism in the Southern youth; it revives and stim ulates prejudice; it substitutes the spirit of barbaric vengeance for the love of peace, progress and harmony. THE CIVIL SERVICE. The general character of the civil ser vice of the United States under all admin istrations has been honorable. In the one supreme test the collection and disburse ment of revenue the record of fidelity has never been surpassed in any nation. With the almost fabulous sums - which were re ceived and paid during the late war, scru- f ulous integrity was the prevailing rule, ndeed, throughout that trying period, it can be said to the honor of the American name, that unfaithfulness and dishonesty among civil officers were as rare as miscon duct and cowardice on the field of battle. The growth of the country has continu ally and. necessarily enlarged the civil ser vice, until now it includes a vast body of officers. Rules and methods of appoint ment which prevailed when the number was smaller have been found ' insufficient and impracticable, and earnest efforts have been made to separate the great mass of ministerial officers from partisan influence and . personal control. Impartiality, in the mode of appointment to be based on quali fication, and security of tenure to be based on faithful, discharge of duty are the two ends to be accomplished. The public busi ness will be aided, by separating the Legis lative branch of the Government from all control ot appointments and the Executive Department will be relieved by subjecting appointments to fixed rules and thus re moving them from the caprices of favorit ism. -- Bat there should be rigid observance of the law which gives in all cases of equal competency the preference to the soldiers who risked theirv lives in ; defense of the Union.',. ... - ... , i eniereu ' congress in .1003,1 1 ana in a somewhat prolonged service ,1 never, found" it Expedient to request or recommend the, removal of a civil officer except in four in stances, and then for non-political reasons which are instantly conclusive vith the ap pointing power, The officers in the dis trict, appointed by Mr.' Lincoln in 1861 upon the recomtriendation of my predeees ser, Served, as a rule,; until death or resigna tion. I adopted at the beginningof ny ser vice the test of competitiveexamioationfor appointments to West Point and maintained it so long as I thad the right ;by Jawto nominate a cadet. In the case of mnnv ; officers I fpund that the present law Which arbitrarily limits the term Of the commis-1 sIoa i offered , a , constant temptation to changes for mere political reasons. ' I have publicly expressed the belief thai the essen tial modification of that law Would be in many respects advantageous : f , ' My 'observation' in the Department of State confirmed the conclusions of mv ; legislative experience, and impressed me , with the conviction that the rule of impar- iuu a i) pumuuHuii uugut wuo auvanuge -oe: carried bevond. anv existinjE YtrnviaiAn nf i the Civil Service -Law. It should be arx phed to appointments in r the consular ser vice. - Consuls should be commercial senti nels--encircling ther globe -with rwatchTul ness fortheirjcountTy's jinterests. .Their! intelligence and competency become, there-! fore, matters of creat public ooncern. - No ' man Should" be appointed to . an . American i consulate, w0 is 9t wen instractjBd in the history and tesonrcea pf ' his own country, and in the 'requirements and' language of '.commerce in theCouhtxy to which he is : sent. Thsames; ruler Bhoutd ' be rappfied even more rigidly to Secretaries of Legation in ; put ; piplomaHci service. ' The people have the right, to the" most efficient, agents In the; discharge of public business and the appointing power should regardlhis as the' 1 prior and ulterior, consideration. r . i .V4?;thk 3)Kow.qTsnowt. . ' : Kel!giqus liberty :.is ' the " right ' of 1 etery; eitizen ot the Republic Congress" is for- bidden by the , Constitution to make any law ''respecting the establishment of re- ligion, or vproniDiung iue iree exercise thereof." For a century, under this guar antee Protestant; and Catholic, Jew and Gentile, have worshiped God according to the dictates of conscience. " But religious liberty must not be perverted to the justifi cation of offences against 'the law. A re ligious sect, strongly intrenched in one of the territories of the Union, and spreading rapidly into four other territories, claims the right ; to destroy the great safeguard and muniment of social order, and to prac- : tice as a religion privilege that which is a cf infe"pnnl8hed with severe "penal tv in everv State ef th Unions, The sacredness and unity of the family must be preserved as the foundation of all -civil government," as the source Of orderly administration, as the surest guarantee of moral purity. -t The claim of the Mormons that they are divinely authorized to practice polygamy saouia De no more aamittea tnan the claim, of, certain, heathqn tribes,? if they should come among us, to continue the rite of hu man sacrifice. The law does not interfere, wth what a man believes; it takes cogni zance only of what he does. Aa citizens,' the Mormons are entitled to the same right as others, and to these they , must be con'; fined. - Polygamy can never receive na tional sanction or toleration by . admitting the community that upholds it as a State mtbe union. ? .Like others, the Mormons must learn that the liberty of the individual ceases where the rights of society begin. OUB CURRENCY. The people of -the United States, though eaten urgea ana temptea, nave never sen-, 1 - ll uuuiy vuui.eiupiiuu iuh teuuKUiiiou ot any, other money than gold and silver and cur- , rency directly convertible into them. They nave not done so, they will notdoso.under any necessity less pressing th at that of des perate: wari. The one special .requisite for the completion of pur monetary system is the fixing ofthe relative values'of silver and gold. ; The large use of silver as the money of account amone Asiatic nations. taken in connection with the increasing commerce of the world, gives the weightiest reasons for an international agreement, in the premises. Our Government should not cease to - urge this measure until a common. standard of value shall be reached jand e&r Ublished a standard that: shall enable the United States to lose the silver from its mines as an auxiliary to gold in settling the balances of commercial exchange. THK PUBLIC LANDS. The strength of the Republic is increased by the multiplication of land holders Our laws should look to the judicious: encour- , agement of actual settlers on the Public Domain; which should henceforth be held' as a sacred trust for the benefit of those seeking homes.- Tbe tendency to consoli date large tracta'of land.ra. the ownership of individuals or corporations should, with : proper regard to vested rights, be dis couraged. One hundred thousand acres of land in the hands of one man is far less profitable to the Nation in every way than ' when its ownership is divided among one thousand men. The evil of permitting large tracts of the National domain to be consolidated and 'controlled by the few against the many is enhanced when the persons controlling it are aliens. It is but fair . that the public land should be dis posed of only to actual settlers and to those who are citizens of the Republic, or willing ' to become so; - ' OUB SHIPPING INTERESTS. Among our National interests one lan guishesthe foreign carrying-trade. It was very seriously crippled in our civil war, , and another Wow was eiven to it in , the general substitution of steam for sail in ocean traffic. . With a frontage on the two great oceans, with a freightage larger than' mat 01 any otner nation, we have every : inducement to restore out Navigation. Yet the Government has hitherto refused its help. A small share of the encouragement given by the Government to Railways and to Manufactures, and a small share of the . capital and the zeal given by our citizens to those enterprises would have carried our ships to every sea and to every port. A law just enacted removes some of the bur dens upon our navigation and inspires hope that this great interest may at last' receive its aue Bnarc 01 attention. All ellorts in this direction should receive encourage ment. . . . SACREDNESS OF THE BALLOT. This survey of our condition as a Nation reminds us that material prosperity is but a mockery if it does not tend to preserve the Liberty of the People. A free ballot is the safeguard of Republican institutions, without which no national , welfare is as sured.' A popular election, - honestly con ducted, embodies the very majesty of true Government. Ten millions of voters de sire to take part in the pending contest. The safety of the Republic rests upon the integrity 01 me oaiiot, upon the security or suffrage to the citizen. To deposit a fraud ulent vote is no worse a crime against Con- Buiuuouai Ltioeriy man 10 oostruct ine de posit of an honest vote." ' He who corrupts suffrage strikes at the very root of free government -He is the arch enemy of the Republic. He forgets that in trampling upon the rights of others he fatally im perils his Own rights. "It is a good , land which the, Lord our God doth give us," but we can 'maintain our heritage only by guarding With vigilance the source of pop ular power. - I am with great rsspect, ,'. Your obedient servant, Jakes G. Blaine. New York . and Wilnungton Steamship Go. FROM PIE3 j S4, EAST RIVER, - NEW YORK t . At 3 o'clock P.M. :, REGULATOR .....Satutday, . BENEFACTOR. ., .; .... " ; Jqly 5. ; July 12. July 19., h EEGULATOR,.i.....u. , BENEFACTOR....,..... " FHOK WILMINGTON. July 26. BENEFACTOR., i REGULATOR.... EENEFACTOR. . . REGULATOR . . ' ...Saturday, - July 5 Jnlyl2. : July ; July 26, HrThtough Bills Lading and Lowest Through Rates guaranteed to and from pojota In North' and Soutn Carolina. . - ' I For Freight or Passage apply to '-, H. O. 81JIAI.1VBONES, f . ' - "' 1 ' Superintendent, ' ' . Wilmington, N. a W. P. Clyde & Co., General A gente, ' I3a28tf -ti. . 85 Broadway; New Ye.' Important ITotice. " ! THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE EXPOSITION ; opens October 1st and closes 1 October '28th, 1884. Proposals for'' Renting' Restaurant Privileges, Eeer Saloons, Stands for Soda.. Mineral Water Cigars, Tobaoeo,., Ao.J wm be received Until ' AuguBt 1st, 1834. .i Persons wishing to Rent. any of these Privileges will address the' Secretary at Raleigh, N. C. or Mr. John Nichols, Chief of the Department of Privileges, Raleigh. N. C stating What Privilege is wanted, when a Diagram of the Grounds and Buildings wQl be sent, showing the position that tbe Stands would occupy, aha sta ling terms and other nece information. Jy4tl' , FRIES, Sec'y. VVE WISH TO THANK. OUR FRIENDS FOR f T ' IJ the liberal natronaM with which tbcvr haT . nereioiore iavorea us. is wui re our pleasure to serve them always in the most efficient man ner. Our experience .covers a number of years la the best pharmaceutical establishments, and cur rule will be to give the best goods at mode-i -rate-prices.. .;.'-:- iv.-1,v.'--A Reipectfally, :" , , f 1T 13 tf . . W. S.BRIGGS ft C. - mm m m i. 1 T .J . d .a HANG IT, AAR1A- Why don't you buy my shirts ready-made ? What's the use ol wearing y6ur eyes out over fine needle work," and breaking y0l!r back trying to save a few cents ! I don't see the savin' of if. Why you can bujr, shirts now-a-days . for very little more than'the cost of material. Look at this " Dia mond " I've just bought. I say Maria, I am going to buy a dozen mbrfe'rightaway; ' WAMSUTTA, ! ii your ucaicr aoes not Keep it, send his address to Daniel Miller & Co., sole manufacturers Ealtu more, Md. uu- ir j 1 j . .1 . I my 2 D&W3m end hoc&urra EBuifalo lithia Water FOR MALARIAL POISONING. i iTJSEOFJT IN A CASE OF YELLOUT FEVER, i Dp. Wx. T. Howarb, op Baltimore, Professor of Diseases of Women and Children in ' ihe University of Maryland. ' Dr Howard attests the common adaptation f this water in "a wide range of cases" with that lit the far-famed White Sulphur Springs, in Groeu- brier eounty. West Virginia, and adds the foiiuw inff : i ' "Indeed, in a certain class of cases it is much snpenor to the latter. I allude to tha abidins debility attendant upon the tardy convalescence from grave acute diseases; and more especUlly to the Cachexia and Sequels incident to Malarious Fevers, in all their grades and varieties, to cpt tain forms of Atonic Dyspepsia, andaK the Affc tions Peculiar to Women that are remediable at all by mineral waters. In short, were I called upon to state from what mineral waters I hare setji (lie gmt est and most unmistakable amount of good accrue in the largest number of cases in a general wait I would unhesitatingly say the Buffalo Spring, in Mecklenburg county, Va." Db. O. F. Mansox, op Richmond, Ya., ' Late Professor of General Patholosry and Physio logy in the Medical College of Virginia : "I have observed marked sanative effects from ithe Buffalo Water ia Malarial Cachexia, An tonic jyspepsta, some 01 tne lacunar Ajttctiont of wo men, Anaemia, Hypochondriasis, Cardiac Palpita tions, dx. It has been especially efficacious in Chronic Intermittent Fever, numerous cam oj this character, which had obstinately wWislood the vnal remedies, having been restored to perfect lualth in a brief space of time by a sojourn at the Spring.' Db. John W. WnxiAatsoN, Ja'ckfon, Tenn. Hxttactsfrom Communication, on the Therayteufic Action ofthe Buffalo Lithia Water in Ihe "Virginia Medical Monthly" JOT February, lb. 1. "Their great, value in Malarial Discnw and Sequela has been most abundantly and satisfac torily tested; and I have no question that it would have been a valuable auxiliary in the treatment of the epidemic of YeUow Fever which so terribly afflicted the Mississippi Valley during the past gammer. I prescribed it myself, and it gave 5 rompt relief in a case of Suppression of trine, in TeUow Fever, and decidedly mitigated other li--tressing and dangerous sytnptoms. The patient re covered, but how far the water may have contri buted to that result (having prescribed it in but a filnirlA n.ASAl T ff rmifaA psnnnt nnd H rt ;i kft to say. There is no-doubt, however, about the fact thai its administration was attended by the mo4 benefi cial results.'" Springs now opens for guests. Water In cases of one dozen half gallon bottles $5 per case at the Springs. Springs pamphlet mailed to any address. For sale by W. H. Green, where the springs pamphlet may be found. ITiiUS. if. iHJVUB, rropneior, aplOtf nrm Buffalo Lithia Springs, Va POLL TORPID BOWELS, DISORDERED LIVER, and MALARIA. -. From thO'je sources arise three-fourflJs of the diseases of the human race. Tiwso symptoics indicate their existence : Iam ot Apptltey Sowels costive. Sick Head acb.e, fullness after eating, aversion to exertion of body- or mind, Eructation Of food, Irritability of temper, Ixw spirits, A feeling of bavins; neglected some duty, JMzziness, JElutterlng at the Heart, Iots before tne eyes, highly col ored Urine, vCOJESTIFATION, and de- mand the use of a remedy that acts directly ! on theLivec As a" Liver medicine TUTT's PTXiliS have no equal. Their action on the Kidneys and Skin is also prompt; removing all impurities through these three scav engers of tne system," producing appe tite, sound digestion, regular stools, a clear Skin and a vigorous body. TUTX'S PI1J cause no nausea or griping nor inteer9 With daily work and are a perfect ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA. HE FEELS LIKE Jk SEW MAW. : I have had Dyspepsia, with Constipa Hon,two years, and have tried ten different, kinds of pills, and TTJTT'S are the first that have done me any ood. Thev have .cleaned me opt nicely. My appetite i splendid, food digests readily, and I now . have natural passages. I feel like a new man." W.J. EDWARDS, l?almyra, O. ( .Bold everywhere, gSe. Ofl5hse,44MnrrayStN-' TUTTS-HAIRIDYE. Ghat Hub ok Whiskebs changed in stantly to a Glossy Black by a single ap . plication of this DTK. Sold by Druggist, or aent by express on receiptofi. ' Office, 44 Murray Street, New York. TBTTS HAMOALOF BSEfUt RECEIPTS FBEL Jy 20 DeodWlv - nrm sn welfr is o P. O. & H. Robinson. their liberal patronare. . Our stock Is alTTrean goods and guar iranteed. They can be returned at cur expense if not , CWokens, which, we seUat the very lowew rSSSB advancing, but we are stiU mlbu ?&&g2 awWbest quality and sold at very ' All Wnds of Baskets, Brooms, Buckets, A hand. , Also choice stock of Crackers ana w tf Goods. j - - - ! ; - ' -' Thejapbesonian, c Pnbllshed everWednesday. inLomberton, Ttj WWiMcPlARWlPj b TTA8 TIIR iJQlOT Cnicb'n vpaPr H largest advertising patronaga S snb ln the State. . It Sow has over eighMorei soribers in Robeson county alone, besides a eral circulation in the wmitiMof ln berland, Bladen, Columb .Kchmondw' fhA uiinininir nnnntles. Marlon, Atari Ior (t Darlington. In South Carolina. . Jau t TwffiffirS
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