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; I 1 1 z GOVERNMENT WAS INSTITUTED FOR THE GOOD OF THE GOVERNED. VV W i iii 111 A X7 ' cr ' CV l IIB J W" . III i i l " , i. 1 ; ' I ' VOL. I. ASHEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JULY' 5, 1876. 9 k ' 1 . . I THE RANDOLPH REGULATOR. rrni.isjiEij ey'kry Wednesday BY THE RANDOLPH PUBLISHING CO. OFFICE 2 DOoiiS EAST OF THE COURT house; :' NxMont, ponta-e paid ... 00 RATES OF ADVERTISING. Oik; qn': (IH sijii; fne prpujre, onC inMMlion 'U. re, time insertion... .. V. four iivsrf ir,i.u ' i y . - i- . -.-.....- 1 i 1 -f o V t i n: i'n o n t hs ; . ; n? Mjiin.',- six inoiitlis........; : On Kifiare. tvrcl tnrmfiiw For Janrer a4vort!.rrnontV ---- . i . . of ;Joil WORK don at tlu. TouV .olJW in rlw.i ...,,.., ; t'jmtUhnx'd .due wjium pre- $1 00 .1 r,() .2 oo .3 00 ..5 00 .8 00 12 00 I NUMBER 23. itSOlv&l 4. Tliat Urn , ' I'WtIU VI Carolina now have it in their power by an earnest, determinate and united effort, to relieve our people from the evil3 of Republican misrule, extrav agance and corruption, and restore the prosperity of our State. T jjKHv&l b. That we denounce of ficial corruption wherever found, and we hold honesty to be the first and highest qualification for office. A If kin . ! h .ill YOU GO. ;1 of ool counsel ii-rr Iuuld forget, u vlikii forw .iru n t.ilf rf 3if- ", )Mvis -u-: ' t "UU15. iiMTi lu ows -larls ut il. lcrtuii.r.U A v( V Is tl. T., J or ! J I .Who. ' t i- folif-y l-lis.lMi 'I'n tlio" ho ;Vs;-f it 'J lr.it :i -- -join 0f credit l,Ws por!, and not hni f . ' For iimny 1i;iV- siju.uhI. nd '1'!h ir iiH oinrs :ivay, ;' Ami it :u ! hav-t)-Vn wrciinr ,v , '.A 110I!1HC to ).1V. - . McCLURE ON HAYES. A to he 1ioi) -, A - ;ji!crr !iaut r frk nd, In or Mil J it Or Rvtu An! lb- I. ru Wh, . Of To p Of Wh.-i l r (o lta w, t lie vvillin;to jk'IiI. oVi'. or iri-;tio!i, fail Ii., 1 licy ImsIdu If ; ! hi their full v:ilu !, 1 j. ay you (. -ts (he v ;t ncss ' it life ran imjiait, lofk-; 1 1 j a.jlrfjinur w-altli in his heart.. . ! a ri:l. harvest' :tin ami regret, , too late, he discover. Hov reat u as Jii debt. A word of jood. counsel 1 t H'pvj et ilionld forget, And lo ku-p out of d?ui,r-r o keep ovit o,f lept! V ee, arrd 'eontentiiKMit, An I joy, you would knoi, l)on'i. live-upon credit,' Hut jay as you o. y the Demociiatic State Contention. TJIKi TARTY PLATFORM. i I . Adoitei 4-. ! . YViikkf.as, The Republican party of (he United States, for the last sixteen years, Ikvs had the complete Miitrol of thedovethuieiit inallit.s I)ciarmcnt's, nU'1 iy ti( disregard tf Constitutioiial, linutattoiLs , by its ungual dnd op- axation ; by its extrjivairant teful expenditures ; b1 its un wise and mischievous financialolicy ; I)' its unexampled' 'official corruption pervading all branches of its adminis tration 103 brought disgrace upon our Government and unparalleled dis tress upoii bur people : Therefore yi;ar ot : press ive and wast , 1. That in this Centennial Our existence,1 Ave iijrvite all patriots to ignore all dead issues, to tlircgard jtho. prejudices engendered by T;Utt events, niitl in nnifn u-ifli no 1 - j - v " v Wil M O ill the etfort to restore a constitutional, honest, economical . and pure adminis- t rat inn nf tlm (lrtv(vmniint promote tljio general welfare and '-hap piness of the country.' JirjvclK2. That we earnestly and conlially reaimmeiid the adoj)tion, by the people of the amendments to tlie ('onstitutin proposed by the.Conven tion of 18r, and thus largely reduce the expeiu itures of our State and coun ty govenuiicnts and simplify their ad ndnistrati4n, so that wo may be enabl ed to establish a thorough and enlarged system of. lublic schools for thei benefit of all the citizens of the State. 5 jkestmni o. inat notwithstanding our related disappointments and im loverished condition, we still kherish the North Carolina project so Jong la Iwred. for by Morehead, Saunders, Fishr er, Win. Thomas, and- others, of unit ing the harbors of Reanfort and Wil. r urn wis,j,iv,ii nuiauuiui utu completion: of the Western North Car olina Railroad to Paint Rock and Duck town 'r.,. ,...:i.l. .1 :i uui uuii i uuniuaucu inu Ti'h. i Wb pledge the. continued use t he eouvict lalior of the Stat, and of vnrt. tlu Sta't.vQrkj .rrjU. completion of thepc great s at the earliest practicable The Cincinnati Convention was like the councils of the lieutenants of the Macedonian. eUieftairi when he surren dered his crown to debauchery and lea them to strraggle for the succession. Here were those who had been obedi ent to despotism in all its moods and caprices, and Iilaine and Morton and Conkling each claimed the ' sceptre; combating each other, and each re solved to fall only with his rivals 'shar ing his discomfiture. A brave element. confronted them under the banner of Hristow ; but it was even more hated than their mutual hatred for each oth er. It recafled the Republican stan dard -of other days, when it: was un stained by the shame of the. thief and the jobber,- and proposed to erect it again over the Republican altar, and against it the legitimate heirs to the Grant succession made common and deadly warfare; It had leaders and orators,- men of sentiment, of convic tion, of positive purpose, but untutor ed in organising modern political vic tory ; they defiantly antagonized, but they were powerless to control, and they could not hope to make mean ambition their ally and join them in 'die overthrow of all the ablcsts of the representative leaders of a degenerate party. Morton, Blaine, ConkUng and Cameron would not have Rristow to reign over thenn and Morton. Conkling and Cameron wild not have Conk ting, and Conkling and Iilaine would ; not have Morton. Thus they pierced each other s armor andjfcll in tlie strug gle for the bauble of a day of power, leaving, a pigmy to walk in triumph over their mangled bodies, and be greeted with the applause they had in spired for themselves. Against Rutherford R. Hayes per sonally I have nothing to jurge. I re gard him as an honest man, for he has made no record to the contrary that now confronts him to condemn him. Hut the rule of honest weakness is one of the greatest of national calamities, especially when an Executive must obey Mortons and Conklinirs and lilaines, who have been dethroned in the highest tribunal of the party, ilt is respectable mediocrity in hih places that gives to the shrewder and utterly desperate their most complete omnipotence. It was the weakness of Pierce that gave us the repeal- of the Missouri compromise, with its endless train of sorrows ; it was the senility of Puchanan that gave us the Kansas conflict and rebellion, with their crim soned records, and it was the untaught and unteachable Grant; who bowed to the political leaders of his time iis they wrote dishonor and lawlessness over the gates of almost every temple of authority.' And now, when statesman ship in its noblest sense is the hungry cry of the nation, ami the want of the ...c.vS'. litmv; vji IllUIUiUOil J.S ICil. Ill 1 every home of the land, we arc mock ed with a ' blameless nolxxly, who is to be a feather in the nose of the very power that tjie party dare not indorse in a contest for popular favor. It was a golden opportunity for Republican ism to show that its mission is yet un fulfilled ; by proving that it would rule better than .in tbe.past and better than ad verse political organization. It was the time for its' best man, not only its purest but its ablest champion, "and with such a candidate it would have swept the country from ocean to oceanH and from the Gulf to the Lakes. But it has proved unequal to its exception al and probably its last opportunity, and has discarded the duty that was so plain that the warfarin man well comprehends it. Such is the lesson of the nomination of Rutherford B. Hayes. Phila :Times. V PRENTICE ON IMMORTALITY. A corrupted j version of tne beauti ful passage on the immortality of the soul, attributed to the eloquent pen of UNWRITTEN HISTORY. The following letter from the Hon. Alexander II. Stephens to the New Geo. D. Prentice, is going the rounds i Yor caoses a RlarihS attempt of the press. As it appears in the V VT. l AhurIow Wccd lo ,maa- Version alluded to, it i3 completely marred. The true version is as fol lows : "It cannot lie that earth is man's only abiding place. It cannot be that ufacture history. The letter is of in terest to the people of the South, inas much a3 it is another warning to them not to encourage the sale of the many untruthful narratives of the late war, life is a mere ! bubble cast upon the ! , " uccn raanmacturca m the ocean of eternity to float for a mo-! N ihl PurPsc ctlucating the mcnt upon its Wave, and then sink m,n,U"of children. ! The away into nothingness and darkness l be not only of these !ted forever. Else, why is it that hi-h and ! 1C1 iioncs, but also of the text glorious aspirations leap like angels from the temples of our hearts, and are forever wandering unsatisfied ? Why our . 1 : I i ; i urnjtvs- Y,UKU SXQ lUniSt Upon schools. The teachers of the South ( shouht exercise a discriminating judg- is it that the rainbow and the cloud ' 7 school come over us with a beauty that is not ' ' " le "ic prei- nf n.rfh nnd iUnn nc. 1 sc oi &outheni author- Hw.) . it a. ''ship us to muse on their faded loveliness ? ! Why is it that: the stars which hold their midnight festival around the throne of Heaven, are set far above the grasp of our j limited faculties, and j are found mocking us with their una'p-1 1 1 A . - - 1 proacnaoic glory And why is it ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS REPLIES TO TIIURLOW WEED. LlRERTY IlALL X. ) Ckawfordsville, Ga., June 9, '7C. ( I havo nntiPoH in o lo f rl your paper, an article by Hon. Thur- jlow Weed, entitled "An Unwritten that bright form?; of 1 presented to our view, and then taken l?! . f Hlstory." in which Mr, from us, leaving the thousand streams of the affections to flow back in Al pine torrents upon our , hearts ? ''We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth. There is a realm N eed gives a narrative of how tlie Heralds influence was obtained far 1 resident lAncolns adminslration." After relating the incidents which pre ceded his arrival at Mr. Bennett's above where the rainbow never fades ; I I"'ula4U" V" cigis, me xoiiowing rnviu uiu m;us win ue spreaci out oe- fore us, like islands that slumber on the bosom of the ocean ; and where the beautiful beings that here pass be fore us like visions, will stay in our presence forever." This appeared in a sketch by Geo. D. Prentice, calledThe Broken-IIcart-ed." It was the story of a young lady about 17 years of age, whom Prentice met in a country village in the wes tern part of Ne w: England. "She had lost the idol of her heart's purest love." "We then walked for half an hour around the grounds, when a servant came and announced dinner. The dinner was a frugal one. during which, until the fruit was served, we held j general conversation. ' I then frankly informed him of the object of my vis it, closing with the remark that Mr. Lincoln deemed it more important to secure t,he Herald's support than to obtain a victory in the field. Mr. j Bennett replied that the abolitionists, Mr. Toomb3, favored the admission of California as a free State under ucr then constitution daring the, whale of the stormy session. This thc record will show. We never raised an ob jection to the admission of ICalifornia on account of her anti-slavery cansti tution. In one of the stormiest de bates I ever heard in the House of Rep resentatives my colleague, Mr. Toombs, said: "We do not oppose California on account of the anti-slaycry clause in her constitution. It was her rifct and I am not prepared to say that she uuniacij iu its exercises ; xcat is her business.' What jhe and I maintained was that the same rights which the free ieop!e of California had exercised for themselves iii forming their constitution should lc' equally secured to the free people of oiher Territories of the United States when they came to form their constitutions. How far this portioh'of M&.W&d's narrative may have influenced jthe Herald toward Mr. Lincoln's adminis tration I know not, but I doj mostlsol cmiily protest against its being receiv ed as a correct item in the history of the country. BY7. Jonritali j Alexander H . Stephens. THE COLORED VOTE. That remarkably able and; vigorous journal, the- New York Sun, sjveaking of the negro iii the Presidential election, correctly says : ' , j j " As a factor in the coming Contest for. the Presidency, the blacks,! as a race, will not play the part they have hitherto done for the Republicans. After being used and abused since the close of'thc civil war, and, while rrdeasod from lone form of slavery remanded to other evils, they at last have had their eyis oiened, and Nyill no longer obey the orders of their late political masters. The thievery-of the canet-bflcerrs, who stole from white and black, proinis- ' Hi Oil l.ir u lilir iviM.l..n f I 1 Prentice writes, "and the shadows of ! V " " "l cuousiy, and the plunder of the Freed . . . . nan Uiem that their former connections wcro severed, and that hcrtsdler his "raco meant to look after its own interests. -The south is lost irretrievably to tho Republican party, and even South Car olina cannot bo counted with any cer tainty, foi tho causes which swept Mis sissippi away from tho clutches o f rogues and public plunderers are now operating vigorously in South Carolina., Tho frauds, broken promises, deeep t ions, cheating and rascalities of tho re publican lenders in Congress, and their emissaries in the South, together with tho treachery of tho administration, have disgusted the race and forced it to seek ft?ilow"slrip elsewhere. The old ties between tho whites and blacks will, before long, bo stronger fhanewr. Reciprocal and permanent interests must bo felt in tho long run, and tho landowner and tlie Uboror will como together by a natural law, which makes them mutually dependent. , In a few years the South will bo moro pros Ierous thau at any former timo in its history, and this prosperity will be ono of its chief elements of strength and uni ty. While tho war was apparently tho greatest calamity Uiat over befel tho South, it is destined to be its greatest blessing, materially and morally. Ad versity has made labor honorable amon what was onco tho governing class! Emancijvation has raised tho negro to a liigher place. Between tho two tho sal vation of tho South is rendered sure. Already manufactures have sprung up in various States, and when the present financial strain has jwissed nway, they will be multiplied by abundant capital, eager to embark in thcc profitablo enterprises. deep and holy memories resting like the wing of death upon her brow. I first met her iii the presence of the mirthful. She was, indeed, a creature to be admired ; her brow was garland ed by she j'oung year's sweetest flow ers, and the simiiy tresses were hang: nig beautiful and low upon hor bosom ; and' she moved through the crowd with such floating, unearthly grace, that the bewildered gazer looked almost to see her fade awa' into the air like the ere.iT.ion ot n n oncont ilvi-r. ci i i , r i ! , , tliC S(uth, brought the war upon seemed cheerful, and even pray : yet I . -r rt . , . - - puuumry. nucn, in repu, withou saw that her gaiety was but the mock- provoked a war, of. the danger of which he had been warning the coun try for years, and that now, when they were reaping what they had sown, they had no right to call upon him to help them out of a difficulty that they had deliberately brought upon them selves. " I listened without interruption for ten minutes to a bitter denunciation J of Greeley, Garrison, Seward, Sum ner, Giddings, Phillips and myself, as having, by irritating and exasperating the thout de- man's; Bank by Grant s Wjashinbn ring and their pious confederates, have alienated this confiding people from their accustomed leaders, anil brought them to u senso of the frauds and vil lainly of which they have so long been the victims. They have come to Bee that the policy of tho Rebublicans in exciting prejudice against their old nias ters, and inspiring them with distrust of their best friends, was only a part of the system for capturing their votes while stealing their earnings and labor. Consequently there has been a greatre- action all over the south, and at no time i . . . . . j nj mg or attempting to explain any of , sinCe tho rebellion closed have the rrK. r tions between the two races beeii as good as they now are. fi1 .t - . . ., , . , 111:5 i'OMuous, siaieu me wnoie nues- thcre was something in her smile which L- r . . . . . tnl , . i r1l tion from our standpoint. I informed told me that its mournful beauty was , . c , , . ...... uivw mr.t vuuiusiauuca VTllIllIl butbne bright reflection of a tear ; and hor f'VP UIS !t. tlinos nroconrl lirto,-?!,- ! ,w ' ... i no' thc fleMicratc design of sever 3 ouu any repress tae m" own knowledge showing conclu- tidc of agony that was, bursting up from her heart's secret urn. She lookr ed as if she could have left thc scene ' ing the Union to prevent California from coming into the Union as a free State. I gave him the tJitn, unknown rc: i ! , . partmdars of an tntervtexo of Messrs. of festivity, and gone out beneath the V , . . J quiet stars, and laid her forehead down 1 , ' '' . ti r,i ! , , ivrte n congress Tram Ueoraa ancl upon the fresh green earth, and poured I v ; ; i m , fitting out her stricken soul, gush after gush, ! v-; . , --v-r till if ! ri- 1 t trVUW tOOS U in- . ......0.v.. .uw iWlUiWllUUIlua-lJ 2. ''..7 .1 i J tion of niintv on,l TtfVv T 11.. I . J ' t - ..v, mi., A UJU lUcVIV eartl that the vouns: lady of whom J n j-- . . t r . ,n i , tdiJonixatomtrrthe I nion as a free have spoken, is dead. The close of e. r, ... . J ... Women, so amiable in theinselvcs, are never so amiable as when they arc useful ; and as fr beauty, though men may fall in love with girls at play, there is nothing to make theni stand ta thcirjovo like siviugtltcm at work. er life was as calm ai the falling of , ns r , ; The day that thc army was withdrawn from the south as a ruling element! bv thc loud demand of northern opinion, the carpct'baggers, scalawagsj .and ad venturers, who held their Kwer by he support of the military alone, were crushed out beyond any hope iof rccjv. ery. So long as they could call Sfor troois from Washington, and hold tlipm subject to the orders of partisan mar shals and managers, the negroes supjips ed naturally enough that they represent ed thc government as they were backed by it. When that symbol of authority was removed, tho whole fabric of knave- a n u let strea m : n t ! j of thc b: :is ; p w til- nnr : " f hanaxna on lh-. nthr 71, ..hi..i.- - , . i. ! ceo, that lingers for a Ume ,1 , '. ir " i W""?- d "If roun.1 a-lwil of Iwithcrcl roses, and ! r , T.' J " " ""l-irt-d uoUong more i JJaine awl jnvsclf tntJn.x tjm ; ,r t .1 " i : n. i . . 1 1 utaji mis huuucn cuanw ot nmMnti,,. ces to emanciiitc them from tlA-ir. ioUt- . . . ? i - ' t thir rv Tliis is the true explanation if tho re markable revolution in j-ertica in Mis- cr southern SLaLr-ti mnd ami of ry and violence fell to piedes. Hie then dies from very- swectnessi'. !' v r . . J , r,.. .. r JUT the nUrvev clol. uc iuc auuwr went on to say, "it t r,f t,A . u: : s cannot be that earth is man's only : yL V T T 1 : bondage, and to 01en up abiding llace' as above quoted i ;c horizon new and beUer , We believe thai Prentice is not . Lf. f 1 at Pects for the future. titled to this magnificent gem-the i , j 7 7 a"V l" fin.t Z: r... : tlcc 1 to take of it is to assure mortality of ih WT i rZ Mrc readen that no jsissirpi and otl 'USH biii i intn-; -r : rr :t - I . . . i - t It'eot f fit- nl.AA i l . . ... .! ' written, if we mistake not, liy the fa-1 mous Bishop Helier, whose writings 1 J: upon religious snljecU have perhar never lecn excelled for beauty and j eloquence, by any divine the wo ever saw. Jlal. Xexc. --0 . m;ut.u iJii; ucraocrauc side by tens ot thousanUs ll. t ' nr. 1 T t Tf til.. I ' i , ' vuox iaior. now nc anu when they saw that Ames and !hU crew ' wui luic mu tiiiwnocu s were no longer uie to control tliCamiy within ! , . ; I uv- ii um- iniu usui reaijy iosi txicir grip at W afj ri jlars of an interview which never oc- ingtoxu Pinchback and varioui leaders ! curretl I do not know ; but I do know Eighteen hundred ami seventy-six j 1 nCVCr askcd Gcncral TavI veto is a great year lor! this American na- .11 wliatcver during hU adminis- tiou. It is ieapjycar, lrcsidential i tnuior 1 Know alo. and the records . ! ctinir 5f t t ill : r election year and the centennial anni-1 " versarv of our indeicndene nn.l for 1 miA tlie purpose of giving us a rest during j Stat5 did not pass Congress until af so much excitement, tliere will leone ! tcr ( 'encral Tavlor's death : I do. extra Sunday, or lifty-thrtc in all. i morco-cr,know that I an-1 my colleagtic, j M wh at Ciuciuuali tint thc. bill fjcrmiting Csli- to enter the Union as a free who have heretofore wielded a large in fluence amocg tho negroes, and csecuL iy while tho administration courted them, are now seeking to acr?modite themselves to the new deiWuire,' atul make no secret of. Uieir hostility !to Grant, Casey, Packard, KdlWg; aid others of that stamj.. Pinj-hlacV iTJ liutice in HIS OWN REPORT. -The first article in tho Christian at Work for Juno 15th, is from tho pen of tho editor, Rev. Dr. Talmage, and i devoted to a pleasant account of his re cent visit to Trinity College, -North Carolina. , Dr. Craven ho characterizes as "ge nial and able," tho air as "deliriously cool," tho fields as "goldcfl ripo bar veste," "tho morning sweet with a Sum mery mixture of red-clover top cactus," and thc brass band on tho Campus play ing "Away down South in Dixie."- The business of Commencement ho de nominates the "launching of a group of young men from tho dry-dock of colic giate life on the wido waters of profes sional activity." He says : "Wo never heard so many magnetic speeches on ono Comramencc ment platform as on this. Tho slero typed manner and inevitable gesture of the ordinary collegian were swallowed in the fact that the graduates had some- ' thing to say "Notwithstanding what some of tho politicians say, wc believe the foelin of cordiality on tho part of the South towards tlie North is almost universal.. There aro more bitter and blood-thirsty men at the North who need reconstruc tion than at the South. Before tho next Presidential campaign is done this fact will be demonstrated. In Couirrcsa and in some of our Northern ccclcsias tical courts there ait determined to drag forth their war speeches oflPCS. For Christ's cake, let us have pcaco!n A WONDERFUL CLOCK. An eight day clock which chimes the quarter, plays sixteen .tune, playing three tunes every twelve hours, or at any interval required, lias been exhib ited at Paris. Tlie hands go round as follows : - One, once a minute ; one, once an hour ; oue, once a wcxk ; one, once, a year. It shows thc moon's age. the rising and setting of the sun, the time of high and low water half ebb and half flood ; and by a beautiful contriv aiice there is a part that reprecnU wa ter, which rises and falls lifting some ships at high tide as If they were in mo tion, and as It recedes leaving these automaton ships, dry on tlie sands. The clock shows the hour of the day. thc day of the month, there is provis ion made for. tho sign of zodiac it strikes or not, as may bo desired ; and it has Uic equation tabic sltowing tlw diirerence of clork and znn every da in the war.
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