Newspapers / The Courier (Asheboro, N.C.) / Sept. 27, 1876, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Courier (Asheboro, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
VOL. I. THE RANDOLPH REGUljATOfl.1 KSDAY IJV THE RANDOLPH PUBLISH OFFICE 2 iOOR5? EAST OF cot:kt house. NO CO. the (XJ One i car, postage mill .Six .Month., postage paid.... RATES 9F ADVERTISING. One square, one insertion I One quan two in-prtion.....'..-. Onr Mjn.ire. flm-e insertion?... . On. fti oo ..1 V) ' I!? oe future. thn--month U 5 00 1 m-uaro.xnmnt J...: .......J.. ....s 00. Old liond, 17,80000 One square, twelve month- I....12 Wit;t J''ow-w For hirr.r alvrrtis-m-fiU liberal con- i-Olher assets, 19.2G4.27 tract will he mud'. Tw.dw lijie M.lid j - ln'VMTffm-liliifc f,D. fii:ui. i 131 '00 00 All kinil.4 of .Joi; WORK dom- at the ! rPI ' , . r ' i HiXiirr.ATo,:" (,ni, i ,,, u, Fh() aWc 1S frora l)a"c $9 of the ivl.-. .union r.-.i-on:ill.-tcnii j Iiills for : published report of Treasurer Jenkins nuT"? '',msi'1"rc,, J'- pre-;fur 1808-09, and it shows that none " 1 of the principal was touched orchang- The Froe-School Fluid. llnW COVKKNOR VANCfc PRK- SKIJVKI) PP. HI-RING Tl'lj-: WAR. . ! i:u'i jt .rn:i: Tin; ;var V A XOK S. 1 ) ITS ABKTRj Ivctjox "for war ir rposks AY AS . TUK TOOK riiILl)h4;. Ills I of i-; stati: 1IOI.IH-JV v. I Til SI'.TTI.i: hi AT lk.oi:ur:i:Y. 1 lni,i;; j, xiK tmi: S ( l"r: A N I ( I A V I IT TO i-j.r , I A;;i:i; am; Tub 1si;s-y,:- A w:ir n--ord of honest v :u '1 vatriot- iMn ir ennli! ::n-e- :v peace record of ruUiirv and rnviie 'or llol.len - S. ;!( has reatx-d t!i( hon- ors and profits of oilice ijfm in-this game ol plniulering t he State, while the pour children, the vict, ims of his J'.trty and 'his r.ir;motion, arc left in t he toils, of poverty, the jlespair of darkness and the ruin of gnorance. ew Xorth The Constitution, the N SJ:it' and .ludge Settle wl conic down from "their lofn 11 have to y attitude otvthe sacred free school fun Carolina. They have rung 1 of Xorth ue c; lang es on. the charges that Coveii uor Vance . J l during the war laid the violent hands 01 n fierce traitor on the fiacrel lice school tund ot the State lhvcsted in good permanent securities, and put it iti'to the worthless bonds o! the Con- federate States. A. bolder falsehood was-never utter- cd. ( iovernor Vance or no other gov - ornor before him, had any control over the nee school fund, but tkie legisla- t-ure did ; and (Iovernor V 'mce hear - ingthat a proposition to rej school fund in -Confcder hte bonds would come tefore the leg slaturc of; 1SG3, page 19 of his publ ijshed nics sage to the legislature, say$ : . ! Notwithstanding their pretended dc " There has lieen som.e disposition j votion to the cause of popular educa ' manifested to take thisTund for war i tion; their Iniastccl liberality their -purposes .Should there ijeally exist rccklcss cxtravagencc they spent not h- f I - one to d, tl.iwi,;,!, '? i,;i: yMi,i 11 a iittuil) VlllllfXi . probal'le) I earnestly hojbc you will pheir administrative control of the "promptly defeat it. ' : school fund ; and during the second aosuaciHjn woul.l absolute '' roblvry of the poo --State." chili ren of the - On the contrary it shoiM be your ! "duty to carefully preserve, and iff "possible increase this fund, .make 4 provisions for its regulajr dristribu- tion and do everything in your potr. er to educate the youth of the coun . 'try,M' i ' ' Is this the language ami (conduct of a man who robs school funds by in vesting them in worthless war bonds ? The North Carolina free tchool fund remained invested in thj old above par' stocks and loads, and it was ' found to bo in these securikies at the close of the war, as followl; Stock iii State banks. slfotT ion J., . . , ' ' ' Stock in railroads. Stock in Navigation Cos., 32,500,00 Total Stocks, Other assets, caa A U,U18.00 r ' 1 J50 During tbc war the baiik and rail- road stocks yieldctl large dividends in Confederate' money. Some lof this was invested in bonds of the Statc of North Carolina and some in bnds of the Confederate States of America. . r - - t IlfiGS Ilolden with his crew of i "cators, innovators and resource de- vqlopcrs came into power. Treasurer Jenkins reported that he found on jhand the following stocks, &c: I Stoclc in State banks, $1,047,100.00 W. and W. R. stock, - 400,000.00 . and M. R. R. stock, 32,500.00 Total stocks, $1,G70,C00.00 Certificate of indebtedness ! given by the State for her j "Id bonds and interest, $ 304.a3C.35 jed by Governor Vance or any Qne else ; during the war.- Mr. Jenkins finds on jband every item belonging to the j school fund before the war. ; 1 along comes Governor Ilolden ....... m-j HUillll.3, Jl-'IUL) , A. 1 ul I UUU Pool, lie reports in his published message to the legislature of 18G&-'CC, ::i page 19, that they had sold the ' stock in the Wilmington and Weidon land Manchester railroad amounting Mo six hundred thousand (sCoO.Oi ..)) : dollars for the sum of one hundred and !li fly eight thousand ($Lr8Jo0) dollars, j And this he says thev had invested t in those great permanent and invul S( 11001. . i'-rablo securities the special tax Cai:- j,K)ni issued by the legislature of 18G8. cvi'is nr i f-nwl scrip, which the United States i had given the State of North Carolina J to found an agricultural college, llol- . den with his financiers and developers Isold for one Hundred and twenty j(sUO,0O0) dollars,'- witfi which they J boiidit hue hundred and sivlv fliotu j sand (100,000) dollies in special tax ' bonds. t -. j In the year ISG'9 they received $lf9,- ; 10.02. What did tliev do with it,? j They spent it as follows : Expense, Lent to university, G.lwR.lS 3,000.00 : Lent to-pay members of rad- ical legislature, 158,000.00 000,000.00 Spent for schools, i $1G9,1o3.18 How was it the next year? The ! . receipt s Ibr educational purposes for . 187, were $333,t)73.7G Of this fund they made disburse j ments as follows: j Expenses. ; 2.014.00 jnt to university, 12,000.00 j Invested in special tax 1 bonds. 38,981. 8G i Disbursed for schools, 38,981.8G : They deliberately killed theuniver- 1 sit v. yet we find that in 18G9 and 1870 'invest thc.:thcy spent there for the benefit of Sol. Pool, Fiske Prcwcr and such sl.",000 in loans that are all gone where the - ! woodbine twineth. i ,n? for schools during the first year of l and last venronlv OS 1 art o'th,rri, they received for educational purposes 7 - - -w-f-Wv-v V V V4 LA jthat year $333,9 73.G7. And these are all facts by the rcc- ord. T j ocratic hey are brought out the dem- executive committee at much labor and with great pains and care to assure accuracy. They show that Governor Ilolden and his associates of the republican party have plundered the State! in ev ery conceivable way. either sytemati cally or through weakness, and that in the hands of - that ".party which Settle now leads, even the sacred trust fund 1" tbe poor children of the State is not sa'c- an" under the auspices of that mi we should never have a system 01 tree schools. lUtlcwh aitmrL j MAN'S Wants l"rnn Trinf shnt Hi - - k I Ic here Wo,F-,'v A traveler in the j tjt line ; It frequently happens that ftlie OWUrf Of 51 thAtientiil Arn -in.l ! borses, and five times as many sheen. has not a bed in his house, and is too lazy to take the wool from the sheen's ! back to spread on .'the ground beneath him. Tho..' skull ; of an ox serves hira for a seat, and the horn far a cup, and .this is all his houshold ftmiture. ASHEBORO, 1TORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1876. PEACE AND REFOinL AX ELOQUENT APPEAL FOTl LAW LIIJERTY AXD JUSTICE. , The Xatiox must have Peace! ! The nation 7iivH Itnve Peace It is the first aspiration of every patriotic heart North and South, East and West. It comes up spontaneously from every business interest ; from every mart of commerce, from every channel of indus try, from every home of plenty and from every centre pf want. It' per vades the prayer of every sincere devo tion, breathes its gospel in every faith ful teaching, and has its alter wherever religion has a resting place. It is the demand of every maimed and scarred warrior who loves the country for which he ofiered his life, and the brave men of the blue and gray, who made our battle-fields immortal by the heroism of the American people, would efface forever the estrangements of war., and welcome peace and brotherhood as the crowning victorv of the noblest govera mcnt of the earth,' There must be peace for the sake of peace. j Thr rrroalralfil huhtr.s of the coiiii' j , try ini'sl have fate f The railing of Che demagogue will fall like tuneless .! songs upon the widespread distress and 1 bankruptcy and want which prevail throughout every productive industry and every channel of trade. Hate will revive no thrift ; injflamed resentments will not break the .silence of the mills; the bitt ev memories: of the war will not bring comfort to breadless homes; the recital of the madness of the treason of a generation now jialf perished from amongst us, will call no idle sinews to required labor ; thq horrors of Ander sonvillc and Libby, so fearfully aveng eii of the passious of war, will whisper no words of hope to trembling credit, and the re-echecs of the violence of sub jugated insurgents, uttered in the keen anguish of dispair, will not for a moment stay the destruction that is sweeping over the paralyzed energies of the peo ple. A convulsive campaign of studied appeals to sectional hate, cruelly mocks every suifering business man and every idle laborer in the land. It is a foe of i capitol and of industry. It consigns half tho continent! to misrule, robbery and desolation. It impoverishes the South, where there should bo prosperi ty and generous tribute to our debt and expenditures, and throws tho whole burden of the government upon the North, now struggling almost hopeless ly against universal prostration and embarrassment. It is a war without a single manly at tribute of war. It is w.jrtion war against the earnest efforts ,oftvo mighty sections for peace. It is a crime against free government ; a death-blow to every effort for restored prosperity, and ifjit shall triumph, the North and the South once enemies but now reunited by indissoluble ties, will be doomed to common misfortune. There will be pitiless poverty in all that gladdens and ennoble a people and a tertible plenty of all that divides and degrades them. There must be peace as the harbinger of prosjerity. There must be peace for Reform! Corruption holds high carnival in the fountains of power, national, State and and municipal. It has permeated evcry wherej Like the unseen miasma that insensibly; saps the life of it3 victims, it has coursed its way into every tem ple of authority ; into our social sys tem ; into our business channels, and ecn . the alter is almost taught daily its pollution, li stains the Grant ad- tration from the highest to the minis them. We have scent ot what wasor.ee dignified an J honored authority, where to bp honest . e see great Vomrcon wealths in tha South. given up as the pray of theires and adventurers: their elect ions"per. vcrtctl by riotous mockeries of the will o.eSC - 01 i ccpenaenu ana its cheit j lcs3 hto forc m people who long for hamL You rc bcn pleascl to al leaders recod from the severe crucible fratrnitj; tHat tLej makQ a unitc1 cf. ! ludc to toy humble sen ices.as yptir a suffering people would demand for j for ovME tIl . , . .j leader during U.d war, an-1 to honor uWunK!nn;1Bln!sr1aM,Huiac,lhe distinction efliced br tho sword J UMla Prou'1 to AXraowIftlgc yoa a approval of the first legislative tribunal ! look out through anpallb-misrub for ! m" lcailcr lo the hhrn of the nation 'We see the most rt-s-: same nlic from .the i tliat in our struggle for U;e prese'n ponsib.e gifs of the admimstraUon dis tLat hescts tLera and tLer j tion of our liberties, the people wilPaU penscd as rewards for faithlessness to t, ' ways lxj found in front.- Those sM. of the. people, and the President, the solemn Ceatennial judgement of the Senate and, the army exhausting their ItepubHc ia behalf of lloncstv. IJbcrtr lOWtrS to give Victorv to ustimrrs and n5ul Taw - TL'J 77 t.Z:.-, 7T.. 1 plunderers. ' We seo troops ostenta tiously thrown upon peaceable commu nities on the threshold of a national election, to invite the cunning of the lawless to provoke disorder that the in nocent may bo disfranchised and pun ished. Wc sec carpet-baggers, who would not be trusted within sight of a 1 0 village till, monuments of a nation's shame in the United States Senate, and crawling into Gubernatorial chairs in spite of popular rdefeats, and guarded by every department of the government as if they weTc the jewels of freedom. We see corruption surging unchalleng'. cd about the very throne itself ; the strong arm of power reached out to stay the avenging blow of justice, and the few faithful public servants who labored to assert the majesty of the law, striped for their devotion, defamed for their iutegrity and dismantled of their authoi ity. We see great States' in the North grinding in the prison-houses of corrupt leaders, who have unsurned the n t , 7 1 u 1 i 1 r " i -t r ' masters of the people. The honors of: c, t- . .ix iuu oiij.it; uucii uuriercu 10 xne 1 most accomplished m political infamy, and the substance of the tax payers has ibeen perverted to peculation and de bauchery. And we see great cities as great sores on the bod politic pollut ing the ballot, degrading official trust, and giving consuming waste and debt and taxation as the logical fruits of their governments. There must be peace for reform. lit ere must he peace to Lring faith less rulers to accountability. Eight . years -ago tho nation declared for last ing peace, peace was the slogan that rallied the people to the support of the hero of Appomattox ; and they rejoiced as he taught peace by dividing his high est honors with the Confederate warrior Longstreet, tho Confederate Senator Orr, the .Confederate soldier and jurist' Akcrmanj and many others of lesser note. For nearly eight years President Grant has been empowered to strengeh en peace throughout the land. He had every department of the government in political sympathy with himself, and ample authority to enforce his man dates. Ho had Senators obedient to his will issues, and he and they had but . , . . . " . , to enioree honesty and maintain law, ' and peace would have been supreme. But ambition bread debaucherv ; dci bauchery begat disorder and crime, and violenco was summoned to defend the disturbers of the peace and to punish thoso who" pleaded for government and law. Profligacy and greed became the painfully prominent attributes of polit ical power and throughout its countless streams demoralization spread a wither ing blight. And nowthe authority that has been charged witli the peace of the nation for eight years i3 brought before the great tribunal of the Amer ican people for judgement of approval or condemnation. If there is not peace, it must answer for it. If it has rejects ed peace, it must be execrated and over, thrown, for the. people created it in the love of peace and will not accept dis cord and hate a3 its offering. They are sick at heart of sectional strife. In their extreme distress and embarrass ment and want thej ask some other gar lands of eight years of trust, than the flaming wreath of a divided and resent ful people, and they will demand peace that thev may Like an account of their stewards. In vain will Cameron train his guns and marshal his gleamin- bav- oneU in the contest, and idle will be the bloody shirt declamation of Morton nd Conklin: ng and Bbinc and Kilpat - jr aaant the banner of end j iiiiU V.-UiiiiiliJ j ricJ. reached the deep de.uhe liassiM nf ,.1 Bt-r 1 S ' - m1V-W. ft-MU UU AUKA ! t , , , j crflo6fL and ConfcJcrat with tf IlA rtinnln" Mio liirn mt.lA - 4 ' rx m nu iLuuu ot uiiue. 1 lie re must bo jicace ; and in peace and for peace, North and South will enter the COL. THOS. S. " KENAN IN AN SON. - i "ONE OF THE PROUDEST iiAYS OF HIS LIFE." Is Waited ox by mn Veterans of ras Old Regiment A Geacejxi. Demonstration. The Polkton Ansonlan Saturday last was a day long to be remembered in old Anson. Arcon other interesting events of the day, was . the ixKrepUoir of CSoL'Jlioniai S. Kenan, by the members of his bid regiment, of which three companies were from this county. At the ring ing of the bell they assembled in the courthouse, and after qrganizatioii. it was ordered on motion of Lt.jlL Brown, that Lt. L. L. Tolk form the men in lino march them to the office of Messrs. Ashe . and Bennett, where it was understood the colonel was, and , , ,' lhc colncl s hand, that Lt. Polk con- YC to "ira the gratification nnd pleasAJ , , 1 s !Urc " auoruoti mem to welcome hlra. -,. - . . . it was iurtner agreed tnat fathers, sons and brothers of those who died pr were killed in that rigimcnt, be invit ed to participate. j They immediately repaired to the public square, which was crowded ty hundreds of eager spectators, and "Fall in forty -third" rang out above the din, and with that splendid qld soldier Scrgent J. J. Dabbs at the head, the line was soon formed. After til ? At ! uiKing uiem inrongn some exercises sin the company drill, which were per formed with creditable alacrity and accuracy, the column moved down the street, "in fours," and was halted! in front of the office. They were tlicn thrown into "open ranks," and 'Ke nan !' Kenan ! ! Colonel Thomas S. Kenan ! ! ! rang out from a thoiisarid throats. II is appearance on the porp h, with head uncovered, was the signal forshouts, yells and cheers, such! as had never been heard on the streets of Wadeslxro. Lieutenant Polk tlicn j stepped forward, evidently embarrnss- on to suppress tue emotion which the occasion excited, and said in the most feeling manner : I do not claim' to ! give his exact words.l r J 1 t.r-l 1 I' "Colonel Kenan : I am the honored organ chosen by my old comrades, the veterans of the old -13rd regiment, who now stand before you to convey to you the expression of our high grat ification and pleasure at meeting you for the first time in cur county, and to extend to 3-011 the warm -welcome of a soldier's hand and a soldier's iicart. We haveomc, sir, to take ou by;tkc hand and to assure j-ou of our high ap preciation of those qualities of head and heart, that so endeared 3011 tq 03 as our beloved commander, in thSbsc dark "days that tried men's souls." And while wc remember the associa tions of those scenes of suifering, par nagc and peril, through whicli yoa as our leader and commander, bore ;the flag of the 4fort3:-third' so gallantly;' we j again gladly greet 'and hail you to-day j as. our leader, bearing as 'yoa dotjthe banner of justice,, right and reform. We ask of you the pleasure of grasping your hand.' Colonel Kenan then replied ; "M3 old soldiers and friends : This i 13 onc ol proudest and happiC3t las of my .life.' The recollectio-J of i lhi an1 lhis sccnc 1 shaI1 fonllly jchcrisl- lon5 t13 I live, and am truly Prou-tl of tbc oPIrtunity and plca-ire 1 of iou aaIn a(Ur lonSa.ep-) j aration d taking cacii of you by the 1 'me with tlic aijrancc of your Hnprov- al of inr coi-rv in! PAidtTf in capacity. Allow me to say that I am tng or holding f-ositions of trust tnd honor sliould be tho servants and fol lowers of tlic peojilc Again thanking 3-011 for this demonstration of friend- shin ami CStwm. I vUlt nnir Ia fU-n leach of yon by the hand. t - m w w NUMBER 35. uabout face, and . thq colonel ' with hcatl nncovcrcd, and accompanied by Lt. Polk, passed between U10 ranks shaking tho hantls of each eagerly and warmly. Scores of men Prbb witness ed it," wero moved'to tears. It was in deed an affecting scene, and one whieh was as honorable and comply mcntary to the noble men as to tho gallant colonel. . Old men bowed witli age whoso sons had fallen under his leadership, onc legged and one armed men, and men who bore upon thciK honored persons the scars of scores ofi. Iiard fought battles took his hand, and by- the expressions of their warm feel ings attested their loye for him who had indeed been a friend when a friend wa3 needed. The silence and stillness in that large crowd was evidence that all were impressed with tho scene When asked to take his position at ho bead of the column, to be escorted' to the stand, he declined, saying as ho ' placed himself .in the rear, "No, you felt it your duty to follow me once and now I feel it m3 duty to follow 3 0U. Ho was escorted to the stand, whero man3' of the ex-soldiers of his regi ment, who did not -arrive in time to participate in the reception,' went to him and shook his hand. It was an interesting occasion, no less crcditablo to the men tlun it was complimentary to. him. ' ! ORVILLE GRANT DRUNK. Tiik President's BaoTiimi Lockto Up the St. Louis Calaboose.. Special dispatch to the New York Sun.J - St. Ix)uis, Sept. 1 2. A. rumor which circulated in the streets of St. Louis last nighi 'that Orvillc Grant brother of lhc president, hail been arrested in a condition of beastly intoxication, proves to-day a fact. At Jast about dusk, special officer Von Magge and a brother patrolman wheeled the prcsb dent's brother up to the Four Courts iii a handcart, and dumped hira out at the main entrance.' : Thc3 had found him, they said, lying in a vacant lot near the union depot, and but for them -he would surely have lost his fine gold watch and chain, and perhaps his gold-headed cane and silk stove-nino hat. When dumped out, Orvillc was still in a semi-conscious condition, and unable to stand on his legs. Ho was carried into Capt. Burgess office, where he was relieved of his valuables, including a large number of documents from Washington and the Indian agen cics, and was then carried down to tho calaboose and thrown into cell No. 10, along with some half dozen Dthcr drunks." So far he had escaped recogn tion. but an inspection of his letters and pajnirs soon established his identity. All of them were addressed to 3. Li Grant, Eli.abcthtown, N. J and with a few exceptions the3 all related to post-traderships, Indian contract, Ac. Some of the letters were from a part ner in Washington, and others from Indian agents out west. His watch was an elegant g61d one. but no namo could le foundfon it. ' j . : !' The drunken man remained in tho ! cell until toward midnight. Then a ' witness for the defence in thq late : whisky case, one Louis Bohic,,drovt; j up to the Four Court, and inquired alout the chance? of getting the resi- ! dent's brother out. jtc wa informed tltat Orvillc would be rclcasol When sober, and an officer was sent to tlio . cell to ascertain the drunken -man" a condition. In a short time hcjrcap- ; peaml, bringing in the president' , brother. Onille presented a (sight. ; truly piteous. He was not yet quite t sober enough to raiize fully the shamo I of his position, but be was dazed and trouble!. Hi? clothes were mussed, i liis beaxl bruiiel and mnddy, and his ; general appearnco sickening. His "j face was red, his eyes swollen, and his I luousuiciic ii una" uown at tno corners; He staggercl along the Iiallwa3. pavo a nol of recognition to liohie as ho passes I into the ofllcc to register his name in the property book. Silently he wrote out Uie signature. "6. L. Grant. Tlicn he received back hU j gold watch and other valuables, and j lefl to company with Ilohic." It seeni5 that the afternoon Orvillo Grant hail leen drinking with fricmU' j at tlic Lintlell hotel where lie hail ar- I rived some time before, but ha1 tiot registered. About .five o'clock bo, p slippctl away nnnoticc!. ! and when " j heard ' from at the Ijoicl lixl been ar- j resteiL After his release he wo? t put to Lcil at once, arul inquiries for hint to-ilay were unproductive. The locr ; ofhii room, No. 175, was locknL an !' letter for him was in his box, 1 1 . was not visible. The - p : i brotlicr was cither slcqnr t f fects of bis de!anrb, or 'y . keeping out of siglit. t ! The front rank was brought tq an
The Courier (Asheboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 27, 1876, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75