North Carolina Newspapers

i jfl Was t -Nit J GOVERNMENT WAS INSTITUTED FOR THE GOOD OF THE GOVERNED. VOL. I. ASHEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1876. 1IUUBER40. mm y ill r it hi ii I ill iii f i ii ; !;'' d it no is xt ho n. ot ng THE ; RANDOLPH REGULATOR. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY THE RANDOLPH PUBLISHING CO. OFFICE 2 DOOKS EAST OF THE : COUltT HOUSE. ...$2 00 00 One Year, postage paid Six Months, postage paid RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square, one insertion ......... i $1 00 One square, two Insertions...........! 50 One square, three insertion?... .....,.1 00 ...3 00 ...5 00 ...8 00 .12 00 One square, four iuiMirtioni?... One square, three month)?.., One square, six months One square, twelve mouths For lanrer advertisements liberal con tracts will he made. Twelve lines solid brevier constitute one square, j All kind? of .1015 WORK doic at the Regulator" 'office, in th neatest ftyle, and on' reasonable term. Bills for advertising considered due when pre wnted. I THE PARTY PLATFORM. Adopted by the Democbatic Static CONVENTION'. Wherea?, The Republican party of Jthe Uhited States for the lat sixteen Wears lias had the complete control of the government in all it departments, and by iU disregard of constitutional Hraitatipns, by its unequal anl oppres sive taxation, by its extravagant and wasteful expenditures, by i'jts unwise and mischievous financial policy, by its unexampled official corruption, pervad ing all branches' of its administration, has brought disgrace upon out govern ment and unparalled distress jupon the people ; therefore j lUmlvc'ly That in this our jcentenni al year of otir existence we jmvite all patriots to ignore all dead isss, to dis regard tho prejudices engendered by past events, and to unite witu WHAT THE NATION PAYS FOR BAD SERVICES. One of oar exchanges remarks : Sen ator Eaton says it needs no magician to tell us why we have hard times. Forty -Bye hundred million dollars have been taken from the people in the last eleven years. Such taxation would breed hard times in a gold mine. Oat of this forty-five hundred million dol lars the payments on the war debt and interest on pensions and all forms of extraordinary expenditure, according to the reports- of the treasury depart ment, have been something less than twenty-two hundred million dollars to be exact,' $2,189,504,978 C9.' This leaves twenty -three hundred million, dollars for .current, "expenditures in eleven 3ears of peace under the benign workings of Radical administration. To give an idea of the extravagance which lias followed upon the exhaus tive efforts of the war, but which is no part of the burden caused by the war, a . comparison of the present yearly expenditures for eleven years preced the war will be found instructive. Sm;h a comparison shows' that three dollars are expended now where one dollar was expended under democrat- ic administration for the same class, kind and quality of service, and mak ing all allowance for the growth of the country and the difference between paper dollars and gold dollars. The expenses for eleven years preceding the war (including debt, interest and expenditures of all kinds,) were less en hundred million dollars. than sev( A I - . MISS W'A in UK" effort to restore constitutional, 'honest, .'oonomical, and pure administration of ( The expenditures for eleven years af- the government j-and -thus promote the i ter the war (excluding debt, interest, general welfare and ; happiness of the country. Jusoht'L Thai we " earnestly and cordially recommend the adaption by the ieonle of tho amend meiitR to the IT constitution, proposed by thi conven tion of 175, and thus largely reduce the expenditure of our Stuteand coun ; ty governments and simplify their ad ministration, so that we may b enabled tp establish a thorough and jenlarged System of public schools for tlie benefit of all tho citizens of the Sfatei Jtcsolvcd, That notwithstanding our repeated disappointments and jimpover ished condition, we till fondH' cherish the North Carolina-projects so long la. bored for by Morehead, Saunders, Fish er, Wni. H. Thomas and otheis uniting tho harbor of Beaufort and Vijloiington with the great west and for the comple tion of the Western North Carolina railroad to Paint Rock and Diicktown, and of our other unfinished railroads, we ptedgo the continued use ojf the con vict labor of the State and officii oth er judicious legislative aid ajs will se cure the completion of the grlpat State works at the earliest practicable period. Resolved. That the people of North Carolina now have it in their power by an earnest, determined and United ef fort, to relive our people from the evils of Republican misrule, extravagance and corruption, and'restore thelprosper- ity ot our Estate. Jiesolved. That we denounce official corruption wherever 'found and we hold honesty to be the first and highest qual ification for office. The following is ihe central j Execu tive Committee : ' 1 W. R. Cox, Cluiirman, R. HI Battle, U., C. M. Biisbee, Seaton Gals, S. A. Ashe, G. TL Snow and NY . .N. II. Smith. pensions and all forms of extraordina ry outlay) were twenty-three hundred Union, is a blow struck, indeed, di rectly at the people of South Carolina struggling to emancipate themselves from a despotism of rogues and ruf fians. But it is a blow aimed at the people of the whole country who are on the point of making 11 such usur pations and outrages at once and for ever impossible by driving from place and power the unscrupulous and law less Administration by favor and in aid of which they have been planned and perpetrated. The proclamation of President Grant and the order of his Secretary at War give plain warn ing to thoughtful and conservative men of all parties throughout the North and West that nothing whatever, neither the lives and liberties of Amer ican citizens, nor the principles of the Constitution, nor the explicit law of the land, nor the decisions of the great tribunal which stands be'tween all the interests of American society arid a worse than South American anarchy, will be for one moment weighed in the balance by the men who rule this country to-day against the perpetua tion of their power. It is to all in tents and purposes, and in the strict est meaning of the phrase, an incen diary proclamation. It is an attack upon the credit of the nation, and an open announcement to tne woria oi the failure of our institutions. To meet and repel this attack is the in stant duty ! of every good citizen in every State of the Union ; and the way to this duty lies open peacefully before every good citizen to-day. . There is ho need of words in such a case. Words will come indeed, hot and strong! to the lips of all freemen who know their rights and understand the whites do monopolize all tho offl-! ces, must pander to the negro element. This is the price white Radicals pay to negro Radicals for the possession of the profitable places in the gift of their party. The game was a plain one. In the Convention, white Radicals voted for the amendments to satisfy the better portion of the handful of white men who belong to their party, out of the Convention they protest against them to satisfy tho , negroes. It matters nothing to them how inconsistent the two things may be. 'A Radical cares little for consistency, and indeed it is a very small matter to one who has MORE TROOPS AND MORE MO NEY. " j. The result of recent Democratic vic tories in Indiana and West Virginia, will be a call for more money; and more troops. The latter is easily enough answered, but to fill trhe de-l mand for money a new levy will be nec essary upon the already hard worked, over oppressed and heavily burdened office holders. Chandler Is said to be furious at the hundreds of thousands lrawn from the sweat or bo many thousands "poorly-paid officials, which has been squandered so recklessly, and also, poor Yorick Hayes ! so una- vailingly in the Hoozier State.! It made up his mind to become the com- will be necessary to replenish the ex panion, political or social, of negroes or of white men like Tonrgee, Hester, Pool and numbers Of others that might be named. When a man comes to that pass, a man born and reared, we mean, in the South and living in the hausted political exclicquer, and there is but one way in which this can be done, and that is by an appeal for? further "donations" to. the one hun. dred thousand federal office holders throughout the country. Formerly it t i South, he cares for nothing save the I was an easy matter to raise almost any loaves and fishes of office. I amount of money for Republican cam The negroes are indeed to be pitied. They are without education and with out the intelligence necessary to an understanding of the condition in life to which they were so suddenly ele vated, and the result is they have. been and still are the dupes and tools of the few designing white men who will stoop low enough to gain their confi dence that is to say, those who con sent to recognise them as equals. This is the only thing that will gain a negro's political confidence. No mat- paign purposes, but the purse strings of the millionares who formerly gave 60 liberally, have been closely drawn this 3'ear, and the whisky ring has been so badly crippled, that its members have not tho inclination, nor indeed, the ability to do much towards reliev ing the financial famine with which the Republican head-quarters at Wash ington City are now threatened, j In this extremity the office-holders must aain to the breach, and another five per cent, will most likely be called for cause I am a public character, and my case is of special importance to tho cause of religion. My defection has1 shaken the faith of many, to my knowlr edge, and a multitude all orer the coun try, ; whom I hare nerer seen nor re oeived letters from, must LaTe been more or less affected by it. I might suggest more particularly. what I wish prayed for, I would re quest that prayers be offered that I ' might recover my faith in the Christian character; that is, that: lTflightbacoa convinced that the belief and iubjectiro experience of the Christian religion make men in the long run, more truth ful, more honest, more just, jmore xner ciful, more loving, more forgiVing than other people. For I must confess that an experience of sixteen years in the Christian pastorate has well nigh con vinced me that Christianity simple in tensifies human nature; so that while Christians love their friends more than other people do, and when once disr pleased are the most cruel and unxrupu. ous class of the community. , "1 Florence McCabthy, V Chicago, September 25. FROM THE CRADEL TO THE GRAVE. J a An English generation on tiie'march -from the cradle to the grave is an in structive spectacle, and we have it care fully presented to us in tho report by . Dr. F&rr. Let us trace the physical fortune which, any million of us may reasonably expect. The number to be alone they hold them. But the true. final and overwhelming answer to this brazen defiance of liberty and of the law must be given at the polls on the seventh day of November next, and to this end it behooves every citizen of New York who reads this procla mation this morning to see to it that his name is registered duly and exact- million dollars. This is the price the the tenure! ami conditions by which j country pays for Radical management. This is the quality of statesmanship which it is now proposed to fasten up on the count ry for four years longer. It is safe to say that history furn ishes no parallel for this showing. A sum of riionc' sufficient to have paid one-half of the principal debt has been exacted from a people whose resources : :t. i .f tu t t k i ter how exalted and pure a white mans in a few days. Poor fellows !. it is -7" -T J ' trC character in all respects may be no j hard on them, it is true, but they'can ff adproportxon which negro will trust him politically, unless all draw consolation. from the facthat he proclaims the doctrine of equality, they will never be called On afterhe This conceded, however, and no mat- 4th day to March next to pay another ter how vile the whitman's character assessment for political , purposes.-j-- may be the negro will trust him im plicitly with his dearest rights. Now this is the explanation of the ease with which a handful of white men manage their negro followers, and of their indifference to all appear ance of consistency upon the amend-. ments and all other questions. Civil Wit. Journal. A SINGULAR CONFESSION. An Ex Preacher Proclaims Himself an Infidel and wants to be! j rRAYED FOR. ; j Chicago Inter-Ocean.) 1 In view of the approaching religious O ""ft votes with a bait that Traitor Tom had been previously depleted by a iy on the voting lists ot. the metropo terrible war. and has been devoted to lis before the sun goes down to-night. .... t i i f c au i i : t the ravenous maws of an office-holding LL,et me cixizens oi ouuui Settle knows how to fish with as well claWwhose numbers- yearly increase possess their souls yet a little while ag the ncxt man jyum Journal. and have been swelled by forty thous- in patience, we repeat, and the.upns- and duringihe present administration, ing of the .North will bring to them It must be evident to the dullest in- and to all the land ere a inontn nas tellect that the country is eaten up by. passed such a deliverance as the sword its officeholders, and that they have never yet wrought out for any people. become a positive danger to the repub- and upon their enemies and the ene lie. If the wheels of trade could be mies of Republican freedom such a "reased with a thousand million dol- chastisement as the sword never j-et lnra rntiirnpd tnt.hft nockpts from which inflicted. V. Y. Worhl. likiu v i t ' - I I it has leen rifled it would make many nguu. me yovtom ui it au, -ivu vival . connection with Mr. Moody's riguis is a sure uan mi eaten negro meetings, I wish to make a request Nof the Christian people who may attend them. It is that they will pray for me. For several years I was the pastor of one of the largest churches in the city, and professed .and preached the Chris- A Mormon Sentenced to I)kath. Salt' Lake, Oct. 10. At Beaver Utah to-day, Judge Boreman passed sentence upon John D. Lee for partic ipation of the Mountain raasftacre, 19 years ago. In doing so, he called at tention to the atrocity of the crime. The inability heretofore of the; author- itics to procure evidence that he con spiracy to murder was widespread that Lee was finally offered up as a sao rafice to popular indignation, ut that others equally guilty might hereafter expect punishment The prisoner having the right under laws of the Ter ritory to choose death by Ijiangiug. shooting or beheading, and having cho sen to be shot was sentenced to be shot to death January 26, 1ST '7V dow poison of this aJminUlra tionalatl not stow enough -Jta pen- etrattd the great cohorts of ojftcefhohiing ryvUicarist Jrom the cabinet to Lhe cut lornhouse. Witt Jlr. Hayes be strong t man Uie convention cnu:n cneu j.o Triumnhe to Grants administration vhen Uit-people had repudiated, it with " unanimity umxtrallded in history ? Junes M. Scovell, a liberal republican WHAT IT PAYS TO DO. aim inuicsscu . auu in utuuu buo vu, It pays to manage the farm with tian religion. To all appearanceai I economy, and this is Drougut anout,J comforted and confirmed multitudeSrof not so much by economizing in one Christiana, and brought hundreds; of important particular as in many. It unbelievers into the fold of Christi-- will pay to keep the fence corners But, about six months ago, not from clean, so that grass will grow in them, impulse, but after mature and painful and so that your neighbor will not deliberation, I abandoned the pulpit THE RADICAL PARTY ANt THE take offense because of the thistle and and publicly renounced my belief in AMENDMENTS THE POOR other foul seeds that you allow to ma- the Christian religion. Even to me, NEGRO. ture and find their way into his cleanly wno no longer believed in a hereafter, ,T tTu nf b.nLnn tcv There are thirty amendments to the kePfc fielda- 11 " PaJ to cheaP this seemed to be a very solemn step. ta3-ed the Tanbv Constitution now pending be- gates, as they will save enough valua- And to the church over which 1 so fore the people for ratification. Thq ble time m the busy season of the long presided as pastor, so many of Democratic party has in open conven- ear w Pa uie expenses oi construct- wn0m l had led down into the waters tion formallv endorsed them. The mauJ lluies "ur At 7U1 oi baptism, ana to wnom i naasooiten . . ..it Radical Dartv has in any eouallv open ways pay to have wooa ana water administered the sacrament, it seems 1 " " i i i . i - n :n I . ...... . . . , ' and public way in convention assem- "amv uuu uear lue "- Mto me that this event snouia nave ap- bled formally condemned them ; but W ouuatueawemngwitu tne view pcared nothing less than shocking and strange to sav, that is if any action of of.saving steps. In constructing or awful. And yet it is a singular tact th Radical nartv can le strange be- remodeling their houses, farmers would that there has never been a prayer of - - ii It. ... .!. - . cause of its inconsistency, the individ- ao weu 10 0005011 wim tneir wives, fercd in the Union Park (now the ual members of that party have not tor tuey woulu suggest ideas by wnicn Fourth) Baptist, nay in any other church leen so violent or so general in their ine nome 0001(1 maue more conve' n this city, for my recovery from inti onnosition. Indeed, the iournal of nient- It ill pay to use more paint delity. On the other hand, the Boston the nroccedings of the Constitutional maoore ana out. it win pay to en- Baptist paper, the atehman, expres- Convention of last year shows Uiat a courage tne cniKiren. oive tnem an majority of the thirty amendments occasional day for recreation. Give now pending met with not a single tuem a 0011 or can p raise, anu let opposing itauicai vote in tnat Doay. ; j " " And three more met with nearlv equal lnvesi m so way mat meets your fvnr. two of them having received aPProvaL 11 wil1 PaJ to make 00106 only two opposing votes to ninety-six 90 tractive that it will always be pieasant lor a man to iuiuk over ms boy howl days. A pleasant home will make better boys and better men. It will pay to plant and cultivate fruit trees of all kinds. Plenty of good fruit promotes health and longevity. Finally, it will pay to do all these things we nave enumerated, ana a hundred others that are now" neglected. which many of us would do if we would take time to think. will by and by be redressed by the un due mortality of the boys, and will bo reversed before the close of the strange, eventful history. More than a quarter of these children will die before they are five years old in exact number, , 141,387 boys and 121,795 girls. The two sexes' are now nearly, on a level. ' The next five years will be much lest fatal. In the succeeding five years " from ten to fifteen tho mortality will be still further reduced. Indeed, for both sexes, this is the most healthy pe riod of life ; the death -rate, however, is ower for boys than for girl. 1 There will bo some advance in deaths in the i next five years, and still more in the five which follow, but 034,045 will oer tainly enter on their twenty-sixth year. Before the next ten years ace at an end, two thirds of the women will have mar-s. tied. The deaths durinz that period will be 02,052, and of these no fewer than 27,134 will be caused by consump tion. Between thiity-five and forty fie a still lanrer "death. toll" will be light hearts in the country where now there are sad ones. It would have averted the panic of 1873. It would have s which is still sweeping its resistless way through the. land. What better thing can be done than in November next to hand the country over again to capable hands ? The Democratic candidate for President has proven himself the friend of re form. He has shown the ability to inaugurate retrenchment. lie has proved himself the enemy of thieves. He has the courage, the capacity and the will to arrest the tidal wave of ex travagance which is hurrying both the people and the government forward into the most terrible financial per plexities and fast building up an offi cial class who boldly seek to perpetu ate their rapine by expending a por- ion of their salaries for the purpose of carrying elections.-iaeriiZ Land mark. in their favor, while the third received only three opposing votes to 1 13 in its favor. Of the whole thirty amend ments only four met with unanimous GRANTS INCENDIARY PROC LAMATION. It is to be hoped, and we arc glad opposition of the Radical party. And to believe that it is to be expected, yet in the face of all this the Radical that the citizens of South Carolina party as a party condemns the amend who have borne themselves so patient- ments and protests against their rati- lr and so bravely under the atrocious fication ! wrongs and injuries heaped upon them But we do not have to go very far by their local oppressors, will not fail nor do we have to look very closely to ! a, to i10mK-o. -ml to find a reason for such inconsistent their country now. The monstrous conduct. A single glance at the com proclamation, issued to-day by Prcsi- plexion and composition of that party dent Grant and the order accompany- explains the whole matter. X party inr it, which practically declares war that is composed of nine-tenths ne- 'iTiiiit n State at ncacc within the'groes ami onc-tcmn wcuc, cwu sed the liveliest satisfaction that I had adjured the Christian faith and was going to hell. I hare no idea, there fore, that I can secure an , interest in the prayers of the Baptist ; but I ask to be remembered in the prayers of the Christians at large who may attend Mr, Moody's meetings. j ! I make this request because for, sev eral months past I have felt that there was, after all, a great truth somewLere in the orthrodox ChristiAn, religion, though, as yet, V cannot define nor comprehend it. . But my present view of Christianity exerts no influence over my heart or life, and if I should die in paid, and little j more than half the or iginal band in exact numbers, 502,915 -will enter on their fortysixth year. Each Ksicccding decade, up to seventy five, will now become more fatal, and the number will shrink terribly. At seventy five, only 161,124 will remain to be atruck down, and of these, 122, 559 will have perished by the eighty fifth year of the march. The 38,565 that remain will soon lay down their burdens ; but 2,1 53 of them will strug gle on to be ninety five, and 223 to bo 100 years old. Finally, in the 108th year of the course, the last solitary life will flicker out. Such, then, is the average lot of a million English "men and women. CaxtclTs Magazine, In a country churchyard there is the following: i epitaph: aUere lies the body of Jas. Robertson and Roth his wife: and underneath this, text: Their warfare is f ccoroplhhed. Tbe organ of the Republican ; party in this State speaks of the organization of the workifigmen of Raleigh as "the v so called mechanics' Tilden and Vance club; and again, as a "combination of bosses" ; and farther, as 'beggars on horse-back,' Has it come to this that the Republican party dares to insult , the machanics because thoy choose to organize against thieves and plunder ers ? Will the working men of N. Car- olina, any one of them, follow, at the ' heels of the insolent thirf-eristccracyy . who are attempting to bully and bad v per honest men into their support J J A ronnnl vip iMtni f rrrr.incnt In my present cUte of mind I should, if , Yja. Our dispatches thi momlc the New Testament is true,' sink into indicate that Russia. Germany and w Ia an endless hell. I have also as an in- cidential motive, the desire to recieve a demonstration of the truth of religion by experiencing this highly improbable change in answer to prayer. 1 make this request in this public tsan?icr bet Austria are forming an alliance against Turkey. Should this combination bs effected and war ensue, the Ottoman Empire will share the fate of Poland ; but with thU difference, there will bQ no sympathy for the barbarous Turk, I t '" . - i i