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it r. THE WILMINGTON POST. WV P. CAN AD AY, EdV & Frop'r. : WILMINGTON, N. C, StjsdAy Mobniitg, April 20, 1879. HON. DANIEL L. (RUSSELL AND . THE LA.TI2 COL. W.B. DEVANEl It would be a very graceful tiling for lion. Daniel L. Russell, our member of Congress, to tender the cadetship at West Point, should he hare the appoint, ment of one, to the son of his late friend, Col. W. 8. Devane. The young gentle man ia about 17 years of age, is exceedingly ; intelligent, and would make a very fine looking officer. There would be no doubt that the young man would pass the examination, and should i he receive the appoihtment;he would j do honor to himself and friends. - Judge Russell had no better lnend than Col. . Devane and the appointment" of the mnntv on.wrtuld"ELve the other. His strength will break itself against the bulwarks of the Con stitution, even had he the inclination to exert it against that instrument," which is extremely improbable in the case of Gen. Grant. Should he ever be elected and attempt it, his. glory would fade away as do the cloud tints when the sun goes down. Many Republicans of the south bes lieve, or affect the belief, that jwith Gen. Grant President for the third time, their lot would be improved8 They say that under his strong admin istration the tyranny of old prescription would be broken. That the exclusive privilege of one race, the hereditary Donaage oi another, ana too ignorance ol both, would be swept away. That here, where Republicans have allowed invasion on their freedom to gain au dacity from endurance, andjejf irom me lapse oi timene- arise, OUR CANDIDATES FOR 1880. The New York limes has performed a remarkable journalistic feat by inter viewing several persons in every state in the Union all at once, and publish ing the results of the information thus obtained in its columns. It has ascer tained that Gen. Grant and Mr. Tilden are to be the respective candidates of their parties for President one year from "next summer. Having wrought itself into that semiomniscient, som nambulistic, second-sight state of mind which is its wont, it ? announces "that "we " cannot shut pur eyes to the fact that it the choice of candidates has virtually been made" and that "briefly stated, the result of our inquiries is that Gen. Grant is the candidate favpjEaJJ an overwhegaj&Ky the Re PSPartyTand that Mr. Tilden is the deliberate choice of a majority of the Democratic party sufficient to secure f, 8end and lead them out of his nomination, while he would be more tion, we believe, to all classes of the people of this District regardless ot party. . HARD LYINU J For harding lying, the Democratic party beats the world. It you want a lie that can't be excelled, if, you want the Republican: party lied about, if you want a political lie, if you" want a gentlemen's of ladies private chamber entered and all sorts of slanderous lies told, if you want a filthy liestartedand repeated, n you aesire me. cesspool oi ceneral satisfaci L"rfis, into the land of liberty. I fill i. j1 j1 1 il " t i inn gTiHWPr m inio i rnnr. rno iranna agains$ the abuse, (he intimidations, the stripes and the massacres of Repub licans in the south began before Gen Grant was President, and continued throughout hi3 administration of eight years. Who can forget the direful cruelties practiced in Mississippi, which silenced a majority of forty thousand, or less reluctantly accepted by the re mainder of that party.". Having thus been informed of what is inevitable, so far as we understand the subject, tho American people have only to wait until a year from next Bummer for two national conventions to assemble and ratify what haa already been irrevocably decided upon. Nevertheless,, under these circumstances, we supposs people are not prohibited from thinking as in South Carolina which suppressed a majority of fifteen thousand, during the they please in the meantime, and utter strong administration of President ing such opinions as may occur to them f . !il T1 X.M A- 1 1 oi . vraub wiwi a xv-epuoucaa 10 Dacjc mnu y?e are not Dy anv mean3 certain Tf Vio woa inAiQTarant r nnnTCi-lai-a 4 Vi rj-n I .1 ' 1 1 tt .. .. 1 " "v "vivuu vi fnviBo hxxj, 1 inat ine imes 13 not correct in its an- r.iti'ps entered and all kinds of lvinff how wiU his strength be increased dur- nouncement. As to Mr. Tilden, it has filth 'vomited forth, if you really jDS tbe next four years, with Congress been whispered for quite a while that desire, the private character of Repub can leaders lied upon,, if Heaven and hell is to bo slandered, we advise you to send to Washington gallery, and following is thousands o ied at, Cod and the devil and get the ordinary news he will fill the bill. The a fair sample of the many flies they are circulating in the hands oi the .Democrats Republicans in the south must learn to watch their.inheritance with jealousy; that these invasions and encroachments cannot be prevented by the power of one man, buttby the united firmness of us all. notice has been served on the Demo cratic party that they could have the choice either to lose New York in 1880 or nominate Mr. Tilden. Gramercy Park is inexorable. It has rights to be restored and griefs to be assuaged. And its secret decrees go forth, backed Senator Blaine's Bpeecli Powder and Snot of Tieason. The New Yotk. Herald (Independent) - The Okolona titouthern States of last has the following very sensible article week comes to us reeking with the per on the- Democratic progress in Con-1 spiration of treason and rebellion, and gress. ' red hot in its fire ; eating proclivities The vigorous and effective speech j towara the government and tbe Union made yesterday by Mr. Blaine in open- and tnoso xrho saved them lrom over iog the debate in the Senate on 'the throw during the former rebellion. It political iider which the Democratic furnishes the following: . House has mounted on the Army : powder and shot. Appropriation bill illustrates his The Lost Cause is found. ; - ' -:: : sagacity in recognizing the force of . a . Whe Congress repeals the election j e . laws what will, your amendments be perfectly conclusive argument. Ihe worth? Herald has more than once exposed the j The north never could hare captured utter absurditv of the . Democratic our capital at Ricumond on the James Wabno abrtht the presence of federal ififc been for the help of the Old ,j. x, n. , . , , World Hessian3 who rallied o&Ynsz. soldiers at the polling places by show- and she knojsail-- ing thutarmy i Soft-shells! have you read Insignificant a part of it is retained the speech of Representative Blackburn for service on this side ot the Mississip- vet? .tie says, ana we say, mas ine pi River that the President, if ever so last vestige of the war measures shall much disposed.: could not intimidate be wiped out. : 7 : and overawe electors lrom sheer lacK j.ne uonieaerate Dngaaiers oi of soldiers to place in the polling j hate whatever was hated by the rebels precincts. We were surprised that so ot lobl. (Jhicago Irwune. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Let tlie Grood Gitizen &I- v ilmin A'ton paiise conclusive an argument seemed to make so little imptession. . Mr. Blaine in his speech yesterday recognized it3 overwhelming" force. He gave it new force by fortifying it with statistics not within our reach which he has Precisely precisely p eecibely' Hurrah! The idea that traitors should talk of pardoning' a patriot ! ' The idea that the Radical party, steeped to its eye brows in treason, should chatter of par i -r nr t ta obtained" from the War Department, doning Jefferson Davis! It is enough We were onlv able to state in general that the absorption of nearly the whole army in distant . service against the Indians left but a mere paltry handful at the disposal of the President to be used at the polls, a residue so utterly and more than -enough to make the bones of Washington and the , other secessionists of '76 rattle with wrath in their coffins. . -: I " For the first time in eighteen years , The pretext that Gen. Grant, because by the wrongs of that political Star he is a strbng "man is the only Republi- Chamber and the "bar'l o' mon ey" It can who can give peace to the country, i3 to no purpose that the trans-Alle substantially, is that is when exposed to the light of history, ghany Democratic empire is moody at fjEr the purpose of ruining a Republican opponent: ; i; "The story,1 the Democracy is bact in power in insignificant that the pretended Demo- both branches pf Congress. We pro- cratic fears are chimerical and ridicu- pose to celebrate her retui lous. Mr. Blame adopts this argument of the Herald and makes it more point ed by showing what 13 the actual number of federal soldiers east of the Mississinni. The real force ot the argument does not, indeed,, depend upon his precise statistics, but they make it more intelligible and bring it more closely home' to popular appre hension. Mr. Blaine has ascertained from the War Department that there are at present east of the Mississippi only sixty soldiers to every minion oi people, and that these few soldiers are confined- to the fortifications and arsenals, where they stand guard to protect the public property. "1 he . honorable benator lrom return to power by wiping from the statute book these degrading resolutions on freemen, and by striking away the shackles which partisan legislation has imposed; We do not intend to stop until we have stricken tho, last vestige of your war measures from the statute book. Cb aresernan Blackburn, in the House, on the Zd. V ' Yes, Messrs. Radicals the last ves tige of your war measures will be wiped cut, just as Representative Blackburn predicts, and just a3 the Stated has told you, time and time, and time again. African Slaves. Grant's mind i3 seriously impaired ; frightful to the true lover of our xoun- inat is nas oeen inreaiemng wr a long trya institutions. Eetter the turmoil, time, which was one cause for his going ' ,.ATat, ' past, than the quiet of tyranny. Better turbulent liberty, than silent despotism. The proposition is fraught with possi- abroad. "While in Germany a most noted surgeon was consulted, whose opinion - was that, the disease threatened m- j-'-'i sanity. 1 It- was hoped that change, freedom from excitement and anxiety, would work a cure, but this has not v.'- been the result ; and while the attacks are .intermittent, and irregular, they . are the cause of great anxiety to his the treatment of that old sturdy Demo ¬ cratic partisan, Senator Thurman, or his compeer Mr. Hendricks. It is to no purpose that Mr. Bayard is cut down. It is nothing that the Democracy of the south is restive because they see that said Mr. Blaine. ?'was , alarmed about the overriding ot the popular ballot by the troops of the United State3, but there is not a single federal soldier in Delaware. The honorable Senator from .West Virginia (Mr. Hereford) had spoken of his state being trodden by the iron heel of military despotism, but there is not a solitary man in United States uniform on the soil ot west A friend of ours, in makinsr some Delaware," investigations, was desirous of learning bilities which are shocking to.contem- they must put their noses to the hard Virginia. In Maryland one hundred plate. It discloses on the part of those who entertain it a despair of the success ol our government, and that they would take refuge from the license inseparable This slanderous, mean, contemptible, I fr(?m Republican freedom, in the bond outrageous lie the Star publishes, and says, "the news is from a reliable source:" The aiders and ; repeaters of a lie of this kind are couaUy as much t ) blame as the originator of it. THE IVEXT PKESipENCY. It is one of the most mournful evi- in would have no share except to con tribute of their means to its maintain ance. . ' The singular unanimity of Republi cans in presenting the name of Gen. Grant is to be attributed to the deaths less hate of southern Democrats to the dences of the decay cf a right public political equality of the. colored race, spirit in Ibis country, to see : the two The remedy does not lie within the political parties which nearly evenly, . compass of a President. It lies mainly money grindstone. And we era notic ing now that the cue 13 taken by the southern Democratic press who , are lately speaking in bated breath of Gramercy Park, So it is probably a fixed fact that Mr. Tiiden wiil.be the Democratic nomination with a guaranty that he will bring with him the thirty- fiye electoral votes of New York. As to Gen. Grant the circumstanced are altogether different. He has never announced, that he was a candidate. There is no instance where he' has yet uttered a word on the sujbject, but he has maintained, during all these late the best opinion as to the number of African slaves imported into the United States, from whom our present colored population have mostly de scended, and wrote to Mr. Garrison for hi3 judgment in the matter." He re ceived in reply the following letter : Boston Commonwealth, r-' . Eoxbuky, March 10, 1879. Dear Sir : I should have answered your letter at an earlier date but for various engagements. Iu regard to the number of slaves brought from Africa to this countrv I have never seen anv there is a school of practice at Fortress-hrccord, and it is not probable that any - was ever made. At the time of the and ninety-two artillerymen at Fort McHenry guard the entrance to Balti more's teiutiful harbor. In Virginia Monroe. Outside of that school there is not a federal soldier in the state. There are but thirty soldiers in North Carolina guarding a tort at the mouth of Cape Fear River. In South Carolina there are ore hundred and twenty artillerymen to guard the entrance to Charleston harbor. There are twenty nine soldiere in Georgia and one hundred an$ eighty t wo in Florida. There is noti one i n Tennessee, Iven tucky or Missouri. There are fifty seven in Arkansas, thirtyatwo in Alabama and two hundred and thirty- nine in Louisiana. The great state of divide it, admitting that expediency is the sole motive which will eontrols them in their election of the next Presiden tial candidates. Mr. Tilden; is con fessedly the choice 1 of a large majority of the Democratic managers, for the . reason that it is believed he i3 the only man who can carry New York and the other northern states essential to the success of, that party. There is no evi dence of personal attachment , to the man, or confidence in the statesman in this expression of opinion; ther is ' scarcely ari indication of respect; but the conviction has got abroad that by his peculiar methods of leadership his two of the smaller northern swing into the Democratic the next election; which within Congress. The cruel oppression under which that race groans must be relieved by legislation; and there are many men in the Republican party, besides Gen. Grant, who if President, would execute those laws if it required people are thinking seriously of the an army of a million of men. and own, states will . column at with a so victory. THE BRUNSWICK tfKAUDS. Why the occupants of the usurped offices in Brunswick county may not escape punishment for their crime may oe Drieiiy siaieo. in tne nrst place the Supreme Court has decided in the most positive manner that they were not elected. It may therefore be justly assumed that in another, proceeding demonstrations, that statue-like repose j Mississippi has not one on its soil, por has Texas. exceDt those guarding the. ft. ' r. frontjer on the Rio Urande." lhese figures show how utterly preposterous is the hollow outcry of the. Democrats against the employment of soldiers to overawe the elections. Ihey are right ing a phantom; they; are affecting alarm at a perfectly ludicrous chimera. No citizen of sense, no man outside an asylum for lunatics, can have any real and sphinx-lise snence which is natural to him. But at the same time there is no doubt that he is the strongest man living in the hearts of the American people, and a vast majority of that present drift of public affairs ; of the reassertion, especially . among the Democracy of the south, ! of the ideas fear that elections will be controlled by good 1 deal curtailed, though but one which instigated the rebellion : of the federal soldiers when it is demonsfr- 8hin-master wa3 ever convicted . and proclamation of American Indepen dence iln was computed that 300,000 had- been imported ; but during the revolutionary struggle the traffic must have been very limited. On the adop tion of the United States' Constitution that tralnc was legalized for a term of 20 years, and thenceforth was as re gularly pursued as any other branch of commerce, and almost exclusively by New England ship-owners, (Bristol and Newport, R.-L, taking the lead,) the south furnishing a ready market for the victims. The invention of Whitney's cotton- gin, in 1793, made the cultivation of cotton (up to that period of no account) the absorbing interest of the planters, and gave a powerful itnpet js to the African slave trade, which continued to be actively prosecuted untiljtheyear 1808, when it was prohibited by an act of Congress, under specified penalties. The act, however, wa3 not enforced. It was pursued with less daring, and a re-entry oi that element into the con trol ot both Houses of Congress ; of the audacity with which measures are pressed which are a total reversal of the results of the war : of the assaults upon the rights of citizens in the south em states; and particularly of the pending measures in Congress, and able that there are none which can be made available for this purpose. . cm ii Attempted Assasslnution ef ths Czar of Russia From the Star telegrams St. PbtersbukgV April 14.- -THe now id south will insure them f the persons who were really elected the right to recover from tho usurpers . all Scarcely less disreputable reasons are fees and salary which they had col urged' for the 'nomination of General lected while in office. But say these Grant by the Republican party for that intruders, go ahead with your actions, exalted office. The cry is, "we want a get a judgment, and levy your execu- strong man." What this expression tion. We ate notoriously insolvent; means we 'confess our inability to ex- as moisture cannot be got out a stone, plain. iHt means a candidate strong the money which the law declares we in the affections of all loyal men in the owe you, you cannot get out of us, we country for gjeat seryices rendered, we grabbed this stolen property because acknowledge the justice of the claim j we were needy. . that of quo warranto they will be busted from their office. The law gives 1 t ( as the most natural exponent of their ideas, almost without leadership, we for Gen. Grant. He did great work in conquering the rebellion against the paramount authority of the government. But that he did more than his duty, we deny. Hundreds of thousands of others This would be very fine for the usurpers if it ended there. Like Boss Tweed, when charged to his face with his rascalities, they could reply, what are you going to do about it. But jn emi and military lile performed I fortunately ler lustice. for honestv. and m ' theirpart as truly, as earnestly, as he. it may be to prevent future robberies The country had a right to the services of the.same character, they will have "Of her sons in that hour of her peril, to show to any honest judge why they The southern DemocraJLic papers are and ner aeiiverance was wrought bv should not be put in rail until thev oaid waning over wnai mey icrrn "the new other of her faithful, 'children, besides a fine of two thousand dollars each, to and dangerous element in politics in Gen.- Grant. Besides has not the grati- go into the Treasury of i the state. tude of the United States assumed a They cannot plead even a belief that shape which emphatically contradicts they had a shadow of title to. thf flices. the traditional indifference of Republics The Supreme court decided that weeks . to those who have served them? Com- ago. Therefore a judge who would manding General of tho army for four refuse to visit with the extreme penalty years, President eight, with a princely the law inflicts upon these frauds income, and a more than princely title, would be as guilty as themselves. He who will dare avouch that we owe him would partake of their crime, and ought on the score of the past? public opinion would mete out to him But the phrase, "a strong man' does the same punishment it has already - not, as applied to the expected candid I inflicted upon them. dacy of Gen Grant, mean that. It is would be assassin of the Czar is undergoing examination. . The full offi cial account of the affair says that to wards 8 o'clock this morning, as the Emperor was taking' his customary against leadership, walk, a respectably dressed man, wear- judgments mg a military cap with a cockade, ad vanced toward him, and as the Emperor approached nearer, drew a revolver from the pocket of his overcoat and fired four shots at him. The assassin, before submitting to his capture, fired another shot, slightly wounding in the cheek a person in the crowd. The great throng of people which had assembled, enthusiastically cheered and congratulated the Emperor, who had almost said Since the day when George Washing ton delivered his farewell - address to the nation, there has been no instance of a unanimity so kindly as now is ac corded to the late chief of our armies and the late President of the United States. What grave events, in the months that lie between thi3 date and eighteen months hence may modify the present state of things a3 regards both Grant and Tilden, it is not possible to de term ine. There is time in that period for several earthquakes and cyclones which may displace many men and change the current of public opinion. executed, I believe. But, up to the time of the southern rebellion, African slave4raders continued to; smuggle their, victims into the extreme southern ports ; but the demand of the ; planters for fresh stock wa3 largely met. bv. Maryland and Virginia as slave breed ing states, and against , the domestic" traiiic there was no law of the land. Doubtless, from the commence ment to the erd of that dreadful traffic, more than a million of kidnapped Africans were brought to these shores, to be followed bv the- most terrible upon this guilty nation- very truly yours. William Lloyd Garrison. " on such a painful occasion. He said he knew he bad the support pf all re spectable people, lie hoped God would grant that he might complete his task, wnicn consisted in promoting ine wel fare of Russia. r ; -The Emperor, alter the foregoing speech, drove to the palace without escort. Afterwards he drove, still with out escort, to the Kazan ' Cathedral, to suxxd. tliiiils r THE POPULAR GROCERY HOUSI GP BOATWRIGHT & M'KOY. 5 7 AND 8 NORTH FRONT ST. HAVE HA D OVER Tons OsuTiLy 1 One Ton Nuts 1 OF BVERY DESCRIPTION. Crown, Dehosa, London, Layers, Loose, Muscatel and -Seedless iRaUius in( v ' quantity . : . . L' - . New Citron, New Turkish" Pruncs,-New Cr :5p Currents. Gordon & Dil worth's Sh after and Ginger Preserves, Marmalades, FruiK , &c, & &. . - English, German and American Cheese. 'Ifie Pure Old Brandies, Wines and Cordials, Bcotc Egjg Nog. h and American Whiskeys, kr English and American Crackers of eyery kind," Our Jot in the Postal Union. The Postmaster-General having re ceived official notice that the govern ments of Peru and Chili have' not t - - .- . - . adhered to the Universal Postal Union Convention of June 1, 1878, and that Apples, Oranges and Lemons in sufficient quantity to furnish every one. 1 i . .. .. Our Three Dollar Brand "B" Select Whiskey has improved by age. : Four Dollar Brand Summerdean Whiskey has no equal in the Our Old Rye and Baker Whiskeys are equal to any in America. their adherence thereto must be rost- thanked them for their proofs offidelity 'poned for an indefinite period, has issued an order directing, that Peru and Chili be omitted from the list of. coun tries and Colonies embraced in the Universal Postal Union, and that the correspondence exchanged between the United States and Peru or Chili shall cease to be treated as subject to Postal Union rates and regulations. The rates of postage, prepayment required. Our Goods have been selected with great care especially, for O'L I D A Y S- Remember the best. intended to convey the idea of a Presi- Smith, Brown and Robinson of Car dent with ; an iron will of ah uncon- Usle, Kentucky, have respectively as querable resolution which cannot be sumed the names of Aristogiton, Har bent , from its purpose. This is rank modius and Brakes, and swore over a nohsense. A President is as much gallon of Bourbon, and on the cross bound by the Constitution and laws as handle of a bowie knife, to exterminate any 'other 'citizen of the country. He the tyrant Grant, on his trip east from : finds his power in the one, and his duty 'Frisco unless they die of delirium in the other. Shame and disgrace will tremens, or provoke the wrath of some follow him through the annals of his- of the numerous Bu fords of that state, tory if he ususps the one, otneglects in the meantime. the north, the German Socialists." Now the factsare, the country is not in half the danger lrom these as from the state righu brigadiers. " The German Social ists are not organized into "White Line" regiments and "Red bhirt Brigades", to shoot those who do not vote with them, or hunt men from homes into swamps : u i i i i ." . i . wim uugs, ucuiuao weir sn is DiacK. The Socialists may have schemes and preach doetrines not in keeping with our republican institutions, but they can be. counted upon in opposition to the revowtionary schemes of the Dem ocracy.' In the days of peril to the : .A. ' Jt M country mere was no- element more loyal and truo than were the Germans. and should a second calamity arise, no gratulations. loyai man need iear where the Germans would by found. return thanks "for the preservation of chargeable on correspondence for Peru iiis uie. w uea receiving tne congratu- m -wmLuereiortj oeior xeuers, lations of the officials of the Empire, seventeen cents per half ounce ; for at noon, the. Czar, was so much oyer- newspapers, four cents each if not come by his enthusiastic reception as exceeding four ounces in weight, and to be unable to speak for some minu tesv for other printed matter or samples, ten On recovering from" his emotion, he cenU for each four ounces or fraction said: "This is the third time God has thereof. saved me." ' '.' . The Emperor's assailant took poison Here's a. little scrap of. interesting before his attempt, as he vomited after history just at this time. Washington hisarrest. Poison wasalso found under vetoed two bills, Madison vetoed five, IVI TlTlrii noils A ntiH rf t-a nrAv.-x a w m utrrZ? ' " tlc rtUU11"' Monroe vetoed one, Jackson vetoed CHRISTMAS PRESENT you can give the poor is a'choice lot of Ifamily Supplies. Call on us and we promise to give the It is thought the man was an employe of the Minister of Finance and an agsnt of the Internationals. ' .. The Sultan and all' of the European Sovereigns have telegraphed their con- A .V-.. The Cincinnati commercial says the speeches of Tucker, of Virginia, and Blackburn ot Kentucky, made relative to the army bill, last week in the House, are simply the rebel summons to the Uommander-m-chief of the United States army to surrender. The Com mercial is learning wisdom by expert ence, surety, eien tnougn slowly. The Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, ex-member of Congress, ex Chairman of the National Democratic Executive Com mittee, and principal hornblower of Sammy Tilden, apknowledges that with his little hatchet he has been chopping among Uncle Sam's cherrv trees, He says he was the first to oppose in Con- seven, Tyler vetoed five? Polk , three, Pierce four, Buchanan one, and John; son vetoed twenty-one. In no single case, howeverdid the majority in Con gres-v whose measure the President refused to sign, attempt to, starve the Government to death by refusing to I paas appropriation oius on account oi thi3 exercise of the veto power. Gea. Garfield said; "We are a Na tion," with a capital N. .The Louis ville CourieroJournal responds: "We are indeed. Mr. Garfield, a nation of States,'' with a little n and a papital S. That is the Democratic, idea. General gress the use of the army at the polls, 'k Garfield represents tbe - Republican BEST- AND FRESHEST GOODS.- - ST TELE ITERY ,O W2S2 JPi?lC12. : BO AT WRIGHT & M'KOY, lr the