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THE WILMINGTON POST. W. P. CAN AD AY. Proprietor. j'l WILMINGTON. N. G. PUXDAY MOKSISTO, AfML 2, 12. Before a person stops taking his pa hit frnm ihft DOStOlHce he BOOUM DC . a a :honest enough to pay jhe back sub scription. -, ' - - 1 ' ' i, j . - '-:iv Tim SuDerintendent of the U4 S. Ceusus will please accept our thanks r,w nAvanro choota of nnnillal inn PV iUI wv . . counties of the United States. Mrf S. O'B, Robinson of Golds boro, was nominated on Monday last U- Sv Attorney for' the' Eastern Dis trict of North Carolina, j Mr. R, is well known in this city, he was a route agent. on the W. &W: RE. from 1870 to 1873. : .- jj mm t a f '!'"-' . ' Torn Cooper ;sent keg of whiskey In Senator V ance, last before Cnnst mas. but it didn't have the desired el- fezU Whiskey don't tell on Vance. TolacA riant. :,'" ' . ';;,. . ' But Vance Legged Cooper for "the whiskey. How is that! j f i Thos. Ni Cooper had a lively fight for the collectorshm: of the sixth dis trict; but when the, Senate voted, on the question of his confirmation j he was laid on the shelf. jThw was as it should have been. ' Good reoDle over the whole State of North Carolina jwill rrjoice, and Vance and I Armfield will be glad. Alamance Gleaner. f . . If left to the people of North Caro Una Tom Cooper would be elected by 110,000 majority, and don't you forget it Mr. Gleaner. j J : ."P ! Major II; L. Grant, of Goldsboroy N. . .(, was in the city onj Tneshay npght last, lie is talking of starting a brick business here, if he can get a suitable place. The , business has! paid him at Goldsboro, and now he thinks of branch log out. We have, no doubt but what thia1s the best location in the state. lie makes very handsbme brick, they look as well as the Philadelphia press brick.. Should he conclude to locate here it w.ill be very gratifying to our JSo uianjwho will not" pledge himself to stand by the public schoos.should liA cAeoicA in !h T.cr!o turn- (Tin iim. pie should demand of their Represen tatives a liberal appropriation for school purpose?; in fact there) should be.su.2r cient money appropriated to keep the - public schools running for at least eight . months in each year, so that very man's child will be educated. Such a course will benefit the poor people as well as the state. More attention must ' bo given Iq the subject of education by the masses or the Representatives will never look after the matter properly. Header, have you sons and daughters? Jfso,'dQ you want them to bean honor to you and your country?- If you do you must educate them; do not be satisfied with eivibg-them an ordinary common school educalion-rdo all yoa can for them, it is the best legacy you can leave them, better than lands, stocks or mon ey, these things they can loose, but an education will be theirs,, a sheriff can- hot sell ft for taxes or an execution for security debt. Every man and woman in the state should be thoroughly edu cated, and we pray to see the time when it will bo the case. Msjor George D. Weeks, Special Agent, relurnpc to the city-from Beau fart and New Berne on Sunday night lasf.and stopper-over here Monday. We were glad sto learn lhai the Mnjor was so well pleased with his trip among our friends at B. and X. lie says he found the Custom Houses in excellent hands, thej business well and satisfactorily con ducted, and everything working smooth y; and his expressions of surprise at finding such splendid and extensive plantations was gratifying to this .tar heel." He says the country between New Berne and Gpldsboro is the finest he. has seen anywhere in the I south. This is saying a great deal, as the Major has traveled all over the southern coun try in the past two years. We are sor ry our New Berne and Beaufort friends captured friend Weeks so completely, but theu we bay e to stand it; they never do things by halves, they take all or none. M j or Weeks left Monday night on the 10 o'clock train, to look after our friend Johnson, who has the helm of state in the Charleston Custom House. ; WORKIXUUKX. I the interest of all working men in this country U the same there can be no doabts whether white orxolortd. The men who run the manufactoriee or till the soil have one common cansei to fight for, therefore while they inay choose their own associates in. social matters, jtl when it comes to politics or business thej should stand together tot their rights against their old foe, the aris tocrats, who believe the poor laboring men have no right to think or act for themselves. And the employees may always expect to he ground down until they stand united and demand that justice be dM them, they will, get by such a course. 1U Such wagtsi aa will support Lthaaetrea and their Cballlca U a toaibrUhle maner. 2nd. Their children will be edacated by the aUte under a general school tyatesm, Sri, They vill be pat on the j cry tsd hive their (nil rights In the coarta. 4ih. Pobllc road will be kept ap by taa ation and a poor man will it lare to work on the public roads 15 days a year for the sake of having a good drive for the rich man's horses and carriage. : These may be very unpleasant things to lay before the rich man who turns over" about 8 o'clock in the morning and then takesk his second knap be fore reading his morning; paper, but they are none the less true. Why should a poor maa work $10 worth on a public road who hasn't a horse and never will have, for some rich fellow who drives his double team and don't pay a cent in taxes. Let those who are able to enjoy the pleasure and benefits of the public roads keep them up. And let the poor man- take the pay for the labor he putson these roads and buy the necessaries of life for his poor family. It will be said by the rich property holders ihatwe are arraying one class against another. That may be so to as certain extent. We want to array the laboring men up to such a pitch that they will demand their rights. They have gone on from time im memorial being control! edit odyanol soul by the money kings; both little kings and big- iDgs,; aomg an me wora, paying,eiin er directly or indirectly, all the taxes; therefore it is time for them to rise and assert their rights. And We appeal to them j in the name of themselves, and the love they hold for their wives and children, and the reverence they have for their God to shake off the yoke of bondage they have worn so long and become men among men, cultivate a wauiy epuii m meir cniiuren. ane ia boring -white men of North Carolina are as much in fault'abbut this matter as the colored, and we hope to see them take the lead Jn emancipating IhemU selves. This is a government of the people1 and for the people, and if the ii. J i !;ti Jl ' uiBjumj oi me peopie win mate up their: minds to have their rights there will be no difficulty in obtaining them COLOKED HONESTY. t There are many white people who pretend to believe that all colored peo pie are aisnonest. .u there are any who truly believe anything so exceed mgly harsh of the oolored race they should - try and remove it from their minds immediately; 6uch sentiments are pot creditable to any intelligent person. 1 hat there are dishonest negroes none can deny, but lhat all are thieves is not true. We know the character of the neero ts well cs at v' man in the south,' and we believe them to be as honest as any other race of people ua der the sun; and to put it in the mild est terms, it is uncharitable to say tbey will all steal. , i' ; Some months ago the colored people yery justly wanted some recognition in the Goldsboro postoffice, J and recom mended a man for a clerkship; the post master, so we learn, refused to appoint the young colored man recommended by the ! colored people, but went out side and picked up a coloredboy of his own selection,. and he had only been in the office six months when he was charged with stealing, by the postmas ter, and arrested. We know nothing of his guilt, but for argument sake say he is guilty, that does not impeach the char ters of other colored officials hi the state. - i We haye been reliably informed that a great many Federal officials are in "high glet" over the misfortunes of this Goldsboro boy, claiming ; that thii case will give the "black eye" to an equal division, of the patronage with the colored Republican;, Ihey had just as well cease their laughing for the col ored jjcitizens will yet succeed in ob taining the justice that their merits de serve. Some white Republicans claim that they can buy their nominations, it may have been true in the past 'to a .. . : - . .... i- limited extent, but the future will make a complete .changs in this and I men will De nominated on account of their fitness for the positions ihey seek and not for their money. w. j. bkt. , ; We have had very much to say about the gentleman whose name heads this articled We suppose we formed an unfa vorable opinion of him on accoun t of the" company he was in when we'first heard of him, namely: 'Thomas J. Jarvis and others, bnt we are glad to sec such com plimentary articles of him as we copy ia another column from- theRalei?h Nnct end Ofrcrr?r and the Boston 7rr xxlJU Mr. Best is proving himself to be a man of great capacity and it is ex ceedingly gratifying to know that we have suck a man interested in pur state, and we hope he wilKcontinue in his good work, and may succeed in build isc a great railroad from Beaufort tar bono ratal Bock, Tenof aid -that his enterprise will py handsotae dividends to himself and his associates. It shaikh oar pleasure to give him all the aid ia r power. FKBSC9 AL ICTBLMQ fc UE. Colonel A. U. anBokkelea. Wil- aaiatoa,K.U We notice by Ue Waahtegtoa i of the SStir last, that "Ooloael-i?) X, U. VanBoxkelen, of Wtimingtoa, X C is at the Axliagtoa. -Mow we apple do swlM. away from home- By the way will some one be so kind as to rive a the ansae of the regiawat the raHant "Cokftel commanded! t are eagtsta ua ue to; wctww m recorgs of Ue cUsskhed soiiers of North CaxoalxaadU woaU be a fay 4 (a have Vtoioal VaaBohkta's" eer- yicee isuladed. " COL. P. w. CL4PK- ;i ' This gentleman has been made the General Freight and Ticket Agent for the Raleigh & Gaston, the Raleigh & ! Augusta Air-Line and j the Carolina Central Railroads. We know certain papers are in the habit of publishing j complimentary notices of men who are i 8uccc35iul in getting appointments, re gardless of their fitness. Therefore it detracts very much from the -deserving ones. ' But we take pleasure in savinsr that the appointment of Colonel Clark was I for merit alone. He has worked himself up ' from a clerkship to the present honorable position. - lie is' in every way suitable for the office he now holds, and the railroad companies are to be congratulated on their success in securing his services. And as for Col. C. himself we wish him the success that is due a faithful and energetic officer. FROM n'ORTU CAROLINA; Tho Liberal Movement and TTriat will Make it (succeed. 1 Tujthe Editor of The Ruptblicak: I see a commuaication in' your issue I of the 2-5th instant, signed W. S. Ball, I Greensboro', N. C, in which the writer expresses his decided antagonism to tha Liberal movement in that state. It is to be regretted that one unkertaking to speak publicly in , political matters should fail to give material facts. It is to be deplored that he sets himself up against the policy which the combined wisdom of the Republican party has pitched, upon to redeem the southern states from the grip of the Bourbons. I was a member of the executive commit tee: and helped manage the campaign in the late Dresidential election. In the same capacity I acted in the late campaign, in which "prohibition" was an issue, l accoramgiy haa means ot knowing that the number, of Republi cans who voted .for prohibition was about 4,400, and did not possibly reach 5,000. Ninety per cent, of the Bourbon newspapers in the state favored the prohibion act. A large proportion tt the leading politicians of that party favored it. The county commissioners, the magistrates, the county officers,, and court-house rings ! IX ' ill E DEMOCRATIC. COUXT1E5 supported it and quietly urged its adoption as a political necessity to get rid of the internal, revenue officers in thjttalejand their1.' influence. It is, therefore,, reasonable to suppose, and the facts show it to be true, that with the small exception of the Republican vote stated above, the whole vote cast for prohibition was Bourbon. While Mr. Ball and ; A FEW TEJII'EBaXCE IiEPUBLICAXS may have upon temperance grounds clung to and voted for this act, which Mr. Ball himself in his letter calls "obnoxious" and "an abortion" (al though lid canvassed for it), yet the great mass of the Republican party op posed it notably two temperance news papers, edited by Republicans, saw the purpose of the Bourbons, and exposed it in their editorial columns as a. polit ical and not a temperance measure, and as-further evidence the heaviest anti prohibition majorities were in the Re publican counties. It is undoubtedly true, and it w well known to the peo ple of JNorth Carolina, that this was the crowning act ' of a series of encroach ments in the way cf class legislation upon personal liberty, and a portion of t he Democracy, determined to resist, and did resist. -This element stands ready now to strike hands; with the Re publicans in opposition to, the Bourbon leaders. Neither the! writer nor any with whom he is connected desires to drive out or '. ; ' ? OSTRACIZE ANY EETUBLICAS j who favored the prohibition act on tem perance grounds, but think it fair that the lew Republicans who voted for this obnoxious measure should not obstruct the. policy ot the party and close the gates and. bar out those who are ready and willingjo co-operate with ns. Five thousand men ot a party should not dictate a policy opposed by the iuda- meet of '110,000 in the state and sus tained bv the national party through out the country, especially as this five thousand confess that they made a creat political blunder. Prohibition was a fraud upon the peopleTJf that state. It ; prevented manufature and not sale. Mr. Bali would not reject it because of the name, lie would take a half-dollar with the knowledge, that it was ccunterfeit because the Goddess ot Liberty is stamped unoa its face. lie fears to go with thoce who led the masses against' it because somebody in Kamscbatka might at sometime read 4hat our state voted against prohibi tion.: -" ,.: f Til LEE VEE MOEE POLITia AXS immolated on the altar of "prohibition" in North Carolina and more political death wrought in the few months the question was agitated than have occur red befure in any state at any time. The Republican par.y with iu liberal alliance will co-operate with Mr. Ball and his friends, especially as he bow denounces this prohibition measure as an obnoxious abortion: bat he oarht not to ak that the mountain go to Mo bammed, nor that the monarch be a bejrgar to the man. - , Joux J. Mott, Chairman State Republican Committee. The best armor is discretion; the best adviser, jastice the best act, thai from pled by charity; the bct com pan ion, the fraak friend, who is notailaid to tell cs cf oar faalu; bat the trees friend is the Roid, earned aad saved by one s. self, the sight of w&kJi briap neither blaan of shaae nor twian of coajcieac. This is lb trie! who ever fives to man naiaiucg oboiksce. Who bat 4&ik to b tm fanlu,eTeafcy a friend? yet ncaaars; wiihci .iatsa; Vfc bat disllkea to bt ta!4 that k showa th marks af are. feowtver trsai it may bt? ytt all art atoaiiuj advaadar ar4 aa4 y. aad socaer or laur, ; ss-iw iJWir cecu From the Knoxvllle (Tenn.) Whig and Chronicle, r Traducing Garfield. The hyena is the most loathsome and disgualing of all animals, ; not that it boldly attacks the living bnt that its habits are oocturalland it preys upon the dead. There are hyenas io this country who wear broath-cloth coats and silk hats, and because of these things, are . sometimes admitted nto the higher circles of society. Bye na ture,! they are -ralgar, contemptible cowaros, never awacxing a living man nnlee hey have an accidental advan tkg, but thej gratify their natural propensity for meanness by, maligning and traducing the dead. A few villains belonging"?) this de spicable class, have been industriously ennured for the past two or three months, in si desperate effort to blacken the memoryrof the late President Gar field. That they secretly applauded the act of the cowardly assassin, has been chanted, and if we had ever doubted the truth of the charge, subse quent events would have removed all doubts on that subject, for the act of the assassin, though a violation of law for which he is to pay the penalty with his worthless, life, was not one whit worse than the acta of the abandoned wretches who, for personal exaltatien are slandering and traducing one who is in the grave, and whose good name and reputation they never dared to at tack while he was living and had a voice to answer their malicious calum ny.' One of th,e vilest of these disre putable miscreants haa recently written a letter for publication in the Wash ington tof, which we print elsewhere va. full, in order that the thousands of readers of the Chroniek may see the character of the warfare that is being waged against the great and good man who now quietly sleeps on the shores of the beautiful lake. What can this studied, systematic, persistent detraction of r resident uar held mean? . What can be the motive which inspires it? Who is leading the jackals who are howling and barking over Uarheld a graver What does any one expect to gain by it? Granting that the deceased President may have made mistakes dnring his ljfe, and who is there that has not made mistakes, common decency demands that thev should now be covered with ihe mantle of charity. Garfield has now been dead not quite six montbs, and yet. for some malignant purpose, there are men lyine in wait, prowling around his grave in the dead hour of the night searching every nook and corner, ran sacking the private correspondence of dead men, smelling about the slums and cesspools for something which may be tortured and misconstrued so as to be made to appear as derogatory to his cnaracter. j ney axe assassins at neari, and although they are free and mayhap circulating in good society, they areno better than Guiteau, m any respect, and are infinitely worse'in many. His act was cowardly io the extreme, but it was committed in daylight, and in his own name. He did not seek to hide himself behind a ficticious signa ture. M e know that there are politicians. seme now in Congress, who predict ed. before Guiteau came to their assist ante, that the name of Garfield would go down to "everlasting infamy;' we know that newspapers pretending to be Republican charged him with having forgotten his country and his party; we, know that he was charged with bribery and corruption, while President, and by so-called Republican newspaper?; we know that the same papers charged that be was the servile tool of a corrupt rail road lobby; we know that from the same source it was alleged that his ad ministration was "infamous and tyran nical;" we know that k-U impeachment was demanded, and all that; bnt these things were said when an acrimonious contest was in progress over a New York ' federal office, all of them being grosslo and notoriously untrue, but we had not expected to see the unfounded falsehoods reiterated after he was dead. But some malignant spirits; who have been once foiled in the gratifica tion of their personal ambition, can never forget, and they will continue to snarl and growl and howl over Gar field's grave so long as they live, and will doubtless die with unsaid corse in their mslignat throats. But Garfield's character is beyond the reach of their poisonous shafts. He u too firmly fixed in the affections of his countrymen to suffer from the cowardly assaults of his would be aasassina, and although his tongue is silent in the' grave, and bU voice is hushed ia the silence of death, . . L 1 1 1 . he has millions of friends, j east, wet, north and soetb, including meo of every sect and every party, and thousand of noble women, who will defend tim against all his assailants, whether they corns ia the shape of a red handed Gui- teas, or a black hearted coward, who. safe irom tnepeaalties of the law would iwMssinste his character under cover of aa assumed name. . Aaecdotoof SuaoF Ames. Of the lata Bishop Ames the follow int anecdote is related : VhiIe pre SKtine over a certain conference ia the West, a member began a tirade against nnivenitiea, education, etc, and tfcanfc iag God that h had never been co: raptod by contact wita a'coUege. Af ter procredinar titas tx a few sniaate. th Bishop interrapted him with the encstioa, IX I aadentaad that the brother thaaks God lor his ifsoraace I Weil. t " was th astver. " Y ea can pat it thai way if yon wast to." "WtH, aa I hare to say," sii the EUbop, in his sattt, araslcal War. "is thai tha brother has a great eai to taaaa uoa tatr , Stxrrsr. 95 CixnxLL srxxxr. 1 Kkv Oainajc. Ltu, Uuth 16, "iU i H. IL Waajta 4 OauSxtsI kaw from personrl uperieacelkaiyocrSaf Gdarr aa4 liver Cart k a gge4 taiag Car ckraajc livt cJScalty. Tkw lsrr is caify f2 OJ per asssss From the Ra'.eljh Xewi and Observer. The; Boston Herald, of Sunday, the leading New England, paper, devotes what I would be about a full page cf I the cic$ and QhterVfr to Mr. W. J. B;st, iiring a detailed account of his operations in saving the Pacific! bank, other incidents in his career, and i i . J ... .. ... among them much relative to the Mid land yorth Carolina; Railway. ; ; !lt does seem indeed that Mr. Best has done a very unusual work in rela tion to the; B-Mton bank. He was a stranger to the stockholders and un- known to the business men of Boston, with the exception of the few interest ed with him in his. railroad enterprise. When called upon to examine the. con dition of the bank, he found it wrecked. Itsee ned that no worse bank failare had e rer maden the course of busi ness. I It is almost incredible, but still it is true that in the, short space of few months he has gotten the bank started again on an excellent fooling. having saved probably a million of dol: lars to . the share-holders. The Herald says tie Pacific bank resuned business yesterJay, its condition, as brought about under Mc. Best'il managemsnl, b;ioglaa agresab'e surpriss to the busi ness community aul - iha subject .of special cDoameadatioa on the. part of the Comptroller of the Currency at Washingtoa. . ").'$'. '; K 11 as no :ess a suurcj oi surprise anl gra'.iacation'fto th3 s'.ocihplders. In regard to the MidUad North Cafo' Una Riilroad th& Htrald says : !"Taa MiJlaad eater prue this its home iu Boston, is promoters being, id thte main. Boston capitalists. Its capiUl is f S.OOOiOOO. Mr. Best is presi dent i, the railroad-oompany, which is Hail way. lie i$ also - president of the Midland 'Improivemenv and' Construc tion iCoinpany.i whicp contracts to build: the roadrtafeing all of its securi ties, bath stock and bonds, in payment far the same. The company obtained control of the Atlantic and North Caro lina Riilroad id July. lSSl. This road ninety-HX piles long, and extends froiB Beaufort harbor to Goldsborol It wa'a built bv State.1 and locaFsnbscrip tion?,HaJ, during the twenty years of its existence, owing to .political manip ulations and control, previous to iu becoming a pairt of the Midlaid svs tiem. hever earned enough to properly maintain and operate it. All this has been phanged under Mr, Beat's man log. hrst six months, ac cording to thetatement of the treasu rer of tlie company, saow aa increase of about 50 per ' cent, over the same period in'ISSO. And the statement is rnadel that only! the lack of equipment preveniu an increase joi io m tw per cent. 1 h:s certainly s is a ' showing y crediub!e to the ability and en- high! ergy uf-theiman who has done the The iWjesternl iNorthiljGarolina work liailM d :il so Oielong to the Midland This ro.id fxteindn from Salisbury to AshelviUe, 14) miles, thence to Paint Rocc on the Tenneee line, forty-lour toiler, au l to Chattanooga, when com pleted, about 1GS milts: Tuis road, iver, is no! in controversy, out it is clalimed ibat i it will soon b-3 under the control and operated as a part of the Midland svitem, which, when com pleted, will emhnce from 7a0 to 800 miiei The company is now building an air liue lipkifrom Goldiboro to Sal isbury to connect tuee roa'J. ine du tanca isl 150 miles, of which, tweuty four miles are now ready for the iron, aud ill be opened to traiS: daring the next thir'y divs. 1 he whole line, it is stated, will befini?htfa in from twelve pfakn)aj of Mr. Uesli. a railroad pro ject in Nor!hiroiiha, a gentleman well know in financial and raiirsad cir c!ej ia New England, and Who for sev eral tears was pre ir'eut of one or, the largei jreiilroadH in 31aacnntU, says: "1 iblink f ery highly of Mr. Best's ope- ratu.i.s ia the south, il consider him a man f great power, but one who al- ;Way v iii' to be u,re n his premises Vetoti . Uoochiug upon an undertaking, ,aiid .ho lavcsUgiu-s very csrelUUy on all friUI befjre ciommiaiag himself. Bat alter bariag fully male up his mind, there! i aimot, no en' to bis capacity fjr wbrk fr woik and, sbili'y for aichiev iag hWiois." , ' ;" : J . ! "I jaare jtfit rttnrnei from a viit to North CifoUaa acd was cump!eUf as tonished at the work M r. Bt-i has per formed there. the road at present to operation i about lif0 miles tocg, with an eiteniod how hfw buiidiug from Goldsboro tu Siiisbury of 150 miles ad ditional, twenty furl miles of which will be open. to 'trafSs this month. f roup iuuHiiai weaiwara me eiern "or;b L'rtfiiaairailrdia forms the nat ursl link to the Mid lit i sys'em, which in iU iaurety, coatuttite a graoltrwak line ir-m iiorcbesd Lity ao4 Beantort harbor pa the iAtiaauc, coast thrcsh tile pm of the state! to the extreme wtsura timit,; w:tn two important branch?, cee to t'tat itock oo the TtaofsHe line, and the, other fo Chal lano4ga, la us connrctiog bola witn the noi ta western 6d saaifa westtra vtema cf railroads, and the immediate acpi ition of thu. latter riulroad U'asaared. jo rapidly has toiom ut tbM aw chacaets ol trasfporUoa, Lbat in Aiid Uad rati way has twa johiired toipat on three extra freihi traias a wk, ia ad- d:tb-n to tae umiu diiy iretgat train to accjaimtxliie utarosgn and ibeal tr&c. Tt tuca serattaal Uciixiin at aliore&eaJ ti?. a Ut sea coast, ara Ckf th mmt aval : character. Tnera ft'pt ,-i;ano eaaoi . ue laqrm .caw w sea vraseis to Ihi) ai tit mpaa dxx: : whii at L3ir be rs, at IM i itta vf ta Ast a&4 1rett rtve; tferre are art asap- UcUiw rs Kr an 'tames. tIaa4 - ase. wHh an'fca-4t:aJ to it tea. ! At iiartfeead uif, it9 ia Laiitd rstnL'tht ralrwJ, as4 thrrt (jrrr veMiU wvtt eaxu&g at tat tuat of Tiy ; At Xwira, waera ta t&a ' tn rtsier IfivSaiaa art txaied. I :i4''ra.iaranaaaTa falleX mvt cSiaaii&ip, a4 at tho 4 a Ot 'ttOtmA1 I djckra tat Na tint.iixutm sxaaaa rr m'.ii ts U U,t. ruw, rict, aft UttSfn na-JIr; BesZ arllB I ta Vai sii traa U taJ On the wharf were' groups i of jjegro men and women engaged the latter sewing - up sacks of corn for shipment to the interior of the state. Everything that nas. been constructed oy air. Best down there is of the strongest and most substantial character, and what ia re markable is that it all has been accom plished since July!; I never , have seen so much done with so small an 1 outlay of money." The ideas of Judge Tourgee- on th Township System'' are pretty explicit ly stated in No. 8 of Our Continent. "There b," he says, "no doubt that the township system the infinite multi plication of constituent democracies is the keystone of our American system. It is strange how little it is understocd or appreciated even by those whose whole political tt ought has been shaped by its influences. ; Neither its charac teristics nor its results have ever been carefully analjxjd. Now a'cd then, cn the Fourth of July, "rorefathcr'a Day' and similar occasions, it is made the subject of vague acd extravagant eu logy. One or twowriters who seem to have been phenomenal in their power to blunder over the most significant features of the Sjstem; haye undertaken to trace its de.sc.ent -from certain Eng lish institutions, 'thereby establishing its entire respectability. j The truth' ii, 'oar township ''system, for it has long-.ceased to be peculiar to New; England except iu degree, was the accident' of an accident. ' The poet ical boast that "it was brought ever in the cabin of the Afayfcvcr while tiue enough in one tense, is lamentably false Jn the sense in which; it wfs in tended to be taken. It was neitLer in tended by its first originators as a copy of any Old World institutidn nor as the model on which should b founded a permanent government. f its 'oiigir nators had dreamed that" they were buildiug after any institution of tbe mother country, they would no doubt have hesitated long before they would have adopted it. Those early Puritans were not so greatly impressed with the excellence of English forms of society and government as many of their de scendants. .They had gathered onlyits bitter fruits. .To them England had been a harsh mother. When they left her shores they went away to seek not only a new land but new social and po litical conditions. It is true they could not escape the influence of her thought and her institutions because they could hot. unmake themselves nor ravel out the tangled web of their own live?. Get as far as they could, it is evident and natural that they sought as far as possible to avoid copying Iter forms and adopting her tradition. On the other hand there is no doubt that if they ; had possessed foreknowl edge of the fact that they were framing and setting the mudsills of a great na tionality whenthey called, ibeir first council of safety and held their first lit tle congress of peer?; if they had known its future as it grew to tbe dtgaitv cf clerk and moderator, and assumed one after another the administrative, judi cial and legislative functions of a min latnre republic if tpey had known this it is more than probable that, honest God fearing men as they were, they would have hesitated, studied, looked backward, and instead of allowing the natural instincts of sturdy, earnest, high-minded men to shape without re siraint a new social fabric they would haye given us a stiff, formal, impracti cal absurdity like the constitution which J6nn Locke prepared for the4 province of Carolina. ..-. It was because they actel without restraint and provided only for the day that was befo'e them that they builded so surely for eternity. The isolation and growth which followed, the jeal ousy with whicn all aV.empt to impose tbe forms or English colonial govern ment were regarded, and the1 gradual strengthening whica tbe ntd of public defence imposed, are prime elements in the formation and pretervation Jf thai system which is the very coroe r-stone of oar ,Btional life. It' was tbe out growth 1 a dire necewity jnd of the most prof.Miud unxcscroutueM.. It sprang from EngUth roots no doubt. It may even be a:d to be an evolution Irom English institutions, becate thry who gave it form were therawlives the product ot Eaglish lif; Hat in any proper sene, it cannwt U -ii to be of English growth. Cuicaoo, March 22, 1 $5 To the Emtob :-Tbe O'J Xor.h State has made rapid i rcgresi ia cdc cational matters within the it three ! yean; and as this u a matter ta which a People never jo: backwarj, it is polv a question of lime when the Cum m da School sytUm vf Xvrth uaroliaa wul beexceUed in noSuk of the same fdp- Liw.ii ; The publie press is oa? of the grtsl- est elevators in cxi:eoc, and as oc who fails to recozaias this fact mast have cma very little thovrhl to the snfciect; another pofrfal adjaou "in mind development it the thoughts aad experience tf va:v authors whka i can easily be brocght within rrach tf ! lao people by maos of the i'abUe li brary, a4 by a litUe ievotigatiow it can b atcvrtsiaevl that alssowt vry town whan sapperted Vy the prvpit im tse - aj-xaiir co-aatry raa " sftstaia: a 1 1bUc library saScieotiy large t tap. i p j variety of reaiag mattrtr X kabjit al tbee gktf at mdi w ben pfwperSy drrrkrpJ will StiuJ gret! ir caha&cc-tht apprtctatia tt te prt, aad wiU W cakaltU4 to briag. to lkl torn braids as maasiri a that t4 by Utgrrat 2ffth Caratoau. 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