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Manurlpts ; Intended for pnblicaOon most be written on onesUe 01 the paper, and accompanied by the name of toe writer, as a guarantee of good faith."' -. .: , . back upon a popularity which I could ' , . rlfJfOit PXTBLISBISTQ ASSOCIATION, Single copies, five cents. At V 'i;;: Jim! AdYrtlsins Rates: nrgt insertion.. .......... ...... $ 100 4iontli...... 7 00 f&ac,w!lr9 mOTthe .,. 60 00 six month.... ......... 65.oo fi9eolnmlTe,moatu ,k ....... ioooo vol, in., t .i otTjWQ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER. 1882. NO. 4. m Hi;.- ol ft. f -! ' 4 ' iVTi'i -suit a ?!-. ; ' '" i ' 4 TT l . 1 5 :HEAGNjFW ran r lit :,i STOCK W.saflllaaB IS WOW READY" .. (Hnmnlcte in every department, and exactly suited to thewants,o the trade, merchants will find it to their advantage to examine before purchasing. Carrying as they do the largest GEIERAL BCII Stock in the State, and ofifering it upon the MOST FAVORABLE TERMS, livers are assured interests are subserved by dealing with them. Hoping to have a visit from you this season, or receive your orders through our traveling Salesmen,.. Very truly yours, NE7 STOIIB ! BETWEEN THE CENTS Alt HOTEL AND THE JONES HOUSE. 1 aving just received from eonBisting of abeautiful line of spring and summer prints, Cassi fieri, Flannels, Shawls, AlamancerBleached and Unbleached Domestic, Alpacas, Boots and Shoes, Men's and Boys7. ; Wool itraw and Fur" Hats Ladies7 Hats and Hosiery, Groceries of all JLinds, Especially ibe Best COFFEE, SUQAIt, TEA, RICE, CnACipSj PSTCIS Mackerel, Molasses and Candy. Also Drugs, Hardware, Tinware and jCrokerx ill of which wfll be sold at HARD TIME prices for cash or barter. Thanking our Friends and Patrons for their flifKPDfF m the. past; we nope to merit a continuance of their patronage ia the future bj Fair Dealing and Low Prices. CALL AND HAniHBOIIB STqCll AM) PRICES. ; i" J. Ti Webb. T T WF.RR may TMrt txperieln tb MAEBIiE Inwinew,. we an enabled to 4oJH Unda fjjl H0NimBrffniUC3iOriD3, T03IBS &' IIARBLB TDRNITlinff 1 of all 4nption fnrntehed at abort notica and at the lowest prices. : tar SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. MM , Wifk Mffmly boxed, and dallTered free ef charge, at any depot on theW. V. C. Kaflroad. 7l nn. "webb will continue as traTeling agent. nmmiiw UM MB UOI'KIIi i.uui .Mum CEE0 n r Mil I For tho r.lGnCHANTsafiHLJjsaEEB L: aU'X'ioni VATl? P AMI L Y a Croivn py oursoivog"" - prr unsNos TrfT7 r: 1 v t m OF DB V :h joe (nn OV IPCD FOR IMSPBGTldN.- that their best NEW GOODS 1 KEY the NORTH a full line of O B Webb. Rill K At ON. y - - ; . . n 1BIGE1E Mi. t&ismfflm ZVJlOAy '-- ttsk v vise n A 1 III 111 ' ft II " To tb Democratic Nominating Con i'. a Ttntloti of TTatanra County , on tblimspt.IS2. inFEtLowI Democrats: ;I accept htf?iiofiri!naiibn -fop3 representative of thtt fcdutjtj Which yotir partiality has tendered to me. I am very grateful to ybu for the high honor which it confers oh me ; whioh is the more marked because, as some of you know, I have, tried'' Harder to avoid nominAtion than candidates usually do to secure it. '7I had . hoped that your choice would fall upon some youneer more active, more deserviner I man ; an(J would leave ; me free to devote myself to my . farm, where I hope that I am doing some good, and where I know that I ntu much more needed, in my own' iudgment. than either on tue atump or in Raleigh ; ana free so enjoy on it the retired life which I love so much. But it is not the part of a good citizen either eagerly to seek office or nomination to it, or too obstinately to refuse it when tendered. Fellow Citizens of all Parties : I will not attempt to discuss tho political issues of the canvass. I 'will do as well as I can throughout the canvass, and face to face with ray competitors, if according to custom they meet me. It will not be my fault, if the canvass interrupts the good feeling between them and me. I have no personaf charges to bring against them ; but I hate their poli tics, I will make war on their politics, I will give their politics bo quarter, and I will ask none for mine. The public discussion of politics is to me an untried field. I am slow of speech and diffident and unskilled in extempore debate. I dread to make a 8 tump speech moro than a truant School boy dreads a flogging. I would be quite, overmatched, in this contest if I did not have so much the best cause. . But trusting in the strength of -the Sound democratic principles Which I have been chosen to defend, i say to my 'competitors : Turn on the f light, let the "truth . be heard. Truth is mighty, and ia the -end will prevail.! ' Truth is eternal, and cannot die. ; : ; Troth, creshed to eaVth. win rise again, ' , . 3de eternal years of Qdar hers; ' Bat error, wounded, writhes in pain And dies amidst her wershipers. Believing that the principles of the democratic party ; ' are those upon which the safety and welfare of the South, , and of the whole country depend, I cling to those principles with all my heart. My democracy will give no uncertain sound. I am nominated as a democrat, I will can. vaas as a democrat, I will vote at the election as a democrat ; if elected, I will work and vote In the legislature as sv democrat. 1 Arid when 'I say that I am a demo crat, I mean that l am all democrat, jj am not onie ot theSeso called liberal democrats, who aret so. liberal with tteir democracy that they hav6 thrown airiwaancl have gone over, bag abd baggage, into the Camp of the enemy, and, to quote from the iron cfad oath, ar giving"aid and counsel, cantenance and encouragement" to the enemv. There is no republican tjop water In the pure spiiit of the i demooracy . which I profess. It is hitrh neoai l democracy : Bourbon .c r f y, demderac if 'yoir choose so to call it'; democraoy which never forgets ttie jereat fundamental principles on which It Is "foondi principles which were handed down to ris by Uadisbn and old fath- en of the purer days of the republic, to' be preserved, with the constitution, as) a part of onr precious heritage of frUdoo ; i democraey which never rns td keejstiep with the music, or 'jalirc isncir; tietlwnneW of the- re publican, partyig ?t those principles.. - , If I represent you at all, it will be as1 a democrat, i Yet H would be at the cioe tlae, as the representative 'of! an he people of AVatanga coo nty, inUri T ? would tryC; t maintain the right and interests; of every ; citizen' f i f Wataoita! conn;whatever,1his JabCTI nfebt well saytthef,hanv blesl ncmocr op taouuuj. w , nuiwu the Stati likdWthe time 'entrusted iujlejislatiro power, J would k? one of the,repre8entatives ofi the whole State, in duty bound to1 watch over, maintain and defend the rights,- the' interests and the honor of ihe "t whole, , and of every part of it. s With ,this broad principle of duty for my guide I would vote for no measure ; which' would be unjust to any portion of the State. I would not even vote a seeming benefit to our own beautiful county of Watahga, our fair , queen of the mountains, if it could .only be , obtained at the price of injustice . to thefi remotest eastern countv ' that turns its face to the tempest tossed Atlantic. Let justice be done, come what will. - ' ' I try to take the same broad view of federal issues as of State : issues. The South has no longer any peculiar institution tending to cause discord between the North and the South. The United States are now bound together in a perfect community of interests. They form One country, the common country of all its citizens, .under the government of which they have each and all equal rights' and equal rank, and which they each and all, both in interest and in duty, are bound to love, honor, cherish and defend. The tendency of our free institutions is to make brethren of us all. We liave a country in which sectional issues have no longer . any natural place or room, and cam only have a forced and unnatural existence. It was to be expected that our great war wuld be, followed by some sectional issues, the bitter fruit of the animosities which it engendered ; is sues in which the defeated and im. poverished South would of necessity be acting on the defensive only, But these issues are disappearing, thank God I with the wane of the republican party, which, as one of its unholy .means of continuing in power, has never ceased to foster them.. There are many and increasing indications oft a new era of good feeling between the North and the South. I cannot permit myself to doubt that, if we will but be true to ourselves, the North will soon of its own motion join us in demanding full justice for the South. Sectionalism is either aggressive, where part of a country, proposes or enforces partial laws, or a partial administration of law to th'e injury of another part; or defensive, where the part so injured seeks to defend itself from such partial legislation, or ad ministration of law. Aggressive sec tionalism is a form of tyranny. De fensive sectionalism, which it sum mons into existence to resist it, is f but a form of patriotism. It is' the broad and placid stream of patriot ism obstructed by obstacles forced by its enemies into its current and chaf ing in ita narrowed channel. Ireland, burdened by centuries of British oppression, is intensely sec tional still, only because intensely patriotic, intensely Irish. Remove; every just cause of complaint against British rule, and Ireland would soon be as intensely British as she is now intensely Irish. Until ail her wrongs are righted she can only cease to be sectional by ceasing to be patriotic. The South, thank God, is intensely patriotic, and in case of war .against our common country would .rush headlong to the front in its defense. It must follow, as the night the 1 day. that whenever assailed by aggressive sectionalism the South must in re, spouse, as long as she .retains her patriotism, become solidly and . in tensely sectional. ' ; Under our government of the peo pie where the majority rule, it is absurd to accuse the South of ag gressive legislation against the North, which outvotes the South two to one.1 It is in the power of the North at any1 time to give the death blow' to ' the defensive sectionalism of the South,'; by abandoning the aggressive section alism at the North which begets and. nourishes it. TnatJ after ! seventeen i years of peace for observation and reflection, the' North: should still fail fully to 3ee and act upon . this, is to me one of the mysteries of our poli ; ticafBM the people rat he North do! at length in a great measure punier-! stand it, ' Under the healing influence of time, ana the fraternizing tenden cies of our free institutions, our ' sec though fanned by the party which isst'll dominant at tbts 'North,1 are fast dying out. What is left of them has mostly I become merged jin questions, of gen. ! eral -importance, which, though in j some respects peculiarly affecting the j Sooth, divide the country independ ently of sectional 'lices. ' ' The war caused the enactment of ' some laws now no longer needed j :and from' the burdens imposed on the people by them, the whole- country stands in great need of relief. Some jof these no longer needed war meas ures are especially burdensome on the1 Souh. aud it is therefore of es pecial interest to the South that they should be repealed. The internal revenue taxes, now confessedly no longer necessary, are especially burdensome on the South, because collected mostly from pro ducts which are more Southern than Northern ; and because the abuses in their collection, and the corrupt man ner in whicfe the machinery for their collection" is made .to influence the elections, are practiced mostly at the South. . The tariff duties are now so hih on many articles manufactured at the North as virtually to prohibit their importation, and thus suppress, in stead of rpising a revenue from them ; though they raise the price of them to ths consumer higher than a revenue tariff would. This, though a worse than useless burden cn the consumer rvery where. Is especially hard upon the South, whicji is too poor yet to engage largely in manufactures. As the federal government is ad. ministered by the party now in power, the South has especial cause to confi plain of its centralizing tendency which is so dangerous to all the peo pie of all the States, It is the policy of the republican party to continue these burdens upon us. It is the purpose of the demo cratic party to relieve us from them. On the issues thus presented the Southern democracy do not propose to be silent, 0n these, on all aggres sive issues vhich the republican party, which any party, may continue to force upon the reluctant South, I say to you, and to all whom it may concern, that I allign myself shoulder to shoulder with the Southern democ racy, tho true friends of the South, on the side of the South, my loved, my honored, my . own, my native South. If we do not take our own part, pray, who will take it for us ? I take my stand for my native land and my home. For, the man whose soul is so dead that he would not, I find no fit likeness among men nor beasts. x Even the jackal, that deputy reve nue collector of the forest, that willing informer and swift witness among the smaller beasts ofjirey, which fearing to attack the game that it hungers to devour, yelps on its trail to guide the lion to it, and after the lion has feast ed upon it, gorges its stomach and satiates Us gluttonous appetite upon the dirty refuse and stinking offal from which its 'boss,' the lion, has stalked away in disgust; even' this cringing and cowardly jackal will stand at bay and fight for the wretch ed den which shelters it and its mate and its young. f I denounce no republican who is honest in his belief. I think his judgment sadly at fault ; but I respect his courage, when I see him standing up as squarely for his convictions as I do for. mine. Nor do I denounce any man for holding office under the administration' who takes and holds it with clean hands. But the Sooth, era men who 'have been corruptly bought oyer with money or office to fight against their home and race,may be aptly compared to the hell houods in Paradise Lost, growing fat by preying on the vitals of their mother. . If I am elected, I hope that my .course as your representative will be popular : at home among the good , people of Watauga-I promise you that I will try to make it "so, by . try ing to do whit is right . I believe that to be the best, the only,; way to; , seenre'a popularity which npuW ; b'e desirable and' iastingV" 'But shoul cirls cumstahces load me into a situation ;inf Which" ,1 must .choose .between pop; I'ularlty, aiid duty; I; would, turn xnv; not embrace without sacrificing duty," j and I would fellow duty. ' And then in the ' peaceful retirement on 'my' farm which would' result, I could reflect without a pang of self reproach upon my course, and faithfulness , b , duty would bring me its own high rewar.. .. Let us all remember that this is a very important election in; which ' every man should feel himself cspo. . cially called upon to do his duty. 1 THE MAX WHO LIVED Off. , :. . . ; . 1 Detroit Free. Press. . i Biding along the highway between V Eufanla and- Union Springs I came' ' upon a native Alabamian seated on a log by the roadside. He was a per-. feet picture of all "broke up." He looked sick, his clothes were ragged, and be was barefooted in May because he had no boots to wear. He looked up in a weary way, I halted, arid when I asked about the road he shook his head and replied : Dont bother me. stranger I'm clean gin out." 'What's the trouble?" "Oh, everything everything. I've had sickness and losses and lawsuits and tribulations till my sand is all gone. I came out here to die all to myself, and I'm expecting every minit to hear the toot of the horn." "That's too bad." "Yes, its bad. The old woman she'll have to peg along alone, and the children will have to die out or starve, and some other man will wal lop my old mule and kick my dog. It's bad, bad, but I've got to go. They'll find my desd body out here and plant it in some swamp, and that will be the last of me." "Can't I help you in any way?" "Stranger, are jou bluff ing?" , "No." "Really mean it?" "Of course." i "Then putyer hand right thar and. squeeze. Them's the first kind words I've heard in twenty years. Patch my hide if I don't feel like Hying three months longer." "Haver a ping of tobacco?" "Will I? Will a drowning man holler for a raft ?" He took the plug and tore away a quarter of it at one bite, and as the taste began to come he cried out : "Stranger, it's heap better than go- , ing to heaven ! Yum 1 Yum I Why, I really believe I'll live till cotton comes offl" ' "And here is some brandy which I carry to use in the water down here. Won't you take a pull?" "Won't I ?" Stranger, that' s too good.and I can't believe it ! I haven't tasted brandy since Lee surrender' ed." - He took the flask and pulled away until half the contents bad disappeared and as he handed it back his eyes be gan to shine, his hair pushed his hat off and he cracked hi? heels together and exclaimed : "Stranger, I'm going to live going to live all summer all winter all next year I I'm a new man I'm right up to the mark again and I'll go home and give the family to un derstand dad's on deck and good for . seventy 'five years jet I Whoop 1 If you hadn't been so powerfully kind to me I'd bet my old hat agin a cent that I could lick ye in two mia its." ' w DOSE WITH TEE &0VZR5MEBT. "Boss, wush you'd send ilis ter 'Tildy Smith," said a colored man, 1.. passing a ; letter through the stamp -window of the Little Bock postoffice. . "You haven't put a stamp on it." J "I know dat but can't ft go any ' - "... : . m ': ri ' ' ' wayf . . .. . , . . . .. ..; . "No.M - Won't Att frohermrit credit mA fnr (' free cents?! i " r ', "And dls .goberment what ! fit fur a i won't credit me fnr free cents.! :From 'v dis time on Tee a sonrman. I shakes' ; ' politics from de folds of my gann'tsj,:., an' I wants it understood data 'aeVa ,k 1 inimyter dis house, an'; ter de oper ti seer ob dese premises. An' , sices v, i knows whar a Newnited States eoMierJ is asleep rite c3v;Tm gwiater riv a , club an hit nw,tt v - ;-u:u i .. -' t ".V,,.