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T.VTE CONSTITUTION.
ylO POSE D AMENDMEN TS.
SEXATE PROPOSITION.
j XA CT to alter the Constitution of North
Carolina.
The General Assembly ot North Caroli
,.t enact (three fifths of all the mem
, ;s of each House concurring.)
Tint the Constitution of thU State he
,.:ml as follows, to-wit:
"a men 1 1 section six, of the first article,
by striking out the first clause thereof,
down to and including the word "but;"
his being the clause relating to the State
k!'t.
Amend section two of the second article
l.v" striking out the word 44 annually," and
inserting in lieu thereof, the word 44 bien
niallj;" being in reference to the sessions
ol the General AasemWy.
Amend section five of the second article,
l,v striking out all that precedes the
words, 44 the said Senate districts," and
lv striking out the phrase "as aloresaid
, 'f in said section; the parts so stricken out
Living reference to the State census.
Add a new section to the second article
:i le styled 44 section 30," and to read as
; ..'lows : '-That the members of the Gen
tr.il Assembly shall each receive three
hundred dollars as a compensation for
fi.vir services daring their term, subject
o such regulations in regard to time of
juvment and reduction for non-attendance
may be prescribed by law ; but; they
nay have an additional allowance when
tiny are called together in special session,
,nd mileage shall lie ten cents per mile for
ich session."
' Amend section one of the third article
"1 y striking out the words 44 four years,"
V here they occur first in said section, and
inserting, in lieu thereof, the words ' two
cars," being in reference to the terms of
executive officers.
Strike out the words 44 Superintendent
ot Public Works," wherever they may oc
cur in the Constitution, thus abolishing
that office.
Amend section six of the third article,
by striking out the words 44 annually," and
inserting, in lieu thereof, the word 4 bien
nially so a? to conform to the provision
:e-xcting the sessions ot the Gerjeral As-s-V.uby.
Strike out sections two and three of the
t- urth article, being the provisions which
liter to the appointment and duties of the
C'oJe Commissioners.
Alter section four of the fourth article,
fo that said section shall read as follows:
Tne judiciary power of the State shall be
v-ted in a Court for the If ial of impeach
:.nts, a Supreme Court, Superior Courts,
. h inferior Courts as may be . estab
: xd bv law, and Courts of Justices of
. Peace." 1
Alter section eight of the fourth article,
u that said section shall read as follows :
The Supreme Court shall consist of a
i ..iff Justice and two Associate J us ti coo ,
i-.-dJcJ, That this shall not apply to the
;.-ncts during heir present term of office,
unifss bv death, resignation or otherwise,
t lie number of Associate Justices shall be
reduced to two."
Alter section twelve of the fourth ar
t iche so that said section shall read as fol
irws: 'The State shall be divided into
u.n: judicial districts, for each of which a
judge shall be chosen ; and in each dis
:rict a Superior Court shall be held at least
wice in each year, to continue for such
ti:ne in each county respectively as may be
; ascribed by law. The General Assembly
hull lav off said districts in due time, so
th c the said nine judges maybe chosen
and begin their official term at the first
Ltneraf election for members of the Gener
al Assembly which shall occur after the
mtiiication of this section."
Strike out section thirteen ot the fourth
article, which fixes the present judicial dis
tricts. Amend section fourteen of the fourth ar
ticle by striking out all after the word
-office," and inserting, in lieu of the part
v stricken out, the words : "The General
Assembly shall prescribe a proper Bystem
: rotation for the judges of the Superior
t .urts, so that no judge may ride the same
istrict twice in succession, and the judges
i;.ay also exchange districts with each
. her, as may be prescribed by lav."
Strike out section fifteen of the fourth
article, and insert in lieu thereof, the fol
lowing: The General Assembly shall have
i jiower to deprive the judicial depart-ii-tnt
of any power or jurisdiction which
n-htfullv pertains to it as a coordinate de
! irtment ; but the General Assembly shall
allot and distribute that portion of this
power and jurisdiction, which does not
pertain to the Supreme Court, among the
ttlier courts prescribed in this constitution
ir which maybe established by law, in
"... h manner as it may deem best, provide
i .i-o a proper system of appeals, and regu
1 t;i- t-v law "when necessary the methods of
proceeding, in the exerciseot their powers,
f ail the courts below the Supreme Court,
Si fir as tho tmp mflT be done without
c nfhet with other provisions of the con
stitution." Strikeout sections sixteen, seventeen,
nineteen, twenty-five and thirty-three of
the fourth article.
Amend section twenty six of the fourth
article Dy striking out all that part which
begins with, and follows the word 4,but"
in s-.dd section, and, in lieu of the part so
ttrirken out, inserting the following:
1:. judicial officers and the clerks of
;tiiv enurts which may bo established by
liw. -iiall be chosen by the vote of the
; i.il finl electors, and for such terms as
iii .y prescribed by law. The voters of
t id precinct, established as is elsewhere
provided for in this constitution, shall
e.ut two justices of the peace for such
term ;ts may be fixed by law, whose juris
diction shall extend throughout their res
pective counties. The General Assembly
may provide for the election of more than
two ju-tices of the peace in those precincts
h'c;. contain cities or towns, or in which
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special reasons render it expedient.
i f magistrates of cities and incor
I towns shall have the jndcial pow
! j'iticcs of the peace."
!! section thirtv of the fourth article
1 V
irikincr out the word "township" and
i'eitin, in lieu thereof, the word "pre
t;net ;M also in the last sentence of the
s. ction, 6trike out the words "the
toliiu:issioner3 of the county may appoint
fetich office for the unexpired term," and
111 keu thereof insert an appointment to
fil. tucu vacancy for the unexpired term
alJ be made ns may be prescribed by
OLD SERIES VOLUME 43. i
NEW SERIES VOLUME 1. i
Amend sections one and seven of the
fifth article, by striking out the vords
'commissioners of the several counties"
where they occur in said sections, and in
lieu thereof inserting the words' "county
authorities established and authorized by
law."
Strikeout section four of the fifth arti
cle, relating to taxation to pay the State
debt and interest.
. Insert the word "and" before the word
"surveyor" in section one of the seventeenth
article, and strike out the words i4and five
commissioners" in said section ; also add
to said section the following : "The Gen
eral Assembly shall provide for a system of
county government lor the several counties
of the State."
Amend section two of the seventh ar
ticle, by striking out the word "commis
sioners" and in lieu thereof inserting the
words "county authorities established and
authorized by law :" and in the section
strike out the words, "the register of deeds
shall be ex officio clerk of the board of
commissioners."
Strike out section three of the seventh
article, and in lieu thereof insert the fol
lowing: "The county authorities estab
lished and authorized by law shall see that
the respective counties are divided into a
suitable number of subdivisions, as com
pact and convenient in shape as possible,
and marked out by definite boundaries,
which may be altered when necessary.
Said subdivisions shall be known by the
name of precincts. They shall have no
corporate powers. The township govern
ments are abolished. The boundaries of
the precincts shall be the same as those
which heretofore defined the township un
til they shall be altered."
Strike out sections tour, five, six, ten and
eleven of the 7th article, which relates to
the township system.
Amend sections eight and nine of the
seventh arcicle, by striking out the words
44 or township" where they occur in said
sections.
Strike out section three of the ninth ar
ticle, and in lieu thereof insert the follow
ing: " The General Assembly shall make
suitable provision by law for the manage
ment and regulation of the public schools,
and for perfecting the system of free pub
lic instruction."
Strike out section five ot the ninth arti
cle, and in lieu thereof, insert the follow
ing : 44 The General Assembly shall have
power to provide for the election ot Trus
tees "I the University of North Carolina,
in whom, when chosen, shall be vested all
the privileges, rights, franchises and en
dowments heretofore in any wise granted
to, or conferred upon, the Bard of Trus
tees of said University; and the General
Assembly may make such provisions, laws
and regulations, from time to time, as may
be necessfry and expedient, for the main
tenance and management of said Uni
versity.1' Strike out sectionythirteen, fourteen and
fifteen of the ninth article, relating to the
University of North Carolina. Amend
section ten of the eleventh article by strik
b nut tin- wqvds " at the charge of the
State," and in lieu thereor, macu .. 1
" by the State ; and those who do not own
property over and above the homestead
and personal property exemption prescrib
ed in this Constitution, or being minors,
whose parents do not own property over
and above the same, shall be cured for at
the charge of the State "
Alter section seven of the fourteenth
article so that said section shall read as
follows : 44 No person who shall hold any
office or place of trust or profit under the
United States, or any department thereof,
or ucder this State, or under any other
State or government, shall hold or exercise
any other office or place of trust or profit
under the authority of this State, or be
eligible to a seat in either house of the
General Assembly ; Provided, That noth
ing herein contained shall extend to offi
cers in the militia, Justices of the Peace,
Commissioners of Public Charities, or
Commissioners for Special Purposes."
Add another section to the fourteenth
article to be styled " section 8," and to
read as follows : " County officers, justices
of the peace and other officers whose offi
ces are abolished or changed in any way
by the alteration of the constitution, shall
continue to exercise their functions until
anv provisions necessary to be made by
law in order to give full effect to the alter
ations, so far as relates to said afficers shall
have been made."
Renumber the sections in those articles
from which any section has been stricken
without the insertion of another in its
stead ; and give to any new section that
number which by this method would have
been given to the section for which it is
substituted, and the alterations shall be
embodied into the constitution, and the
several sections numbered consecutively.
AMEXDMKNTS TO THE BILL.
The following are the Senate amend
ments to the bill as it passed its third read
ing :
1st. Amending the property exemption
from taxation so as to include 300 worth
of any kind of property.
2d. Amend so as to empower the Legis
lature to increase or diminish the number
of judicial districts to meet the necessity
of the times, provided the change be made
at the end ot the term.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
ADDRESS
OF THE
Central Executive Committee.
To th People of North Carolina :
The Executive Committee of the Dem-ocratic-Conserrative
party of this State,
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alter cousuinnv" """uo .
with many friends from different parts of
r.m;i;.r nrirli niihli sentiment.
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have deemed it necessary and proper that
the Central Executive Committee shall
address the people in reference to various
..rtiiiifo i interest, and particularly
.-....i-tmn.! rpfm-m in thi3 State. The
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Central Committee, therefore, feel espe
cially called upon and instructed to sub
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m. u o.... n( mfnrtn And relief as.
in their judgment, are calculated to pro
mote concert ol action and the general
welfare of the State. f
THB COKTBSTIOX ELECTION.
The result of the 'election in - August
last, although adverse, to the call of a
f!nnvention of the neerJe. cannot, be re
garded as an expression of popular appro
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val of many of the leading provisions of
the present State const'tution ; for all par
ties, with scarcely any dissent, recognized
and conceded the paramount necessity for
a change in the orgauic law in several
material particulars.
Nor can the result ol that election be
properly claimed as a party success or de
feat The issue submitted and passed
upon was not & party issue, although great
efforts were made by interested persons to
make it such nor was it so regarded or
treated by thousands of democrats and
Conservatives who voted against "Con
vention." That election turned on colla
teral and immetcrial issues, most of them
suggested and pressed upon public atten
tion by the great body of the office hold
ers of the State, who apprehended that a
convention if called, would turn them
out of office. The office-holders of the
State generally opposed the call ; they
freely used money and other appliances to
defeat it. The colored people were made
falsely to believe that a convention would
deprive them of their freedom, or greatly
abridge their political rights. Thousands
voted against the call because they feared
armed interference of the authorities of
the federal government and another war
other thousands voted against it, because
they apprehended some unfriendly inter
ference with the present homestead pro
vision, while some believed the call as
made was without the sanction of the
constitution and revolutionary ; so that, we
repeat, the election turned, not in favor ot
or against any political party, nor upon
the real merits of the issue submitted to
the people, but upon many collateral con
siderations. METHOD OF AMENDMENT SETTLED.
The majority against the proposed call
lor a Convention, though comparatively
meagre, settles adversely the proposition
to amend the Constitution by a Convention
of the people, however proper and desira
ble that method of amendment may be.
It settles it, because the radical members
of the Legislature, at the behest of their
party, unanimously refused to vote for the
call of a Convention of the people by the
Legislature. Such a call cannot be made
without the votes of at least a few of them,
and they and their party thus, assume the
grave responsibility of preventing the peo
ple from amending and reforming their
organic law.
The only remaining method of amend
ing the Constitution is by legislative enact
ment. Although the Constitution operates
oppressively in many respects, and some of
its provisions preclude all hope of general
prosperity while they continue in force,
yet it is manifestly the duty ot every good
titizen to seek relief from such evils by
flie legislative mode, however slow and un
satisfactory, in the present emergency, it
may be. jVe venture to hope that the
members of the Legislature will, when
they assemble, at once agree upon this
plan of relief, and we respectfully suggest
that, in the meantime, the people give
prompt aud free expression of their wishes
as to such amendments as they desire, so
that the Legislature may be informed of
the nooular wul, as well as mav be, in
reference to consntu .. -
OUR MATERIAL, INDUSTRIAL, AND EDUCA
TIONAL INTERESTS OPPRESSED.
That t.hii material, industrial and edu
cational interests of the State are in a ca
lamitous condition is manifest to the com
monest observer. There i3 now a direful
incubus upon the state that deadens the
energies of the people and destroys all
reasonable hope of future prosperity.
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:very man was xne uisiressmg &euse mat
he labors and toils in vain !
These evils are not owing to any lack of
industry and persistent eflort on the part
nf tli wnnlp. Ever since the late war
they have walked assiduously, and thou
sands have labored wno never laoorea De
fore. They have lived economically.
The soil has generally yielded good crops
and fair prices have been realized for
them. But their earnings are gone 1
"Where are they ? Their "desolated farms
are not restored. The waste places are
not built up. The greater number of the
towns and villages are as decayed as at
the close of the war ; many of them are in a
worse condition. The destroyed manu
factories, with but few exceptions, have
not been rebuilt. And where, we repeat,
are the earnings of our impoverished peo
ple? They are swallowed up in oppres
sive taxation, to support a system ol state
government essentially expensive, and a
radical extravagance without a parallel
in the history of a free people.
BURDENSOME TAXATION PUBLIC EXTRAV
AGANCE. During the fir3t two years under the
present Constitution, $1,807,580 were col
lected trom the people, and every dollar
of this vast sum was expended in the ad
ministration of the State government
an average of over $900,000 a year!
about ten times what it cost to adminis
ter the government before the war ! There
belonged to the School Fund, derived
from the Land Scrip donated by the
United States, the sum of $122,000. This
sum was invested mostly in "special tax
bonds," and the fund is virtually lost
These monstrous evils are the legitimate
fruits of the workings of the present Con
stitution and radical misrule under it.
The present organization fastens on the
people system of government essentially
extravagant the township system alone
makicg necessary about three thousand
officers at an annual expense of from
$300,000 to 400,000. It establishes a
public debt amounting to $40,000,000,
half of which i3 confessedly dishonest and
fraudulent, and which the people are un
able to pay.
MISRULE, FRAUD, FOBCB AND THE SWORD.
Under this organic law the people are
subjected to an intolerable misrule at the
hands of the radical party. By means of
notorious fraud, force and the sword, that
party had absolute control of the Conven
tion that framed the present Constitution,
and like control of the first Legislature
that assembled under it ; and although the
people were impoverished, this radical
Convention and Legislature increased the
public debt from $20,000,000 to near $40,
000,000 in less than eighteen months. Of
this' $20,000,000, less than 500,000 have
gone into the public works or to the benefit
of the people. This party placed in office
a Governor who absolutely suspended the
Constitution and laws of th State ; he ar
rested scores of innocent citizens without
warrant or any authority of law ; he sus
pended the writ ot habeas corpus a d
defied the Chief Justice of the State ; ne
made his warrant from time to time on the
Treasurer for large sums of money with
Saturday Momog, January 13, 1872.
out the sanction of law ; he raised law
less and mercenary horde ot despedoes
and armed them at the public expeBe to
execute his despotic will. This Urty
elected to the State Convention an) the
Legislature scores of men notorio for
their ignorance, licentiousness, dishesty
and corruption, who, at the bebe$ of
their party and knavish speculatoi, in
creased the public debt to the enorious
sum already stated. This party degfded
and disgraced the Judiciary by elating
to high judicial stations men shamfully
ignorant and corrupt, and others who
have not scrupled to manifest thVmost
blatant partizan feelings while biding
their offices. This party have ruinA the
credit of the State they have biased the
hopes and prosperity of the peophjn the
most shameless and defiant manne they
have made every department of be gov
ernment a by -word and reproach J To es
tablish the truth of these chargosfre need
but point to the history of the itate for
the last three years and appeaKW the ob
servation of every intelligent cHfiri .
THE PRESENT CONStlttriviC
This Constitution and this party, with
a radical, reckless and extravagant ilmin
istration of the Federal Government,
make up the manifest causes of tie suf
ferings, poverty and ruin that crish the
people of the State. The Radica party
have brought upon us all these eils, and
there is no relief from them but ,hrough
salutary changes of the Constitucon, and
a change of our present rulers fa others
who shall be capable, honest, wiseand pa
triotic. The present constitution is loosf, illogi
cal, contradictory and absurd in many of
its provisions, and it were well i it could
be entirely re-written ; but thi is not
practicable by the legislative mode of
amendment. Action will be expdited by
amending it in a few very impotant par
ticulars, for the present, and leavrig gen
eral amendment to a future time.!
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS SU(GESTED.
In the judgment of the Executve Com
mittee, the Constitution should ai once be
airended in the following particuars :
Section 6 of Article 1 shou'd be so
amended a3 to strike out all tlereof that
provides the inviolability of the pxiblic
debt.
Section 2 of Article 2 siould be so
amended as to provide that tie Legisla
ture shall meet regularly everj two years,
instead ot every year, and it should be
provided that the members ot the Legis
lature shall receive but $3 per day and
10 cents mileage, and such pay for no lon
ger a period than 100 days during their
term of office.
The office of Superintendent of Public
Works shoukl be abolished.
Article 3, Section 1, should bo so amend
ed as the Governor and other officers,
therein mentioned, shall hold their offices
but two years, instead of tour years, as
now provided.
Section 10 of Article 3 should be so
smended as to provide that the Governor
shall nnniinntfi t.hft offinpra therein men-
feedAhy Lwitb otherwfai sss:
videa ny law.
Article 4 should be so amended as to
strike out sections 2 and 3, thus abolishing
the Code Commission.
Section 4, of this article should be strick
en out, leaving the Legislature to regu
late the number and style of Courts. In
stead of five Supreme Court Judges, and
twelve Superior Court Judges, as now
provided, there should be but three Su
preme Court and eight Superior Court
Judges, who shall be elected every eight
years. Sections 11. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
18, 19, 20, 27, 28, 31 and 33 of article 4
should be stricken out and it should
be provided that the judicial pow
ers of the state shall be vested in one Su
preme Court and in such Superior Courts
and inferior Courts as the General Assem
bly may establish.
Section 4 of article 5 should be stricken
out, thus striking out the mortgage provi
sion on all the property of the State for
the interest of the public debt.
Section 6 of article 5, should be so
amended as to enlarge the class of exemp
tions so as to include " stock and provi
sions." Article 6, section 5, should be so
amended as to provide that the persons
therein rendered ineligible for office shall
likewise be rendered inccmpetent to vote.
Article 7 should be abolished, except
section 13, thus sweeping away the Town
ship system and leaving the matter vo the
Legislature.
Article 10 should be so amended as to
provide that the Homestead provisions
should apply to all debts alike, and it
should be in fee that is absolute.
Article 11, section 10, should be so
amended as to provide that its benefits
shall extend only to indigent persona.
Article 14, section 7, should be so
amended as to provide that no person shall
hold any lucrative office under this State
while he holds an office under the United
States.
Sec. 5 of Art. 2 should be so amended as
to abolish the provision for taking a
census of the State in 1875, and every ten
years thereafter.
We would suesrest as a further ameud-
mpiit. that Sec. 5 of Art. 9 be so amended as
to provide that the University shall be
nnflfir the control of the General AssemDlv.
who shall elect a Board of Trustees, of
which the Governor snail be ex ojpcio
Chairman, and Sections 13 and 14 ot that
Article should be stricken out
Other amendments ought to be made,
but those suggested would relieve the
nponle from the burdensome and extrava
gant State government that now swallows
m their earnings, and fastens noon them a
State debt which they cannot pay, but of
WUlCn luey luaj caaujr w uuiupruLuiy- auj
adjust the honest portion, as will reduce
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CRIME AND OUTRAGE.
We deem it worth while to notice in this
address, that wicked and interested per
boqs unprincipled and violent radical
nortizans in and out ol this, ior
sinister purposes, have sought w produce
the false impression that the Democratic
Conservative party have and do connive
at and encourage the perpetration of crime
and outrage. To this detestable end they
have, wherever they could, prostituted the
press, legislative and judicial proceedings,
and resorted to every means within their
nower. Such imputation is not only
groundless, false and scandalous, but in
famous to the last degree, and betrays
sDiiit of wickedness, we venture to assert,
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5 without a parajiei in political wanare.
Ti, nortu whir.h we renresent has al-
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tentlv condemned crime,
by whomsoever perpetrated, and has re
peatedly gone out of the usual political
course to denounce it, and urge upon the
people the high importance ot peace and
good order, and the duty of every good
citizen to be active ana zeaious in unug
ing offenders to justice.
The course pursued by tue unwortny
norsnna fn vhnm we refer is decnlv to bo i
deplored by all good. men of every politi
cal party. It is not only ignoble, but it
tends to destroy the moral and legitiniate
effect of the voice of the press, legislative
action anci judicial ueieiiuiiiaiiuii, ivi
suppression of crime their "constanf. ef
fort is to turp such matters to political
advantage bv aiving them a political turn,
and thus'they produce the almost ;inevi
table conviction on the minds M disinter-
tsted observers I that the purpose of the
press, the Legislature and Courts, is not
to suppress crime and outrage, out to
manufacture political capital and advan-.
tntre from the crimes of offenders, and thus
engender bitter feelings among their op
ponents, aestroy connuence m wicvouris
and bring them into disgrace and con
tempt. 1
VVe again urge our iricnas to set meir
fnres nrrainst. violence and lawlessness of
all kinds, and to be especially active in
preventing secret outrages Dy uisguiseu
persons
NATIONAL POLITICS.
Tf is i lw rpcrrpHprl that the neonle of
this fttate have failed to take anv verv ac
tive interest in national politics s'mce the
close of the late war. In our judgment
this is unwise. Our people are of the
Un'on it is our government and to it we
must look, as we have the right, for sup-
port and protection in our rignts oi me,
we owe it allegiance and support, and it is
a patriotic duty to yield tnese it is as
mnrh onr dutv to ioin our fellow-countrv-
men in shaping and controlling the policy
and destiny ot this great common national
onwmmpTit We have all the rierhts that-
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any of the American people have, aqd we
are talse to the country and ourseivea n wu
fail to recognize, exercise and act upon
them. The DeoDle have rights: let them
exercise them firmly and respectfully, and
when need be, assert tnem as ireemen uuu
American citizens in the councils of the
nation, in political assemblages, and every-
where. It we consent to be dwaricd e; a
ignored nationally, then indeed, we ms.y
expect to be for all time to come.
CORRUPTION, EXTRAVAGANCE AND USURPA
TION. Our common country is subject to
grievous political evils to which the com
pass of this address will allow us to ad
vert very briefly.
Official corruption in high and low
places; public extravagance; usurpation
of great powers not conferred, but denied
and prohibited by the Constitution ; high
and oppressive tariffs which foster im
mense monopolies j the direct encourage
ment and support of monopolies ; prosti
tution of official patronage to promote
r-rt C ASCenQanCy: a Dratem a( to ration
which briijgs into bch.. r-r-rroc h thi
terests of the party in power, hordes of
Internal Revenue officers who . oppress,
plunder and outrage the people of the na
tion, and under which large surplus sums
of money are raised that ought to remain
in the pockets. of the people; a general
system of espionage; a suspension of the
liberties ol the people upon the slightest
pretext, in express violation of the Con
stitution ; armed military interference with
the freedom of elections ; a general system
ot official bribery and party favoritism in
every department, and the administration
of the affairs of the government, are public
national evils, the enormity, extent and
danger of which can scarcely be measured
or appreciated by the people subject to
them. That these evils do exist ia man
ifest to everybody. The dearest, highest
interests of a free people demand that they
shall not close their eyes to such dangers
too long lest the time shall come when
they will find their form ol government
changed in name a3 well as in lact, and
their liberties lost.
source op public evils the "higher
law" of the republican party.
Most if not all these evils, are attributa
ble to the Radical or Republican party of
the nation, to its doctrines, policy and
practices. It is essentially a party inimi
cal and dangerous to the constitution and
public and personal liberty. It is founded
upon the despotic dogma that there is a
"higher law" than the constitution ; it is
emphatically and essentially a ''higher
law" party. This dogma is its life and
soul, and it proceeds on the jesuitical max
im, that "the end justifies the means."
Hence it is, the Lead of this party, the
president, does not hesitate to send the
army to New York and elsewhere at the
North, to this State, Texas and all over
the South, in violation of the letter and
spirit of the Constitution, to control the
elections and prepare the way for his and
his party's continued ascendancy, and his
own election. Hence, too, we find him
for like purposes suspending the privilege
of the writ of habeas corpus in a time of
profound peace, arresting the citizen with
out warrantor lawful authority, but only
by lawless force. Hence, too, we find this
party in Congress avowedly, and
in the most riotous manner, passing
laws at one time to oust the juris
diction of the Supreme Court of the
Union to prevent that great tribunal
from declaring its acts and assaults on the
Constitution unconstitutional and void,
at another time passing a similar law to
pack" that Court with partizacs to alter
a solemn decision already made, but dis
tasteful to this "higher law" party. Hence,
too, hundreds ot other similar acts done
by this party which illustrate the princi
ples, policy and practices which we have
attributed to It, and which if not arrested
and suppressed, must result in the absolute
overthrow of the system of government
formed and handed down to us by Wash
ington and his compatriots. That such a
party has been allowed to spring np on
American soil is monstrous and alarming I
7HE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY THK
ONLT OTHER PARTY.
There is but one other great political
party in the country that is the National
Democratic party. In our judgment, it is
the patriotic duty of every lover of liberty
and free government to co-operate with
that great and powerful party to arrest the
tremendous evils to which we have ad
verted, and which will, sooner or later, it
not suppressed, destroy freedom and es
tablish despotism and the sword.
rNumbor 73.
POLITICAL DUTY OF ALL PATRIOTS.
To accomplish this great measure of re
form in our State aud National Govern
ments, we cordially invite the zealous co
operation of every patriot, without regard
to his hitherto party affiliations. We
staLtl in determined opposition to the
crimes and evils to which we have briefly
directed public attention, and we uk all
good people to stand with us, trusting
that such common patriotic effort, through
the blessing of God, may save us and our
c untrv from impending danger and ruin.
THOS. BRAGG. A,haman.
A. S. MERRIMON.
M. A. BLEDSOE,
R. II. BATTLE, Jn ,
7. Q. DECARTERET,
C. M. BUSBEE,
W. R. COX.
J. J. LITCHFORD,
Central Executive Committee.
PETERSBURG ADVERTISEMENTS.
JAMLITT'S HOTEL,
PETERSBURG, VA.
HISIIOI & SEAYf Proprietors.
Wm. B. BISHOP, GEO. W. SKAT,
Formerly of Spotswood Iktertburg, Va.
Hotel, Richmond, Va.
oct. 17-ly.
W,
II. BLOUNT,
or
W i 1 s on, North Carolina,
7
WITH
Plummcr, Young & Co.,
P il ItS BURG, VA.,'
Wholesale and Retail dealers in
HARDWARE, SADDLERY HARD
WARE, AND CARRIAGE
MATERIALS
ALSO ; '
Manufacturers ot Tin Ware, aud Dealers in
COOKING AND BEATING
STOVES.
Sole Agents for Blachlcy's celebrated Cu
cumber Wood Pnmi8.
Oct. 17 3m.
JgLEGANT PHOTOGRAPHS.
G. W. MINNIS, Established in Petcrf-bur
and Richmond, Va., for
OVER TWENTY YEARS,
Would beg leave to inform his many friends,
patrons, and the citizens of North . Carolina in
general, that be may still be found at
o,.i,.,r. Va,.
prepared to take ever' style of Likeness, large
or small, in the very best manner, at moderate
prices. 1 call tno.il re-ipectfuUy solicited. Re
member 47 Sycamore St., Petersburg, Va.
oct. 17-3m.
S
OLE AGENTS FOR THE CELE-
bratcd Bailingham Cucumber Pump, the
best and cheapest made.
MEADE, OKR & CO.,
Wholesale and retail dealers iu
ihardHvare, cutlery,
and Carriage materials,
127 Sycamore St.,
PETERSBURG, VA.
W. C. ORR. JOS. AKCUER.
R. T. MEADE.
Oct. 17-3m.
jyjINGEA & HARRISON,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DRUGGISTS,
105 Stcamokk Street,
PETERSBURG, VA.
Have the largest stock of
DRUGS,
MEDICINES,
PAINTS,
OILS,
GLASS,
PERFUMERY.
PATENT MEDICINES, AC,
Ever before offered to the trade, which will be
sold at New York prices.
Merchants, Physicians and others should
know onr prices before purchasing elsewhere.
S" ORDERS SOLICITED.
Oct. 17-1.
QJLLf AM & DUMOP,
121 SYCAMORE 8T., PETERSBURG, VA.
We have constantly in store a good assort
ment of every kind of
mm &m steel,
AND
Agricultural Implements.
MACHINE OILS at Wholesale.
FairbttLV Scales at fov Trl Prm
tUT Any Enquiries will be promptly answer
ed and Orders Attended to with Fidelity and
Dispatch.3 Oct,17-3m.
T.
A. 'ST. CLAIM, -
MAXCVACTrKZS OF
Carriages, Buggies,
EXPRESS, SPRING AND PLANTATION
WAGONS, CARTS AND DRAYS,
CORNER LOMBARD &;8ECOND 8TREEtS
PETERSBURG, TA.
A Good Assortment Always ob Hmmd
Repairing of every description heavy and
light such as Painting, Wood-work, Black
Smithing, done faithfully and promptly. All
work: warranted. , I respect ally ask. call, as I
am sore that both in Prices sod Workmanshin
,1 can fciTe sitlsfaclios. . Qctl7-lT. .
Katm or Ixcmah ri ! n 1 otnaui io
prtcofaay aanbtvof fnce,a4d to Utt rate above
namoa Kr ca additional iocs ot rpac oosiroa
follows t -w ---
$1 tor t Booth.
ft for S mmrths.
h r 8 months.
9 lor 4 nonUu.
1 10 for 5 nocth
11 for A month.
14 for flBBoatiba.
ii for 10 aaoatha.
2C;iforlt sioatha.
1 ; .lift lnth
NORFOLK ADVERTISEFJEHT8.
i 1 m.m i ... 1, . I i
T. R. 'Iteardon,
- DSAXSK IX , - .
. i ... -j t J
FINE GftQGEfUES.
AND IMPORTERS OFJ
' .j -
FJIS, WINES. UQUORS, it,
21 Market Street Norfolk, fa.
OctlWT. , '..'. ,
JEWIS C. DEY dc CO.,
MERCHANT TAILORS1
t
No. C Bank 8t, one Door from Ma t St.,
NORFOLK, VA.,
Keep constantly on band French and English
Cloths, Casslmeres and Vetting. Also, a full
line OenUFornlshlng Ooods.
Axx Oarmbxts mads ToDin ix.tva bsst
Stti-w ',l
Oct 29-Sm.
CHARLI9 JORDAN.
-pSTAHLlSHEP 1837.
niMRT JORDAN
C. Jordan & Soil,
WHOLESALE CONFECTIONERS,
YOTACtTEBS OF STIAI tWlttl CANT,
AND D1AUCRS IN
Foreign and Domestic Fraita, Ac.,
Store 300 Main oi., Factory 1&2 Church St,
NORFOLK, VA,
Oct.l73m.
Col. A. Savaub. Prof. W. M. Jonbs. P. F. Lbb.
gAVAGE, JONES A LEE,
SniPPINO AND
Commission Merchants,
AND COTTON FACTORS,
No. 13 Roanoko Square.
NORFOLK, VA.
Oct. 29 3m.
Oibbs, Pritihnrd & Co.,
ZALBUV JN
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, &c,
202 Main Street, Norfolk Va.,
(Near National Hotel.)
Dct.l71j
P0RT8M0UTH ADVERTI8EMENT8
J J. BILISOLV,
No. 1 Ilioii Btrbst,
PORTSMOUTH, VA.,
WHOLESALE GROCER AND
Commission Merchant,
And dealer la a
NORTHERN APPLES, POTATOES AND
FOREIGN FRUITS
of all descriptions J
All orders accompanied with the cash will
be promptly attended to and satisfaction guar
anteed. Oct. 31 3m.
rpHOMAS OWENS Jc SON,
Dealers in
OYSTERS.
NORTH CAROLINA TRADE SOLICITED
P. O. Box 1C1
Portsmouth, Va.
!
Reference : Bain Si Bros, Banker.
Nov. l-3m.
UOLSX ESTABLISHED IN 1499.
NI EM EYE II, ETIIEREDftE
UIIOOKS,
GENERAL
COMMISSION -MERCHANTS
AND COTTQN FACT011S,
High St., and Central Wuart,'
PORTSMOUTH, VA,,
;' i . fr
And dealers in Provisions, Floor, Coal. Liiue,
Salt Plaster, Cement, Land FUaler sad Agrt
cultural Lime, 8aper-Pfcosphatea. Rawbonte
and Lodi Manuljctoring Co s Poedrtfte at cab
manufacturer's prices. ' .
A No. 1 Pern v lan Gssao, direct from Agent,
always on hand- ' , .
Nov. 1-Sm.
OCEAN HOUSE,
Portsmouth, Va.,
J, Jf BLAIR Proprietor,
Formerly oYarloro' Bouse, Jlalefyk, N. O.)
This LA&OB'and' Commodjoc Hotel has
been Befitted and Thoroujrblr Renovated, and
is now open forTlwBecrptlon of Gaests.
Persons leavinz oa tho Seaboard snd Roan
oke Railroad and stopplae at this Hons will
svoid crossing; the Ferry Tefore day, and bare
tho pleasure ot enjoying a Good Breakfast
The Train passes in front of the IUnse.
Board Per Jay - - - $2.50
petlT-ly. . ' ,,,t ; .,
T WOULD CALL YOUR SPECIAL
attention to my Urgs sad besatlfol stock of
r SCOTCH CHEVIOT for SaitUfs
NoT-.'s-ty,"""'
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