North Carolina Newspapers

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Grant nerer haa bau defeat ed, and he nerer will b. Horacx Orkklet. . While aesertlar; the riff lift ef every npullcui tm hie utnuaacM chelee f a caadidate for next President na tll a nomination la amade, I reatare f sarrest that Cau Graat will he far hetter aallled fer that awaentaa trust la 1879 than he wae la 1S6S." IIoracx Gjuexuey, speech on 5i January, 1871. Republicans! t wen ty-flve thousand majority in this State for Grant is but your duty. Rally to the polls, ye Republicans, every one of you, on the fifth day of November. , We regret to learn that Lee M. Me-1 Alee, Esq., Is prostrate in Shelby with consumption. -ii The "Democrats" and "Liberals" give up North Carolina for Grant by twenty thousand majority. TmmarNTG TJTR THING HOME: OR. REASONS WHY THE SOUTH SHOULD VOTE FOR GREELEY. " When the Rebellious Traitors are overwhelmed in the Field, and scattered like Leaves before an angry Wind, it must not be to return to Peaceful and Contented Somes. They must find Poverty at theit firesides, ana see trivaiwn in mc Anxious Eyes of Mothers and the Bags of Children." Horace Greeley in the New York Tribune, May 1, 1861. Another " Liberal " Trick. More depends on the Republicans carrying North Carolina, by a rousing majority, than many suppose. Reported: That Col. Hamilton C. Jones, of Charlotte, will go off with the O'OorjLorand Adams supporters. Printing tickets with the names of O'Conorand Adams at the head, with the names of Greeley electors ; this to catch the straight-outs. 0JT POCITiAKT H. -wn. Hanes, "Liberal Republican" dele gate to the Cincinnati Convention which nominated Greeley ! " Gracefully Said. . In alluding to the soldierly qualities I of fsUlmnt O w. Will anm Owm boro State utters this simple truths Good soldiers are generally good men In every respect." 'Fishy Records.' Republicans rally to the polls to- On account of the vast improvements morrow week, November 5th, and roll to the city, the people of Chicago are up twenty-five thousand Grant in North Carolina. Where are the Greeley flags that whilom, flapped their funeral folds, sus pended across the street in front of Tucker Hall and the office of 77ie Daily Ketcs. majority for now rejoicing over the fire or last yearj and are fretting up a benefit Ball for Mrs. O'Leary who owned the cow that kicked over the lamp that started the fire that burned the city. "Mine Got. vot a beeples" these Americans are! It Is well to observe that our article, on "Fishy Records," the other .day, was merely the substance of political conversations carried on in certain "Democratic" quarters of the State ; and was merely the expression , through bur! columns, of a strong sentiment pre- vailrnsr throughout the State, among a great, lfnot the grew tway wc n "Democrats" and "Conservatives." The ; sentiments expressed, were the sentiments and' utterances of leading "Democratic" and "Conservative" pol itlclans of North Carolina, some of whom we shall name at the proper time. - to Greeley, and will not vote for him ; while there are not a few such who will openly vote for Grant. The Straight Outs. Observe the Gerrymander ! Eighteenth Senatorial District; publican; ONE Senator ; popula tion Tenth Senator Re- Look out for the names of Grant and Wilson on tickets with the Greeley District Electors. The "Democrats" and' "Liberals" are up to trick," they think. A Tammany in St. Louis. al District; Con servative; TVO Senators; popu lation Hon. Lewis Hanes, of Salisbury, formerly editor of this paper, but ft "Liberal Republican" delegate to Cin cinnati, has renounced Greeley, and declared for Grant. Much excitement has been caused in St. Louis by the exposure of frauds In m I I 1 1 itAlinfn foil olmtla. il a 8na.rp I uutiuiug imc vuuuijr jnu, omnia j tnose commutea oy trie rweea ring in New York. Many prominent politi cians are said to be Involved. The! swindle amounts to more than one hun dred thousand dollars, besides cheating in construction, so that the profits were enormous. j 35,617 33,686 There Is a party going round Raleigh with a certified check in his pocket, eager to "put up" on the State of New York going for Grant and Dix at the approaching election. NO TAKERS. Rally in the Townships Poll Full Vote. ! .We shall carry the State for Grant by his majority of '68 without effort; but It is materially to the interest of the Republicans of North Carolina that we I going to vote? carry the State by twenty or twenty- five thousand. We urge the Republicans to thor oughly canvass every Township. Im press upon the Grant men the Impor tance of voting. A full turn out will give the State to Grant by 20,000. Where is the Republican who is not The enemy are dispir- Tbus ONE Republican Senator is made to represent 1,931 population more than TWO Conserva tive Senators are allowed to represent. Or : In other words, the last Con servative Legislature deliberately smothered j-EIGHTEEN THOU SAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FOUR-&a of the popula tion jdf the Eighteenth Senatorial Dis trict; absolutely denying to more than ISTEIGHTEEN THOUSAND PEO- PLE"a any representation in the Sen- ate of North Carolina I The O'Conor and Adams electoral ticket, for North Carolina, is now com plete. It is as foJiow atralffbc '-uelrtyj. PaGDEXT CHARLES O'CONOR, of New York. For Vice-President, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, of Massachusetts. ElectoraIi Ticket: For the State at Large, John M. Long, of Cabarrus. James A. Caldwell, of Lincoln. For the Congressional Districts, 1st George H. Gregory, of Martin. 2nd Samuel B. Waters, of Wilson. 3rd James Linton, of Duplin, 4th Hamilton Long, of Chatham. 5th Benjamin F. Roney, of Alamance. 6th Andrew H. Shuford, of Catawba. 7th Archibald Henderson, or Kowan. 8th John A. Fagg, of Buncombe. scienced members did not "resign;11 nor did they levy the threatened tax I We do not pretend to hold that they "perjured themselves11 in declining to lay the. tax ; but this we do hold, that, these one hundred and five gentlemen with tender consciences, uttered a de liberate J6FALSEHOOD-a in the ace of the people, when they issued JJ..wf."rt'-y? ilu n mi j " 3T ciples of a lifetime, upon the simple and one vague idea of reform held out by him and his friends. "Sensible Democrats are enquiring what compensation they are to expect for the surrender and abandonment of principle, which they are called upon to make. Admitting, that tnere is great room for reform In many of the departments of Government, Demo crats are beginning to enquire, how Mr. Mrs. Greeley. The Canvass in the State. While the Santa Anna. That irrepressible agitator, Santa Anna, who was a prom- do your duty. inent actor In Mexican political affairs when our old men were boys, has come to the front again as candidate for the Presidency of Mexico. ited. " We are on the home-stretch." A fierce attack along the whole line will rout the Greeleyites. Republicans, How Democrats Propose to Fool Republicans. . "Conservatives" and "Liberals," according to The News, are "asleep," demoralized, disorganized, dispirited and despondent, the Repub licans are in a bondition of perfect or ganization, have covered the State with local canvassers, their electors and oth er speakers, and are making a most ef fective canvass.! ;The want of a spirited opposition to contend with, keeps down that show of actual enthusiasm in the ranks of the Republicans known to exist, but Re publicans of one section of the State The Daily News announces a meeting at Metropolitan Hall speak ing by Judge Merrimon and others and says: "The Raleigh Greeley and Brown Club, if alive, is respectfully in vited, and earnestly entreated to be present." We shall now see whether the "Con servatives" papers will visit on Hon. Plato Durham, with their accustomed severity, the usual abuse bestowed on j Many a Liberal organ might learn such gentlemen of that party as choose decency from the old Democratic Rich mond Enquirer, which says: "The private life of the President has been very rudely assailed. We have ab stain ed from any such beastly assaults, for we have too high a respect for the , office, and we are too good an Ameri can to believe the American people would have such a man as he has been By taking the names of Grant and Wilson, and perhaps one or both of the may rest assured that their brethren of Electors-at-large Marcus Erwin and every other section are doing their Samuel F. Phillips; or cutting off the duty, and so all will march together in names of the Presidential candidates, solid phalanx to the polls on the 5th and printing the names of Erwin and I day of November and give North Car Phillips as Electors-at-large, and Jn- olina to Grant by fifteen or twenty serting below the names of the Gree- thousand majority. ley District Electors. Thus they hope to carry eight of the electoral votes for Greeler . WATCH THEM! to exercise a manly independence in the expression of an honest opinion. Four Hundred and Thirty Thou sand Grant and Wilson tickets have been printed at this office for North Carolina, and sent out to the various Disaffection to Greeleyisui. A Statesville letter to The Charlotte Bulletin, (straight Democrat) says : It is certain that many of both the leaders and the masses of the Democracy are sick of Greeley. They hesitate to break with the party, though in their hearts they feel they have been sold. The Hon. Thomas Ruffln. Colonel John F. Hoke, Hon. Plato Durham, and any number of less noted but equally- lnnuenuai .Democrats, such as Archibald . Henderson, of Salisbury. Dr. Campbell, of thisi place. Col. Whitson. of Old Fort, all incline to O'Conor It is also understood that many of the canrassers in the Summer campaign refuse to speak in this. In fact, a month hence it will be hard to find a sensible Democrat to admit be ever vanted Greeley. We know many gentleman of this Perju-ree Perju-ry. The Conservative members of the Legislature, who, at the last session of the General Assembly, laid such vio lent hands on the Senatorial and Con gressional Districts of the State and " gerrymandered " them out of all shape and proportions, each and every one, took a solemn oath to support, main tain and sustain the power and force of this just provision and plain language of the Constitution of North Carolina: "2 hat each Senatorial District shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants. and shall at all times consist of contiguous territory.11 j Now let us see. and trickery, in that Convention cam paign, attempted to deceive and entrap the people of the State into a fatal and false position, merely to gratify parti san malignity and political hate, and to satisfy the cravings and demands of their masters, a pack of office-hungry politicians and worn out party "hacks." But these tender conscienced gentlemen did -perjure themselves- when they gave to the 3rd, 12th, 18th and 25th Districts, containing 120,885 inhabitants only four Senators; while to the 10th, 14th, 17th, 23rd and 2ith, containing a population of only 116,337, they gave SEVEN Sentors ! Can t he people of North Carolina fur ther trust a party ef gentlemen with such tender but accommodating con sciences? These gentlemen are Gree- ley-ites; and not understanding the wishes, nor representing the sentiment of the people of North Carolina, they propose to elect a United States Sena tor at the approaching session of the General Assembly. p.ww ia to make these reforms with i wo inirus oriiw Out for O'Conor and Adams. The Cleaveland Banner of Saturday the 26th instant contains the announce ment of Hon. Plato Durham as Editor of that paper. The names of O'Conor and Adams are placed at the head of the paper, and the new editor says, by way of saluta The Seventeenth and Eighteenth tory: Districts Johnston and Wake counties are " contiguous territory." Wake county the 18th Dis trictallotted one SenaC&Tfcas a population of j 35,617 Johnston county the 17th Dis trict allotted one Senator, has a population of 16,897 "It s will be observed, that we hoist the names of O'Conor and Adams as candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President. We can do-noth ing else consistent with our conscien tious convictions of duty. "The reform movement, wnich t few months ago, promised success, was throttled in its infancy, when the name ot Horace Greeley was placed upon its ticket, as a candidate for iresiaent ; and Jin taking up and ratifying this nomination at Baltimore, the .National Democratic Convention i sold out the honest rank and file of the party to Difference in population, 18,720 Thus as 16,897 are to 35,617, did the members of the last General Assembly of North Carolina,' who voted for this gratify the caprice of a few men. The arrangement of ! Senatorial Districts, result of this course is overwhelmingly , 1 . . . . TT has been held since the Baltimore uon ijuv,-a ana the party wnicn vention: and especially, in the elec- sup ports such men and measures, and tions of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indi the men themsel ves. aro no lnnirer wor- ana. 1 These elections show conclusive- thy of the public confidence of as intel ligent and patriotic a people as we know the people of North Carolina to be. townships of the State. Every town ship has been supplied by m". ' If any represented in certain quarters to be in have not reached their destination, lei- that high position. The Southern peo- egraph, dispatch messengers, and write pie have political, and not personal, city and section, active for Merrimon by mail. objections to Gen. Grant" I iast Summer, who are now Indifferent Tender Conscienced. It will be remembered that the Con servative members of the last General Assembly all united in an address to the people of North Carolina, appeal lv. that Democrats refuse to be sold; that they refuse to abandon the time- honored principles of the party and of consufcuuonai government, jur lue vague, undefined and uncertain prom ise of what some may term reform; that they refuse to surrender the field to the enemy (as the platform at Balti more does) for the precious privilege of being allowed to do Homage to tne leader of that enemy, Horace Greeley ; that they refuse to follow a few men, heretofore considered leaders of the ing for a Convention, otherwise 0rA!532E2SlI2K&tt abandoned, and into the support of one, the said members, were compelled to j inflict on the "dear people11 the ruinous burden of an extraordinary tax-levy, or, they said, they should have to perjure themselves, or resign ! Well, the people did not gratify them the intimation of the support of whom, twelve months ago, would have been sufficient to brand its author with the epithets renegade and traitor ; that they refuse to be forced into the support oi the arch enemy of the Democratic party, with a Convention; these tender con-1 Mr. Greeley, at a sacrifice of the prin- mtea States against him, and with no hope of changing it within the next four years ; and with a large Radical gain (as the late elections show) in the House of Kepresentatives. ; "No. Democrats i and the world know that Mr. Greeley is and has been a, fanatic upon every important issue. which has come before the people of the United states during his political life. He was a dangerous agitator, fa natic and extremist upon the slavery question before the war ; he educated a public sentiment at the North, hostile to the institution of slavery, which finally culminated in a disastrous civil war; he supported that war against the Southern people with all theawlity he possessed, and through his influence. many Southern youths, to-day fill im- knoicn graves. But his Anti-Slavery and war record could be excused by Democrats if his subsequent record were not so wholly obnoxious to the Democratic sentiment of the country. Through his able pa per, The New i York Tribune, the most influential Republican paper in the country, he clamored for reconstruction measures, and belabored Congress un til they were passed ; he clamored for civil rights bills; he" clamored for civil and political equality: he clamored for the impeachment, of Andrew Johnson : he clamored for Ku Klux BiUs, ana he constantly belabored Congress until all of these objectionable and obnoxious measures were passed. i "He has said more hard things of the Democratic party : and particularly of the Democracy of the South, than any other hundred men in the Nation, and Democrats cannot forget, that this de nunciation of the party and its princi pies, by Mr. Greeley, continued up to about six months : ago, nor can they forget his abnoxious views upon the great tariff question which has so long made the poor classe3," and sections of the country tributary to more wealthy classes and sections. ; "To expect Democrats, who.are Dem ocrats from principle, to forget this record of Mr. Greeley, and shutting their eyes to the bitter draught, to gulp him down like a glass oi seasoned, wine, is too much. It would be more palata ble, If Mr. Greeley now repented of his war unon .Democratic sentiment and Democratic principle : but he not only does not repent, but, in his speeches throughout the North, he points to his record, as an evidence, that he is a true Bepublican. . "The; result is, that .Democrats or principle everywhere are standing aloof from the movement, seeing, that over- Whelming defeat- stares them in the face, and that they have been surren dered to the enemy by a few ambitious, spavined leaders and place hunters, more intent upon place and power at any sacrifice, than they are upon pre-. serving a constitutional atepuDlic for the American people.": The Raleigh "Dally Era." We are glad to notice that this able Republican paper, at Raleigh, N. C, which has heretofore been published tri-weekly, is hereafter to be published daily. It has done good service, in a locality where it was much needed, and we are glad to see that it is build ing up a business which promises suc cess. We trust the tried and true Re publicans of the old North State will give it a hearty and substantial sup port. Washington i 'hromcie t Notwithstanding the political warmth and party feeling of this campaign, no partisan of President Grant, or oppo nent of Mr. Greeley, can refuse, for the latter gentleman, the fullest measure of sympathy in the condition of Mrs. Greeley, account of which we get from The New York Heralds , f Tfm puopltf 2?o4Ji Oetncrlna, Vf all " parties, feel the liveliest personal in teresi in this good woman She was once a resident of our State,' and thus, from having been our guest, she Is, in some sense, still one of our ladies. nd she is a genuine heroine, whoso life deserves to be written. 1 First we find her at work, gaining her own livelihood, in a highly honor able calling, and in a most praise wort thy and creditable manner. Separated from home and the friends and ac quaintances of her girlhood, by a dis tance of several hundred miles, at a time jwhen inter-communlcatloh be tween the North and South was neces sarily slow, tedious and often uncertain. this lady, in her youth, found herself thrown among strangers whose man ners and customs, and mode of thought, were entirely different from the peopJo from which she came, and whom sho had known. We can easily Imagine tho enduring-spirit and unfailing-courage necessary to sustain "this Northern maiden, when first she found herself among Southern strangers. But she found a hearty welcome and a generous encouragement In the per fect freedom of a plain JNorth Carolina home in the early days of her strug gling maidenhood, when only a plain Northern school-mistress. , She. and her distinguished husband, and . amiable ' daughter, now have a full outpouring of generous sympathy from the same plain North Carolina people With whom the youthful ; maiden found her early youth, at Marrying a poor ungainly whom the world was then disposed to laugh, she has watched his shuffling, ambling gaiti encouraged his awkward footsteps, and - rounded the orners of his somewhat rugged and eccentric ncj ture, until she has seen him stand gracefully on the pinnacle of Journalistic , fame, j - And now, when the tidings from her sick chamber proclaim that the sunset of her life is about tinging the yellow,! fading, autumn woods, a large body of the American people are preparing to march up to the ballot-box to cast their votes for the husband of this lady iu connection With the highest office tho most honorable, responsible and distin guished official position within the gift of fifty millions of free. Intelligent and progressive people. , j ; Old age is apt to . fittingly crown youthful heroism ; but such honors as this noble woman has won, seldom gild the drapery of the couch that modern ' heroes and heroines fold about them when they lie down to pleasant dreams. In 13CJ8 Greeley said Grant was the best man and purest patriot In the world. ! From 1868 to 1872 Grant has followed Greeley's advice till he has become, so Greeley says, the worst man in the world. Alorai beware oi ureei leyism,-Pomeroy1s Democrat. j 1 i ! I 1- i j ; i I'll 1 I i