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I i 4- THE EltA. r- fill iT3 1 WM. M. BROWN, Cfttr cf A tenuis? IHia sair, tmm II m. two tirnn, ft M t " . Iuily )ne year. In adratK . 7 no Ms tumuli, in a4 1 ai ft. 4 M " lUrrv turn. A 'iT:jrs Is thk!;h tf a column. i lire UHHtUt, 1W Mi vmi.f, 2 t f rti.nKKKLT-l year, la advaiM. M ll ! anl 1 ts it dvru. t month, I 2 o 3 month., I 00 ' 1 motltk. lO 1 CVmtrart Alrrrt!rmmts UVro art proportionately tow rata.. Vol. 2. (RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1S72. No. 20. rmfosslnnal fan!, not rsrradlnjrcma tVgKk UT One year. In m van je, 1 1 CKI Six months, iu dvam-e, SO viuara, IU ta puUkhedoua year for to. NB9I ft1" " ""I f "' 1 "1 t 3C 3 1 'M tf 3 I t c .jc jb tr, .,rr, J fr, ,a THE WEEKLY ERA. THURSDAY, NOV. 21. 1871!. COMMUNICATED. Obituary. llrU-k lonii roy an our Senato rial Contest. Rev. James Reid, whoso suddes? death on the 6th inst, has been briefly announced in this paper, was the oldest member of the large and I ing developments, j retained them, If tho people want to witness an- nsblngton last bummer and icr- olher. Tammany expos?, let them forced tho accomplished feat of auuscrioe xo inertu ne uau p:MuK hji mhw uiUin u-uua iu A noticeable f ture of the Senatorial open on tho North Carolina Pen I- I the draft and official expenditures mntrat u the statude or the iudit-ai. tpntiiirv rtPFthfi''iiiatura cneets. or i united btaies .Marsnai uarrow. ! -'-;'-. . o "nr with heavy artillery, and shall not whereon Clingman based a letter only expose the unparalleled con-1 addressed to himself through The duct of the managers for the past I Washington Patriot, as coming from two years, but tho corruption of the I Hon. Jas. B. Beck, of Kentucky. Legislature that placed them there, if Messrs. Barringer and Mason and which, in the face of astound- know nothing about Col. Wood's influential body of ministers consti tuting the North Carolina Confer ence of the M. E. Church, South. In many respects he was a remark able man. Ho was characterized r tnrougn life by a distinguished love of order and regularitxKeatamL . consistent in apparel quiet, digni fied and gentlemanly in demeanor; discreet and competent in the man agement of his temporal interests; 'singularly regular in all his habits ; ' kindly and charitable in spirit ; constant and generous as a friend ; faithful and reliable in counsel ; prompt and thorough in all his ob ligations; laborious and consecrated in his holy ministry ; his life was in many respects exemplary, hon orable, and useful. An active service of half a century in the itinerant ministry involves a degree of toil, privation and suffer ing that few people are prepared to appreciate. The ministry of Mr. Iteid was conducted in part in ear lier years when circuits were far more extensive than at present, ne cessitating severer labors and more terrible exposure. Yet in all his 1 appointments he was true and un wavering.. For a series of years he filled with acceptability and useful ness the exacting and responsible office of Presiding Elder. The ex cellency of his character was mani fest in his fatherly kindness towards the young ministers who were brought into close relations with him. He was a sincer6 servyst of the Church. He spoke and acted with christian courage--risking everything for truth and righteous ness. He was a pious man. How everany individual acts may have appeared to others, he . was'never hasty in his actions, and always in- tended a iia "enuea! and to do right. He rests well. Truly may we say a good man has fallen. A. w. M. to the great disgrace of the State and the everlasting infamy of the last Legislature. , communicated. Humbugs. financial "work," we suggest that General Clingrnan may ; and in the event that no light can be thus thrown on the subject, then letuoi wood insist, mat a contest of the State election be had at once. , Th,f tpeeeh made before the Bap tist Convention which was recently held in Fayetteville, N. C, Hon. John Kerr said " that Henry Ward Beecher was one of the greatest humbugs on this earth." This surely must be so, for Mr. Kerr has been so long in the "hum-bug" bus iness himself, that he certainly ought to know what it takes to make a first-class insect of tha spe- he must feel when he hears "of the lion. John Kerr's opinion of him ! Tlio Weekly Era. Fjroni and after the date of The Weekly Era for the 28th November, ours Weekly will be enlarged, and thefprice raised from ONE to TWO Dollars a year; and the price of the TrijWeekly will be FIVE instead of THREE Dollars. This is done in justice, not only to ourselves, but to the other Re- cies. Poor Beecher I How badly Pul?ican Papers of the State, which lOwj price of The Erp; a price not only , under which they could not compete, with us, but at which The Weekly Era has been a pecuniary sacrifice: for it is but simple truth If the Representatives of tho peo- to slate, that, althousrh The Weekly pie in the approaching Legislature jM has enjoyed the largest circula will give us the promised contest of tiori, by far, of any paper in the the State election We promise the Sfoifo- it hns. nAVPrthelpna. rnt n C. Fun lor theiPeople. people some developments in. the nn oor vn t i vro' ' nnrl "II Koro 1 " innn. agement and manipulation of the canvass and election last Summer enlighten but that will not only amuse as well. 1 We are prepared to show instances of most stupendous conservative" and "liberal" frauds sounblushing ly perpetrated as toj astound com mon honesty and confuse .the in ventive genius of the shrewdest ward politicians of modern times. abundant sum over its income ; and feeling that our friends do not wish us to continue to serve them at such a sacrifice to ourselves, we have de termined to put the price of the pa per up to living rates. The Daily Era remains at Seven Dollars. I Chickens Come Home to Koost. Vance Versi Mcrrimon. I The Charlotte Home comes out in an article on the Senatorial ques tion and in reference to some strict- " I y- t t - r mil governor vauce, uea. xxm says : Let us compare Gov.jVance's "wild hunt for office" with Judge Merrimon's disinterested work " for the party since tho war. for we do not care to contrast the war record of the two gentlem em- Vance was nominated for Uovernor in 186S: declined. Nominated for State Senate in 1870: declined. Was elected to the United States Senate in '70. Total. 1 candidacy. 2 J declinations. - Merrimon was a candidate for the Con vention in 1865 ; beaten.! For Judge in '66; elected. For Judge again in '63 ; beaten. For the U. SJ Senate in '70 ; beaten. For the Convention in '71 ; beaten. For Governor! in '72 ; beaten. Total, candidacies, 8 ; elections 1 ; beats, 7: declinations, o ! now is that lor a 44 wild hunt for office?" I If "a house divided against itself cannot stand," what is to become of the "Conservative" party, in which the hench-men of Merrimon and the klans-men of Vance are fighting each other so savagely ? The Greelevites are nearly as hugely disgusted at the result as wo would have been had they de feated Grant ; and the country is in the same great danger it, always found to be by the beaten party. Illinois gave Grant In '08, 51,150 majority. This year the majority is more than 50,000. Illinois was to show the fullest development of "liberal republican" strength of any State in the Union. She has shown it, but in a way that Trum bull and Palmer despise. Everybody remembers the ri diculous and childish spectacle of Senators Tipton and Ransom "clasp ing hands" on the stand at Weldon one day last summer 'during the progress of a Merrimon-Greeley meeting. It will be an equally "sorry sight" to see these grave, po tent and reverend Senators clasp hands for the last time the fourth of March next, as Tipton ex-Us for tho wilds of Nebraska, no longer a Senator, but a dead political preacher a minister of mischief shorn of his power. And in the fate of Tipton, Ran som will read his fate four years hence. Further from iWoocl. The so-called "democratic-conservative" party of North Carolina was formed, after the war, of these inharmonious elements : old simon pure democrats, old line whigs, se cessionists and unionist's, war-men nnd peace-men ; and peace-men in war; and war-men in peace. When we add to this conglomeration the ku-klux and liberal republicans, we have an organization to be proud of. Such a force ought to have swept the country, and would, but for the law of the land, we have not the slightest doubt; We are anxious to know the manner of man this party will send to the Senate of the United States. - We observe that our acquaintance of last Summer,"Col.' j W. P. Wood, who "did his work; well in. the counties," is again in 'business." A nice little family j quarrel is go ing on among the Greeley Commit tee as to what became of a three hundred thousand dollar corrupt electioneering fund, contributed by A. T. Stewart, the Spragues, Mr. Horace Greeley and others; and the inquiry i3 made of Wood what he did with the "slice" he got ; and, unless he makes a showing, they threaten to charge him with having surreptitiously "feathered his nest." He will doubtless call on Messrs. Barringer and Mason,! Chairmen of tho North Carolina State Commit tees, to vindicate him. For, it will be remembered, they endorsed him back to the National Committees as having "done his work tcell in the counties." Now, Col. Wood has only to show what the character of that "work" was, and referringto the "Laus Deo" dispatch, he is amplyj vindicated ; for, as that "work" involved the spending of money, Messrs. Bar ringer and Mason surely are as well acquainted with the manner and amounts of his disbursements, as thev were with the quality of "his 9f w work." . Col. Wood was said one thousand dollars o tion fund In Burke, five hundred in McDowell and five jhundred in Catawba county. As to his further disbursements in the West let him refer the Ethan Allen Committee to Hon. T. L. Clingman, iiom Wood joined in the mountains. General Clingman will be remembered as the statistical gentleman who went fn thA Treasurv Department in Tennessee was as shamefully ger rymandered by the Democrats as Norh Carolina. Let us see how it worked : ! Horace Maynard's tri umph over Johnson and Cheatham in Tennessee is. in more than one respect a generous thing for the Democracy. The present Legisla- withfthe express purpose of keeping May-nard out of Congress. Colonel Dick,, a Democratic member, fitly called it "a huge battering ram" to "butt Horace Maynard out of Con gresij" and it has gone, since the appdrtionment of the State, by the namk of the " battering ram dis trict)" It wa3 stretched out 250 milek reaching from North Carolina Ins furwrd Mr. Merrimon, the lata Itemocrauc caniii iato lor Uovernor. The object of thi U very clear. They are eonaclous of the most glaring fraud on their part during the recent canvas and they well understand that unless Mer rimon can bo fixed In soma way ha will contest the election and win. It is pi ble for the IteputUcana, with a part or the Democratic utrcngtb, to put up a Job that will make Merrimon United State Senator in spite of himself, lie owes It to the Democracy; of the State to do hi utmost to defeat kUcIi a movement, lie owes it to Oov. Vknce not to interfere in any manner with that gentleman's suc cess. There is no'tdpubt Mr. Merrimon would make a goa -'Senator, but he will maka equally ma Uoveruor, and tnat lie is nonestly entitled to. Let the Democrats in the Legislature beware. Do not throw away any strength. Ile member Fool, Abbott, llolden and Mc- Lindsay, and wrest every department of the government from tho murderous ghouls. i The above ia the concluding par agraph of a long article in Pomeroy's Democrat of New York,' opening, under the heaiUpf " A Republican murderer and Outlaw, " on Hon. John Pool and the Republican party of North Carolina, i It is not difficult to trace te source of this article, for thougfy written by a Democrat editor it gives un mistakable evidence of who in spired it. That evidenceis found in this paragraph from the same paper taken . in connection with the presence' in New Vork city of a. prominent " democratic" or conservative, editor of Raleigh : Josiah Turner, editor of toe Raleigh, N. C. Sentinel, is a gentlema whom the Republicans don't seem to tancy mucn. As we stated last week tbey have just blown up hi3 printing establishment. A few months aero thev had him in jail on some frivolous charsre which did not hold water, and then they kindly re membered him by dropping a few pistol shots through the windovs of his resi dence. Mr. Turner is still alive and of erood crit. although it is worth a man's life to edit a Democratic journal in Raleigh. We shall hereafter notice the risk of a "man's life to edit a Demo cratic journal in Raleigh." For the present we simply apprise Judge Merrimon and his friends of the aarencies. manner and means, em and also put Governor Caldwell on his preparation-sruard Jbr the fajiiMCxic-Ti:!!.) The Democratic print In tin State, and out of It, hat thU firm ngaged Inacruado against Judt Ilut-U and Solicitor Cant well because, It Bcenw, these gentlemen In the dis charge of their proper duties have dared to attempt to execute the law upon an editor. It was supposed by them that the law for editors was the same as that for other peo ple ; and an editor having commit ted a crime under their very eyes, they conceived it their duty to ex tend the law to him Just as they would to any other criminal. And for this they are assailed and elan r.s or tiiaUdr, Ln mu h a ul.2H-a tlu tftul to i lude til in frulw tha tt. Jojtiieat of hi r!bU tit aucfct j. 3rd. Wh ra words are spoken or pub- ii iiea regarding tba profrsMoa or call in? of the party, tending to Injure LI m In business. . In tl rases the jury had only to be I cause the peqetrator of the outrago ai r ilU Iii rs? And I.s- wxlety to beat tlnir uictyy ? Are you Iu be alandervd, your charuclcr mallgtuxl, your Limily Ixlhil nnd rximsrd to ridicule and dlgracv, and you to bo told that you have no redress be- ith the proof to entitle him to ftvovvt. Vltwo case are not restricted ta words prlntad, hut apply also to words spoken, or slander. Libel Is nothing mora than written or printed slander. Dut as to criminal libel, the rule is that a man cannot be Indicted for words spoken they must be writ ten or printed. ; But the law does not restricjtthe State to those cases .that are actionable ei orec1, and held upl tolhe countryl AlTacUous, words, wrttti of another x j3 it posgib that such danger- has got a newspajier?'' Are we to have an unbridled press with no restraint upon its conductors save that which in such an event will surely be "enforced by the bowie knife and the revolver in the hands of their victims? Do these men desire thus to remit our eoplo to a state of anarchy and abolish all law Utholnn..f f I v y-rAnttabovo If he had re because of the criticism -and royJs Democrat n foreshadows with such certainty; for there is some thing ominous in the language of Brick Pomeroy, that, "Mr. Merri- " mon would make a good Senator, " but he will make equally as good " a Governor, and that he is honest- "ly entitled to. As for Judge Merrimon, he can hardly overlook the attempt to to' Jventucky, and made to contain prejU(lice him with the "demo- 15,0QO more than the ratio fixed for - . i a Congressional district. The little game hasn't worked. Maynard is not only not "butted out" of Con gress, but the "battering ram" dis trictlhas. gone Republican. While Mayhard is elected Congressman-at-Large, Colonel Thornburgh, a Re publican, goes to Congress to repre seiitlthe "battering ram" that was devised expressly, to keep a Repub lican! out. .12 it Mr, Greeley himself It has no faith in the cardinal tenets of the Democratic party!; how much less the floating politi cal dit-wood which a sense of expedi encyjbrought to his support in the late mistaken, disastrous canvass I The great thing now , is not to keep this floating political drit-tcood, but to rehabilitate and re-establish the Democratic party. New Yonrk World. So Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull, Tipton, Helper, Goodloe, and Mc Quigg, are dismissed with an epi thet, and told to "drift." They have been used by the "democrats" and '.conservatives" and "ku-klux" but proving or no account, Tie oria and.its followers will keep them no r, but thus turn them out to to have left the corrup- I 2o. cuiuuci iiaa io raia lunger in', the Senate, he can feebly say with: his great predecessor "I still live.' But poor Trumbull! the clock peddling business, in Georgia is played out ;" while Tipton feels the- natural aversion of his class to return to the herding of sacred flocks. Schurz will remain in the Senate until his term expires two years hence, when he will doubtless re turn to the "ministry of song," plaintively, bewailing his loss-of the German vote. As for our friends down here in North Carolina, they have of course "drifted'.' so far to leeward as not to be heard of again, and so will give! no further trouble. crats" and "conservatives." made in the intimation that he relies upon the great body of the Repub lican members and a few strayed- .ofis of his own party to elect him. Nor can he fail to know that he is stabbed in the back by a creature whom he has nurtured, to be a tool now for the use of others in the ac complishment of their designs against him. Judcre Merrimon will no doubt be as prompt to resent the imputa tion of an understanding, amount incr to a bargain and sale, as Re publicans will be prompt to disavow any connection or understanding with Judge Merrimon. For the officiousness of this mis chievous sheet, in his probable can didacy and political conduct, the friends of Judge Merrimon perhaps feel the indignation that all well meaning JNortn Carolinians can better express in the word con tempt. For, whatever political di visions or diversity of opinion may obtain here, we apprehend that the people of North Carolina have near ly all arrived at about the same es timate of Brick Pomeroy and the Raleigh editor who, through the columns of Pomeroy's Democrat, thus indicates his whereabouts in New York city. The attack on Mr. Pool is made to implicate Judge Merrimon, in that it, is attempted to be shown wherein he may be aiding the ac complishment of some covert de sign of the Republicans led by Mr. Pool. But the impudence of the thing caps the climax of insult to Judge Merrimon in the inference that the election to the Senate of any other than Governor Vance will be substantially a Republican triumph. As between Merrimon and Vance; our preferences are well known; but we do hope that Judge Merri mon will properly rebuke these in termeddlers; and administer appro priate, punishment to those among his assailants whose base ingratitude discloses itself in the article from Pomeroy1 Democrat. as conspiring partlzans who are aiming a fatal blow at the liberty of the press I Not only have they been thus assailed, but falsehoods in regard to the Court proceedings have been invented and circulated for the purpose of inflaming and deceiving the public, j Now for the facts : During the recent session of New Hanover Court, in the city of Wilmington, an article appeared in a newspaper of that city, in which Judge Bond was grossly maligned and belied, and was specifically called "a scoun drel." The attention of the State's prosecuting Attorney was called to the article, and he, as was his boun den duty under the law and his oath, sent a bill of indictment to the Grand Jury, charging the editors of the paper with libel at common law. We have here to ask, what else could Judge jDantwell, the State's Attorney, do ? Here he is, a sworn officer of the law,1 sworn to prosecute the pleas of the State and to cause offenders to be indicted and tried ; and here is ! committed in his very presence, and in that of the community, a libel, which the law denominates a crime. If he had failed to notice it because of sympa thy with the views, or of favor to the individuals who committed the offense, he would have been treach erous and corrupt, fused to prosecute it fear of newspaper abuse, he woul d have deserved to disgrace. If he, had Reclined to in terfere because he thought. the. at tempt would be unsuccessful or im polite or unpopular, he would have been , a mean and cowardly time server, unworthy to j fill any office of trust in any orderly and christian community. Suppose he had seen or heard of a man's setting fire to a house to burn up the! city, and had refused to send a bill to the Grand Jury for that offense ! He would have been justly censured and de nounced by all honest men. But because, as public prosecutor;, he seeks to indict an editor for com mitting a crime he is to be hel up as an enemy of public liberty. Is there a respectable Democratic law yer in North Carolina who will say over his own signature that Judge Cantwell could honestly have taken any ether course ? But to the facts again : certain unknown members of the Grand Jury having indicated their oppo sition to finding the Bill of Indict ment, the Solicitor according toithe usual course of practice in the Courts, arose in Court and requested the Judge to charge the Grand Jury specially . upon the subject of libel. The Judge directed the Grand Jury to be brought in and explain ed to them the ..law of libel. The following is the Judge's charge, as reported by the paper which was sought to be indicted and which has since been abusing the Judge for charging the law as t is, and has been for centuries, both in this State and in about all other civilized countries. The Judge charges the law ; and it hurts some law breaker and then the criminal abuses the Judge ! Truly I ' i i . No rogue ever felt the halter draw ? "With a orood oninion of the law. ; i - V From Wilmington Journal Oct. 29, 72. His Honor said to the jury that he had beerf'requested by the counsel for the State tt give them a special charge as to cases of criminal libel, and more espe cially as to what constitutes a libel that will subject the party to indictment asf distinguished from that only actionable at the instance of a private party A man is entitled to bring i an action for : libel or slander; but in only three cases is he entitled to recover without show ing to the jury that his j character ; has been actually damaged. . .; 1st. Where crime is imputed and, as which are actionable per set are also in dictable criminally In every case where a man may not be able to recover spe cially. ; The law goes farther as applied to cases not actionablejaer se. A man pub lishes you as a thief: you bring an ac tion, show the publication and are en titled to recover. It is actionable both criminally and civilly. He calls you a rogue: then the action is not civil and you cannot recover damages unless you can sbow that your character is actually damaged; for here the charge does not impute a felony. Although you cannot bring a civil action, still ypu can bring your criminal action when a man pub lishes you in a manner calculated to bring your character into public con tempt ; you can indict him. A libel is a malicious publication tending to injure your character. It is not incumbent upon the mem bers of the bar to show further than is charged in the bill of indictment for you to bring a charge of libel." A grand juror who considers this matter, as fur nished in this bill of indictment, and refuses to find a bill, remembering his oath, is guilty of perjury. ' There was a law in England where a man who published a libelous statement of another could not show, was not per mitted to prove, that the language used was true. It was held, as Lord Mans field said, 44 the greater the truth, the greater the libel." Yet in North Caro lina, by public enactment, a defendant is entitled to establish thatwhat he wrote was true, and if he proves this to the jury he is not guilty. It is difficult to imagine what other defense a man who is published as a scoundrel has but that which the law affords.. ; '- to inquire whether these parties charg ed have been guilty of printing, causing to be printed, or publishing, or causing to be published, or writing, or causing to be written, the language charged in the bill of indictment, and if so, then a true bill must be found. The Court charges you that the publi cation of the words set forth in the bill of indictment are sufficient to constitute a libel per se. It is for you to deter mine whether these persons charged are editors or publishers of the paper nau.ed. A libel has been committed the Court so charges you and it is for you to find out who committed this libel. The rule is that whoever causes a li belous statement to be written or pub lished, willingly and knowingly, is guilty of the libel. Of course all the em ployes of a printing office where a libel is printed are not necessary guilty of libel, because they may not have known that it was published ; and the printer in the discharge of his mere mechanical duties, may not be guilty because there was no intent on his part. The jury are to take into consideration only the testimony of witnesses sent from the Court, and have no right to send for witnesses to make out a case for the defendant, nor have they a right to examine any witnesses except such as were sworn in Couct, and cannotsend for witnesses without the consent of the Court. Whenever tho words set forth in a bill of indictment ; constitute a. libel in law, you are to say who published it. There is but one course for an honest man to pursue. . r: If this charge is not correct why don't some of the smart Democratic lawyers expose its fallacies ?.' Why, Mr. Editor, they know it is right they know it cannot be attacked they know the Judge simply dis charged his duty in expounding the law. ( .. : " There are some other matters connected with this libel case which ought to be ventillated. In fact the whole subject ought to be taken up and I discussed by the Republican press. How far are men to be coun tenanced in assailing the law offi cers of the country for performing their sworn duties? Is every felon and ! law-breaker to be allowed to raise? a personal issue - with the Judge and the Solicitor and the oos and vicious pretensions' are countenanced by any tio pretend to be good citizens? ' v The following is the text of the article, declared by his Honor to constitute a libel, as set forth in the bill of indictment that Solicitor Cantwell sought to have found by the Grand Jury against Major J. A. Englehard and Colonel W. L. Saunders : THS DIFFERENCE, j According to Radical ideas of right and wrong, and of justice, it is all right to turn Northern 'convicts out 'of the Penitentiary, although -they are grown men and notorious thieves, found guil ty by a jury after a fair trial, but it is all wrong to turn out young Southern boys, of tender age, who by promise of mild treatment, were induced to plead guilty before a scoundrel like Judge Bond, without any trial at all. i It is all right in Radical eyes to par don the Pennsylvania thief, but it would be all wrong to pardon t.;e North Carolina KuKlux, so-called. .!-. The grown man Yerkes goes free. The boy Ramseur is in a felon's cell. Can North Carolinians reconcile it to their manhood or to their consciences to vote for Grant ? If Grant is beaten Rad icalism will die. If Grant is re elected Radicalism will live. Tlio News goes Back on Itself. The Maleigh Daily News of to-day, speaking of the late Presidential election in North Carolina says "Our people could not bury their prejudices. They were not willing to .vote for a life-long abolitionist icanTwnen tney tnougnt there was no chance "to defeat the Radical party. . They would not vote for Greeley under the circum stances, for after the results in Penn sylvania arid Ohio in October, they gave up all hope of Greeley's elec tion." How does the foregoing tally with what The News has been say ing heretofore ? It has been daily charging, since the election, that the Southern Conservatives and Democrats were willing to make friends and be reconciled, and had,, manifested this disposition by giv ing up their prejudices and voting for Mr. Greeley, but that it was the Northern people who were unwil ling to "shake hands across , the bloody chasnr'l Now TJie . News says "our people could not bury their prejudices." It also says our people gave up all hope of electing Greeley after the result of the Penn sylvania and Ohio elections in Oc tober ; yet after those elections, its rallying cry to Its party was "to the polls ; to the polls ; there is Hope yet of electing Greeley ! the vote of North Carolina may decide the contest, and carry the day I" Out, with such hypocricy l Who can have any confidence i n such . an organ , We pause for a reply. " ? ' . i The; Wilmington Libel Case, j We give place to the comraunica-' tion of a gentleman in,'ei very way; familiar with, and who has studied and understands the matter re cently up before the Grand Jury of New Hanover county,, wherein the Solicitor drew a bill for libel against The Wilmington Journal. -' We shall hereafter make , some comments of our own on this mat ter and the demoralization ;of;the partisan press of the State generally. For the present we only have room for the communication alluded to. ' Hon. S. 'F. Phillips. .' .-r We are notified from Washington that Hon. S. F. Phillips, of this city, will receive the appointment of Solicitor General to the Department Sheriff and the jurors who execute of Justice ip Washington. It Is liot the law upon him for his crimes ? at all probable, however, that the What; means this cry against the appointment will be accepted. Courts of law both State and Fed a general rule, not on felony. 2nd. Where a party is contaflrions or having a y crime - but ' ' ' ; charged with nfectious dis- eral? Under the shallow pretense of liberty are we to have a despo tisni of newspaper Editors?. Is the law to be for all men except news- " Political drift-wood y ...Is what the organs of "democracy"! now call their late "liberal repub lican" allies. 1 ' 1 X; v J
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