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.THURSDAY, AUG. 29, 1907. H A. LONDON, Editor. JuJje Clark's Speech. We "gladlygive space for as much of Judge Clark's speeeb, de livered here last Friday, as it is possible to publish iu this issue, and will publish the remainder next week, containing a sketch of the companies furnished by Chat ham to the Confederate army. "Mrs. President and Ladies of the Winnie Davis Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, Fellow-soldiers and Fellow-citi- To the noble ladies of the Win nie Davis Chapter of the Daugh ters of the Confederacy, under the leadership of their devoted presi dent, we are indebted, fellow-soldiers, for the shaft which shall re call to future aoes the sufferings endured by the brave men of Chatham, and their heroism, on. many a stricken field, during those four eventful years the memory of! which shall never be forgotten.. The suffering and the hardships; endured by our glorious women! during the trials of those arduous years'are truiv more worthy of commemoration than those borne by the soldiers in the field. Though we have as yet raised no monu ment to our women it was the he roic women of the Coulf H .. who inspired our citizen sm.. r by their faith in God, by their magic influence and immeasurable good work. And we owe it to! their fair daughters whose un shaken fidelity has preserved the memory of our glorious dead that this and oiauy another shaft has arisen to point out to posterity the pathway to fame our fallen heroes trod. It was the path of duty and honor. I have read in history of the heroic deeds of the brave days of old. I have been told by eye-witnesses of the gal lant deeds of others, but with "these eyes, I have seen the sold iers of the historic county of Chatham do their duty. I had the the honor to serve in the same brigade with at least tour compa nies from this county and I- know them to be the stuff of which he roes are made. Whether in the crisis and acme of the great strug gle, with the historic 2Gth North Carolina Kegiment at Gettysburg, or faithful to the last, carrying the last order to advance, at Ap pomattox, Chatham county was ever to the front and has won its "place in the picture by the flashing of the guns " I am glad to be with you, veter ans of North Carolina, and once of the survivors of that splendid soldiery whose fame is no.v co extensive with the world itself. Half fed and poorly clothed, your array of -'tattered uniforms and bright "muskets" taught the foe that courage and fidelity to duty were inborn in this Southern race. You often marched with bare feet and fought upon' half rations, but you marched to eternal fame and fought your way into that Wal halla where glory and valor have crowned you as woi t by to be com rades of the soldiers of the Tenth Legion of Caesar and of the Old Guards of Napoleon. The annals of war, soldiers, do not show your superiors. Outnumbered, not out done, y.ov Tarrehdered after four years "of an unparalleled struggle and your drums last beat is roll ing in eternity. But your past at least is secure. So much enduran ce, so much valor were not in vain. Their memory is a rich legacy for your children's children and the whole rate wears the. honor you have conferred upon it. In the long centuries that are to come, legend and song in this fair South land will keep bright the story of the Confederate soldier. His mem ory will sparkle in the fountain, the mountain peaks will bear re membrance of his marches. "The meanest rill, the mightiest river, Rolls mingling with your fame forever." Where the sparkling Shenan doah brawls along, where the mighty Mississippi moves majes tically to the sea, where the Geor gian pines are bare, and where the Potomac's breezes "answering low, soothes many a soldier's end less sleep," there North Carolina's dead are lying, for in that grand circuit from Texas to the Chesa peake and then around by ocean and gulf again, from the Susque hanna to the Bio Grande, that circle of fire whose circumference ever contracting, for the lack of reinforcements, but like some splendid display of fireworks, bright to the last, and brightest at the latest flash in all that circle there was no soldier braver, more faithful to duty even to death, than those who carried the honor and the fame of North Carolina upon the points of their bayonets. They knew how f fight and how to die and they did it. You and I have seen North Caro linians hold the line when all but them had left it. But I did not come to recount your great deeds. Neither came I to praise you for the simple faith And courage, with which when the end came, you turned your faces homeward, and there picking" up the web ot life began again where yon had dropped - it four years before. Your powerful aid dissipated the evil influence that surrounded your native land. Yon picked up the the broken statutes of law and order and replaced them in honor upon their pedes tals. You cleared your fields of the brambles that had grown up and your government of the bad men who had climbed to power. At your bidding, prosperity again started the hum of its wheels and honor and integrity became again the attendants of your public service. You did all this and more that will stand to your everlasting honor. Id the strenuous struggle of 1861-5 you were faithful to the highest type of the soldiers, and in the years following you were equal to the highest duties of the citizen. Patriotism is not with you an acquirement to be laid aside at will, it is a part of your very ex istence. The years like iron hail have swept great gaps in . your ranks and the heads of the survi vors have whitened with snows that never melt; bat your patriot ism has not been diminished with your numbers and the Staje has no sons more jealous of her honor or more obedient to her laws than yon. But "Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war," and hence has its struggles not less strenuous and important to the public welfar. It is not only in Mil3 revolutionary warfare that a -.late has whigs and tories. We have them at all times. Whenever there is a struggle to assert the liberty and rights of the people, whenever there is a movement to puc iuto practical effect the grand doctriue set out in our State con stitution, that "all government of right originates from the people, is founded upon their will alone" and the further declaration "the people of this State have the in herent, sole and exclusive right of regulatiug the internal govern ment and the police thereof," whenever and on whatever occas ion, and the state has sought to exercise this power "for the good oi the whole there has been op position by the tories of the hour who wish to control all powers of government for their own special benefit and in their special inter ests. And at their bidding a swarm of toadies echo their contention, when who like Esau of old have sold their birthright for a mess of pottage. Their motives are pelf or cowardice, the same which ac tuated tories and deserters in open war. We need mince nt words with such. Let public contempt brand them. Indeed there is a very small minority who take the tory side. The overwhelming ma jority are sound at heart. Those who aie purchased need not be named. The moment they speak in the interest of their owners the membership is proclaimed. Like Peter of old, "their speech betray -eth them." Had such men lived in the revolution they would have raised their hands against their state and their own neighbors for the sake of King George's gold. Had they lived iu 1861-'65 they , would not have been found in the ranks of the glorious men whom that monument is raised to com memorate. This republican form of govern ment is based upon the principle that all government is founded upon the people's will, and when that will has been regularly and formally expressed all men must obey it. The sovereign in North Caroliua is the expressed will of her people, and that is restrained by federal authority only so far as North Carolina, joining with her sister states has conferred a limited power upon the federal government. That there should be no mistake about this, the tenth amendment to the constitu tion of the United States rings u clear as a bell. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibit d by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people." There is nothing ambig uous in those words anil not a Hue or word of it has ever been modified. The hopes of. onr perpetuity as a government and the maintenance of our liberties as a free people depend upon upholding this guai antee of the rights of each state, in its integrity. There are a few good men who panic -stricken at the result of the war of 1861-5 have declared that "states' rights died at Appomattox." Nothing is farther from the truth. The theory -of bur irovernment has thus been summed up: "An indissoluble union of indestructi ble states." The war did settle that this was an indissoluble union. But it did not destroy the other branch of the theorem, that these are iudestructible states. Destroy the states and there is not union but a consolidated gov ernment. This with our vast ex pause of territory and diversity of interests would be impractica ble and indeed an impossible gov ernment. It is true that there is the four teenth amendment which was pas sed solely (if indeed legally adop ted at all) to secure the risrhts of the newly emancipated colored people. The monopolies and plu tocracy of this country , quickly seized upon it as aPdevice to draw all jurisdiction of all questions concerning them from the state courts, whose judges, are mostly elected by the people, and respon sible to them, into thesubordinate federal courts whose judges are ia most instances selected by the great capitalistic combina tions and hold for life.. "Like sap pers and miners," to quote the words of Mr. Jefferson, they, have been at work night and day to wrest the fourteenth amendment into something very different from its true meaning, and to make it repeal both the tenth and eleventh amendments and, indeed, nullify . the whole spirit of the constitution. Should this , succeed, there would be no longer use for stata judges or state legislatures, and even the acts of Congress would be set aside at will by judges ap pointed for life at the selection of Wall Street. The same powerful combina tions which have sought in their own interest to make or prohibit law making, or the due execution of laws when made, by taking a hand in the election of o residents and governors, legislators, con- gessmen and senators nave by no means withheld their hands from the other branch of the govern ment. The sudden reversal of 100 years of precedents in the income tax case and the transfer, contrary to law, of $100,000,000 annual taxation from the millionaires most able to bear it, to the backs of the coiling masses, revealed, as by a flash of lihtnin. to the public what lawvers had lono- known, that the popular will has been thwarted b.v predatorv wealth even more by the courts setting aside statutes or in misconstru ing them, than by lobbies in de feating lesrislation. Fortunately thesubordinate fed eral judges are created by and ... . nave been abolished at will by Congress. They have no powers whatever except those conferred by act of Congress, all of which that body can recall at will. And even the sunreme court nF th United States, while created by constitution, is subject to this provision, "under such regula tions as the coneress shall make." That com tacts under the judiciary act ot I7b9, which congress has often amended since and can fur ther change at will, provided it does not confer powers beyond the limits authorized by the con stitution. So this brings me back to my proposition that the war, whose heroism that monument commem orates, in no wise impaired the rights of the states but confirmed only that the union was indissolu ble and that no state harl a rio-ht to withdraw from it. The public opinion oi the people of a state as to what is for their best wel fare, when legally expressed, re mains conclusive, unless within the limits of those powers expres sly grauted to the United States in the constitution, and as to those the people of the United States speaks through congress. In short, I hold with that grand old patriot, James Hunter, who declared after the battle of Ala mance was lost, "I believe that the people are as much master now as ever." That was in 1771. At Mecklenburg in May, 1775, at Halifax in April, 1776, at Phila delphia in July, 1776, his declara tion was taken up and repeated and its echoes have been rolling down the years ever since and will never cease. Those who believe in the abso lute and unlimited Dower of in. dicial supremacy and that irres ponsible judges can make their own jurisdiction and amend the constitution at will by grotesque constructions of the fourteenth amendment forget that the "peo ple's will," not a judge's edict, is the supreme power. If the' swol len ideas some judges have of their powers were correct, in ififil all that would have been neces sary to stem the rising tide would have been to get some federal judge to issue an injunction against the people of North Caro lina and other states. Probably this would have been attempted if some special interest had been endeavoring to assert its suprem acy over the law. But as it was the government of the United States, whose supremacy was cal- ! led in question, its officials harl some common sense. As quick as! tney could, they got three millions of men into line, and then it took them four years and billions of money to assert that authority superior to an act passed by the authority of the people of North Carolina. Those who remember the spirit of North Carolina in those days and in the great revolution and see how we honor the memory of those who have stood for the sovereignty of the people know well that we will not submit to judicial usurpation now. North Carolinians will not "lay down at the popping of a cap." That it may be seen that in op posing the amendment of our fed eral constitution, and the absorp tion of statesrights by the steal thy process of judicial usurpation and strained constructions I have good authority, I quote. In his farewell address to the American people, Washington said- "If, in the opinion of the peo- pleJihe distribution ... or , modifica tionof the constitutional -powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. Bat let Vuera hi no j change by usurpation; for, though , this in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the cus tomary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield." And in his first message to the American congress, Lincoln said: "To maintain inviolate the rights of the states to order and control under the constitution their own affairs by their own judgment exclusively, is essenli il for the preservation of that bal ance of power on which our in stitutions rest." . Aud, finally. Chief Justice Mar shall said in Gibbon vs. Ogden: "The genius and character of the whole "government seems to be that its action is to be applied to all those internal concerns which affect the states generally; but not to those which are com pletely within a particular state, which do not affect other states, and with which it is not necessary to interfere, for the purpose of executing seme of the general powersof the government.' The same sturdy spirit which supported the right of the people of this state to control their own affairs in days past still exists. "Shame on the false Etruscan Who lingers still at home, When Porseua of Clusium Is on the march to Home." And shame on the North Car olinian who falters when the rights of his peuple are at stake. Aud double shame on him if honored b- his state with public office he fails to act aud to speak in maintenance of the rights of her people. (Continued next weekO Mr. W. P. Jackson, .associate editor of the Baleigh Evening Times, died at his home last Monday morning. He was one of the best known newspaper men iu the State, his special articles aud short stories having attracted wide attention. Mrs. Efiie Ingle, of Ashville, while attempting to administer a thrashing to her 12 year-old son, was struck by the boy, became overbalanced and falling to "the floor, ruptured a valve of the heart and died in a few seconds. Ex-Congressman Benj. H. Dunn died at his home near Rocky Mount on. last Suuday, after aa illness of several years with Bright's disease. He was Rep resentative in Congress from the Fourth district from 1889 to 1835. The Atlantic' battleship-- fleet will start f ir th ? Pacific nxt l)-u-einb.r ac urdin to an olli.-ial statement issued by Secretary Loel) at til' liivcti-Mi if LJr; idjnt RouSMvelt. Major John W. Soott, f S.-m-ford, died last Saturday in the 84lh year of his age. IVr many years he ivsidd at H-iy.vu.id in this county. RevR. II. Whitaker.oa r of the best kuoA'n Methodist ministers in the State,l ed in Raleigh last Monday uightu the 79;h year of his atre. HEALTH INSURANCE The man who insures his life Is wise for his family. The man who Insures his health Is wise both for his family and himself. You may insure health by guard ing it. It is worth guarding. At the first attack of diseese, which generally approaches through the LIVER 'and mani fests itself in innumerable ways TAKE. . And save your health. PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF PLTTSBORO---' Pit tsboro Graded School nnd Public High School will open firs.t session Monday, Sept. m i. The Graded School will be open to all children in district No. 0, ai:d will embrace seven grades. High School a ill be free to all in the county that can stand entrance examination. Music in khiiip ii-iIUling at reasonable rates. The Schools vilToptMi in :! t ew, Veil t quipped building. Board can be 'obtained at r.-Hsouable rates. " For fill thev luToi iu,ti(iji apply t A. 13. STALVEY, Principal. BINGHAM SCHOOL 1793 1908 FOR 116 YEARS boys nave been prepared for COI.LEGJi aDd for LIFE, and a Ie 5f,eiUnuned V? MEN at E B1KGHAM SCHOOL. Ideally located on Asheville Plateau. Organ:zation MILITARY for discipline, control and carriage Boys expelled from other schools not received. Vicious bovs expelled as soon as discovered. Haling excluded by pledge of honor, limited to 136. Rates reason able. Address Col. R. BINGHAM. Snpt. R. F. I) No. 4. ASHEVILLE NC WEEK END RATES. The Southern Railway announ ces sale of Week Eud Tickets to the following points, in North Carolina, at rates named from Ral eigh: More head City ............ $4 50 Beaufort.;.... -475 Wilmington . 4.50 Blowing Bock................ 8.60 Rural Hall.......... ..... ... 4.20 Taylors vil le 6.05 Shelbys.:; . . ... ...... 5 80 Rutherfordtou. ............ 6.45 Lincolnton. 5.25 Oliffs ... 5.25 Lenoir 5.30 Asheville.. .. 7.00 Black Mountain .. 6.45 Marion...... 5.85 Morgan ton . .-. . . . . 5.30 Connelly Springs......;........ 5.25 Hickory..., 5.2o Try on 7.50 Henderson ville. .... 7.75 Brevard... 8.45 Lake Toxa way 9.10 Hot Springs 7.75 Chase City, Va 3.40 Clarksville, Va ........ 2.95 These tickets will be sold to and including Saturday, August 31st, 1907, lor all Saturday trains and Sunday morniug trains, grood returning leaving destination not later than Monday following date of sale, except tickets to Chase City, Va., Clarksville, Va., More head City, N. C, and Beaufort, N. C, will be sold Saturdays only, and tickets to Blowing Rock, Wil mington, Rural Hall, Beaufort and Morehead City will be limited re turning Tuesday folloving date of sale. T. E. GREENC. T. A. Raleigh, N. OV . SUMMER TOURIST RATES. The Southern Railway announ ces sale of Summer Excursion Tickets to following points at rates named from Raleigh, N. C: Asheville, N. C. $10.90 Morehead City, N. 0 G.70 Wrightsville, N. U. . 7.30 Beaufort, N. C 6.90 Chase Citv, Va 4.90 Rural Hall, N. C 5.75 Waynesville, N. O 12 00 Lake Toxawav, N. C. 14.30 Washington, D. C , 13.25 Baltimore, Md 13.25 Atlantic City, N.J , 23.45 Asbury Park.N. J 24 95 New York, N. Y.. 22.25 Watkins Glen, N. Y 28.20 Glenn Sorings, S. C 11.25 Johnson City, Tenu 1G.90 Sewanee, Tcnn 24.45 Tate Springs, Tenn 15.10 These tickets will be sold daijy up to and including September 30th, 1907, with final return limit October 30th, 1907- . For detailed information, booklets, schedules, ; etc , call on or address, T. E, GREEN, C. T. A., Raleigh, N. C. The St-tte Supremo Conrl examined 71 applicants for lk-puse j to piactice ;iv,mu last Mo ulav. CtlLLEGE OF AS WO.iE Practical education in Agricul ture; in Civil, Electrical, aud Me chanical Eugiueerin; iu Cotton Manufacturing-, Dyeing- and In dustrial Chemistry. Tuition $45 a year; Board $10 a month. 120 Scholarships. -Address PRESIDENT WINSTON, Wiist R ileigh, N. C. Durham' Marble K7 : . : V? OTKS C. J. HULIN, Proprietor, DURHAM, N. C. Designs for tombstones aid uio ailments sent by mail. The best work at reason al le prices. The Oi'anise Grove School. A. boarding school of high gradeor both sexes, offering thor ough courses ia thaIiUerary, Commercial, and Music Departments. Established iu 1897. Faculty of Cvjllesre graduates, especially fitted for their work. H ialiona baiMio caataiaing Recitation Booms, Commercial Boom. Chapel, Society H ill. Teachers Office, etc., jaat completed. location oa3 of tha most healthful iu the Piedmont Section. Board aud tuition very reasonable. Full term opens Wednesday, September 4th, 1907. For cata logue and further information address, ' Henry M. Loy, Ph. B., James F. Greason, LL. B., Principals B. F.D. No. 3, Hillsboro, N. C. ' Littleton Female 'College. Splendid location. Health resort. Hot water heat. Electric lights and other modern improvements. 2 to boarding pupils last year. High standard of scholarship, culture and social life. Con servatory advantages in. Music. Advanced courses in Art and Elocution. Business College, Bible, and Normal courses. Health record not surpassed. Close personal attention to tU health and social development of each pupil. Uniform worn on all public occasions. CHARGES VERY LOW. 26th Annual Session will begin on September 18th, 1907. For catalogue, address - BEV. J. M. RHODES, President, Littleton, N. C. The Keeley Cure Do Correspondence Confidential. Special Low Rates Via SEABOARD Air line RailwaY The Exposition Line To Norfolk Jamestown Exposition April 26 to November 30, 1907 - Special Rates From Pittsboro, N. C. Bound trip season tickets $10.80 , Bound trip CO-day tickets.... 9.40 Bound trip 10 day tickets. . : ... 8.50 Bound trip coach excursion tickets. ... .. 4.85 ' Coach excursion rate sold Tuesdays and Fridays, limited seveu dajsand endorsed "Not Good in Sleopiujr, Pullman and Parlor Cars." Other tickets go on sale April 19th and continue until close of exposition. FOR KATES FROU OmER POINTS. -APPLY TO YOUR NEAREST SE1B0ARD AG EXT, OR BEPRESEN L'VTIVK . NAMED BELOW. Unexcelled Passenger service : via ; Seaboard Air Line Railway Watch for announcement of Improve d Schedules. For information and literature address B. M. POE, Agent, PITT3B0R0, N. 0. 0. H. GATTIS, Traveling Passenger Agent, RALEIGH, IT. C. RALEIGH & SOUTHPORT RAILWAY CO. Southbound Daily Except Sunday Daily TIME TABLE No. 22. Effective 15 May 12th, 1907. 4 2 a. m. p.m. STATIONS. a.m. p.m. 8.00 4.40 Lv....PMleiJrh...Ar. 10.40 G 00 - 8.55 5.15 .. .....McCullers 10.0G 5.15 9.16 5.30 ...Willow Springs.... 9.50 4.50 9.40 5.51 ..Varina . 9.40 4 32 9.55 G.OO ..Fuquay Springs... 9.23 4.17 10.14- 6.17 .'....Kipling-. 9.02 3.54 1037 ,.6.36 Lillinston ..... 8.42 3 31 10.50 - 6.48 ...... .Bunlevel.. 8.27 3 15 11.02 G58 ....Linden........ 8.17 3 05 11.55 -7.45 Ar..Fayetteville..Lv. 7.30 2.15 Connections: At Raleigh with Southern Railway and Seaboard Vlf Liaa; at Variu i with D irlnm and Southern By.; at Fayetteyille vlth Atlantic Coast Line B. B. JNO. A. MILLS, Pres. and Gen. Mgr. You Know What It Does? It relieves a person of nil deshtfor strong drink or drugs, restores his nervous sys tem to its normal condition, ami riMu.iUU: a man to his home and business For Full Particulars, Address, The Keeley Institute, Greensboro, N. C. Northbound Daily Except Daily Sunday Sunday, i
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