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1 -1 '4V l .;.?K4. :,! ittfj. By P. M. HALE ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements will be Inserted for One Dollar per square (one Inch) for the first and Fifty Cents for each subsequent publication. Contracts for advertising for any space or time may be made at the office of the RALEIGH REGISTER, Second Floor of Fisher Building, Fayetteville Street, next to Market House. 1 office : Fayetteville St., Second Floor Fisher Building. . ; RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: " i ne copy one year, mailed post-paid .. . .!.$2 00 ( )np copy six months, mailed post-paid... . . jf 00 No name entered without payment, Aid no paper sent after expiration of time paid tor. VOL. I. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1884. NO. 35. siiiiifiii 'Mm CAROLINA. BY ARDENT. Hail, hail, Carolina ! Thrice ball unto thee, : Happy home of the brave, the gallant and free; Every atom of soil that makes up domains ( Is dear to our hearts as the blood in our veins. We sprang from thy soil and were reared 'neath thy sky, j And here we will slumber when called on to die I Others may leave thee, and far, far from free stray, I But here were we born and here we will siay. chorus: And we will work for thee j To the moment of death, And bravely defend thee j Till the last rasp of breath. J 1 We love the spot where our fathers once stood And purchased the freedom we enjoy with their blood; - We love the old State and revere her good name, Her glorious history and ever bright fame4 Her smiling savannahs and flower clad hills J ' Her life-giving fountains and bright-sparkling rills r That leap .from her mountains high reared lurair Till they kiss the bine heavens all radiant and ; fair. iHORls: Ami we will work for thee, love thv grand bulwarks, that ever must stand ' I Almighty in strength and pride of the land; lettering homes of freemen that are worthy the uame, j Who know well their rights and their rights ilare maintain ! K.ui h blooming landscape, smiling inland ' and 1 plain, Are as bright as the gems in the great S6uth ern main; i And no better land has ever been given , To mortals on earth or is found under Heaven. Nor is there a State that has daughters more fair, And none with their virtues will with them compare; S Auil all are so charming where'er they are sen They're honored and' loved as though each were a queen; And here peace and plenty forever abound, , And the best of all things are here easily found, Ami all of thy people are happy and blessed, And joy here abides in each heart as a guest. A ud now to her sons Carolina doth call To rise in their strength, yes, both great and mall, - , . Nor rest till in truth of our State it is said. 1 She is up with the foremost if she's not gone ahead -Her climate, her soil,-her history demands, Of her sons and daughters who've hearts ind hands, ) To put their old mother at the head of the Bue, And resolve there to keep her through) all coming time. WHERE THE SUN RISES. HOW THE EASTERN CHRISTIANS Sing Their Dead to Sleep. Bishop Kip.J ' We have had occasion, in these pages, in several instances, to refer to that Great Eastern Church, of which, with its sixty five millions of souls, we know so little, :ind about which we so often, from eir ig norance, speak so disparagingly. In con cluding these sketches, we would give one more illustration from the Liturgical Ser vices of that Oriental Church, to show the power which these forms must exert in impressing the hearts and minds of their people. ' We wish to bring before our readers a picture or the Kites and Services with which, in those Eastern lands, they accompany the burial of the dead, that they may see how this Ritual, which has come down through more than a thousand years, inculcates the most lofty truths of our faith. ) By their Services for the departed,Beath is made the teacher of the living, and compelled to bear with him the tidings of his own defeat, proclaiming, wherever he goes, that his sting has been taken from him. Thus the child learns the awful truth of its future existence from the corpse of the parent, who, living, would never have taught it to him; and the dead infant, whose feeble lips had not yet power to frame the first faint stammering word, preaches with a terrible eloquence to the men grown old in, sin, of the life and the judgment to come. In those Eastern homes scarce is the last agony over when the salutation of peace is heard upon the threshold, and the servant of the Church appears to watch over her ilcparted child. Most often it is the priest himself who has received the dying breath, and given the last absolution; but at least he has been there to anoint the absolved ppnitent with holy oil, and celebrate on his behalf the Eucharistic Sacrifice. And now the dead body, made sacred by these rites, has become exclusively the Church's care, and from the moment that the priest appears in presence of the corpse, the friends retire to perform the only work which yet remains for them, in prayer and intercession. He enters, the neophyte pre ceding him with the cross, and standing, while he signs the corpse with the three fold sign, he utters a brief prayer. And, v er as he speaks, he fills the room with clouds of fragrant incease, ascending up like the supplications of the Saints, that wait in their white robes till their brethren -hall be fulfilled. But not long docs he linger there, nor allow this member of the great family of hnstwho now by his death has entered into visible communion with the Church triumphant to remain among these stran gers of the earth. When himself has dosed the eyes, and sealed them with the sign of the Son of Man, until that -day when, opening at His call, they shall be hold Christ glorious in the heavens, he bids the people raise his sleeping charge and bear it forth to the Church, the ante chamber of that grave which is the door of Heaven. Thus, not above an hour or two after the moment of death, the corpse is carried to that holy place which is now alone his home on earth; and then it is that, by the sure tokens of the sweet death-chant and the coming of the Cross, the dwellers of the Eastern city know that one is passing from among them to his rest. Yet truly to their eyes it still must eem rather a march triumphant than a funeral-train, for there ia'jio gloom, no dismal pomp, no black patff hiding, as it were, some sight of shame; but only that music glad with holy hope", and the breath of flowers mingling with the sweeter in cense, and, ever Caught up from voice to voice, the deep, exulting cry: "Thou art the Resurrection; Thou, O Christ!" iMag oeiore the procession comes in sight, throusrh the busv. crowded streets. they hear, floating through the clear air, soft and wild as the music of a dream, the low, faintmurmur of a mournful harmony. It is a strain peculiar as it is melodious, most strangely sweet and sad, and so ut terly unlike all other melodies that none ever yet heard it and failed to recognize the glorious old death-chant which for so many centuries has been the lullaby with which the Eastern Christians have sung their dead to sleep. It is a noble song of Victory the victory of the Cross over Death and Hell the triumph of the Hely One, who was dead and is alive, over the corruption He was never suffered to be hold, j It is ancient beyond all memory of man a whisper which has echoed down through the crash and turmoil of the pass ing centuries, from those first days of pu rity, when the one Church Catholic was still unireut by the sore divisions of these last-afflicted times. Age after age, while the great monarchies have been swept away, leaving behind a scarce-remembered name, and generations successively have rushed past that dark brink that binds our mortal view, unchanging over the indi vidual dead, those time-honored words have uttered one sacred, unfailing promise, as earnest to an ever-living hope. And as the well-known strain of wailing sweet ness penetrates among the busy crowds, each one desists with eager haste from his employment to listen to the good tidings it conveys. Clear and distinct that an them df the Resurrection is intoned by the deep voices of the priests, in words so simple and yet so powerful, that the most ignorant among the people cannot fail to gather; and to understand the wondrous meaning; while answering back, in tones more pure and thrilling still, the sweet voices of the youthful neophytes take up the chorus, of which the burden' is ever how man through death attains to life eternal ! Then, far and near, wherever those words of promise, like an angel's voice, are heard, each individual bows his head, and signs himself on breast and brow with the Holy Cross, which alone can be his pass port to the land of deathless joy, while, with earnest supplication, as the truth of Eternity is thus palpably brought before him, he utters the appointed ejaculation : "Lord, have mercy upon us! Christ, have mercy upon us !" So universally are these observances in culcated on all who witness the journeying homeward of a corpse, that the very little infants are seen with their tiny hands striving to make the sacred sign, as yet so far beyond their comprehension, and mur muriner with their stammering Hps the early-taught petition. Then all reverently stand aside, with head uncovered, as the funeral appears in the distance. The conveving of the body to the' church, which is the first part of the ceremonial, is most often performed at sunset, for they love that the pale glory of the dying day should rest upon the face where the light of life hath faded; and thus it mostly happens that the last sun beam flashes with its expiring radiance full upon the lofty cross that first meets the eye as the procession comes in sight. It is borne several paces in advance, car ried upright by a young child, the young est of' the neophytes for the Eastern Church, with a touching humility, ever appointed in all her offices that none should be permitted to the high office of Cross-bearer save only these little ones, of whom is the Kingdom of Heaven. Their innocent hands alone shall presume to touch that, sacred token holier in their innocence, as they believe, than even those of the, anointed priest; for they think that those tender lambs, newly washed in the baptismal waters, have more than any others been made Kings and Priests unto God and His Father. Three young chil dren, then, walk solemnly in front, the one clasping the great cross within his folded arms, and bending down his head behind it with humble reverence, so that at a distance it seems self-impelled through the air, while, on either side of him, his two companions bear the symbols of the Holy Trinity, which are painted in signs easily understood, on circular panels, ele rated on lone poles. The three neophytes, according to invariable rule, have their heads uncovered, so that their long, flow ing hair falls on their shoulders and veils the downcast eyes they never raise. It is a touching thing to see them thus on the threshold of life marshaling with such reverence and solemnity an elder brother to the tomb. Immediately behind them walk the priests, who. from the hrst moment the mortal Dream departed, nave come ior ward as guardians of that heir of immor tality, and have allowed no hand but theirs, the anointed of the Lord, to minis ter unto his last necessity. Sj soon as, by the mighty barrier of death, he was exiled from Jus family, from the love of friends, and the sweet charities of home, then has the Church opened wide her arms to re ceive him, and gathered him, like a jeal ous mother, to her own loving care. There are never less than three or four priests accompanying each funeral, for among the Eastern Christians the distinc tions of rank and station cease with this mortal life. These holy men walk abreast, heralding the corpse, and wearing the flowing, priestly robes, which they never, quit on any occasion, with one hand swing ing to and fro the silver censer, and with the pther holding the book from which they chant the blessed words of promise ; then treading closely in their steps, even as it is meet all men should follow the leading of anointed guides, the bearers of the dead advance. They wear no mourning-dress, for they conceive not that is a day of mourning, but, rather, one of tri umph, and they carry between them, by the aid of two long poles, an open bier, covered only with a fair, white cloth. And there, reposing calmly, with the sunlight on his brow, the departed lies in holy rest, ready to meet the gaze of all. Never would they hide from the eyes of men that countenance serene, but rather bid all come to look with thankful hearts upon tne iace oi tne dead, ior tney count him in all things a conqueror vanquisher over .the mortal existence with all its powers of agony, and over the last enemy, which shall be destroyed with all its name less dread. From the death-struggle and . i v e - 1 iTi - tne me-struggie comes ne jorm aime in umphant ; the first shall appal, the last shall torture him no more ; therefore, they place upon his brow the conqueror's crown, and robe him in the fairest dress he ever wore on gala-days, for what high festival in all his past career was like to this? What was that hour of deep rejoicing, when at the altar his young bride took him by the hand, to walk with him the pilgrimage of earth, compared to the far brighter moment when death clasped him still more tenderly, to lead him forth into the bliss of life eternal? So shall no mournful, shroud be put upon him, but the gayest dress, in token of festivity, with the laurel-wreath of victory. His arms are crossed upon his breast in mute, sub missive faith, and clasped within them is the representation of our Lord upon the cross. As he is borne along, all press with "eager haste to look upon the counte nance of him who truly is even as they represent him, ''Victor atque victima, at que ideo victor quia victima," and gene rally they follow him upon the road, gaz ing still, fascinated by the aspect of his rest. All who desire it may accompany their departed brother to the church, where the corpse is reverently placed immediately before the holy doors, the feet turned east ward and the cross held upright, ever placed there carefully before the fixed, calm -eyes, as though the intensity of their gaze upon the holy symbol had set them . , . 1 ' . 1 , T.t J .1 in mat ngiu gnuness. ine ueacou iucu lights the appointed number of tapers at the head and foot of the bier, while every individual present receives one in his hand, so that although the sunshine streams through the open door and windows, the church is yet full of another softer radi ance, in token that the Church of Christ hath truly life within her, which is not that of mortal day. The priests then range themselves around the corpse, and if there be a Bishop present, as often happens, he stands at the head, his hand upraised ia the appointed form, so that the Church's blessing overshadows still that sacred dead, who seems to lie so meek and tranquil, be cause of the holy power thus shed upon him. The Service then commences with the chanting of the Psalm Qui habitat (Psalm xci) and others, followed by pray ers most beautiful and full of consolation, ranging ever round the one sublime hope of the rising of the flesh in glory, as though the Church conceived that the very sight of that corpse could awaken no oth er thought; and ever at the close of each the priest pauses for a moment, while the voices of the deacons and the neophytes take up again the glad exulting cry, "Thou art the Resurrection." The lesson is then read, beginning with the words, "I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which axe asleep," and terminating, "and so shall we ever be with the Lord." When it is over there is an interval of silence, although the deep abstraction of all pres ent shows that the voice of the soul is not hushed ; and then, at a signal from the priest, the friends of the departed come forward one Dv one to press tne-fflnai kiss upon his lips, uttering at the same moment a stated prayer, that tne whole Dody oi His Church may soon be made partakers of His glorious resurrection. And there is a deep wisdom in thus connecting the last expressions of mortal tenderness with the aspiration after that holier love in which all shall be one hereafter. The calm farewell thus ended, they retire from before the altar, the words yet lingering on their lips which speak of a blessed meeting with mm they are now quitting, where they shall part no more; the priest advances in front of the corpse and delivers an oration ; that taken from the Homily of St. John Chry sostom, which is chiefly used by the East ern Church on solemn occasions, is beauti fully appropriate. , As the last words die away in the solemn tones of the priest A there is a pause, and then, mingling in one deep voice of tri umph, once more the cry arises from every individual present, so oft repeated as though they could not cease to tell, their joy : " Thou art the Resurrection ; Thou, O Christ!" This, for the present, terminates the ceremony. The priest makes the sign of the cross, first over the dead, then over the living, thus uniting them in the com mon hope, and so departs from the church, followed by the whole concourse of the people, leaving the corpse alone lying be neath the altar like the souls that were bid to rest a little season the lights burn ing round it solemnly, and the incense still hanging over it like a cloud of fragrance. Thus the dead rests for the night, sur rounded, as the ancient faith declares, with the holy angels, who linger forever round the altar. At sunrise the priests return for their charge, and the train goes forth in the same order as before, and however great the distance from the church to the graveyard, the priests cease not to chant the' hymn of immortality, and over the burning plains which often they traverse, the sweet strain floats away in distant echoes, making the desert joyful with hope. In the larger cemeteries there is very often a small chapel especially consecrated for the " Missa pro Defunctis," but this is not celebrated till thirty days after the death. It is, therefore, to the spot of in terment that the train proceeds at once, where the priest takes up his station at the head and the cross-bearer at the foot of the grave, and ever as. they approach, louder and louder, not from the neophytes alone, but from all present, swells the cry pro claiming that He is the resurrection. But soon the voices are reverently hushed, while many holy prayers are said, and at last the deacons, at a sign from the priests, lower the corpse into the grave, which is always very shallow ; then, while still up on the face the last ray of earthly light is beaming, the last token is given of the human love which was the sunshine of his soul. The friend that in life lay nearest to that still heart most often the cherish ed wife that was the faithful guardian of his happiness draws near, and kneels down qn the very brink of his new couch, and with a voice of passionate entreaty, into which is gathered all the deep longing of the widowed soul, she utters three times the word "Ejla," come, and if he answers not if that most mournful appeal fails to win him from his silent rest, then do they know that he is dead indeed, and far be yond all reach of that poor, impotent af fection. She withdraws, the chief of those who loved him on this earth, that the rep resentative of love divine may take her place. The priest gently covers the quiet countenance with a white veil; next he pours into the grave a little wine, in type of that which he trusts the departed shall taste anew in the kingdom of his Father; and, finally, taking in his own anointed hands as much of earth as they can hold, he strews it on the dead body in the form of a cross, uttering aloud these words, "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof; the round world, and they that dwell therein." And truly replete with a glorious and solemn meaning is that sentence when ut tered at suoh a moment. For if the earth be the Lord's and "the fullness thereof," full even to repletion is it with the bodies of the dead, which thus are proclaimed to be His, which none shall ever pluck out of His hand, but which from their dwelling in the dust shall awake and sing, when the earth shall cast out the dead. Having spo ken these words, the priest and dea cons proceed to fill up the grave ; some of the nearest relatives alone being allowed to assist in this sacred office, and that a hired hand should have a share in it is wholly inadmissible. As the form disappears un der the earth the friends press forward, and each one says, as he gives his last look, that which to his great and exceeding com fort his heart believes, "It is well with thee, my brother !" Again, over the grave the holy, sign is made, responded to4 by all around, and so they depart and leave him to his rest. , But this is only for a season. Most un like the chill and systematic oblivion which seems to overspread the memory of those departed from among ourselves, every ef fort is made by the Eastern Christians to bind, as it were, the living spirit to them selves more closely still by holiest links. Although he hath gone home a little while before them, his name is on their lips in every prayer, and anxiously do they look forward to the Feast of the Commemora tion, which takes place on the thirtieth day. Then, the Holy Eucharist is cele brated, and afterwards it is offered when ever the friends feel desirous to renew so blessed a remembrance of him, not lost, al though to their eyes of flesh unseen, and they love on such occasions to decorate the church with flowers, and to fill it with lights and all things which most betoken joy and gladness, so that many even of tne little children, who may never have seen the departed brother or friend, are thus led specially to connect death only with images of holy hope and rejoicing in the risen Lord; nor can they ever dread it as the enemy that shall shut them out from the love of those to whom their own hearts cling. For ever, on the anniversary of the departure, the survivors fail not to repair to the grave where they have hid their treasures, and there kneeling down, they press a fond, clinging kiss upon the earth that covers them, and whispering the well remembered and beloved name, they bid him have patience yet a little till they come, and assure him, with many a soft, endearing word, that he is not forgotten, but that faithfully they love him still. Such is the lesson taught by this ancient Ritual. Death is seen no longer as the King of Terrors and the destroying enemy, but himself the slave and laborer of that Mercy which doth bless in life eternal ; con strained by the very power which seems to annihilate and kill, to fit the children of the kingdom for an existence which is never-ending joy, and with his bwn hand to lead them through the tomb where he hath no power to hold them, as through an open portal, to" the glory of the never fading day. Even as of old , the captives were compelled to tell out the great deeds of their conquerors, so should this van quished and stingle8s Death forever pro claim aloud the victory of the resurrection. As the herald of immortality he appears before men; as the gentle Messenger sent by the Lord of Life, to gather with gentle pity into His merciful arms the poor wan derers exiled into this sad world of weep ing, and safely lead them homeward to their Father's house ! How high and holy then is the doctrine taught by the Eastern Church through its Burial Service ! It is that the one holy of fice which Death should perform in this world is, to sit, robed in garments of ce lestial white, at the door of" man's Univer sal Tomb, in likeness of that glorious an gel who once rolled back the stone from the gate of the Sepulchre, and sat thereon. And to all who come there seeking their beloved and weeping, as she came and wept who loved much, this angelic Death, in tones as sweet as was the voice of that bright Messenger, says gently : "Why seek ye here the living among the dead? He is risen, and therefore all they that sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him ! " Protection Starvation. New York Times. J The large Falls Cotton Mills of Norwich, j Connecticut, shut down over six weeks ago, and the outlook is that they will remain closed all Winter. Between 400 and 500 operatives were thrown out of work, and six weeks of idleness has reduced most of them to destitution. For a while they were allowed "trust" at the company's store, but within a week or two that source of supply of daily necessaries has been shut off. What they are to do they do not know. - They have no money with which to migrate to other mill towns, and even if they had the money the universal industrial stagnation throughout New England promises only a change of scene and equal or greater wretchedness. Most of the operatives have large families, who are ragged and hungry. They have no money to buy food and clothes with, and they cannot keep warm or cook by the blaze of Blaine torchlight precessions, which noisily tramp through the mill set tlements almost nightly, brandishing il luminated mottoes: "Do you want to re tain our prosperity ? Then vote for Blaine and Logan." These people will have to starve this Winter or apply to the town for help. They have begun to apply al ready. Rows of women and half grown girls, many of them weeping, are seen at the Selectmen's office daily asking for a dollar or two to buy food with. In all the mill villages in this part of the State and in every other part of New England the situation is pretty much the same. In all mill villages the help have to "live from hand to mouth." That is what they call it, and they mean that at the end of each week their earnings belong to the storekeeper of the manufacturing compa pies. Each one is provided with a store book and he cannot get a card of one-cent matches or a paper of pins without show ing his book and having the purchase en tered. At the week's end he is paid the balance of his wages, if there is a balance, above his store accounts. Generally there is none. In mill villages all the tenements are the property of the company. When the mill shuts down and there is no longer any "trust" at the store the operative is in almost as hopeless a condition as though a castaway on the ocean. In the village of Baltic, eight miles north of this city, Polish Jews beg from door to door. In the city four of the five pistol factories have been closed for months. There are no operatives training in the political torchlight caravans this Fall. It is the opinion of an observer whose business calls him to all parts of New England that the coming Winter will witness suffering and wretchedness among the working people unparalleled in the history of the country. HI Character In Dhrpute. New York Times. "Do you know this man to be of good moral character, and well disposed to the good order of the community?" asked Judge Truax of James Murphy, a witness for Patrick Maguire who wanted to become a citizen of the United -States. "I told you, Paddy, that that thing would cony) out," said James, turning to Patrick asd disregarding the Judge. "Do you know this man to be of good moral character?" repeated the Judge. "I told you, Paddy, that I would be asked that," James remarked reproach fully. "You are not a good witness," thun dered the Judge. "Step aside." James moved sadly out of .the court room, saying: "Sure I cudn't Bwear that Paddy was a man of good moral charac ter,' whin I know his woife, and I see an other woman bringing his dinner to him at the dock." THE GREAT ISSUE. SHALL IT BE WHITE MABf'8 Rl'LE Or Negro Rale! State Democratic Executive Committee. That the white men of North Carolina bear no ill will toward the negroes they have shown in every political act as well since they became voters as before. Pro vision has been made for insane negroes, provision has been made for deaf and dumb negroes, and for blind negroes ; provision has been made for pauper negroes, provis ion has been made for the education of negro children, and full and ample protec tion for negro rights of person and prop erty under equal laws is given through out the State, and all at the expense of the white Democrats, for the taxpayers of the State arc white men and Democrats. But all this neither satisfies the negroes nor makes them grateful. Nothing can make them grateful and nothing will satisfy them bnt absolute political power in the State. Shall they have it, white men of North Carolina? Shall our former slaves be our future masters? Shall the negro rule the white man in North Carolina? The Democrats say the negro shall never rule the white man in North Carolina or in any part of it. They speak not for other States but only for their own State. They speak not for other men or other men's wives or other men's children, but for their own selves and for their own wives and for their own children they de clare now and forever that God willing, the dav of negro rule shall never return in .North Carolina. It would be reason enough that negro rule is a curse to any country because of its corruption, because of its extravagance, because of its oppression and because of its incapacity to promote the progress and development of the great resources of the State ; but the great reason and the true reason -why the Democrats say negroes shall never rule in North Carolina is that it is degrading to the white man to have a negro sit in power over him. This is the real reason, this is the true reason. It is degrading to white manhood to be under 'negro rule, and the danger of negro rule, the danger of negro equality threatens first and mostly, not the rich man who with his money can build a wall as it were between him and the negro, but to the poor man who is not thus able to keep the negro off. But the Democratic party say that in all North Carolina there iS no white man so poor or so humble or so unlettered that the lordliest negro in the State is fit to rule over him. We white men are of one blood and must stand together. The negro is not the equal of the white man, and until this great law of nature is changed, until negroes are fit to marry whites, until negro children are fit to go to school with white children, it will be idle to expect white men to sub mit to negro rule. White men of North Carolina, is not this' true? Every white man who has not degraded himself to the level of the negro knows in his heart that it is true, and no negro who respects him self respects the white man who treats him as an equal. But it is true that the great issue now before the people of North Carolina is whether there shall be negro rule in North Carolina as one of the Southern States? With a solemn sense of our responsibility, we submit that it is true. Wnat are the facts? Everybody knows that the Radical or Republican party in North Carolina, as elsewhere in the South, means a negro party, as only about one in ten of its mem bers is white. Everybody knows that the Civil Rights bill passed by the United States Congress when under Radical rule, under which the negroes claimed all so cial rights, has recently been decided by the United States Supreme Court to be unconstitutional, and that for for this rea son until some constitutional Civil Rights bill shall pass Congress the matter is in control of the Legislature in each State. To meet this, Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, perhaps the ablest Radical law yer in the United States Senate, a promi nent candidate before the late National Radical Convention for President against Mr. Blaine, and belonging to the so-called most respectable wing of the National Radical party, introduced into the United States Senate a bill that he thinks is en tirely constitutional, that will, if it be comes a law, transfer the trial of every civil rights case from the State courts to the Federal courts, and that will require the Judge of the Federal court to decide every such case in defiance of every State law and every State constitntion to the contrary notwithstanding. If anybody doubts this let him read the bill for him self and see what it says. This bill Sena tor Edmunds, one of the ablest and pro- foundest lawyers at the North of any party, says is entirely constitutional. If the bill shall become a law, North Carolina will at once lie a helpless victim, bound hand and foot, at the mercy of negroes and United States Judges. The Legislature may make as many laws as as it pleases, and the peo ple may make as many constitutions as they please, but it will avail nothing then when a negro brings a suit in the Federal court because he is not allowed to sit at the same table with white men or because his children are not allowed to go to the same 'school with white children. Then State laws and State constitution will count for nothing. Such will be the case, we say, if the bill proposed by Senator Edmunds and now before the United States Senate shall become a law. And Mr. Edmunds belongs to the respectable wing of the Radical party! Mr. Blaine, the Radical candidate, who does not belong to the so-called respecta ble or conservative wing of the Radical party, but to its extreme and most violent wing, is perhaps the bitterest man living in his hatred of the South and his denun ciations of Southern men. It makes no difference whether it be led by its respect able conservative wing, so-called, or by its violent disreputable wing, the National Radieal party stands by the Southern ne gro against the Southern white man. Ac cordingly, the convention that nominated Mr. Blaine as the candidate of the Radical or Republican party made a negro named Lynch, from Mississippi, fts presiding officer. Another negro, named Bruce, from from Mississippi, is one of the few men the South who hold offices of national im portance under the Federal government. Fred Douglas, another negro, the possessor of a white wife, is a Washington City official under the Federal government of great local importance. In North Caro lina negroes are to be found in the princi pal post-offices and in the revenue service, and generally wherever else the Federal government has the power to put them. In the negro district there is a negro Con gressman and in the Legislature there are negro members, and daily the demand of the negroes for a bigger share of offices is increasing, both under the State govern ment and under the United States govern ment, a demand that the Radical whites dare not refuse to comply with. A party that is composed of nine-tenths of negroes and one-tenth of white men must of neces sity yield to the will of the negroes. Accordingly, also, the Chicago Conven tion that nominated Mr. Blaine openly and solemnly pledged the most earnest efforts of the Republican party "to pro mote the passage of such legislation as will secure the full and complete recogni tion, possession and exercise of all civil rights." What is meant by civil rights and what is meant by legislation to secure all civil rights in the National Radical filatform, Senator Edmunds' bill now be-, ore the Senate of the United States fully explains. And be it remembered that Dr. York declares in his letter of acceptance of the nomination of Governor that he "endorses the Chicago platform in full and the nom ination of Blaine and Logan." There is no doubt then what the Chicago platform means and no doubt that Dr. York stands squarely on it. If anybody doubts this let him read the Chicago platform and Dr. York's letter accepting the nomination for Governor and sec for himself. There can be no doubt about these things, we say, because when the Chicago Convention tout nominated Bfaine prom ised the negroes to give them such "leg islation" as would secure to them "all civil rights" it knew full well that Sena tor Edmunds' bill was before the Senate, and knew full well, also, what that bill would accomplish if it should become a law. But even if this bill of Senator Edmunds does not become a law, and it will not be come a law if there be a Democratic Con gress or a Democratic President, the same legislation to secure the same civil rights for the negroes can be had, accord ing to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in each State in which a Radical Legislature can be elected. The Radicals know this and are trying their utmost to secure the election of a Legislature in North Carolina that shall not be a Democratic Legislature. And we warn the people of North Carolina of the danger that is before them. It will not do for Democrats to think that no matter what may come the Legis lature is safe. The truth is, the Legisla ture will not be surely Democratic, or Democratic at all, unless the Democrats come out in full force on the day of the election and vote for the regular nominees of their party. To defeat us in the Legislature in coun ties where straightout Radicals can be elected, straightout Radicals are candi dates, and where such cannot be elected independent candidates are running, all over the State, and independents and Rad icals alike are fighting the Democrats. Every officeholder, whether in the Legis-' lature, in Congress, or elsewhere, obeys the wishes of his constituents. Everybody knows this. Especially is this true of men who are elected by negro votes. If Dr. York is elected he will be elected bv negro votes ; if the Legislature is Radical it will be made so by negro votes, and we may expect him, as well as the Legislature, to regard the wishes of the negroes rather than of the whites. All Radicals "are bound by the Chicago platform to pass legislation to secure civil rights to the negroes, by the Legislature or by Con gress, or by both, as opportunity may offer. Will the white people of North Carolina then permit the negroes to elect the Gov ernor or the Legislature, or members of Congress? There arc nearly two white voters to One negro voter in North Caro lina, and if the white men will only go to the polls and vote, there will be no trou-. ble, but if they remain at home on the day of election and permit the negroes and handful of revenue officials in the State to control the election they will have only themselves to blame for the consequences. What these consequences will be no man may doubt, for every one knows that the election of York and the defeat of the Democrats in the Legislature means negro rule in the State. If the white men are prepared for this let them stay home on election day with easy consciences, but if they are not prepared for regro rule for themselves, for their wives and for their children, let them turn out in full force and vote the Democratic ticket as becomes white men. Your fate is in your own hands, white men of North Carolina ! The Etaiali BUI. The Supreme Court having last year de cided that the Civil Rights bill introduced by Ben Butler and passed in 1875 was un constitutional, and that if the civil rights of the negroes are violated they must ap ply to the State courts, and if the State courts do not protect their rights, then Congress can protect them by appropriate legislation, Senator Edmunds on Decem ber 3, 1883, introduced a bill to protect negroes in their civil rights. The follow ing is the bill : A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE FCBTHER PROTECTION OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OTHERS AGAINST THE VIO LATION OF CERTAIN RIGHTS SECURED TO THEM BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Whereas, in the judgment of Congress, by theft rue intent and meaning of the con stitution of the United States no distinc tion can be made in respect of the civil rights of person or rights of property by law, custom, usage, practice, rule, or de cision of any department of the govern ment of any State or of the United States, based upon race, color, or previous condi tion of servitude of citizens of the United States; and Whereas, such rights of all such citi zens are protected by the constitution of the United States against such cruel and unjust distinctions ; and Whereas, doubts have arisen whether the laws of the United States now in force are in all respects adequate to such pro tec tion, and Whereas, it is the duty of Congress fully to provide for the protection of cm zens of the United States against all such unjust distinctions; therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State of Amertca tn Congress assembled, That when ever in any case now pending or which may hereafter be pending in any court of any State an issue shall exist or be made or any mate rial question shall arise concerning any civil right of person or right of property which shall be assailed or maintained or assailed or denied in any such issue or question on the around that such issue or' Question de pend upon or is affected by the race or color or previous condition of servitude of y person concerned in and a party to such issue or question, the person or person against whom such issue or question shall be ' made, asserted or maintained, or against ; whom any such denial shall be made on the ground aforesaid, shall be thereupon entitled I to' remove such cause to the Circuit Court of the United States for the district within the j territorial limit of which uch case shall be 1 pending, for proceeding, trial, and Judg ment in the manner and with like proceed ing, at near a may be, a are provided by teetion ix hundred and thirty-nine of the Revised Statute of-the United State, but without regard to the turn in controverty. Sec. 2. That whenever in any case now pending or which may hereafter be pend ing in any court in any State a ruling or decision, interlocutory or other, shall be made adversely to the civil right or claim of any person on the ground of his race or color or previous condition of servitude, or the race or color or previous condition of servitude of any witness or juror in such case, the person being a party to said cause against whom such ruling or de cision shall be made shall be thereupon entitled to remove such cause to the Cir cuit Court of the United States for the district within the territorial limits of which said court shall be held, for pro ceedings, trial and final judgment in the same manner and with like proceedings, as near as may be, as are provided by sec tion six hundred and thirty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, but without regard to the sum in controversy. Sec. 3. That whenever in any cause or matter mentioned in the preceding sections the decision or judgment of the State court in which such case shall be pending shall proceed upon or be affected by any matter or ground of the race or color or previous condition of servitude of any per son being a party to or witness or juror in such case, and the decision of such court shall be adverse to such person upon any of the grounds or matters aforesaid, by reason of his race or color or previous con dition of servitude, the person being a party to such cause against whom any such decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, Upon his writ of error to be sued out and prosecuted in the same man ner as is now provided by law for writs of error to the highest court of any State; and in every such case such writ of error may be sued out and prosecuted as of right, and without giving any new bail or other security, unless a Justice of the Su preme Court of the United States allowing such writ of error, or said court itself, shall be of opinion that the public interest or safety requires it. Sec. 4. That no law, usage or custom, and no practice, decision or rule of any de partment of the government of any State which may now or hereafter exist which shall in any manner discriminate between the right of person or of property upon the grounds of race, color or previous condition of servitude shall be deemed valid; and it shall be the duty of every court, whether of a State or of the United States, in which any such matter or ground shall be drawn in question to proceed to determine the matter in controversy in the same manner and with the same effect a if such law, usage, custom, rule, practice or decision did not exist. . Llvera and High Living. New York 8un. A country of cocktails, smashes, and sours ought to be highly interested in the almost incredible progress which seems to be made in the treatment of the liver. The Vice-Governor of the National Bank of Belgium, M. Eugene Anspach, became, in consequence of high living, afflicted with a very painful form of liver disease. He suffered from the presence of gravel in his gall bladder. His sufferings were terrible, and all the resources of science seemed to be of no avail. At last it was decided to apply to a Berlin surgeon of the name of Dr. Lagenbusch (not the famous old Dr. Lagenbeck, but a mnch younger man), who had acquired the reputation of having performed several operations upon this vital organ. The Doctor went to Brus sels, and, after examination, declared to M. Anspach that his gall bladder was full of gravel, and that nothing but a very dangerous operation could free him of it. "Have you done it before," asked the banker, "and what were the results?" "I have done it four times. Three pa tients died, and one came out all right," was the answer. "Twenty-five per cent, is a first-class dividend," remarked M. Anspach. "But let us try to increase it if we can. The operation was at once proceeded with, the side of the banker was opened, and 125 calculi or stones were taken out of the liver. The operation was performed on the 9th of last month, and the patient was very weak for some time, but, accord ing to the Independence Beige, he is out of danger now. This looks like a first step toward bringing bad livers into proper working order. Fancy what a time cock tail drinkers would have if they could ex pect with reasonable certainty that their livers could be got at, whitewashed, and made to do proper work again! Why, half the Wall street operators would go short of their old livers. iIr. Winston In the Papers! f New York Tribune, i P. H. Winston, jr., a native of North Carolina, a scholar, an orator, a man of great influence in the Democratic party and of the best repute throughout the State, has announced his conversion to Republican principles, in a published let ter of unusual force and cogency. He calls upon the young men of the South to emancipate themselves from the slavery of Bourbon rule ; "to look to the future of their country ; and to apply themselves to the great social, moral and economical questions that must be solved by our civili zation. In Camden, where the Son Rises. Elizabeth City Economist As news is dull it may not be out of place to let you know something of our little village that has sprung up in a year or two. Shiloh has 81 population, 17 dwellings, 3 stores, 2 blacksmith shops, 1 steam mill, 1 alley bouse, 4 barrooms, 21 Democrats, 1 Republican. A sportsman's paradise is along the river and creek marshes where sora are found in large numbers. Bear hunting has commenced on North River. Tired Oat. He does well who does his best; Is he weary? let him rest. Brothers, I have done my best, I am weary let me rest. After toiling oft In vain. Baffled, yet to straggle Tata; After tolling long, to gain Little good with mfckle pain, Let me rest. ' Bet lay me low, Where the hedgeside roses blow; Where the Httie daisies grow, Where the winds a-maying go; Where the footpath rustics plod, Where the breeze-bowed poplars nod; Where the old wood worship God, Where His pencil paints the sod; Where the wedded throstle sings, Where the young bird tries his wings: Where the wailing plover swings, Near the runlet's rushing springs ! Where, at times, the tempest's roar, Shaking distant sea and snore, Still will rave old Bamesdale o'er, To be heard by me no more ! There, beneath the breezy west, Tired and thankful, let me rest, Like a child that sleepeth best On Its mother's' gentle breast. CAMPAIGN NOTES. mu. THOT'8 LETTER To the Voters or Harnett County. Without solicitation on my part, and contrary to my earnest request, the Sena torial Convention at this place nominated me for Senator in this district. Having accepted, I naturally desire an election and shall do all I can to secure that result. As I will be unable to canvass the entire district, I deem it proper to issue this cir cular, giving my views on some matters of great importance to the people's welfare. Remembering with much pride the un precedented vote the people of Harnett gave me in 1876, I flatter myself that those' true and unfaltering Democrats will not be less diligent in this contest, and will not overlook my name at the polls. In this fight, as heretofore, we are con fronted with almost a solid negro vote and a horde of Revenue officers and jobbers, and it behooves us to be true to our coun try, ourselves and our families, solidify our ranks and secure a great victory in November. I am fully in accord with the white peo ple of North Carolina for an economical, just and progressive administration in public affairs, and as your Senator I will be watchful in all matters looking to the best interests of the people, particularly the farming interests, on whieh the whole fabric of State Government depends for support and prosperity. I am in favor . of repealing all Internal Revenue laws, and of a revision and mod ification of the Tariff laws so as to make ' them bear lightest on the necessaries of s life and on such articles as are used by the poorer and more dependent class of citi zens, but with- a just discrimination in favor of such productive industries as will be most beneficial to American mechanics and laborers, and against all monopolies. I am opposed to convict labor being brought in conflict with honest labor in manufacturing and mechanical works, but . am in favor of utilizing convicts in canal ling swamps and. building railroads, there by developing the country and affording increased work to mechanics, machinists, engineers, &c. I am in favor of, and shall use my best efforts to secure, a modification of the present ruinous system of chattel mort gages, which is doing more to sap the vi tals of our farming people than all other ills combined. The numerous law suits, arrests, criminal prosecutions and punish ments incident to these chattel mortgages are detrimental to the best interests of the State and have a tendency to breed in the minds of the people a hatred and contempt for the laws of tne land, for certainly no people can properly respect and love their government when it is constantly treating them as if they were dishonest and un worthy of confidence. I am in favor of trie construction of a branch railroad from some point on the N. C. Railroad to or near Lillington, and will use due diligence to secure the build ing of such road. I am assured by Col. A. B. Andrews, President of the North Carolina Railroad, that his Company will iron, equip and operate the road if the grading can be done. I feel confident that State aid in the way of convicts can be secured to do the grading if the people along the line will furnish the ties. It was on my motion and report as chair man of a committee, in 1877, that tne means were provided looking to the com pletion of the great Western North Caro lina Railroad, which has resulted in the accomplishment of so much good to the State and the people. I was also instru mental, along with my colleagues in the House, Hon. Geo. 11. Kose and 1. W. Godwin, in securing such legislation as has resulted in the completion of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway from Greensboro to Bennettsville. With this and other legislative experi ence, "1 feel that X shall not dc a dead head in the next Legislature" in railroad matters. The State has a controlling interest in the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad from Goldsboro to Morehead City. I am in favor of a speedy extension of this road from its present terminus at Smithfield to Fayetteville, so as to develop the beauti ful and fertile country along the Harnett, Johnston and Cumberland lines, and to secure this result, either by selling the State's interest to some capitalist upon condition that the road shall be speedily, completed, or by using the State convicts to grade the road and prosecute it to com pletion as a State enterprise, I shall devote my most determined efforts. W. C. Trot. Dr. Grlssom's Card In the Citizen. My attention has been called to an edi torial in the Asheville Citizen of October 8 in reference to my refusal to support Dr. York for Governor. While a conversa tion of the tenor of the one referred to did occur, it was with no view of its going to the public. But as the fact has been pub lished, and as I have no concealments about the matter, I deem it but just to myself that my reasons for refusing him my support shall also go to the public. As Superintendent of the Asylum it has been my duty to look after the legislation affecting the interest of the insane of the State; and because of this fact I know who have been the friends of the insane, ever ready to work for them. I also know who . have been willing to leave these poor un fortunate people to remain in confinement in the counties and who have been unwil ling to give a decent support to those who were fortunate enough to find room in the inadequate accommodation which has hitherto existed. I do not think Dr. York a fit man for the Governor's chair. I do not mean anything personally discourteous to Dr. York, for our relations are not in any sense unfriendly, but in my judgment he has not the qualifications for the high office that he seeks. Nor do I think that his qualifications or his antecedents are sueh as to entitle him to the support, even of Republicans. . am satisfied with his i public course that neither the Charitable nor Educational interests of the State would be safe under such policy a ha always charac terized his public career. As a North Caro linian, I cannot look at the facts before me without perceiving that all the mate rial interests of the State, her financial condition, her Charitable and Educational institutions, her progress at home and reputation in, the eyes of the country wilt be jeopardized by the election of a man of his antecedents. This is an unusual crisis; and while I ' am not ambitious of any claims to consist ency save in love for North Carolina- and the interests of all her people, I am especi ally devoted to the unfortunate afflicted : among whom the best years of my life have been passed. Parties and Policies have no value in ray ; eyes save as they may protect, not despoil, ; the people; save as they may guide and ; not mislead in the path of the State's pros-, ' perity. Eugene Grwom.,s ..jm;
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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