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Mil Wednesday, Oct. 5, 1870. Resumption The publication of the Standard is re lumed. When the necessary arrangements are perfected the publishers will be an nounced. It is hoped that the perusal oi of the Standard will prove to readers and patrons acceptable and profitable. ' - The Capitol of Virginia is repaired and ready ior occupation. " I Petersburg charges ten per cent interest on all taxes unpaid after October 1st. It is feared that Commissioner Delano will lose the use of his hand, which was injured recently. Dr. Moffat, the father-in-law of Dr. Liv ingstone, the African traveller, affirms and is confident, that Dr. L. is safe. ' At a special election held in Dinwiddie County, on the 28th inst, for State Senator, the Republican candidate was elected by . 844 majority. ' 7' , i . Senator Cameron and Col. Forney pro pose to stump the State of Pennsylvania to gether, " paying particular attention to the doubtful district. '7 " '"' ' ' , j. 7 ,T -,-; i " , Next year wiil bthe thousandth anniver sary of Ihe ascension to the English throne by Alfred the Great,-' and" the English are already planning celebrations of the event. The report that the Nathan murderer is in custody is untrue. . It is certain that Kep ling who was arrested nea,r Reading, Pa., was in New Jersey at the time of the mur der. The Democracy of Maryland are making strennous efforts to secure the colored vote. How about the white man's government ? Does it mean that the colored citizen may vote, but not hold office ! . The Charleston Daily Republican of Sep tember 23d, affirms, that publicly, in the Charleston Newt, Governor Scott has been threatened with assassination. The author of this threat signs himself " Booth." I Colorado is seeking admission into the Union as a State. Its people, without dis tinction of party, are in favor of changing their territorial form of government, and will make a strong effort to bring about ad mission this winter. It is understood that Mr. Morton, the new Minister to England will make a vigorous effort to secure the immediate settlement of the Alabama question. A vigorous policy has always been Governor M's. motto. The New York Herald of Monday reports five or six hundred cases of malarial fever in the city of Poughkecpsic In certain localities whole families lie prostrate. It is attributed to the slimy mud, green, stagnant pools and dead fish of Petton's pond. The printers of Paris are forming them selves into a corps, to be called the Legion de Guttenberg. "We are the soldiers of the intelleeVthey say j"let us show the foreigner who h dared ta invade our soil that, with armes in our hands, we can form a heroic phalanx, and' drive him back to the cry" a thousand times repeated, or Vive la France !" An officer of . the Revenue Department, fresh from an inspection, of the cotton region of the South, estimates the growing crop at not less than 3,800,000 bales a larger crop than has been produced since 18G9. He also conveys the cheering intelligence that the quality will be superior to any crop ever raised in the country; and this statement may doubtless be accepted with less hesita tion than dealers will, display towards the first. " It is estimated that the receipts from in ternal revenue for the present fiscal year, ending June 30, 1870, will amonnt to $150, 000,000. ; Since the first of July lost, the beginning of the fiscal year, the receipts are $50,000,000. The exemption of a large class of articles goes into effect on Oct, 1st. Notwithstanding it is believed that a faith ful collection of the Revenue will realize the amount oi 150,000,000 annually. . There is a telegram from London, stating that the appointment of Senator Morton is regarded unfavorably there. This is very natural. No swindling creditor likes to see a strong lawyer retained against him. The only objection that. can possibly be made, on this side, is, that, by the nomination of Mr. Morton to our first embassy, we lose his invaluable services in the Senate."' We hope however, that he will bring back a settle ment of the Alabama and fishery questions that will make amends for his absence .; , In the wording of Jaws our Congressmen must exercise more care in the future than they did ia the last session. To say nothing of the confusion and inconvenience resulting, from the act prohibiting the employment A jmesjpenaed ypf"p"ntignHbtiia V" - - eam-ra7- near losing one of its .Executive Departments. By a literal interpretation of the act revising the Patent Laws, passed to ward the close of the -last session, the Inte rior Department is abolished. s As this was clearly not the intent of the law, Mr. , Cox' will continue in the discharge of his duties The recent elections in Colorado indicate the speedy entrance of the magnificent Ter ritory into the sisterhood of States. A nar row and short sighted policy has hitherto defeated the attempts of some of the best citizens to bring Colorado into the tJnion, but it now seems certain that this opposition is coming to an end. Mr. Chaffee, who has been several years the acknowledged leader of the party desiring admission, has been re-elected delegate by an unexampled ma jority, on a clear and emphatic statement of his views on that question. - There is no re ason why a Territory possessing every quali fication to occupy a useful and distinguish ed position among the States should longer preserve its attitude of isolation. ' Not The least of its merits is its staunch Republicanism. The Futnre Its Work A Convention. A recent article in the Wilmington Journal with the above caption, so thoroughly re--1 veals the purposes and spirit cf the Kuklux Democracy, as to warrant us in giving it more than a "passing notice. We can not doubt, from its tone of authority and its aristocratic airs, that it is the utterance of the Great Cyclops himself. And we are con firmed in this opinion by the fact that all the petty Kuklux journals in the State, in eluding one that is not so distant from ns as to need naming recognize the crack of the whip, and fall into line at once like a gang of old fashioned field hands. Whatever merit this remarkable paper may lack, there is one that it possesses: it is eminently fresh. The writer is a man of most vigorous imagination. He not only invents arguments, but has no difficulty what ever in inventing facts to match them. He assures us, for example, tbatthe recent Kuklux victory in this State was the verdict of the people. A petty majority of four thousand in a voting population of over a hundred and ninety thousand, is claimed as a decided expression of the popular will, in the face of the well ascertained facts, that the State is decidedly Republican, that many votes were lost to the Republicans by local divisions, and that many, many more, to the lasting and damning shame of the successful party, werrjk withheld through fear ot that unseen, but dreadful power that haunted our forests and highways, that sought to build the walls- f its strong holds with bones and Jrcenient them together with blood t For the first time has a political party in America accomplished a coup T dot, and established itself in power by organized murder . , And this is what this extremely funny and original genius terms. a verdict of the people. Thank God 1. the people of of North Carolina arc not responsible for either the deeds or words of these banded highwaymen.; The people of North Carolina have indeed expressed their will, but not in the late elec tion. They expressed their will, when in April, 18G8,by an overwhelming majority of 20,000, a vote fairly and openly polled, they abandoned the rags and tatters the offcast clothing of an old aristocracy ;' when they rejected the dead ideas - that were the out growth of monarchy and were the natural form in which monarchy invested itself, and that even Great Britain herself is lfttle by little abandoning; when the State, turning in her maidenly indignation lrom her insul ters, wedded herself to freedom, and robed herself in the bridal purity of her New Con stitution. But this Cyclops, speaking to his party, announces to them their work. And first, lest the cloven foot should be too conspicu ous, he declares that " there is no intention to interfere with the Homestead Law, or to interfcrfcre with any right guaranteed to the colored people by the law of the land, or to interfere with the operation of the Recon struction Acts of Congress." ' ' Well, well ! What a declaration is that. O, most gentle and amiable monster, how do you know all that ? Who gave yon author ity to speak ! Ah, we bethink ourselves. There is a certain oath by which the mem bers of the Elan are bound to obey all orders, and so when the Grand Cyclops takes snuff let all loyal Kuklnx sneeze f It is comfortable, however, to have these assurances, especially as the people do not propose to give up the homestead law ; nor will they soon abandon tbat party which gave Hfam tnaVgfeat and beneficent law. This it is that makes the people se cure and indifferent to the threats of the old landed aristocracy. The people have not forgotten that under the old system, the recollection of which makes old Cyclops lick his bestial and bloody lips, it was not the negroes alone who were slaves, but that much more were slaves, the poor, landless, uneducated whites, who had practically no voice in the legislation, nor even the pro tection of a slaveholding master. Nor will the people believe that the party which looks so longingly back to the old system, is not preparing to return to it. They will not be lieve that a party, aristocratic by instinct and education, will not rob them of their nomcstead Law, the first darling child of the free republic of North Carolina ! ' ' And they are not going to rob the colored people of their guaranteed rights. ! We think not ! Our nncle Samuel will have a word to say when they begin to do that We tell these aristocrats that the Colored people would scorn to receive freedom at their hands. A higher power gave them freedom ! It is God's gift, guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and by the new Constitution pf North Carolina, and guarded by the ballots and bayonets of the Republican party. Old Cyclops would better not propose to interfere with that ! He must find some other morsel for his hungry chops 1 ? ; .:; And it "won't interfere with the reconstruction acts- of Congress l" Well, if that 'doesn't cap the climax t We heard of a twopenny township com missioner, the other day, who was ! con sidering the propriety of nullifying1 the State taxation laws, by refusing to perform his sworn duty. He is clearly no relation of this virtuous Cyclops. For this chap, in consideration of the fact that the recon struction acts are the voice of forty millions of people," the thundercfho canaen H?Tt'ltTa""r possmiy piu enougn to remem ber, very properly proposes not to interfere with the reconstruction acts 1 . But he does propose to call a Convention. He does propose to impeach the Governor?- and the Chief Justice and Judge TourgeeV Tell, it is a good thing to be candid. Fore: warned is forearmed Alas, alas I We must retract. ' There are some things against which no armor is proof. An open enemy, a brave man need not fear. But this party, with an impudence which is only equalled by its fiendishness, 'deliberately proposes as sassination. We knew that men in this State had been guilty of it ,'We remember Outlaw and Stephens, add the poor fellows who dangled in the mist of the morning too near the seat of justice' in Orange county. But even that did not prepare us for this. Let Cyclops speak for itself, Jfa own Eng lish alone is equal to its poisonous thought. " It is not necessary, for example sake, however, to incur the expense of impeach ing all the men who have been guilty of mal feasance Most of them can be gotten rid of in a more expeditious and economical wap.n . There we have it" People of North: Car olina, what do you think of it f No wonder that Judge Merrimon declared that what -had Coifie 6nt in the Kuklux trials was be yond belief. Nd wonder that Judge Pearson addad "that it would-be 'beyond belief it it were not that the .witnesses were borne out by facts of men being whipped, and men being hanged, and men being drowned ! If any Doctor of Divinity anywhere wants proof of total depravity .let him read this arrichj from the Wilmington, Journal ( j- But so much is not enough to satisfy ' this blood-thirsty wretch. He is sateless as the sea -sateless as Cerberus. He has the death hunger. He ought to takie up his abode in. sight of a guillotine! 'O that some over worked sheriff stood in need of a hanman ! What an amateur executioner is lost in Cyclops ! Though we may mistake in that He licks bis jaws with such gusto that we suspect he has officiated in more than one " deed without a name;" Again let him speak for himself. . j : "They demand :: . that the wretch Ashley be got rid of." j Having taken pains to define his terms he does not need again to tell us the signifi cance of "got rid of." Listen to his - solilo quy: "Are all the ropes used up?' Are there no vacant ponds ; no empty rivers, nd quick poisons, no expeditious knives,; no chance shots t Let him be got rid of P.' 1 ' One would think that there could be, no blacker or more iniquitous phase of iniquity than this) but, as if for the utter dishonor of human nature, this shameless creature opens its rotten bosom and exhibits! its motive, aa J .that motive la tUo luab-jfcr money. It has its eye on the Public Treas ury., :: . .. .v.-., ,: : r;:.., ' ' There were in the Kuklux party more office-seekers than there . arc offices. J To remedy this inconvenience it proposes a Convention... Then all the unlucky dogs who failed to get into the Legislature, will have an : opportunity to get a bone. Never mind the expense make the people pay it. . To be sure Cyclops makes a parade of figures by which ,. he .endeavors to make it appear that two bodies to do our legislation are cheaper than one. And his process is very simple simple, we Bhould say, in more than one sense. '. - .: . ' '' . He proposes to have the pay of all public men reduced. .That's beautiful. . Board in Raleigh is three dollars a daj. He proposes to allow legislators three dollars and fifty cents that is, fifty cents a day and board ! We should probably get a very , cheap kind of work done at that price. However, we would suggest whether it would , not be better to go tho whole figure, and let them work for nothing and board themselves. . This is the British plan, and would natu rally commend itself to these men who are looking back to the leeks and onions of Egypt- It is found, however, to be atten ded with some difficulties. , It excludes poor men from office. It is a constant and unceas ing source of corruption. For the rich men, who, by this plan, . are the only ones who can afford to take 'office, have ; no habits of economy ; they have no sympathy with laboring men ; and the taxes which seem light to them they will lay without con science or feeling upon the; backs ,-of . the groaning poor. .. No, the better, plan is to pay fair wages for honest work and ; this is not only the better plan ,but it is; the American plan to boot, The other smells of English, rags.;.,.; rv. ?. .J,fc. t . I "To catt a Convention to get rid of. (hose noble men who by their flrnmeea and pru dence have saved The commonwealth pom anarchy, to abolish the homestead law, to' revive the old county .system .ly which a few nabobs kept the administration df af faire in their own families, to make it impos sible for a poor man to hold office, to make property conditions for suffrage, to keep out emigration, to keep down the colored people, to blast popular education, to throw over the State a blight, a miasma, an at mosphere of deaths such as no dismal swamp ever exhaled, and no nightmare of a poet's dream ever suggested; these are, some of the objects darkly hinted at in this most satanic article..; ; .,. ; .; j . We have not named them all ; for that we have not the space, and wo respect bur readers1 patience. Of one. thing-: we are certain : the plan set forth in this article is giyen ex ea&edra.'. It is the Pope ofj the party who speaks, and all the sworn vissals of the Invisible Empire will .hasten to 'obey , thebchesta of their great leader. ; j '..-' i.! Democratic Candor. , j i !' 1 When it was telegraphed over the country the other day, that a Republican Committee proposed to collect from the Clerks of the Department of the Interior, at Washington, a small tax to be used for election purposes; the Democrats of the country went into con vulsions md exclaimed, with hands uplifted as in holy horror, at the unjust and wick edly oppressive conduct of the Republican party, as if they poor honest souls had never dared.' such a thing, aye, . tad never thought of such a thing; Some Republicans were deceived and joined in the hue and cry of reprobation.' rBut. mark, New York City is under Democratic rule the immense patronage of that city of every , kind is in the hands of the Democrats.' i An election is pending and the Democrats .proceed to assess office, incumbents and each-man must , come down at the rate. of.-$10Permanent' Court House and City Hall officials must contribute one month's pay ; and in, the va rious other departments arrangements are making to collect the election tax. The Democracy of New, York is the simon pure Democracy ; it gives , lessons and instruc?, tions to the Democracy of the entire country;; its leaders are the High Priests of the Na tional Democracy. It follows, then, that the outcry of that party at the assessment action of the Republican Committee in Washing ton is all pretence-r&U bosh mere dust and smoke to deceive the country and hide their, own wickedness and oppression.. -s ' Whether taxes are unjust in .the view of a Democrat depends upon whether they are assessed for , Democratic or. Republican purposes ; if for the first, all right if for the last, they are abominable,, ' .t '" I . It may be well to look somewhat farther into the matter .of Democratic purity and honesty.,. The & ; Y.t Timet ;affirms "that there are not fewer than eight thousand men whose votes are controlled either, by ; posi tions or by money stolen from the city purse.'. Now for facts:,-,;'.;.; ' ,u .,';, 7-;, , J,! has ever ,been a dodge, of, Tammany Hall to put a number of men on , the city pay-roll, just before the election. Within the past six weeks more than thirteen hun dred men havt been placed on the pay-roll, and not one-fourth of the number ever pre tend to do work. On election ; days they are to- be "repeaters? "ballot-box staffers," and the assaulters of Republicans." The additions now being made to the Tammany camp average about fifty a day, The rank and file of this "outlaw brigade" are paid $3 per day, " besides unlimited brders for bad whiskey." ' '' '- '- Three hundred men are employed upon the lamp" posts of the parks at a cost ot nearly $1,000 per day. 1 In the offices of the Boards of Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen there are now cm ployed nearly seventy-five persons, the great er number of whom draw salaries varying from $1,200 to $5,000 per year. They are Nick named clerks, but more than one-half of them can neither read nor write. -: 1 Twenty-seven men are drawing pay as clerks in the office of the Board of Alder men, and two out of the whole number per formed the duties required. Thus twenty five out of twenty-seven receive large: sala ries for doing nothing. ' Jv' "' ' ' In the City Hall offices are men drawing two and three thousand dollars a year as engrossing clerks, who cannot write their own names. Of course there is something for these men to do if they cannot do work in the office they must do work out- of the office. - '. -s The Time holds itself responsible to provy these statements and wilt publish 7 Wwjf if -"I. -y - ' , y : ' Let us hear no more of Democratic-purityT Let the people remember that Democratic- rule, where it is most Democratic, is taxa tion, violence and oppression. l-i.-.-j f5. Our publie charities. We believe in public charities, but the idea, is supremely ridiculous and dishonest, when a State can not pay her debts, nor pay the interest on them, to make heavy appropriations every year to educate every child in the State from 6 to 13 years of age, rich and poor, white and black, in the common schools, and at the Universities, at the public expense, and also to educate every mute and blind person, rich or poor, and provide for every insane person, rich and poor, at the public expense. Charity means providing for the needy and those who cannot take care of thcmselvs, until they are able to do it Every child in the State, white and blck, rich , or poor, ought to have the chance of being educated in the rudiments and essential parts of learn ing, between the ages of 7 and 14 or 16 at the public expense. But youths of both sexes and of both colors, ought to be made to understand that when they arrvie at 14 or 16 years of age, they should study that im portant feature in education, to learn to work, that they may be independent These are some of the important features to be chang ed. Others will occur to the reader. Raleigh Sentinel Sept. 22. . The Democratic party professes great love for Ihe people, but the instant the party succeeds to power, it is proposed to amend the Constitution so as to maKc the Insane Asylum, and the Institution for the Deaf, the' Dumb, and the Blind, inaccessible to all who may not be able Jo pay for their unfortunate relatives who should have the benefit of these institutions. Monstrous proposition! The brain that originated such a proposition would have been a fit tool for Robespiere, during the Reign of Terror in France. - It is to be expected that the Democratic party 'will legislate in every concei vable way to make party capital, but it Is a new ' phase in pontics to' legislate against 'the btfertu. nate children of any State. . Let the Asylums alone. The people do not hesitate to pay taxes to keep up these institutions, and they approve of the humane provisions of the State Constitution upon this subject The second proposition is to limit educa tion. Children are to have a chance to learn the rudiments and essential parts of learning, between the ages of seven and fourteen or sixteen. Just as tho mind begins to expand and grow, the child must stop school, and learn to work. The hands and not the mind must earn daily bread. The rising genera tion is to be dwarfed and stinted in educa tion, and rendered unfit for anything except to be vied as tools and not as MEN and WOMEN. 1 i ;" - . ' j ' ' There is a class of men in the Democratic party who are enemies to education. - They are afraid of the common people. They seek to advance the interests of a few to the det riment of thousands of children. These men are men of wealth they educate their chil dren and oppose any system by which the poor man's children are to be educated and fitted for the highest positions in this or any other government ; j , . ' These two propositions must strike a vast majority of our people without regard to party as being totally unworthy of serious consideration. . We are aware that anything we may protest against will be received with favor by the ruling spirits of the Democratic party., i However, we have done our duty we hope never to do less; j . . , i , . While we are upon this subject we may remark that the power of Prussia is mainly due to the system of education which pre vails in that Kingdom? Go back to the time of Napoleon the First, and notice the difference in France , and Prussia. "Battles were decided then because of the military genius Of Napoleon, and not because his troops were braver wtt.ejrfhjecta of France better -efflcated than . those of; Prussia. Fifty-five years have Jhtssed away, and we behold Paris, the Capital of Francej, be seiged by a Prussian army, in a war de clared by France.; What has brought about such a , change in the two governments I The soldiers of Prussia are "not braver than they were at Jena, but they are educated they are men in mind as well as in stature they know, their rights equally as well as their King, and, therefore, they are superior to other men who have not had the same advantages. . Notwithstanding this fact is patent to all the. world, the Democratic party of thiS i Ptato is committing jitself toa system of limited, education.,, r j t:--. , In , conclusion, education decreases crime. The more . knowledge ,difiused among the masses, the less the cost on -account of crime., . . ; 7 - r . I We do not believe Ithe people will allow themselves to be controlled by men who are fa favor of the propositions announced by the Sentinel The people want education and they will cheerfully make any eacrifice necessary to secure it The truth of the whole matter is, that there are Democrats who hold old bonds and they want their in terest at the expense of education. Igno rance is to be lostcred-rime encouraged, and the people, kept in darkness to pay the old debt and the interest on' the5 old bonds. Go on gentlemen and see if -there "is not a day of reckoning. ; ' ,(' , I 7 TirE Stand ahd. The publication of the Standard, which was suspended a week ago, has been resumed. Who its present pro prietors are, and who is editing it, does not appear. After, a while, it is announced, the publishers and editors will be published NVifiritliGfnnluitr thft.hittemesl of its -Darr tizanism and the reckless and unjustifiable character of iUditorUls . tihmrim4, Jus. always been a good newspaper. We hope it will fell ; into -'the1 hands -'bf parties who will conduct it upon higher And better principles.-: Old North State. , , :, ' There will be no bitterness in any of the articles which appear in,- the Standard so long as we have control of its columns. The paper will advocate and be an exponent of National Republican principles. It wil not be the .organ of any one man, clique or class. It will be tho prganof the ENTIRE Repub lican party of this State, and will labor to place the State in the hands 'of the Repub lican party at the next election. We know of no higher or better principles than those of, the Republican party, as announced at Chicago nMayr1868.' ;L, . ,, . j , . r. We shall not throw dirt nor allow the columns of the Standard to be debased ith blackguard articles. . Whatever e inay have to say, will be said in decent language ; find our correspondents must ; write like-, wise. We shall not have personal . quarrels, nor allow articles to appear in. he Standard A reflecting upon the private, character of "T""' , . , ' - .' We shall . extend every courtesy , to ( our, brethren of the press, and shall1 expected to Da treated in use manner. (j -fir. ,,; .;. One Moore Left Whicl JJoore !j rj; , As there were several gentlemen of, this name in the last General Assembly and some one Moore has left the State, the question is, which one is it? Moore of Carteret or, Moore ot Chowan? , Which ever of these maiy be the leaving man, it is now . currently re, ported that Dr. J. A. Moore, Conservative representative from Alamance. County,j has certainly gone from the State.Vi It jwiD be recollected that this man barely ..escaped being "bound over" for perjury. He Was a prominent witness at the recent Kuklut ex-amiuations-pand was evidently afflicted with a convenient memory f as tp some things, and a loss of memory as to others., , Per haps he has gone ft where , the .woodbine twineth," for the purpose of diseipling him self in truthfulness. or escaping indictment May his retirement; do him good it cer tainly will not injure the State. Wilming ton Journal please notke.' The Wake County Vacancy. ' Tho death of Mr. Hodge makes it neces sary for the people of this County to elect another representative. : "!'''" ' .'' ! .,i The General Assembly meets on the third Monday in November next It is time the Republicans had had some consultation, on this subject " There ' should ' be an un derstanding whether a Convention" will, be called to .nominate, or whether -the Execu tive Committee will recommend a suitable man as the candidate of the , patty.' ' ;' Thisjdounty 'is Republican,' and cam be cajried by a larger majority than Mr. Phil lips received ' last 'ontH. "The Executive Committee should meet at once 'and deterT imine uponwhat 'is'.wsPto' W- dfonei f The new member suouiu De elected ana reauy to take his scat, the first day of the session ; therefore, we think there should be Borne action taken at once. , After, thirty (days notice of the election is given by the Gov ernor, it will be but a few days until the Legislature meets. ':.,,, A Democratic Dodge. 7,' A delegation of two colored men from South Carolina came into this State a short time since,' professedly on a mission ot po litical inspection. They have made their report, accompanied, by a letter written by Gov. Vance. ' We wish to notify the Repub licans of South Carolina to receive the state ments of this, dplegation with caution. The men came introduced by and to decided and leading'Democrats. They placed themselves in the hands "of Democrats they sought no conference with leading ' Republicans. Thcv did see two or three Republicans, but they seem in their report to give but little. ... . . i ' mi.' '. ?- ' weight to.; tncir presentation;,.. iiieu- in formation has come mainly from' Democratic sources. The basis of their opinion, there fore, is Democratic, j. ! .-.; j. Republicans, of South' Carolina look, to this. Sift the matter well. 7 ' 7 , ,r j , The corps of observers to 'witness the solar eclipse which occurs in December next will proceed by public conveyance to Syra cuse, Sicily, where they expect to meet scientific parties from 'the Universities' of, Europe. ' The Naval observatory party will consist of Professors Asaph Hill,' William, Harkness, Simon Newcomb and' John It Eastman,' all of whom were engaged;. on; the 7th of Augnst, of 1869, making, eksery$ tionsY; They will be supplied i with; leveiy facility for executing their work, nnd their instrnmenUwill be of an improved kindJ The eoast survey wnriend out two corps of observers. 1 The points from which observar tions will be made will not be determined until .they arrive : in Europe. ;, Professors Pierce and Schott who , Itavo this country on the 13th of October will direct one party. The other will be . composed of, ' Professor Winlock, of Harvard College fAlvin Clarke, Jr., of Cambridge ; Professor Pickering, of Boston, and Professor Young, of Dartmouth1 Colleger This, party is expected to .leave New York on the 1st o November, j ; j 1 ." 'The Empire is peace' certainly it isn't war," was a bitter epigram made at Forlmch.' The entire course of the contest . has shown that the demoralization incident to personal government has been nowhere so fatally, ap parent as in the ranks of the armyX;The' re creant Zouaves who began the panic at Meudon have fallen victims as uitich to the system under which' they were reared as to their own cowardice.' The French soldiers were the mainstay of fche ayhasty, arid they knew it' An overweening confidence, begot ten of victories against inferwr forces, arid' an undue amount of national and official adulation,relaxed the bonds of discipline which cannot be too soon tightened, even at the cost of shooting a few more of the ( sold iers of Africa, Ui Immigration. ' : i, 7 North Carolina needs an accession to her population far beyond what would naturally come into the State from other portions of the Union. -Her present . population can' neither bear the burdens upon them nor de velope the resources, of the State, so as to enable her to take rank as sho ought among her sister States. Virginia, through the active efforts of her people and their dis- Eosition to dispose of their surplus lands, as very, largely increased her population from the farming and mining populations of Pennsylvania. New Jersey. Maryland, and -other Northern-States,-which has enhanced the value oi her lands, and now she is mak ing effort for a large' immigration from Europe, as a means ot supplying the neces sary labor and enlarging her operations in agriculture, mining, &c Sentinel. It is well enough to talk about the wants of North Carolina; and; there," is nothing needed more than immigration. We agree with the Sentinel when it says that the " present population . can neither bear the burdens upon them nor develope the re sources of the Stte, so as to enable her to take rank, as she ought among her ; sister States," ' -So. far so good. .,,7 Why. is it that . immigration does not pour into this State as it does into Virginia and the Western States ? ' It is unnecessary to say that our climate is equal if not better than that of any other State in the Union1 our lands are as good, and within the reach of any one .who wishes to purchase. Our people have a universal reputation for their .hospitality, and in the face of all.this, very few;, immigrants reach (this'.State. .There must be some extraordinary reason, for this state of things; let us see what it is. ; ,! 1 w """J:.. "fT" " "t" rf T .J. .J .. A il ' .1 . : tl.A I went up in all parts of the State "and there ' r . ., :.'- I i - was every' reason to peneve Tuai immigra- gration would 'turn toward the Southern. States,' and especially Nort h Carolina. ' This era 6f good feeling soon passed away,' and such a state of things took place, as to deter almost every than of capital from our midst The Democracy came to the conclusion after the presidential election in 1808,'thaf there was but one way by which they could regain gain control of tho ' State That one ,way was to ' organize ' and '; set ; to "work the Kuklux Klan. ' Orders were 'given, and the bloody work commenced .. in Jones County. The highest civil and military of ficers of the County were waylaid and mur dered. The organization prospered and ex tended its operation into Lenoir and Greene, and another portion broke out in Rocking ham County. The energetic efforts of Gov. Holdcn broke up the Klan in the Eastern counties, as did Judge Settle in Rocking ham. . But the life of the Klan was not ex tinguished in other counties. Very soon the Klan began to make its appearance in Ala mance, Caswell, Orange, Chatham, Harnetc and Wake. Men were murdered, whipped, drowned, scourgedj and mutilated by the Klan, and the Sentinel in many instances apologised for these deeds of the Klan. 1 The efforts of the Governor to put down the Klan was obstructed by the Sentinel and its follow ers, and theState government held up to the contempt ot the entire people of the State. Matters thus went on from bad to worse, un til the people' outside of North Carolina began to think that neither life or property was safe.,., Every man 'who' came herefrom any of the Northern States was denominated a carpet-bagger if lie was a Republican, and was told that he must be"a hewer of wood anda'drawec of water ;"; that there were men' enough here natives to manage the affairs of the State, and that no man was wanted here unless he was a Democrat, or unless he would content himself with bow ing to the behests of the defunct aristocracy: These things are so ; and the Sentinel knows what has kept immigration from the State, justas well as we do. The people through-5" out the State do not need posting on this subject : They feel the effects of the Kuklux Klan in more respects than one ; 'and when the " second sober thought '' takes place, the Kuklux ' Democracy will be ' hurled , from' power and consigned to oblivion. Theex posurt'bronght to light by Judge Pearson is enough to damn any party, particularly the' Democratic party'. ' 1 " lj ' . :; Well.' The Democrats, thr'otigli ' the ef forts of the Koklux Klan, elected a 'majority of the Legislature,' and a reign of peace and 'order 'should now take place.'' But such is tot : the case.- The State is to be kept in turmoil and strife we cannot tell for how long. A Convention is to be called. Another exciting' campaign will have to be' gone through with. 'The organic law must be torn 'up,' root and branch, and' changes of every 'conceivable nature, are to be made. This is what the Democrats 'propose' to do.' Any inducements for immigration while such a state of things exist t We think not. Therewfll be nofmmigration to this State nntil a decided change takes place and that change must be inside of the Democratic party, i W fear it will never come.' - ii '; i ' 1 1 i. ,-i ; ' However trite the .echoobroom maxim, "try.tmtry again", it is worthy of beinz I .. '',. jsrri-zt a motto for all who womct-ayneve- success, whether in religion, trade or politics, . .i' f How long have: the, opponents of Repub- licanism, in this State.laewfrj.inff,' ti?riJirtdTi&pe the day is-not for distant - iggaggfofcrjfot the Republican party! Ahd when they -have, woven their web, by means fair and foul, how diligently did. they watch it, that ho one might destroy the net work and let their expected prey ! escape ! On the fourth day of last .August they met the reward of -their constant and untiring labor; The Democratic, party was ivicto riouat the polls.. u.g ()J - U : . And what were a large portion of Re publicans in Norfhj Carolina' doing whilst the'web to ensnare theni was. beingl wove and set? Were they alert' arid vigilant? or wefethey eta pi d, self content and lazy, not to say ,' absolutely careless ? Were they endeavoring day by day to combat the dire ful influences of their enemies, or to thwart the plans and intentions of their adversa ries ? ( Alas, the Republican household was divided against itself; and 'no such house can stand. Envy and GrcedJ cannot dwell together with Virtue and Honesty. ! After all, the Republicans of this State cannot at-' tribute too great a proportion of their de feat to thestrehgth or prowess of their op ponents.''' An enemy in a camp is tar more dangerous than one outside ; and 'a man who affiliates with, a political patty without espousing' and believing in' ttie' principles of that party;' lr Virtually 'an eneiny to it; and a man whoWks the moral 'courage to profess his belief; proclaim.0 his principles, and work to maintain them, 13 of no account to any party. ' For months Iwfore th.e late election we beheld with pain and deep anx- ' iety the manifest apathy with some and the cowardice with others in the Republican ranks ; and our anxiety was the more paiu ful when we saw with wh it unanimity our enemies worked. , We have been defeated ; ;pur hopes are not flod, nor is our spirit subdued. We have been overpowered but we axe yet strong, for " Truth is mighty, and will prevail." There Is a wfde'a very" wide difference between the Republicanism and the Democ racy of the. present day. - Democracy pro poses to go bock to .old forms, and antique usages. Republicanism proposes to advauce and embrace new forms and customs bar- monious with theagei Republicanism pro claims this an Age of Progress. Democracy , ridicules the truth.. 'The leaders of the Re-; publican party are political economists. - , The leaders of the Democratic party are, to ' use a vulgar phrase, political " hacks ;" many of them arc nothing more than dis appointed office-seekers. : ' 1 Great ahd important events are to trans pire before the people of this State will be called upon to' choose new Tulers." In the meantime they will bTTlold many truths and many lies.' , To the fool, all is gold that glitters; but the' wise man 'can detect the counterfeit and will discard it . It is never too late to' do good. We urge every TrueRcphblicari ito!ay this maxim to heart, and, with renewed energy to go to work; fbr'never' until men who love them selves better than ' their -Country "and their , H4tiw .keptfam ; office and ' poer, cart we hope for what we so sincerely crave-Fieace;,":Vl''-' " 'V ' "' " ' ' ' The Demoralization 1 and 1 License of '''. ' ' Journaliftm.'' ! ' At Jthis time there appears to be in our public Press ia tone ahd spirit of rash mess that will eventually inculcate corrupt morals in the belter portion of its- readers. It has teamed with slanderahd" abuse reflecting upon the character. of sobe of our best men, and tcuds to the destruction of their reputa tion, either by open calumnies and abuse, or whispered vituperation and personalities. The Sentinel' and Southern Home, leading journala of thechivalrous Democracy, en deavor to deceive the people and are fast closing their eyes to the destructive course they are pursuing. They have paved the way of ruin and disgrace to our State, and have thrown open the portals of demoraliza tion to the whole countryl While such men have sway with the masses of the people, and continue to defend baseness and palliate the atrocious crimes of midnight assassins, we may neve? expect to sec the present state of affairs cease. ' ' '' " ' ' Correction Caswell County. We learn from" W. B. Bowe, of Caswell, that we' were mislead in making the state ment that the Kuklui had been riding in Caswell County, and wexe after one of the witnesses, Anderson Graves. It seems that a negro niau , had a claim of some sort against Graves, and went one night with a friend to see Graves on the subject This led to the unfounded rumor that the Ku klux wereafter 'Graves. .:'-: ," Persohs should be careful how they reports, especially ben thepublfc riu excited..,,.,. ',,.. : - - It is creditable to the people : of Caswell that they are indignant at the propagation of false reports in regard to their condition. We trust that Caswell County will hence forth jSct a bright example of devotion to law and order. Monntniu Scenery of North. Carolina (,. and Virginia. A few months since we called, the atten tion of our readers to an article in Appleton't Journal fecomrrierlding the artists of the country To Visit' "the'Tinexplored mountain regions of Virginia and North Carolina and , to transfer thsir beauties to canvass tor the benefit of pleasure seekers and lovers of the t grand picturesque. The article has elected several letters to the Journal on that subject, two of which, possessing unusual interest appear in the number, of August 27. One of these, dated Cambridjreport, Massachusetts, ppeakiug of' the scenery of Western North Carolina, says: "I have been there, for years and assure any one from real knowl edge that neither tho Catskill, Green, nor White Mountains can begin to compare with those ofLWestcrn North Carolina. ' Where the Blue Ridge, Cumberland and Allegha nies unite they form a perfect Switzerland in America, many European gentlemen have declared in favor of. this, and you will find English, Scotch arid French families among these immortal hills. The second letter is from Giles county, in this State, and gives a graphic description of the view, from Bald Knob, "from which can be seen a general landscape rivalling that from Mount Washington." .'' ' Commenting upon these; the Journal says : " We shall soon see hotels-and Mountain houses springing up on eligible points amid these grand hills and the travel that now sets so persistently towards the Cat skills and Adirondacs,' in part at least,, diverted to this regton."r-lt -further announces that it has seat a specirtjet on a, tour through ttSrattUth whose iUustratioM .will soon ap- thtruuth whose illustrations will soon ap pear n its pages. " ', ' '-;." :; . , We feel convinced that the representations of the JourhaVt correspondent re not vef- whe'n the scenes they describe shall be bet ter knw;n and appreciated. ', In these days of travp.l andgjhjywaingrthe mountain re gionfrvirginia and North Carolina, abounding ingrand and beautiful scenery, must become;. more attractive in future to tourists and visitors of cultivated tastes in proportion as the facilities for reaching them are improved. Rich.' Whig. ' ' ' There is no finer scenery in the world than in Western North Carolina. Harper's Week ly and Frank Leslie's lUuUrated paper would do w.clj to send an artist into' the Western part of .this State. .The scenery along the line of the Western North Carolina Railroad is sublime. Down' the French Broad river and through Hickory Nut Gap is equally as tine as that along the Railroad. There are a great many people1' whd remember the scenery around Chimney Rock in Rutherford county as being equal to .Switzerland. The Romans are not to be contented, it seems, with the destruction of the temporal power of the Pope, but insist that nothing in' the' ' plebisciium of next Sunday shall be understood to recognizeJ 1 his ' spiritual au thority; ' The Junta Which is to conduct tho election has' resolved to resign if liberty of the Press and of the' conscience is not fully recognized. ' This Is a! uedtion which of necessity 'had to come up at some time. It is all the better ' that it should be agitated and decided now:"' ':,!,''1 j," 1
The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Oct. 5, 1870, edition 1
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