North Carolina Newspapers

I - I . , ' ? ill " I v ... - ' - ... i .Jlg.. ' . as. ; . I I I 83ai ( Ins llll 1 Jll (ll t t y -'",',,'"''" .',," -. 0 , ','',1', " ' KW SAHIBS. SALISBURY, N. C, OCTOBER 16, 1868. VOL. I, AO. 41 , r t ATM WNWIWWWWW- 43 TiliMUM m anvanc... WATCHMAN OLD HOBTH 8TATK TBI WKtKT.T 0lO NORTH STATE. .:3 hum RALLY JH SALISBURY I 4,000 People Present ! ! OKA NO VKOOBM1UN : ISmrwkei Hn. Mm Qui end Our. Vancr. THE BARBECUE! Grand Torch-Light Pro cession at Nigffl ! Brilliant Displar ol Fire Works! Lwfc by kF. Armld,P rwm ej '--" tVss Fir Ail - ' Thursday, lb ' day of October Lru a day King t be retnetnbered by the leiotsrntn nud Grose rr at ivee of . ! t owan una rue adjoining w Early in the suoreiug the yeo laanry of ihe country begaii to antra Ltd by eleven o'clock a at muhi- ude had assembled. van-iy tt Inated at from three to five thons Ld. The owning wa threatening. slight shower of rain falling eu.Mii an Hse. but at the day advanced it ;redally cleared away end we were nelly blessed with a ta ut delight ul afternoon. At eleven o'clock the piueaanina rat faceted at the .tHc enneru nnv ler ibe directlona of Dr. J. Vf Halt, TfcW' Mmd.all a rlt-.J lv a number p competent aitani. The pro Lesion being formed it moved iirongli Main erroet, preceded by the ialisbnry Brat Hand and the invited ;ueit in anitabie enveynnee, to tlie iaad. which bee ei acted in the n tifal Grove at the Hospital rround nearly opposite the reel lence of Maj. Archibald Henderson While the assembled thousand were wnposing themselves and the ladies rere being eondneted to the moat el rllde seats, the band played a niira. Lr of popular and patriotic aire. At twelre o'clock. M , after all hadi Mea sealed and composed, Dr Hail wise who beliered that it was tbeir intention to reestablish the iaatitatieo of slavery should they again acq aire political power in theee Stales. He wished ell theee questi .n satis factorily answered by the repreeeuta lite men of the South. He wished to mm ii to the North with a ooeitlve eotjf radtction of the various false char-' .ataurJifili.Wn. to the prejudice of the Southern peo ple. Uo wanted to tell them when he returned what he bad eeen and NHirdfiwWf BWr 11 people dnring hit rls it among us so that they might bo convinced. Seeing himself surround ed by a number of the representative men ef ibe State he wihed to pro- pound Jo i hem a few important in lermgatorbia. He would ask ihem whether the people of North Cro line wore leMlious or whether they bad detfrniined to submit in good faith to rtte result of the ww aad linked to a eotutnon govmment with tlie peeate-eC the North tor -i heir -fa 4 would restores slavery if ho pososaed tor- government and protection whether they regarded the questions of seoession and slavery as having Wm. been settled by the war and as bav ing become obsolete issues whether bona fid Northern settlers w nld be well received ana kindly treated In the event of their Immigration loth 8tale whether the. wpa willing to accord the colored people all their That Convention bad adopted an amendment to oar old State Oooetitu tion abolishing slavery, and that amendment had been ratified by the leAtis vefers of the Stale with singu lar unanimity. The legislature s sequent ly elected under the auspice of that Convention had ratified the amendment to tha Constitution of the forever abuJiehiug slavery in all the States and prevent ing its restoration by any of the States. This they did a perfect good faith, and if there wax a man in North Carolina who would restore slavery if he could he did not know it. For bis own part Gov. Vance said that If be could restore the Inttitat tion by turning over his hand he would not do so, great applause and he believed that he spoke the unani mous sense of the vast audience which he then beheld before him. Ia nut this so, said he. is there a single nan In all this largo assemblage who the power. This question waa an ewered by n loud and universal no from the audience. But the Gover nor said be wished a more decisive teat. lie, therefore, called upon all who would oppose the restoration of slavery, could it be done, to raise np their right hands, ladiea and ail. Simultaneously airoos every person in the vast assemblage, ladies as well rights and protect them in the eier 1 s gentlemen, 'aised their right hands. cis of the same as fullv as the white He then called upon all who would people were protected in theirs' restore slavery if they could to hold wished Ihem to have a fair chance to ; Ibeir right hands when not a hand live mid prosper in the enjoyment of was raised. Many years ago, he said. their rights -did not consider suN JU'lge Uaaton, and other great and frago a right, but only a priqiUge. g I men in the State, had been in Having propounded these intenlgato- favor of gradually emancipating the ries he took his seat to await there slaves, and but for ihe abolition agi plies. '-,,.., j tation at the North and, perhapsan- Oou B. U. Cuwab of Wilmington, other circumstance ihe people of was then introduced and proceeded North Carol ina would have emanci- to answer tlie ritestioiis which had pated their slaves long ago been propounded by the very di-tiu guinhed genilemeii fiom IfaSSachus ettl who he was rt-j.'uv.i to see among ua. Ilia people of North Carolina, he said, submitted in good aith to the result of the war. They regard ed the question of slavery and so cession, and s did the New York platform, as having been settled for all time by the war, and for thjfiT' ture they wished to live in peace un dor the CmstitMion and luwx ot the United Slates with the mme. right and privilege enjoyed by Ms pptt of the Xorth. m States. They could not restore slavery if they would and would net' if tkey amid. This, be tell su re, was the universal sen limeni of the people of this State. All bona The Cuvention of 1865 had also repudiated tlie doctrine of secession declaied that the Secession Ordinance of May the 80th 1861 was null and void aud that the State had never, in legal and Constitutional eon'empla ton, been-out of tlie Union. Tiiis Gov. Vance believed to ook the stand aod made a raw Wief! u,,. frum the Northern States, md appropriate remarfta, announcing amine of proceedings. Ho nded by introducing Hex. John Ictxut Aoam of Boston, Mass., the rertfay representative of one of the nost illustrious houses in American isfory. ' Mr. Adam arose amidst the loud laudils of the multitude and cmi ieaeed his remarks by saungihut e was on his way to fjdnmbia, onth Carolina, in response to an in itation esfeuled to him by Gen. fade Hampton and others, to visit or from any other country, would be kindly received and h eerily welcom. ed here. We wished ; hem to come with their capital, their -kill and ijieir in dustry to assist us in the development of onr resouises and in the recon Strueliotrof our ruined fortunes. The onlv class of Northern men to whom weol.jeeied.and asa nst whom we had any prejudices, wa that class of un principled adventurer familiarly known as "Carpet Baggers," who come here not a settlors but fair : 'ihe imrte of holding the otHee of our hat place when be was etopped by 8trte government by Inj rebels wd detained to addresa; TOfM ltf &Mt!OH, means ef the ,i9rm trlkiim IllfiV (It- no ilaftmbted. After ,, into voting for preaipg hie great giatificatmft at tew by ilaebd snddu peetiag so many of hie folhiw ciii : phofty; - - as of North Carolina he read the As to the colored people he said that, mer of Gen. Hampton and others w were willing tolecure them in all siting him to Columbia. He then ihajr civil rigbule the same extern roeeeded to sar that the great body that t her were saalrd to the while r ihe Norllierii people were kindly people, and the! sposed , towards tile people or the confer upon utb but that they were distrustful ege as i them. The Nortliern' pwtple, he ing l win iwnnrniM pari K" uiion t were 1 the real condiiiou of thing down Tin thej Iwigning V,,rk ( o news- ien hit seat that .rebel- j.g t.. lal the delegates to by tlie voters no tation of tie State of the State. be the true docti me and it waa the one now ac cepted by eveiy man lu North Cars olina outside of the Radical party. Ihe right of (he negro to vote, be aid, was not involved in this contest nothing hut the right of the State to regulate the question of suffrage for itself-a right wh eh i conceded to States by the Constitution but which is denied to the Southern States by the Radical Platform thia wm, the issue. On the subject of immigration be said it was notoriorrs that many coun ties of this State had passed reaofnV lions inviting immigrants to the State from the North; Rowan County had organised an immigration society and memorialised the legislature on the subject; such was still the wish of the people of the Slate, tney wished the liooest and. industrious pcoplu of the North to oome here und buy our lands and settle among us all who intended to become permanent citi zens, no matter. hat their polities might be, would be kindly received. He. and the people of North Caro line, only objected to the Carpet Bag gers who came to hold the offices at high salaries through the instrumen tality or the negro vote and who would leave when they could hold the offices no longer. It was that class of men who stirred up strife be races without them they together in harmony. ace here took hie seat when W resumed . He said he had been satisfactorily answered had no the theory of human rights bad exte nded as far a it has in Noith isV.net know before that iho omen ever voted, bat wee glad they had if the women are uaatiiaeas against Ik restoration of slavery there could be uo doubt about the men. He repeated that alt the questions which be had propounded had been fully and satlslsetority aosweredhad leg been satisfied thst the Southern people were being grossly slandered. He id that he had been sgsinst the Sooth hi the war was fcr the areservatfea ef the Union by fbrfe when forti became ueces- ssry bad served en the staff of Gov. An drew bad been a Rspablisan bet left the Keaebliean party wbea It refused to carry eat its solemn pledges when it re fused to rosier the people ef Ike South ern Stales a all their rights after they bad laid down their anna and accepted the result ef the War in good faith. He wanted all to costs together aud shake bands and live in peace an 1 friendship for tke ftnore. (Tremeudou apptsoM dur ing which some ons shouted hurrah for Seymour aad Blair. Upon thst, said Mr. Adam, I aas with yon for Seymour and Blair, and am an det and out Demo crat because ibe Democratic party wants the people ef the States to go vera them selves hi the sssrelse of all the rights re served to them in the federal Constitution said that old John Qaiucy Adsjn once defined a republican government to hint as a government by the people, for4 the people, and such was his opinion now. He asked whether the carpet-baggers who bad been seat to Congees from this State were representative men, to which there was a long and load response of No, No What, said be, It they wnt to have more gun brought Sooth for t Do one part of your people want to shoot the other part if not, what era they wanted for. He spoke of saffrsge in Hsssacha setts said the negro could not vote there unless be could read and write, bat here suffrage hsd been conferred upon them all by Congress because it wsa believed thst the Southern white people would enslave (hem if they hsd a chance called for an other vote which was unanimous against say attempt to restore slavery gave it ap and called for three cheer for Seymour and Blair which were given with a wilt He said that the election of Seymour and Blair weald net be ear salvation chat the Radicals hsd control of the Senate and would have for sis years at least said the Southern people must be patient deraan them. We beard Mr. Adams remark that this wsa the first barbecue be hsd attended ia hi. life, aad that be ia being able to witness such demonstra tion aod enjoy aueh a repast. We de not think that sny one present enjoyed it more tbsn this grand son ot one President and rrest frraod son of another. At seven o'clock, P.M., a Grand Torch Light Procession was formed on Innias street, beyond the Railroad Bridge, whtrlt. amid a brilliant display of tiro work Insrehed through the principal streets of I. ... a. . . " ' . a tlie city, being addressed at varum point in its progress by different distinguished gentlemen. When the procession reach ed toe public square H baited and wss ad diesserl by Ol. fi ArasOela, ef WiV kesboro, in a brief but abla speech Which elicited much applause. It then moved around to the Boyden House where h wu addressed by P. P. Duffy, Ksa., of Urssnseore, in an animated speech which wss well received and frequently applau ded. The procession ogam moved up to the public ROsiare where brief bat eloqaeut speeches were utade by Cel. Cowan, t rancis E. Shober, Esq., Msj. Bobbins and others. Here the meeting finally dis placed after having witnessed anoitrei splendid display ef ire-works. The meeting was one of the most bar- d agggggg 1 J table-then New York is reconstructed as before stated end the newly elected Sena tors are admitted, to seats. Has New York 6o constitutional remedy for sach a palpable and gross violstion of her consti tutional rights t By this logic the hops outrageous and flagrant the violation of the constitution, the more effectually is it screened from the jadicisl condemnation I That If Congress (tops short of complete iVtMsMPty tinsel OIM FVtV ttlt Mrev4sblr stb eT rested by the judicial sentence ; but if it wssrswwsrw ssra ciaissinsi 01 wt y ssf- eoarse of tyranny and usurpation, me more they trraniso the more they usurp, the more osvtaloiy are their acta, seraeaad from judicial scrutiny ! Such is lbs u duetto of abeurdum from your argument. Iou base your whole argument upon the authority of Luther rs. Borden, 7, How 1, aad its application to the matter In hand, its authority none can deny its plstion the PEOPLE could not have form ed these governments then as ae gov ernment could have bean forassd in Taw, none bav been formed by lbs PEOPLE m fact ; this is a presumption juris tt eh jurV the PEOPLE could have fa no tnvsyisMStil In law. a minority cat form ens la fast lhaa as the court saw see that ae government could be In law, they eaaneC without in proof, 1 e., swmethtng morn than the ad mission ef Senators, etc., see that any have bee! ftrel Tfc figt, and as What doei not appear cannot exist, the CO art must say that In legal intendment there was no government which could form the subject matter of recognition. Ia seder that Ibe ease of Lather rs. Borden seer apply, there must no-exist these circum stances : l. a government ae one at the PEOPLE. 2. That such covero. tty none can eeuy II . ment should hay. been, in law and faet. spplieatiou, 1 do. Ing before that ease recognised by the political department of had been decided it had been repeatedly , the government, if therefore there is no held by the Supreme Court, that the re- government, sud in legal intendment eswuhion of foreign States was to be settled by las political department of the Government. GeUton rs. Hoyt, 3. Wheat, 240. United States vs. Palmer, 3, Wheat. 610. The Santissuna Trini dad and the St. Andrea, 7, Whrwi,4iwb: Tbe ease of Luther rs. Borden arose out of the Rhode Island difficulties ; those nsanssMsi and Athf lftuss.uaris mm vr evil. need. The uiin.t good order prevail- dMealties areas between different parties ed from iwrHnnin- tr. ..d Not s sins-Is, ol the veeeM of that State ahd the qearrel incident of any kind occurred to mr o, I WM V. domestic; no department of disturb the pleasure of-the occasion. government bad aay laterest The vat assemblage listened to the pea fholding one party to the quarrel kers, both at the stand and at night, with than the other, bat stood neolral, the closest attention. Among those who nd e ff them wa therefore a fit urn attended and paid close attention we P"re to decide. Chief JusUce Taney do about three hundred of our colored fel- '""nng the opinion puts the decision up low citizens. The number of these would en three gronnds t -hive been much greater but for the fact . 1 The general rale that the recogni that the radical leader hereabout had " f gortmment belongs to the polit- eotten uo a meet n a few mile from ur Insn l.ir flis nnnuu. cti jtrasvi.is. rl.ftn nT ur .., ' ,i:.,i.t ,i,, :'t Island had determined the question in was a verv small affair, and did not alto- 0,ved n,! iiM decision was binding on I... i.. .i.. j; i .ew I toe u . i . uouru. KIUIO HMW HI.' U1DMI U tUni. I ' . , , , We cannot close this account of the " H"-"" "v. great Mas Meeting without noticing tbe w Jc ineetiaw,, oy r.. ,.t .h. K, t.di.. n on of the difficulty of tbe proof bare to make it what it waa a splendid The reasons given for eoofiuing the success. To them much of the credit is H"""" ."t5 p-.... -due. By meant of a concert, and other- partmeet based upon tbe constitutional wis, tbev rsised a laree oart of the fund guarantees, via : ded upon their own account that they be ' necessary to furnlth the prorUron., fire I- Tlua republican form of gov patieot nd eorscilUtory that they show werks, flags, rkc., for tbt occsuion. Their er"m;"!'' ., . , . LTdM. n, i fair hand decorated most beautifully the ? I1 proteMMion against i,,va.lon. -TZ. M . ' .V sTTT 1 . speaker's stood. They aided iu nretWinc . 5 1 Mt or !'"" ." artxru itM'iinir tinn nhv sirrnuTnrn inr itintim . . . . " . a o f, - MmnMmm Ttr th oe no silleseiM Ias fhs. IsKIm At. J Issflv rl.sv ef tnsitftients at the North. Any other euCOnr.ged u with their approving smile. course, be said, wsiuld play into the hands We bare often had occasion to remark A the Ea lical He violence Norv, I agree thst, if the people could in legal intendment, here acted hi forming down South that there was much more of public spirit, .. ... ' . .v.. .mi, in I ml... I- Hnnrlon snnlres mm ih us well a of patriotism, among tbe ladle , r . r.' , " " i ne pre- r . I then it is reduced to a Quarrel between ; 01 --.annum v rrnirr nuiuriK rnc ujs... srru .. ... s ii i . 1 a. amerent taction ot uie iteopie or lire ourie not to make political speeches .c m p-.ni.an con- th(J th ; itmolutntion ideration. lie wanted the Constitution Mj confirms our formerly expressed restorer! ana again urged tbat northern opinions. men who come here, and the colored peo ple, be kindly treated. I hops, said he, you will consider '.hit advice kindly and follow it though it comes from me, who Oat a carpet-bagger, f Gov. Vance said no you are not, you have a trunk, I saw it when you got off tbe train, which pro- people but it is equally unfair and un-Iawyer-llke to cell out certain otpreiaions dropp ed by the Court arguendo and apply them literally to tbe present situation. Unfair, for thrtt ens wiif fsUiciclcd tt a tttuo Waaso duced laughter. He asked whether if, J"tn ! June -vou URe Bronn ,n nef" . ,.. 7 alum Kit atora tlssal lino leorr . rio..ir... r.v. he should com,, down and settle asaeug .,,,, iCZTj our people they Would vole for him far j answered in snch a way as "to show, thai Governor t Shouts of yes, yes. Would we have a constitutional mode of escape yon yotb for me against Vance I Xe.Jvo onr present cnnoition, saary11 ' He iifteuded 10 fohome aud disabuse the ft : "l --eaeotoMeaa waeation indeed, and Northern mind a far as be could wss a rebellious spirit down here For tbe WaU-hmsn a Old Kerth fttat. Can the Present Government in lYortn k cannot R.lpd that the court hsd taroitna oe isewarea t ota ana in view a slate ot things, following an nn Ifrli&AuA srrWr-u. hu Juilnijil soceessfal attempt to dissolve the Union, ?n -r - ' I i .r. 1 i..r... .....J .1. SUIT IU1.I1 lull , WC Uiaj nn- I uwvw mmu more general expressions, than bad such a situation been contemplated. Un-lawyer-like for "it is a maxim, not to be disregarded, that general expres sions, ht every opinion, are to be token in connection with the cc in which those expression are used. If they go beyou the case, they may he respected, but ought Decision t Messrs. Editors : In your isue of the could have been no government by tbe I'KUPLE, then there era recognition - recognition implies tion and it i well settled that a cannot be ratified j a eottiabte act stay be confirmed, Ac, hut not a void act. Then could the PEOPLE of North Carolina have formed any govern stent under the reconstruction sets 1 . I say not. A very large portion ef tbe PEOPLK were absolutely debarred from participa ting ia the formation of such government to ssy pothing of the allowing all the eel ed people to participate. Tbe exact pro portion of those excluded i net. nor era be estimated, but woe necessaril nouser oas from tbe character of the excluding test and for the same reason embraced much of the talent, learning, virtue and respectability of the people, tbe govern ment proposed to be erected radar the reconstruction sets, by reason then ef this exclusion of so large a el, could never then, as seen and understood by tbe judi cial mind, be regarded in legal contempla tion a having been formed by the PEO- ri.K ; in Isw, it is bat a meet a to the jus MSsKbsindf, jozus-earpet-bu-govera - nnt t a snntrnl r In ! rid mn er t in a u bse- I I.I I IV " 1 ... . . .!... I ' " J V ' if there 1 ,n,",vm8 1 conceive, not oniy uie wei- ent injti when thc ter is present ' 7 fere of our Southern people, but thejn- for decision." Cohens r. Virginia, 6, sun i.r tegntv ot tne uonsinutlon it sen. Ute W im- Wheat, 399. ao tar tailed to hud it. He came down doctrine you advance (and though adVwrl- A. rl..... it ennnnt be suecesafollv assert here to aee if tho people of the South were ed hy a non-professional person', one bnttnay be confidently denied, that like Ihe people of Machuetu human wbo ! w?"ire to ?f the court in Luther t. Borden could or . ultA .h.t ,h i,. . (sniutiouat wwyersiu wortb iareiiiis is woojd mve possibly anticipated and di beings. He found that they were-we to of Cra.titotion.1 tlwir nionf t0 a 7ute of fact wf.r fellow ftrMtrrrea and orient Ii, Atuml .uli ..A;n fl w , ... . s . . - """"" o.i.j ......uo mm non-existent aud imn-conteuipiateu, ii in- Itand upon a common platform aad live .ethics in government and is at war with deej not non-coiitoroplatable, tlien it re in peace. jhefoiidamentalpriiieipleofjiMtice Up to this point we have given a brief . , rr "TX sf a . ' ,n y'mKJ ol laijiii ma; or uuaws our sketch I very imperfect and that we integral member of the Federal Union, C(j hf eW derie jpsil.ee to the diitingpiihed j . 'bat it is lantaniount to soeh a recogni- g My that it would net, nor eouldjl by speakers. Hut it ts the best we could do i r"" "'..r 'i'jB"' ",u.j any possibility, laney, v. a., tne state the political department ot the (to vera-1 noint decision; "The existence and inetit. ss t preclude the JudiemJ Oepart- mlUbority tf the gorcrniuent gnder which ment from deciding on their vaSwtty. he defcd,nto acted, was called in que. Congress, we may suppose, shall scefit tkm. Md the plaintiff iufusts, that, before to reennstruci ew lore a reeonsiruc-1 eoaplained of were commHted, tion set is passed -the Federal ai my sent L,mt jmreraaient had been displaced and or mHta fl by the PEOPLE of It bode la- r enton a convention ia called ail tne j n" Jje. , pyS5. V colored people allowed to vote, and all yfce learned Chief Jnstiee, thea white Irish and Catholics prohibited the .j 14 snsary peai-n ttll-l h tfrtltf- 'posiumi over tbe olber) tbat there existed . contest between different portions of the t .. .. . . . r - - - . . . ana uisiranciiising oy means or lest rnims M'KOFLF. of Bhode Island tor the gee or otherwise a large proportion of white .-, na nnuide u reason ae dicU and a Legislature assemble in pursnaiicc .ion irom .broad no importatioa ef ear- and by yirtne of Jhat Const i tut loiet be Jpebaggera aided by thebristliag bayo- ijegisiaiure eiecraiwo .-.euururs, urrrs-r irrsu speakers in our small space with our imperfect notes. "V " ' " ' :; After Mr. Adams, who had been listen ed to with the profound! attention, had taken his seat, Col. Cowan addressed the a u d ie n cr for mo re t ban an hou r , i o a clear, convincing aim able speech. 1 in was t ol Cowan' first appearance among us and we do him bo more than justice when W cay that M speedy as well as that of Mr Adams, p1 -esed and . even delighted our people, lie made a une impression aad, wc would like to see aud bear more of him iu this part of tbe Slate, i After Col. Cowan had concluded, Gov. Vance spoke for one hour aud a half ia IimI r vl. sdvrriv Univtrssl sstrssr- tion. Gov. Vance i so well known throughout the State that it is unnecessa ry to say more unless we could present s report of hi speech, which we cannot. When Gov. Vance concluded the meet ing adjourned to the Barbecue te which ample justice was done. Notwithstand ing the large number ef persons present there was enough for all. The arrange ments had all been admirably made aad the best of order prevailed. The tool was hi the form ef a square, tbe banes aad tbe invited guests being admitted te the insidb. Within the square a table bad been specially prepared for the speakers, and au excellent dinner was spread for Messrs Morgan and t'oukling-r-the aeW Senators present their credential - can It be supposed for au instant that Congress, by recognising tbe .two Senators and new Representative, and cjeethtg the eld, could thereby preclude the question of the v)idityef such new government from being decided by tbe highest court f Suppose the above stated can be shun ged by Senator Morgan's iiagnalinn and tbe Senate seats one of the two newly elected Senator ; which government is is then recognised by the political depart meat. "old New York," in Senator Cockling, or "new New York" in tbe newly elected Senator I Or take another modi fication : Suppose tbat the seats ef the Senators from New York become vacant their successor are duly elected rider the present government and they prat ant their credentials which re laid upon the I am indebted to Josses KooaUeroj- Taylor, IBes,. for this sxcettout safeties. nets of II. S. Ttroops, bat a pure, Milken- nvneht. The question then! which was raised anil declined to be decided by the Curt waa, which was th rightful goernreent of the PCOP'LE of Bhode Island. Here it i whether a so-called government, iu which hi lejral intendment the PEOPLE could have had n voice in erecting, can be ratified into a legitimate government of snch PEOPLE without fbew eonent, by tbe recogni tiou of it very creator ! Now the question which might be pre sented, is not-whetber er net the PEO PLE have formed a so-called government, for admitting the legal opportunity, tbat become a political quest ton and toe deci sion in Lather t. Borden would apply but the Question really m. whether in t.O- ot ixTit.NiiMRXT the rnofLU could by ray p tibibty have formed raeb govern sua If under the reconstruction sets the court should bold, that iu legal eon tern- .Mi- "!--.fir r - ' IP ' -:( - the hubilimeiits of lawful i in them by force. And 1 ask yen, sirs, to distinguish the case as it wantis fresa a government with tbe same nfooiiis brand under a reeonstmetion act, prohibiting all white and permitting all negroes to vote t Thc difference rests not en principle hot exists merely in degree ; out only waa a very largo class absolutely debarred by tbe terms of the act hot the sasse act provides military force to carry it eat, as written then 1 say, that as in legal in tendment, the PEOPLE ef North Caroli na could by no possibility have formed tbe so-called government aod ae accord ing to the established theory (ee vanccd by yourselves) there was no n nest but upon the surrender, we we instanti remitted this so-called-l ....... t ...mm thc creation of our PEOPLE, but is noth ing but tbe creation of Congress anar chy legalized and tyred government. It is law, and as must be seen by the Judges to have just as much and no other or high er effect than if Congress had instead passed a law a follows: Thc Congress does enact, that W. W. Golden be Governor of North Carolina T. 11 Caldwell, Lieut. Gov.; John Pool and Jocph C. Abbott Senators la Con gress, and French, Deweese, ete.r etc., be members of tne Honse of Representatives, &c, and so on, enumerating all the other officers. Now, I ask you, sirs, if you would con tend by virtue of Pool and Abbott being allowed their seats under that set, and French, etc., of the other House, the Coart would be precluded rem shnanW upon such a government by force of the deci sion iu Luther e. Borden ? Will yen. distinguish tire reconstruction set froai a list a rsi -) Ana ska snralosnn j aqna Yjfcatiir tj ranaijluVU Unff Wm ssippisVU wV Itfw MQWmt idcr the ostablithed theory that the State always been a member of the Federal Union t It seems to me, sirs, that das lawyer wbo contends that Luther vs Bor den i iu the way of a judicial inquiry in to the most iubunou conspiracy against the righto and libertie of a people, like tbe reconstrnction acta, lm eitber 1 learned or baa fergbttcu the ssaxim tut haerei in litem kamt m tmtte Iialeed he has stuck in the form book of the law, unless he be of that class of whom it is said . 'a little learning's adangevens thing." In the foreeoine observations I have Omit ted the Jim sailsa iiflini iiiilnli ahiikliij upon the whobr qarstion of neiatasjraatiest. 1. Tbat a law bogus goviwiimaals are wholly the ere tares of Coawresa. ft would violate the first principle of jceliee mrar- ihat Uie idea ef applying tbe tent reeeg- mac, (conveying a It does tbrougl throueh Jinr cial interpretatfoe, the idea of impartiality, neutrality end entire dkinierestedness) to tire action of Ceagress towards its own work, is an abeardity, an iucognity, aad legal sesWsnv ' 2. That Lather vs. Borden does not de cide that when Congress shall rave re cognised the eueathw is at aa end, hat wbeu thetssStW deoswtaarat loaa. htebj- ding the Executive, In oar cose you say .a at . -w im iM . orre aeparneewi one iiwiaastiu, Wss iqsat ha not, Lot expressly avoided doing se. Then has there beea ae araqatvsasT re cognition doe not the diverse action ef the Executive and Legislative depart meat like mutual estoppel, set the matter at large ! . I merely throw these point for consideration. I lay the stress ef my view on the ether point. I have merely skimmed th surface of the qaestien. A some parties have written ever my old de plume emu a, art idea which I dent hitend to father, I sign myself TAU, r 'I-;: t - 'WSJ" -