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S ANFORD, NOSTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 89,1888. : No. 6 REMINISCENCES FOR YOUNG VOTERS. Several Good Reasohs^Wby;You Should Vote the Democratic Ticket. (Kriiin Slate Chronicle.) There is a generation of voters j now in North ‘Carolina that can scarcely appreciate the immense debt! of gratitude" the people of the State owe to the Democratic party for its' manly stand during the days of 1 re construction. And they cannot ap-j preciate it because they were too' young to understand the issues of; those days. For the henetit of alii we heg leave^to recall a few facts of j indisputable record. j For the iiitst three years of exis tence of the Radical party brute force was relied upon to accomplish its ends, coupled with insult of the grossest character. It was in. 18(18 that the women of the State were insulted by the advice given in an editorial in the Radical ltaleiyli Stamford to Radical canvassers tt> throw their arms.aroinid them when their husbands were not aboutr. it was in 1808, in a public address is sued by Radical membei^of the Leg islature, in their character as legis lators, that the white people were threatened openly with starvation and destruction of their homes from the vengeance of negroes. It was in 1809 that the Speaker of the Lower House of the Legisla ture, iu open day, with a band of. ..armed(men, attacked the editor of .»the Raleigh Sentinel, alone andun armed, and that the Radical Gover nor of the State, in the presence and defiance of the magistrate on the bench trying the case, declared his previous knowledge of the attack and liis subsequent approval of all that had been done. It was id 1809 that the Radical Governor claimed the power to sus pend all laws at bis pleasure. It ' was in 1809 the bill was passed un ~ iher which the State was filled with rqiies. It was in 1870 that the ShofE ner hill was passed empowering the Governor practically to declare martial law iu every county in Is’orth 'Carolina. It, was under that hill Unit the Holden-Kirk war was carried on, and the Radical Govern or asked the Radical Congress to authorize the Radical President to suspend the writ of hubeus eurpnx, so that men ‘‘might be arrested and tried before military tribunals and shot,” and it was in this same year that the Radical Governor declared that if he was “personally menaced certain leading Democrats and Con servatives, who might he named, will he instantly put to death.” But thanks to the manhood and courage of the white people of North Carolina, the Radical Governor came |to great grief ill fact, was driven ■ from office in shame and disgrace. The age of force passed away, but only to he followed by, the age of Fraud. - Violence was then discour aged mid partisaneuds-mstead of be* ing accomplished ut the eml of (lie bayonet, were reached at I lie eml of the laWf so-called. It wan in thor ough accord with the then spirit of the age, therefore, that Judge Has sell, in brs Opera House obiter Jie Luiil, to ’which.lie referred to in his recent letter of deelination, told the negroes not to resort to violence, liut to the '.machinery of the law, to enforce their rights to go wherever white men plight go. Till 1871) the military sustained the Hmlienl party. After that the judiciary, "exhausted” as it was, nought to do the wicked work.. Hut stronger proof of the villainy of the It adieu! parly of., t hose days than is to he had in the iirbeond at* torauees of its leaders cannot he im agined; . That if was a negro party then as, that it was violent, lawless, malignant, insulting and vengeful, it stands convicted out of its own mouth. Let no white man, especially let no whitewoman, fail to reuil the following extracts from the inta muii* record made by the Hadical party in the days that tried . white men’s souls and made white women's, cheeks pale with terror. G rent heav ens! as we look back to those days, we winder how North Carolinians witheld their hands from punishing smdi creatures, i’erhaps, however, we ought not to wonder, for there was not a man that had the nerve to pull n trigger, that did not have either wife or child 'Vir mother, staler, sometimes all of these, depending on his single life and freedum - for the very hread they ate anil the clothes they wore. It is had enough to go hem e leaving hived ones to battle with the world at any time, hut in days like those- -that thought was simply horrible so horrible that doubtless it withheld many ail arm from righteous vengeance, when no other consideration under the son could have stayed it. Hut sec what those people said and did in those days and judge for yourselves, vo young people, what the provocation was. u<m i, ito road a single extract.: “But wherever else you work don't forget to go among the women. * * * (Joafter the women. * * * Ami don't hesitate to throw your anus around their necks now and then when their husbands are not around and give them a good They all like.it. * * * Our experience with fem.de rebs is that with all their sins they have a vast amount of human nature, and only want to have it appreciated to the most, loving Creatures imaginable. Scalawags and carpet beggars, don't fail, therefore as you canvass the State to look after the women.”— lbtlfiyh Standard. * “Did it never occur to you, ye gentlemen of education, property and character—to you, ye men, and especially ye women—who never re ceived anything from these colored people but serviced, kindness and protection: did it never occur to you that these same people, who are so very had, will not fee willing to sleep in the cold when your houses are denied them merely because they will not vote as you do? That they may not he willing to strive, while they are willing to work for bread-? Did it never occur to you t hat revenge which is so sweet to you may he as sweet to them? Hear us, if nothing else you will hear, did it nevei -occur to you, that if you kill their children with hunger they will kill your chil dren with fear? Did it never occur to you that if you good people imili ieiously determine that they shall have no shelter, they may determine that you shalHrave no shelter?” — Legislative Address, signed by George YV. Stun ton and other m-unbers. LStiW. “The Governor lias power to suspend all civil law as it was sus pended in IStbV- \\'. \\*. Holden. The Spy Bill was passed in this year. The Shoffner hill was introduced into the Legislature. I u advocating this hill Kadieal Senator Conk trout Johnston county said If'^oTightr to passed because it*it became a law men ncciiseil cnuni KMiini ny uium-neau court-marial iuiTCshotr1 j — The painting or disguise :u t was ]mast'd this year. iv,ii "If Congress would ntiih omc the suspension, tyr the Crr-sh deni, rrf the w rit.ad' habeas corpus in eertain localities, and if criminals could lie arrested and . (l ied before military trihunals and shot, w e should soon have |ie;iee and order through* out all this country." — \N . W. Hold en. John llrw’l proposed, to put into the service a desperado named' Mc Lindscy, who would raise a company that, “would nive Governor Holden no trouble, for that if any of the men arrested liy him undertook any resistance- lie would kill them or they would be lost and never, lie heard ot again”; and suggested that, the Gov ernor (Holden) sloeihi follow’ timex iiinple of Goveuior flay toil, of Ar kansas, "who had taken military po i session of disaffected counties tried and executed litrge lmjuhors of men by military court." H. 0. Itadger’s sw orn testimony before Congression al Committee. "It he (Governor Holden) is ever personally menacedhis friends wilt resent it and punish till; man or moil who fifty do it. If he in slain, or even wounded, it in already deter mined that leading Democrats and Conservatives, who might he named, will lie instantly jmt to death. The Governor's mind is made up.'1— IJal-j eigh Shtmlunl. 1M72. “Hally this last time and carry tlie election, and there will he no parlor and no kitchen.”* Meill McKay, candidate for Congress. IS",:}. "The pretension that any person or chess may he prevented from resorting to a politic place whose doors are open to all hut them and denied to them only on account of color or race, will not he toler ated by any court honestly and sin cerely lies irons of upholding t he (\>n sti11it ion and'the laws according to their true intent and meaning."— ■Judge 1). L. Hnsseilin the Wilming ton Opera House case. jpw, in an canuor, anu in an se riousness, and in all honesty, too,- we ask Ilia young while men ami the ywiiig’-W'liite women of North Caro lina what sort of a place this home of theirs would be to-day litid it not been for the hold, manly, determined tight the . Democrats made against the lladieals in the days of Recon struction ? We ask you to consider fur a moment only and answer the question soberly and truthfully. It is not a question to he dodged or shirked. Do you not owe it to the Democrats of those days that you now have a white man's govern ment in North Carolina? Do -vou not owe it to them that negro equal ity, social and otherwise, was not. forced upon you? Especially let the young women of to-day think of the insults to their mothers twenty years ago. Let them think of the terror those mothers must have suffered under threats to burn and murder, that they themselves were .happily too young to understand and appre ciate. Let the young men remem ber the Kirk war amt how the best citizens were arrested and thrown into prison under martial law and saved from being tried by drum-head court-martial and shot at the stake only by the interference of Judge (Looks, God bless him! ■Suppose, ill a Wijjl, the Radical | paity had been able to carry out all of its hellish purposes in those davs, what would have been our condi tion to-day? ■ f rom all these evils the Democrat ic party, at the personal peril uf its members, save the State Does the State owe it no gratitude? This sweet little thing occurred | at Keidsville: Colonel Do< kery— j "1 did study law at Judge Rattle's one term, hut when 1 found that by ! pursuing the law 1 would go to hell, j 1 left it Judge Towle—"ilv oppo | (lent left the law and became the : most expert politician of his party, i Some people may not. flunk that he increased his ctuuiees for 1 leaven by going Irum the law to politics. Hut however that may be, in his nmg j naniniity, although he himself 1ms | avoided t he jiat h w tficl) Iiebivers tends J io hell, he has, 1 have been informed, | induced a favorite soil-to take the j fatal road ami apply for his license ; ill October, lie thinks lie 1ms saved | Ins own hiionii, hut his hoy may go ! ahead on that road." This is per I lm]is the "cheekiest," ol all. Dock • cry studied law ill IMS, -or fherea i holds (lie graduated at Chapel Hill id dune, ISIS), and not until . 1SSS, if we are correctly informed, did 1m join the church, forty long years af ter, he left the.law to keep from go ing tp hell. Does any one believe a word of it? - fiuh'iijh Xnrs-Ubsrr rrr. Wilmington Slur: The Acme Manufacturing Company, at the earnest solicitation of the farmers in this Slate and other States, have decided to commence (lie manufact ure of cotton flagging immediately. New■.machinery have lieen purchase ed to faeililate the making of this; hugging, and the Inisy hum of the factoiiy is heard which is turning put the-fabric that is so eagerly de niiuideri hv the farming pejmlatiou. UNDER DISCUSSION. “IS MARRIAGE A FAILURE?” Bab Discusses the Question* and Says that it is. (From New York Star.) Marriage, as we know it, means a rapturous six months of love-mak ing, a year of lnfeofide.rstanding and disappointment, and then a somber setting down into accepting the inev itable and making the best of it. Marriage, as it might be, as it should he, w ould occupy a little more time ill the two people trying to find out whether they had lisle, incomruun, whether' they could assimilate, whether if one lost his temper the ot iier could tout rid Tiers, mid," mo d important of ail, whether tine wouldn't grow weary, desperately weary of seeing each other dOo nights in the year. A man lias a light to expect in marriage all that friendship could give him and much more. Many limes he gets nothing hut an impulsive affection and very little consideration. A woman should claim all that a lover would give; all the consideration that a brother could give, and a certain amount or paternal care. .1 think that while all the sins in the decalogue are committed by men. while they are aggravating ami sometimes weari some beyond expression, still I must say that I think if women were more wives and less mothers mar riage would he often a success. Now, my dear, 1 do not meanjry this that either the joys or pains of mother hood should hesheurked; hut 1 do' know that many times, vbueau.se of the interest in the babies, the hus band is neglected or accepted only as a necessary evil. Women themselves are largely creatures of habit, and. once they have drifted into the dangerous sea of thoughtlessness, they iiml before they know it that their little hark marked "husband ' has drifted awav and cannot be drawn hack. Some body cleverly said that when passion and habit long lie in company it is on'ty slowly and with inrivdulii v that habit awakens to tind iis companion lied, itself alone. This is ihe gener al woiuaur- the woman who takes things for granted—and she is the woman who says, "Oh wiirn 1 was a young girl 1 expected everything in mariid life, too.'’ Now, nothing comes merely from expectation. The old provorb, “All things com etli to him who knoweth how to wait," is as true as the gospel; but there is a bit of French art in that knowing how. It does'nt mean sit ting with youf hands folded and your iips parted, looking for the ripe, red cherries to fall into them. It means watching the cherry till it is ready to fall and then catching it, is not bruised in the tumble. First id all, the average married woman sees too much of her husband, next, she does, not have a .-ulla eut mini him with. She cannot understand how it .is that she interested him be fore marriage ami that she docs not do it now. She forgets there were a thousand things happened then that she could tell him about; mid. if she will only manage to maintain an atmosphere of her own, a positive invidualifv, site can keep fun'T^pisf as well nut? as she did then, for her hold is stronger. The man who said that the per fect friendship between a man and a woman consisted in their going in different sets, meeting at at, I'd o'clock over a little supper and discussing all they had seen, had solved the secret of marriage as a success; and this mail was Lord Ihi eonslield, lie never pretended to have been desperately in love with his V, ife at the I’m ginning, hut cl.alli ed a positive a'fTei lion.a gieni fivmd sliip; ami a sense of their lining suitable for each otherexisled. this grew into a great.love, and 1 think that in all I lie life of the grei.lt statesman nothing is'so heautifid as his love for his wife. l)o I mean t hat people should marry w ho do not love eac hot her f 1 nm_ afraid, niv j Dolly, that I do. We have seen very much more good-than evil re sult from so-called love matches. I do not believe people ought to marry unless according to their sta tion in life, the proper amount of money is arranged for, the unborn children looked after, and care taken that lack of money will not make life miserable. Very few people can live happily if they have to wor ry about hills . all the time, and nothing will so quickly convim e monsieur that .’nudum is not the an gel be believed her us persistent calls by a collector for her milliner's . or dressmaker's bills. It all sounds very mercenary; hut just think-"it this were bon*, how few women would he forced out.into the world to light with men the battle of fife and to worrj' and work for their bread and butter! 1 litig i.i i.j |iv. './a until uiul iiv< v. ■ ought to marry. This 14. the mini whose income is large for a bachelor who enjoys the theaters, the races, the little suppers ami dinners, his clubs, his purple, and line linen, and the society of women. As he is. his income gives him every pleasure. Onee married, that income would have to lie divided by two, and with in six months that marriage will he a failure. I say he 'should never marry, but I forgot to add that he may make matrimony a grand suc cess if his bride is. as she should be, a rich woman. Don't I think there is any more love in the wofld? Cer tainly I do. But when Romeo wooed Juliet it was not demanded in Verona that the houses should ail have modern improvements. Lin gerie was not so cosily, and Romeo [did not need to use the best brandy, nor did he realize the _ cost of the finest cigars, it. is all very will to i talk about poverty being glorious j and elevating. It may be—but 110 i body likes it and nobody wants it, and after three, six or twelve months of married life the man who realizes that he has to deny himself a luxu ry because of this charming rosebud begins to wish the rose trees had never been propagated. Selfish? ; My dear, this is tile age1 of seltish [ ness. In one of the English papers some one said that most of the happy mar riages. especially among .great men, had resulted from their choosing widows. Now, all jesting aside, there is a good bit of truth in this. A woman who has once been married has made that most proper study of womankind —man. And if her ex perience lias not taught her how to make life smoother, then she isn’t worthy of enjoying what Punch calls "the bliss of widowhood.” Mat rimony has taught her restraint— she is not so quick at finding faults, can control her temper better, and knows how to keep well oiled the wheels of the house hold, so that they run smoothly. Site does not | worry out me nit1 ot a man uy asK j-i-n-g him it sLais the tirsl woniiiuiu1 lever loved, nor does she make wrink jtes come on her own fact11>y fretting ftrver her unknown rivals. She_laln^_ i it for granted that tie has loved sev eral other women, while she is aUo 'unite certain that In* cares most for ! her, or else he wouhln t have asked her to he his w ife, 61k* hjis gauged him during his courtship, and after marriage is not so ignorant of his temper, his likes and dislikes or his small weaknesses, as a young girl would he. She has got ton that most valuahkvf. gotns, experience, and she is profiting by its possession. Don't you know, Dollie, liow the girl who has a lot ot brothers, who, ! at. home, has been largely in the I masculine element, is very apt to make a good wife? It is because, in a way, she realms what men like, and duc.> hei host, to please and make, happy the man who is the only one “'in t h»- world to her. Durham's exposition is to be held on October 10, II, and \'l. Senator Vance Inis w ritten that jie will try to ho t here, Howard Anderson wits’con vie tod, at Chddsboxu,._iast Saturday, of the murder of Win. Porter, and was sentonc.«| '* _u4ig(*d_on Is uyeiu*' bcr^Oth. WELL APPLIED. CICERO AND /ESOP, VANCE AND FOWLE. A Classical.Reference Directed to Two North Carolinians. (From Wilmington St,ar) Some weeks ago in oar impres sions of Jndgij Fowle's speech in Ral eigh in'#87ft. On the day of tlie nom ination of Gov. Vance, we made at the close a classical reference. It. will ho in order now in this litera lly chat to take up the references to Cicero and jTlsop and give it a dir ection not probably anticipated. It may serve to refresh our classical readers and not he devoid of' enter tainment to readers generally." We reproduce in translation • the lines that were recited by jFlsop with so dramatic power, and the occasion. *. ir-f-ro, you will remember, bad never justly been banished. He had been an exile for more than a year when the Senate one day discussing bis return. On that day vEsop was performing the leading character in AwlroiMi-he. He was very partial to the distinguished exile, for he had trained him to elocution. ‘'With all the force of his consummate art he threw into Andromache’s lament for absent father his own feeling for Cicero" [Hex. Mb L. Cvlloi*./ The time, the place, the play, the very words were highly fitting. As tire auditors sat intently watching the unfolding of the drama, and the great actor camryto the follow ing words he uttered them with all emphasis, a directness, a signiiican cv, that seized the multitude and stirred them to the profoundest depth of their natures. I "Who with a constant mind upheld the j State, Stood on Uie people’s side ill perilous times, AVer-wrecked of his own life, nor spar ed himself.” -—CrJlin'sTninshitinn. He. was applauded to the echo, loud cheers went up, he was made to nijieat the applauded passage on the instant, when, with the versatil ity of genius and the art of a con summate actor, he added rhr.dii er lines that belong to another character in the play. | "best of all friends in direct strait of war.’’ i and then pointing "to the nobles, knights and commons, a-s they sat in ! their respective seats in the crowded | rows before him;” his own voice | broken with the grief that then 1 wrung his heart as he thought of the banished and wronged Cicero, his pupil and friend, he exclaimed— "And ym -yuu let him live a banished man— See him driven forth and hunted from ! year gates.” The declamation, the unexpected ; rendering of a passage that applied so poiniedlv to all, swept over the audience liked,vtricity -they broke out into the wildest applause, whilst tears of sympathy for the exiled Ilo mail ran down their cheeks. Cicero Mas re-i-alled. _Ami nOav-.-.iis the preachers would say, a feu words hy way of applica tion. Just hefoiV Judge Fowle 1 util spoke, GoY. Vauee had addressed the verv large audieiiee. He had told them of his liiiuishiii: lit from oiliee its Governor, w hen the victorious armies of the United States came to the capital city. He told them he had maintained justice, upheld and defended the rights of the people, and had heard the plea of ttie dis tressed and afflicted. Now Guv. Vance, "Who with a constant mind upheld the State, Stood on the people's side in perilous times." had never been .iw«/W from his kinishment hy those, who “drove” him "forth" and "hunted” him "from your gates,” Iml. a gratoful and up— preciative /lenplc did /ecu// hiin. lie who w its the ■llest of alt friends in direct strait of win." to the wives and children of the sol diers who Were at. the froiland who would have heeu foodless and friendless without his wise foresight and merciful ministrations, was ngt forgotten by the people, for he was elected over Settle by over 13,000 majority...-The. people of North Car olina showed that they were not in sensible to worth or ungrateful for great services so faithfully rendered. They remeinbereiLwith high 'satis faction what Governor Vanco did in “perilous times” opd “direst strait of war”—how he withstood the mil tary'when they threatened to throt tle.the civil, authorities, how he main tained his honor and liis' manhood under every trial, vicisitude, tempta tion and assault they demanded, in a voice like that of the tempest when it will not be,still, that Zebulon II. VSlice be at once recalled from his enforced banishment. It was dona after a very severe contest. Judge Settle shoived high qualities as a de bater, and with a desperate cause he made a desperate light. Settle is n;uiviny, guuu iWKiug, of ability, no doubt. But the people did not want Captain Settle to gov ern. They knew his record. They know lie was like Colonel Dockery, indentified with the bread and butter bummers and the bung drivers and revenue-stampers of the mountain, who so oppressed and outraged the people by, their severi ties and abusfts of law and privileges. They knew that he was.the very spe cial friend of Grant, who in turn was the devoted champion and friend of Belknap, Robeson, and some thou sands of the national blood-suckers. They know how the captain, like Colonel Dockery, had been in close association with the bayonet fellows of Reconstruction’s dark Hays and they meant to see tlyitat least justice was done aryl that Vance was recall ed. They did this and North Caro 11 ina stood forth, '‘redeemed, regen erated and disenthralled.” Thep< o l'!i‘ called and Vance, likea true son, answered. In November the peo ple will call to the high office of Chief Executive the very man who in .Tune, 18711, before the National Hotel, pronounced that eloquent and magnetic speech on Vance's nomi nation. Judge Jowle will he elect ed. we must hope, by a larger major ity e\(*ii than Vance received If the Democrats do their duty and work faithfully until the Oth of Novem ber and then all tarn out and go to th< polls and vote, the majority of Judge Fowle will not lie less than 20,000. But to bring this desired end about you must labor and or ganize and role. ONE MINUTE OF FUN, Dr. Tanner’s theory that many persons are annually buried alive is fully shared by candidates on both sides.—Phil. Times. There’s a premium still placed nil the head of the mail who parries his sovereignty under his own hat. Phil Tillies. Vet there is something purer, brighter still „ j Than all the spheres that circle through the skies. i inu, iiiitk«s inv ncarc viurate ana sweetly thrill; It is ;t pair or soft, entrancing eyes. —Lotus M. Fries. All Iowa judge has decided that a man who makes ether for his own Tise is violating the liquor law of that State. We expect to hour forthwith that the farmers of Iowa are chopping down their apple trees. Boston Bast. A frank criticism: “What do . you think of my poiyn in the (la zette.y Wilkins?” “It was a remark* able piece of work. One thing about it l thought was peculiarly wonder ful.” “What was that?” That the tinzatie ever published it.”—liar licr’s Bazaar. —Greensboro Patriot: The many friends of (ad. W. K. Rankin, of thm city, will regret to learn that he is dangerously ill at his residence on Ohureh street, and that''very little hope is entertained for his recovery. —— On and after next Monday the regular passenger and nufil train over the (tape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad going south w.ill make close connection in this city with the north-hound passenger trains oh the main line of the Rich mond and Danville Railrouch
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