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SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 8,1889.
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No. 41*
MR. PRESIDENT HAfRJSBN.
>. Noii-Partlsan TO»«Man
1 and His Work alter theJFirttThree
Months. "
Fw*t ndmt,: ...
We have a deal of sym|§thjr with
those estimable; Republicans of the
belter class who Just now. do npt Care
to talk over-much about the.PreBi
dent whom they helped to elect last
.November. 'i’bwMVword* .n»- »ot
'written in spoftfye v irony they fc~
press a sincere sentiment. Fop we
can not but feel that these respecta
ble Republicans bare been more or
* ^ less trjcked, and that we as well as
3 they,suffer from the trick. Herein
* we find acertain basis for honest
■S- sympathy; but even if this were
If* lacking, we should assuredly view
- their case with kindly commiiera
*2 tfarn. i.- V. ‘ * 1 . -
'0^1 Every citizen of this broad land
expects to be called upon once in
four years to serve his party man
31. egers with all the enthusiasm he is
capable of; and most of our citizens
.respond readily to the call. Their
-candidate is chosen for them; a
5§f; schedule of sentiments and opinions,
called a platform, is drawn up, which
- they are expected to adopt their own
; snd through five long months they
expected to work themselves np to
_ the highest possible pitch of political
excitement, and W shout, harph,
- march, sing and vote to get their
. . candidate into office. As a rule, they
' * fully meet the expectations of their
‘ s leaders.. The opinions and senti
ments dealt out to them do not al
^ ways last through the campaign; but
3 the candidate gets their support all
' the same, and of the two candidates
in the field one js elected amid the
;3. ju.id rejoicing of his adherents.
. .' And, this end being accomplished,
«~1he citieen adherents of thevictori
1
fe
one candidate may retire to me
obscurity of their plain citizenship*
.'there to remain, for another four
jean. They have no interest in the
grand distribution of offices that
follows^ the election—they ask no
. offices, and they would get none
were thef to ask for them. They
have no baud in guiding the policy
of the administration—that is done
•for them byihe party leaders; if
" they make any feeble attempts at
fa»»rfiTig themselves they are told
•• that they are amateurs jn politics-^
- they may even be called mugwumps^
•"/- Ail that remains for them is the
. poor privilege of admiring in obscu
./■'rity the work which they have ac
complished. Certainly this privilege
puglit to be assured to them. It is,
indeed, but an humble recompense'
for their devotion. There can be no
question that all their shouting and
-Jiturrahinganifiin arching and voting
Jias deserved this small reward. And
when they are cheated out of it,
shall they not feel . sore, and shall
not all kindly hearts pity them?
And, thy sad fact is, this same
poor privilege has been denied to
- our good, respectable Republican
' friends. It must be an ardent, per
# tmaeious and hopeful Republican of
the respectable sort who cari ad
mire the Republican President
--who now appears as thejinal product
.pf all the shouting and hurrahing of
1888. Republicans of this sort are
; few,. The large majority of the
' members of the party make no more
than a nominal secret of their disap
' pointmeufc. “It is all right, they
My- They have won the battle;
they have put -their man in; ot
■ ^ r' course they are satisfied. But, we
... notice, they have very little to say
, about the jnan, and still less about
. «his plans and his policy. In fact,
so far as we can discover, they do
•not care to talk politics at all.
- Perhaps they might bo willing to
" talk About the tariff or about the In
ternal re^nue system—they used
\ ' to converse onr these hubjects itot
summer-—-but such themes are not
important when the whole energies
-«( the national administration are
bent on turning out Democratic of
fice-holders to make room forRepub4
lieans office-seekers. And so our
" Republican friends of the respeota
f'../'” ble sort avoid ‘political. topics in
the their J conversation. '4 And W
sympathize with them.
They had no tune, during their
period of enthusiasm, to inquire as
m to the cahraeteror attainments of
the man in whose causa they were
told it was their duty to be enthusi
astic. And even had they had the
time, *: they find no opportunity..
The presidential candidate was kept
in strict retirement in. Ir.disEipuiiu
daring ‘the campaign, - In that
enterprising arrd enthusiastic town
he was a hero, and the rest of that
country had no Chance to find out
whether the Indianapolis idea of a
hero was just the size of a hero’the
was wanted for the presidential
ehiiir. This seclusion of the candi
date vras the work of Mr. M. S. Quay
and subsequent events have proved
that Mr." Quay exhibited therein "an
astuteness of the highest order.
For five months >he so managed
matters that the voters of his party
saw nothing of the candidate for
whom they shouted. During those
five .months there was moeh
grumbling over this harsh edict of
the party manager. The Republi
can enthusiasts wanted to see their
candidate—to Hear him ' talk—to
study his greatness and admire his
commanding personality. And yet
Mr. Quay was quite right. Had he
acted otherwise, Mr. Harrison would
still be in Indianapolis.
There is plen ty of pride in the
American people. They like,
among other things, to be proud of
their representatives—one of those
men who stands before the world as
the representative of the nation.
Each man wished to see the candi
date of JbiB party elected, all Ameri
cans wish to see in that; map. a
worthy represent ative of their coun
try. Therefore we, who did: not
wish to see Mr. ‘Harrison electedi
can sympathize most sincerely with
those who supported him, now that,
emerging from the safe precincts of
Indianapolis, he has appeared before
the whole” country in all h'is obvious
and inexcusable inadequacy for his
high office. .
Inis is an appearance .that must
be a cruel shock to those who voted
for him in the firm belief that he
was a statesman, a patriot—a man
in every way fit tp stand as the chief
ruler of sixty-five millions of peopled
It must be hard for those honest
voters, to read, day by day, the long
list otappointments to offices given
over his name, ’and to reflect that
the appointments are made possible
only by the turning out of worthy
officials, in shameless -defiance of
the pledges given, not one year ago,
by the very man whom they called
a civil service reformer. It must be
hard for them to look over the
names in those lists and see that the
appointments fere not based on char
acter or fitness, hut are made at the
dictation of party leaders and for
party purposes, Aud_.it .awist be
hardest of all to find in each daily
list, one name that tells the humilia
ting story which has, already grown
familiar—“the President - is doing
something fof his family." The
lists are few that do not tell this
tale. The party leaders choose the
“appointees.” as a rule; hut they
make some allowances to the willing
appointer, and one by one, from
Brother Carter to Father-in-law
Saunders, each member of the Presi
dent’s family gets his job and is
made happy. ~
Why, yes, wo are h’onestly sorry
for any well—meaning, honest Re
publican who' fired his soul with
and worked; to elect his party’s
blind-pool candidate, and who finds
that he has helped to make such a
President as- this, He has been
wronged. He had a right to expect
that his party managers, in return
for his blindly faithful service,
would deal better by him than they
Havo dealt. They have humiliated
him add they have humiliated us.
We did iiot elect our candidate, and
we did not wish'to have theirs elect
ed; But since theirs ' was elected
and and stands at the head for our
American government we can share
their regret, that he proves to he a
mao who hais no higher idea of hie
position than he show*-in using it to
provide places for his party
and for his family. Without
hypocrisy we can sympathize
with those Republicans who are dis
appointed in the character and per
sonality of their Presiecnt—who, to
put it frankly, are ashamed of thei*
own man—of ltis policy, of Iris per
sonality, of everything about Mm
in which theyshould take a patriotic
pride. Mr Quay was a wise, candi
date up in Indianapolis. But if the
honest Republicans had found out
in 1888 what they have found out
in 1889, we should not. have to
sympathize with theip to-day, and
Mr. HarriBon would still be a heroic
and dignified figure—in Indianapo
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REPENTANCE AFTERJEATH.
Remarkable Sermon by the Successor
of Henry Ward Beecher.
-V«c York World. .
That part of the Presbyterian
creed in which it is declared that
God has foreordained a certain, part
of the human race to eternal life and
the rest tneternal . destruction ■ war
read by. Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott yes
terday morning in Plymouth! church,
and was made the text of the most
notable'ftermon Dr. Abbott has de
livered since he became the successor
of Henry Ward Beecher. The ser
mon was remarkable as containing
nil outspoken declaration from aft
eminent Congregational clergyman;
and the editor qf the Christian'.
Union, of a belief in the' possibility
of repentance after death.. Dr. Ab
bott bcgai^with a statement-of the
('alvinistic system* which, he said,
treats the whole human race as a
unit under coiiaemnawon ror tne sm
of Adam. ’ We-do not punish the
pickpocket by cutting off his of
fending fingers and ^casting them
into jail, but by the imprisoning the
whole man; so the Calvinistic sys
tem regards the whole human family
as one body, doomed to punishment
for the sin of its progenitor.
The modern system—Dr. Abbott
could'give it no better name—took
the opposite idea. Sin is individual.
Every man is responsible for his
own sins done. Sin, conscience, re
morse—these are pot vicarious, but
personal and individual. But Dr.
Abbott proceeded to go still further
in the opposite direction from the
Calvinistic faith. He held, that
God’s meicy was not limited by race.
It was for one race as much as for
another. It is not limited by color;
and under this head the clergyman
referred to the discussion of the col
or line in the Presbyterian General
Assembly, and said that the same
subject would publicly lie introduced
in the Congregational Association
Shortly to meet at Saratoga. The
colored man rides in the same car»
he puts up at the same hotel theatre,
attends the same school as the white
man, shall he not, Dr. Abbott asks,
also worship the same God, with the
same Gospel, in the satpe church;
under the same roof?
Neither is God’s mercy subject to
any limitations of time, said Dr. Ab
bott He . found nothing in the
Bible to lead him to believe that the
offer of divine mercy was limited to
a man’s lifetime. If he had found
that doctrine in the gospel, it could
have been no gospel to him. God’s
mercy is eternal. If in the far re
cesses of eternity some wretched be
ings have forgotten God, it will not
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“STONEWALL JACKSON’S WAY."*"
Important Conference Between, Gen.
Jackson and Gapt. Barringer.
Charlotte Chronicle. -v 1
The article by Lord Wolaely bae
attracted great attention in the
South to the war policy of the Con
federacy; ahd people are curious to
know what plan each,%adh<®'man
preferred. ,
■V For the first time we are able to
lay before the world at some
length, in* snfBment detail; and
with absolute, authority, Stonewall
.Jackson's broadest aiid fullest plans
as to how the Confederacy should
have conducted the eivll war.
Exceeding great interest centres
in Jaekson’s plans; first, beeauie of
the author’s own greatness, next be
cause the plans had the approval of
Cen. Robert E. Lee, and, last, be
cause President Jefferson Davis’s
policy was fn opposition; if hot an
tagonistic to the great Jackson’s
plan of campaign. • f -
| • Mrs. Mary A.- Jackson, widow of
the immortal Stonewall who resides
in Charlotte, is engaged, in „ writing
! a.life of her famous husband. ~ She
has been at work on the boob now
nearly a year, and it is thought that
it will be fully six months before
the last pages are written,. She
leaves Charlotte tomorrow for her
brother’s home in the country, that
she may have perfect quiet and se
clusion so that she may the more
closely devote "her time and atten
tion to the writing of the memoirs,
It was not Mrs. Jackson’*'inten
tion to treat at all of Gen. Jackson as
a soldier, she merely - ip tended to
write of. him personally, and ii| bis
relations its son, husband and fath
er. It happened however that there
was matters brought out indefinite
ly or unsatisfactorily alluded to by
Dabney’s “Life . of Jackson/’ that
she disired to amplify, for the pur
pose of throwing; full light upon
them, ~ ; '
Among these more or less obscure
points is Jackson’s ides of how the
war should have been conducted. It
is treated of in the beginning of
Chapter XV, on the battle of “Ce
dar Run,” but in an incomplete, in
accurate tod eroneous way. The
Chapter says that while the army
lay near Westover, Gen. Jackson
had au- interview with Honorable
ifr. Boteler, in the former’s tent,
where the General communicated
his views of the future conduct of
the war, and begged that on Mr.
Boteleftnext visit to Richmond, he
would impress them on the Govern
ment. Jackson told Mr. Boteler
that the_Confederates should “carry
the honors of iuvasion from their
own borders to those of the guilty
assailiants.” Dabney closes the
paragraph with this sentence: What
weight was attached to it, is un
known; but the campaign soon af
ter took the direction which he
(Jackson) had indicated. .
Gen. Rufus Barringer, a resident
of this city, who was a brother-in
law of Gen. Jackson, has been able
to furbish Mrs. Jackson very valua
ble^!] formation on this very point,
obtained in a Council, held with
Stonewall Jackson in the' latter’s
own tent, and nt his own request!
Instead af the subsequent campaign
taking “the direction which he
(Jackson) had indicated,” it was
just the opposite to his plan, and
made Sharpsburg and Gettysburg
disastrous possibilities and actuali
ties; v vSw? ■ - '
Gen. Barringer now possesses- the
letter in Jeh Stuart’s handwriting
directed to the former’s Colonel,
telling him to Send (them) Captain
Barringer to the headquarters of
Gen. Jackson, as the latter desired
to confer with the Captain on mat
ters of importance.
Although Capt Barringer and
Gen. Jackson, having married sis
ters, were brothers-iu-laws, they had
not met since the opening of hostil
ities ; and as the Captain hud always
resided in North Carolina, while
Gen. Jackson resided in Virginia,
thev had seen but very little of
each other and were by no means on
intimate terms.
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!"' The cause of the complimentary
| summoning of Captain Barringer
was the gallant stand his .company
had made-in a disastrous retreat at
Willis Church. When dll others
were retreating, Captain Barringer
rose in his saddle, and commanding
his Companyto “stand firm,” and
at once he rode- forward where- he
iearued that there haa been gi ven
the order to retreat. Riding leach,
he commanded retreat. Jeb'Stuart
heard of this conduct and reported
it to Ged. Jackson, saying he be
lieved Barringer’s Company was the
only one in the army that would
have stood under the deadly fire,
somemembers were falling while dll
the other troops were fleeing fer life.
Jackson had apparently forgotten
his brother-in-law, for he asked
Stuart: - '
“Is Barringer a thorough ‘discip
linarian and tactician ?”
Stuart told him that Barringer
was a thorough soldier, and apprecia
ted to a nicety, drill and discipline.
J asekson said:
“All the better. X like a civilian
with practical sense and an idea of
discipline. The old army men are
apt ,to be~ martinets, unsuited to
command and get the best service
out-of untrianed volunteers.” ■■■-!.
Strange language that for dgrad
ii ate of West Pointl but who shall
be abld to refute the great Jackson's
opinion? . - , %
I w lie a Lap turn tJarnnger appear
ed at hi? brother-in-law General’s
tent, the Com inander’s greeting was
entirely devoid of sentiment. The
General was busy as usnal. He was
at the door of his tent giving com
mands. As the Gap tain approached
the General skid with an inquiring
yet welcoming intonation:
“Capt. Barringer( ?) I have sent
for you on business.- You will stay
in my tent. all',: night. We’ll
have a good time, unless the Yan
kees disturb us; if Pope doesn’t, X
know McClellan will not."
That night the brother-in-law
General and the brother-in-law Cap
tain, who later himself became a
General, discussed at length the
war policy of the Confederacy. ,
Already Jackson had .seen that
the South could not stand having
the enemies armies within her terri
tory. The mere invasion was sap
ping the roots of Confederate ■sup
plies. . .
He and .Captain Barringer confer
red at length on tlie cavalry, Its
merits, its disadvantages, and where
and how it could be best used. ,
. Gen. Jackson announced bis em
phatic opinion in that interview,
that continuance of the defensive
policy meant ultimate disaster^ and
ruin. ~
Jackson’s plan was, he said, tb or
ganize two, four, or more interior
camps at the more important points
in the South, and use the best troops
as “Light Movable Columns," of
not over forty or fifty thousand
men each. These should be made
np of the very best men under the
command of the pick of officers.
They should be lightly equipped,
and prepared for long, quick march
es. These lie would hurl against
the enemy hs they invaded the
Southern territory, or use them to
make rapid incursions of the North
| He would select the best. au d least
protected oities, fall upon them
without notice, levy contributions
on them of $50,000 to $100,000 or
more, as circumstances suggested
and destroy the towns that refused
to levy. Whenever be would find
the onemy pressing him, he1 should
retreat and fight his way across the
line.
In the meantime, however, one
of these “Light .Movable Columns”
would be on the Way to some other
unprotected city, perhaps 500 miles
away, which would be levied on or
destroyed.
Gen. Jackson'went so far as to
specify the State into which he
would send the light equipped col
umns. He named Pansy l v/mia,
Ohio and “bleeding Kansas,,vhs con
stantly exposed points.
It was his intention on the incur
sions, to take no prisoners exeept
high civil ofijciais, whom he would
hold for ransom. His idea of tak
ing no prisoners, is one that his bi
ographer, Dabney, either -was not
thoroughly familiar with, or which
he unintentionally failed to make
himself clear upon in the "Life of
Jackson.” * ^
General Jackson 1n that interview
with Captain Barringer, said thai;
while he would take jio interview;
with men of the rank and file priso
ners, he would parole them all at the
point of the bayonet, with the ex
pressed understanding that if ever
taken again, they would be put to
the sword without trial. .
As regards the , territory of the
South, Jackson said that hie idee
was to abandon the leS3 important
points, and to put the citizens upon
their guard that such would be the
policy, so that they might be prepar
ed for it. Where necessary he
would defend; but his general policy
was,, to strike error in the Northern
territory; and to so locate the inter
ior camps, that they ■ could esiest
ohtain supplies, and protectimpor
tant key points of the South.
....Whilst Gen. Lee agreed with" Gen.
Jackson on the general idea of this
policy, the former said that circum
stances might arise before plans for
its fruiton could be set afoot, that
would necessitate prosecuting entire
ly difierent plans • of. campaign.
Besides, Gen. Jaackson said, Gen
Lee knew that Presieent Davis did
not share these views.- ;
The date of the interview between
Gen. Jackson And Capt, Barringer,
was July 14, 1863.-. after the vic
tories-aronnd Richmond, when Jack
son through the Confederacy was in
desirable condition to make the
changes of policy which he had con
ceived, and which had the sympathy
of Robert E. Lee. _y;r
Within a few days after tbit,Pope
struck ablow on the Orange & Aler
andar Railroad. Jackson whipped
him at Cedar River.. Pope 'retreat
ed. Gem Lee was forced to pursue
,or remain inactive. He took the
latter course, no doubt being wise
under the circumstances; and un
fortunately invaded Maryland with
his whole army, a misfortune that
both Jackson and Lee foresaw.
The result was the disaster of
Sharpsburg. The whole army was
in the enemy’s lines where they had
no supplies.
Under Jackson’s plan of campaign
with “Light Movable Columns'’ of
fifty' thousand troops, this could not
have happened.
The wisdom of Stonewall’s idea
was again demonstrated, with fatal
disaster, the following year, when
the hero of Chancellorsyille lay dead
and the Confederacy was in the
ashes of sorrow.
Hooker had retreated after the
battle of Chancellorsville; and Lee
went1 up in the Culpeper, neighbor
hood, and was there organizing an
army, while the officers were in, a
quandary as to what would be the
next mave of the great Chieftain.
Pretty soon the Union army began
to flank Lee’s army, leaving open
the way to Maryland. Immediate
ly began the campaign Of invasion,
when the entire army was again in
the enemy’s country; anil then fol
lowed Gettysburg, painfully proving
the oracular wisdom of Stonewall
Jackson, then dead a year.
Both of these incursions of Lee's
culminating in Sharpsbnrg and
Gettysburg, were possibly necessities
of the circumstances, and the in
vasion. that ended lit Shapsburg
probably was had with Jackson s
counsel; but none the less, they re
main historic proof of the wonder
ful war wisdou of Stone Jack
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ON WRITING AND TALKING.
OotUnT'ICinotbm’yin:Wilmington Mct&m
aIt is an exceedingly difficult thing
to .be natural. It is as exceedingly
difficult to use simple words instead
of sesquipedelifl-^"vforAa of learned
length and thundering sound." It
is very difficult to write or speak
well-—to use the exact words de
manded-^-to use ngh t words in right
places, ana few there be who can do
either. People can pile up senten
ces—ian talk. -, that is easy. To
employ words—to speak of write in
your vernacular, that lie easy ‘‘as ,
falling off a log."; But to use words
with felicity, critical propriety, with
harmony of construction, with due
reference to order—that is quite an
other tiling. To write correctly, is *
indeed an achievment io which
comparatively but few attain, but
that other thing is easy to be done. *
To think clearly and to write clear
ly, to put words and sentences tOv
gether observing their dne order ana
construction—why, that is altogeth
er another thing from stringing.,
words together. The good writers
are necessarily artistic. They are
workmen who are not to be asham
ed. We have thought that good
writing was a much rarer accom
plishment than most educated peo
ple thin k. Where you- will find one
piier,' idiomic style, you will find an
hundred taudry, jejune1 or, .common
place styles. A military coat is or
namental. ^To make one you must
have something more than embroide
ry and buttons and tinsel. These are
good enough in their place, but
thorp must be the solid suotratum of,
cloth, and upon it the adornments
must be placed. So as to style. A
brilliant style, like Swinburn’sproae
is worrying and surfeiting. Be das
Sou with excess of splendor.
Landor or DeQnincey or Mac
aulay or John* Hennr Newman or
Carlyle if you would see the combi-’
nation in excellency .of cloth and
embroidery—of solid thought and
splendor of decoration, .
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flt» few men converse welt, 'sim
ply, directly, readily. They talk,
but they are not masters of expres
sion. Dr. Sam Johnson, one of the
truly great English men of letters
in the 18 century, was asked how it
was that he conversed so well. The
sturdy Englishmen said that in his
youth he asked himself what he
must do of tenest in life. The re
ply came to him to talk. He then
resolved to always express'himself
m the best possible way, saying to
himself, that I must try to do that.
welLwhich I must do so often.
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There are many kinds of talkers.
There are the everlasting and the
5ous."' The tast named' never
scen'ds to be homely or simple.
He is always on a high horse on
stilts. “Tall talking7 palls awhile
and people begin to think that he
is destitute of both brains and taste
—that “empty vessels give out the
; loudest sound.” We knew two
alumni of the University in our boy
hood. They were men of character,
;■ of good families, and were physi
cians. Both were pompous in dicuon
and when they met there was a rare
display of technichalities and lin
quistic flourishes. The great Con
versationalists in the past were
probably Dr. Johnson, Edmund
Burke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Lord Macaulay, Thomas DeQuincey
and Thomas Carlyle. The greatest
conversationalist we ever heard was
George E. Badger. The lute Ste
phen A. Douglass was another ad
mirable talker. The late Abram
W. Veneable talked perpetually,
and he talked wonderfully well on
almost any topic, We may refer
again to Dr. Johnson for a moment.
While his conversation was'so fine,
his prose style is anything else than
a model, ft is grandiose and swell- ,
jng and unnatural. It would be an
amusing exercise" to gather from
Boswell's absolutely unnpproauhed
and charmipg biogralphy or Jobn
soA specimens of his vigorous, ani
mated, earnest talk ftnd then select !
from nis prose writings specimens
of his sonorous, top-lotty, antitheti
cal passages. And yet his “Lives
of the Poets” are of very high value.
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A VERY IMPORTANT DECISION.
A Husband Can Mortgage Real Estate
3 Without His Wife’* Consent. *
The Supreme Court of North
Carolina rendered a decison not long v g
ago, the practical results of which fi rf ,
of great importance to every busi- /,V
nesM man iu the State. : 3:
The decision wan that a husband
can mortgage his real estate without .
his wife’s signature to the paper* - 33*3
unless that identical piece of prow- |
erty has previously been set aside
as his homestead ISy appraiser*. ;:3f3'’!3
This mortgage .will pass all inter
ests of thetiusband and and wife iki
the land, eicept the wife’s contin- .Jfo&idS
gent sight of dower.
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