ADVERTISING RATES: -*-■ ii.ii. uTir' stMrnmmmmm iiY.ii.riiriN .'l l -iMN. SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21,1889. CLEVELAND AND GRADY Male* Speeches Before the Business Men of Boston./. '^7 Grover Cleveland is still the man ♦if the hour. A banquet was given him and Henry \V. Grady on the night of the 12th, inat, by the busi ness men of Boston, at which both’ taen made timely speeches. When Mr. Cleveland, came forward, he was greeted with shouts of applause, nondkerslnefer and'hats flying titesP ery direction. Following appeals Mr." Cleveland’s speech? POLITIOAX. SELFISHNESS. ‘ Political selfishness cheapens in the minds of the people their appre ciation of the character and func tions of the government; it distorts (Story conception of the duty of good citizebship and creates an atmos phere in which iniquitous purposes and designs lose their odious feat ures; It begins when a perverted judgment is won to the theory that political action may bepsed solely for private gain; and advantage, and when a tender conscience is quieted by the ingenious' argument that such gain and advantage are identical with the public welfare. This stage having been reached and self-inter est being now fully aroused, agen cies are used aqjl practices permitted in the accomplishment of its purpos es, which seen in the pare light of disinterested patriotism, are viewed WHD rear ana uatrea. iuuc pendent thought and free political preference of those whom Fate has - made dependent upon daily toil for hard earned bread, are strangled and destroyed by intimidation and the fear of loss of employment. Vile • unsavory forms rise to the surface of our agitated political waters, and gleefully anticipate in the anxiety of selfish interest, their opportunity to fatten upon corrupted and.debauch ed aufferage. • * * CORRUPTION OF VOTERS. This train of thought leads-us to consider the immineutdauger which threatens us from the intimidation and corruption of our voters. It is too lute to temjjorizej fiyith these evils or to speak of them oth erwise than in the plainest terms. Wb are spared the labor of-proving their existence, for all admit it They are terribly on the increase all must concede. ' i Ju.iiUlLttsMj' u. me mutive yi. our citizens were, unselfish and- pa triotic, and if they sought in poli tical action only their' share of the ' advantage occrneing from the ad-' vanceof out country at ail points to wards her grand destiny, there . would be no place or occasion for ■ "the perversion of our Suffrage, Thus the inauguration of the inti-' initiation and corruption of our vo ters may be justly charged to selfish Schemes seeking success through political action. But these evils have been neglected by honest men disgusted with all political endeavor; -they have been tolerated by respec table meii, who hf weakness of patri otic sentiment, have regarded them as only phases of shrewd political management, and they have been actually encouraged by the honors which have been' bestowed upon those who boast of their use of such agencies in.aid of party supremacy. A FREE BALLOT. .' Many of us therefore, may -: take to ourselves a share of blame, when we find confronting us these peril^ which threaten the existence of our t free inatitutions, the preservation of our national honor and the perpetu ity of our country. The condition annexed to th? founding of our gov ernment upon the suffrage of the people, was that the suffrage of the people, should be free add pure. We consented to . abide by the honest preponderance of ’political opinion, bu t we did not consent thuth free Voter expressing the intelligent ami thoughtful.•eh* .’tijnbnt of the voter, should be balan ced byvote of inti mutation and feat .or by an unclean, corrupt vote, dis gracefully bought and-treacherous ly sold. SMSSfSiS ' Let ns look with a degree of pity and charity upon those who yield to fear and intimidation in the exercise of their ''suffrage. Though they Ought not thus to yield, we cannot forget that as against their free bal lot, they see in the scale, their con tinued employment, the comforts of their homes and the maintenance of ■their fattrlies. Wo need not stifle our scorn and Contempt for the 'wretch who basely sells his* vote, •and who for ft bribe>betnrp*:-hM trust of citizenship’. And yet the thought will intrude itself, that be hut follows in a low and vulgar fashion, the example of those who proceed upon the theory that poli tical action may be turned into, privategftin. ’fr-wdl !•£■;■ .5 *>'■■■ ’ , NO SDHRENPEB. * ■ . But whether we -pity or Whether we hate, our betrayal is none the less complete; nor will* either pity or hate restore our birthright. But we know that when political selfish ness is destroyed our dangers will disappear; aud though the way to its stronghold may be long and weary, w ' '<• ' - ■ What nonsense to talk as though the white people'in the South were •‘terrorizing’’ or tryihg to “re-en slave”. the negroes whom they are thus slowly but steadily leadiug out of barbarism aiid helping to become self-respecting and sustaining citi zens. And how much worse than nonsense it is to suppose that the meddlesome interference of Con gress is needed or can in any way as sist in the healthy solution of one of the most appalling problems ever thrown upon any people~-a problem ; that the South is working out for it self with a courage and a success uuparailled in history. . - ,: V’-—'■ ■ . ». » ■/ " — v - " The New Law and the Doctors. The Charlotte N'tws status that the new law bearing on the doctors in this'State, gocsinto effect on Jan aary 1st, After that date heavy penalties are prescribed for all phy_: sicians who practice without a certi ficate of registration/obtained from the clerk ot tlie Superior Court. To get this certificate,’ the doctor shall produce and exhibit before the clerk a license obtained from the Board of Medical Examiners, or a diploma issued by a regular medical college prior to the seventh day of March) 1885, oFmake oath that he was practicing medicine or surgery in this State prior to the s^d seventh day of March, 1885; and upon such exhibitor oath being made as afore said, the clerk shall register the date of registration with the name and residence of such applicant in a book to be kept for this purpose in his office, marked “Register of Phy sicians and Surgeons,” and shall is sue to him a certificate of such re gistration under the seal o£ the Su preme Court of the county, upon the form furnished him, as hereinafter provided, for which the clerk shall be entitled to collect from said ap plicant a fee of twepty-five cents. The person obtaining said certificate shall be entitled to practice medicine or surgery, or both, in the county where the same was obtained, and iu any other county in this State; but if he shall remove his residence to another county lie shall exhibit said certificate to the Clerk of such other county and be registeredi which registration shall be made by said Clerk without fee or charge; Provided, that any one having ob tained a temporary license, as pro vided in section thfee thousand one hundred and twenty-five of The Code, shall not be entitled to regis ter, /but may practice during the time that such license shall remain iu force. /. - ■ Section 6 provide* Unit any per* son who shall practice or attempt to practice medicine or surgery in this State without first haring re gistered and obtained the certificate as aforesaid, shall be guilty of a mis demeanor, and- upou conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be- impris oned at the discretion of the Court, for each and‘every offense. J -Vi i •:! . , INGERSOLL’S PHILOSOPHY. Hat the Great Agnostic Yielded a Point tor Immortality. ^Philadelphia Press Spt&iul. * New York, Dtc; 7th.—“It may l>e that we live no • more; that we go back to the unconscious dust; and yet the heart will always say ‘perhaps there is artother life.’ “Robert G. IkoEtssot'j,.” Has Colonel, Ingersoll begun to change his Views about tbd doc trines of the Cristian* faith, which hitherto he has been thought to have held an pbolute unbelief? A lawyer of this city Well known in professional life has distributed among some of his friends a bro chure in which he has applied to the doctrine of immortality the law of circi' n.ilantial evidence; but .al though full of interest for itself, it if st ill more remarkable and is like ly to be mueh more extensively ex amined from the fact that it has in spired a letter made public to-day written by Col. Ingersoll to the au thor, Mr. E. R. Jhones, in which the great agnostic, as he fs consider ed and as he has called himself very recently, expresses sOme remarkble ideas. Colonel Ingersoll's letter is still full of those denials which have placed him at the head of the ag nostic sehool in this countiy; but there is in it a tone. of admission that is unmistakble. Mr. Jhonss’essay is an attempt to show .that there is circumstau cial evidence enough to indicate that there is a hereafter. \(fi it Bishop Henry C. Potter says: “It is interesting and shows great in genuiousness.” " 4 colonel ingeesoll’s vutt. But Colonel Iugersoll is not con tent with this, and it seems to have affected him deeply. He says: If we admit the existence of in finite wisdom and compassion we mhst say that there must be a world better than this; but how do we ac count for one worse than that—that is to say than this. If justice tri umphs here, why not there ? If honesty, goes without bread in this world, why not in another? Cer tainly God'will be not better then than now. Still it may be possible that a God of infinite love and com passion will reward those who suf fer, though suffering itself—that'all that happens will he consistent with wisdom and compassion. I do not see any evidence in this world that it was created either by wisdom or compassion. Nor do I see what right we have toasay, that man lias a spiritual bedy, any more than trees have. The tree springs from a seed; so docs man. The trees produce others and then perish from the earth. The same is true of the human race. * You have had the courage to accept the logic of your position and give to all life the immortality that Christians give to man. I hardly know the meaning of the words Spiritualists and Ma-; terialuts. I do not see that it makes theslightest difference with the nr* gurnent to admit that everything is "spiritual" or to assert that every thing is “material.” He who as serts that all is “spiritual” admits the existence of everything that another calls “material," and be who insists that all is “material,” admits the existence of everything that an other called “spirital.” Call it what you will, it remains beyond the grasp of your miud. . -a. milton’s heaven chitiSized. I congratulate you on what yon *■ said concerning the war figures of Milton. His “heaven” was simply another En gland, with agovernment somewhat worse. You have endeavored to ea ts Wish your doctrine by reason, by ; something universal, and yon have wisely left out the provincialisms1 tha prejudices and puerilities of Christianity, Love and "hope are universal. As long as mon love and as long as they hope there will prob ably be in heart and brain the splen did dreapj of i'i»iuortality. r'titsfe It may be that we live no more, that we go back to the unconscious dust, and yetthe heart will always say, “Perhaps there is another life.’* But whether there, is or not, let us all paint on the canvass of the future, the picture that delights and satisfies thy Soul. We know that in this world after grief comes joy a* after light comes day. | ■ / ... EFFijOt OP THE LETTER. > '■ ’This tetter, When it was read by the few who saw It exhibited ..the ut-. most. Surprise, because it gave at once the idea that Colonel Ingerspil had at lost begun to feel that agnos ticism' was but a poor creed.’’ ■ “I think,” said a distinguished degyman to whom the letter was shown, “that Colonel Ingersoll ha3 revised his conception of his chief doctrine of Christianity. He says that the idea can not safely rest upon the inspiration of the—Bible, bat when he admits the universality of those principles ;which alone have any basis when they are considered in connection with a future life and says that a God of infinite love may bring happiness and a reward to those who have sorrow and grief in' this he admits a great deal.” Colonel Ingersoll has lately otter ed other words publicly which con tain the same note of change in the rigor of his scepticism. The effect of his letter in the circumscribed, circle who have read it has been very striking, and many have been lei to examine their own views. ' .S The War and Politics. Ifeiff York Times. The, remarks'of the press j upon Jefferson Davis, so far as they have been received, are of an unusual and hopeful interest. In a survey of them it is not necessary to take ac count of the “organs,” which are written according to their retainers, and in which the President of the Confederate States accordingly. ap pears as a monster, either of unmit igated depravity or of .unmitigated virtue. •• Bukin all the newspapers that have opinions of their own and express the same, there is an evident effect to estimate the career of Davis with entire fairness and without reference to any bearing it may have upon our present politics. The aricles of intelligent and honest American papers are conceived and written in a spirit as purely critical and historical as the articIaTof" Eu ropean newspapers that' have been transmitted to us by the cable. The opinon of foreigners was tong ago said to foreshadow the opinion . of posterity. Jn each case the fact pf the knowledge of events that is hod by the actors in’them is more than compensated by disinterestedess. In this couutry at this time we have the advantage of both these helps to right conclusions. The facts them selves of the war are very much bet ter known now than while the war was in progress or immediately after its close. All the conspicuous survivors of the actors in the events of the years between Sumter and Appomattox have put their conn wyuieu iu possession or au mat they knew, and their countrymen have .dispassionately drawn their own opinions from tho facts thus furnished. Though a man need not yet be advanced in years to remem ber the war, or even 'to have ta ken part in it, we are, in fact, pos terity to the generation of men by whom ihe war was carried on in council or in the field. As the death of Davis has shown, in a more strik ing and conspicuous way thaif any event that preceded it, we are pre pared to exhibit toward thcso men the dispassionate temper of posteri ty, and to judge them os fairly as if the war were five generations away instead of one. Indeed, the people of the North are now much. better prepared to do justice to the South erners of a generation ago than AflJ.oriciiufljrf any scction.are to jus tice to the loyalists of a century ago. This showing ought to have im portant practical consequences. . ,lt 1 means very emphatically that the Civil war has afloat been" takeo out ! of politics.” It is really in the - - view of a great majority of the vd> terS, as idle to talk about tho “Southern policy" of an Adminis tration aa to talk about its Western policy. Doubtless the war'has left - results that constitute political prol> lems, or rather it would 'be more accurate to say that the institution * of slavery hus left such results. It, is difficult to seej'jiowever, what the • General Government either can do */ or should towards the solution of 'tbfeie problems, whicb must be sol ved at their owfl peril, by the com- - rauiiities in which the blacks are numerous enough to raise a ‘ “negro question.” ' It is certain thflt when the General Government undertook to promote the solution bt this question, in the lawlessness ‘ "of the 'V; period of reconstruction, it did noth* : ing but mischief and reduced sever- •. al Southern States to' a condition_ nearer anarchy and barbarism than - had ever prevailed on American soil before.' , . ■. , ■lvjvci meusss, ueiuier me oiun ders of reconstruction nor the much • =' less excusable blunders of the period that followed it availed to shake the popular confidence in the Republi- . Can party-or. the popular distrust of the Democratic party. The Repub-i j lican party to use the expression of , its own platforms, was the party that had saved the Union, and the , Democratic partyt was the party that • had tried, to destroy it. As an ex* -i: r : cuse for Republican blunders.and a - cover for Republican scandals this ' claim recalled the funeral oration upon Cokmel Yell, of Yellvilfe, who had not accounted satisfactorily for the funds of the bank of which, he was president, but whoee remarks upon the occasion of its failure, “showed that his i heart still ~ heat t warmly for his native land.” In spite of its absurdity the claim was admitted by the voters of the conn try, who virtually licensed tte Re* - publican party to misgovern it. No set of m8n that ever lived could be f, trusted with such a license, and it was quite natural that after the sue* cessful inauguration of Hayes and the election of Garfield the holders of the license should proceed to such an extreme affront to the conscience as the nomination of Mr. Blaine. 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