« NEGRO ON JEFFERSON DAVIS.
he Declares the Negro Race Mlutl
Play a Prominent Part in the Fu
tifirt of the South. '
Stale VhronUle.
At the conjt^ inducement - Har
vard College, Cr"'W
setts, on June Ssotfi, allegro student
spoke as graduating speech the fol
lading: ■ . .•. - •
‘■•Jefferson" Davis was a typical
Teutonic hero. The history of civ
ilization during the last millennium
hav<i been the development of
that idea of the strong man, of
which he was the embodiment. The
Anglo-Saxon loves a soldier. : Jef
ferson Davis was an Anglo-Saxon,
Jefferson .Davis was, a soldier.
There was not a phase in that fa
miliarly strange life that would not
have graced a mediaeval _romace:
from the firey and impetuous young
lieutenant, who stole as his bride
the daughter of a ruler-elect of the
land* to the cool and ambitious pol
itician in the Senate hall. So bold
ly and surely did the cadaverous fig
'ure with the thin, nervous lips and
.fishing eye, write the first line of
the new page of American history,
that the historian of the future
must ever see back of the war - of
secessioui.the strong arm of one im
perious man, who defied disease,
tramnled on precedent, 'would not
be defeated and never surrendered.
A soldier and a lover, a statesman
and a ruler; passionate, ambitious,
indomitable; bold reckless gurdian
of a people's- sill—judged by' the
■whole standard of Teutonic civili
lizatiou there is something noble in
the figure of Jefferson Davis; and
judged by every canon of human
justice, there is something fundo*
mentally incomplete about that
standard. I wish to consider not
the man, but the type of civiliza
tion his life represented; its founda
tion is thfc idea of the strong man—
individualisin coupled with the rule
of might—and it is this idea that
has made the logic of even modern
history the cool ligic of the club.
It made a naturally brave and gen
erous man. Jefferson Davis, now
advancing civilization by murdering
Indians, now hero of a national dis
grace oalled by courtesy the Mexi
con war, and finally, as the crown
ing absurdity, the peculiar champi
on of a people fighting to be free
in order that another people should
not be free. Whenever this idea
has for a moment escaped from the
individual realm, it has found an
©vOn more secure foothold in the
polocy and philosophy of the State.
The strong mail and his hiigls ty
light arm has become the strong
nation with its armies. Under what
ever guise, however a Jefferson Da
vis may appear as a man, as race, or
os nation, his life can only logically
mean this: The advance of a part
of the world at the expense of the
Whole; the oyer whelming sense of
the I, and the1 consequent forget
ting of the Thou. It has thus hap
pened that advance in civilization
has always been .handicapped by
short-sighted national selfishness-.
The vital principal of division of 1 la
bor has not only been stifled in in
dustry, but also in civilization, so
as to render it well nigh impossible
for a new race to introduce a new
idea into the. world except by means'
©f the cudgel. To say that a nation
is in the way of civilization is a con
tradiction in terms, and a system of
human culture whose principle is
the rise of one race on the ruins of
another isa farce and lie. Yet this
is t]ie type of civilisation which
Jefferson Davis represented; it pre
sents a field for stalwart manhood
and heroic character, and at the
same time,. ; for igora! obtuseness
and refined brutality. Thus talking
contradictions of character always
arise -when a people seemingly be
>00140 convinced that the object of
i;he .world is got civilization bnt
Teutonic civilization. Such \type is
by no meaus wholly evil or fruitless.
The world has needed and will need
jts Jefferson Davises; but such a type
is incomplete and never eati serve
M test purpose until’checked by Us
complimentary ideas. Whence shall
these come? To the most casual
observer it must have occurred that
the rod of empire has in these days
turned toward the South., In every
southern country however, destined
to play a part in the world of to
morrow in Southern North Amer
ica, South America, Australia and
Africa, a new nation has a more or
less firm foothold. . This circunv
stance has, however, attracted but
incidental notice hitherto, for wher
ever thn negro people have touched
civilization their rise has been sin
gularly unromantic and unscientific.
Through the glamour of history,
the rise of a nation has ever been
typified by the strong man curshing
out an eeffte civilziation; that brutal
ity buried aught else beside Rome
when it descended golden-haired and
drunk from the blue north has scare
ly entered human imagination. Not
as the muscular warrior came the
cringing slave. The Teuton met
civization and crushed it—the ne
gro met civilization' and was crush
ed by it. The one was the hero the
world has ever worshippeed, who
gained unthought of triumphs and
made unthought of mistakes; the
other was the. personification of
dogged patience bending to the in
evitable and waiting. In the histo
ry of this people we seek in vain
the elements of Teutonic deification
I of self and Roman brute force, but
we do find an idea of submission,
j apart from cowardice, laziness or
istupidity, such as the 'world never
knew before. This is the race
which, by its very presence, must
play a part in the world of. to-mor
row; and this i» the race whose rise,
I contend has practically, illustrated
an idea which is at once the check
and complement of the Teutonic
strong man. It is the doctrine of
the submissive man—given to the
world, by strange coincidence by
■the race of whose rights Jefferson
Davis had not heard. What then
is the charge made in the concep
tion of civilization by adding to the
idea of the strong man that of the
submissive man? It is this:
The submission of the strength
of the strong to the advance
of all—not in | mere aimless
sacrifice, but recognising the fact
that “to no one type.of mind is giv
en to discern the totality of truth,”
that civilization cannot afford to
lose thn contribution of the very
least of nations for its full develops
ment; that not only the assertion of
the | but also the submission of the
thou is the highest type of individ
ualism.
The Teuton stands to-day as the
champion of the idea of personal
assertion ftbe negro as the peculiar
embodiment of the idea of personal
submission; either alone tends td an'
abnormal development toward des
potism on the one hand which the
world has just cause to fear and
yet covertly admires, or towrfrd sla
very on the other which the world
despises and which is not yet wholly
despicable.. No matter how (great
and striking the Teutonic type of
impetuous manhood may be, it must
receive the cbol/purpo'se'aTTch Dien”
of the African for its round and full ,
development. In the' rise, then of
negro people and the development f
of this idea, you, whose nation was (
founded on the loftiest ideals, and
who many times forgot those ideals
with a strange forgetfulness, have ,
more than a sentimental interest,
More than n sentimental duty. You
owe a debt to humanity for this
Ethiopia of the outstretched arm,
who has made her beauty, patience,
and hor grandeur, law. C "
■- Population by States.
Nnc J'orft Star. „ . • '
The census results show somein
teresting facts in the actual and rel
ative increase of population in the
several States. New York and
Pennsylvania still continue Joy a far
lead at the head of the line, in first
ind second place respectively. Ohio
lias long held third rank, and will
aot, perhaps be dislodged yet, al
though Illinois presses her closely
in the race. .Ohio, with 3,198,002
POULiieru iiir^uuuwug utuA uigauiz.
ed the House. Moore of .thorn
would continue to come here and
some firne they might be able to se
cure something more from the House
than the committee on, expenditures
in the Postoffiee Department with
the federal election bill the Repuli
cans might be in the position of
the Italian, on whose ' tombstone
wiis this epitah: I “was well and
wanted to feel better, I took physic
hnd here I am." [Laughter.} He
read from a number of letters from
prominent North Carolina l$epubl'
eans to show that his course was
indorsed there. He declared in con
clusion that ho would not yoto for a
bill’that would humiliate and -dis
grace his people. : \
■ ..-vh,
southern Democrat who thinks that
his condition eun he improved by
joining this secret and un-Demo
cratic movement read the follow
ing extract published last week in
the National Republican newspaper,
•in this city, and reflect on the mean
ing thereof: '
‘ “The bulk of the Southern Re
publicans adhere to. their party and
form no part of the farmers' ' Alli
ance, except to wish it success in
breaking up the hide bound, moss
grown Bourbon party of the South.
The Fanners'* Alliance, therefore,
■is a revolution in the Demcratic
ranks which promises to break up
Bourbonism and enable the South
ern people to separate upon natural
party lilies, undeterred by bulldozing
and terrorizing; To this enA, the
Republican party should contribute,
inhalniauts, itnrl Illinois, with 3,
1)77,371, we're near together ten
years ago, and it looks as though 5
now—official figures not yet being
giverr out—their relative standing
would be less agreeable to Ohio’s (
State pride. At any rate, Illiuous. J
will soon be, even if it is not now,
the queen State of the West. Af- •
ter Illinois comes Missouri, and then ]
Indiana. Thus the relative position
of the first six States will probably .
remain unchanged.
Massachusetts stands.now as the
seventh State, but when the return!
are ail in she is very likely to step
down to the eleventh position.
Michigan, Texas, Iowo and Ken
tucky pass up above her toward the
head of the class. The old Bay
State takes its place in a class to
which Georgia in the South and
Wisconsin in the West belong as
respects population..
IVhat has become already known
concerning the census statistics con
firms the general knowledge of the
phenomenal growth of the West
and the Souhwest, Ulinous, Mich
igan,'Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana and
others, on the one hand, and Geor
gia, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Alaba
ma and others further to thb South,
wilt show a splendid develop
ment in ' population and in
consequent material ’ prosperity.
The old Southern States, like Vir
ginia, Korth Carolina and South
Carolina, have not kept the pace
with their more active sisters.
mr. twan on me Large Election uiii.
Mr. Ewart, of North Carolina,
opposed the passage of the bill. He
was aware of the penalty lie should
pay. Unfortunately, polities had
come, to such a pass that under the
rule of King caucus, men would
vote for measures that deep down in
their hearts they did Dot believe in.
They knew deep down iu their
hearts that this was as damnable
and vicious a piece of legislation as
aver was put on the statute books.
As to the negroe’s political rights,
speaking for his own State, he un
hesitativelv asserted that no Repub
lican in the State, black or white*
was prevented from easting his vote.
The elections there were absolutely
lair. There were, men in the South
ilho hated the negroes abused and
them. Sometimes they were puuisli
sd andsotnetimes not. But the entire
people of the South should not , be
blamed for the acts of.a few.lawless
men. He was sick and .tired of the
sentimental talk of the negro prob
lem. There was no such problem.
It was a delusion to suppose , the ne
rro was voting the Republican
;icket solidly. He was doing noth
ng of the kind. Many of them
jvete voting the Democratic ticket,
rud: it was getting more and more
lixficult every year for the Republic
■an party to control the negro.
He made a strong plea for the
Blair educational, bill and attacked’
,he Republican party for. its failure
,o carry out it pledge to the Soutk
■rn Republicans. He should prefer
.o.see more practical sympathy and
ess sentimental gush. But it was
said, is there no remedy? There
vas, and that was to mind your own,
iff airs and treat the colored man I
vith wise and salutary neglect.
Vs to the talk of no Republicans
:oming up here from the South,
vhy North1 Carolina-sent as many
tepublicans here as the great State
if Indiana. [Laughter.] Votes of ,
THE SUB-TREASURY BILL.
enator Vance Opposes it in its Present
' 1■ Shape. . ■
A speciaWrotn W ashimrton ftafo:
Senator Vance has written b letter
6 Elias' Carr, President of the Far
ners’ Alliance of North Carolina
n opposition the sub-treasury h are-,
louse bill. V% ....
He states that he prbcnwiil^.4u»er
ng for Messrs Polk . and Macune
or the Senate. Committee, but he
ays i My own position remains tlie
nine. f cannot support the bill in
ts present shape, but I am not. op
>osed to the principles and purposes
if the ineasure.
Ha-points out that the . way to
lenefit the agricultural classes is by
eforming the tariff. He is opposed
»the feature of the bill which pro
vides for the loaning of money to
:he people by the government on
lie deposit of grain, but thinks the
government warehouses at ports
night be utilised for .the recep
iou of domestic eerticies, and
^rtificates issued .lor ■ the same
spon which njoney could be bor
*owed.
■ lie (says teat the tanners move
ment at this time amounts to little
short of a revolution, and that op
pressed free men often became im
patient, and that impatient men are
often unwise. The Democratic
party, are, he says in favor of legis
ation which the Alliance is fight
ing for.
He calls attention to the, contest
in South Carolina, which can
onto have the result of putting that
State back under African rule.
‘This, too,” he exclaims, “among
men who profess to agree upon mat
ters of principle.”
“Let us strive for a reduction of
taxation on the necessaries of life,
for a reduction of the expenditures
pf the government, for an increase
of currency and the price of farm
products by the free coinage of sil
vej and the restoration of its full
legal tender character; for a repeal
:>f the tax upon State banks; for the
regulation of transportation rates
by railroad commissioners, and last
but not least, let us earnestly con
tend against .the spirit . of central
ization which is constantly threat
piling to absorb the local _ self-gov-'
irumeut of the people of the Unit
id States.”
Republicans Favor the Alliance
Movement.
y^tfount Democrat.
Whatever may be the peal aims
pf the organizers and promoters of
die Alliance movement in the
Southern States -and these are
loubtless as various as the personal
leeds and ambitions of the men
,vho are engaged in the work—no
Democrat should fail to observe that
die Alliance movement is every
where looked on with favor by the
Republicans because of the harm
which it promises to do to the Dem
icratic party. The Republicans
Link they see in the Alliance agi
,ation a force which will disrupt
ind perhaps destroy the Democracy,
aid they are lending it all the sym
pathy and support in their power,
rhoy excuse themselves for so doing
>y asserting that what they choose
o call “Bourbonism” will be aba
ed. What they really.raeau is to
et up a Mahome niovement in ev
iry Southern State. Let. every
is far as lies in its power,without
ibaiidcming its own organization or
ibating one jot or tittle from the
lemands of its principles. .Republi
can newspapers circulating in the
Jontli can do much to strengthen
ind encourage the Alliance and this
'bey should do as a * matter of con
scientious duty. There is every rea
son, not merely to hope but to con
fidently predict that the days of the
Solid South’ are numbered and that
t will not be long' ere the ballot in
ihose States is as free and the count
is fair as in Massachusetts or Ver
mont. And to this most desirable
consummation the Farmers’ Alliance
promises to contribute a great and
magnificent share."
Strong Words on Penson Laws.
Charlotte Chronicle.
The annual meeting of the Phi
Beta Kappa chapter of Harvard
College, was made interesting by a
brilliant address by Bishop Henry
0. Potter, of New York, on “The
Scholar and the State.” Bishop Pot
ter touched on subjects of current
interest, being particularly forcible
when he came to deal with the sub
ject of pensions. “Never," he said,
“was there aphariseeism of philan
thropy in which personal agrnndize
nrent more impudently masqueraded
in the garment of a grateful patrio
tism than our halls of Congress have
lately presented and the unmanly
silence with which schemes 'so
grotesque that they should have long
ago been laughed out of any intelli
gent public, assembly have been re
ceived is one of the moBt amazing
facts of our political experience.
“Indeed, as far apart in time as
are Home and America, we must
needs own that the resemblances
of history are at once tragic and
significant. It was a huge military
organization, remember, which once
put the Roman Empire up at auc
tion and proposed to knock it dqwn
to the highest bidder.' To-day it is
in the air that it is the party . which
bids highest to a precisely similar
constituency that is to be rewarded
with the symbols of national prima
cy and authority. 1
“And out of this it has come to
pass that not alone" some scarred
and honored veteran, brave and
maimed survivor of an heroic
charge, but every sulking camp fol
lower a deserter, ' every fraudulent
and tainted claimant who has the
offrontry to demand his bribe, can
have it, if only his vote shall thus
be a commodity within the control
of purtizan dictation, and he him
self a lackey to do his political mas
ter’s bidding.
“I have nothing to say to those
who have devised this infamy and
baptized with the name of civil
gratitude, but for the manhood
which it is destined to corrupt and
degrade no honorable man can,feel,
1 think, any other - than. .the most
profound sympathy and sorrow
This surely is a system of govern
ment that deliberately conspires to
degrade men, and no delicacy ought
to consent to excuse or condone
it.”
It is not excused or condoned. Re
cent pension legislat’on is for selfish
party purposes, and it cannot be
long before it will recoil upon those
who are responsible for it. In the
North as well as the South, public
sentiment is beginning to revolt
against the demagogism that at
tempts to disguise itself as patrio
tism. ■ A.- * -v
One Rod Does More Harm than Good.
Charlotte News.
An item in the Sanford Express
caused Dr. Kingsbury, of the Mes
senger^ to wi-it'e at length 6n the
subject of lightning ; rods. The
idea is advanced that one rod on u
house is positively more harm than
none at aR. It is said that the length
of a rod above the house or* building
will attract lightning just twice its
length—if the rod extends four feet
above , the roof, the rod’ will
then.protect., the roof within the
circumference that extends just eight
feet from the rod. Again, it is
claimed that the records do not show
that a single hardware store was
ever damaged by lightning, nor
even a railroad traju at all injured
by laghtmugr this is due to the
abundance of iron. >
. There are people who doubt the
protection of rods, and consequently
would have them, if presehted as a
V< iiatever the objection or defi
ciencies may he the people buy them.
But out pecple, in this State., will
hardly be troubled with lightning
rod agents until the tax, $100 for
every county, is-removed the agents
are taking South Carolina.
The Force Bill.
IFlhnlnffton Measenycr.
The election hill as adopted by the
Radical caucus is as full of mischief
and deviltry as an egg is of meat, O’
a mosquito of music in the still
hours. The rascality of the measure
will not he, realized until it 19 put
into practice. The hill is thus con
densed in the N. Y. Times. It pro
vides for a Chief Supervisor of elec
tions, to be appointed by the United
States Circuit Judge iii each State;
for three Supervisors in each voting
precinct, to be appointed by the
Chipf Supervisor; for Deputy Mar
shal ad libitum, to be appointed in
the same way, and for a Board of
Canvassers, three in number, hut
two only of the same party, to be
also appointed by the Circuit Court.
On the petition of a prescribed num
ber of voters the Federal authorities
are to take supervision through this
machinery of the Congressional elec
tions. The Supervisors are to have
the power to inspect registration and
the casting and counting of ballots,
and the returns are to be canvassed
by the Federal hoards. Return^ are
to be made to the Clerk of the House
of Representatives, and the names
returned by the Federal boards are
to be placed on the roll when there
is a difference between the Federal
and State canvassers.
This measure will incroase the
patronage of the Federal Govern
ment immensely. The Times says
that it will require 15,000 appoin
tees at from $5 to $10 a day for-'New
York Stat alone. At this rate it
will require some 200,000 appointees, ■
and the cost will be immense—not
less than $10,000,000 probably. And
all this deviltry and expense and
worry and abuse cf power, are re
sorted to in order that vicious, venal
incapable Radicalism may be per
petuated indefinitely and Radicals
and ignoramuses may suck the teat
and live off the people.
Death of Rev. Dr. Jones.
Rev. T. M. Jones, D. I)., died at
Greensboro Female College to-day
at 1 o’clock, p. m., in the 71st year
of his age. lie had been complain
ing of debility for some time but
has been confied to his bed only
since last Friday. Since that, time
he has been critically ill. Ur. Jones
has been President of G. F. College
since 1854. lie has long occupied
the position of one of the foremost
educators of the South and one of
the most prominent ministers of
the State. His death will prove a
great loss to the community, the
church and the cause of education.
n new.
Cut this out and paste it in your
scrap book; or tetter commit its
simple words to memory and. take
its sweet lesson to heart.- We know
not itsjauthor, hut it is true poetry.
We clipped it from an exchange
floating about over the country
ljlrc a beautiful leaf, blown hither
and thither by the wind:
It is not much the world can give
With all its. suble art,
.And gold alone is not the tiling t
'STp satisfy the heart; - rn
lint oil, if those who duster round
The alter mid the hearth, t -** l
Have gentle wurds and loving ways, Q
How teautful is earth! 1_Jfl
- CJ
ANOTHER GEM.
’Tis easy to he gentle, when
Death’s silence shames our clamour,
And easy to discern the best, "
Through Memory’s mystic glamour,
ilut wise it were for then and me,
Ere life is past forgiving, ■ x ~
To take a tender lesson homo—
lie patient with the. living.
The board of-trustees of the Ag
ricultural and Mechanical College
at ltaleigh have decided to establish
a cannery for the purpose of sup
plying the college with its own
canned goods, , .
Col. A. B. Andrews has been
elected owe. of the. five Vice-Presi
dents of the World’s Fair Commis
sioners. _ y
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OEATH OF JUDGE SHIPP. f
’sT r • -i—
Sketch of a Notable Career. •> \ ;
Charlotte Chronicle, 09th inst, "f
*■ lion. WiiHam Marcus Shipp,
Judge of the Superior Court of the
Eleventh Judicial District of North
Carolina, died yesterday /afternoon '
at 5 o'clock^ at his residence pn
North Try on street.
Judge Shipp was taken violently, >.
ill on last Wednesday a week ago,
with intersusception of the bowels.
His condition .was at once pro- it
nounccd very critical, and for sev
eral days his life was despaired Of
All of his children were summoned
lo,his bedside, and have remained
here. • • »
lie improved slightly after a few
lays and hopes of his recovery
were entertained. ' There was'» no
material change in his condition
md he continued to grow weakert
until the end came yesterday after- ■
noon. ’ ■ . . \\ . ■-%
J udge Shipp was the son of Bar
tlett Shipp, of Lincoln county, him- ■
self, a distinguished lawyer of : his
county. Judge Shipp was bom
November the 19th 1819, and was
in the 71st year of his age. He
graduated at the University of North
Carolina in 1840, with the honors
of his class. After completing his
education, he-read law under Judge
Caldwell, of Salisbury and was ad
mitted to the^bar in 1842. He be
gan the practice of law at'
Rutherfordton, practicing there, at
Hendersonville1 and .the mountain
district until the Outbreak of the
war in 1881. During this time he .
served a term in the Legislature.
At the beginning of the war he
was elected captain of a company at
Hendersonville. He entered the ser
vice and served in thjit capacity in
Virginia until a year later, when he
was elected j udge. He served on the
bench until 1868, when he was non*>
inated by the Democratic party for
Attorney General on the ticket with _
Hon. A. S. MerrimOn, candidate for
Governor. Judge Shipp was 4e
only candidate on the ticket who
was elected. He served his term as
Attorney General acceptably, and .
came to Charlotte in 1872 to engage
in the practce of his profession., He
had a lucrative practice jfcere, until
1881, when'he was appointed Judge
of this district by Gov. Jarvis, to
succeed Hon. David Schenck, re
signed.
In 1882, Judge»Shipp was re-elect- 1
cd Judge of this district for a term
of 8 years. Hie term would have
expired this year.
Judge Shipp was married twice.
Early in life he was married to Miss ■
Catherine Cameron, a daughter of
Judge John A. Cameron, of Fayette
ville. His second wife, who_ sur- .
vivos him, was Miss''Margaret IreT
dell, a daughter of James Iredell,
who was a Governor of North Car
olina and a United States Senat. >;
He was married to her while Attor
ney General. “T T T'.
Judge Shipp was the father of five
children, all of whom are still living, •/;'
One of his sons, Bartlett Shipp, is a
lawyer iu Greensboro, and the other
nue is a Lieutenant in the United,
States Army. One of his daught
ers married Dr. Me Bee, of- Lincoln'
ton, and another is a teacher in St
Mary’s College, ‘ Raleigh.
Judge Shipp was one of the most ■
eminent men iiV Jhe profession in
North.Carolina, and was at one time
favorably spoken of for the Supreme
Coart bench; Ho was a man of
strong intellect, scholarly attain*
mc'nts, and on questions of lavr as
well as general matters, but few
men iu the State were better in*
formed. He was easily one of the
most eminent men on the Superior !§
Court bench.
Judge Shipp was good-natured
and lively, always full of wit and
humor and ever interesting as a com
panion or iu conversation, flis rep
utation as a man and as a judge
was spotless, Hud he was popular
with all classes of the people. Yes
terday evening, as the news of hw 5
loath began to spread over the city,
ill who heard the sad news,express
id deep regret at the loss whieb the
Itata hua-trtistainibd; -. _