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SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER
JtNHSTON’S
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Defence of Chareston Harbor.*
sftiU'B and ObapyatY,
§ We have often taken occasion to
'fay that the developsment of the
the South Ts almost exclusively the
work of her own sons, whose energy,
j|')telligence’ and capabilities are
E[Sal to the successful solution of
!.v practical problem. In a str’Ic
way that was exemplified during,
Ae. war.; t Untrained ■ in industrial;
.■natters we speedly utilized every
^source known to us that was capa
'j*o of being used to advantage, and
•playing remarkable inventive ge
os, we grappled with and over
came many difficulties that seemed
be unsurmountable. .
*An agricultural people, unprepar
for war, the opening of the con
t found us without munitions of
kind. At first private shops
:re turned from the works of
,ce to. meet the demands of war,
then arsenals arose at which
•y article needed was manufact
Su’ch fertility/ of resource
never displayed by any other
iple of the world. '
t o are lea to recall this' general
;eot by a perusal of Maj. John
Defence of Carleston , Harbor,*
eh affords many exemplifications
bis phase of Southern talent. A
able incident of this kind men
j'lped by Maj. Johnson was tjie re
kry of l he 11 in. guns of the
Hokuk. •■•In^fche attack of April 7,
! §63, this iron-clad came within
:j|se range. of Fort -Sumpter and
#s so thoroughly battered that the
xt morning she sank off the
iouthern extremity -pf Morris
and, about two-thirds of a ’ mile
om the beach. There in the lin
ed iate ppiseuee of the Federal
set, a squad - of* men visiting the1
reek by stealth ; at night, cut
rough the heavy iron turrets and
if ted out two great guns, each thir
diameter at . the breech and
eighing sixteen thousand pounds,
hey were a week in cutting
rough the roof and two ? weeks
ore in cutting though the turrets,
o guns were successf ully removed
in under the nose of the Federal
iuiml and afterwards were the
heaviest effective ordinance used in
£pe defence of the city. For enter
prise, hardihood and capability, this
ffeat is unsurpassed in the annals of
War. Maj. Johnson’s account of it
is very interesting and entertain-*
?e
The construction of our land bat
teries, such for "instance as Battery
Wagner, Batteries Bee, Beauregard,
Marshal), etc.,' around Charleston,
Snd of Fort Fisher, and other works
j5n the Cape Fear, in like manner at
estu the industrial skill of Southern
The construction of iron clads, the
ildiug of rams, and the invention
torpedoes were all innovations,
w projects, the result of Southern
iius and illustrative of Southern
Rapacity to deal with industrial mat
ters. Immediately after- the loui
laeak of hostilities, a machine was
invented to rifle by liflud tie smooth
bore guns found in the forts, and at
^gharleston the method of reinforc
g them by banding was success
illy adopted by that very capable
id efficient ordnance officer, Col.
L. Childs. It fell to the lot of
h writer to determine the shape of
|§jp projectile to be used in them.
As an illustration of how boldly such
ings were essayed, it was in .non
implation to erect at Fort Sumter
uriiace to cast cannon .ball to be
ed while the interior -was still
>lton metal. The feasibility of
w. low charges being used, was
agreed to; but Major Wagner, who
as-the very life and soul of the
lifence at that period, being unhap
ily killed,him project fell through;
id indeed as against the Federal
'on clads 'afterwards built, such
rojectiles would have been lvalue-.
loss. ...... .- .
| The expedients resorted to in
■strengthening Fort Sumter, after
jlbat /urtresr had been jittered
t
down, also in a most remarkable
manner illustrate . the fertility of
Southern genius and the highest in
dustrial capacity. In this paper we
can give no adequate idea of the vast
labor that was performed within
that dismanted fortification. That it
was done at night, under a bom
bardment, lasting, with some, inter
vals, more than a year only makes
it the more wonderful. That is the
story of Sumter—a story that savors
;indie of the " elements of romance
than of stern, practical reality.
There were three great bombard
ments of Sumter, the last one con
tinuing sixty consecutive days and
nights, and there were eight minor
bombardments, Jthe whole covering
157 days and 116 nights; and there
were 123 additional days and nights
during which the firing wa3 irregu
lar. ; . ::r
.During those days 4o,000 projec
tiles, weighing 7,000,000 pounds,
were fired against the devoted fort
ress, These shot converted into
sixty pound rails would have laid a
railroad track thirty-five miles long.
The life of the garrison under such
a bombardment, and their wonder
ful reconstruction of the fort, using
in the operation probably half a mil
lion sand bags of material are mat
ters of absorbing interest. No other
men but Southerners have ever en
dured such hardships and accom
plished such feats under similar
difficulties. = It will stand on f the
: pages of history incomparably be
yond the endurance and construc
tive energy of any other garrison
known to fame.
One cannot* read the pages in
which these things are told without
a glowing pride of race and a bur
ning patriotic ardor; without lively
emotions of sympathy and an exalt
JdnppTBf.iattoiLof.4he iieroisiujwtd
constancy and skill which the. de
fenders of Fort Sumter displayed.
But, as we have said, Maj. Jphn
.son .does not confine his narrative to
Fort Sumter alone,* for he gives it
cleap and admirable account of all
the operations around . Charleston,
and he does so in a style that reflects
great crcdit on him as a writer of
history.
< A Mad World.
Durham Globe.
A business engagement kept this
pale-faced student in his office last
night, and he Could - not hear Mr.
Dixon talk upon the subject which,
was fools. But just before leaving
the print-shop with its papers,
it pens and scissors—the pale
faced student before mentioned,
unwound these few thoughts and
placed them on the hook to keep the
devil’s cry for copy a little longer in
the distance this morning.
■- A man talks of fools-—but from
what perfection or what develop
ment does he make his comparison?
It' was the sublime Shakespeare who
remarked in a most casual way that
most all mortals were fools. Yet
that was but an opinion. It will
not do for one man to succeed and
say -that another is a fool because
he failed. It will not do for, one,
man to imagine-that he is smart
au<l that <MK>n»or i-5 a foot because
he does not happen to know what
the other man does or do what the
other man does. There are degrees,
of idiocy and stages of utter foolish
ness—sappy, grinning, giggling
foolishness—and the unfortunate
wretch thus afflicted is at best sim
ple minded. We talk ^bout,fools—
and like the withered, cringing sin
ner, who prays to God and imagines
God looks like he looks—think, in
our conceit and vanity that because
the' architectural construction of
our neighbor is not like ours’ that
our neighbor may be a fool. But
did you ever step over in his back
yard and hear what your neighbor
thinks of you?
The raw and untanned truth is
simply this: No man with a sound
mind is a fool. If his mind is ; dis
eased he may be a fool, a lunatic oi
• simpleton—and he is not. respon
sible. The world applies the nam<
of fool to those whose ideas do no
dovetail with it; those who are a
variance with the general thoughts
oi the vulgar mob—but unless u
man is a dunce—with *r mind un
balanced and diseased, be is no more
a fool than any other of his fellow
men. Minds are no more alike than
features. We ar§ art to measure
other people by four own warped
yard-stick and view ourselves in the
mirror of vanity aud exclaim that
so and so is a fool—only because he
does do what we think the .proper
Cbjier.
Our lameuted friend Hothacker—
conceded to be one of the most
brilliant journalists of the country,
Pne night wrote this and handed it
to the writer. It is a sermon.
“What is the word of a human worth,
Be it praise or be it blame ?
Be it either, it is of earth
just the echo of a name.
For after all, when all are through, “
7 Praise or blame or bitter tongue:
Crime of age or vice of young,
I am I and you are you. .
Does it matter? Not at all, *" f
Words are. nothing, Judgement
worse,
Bad lines written in ragged verse—
• Conscience hardly worth a call—
But after it’s over
Uod will *now! - ’
■ Or in other words: We may all
be fools, \ye max all be rascals, we
may all be first-class chumps. We
were turned loose originally and we
had no general orders. The central
idea was that we be good—but there
is nothing in, history to show ns
that we should pass judgements on
our neighbor; nothing which com
manded us to embark , in business
and worry out our scattered brains;
nothing which said that we should
flatter our friend when we knew
we were jesting and expected hjm
to accept it in sincerity. - This the
ological student knows that Adam
was not sent here to run a newspa
per—and the theological student
could be easily convinced by Dr.
Dixon that be is a fool for trying
it—but that is as far as the foois ex
tend sp far as we have observed or
wish to remark' - —_ ..
GORDON ON THE STUMP;
The Governor’ Illustrates a Speeech
With a War Reminiscence.
The governor began by saying
that ho left, as if ho were coming to
bis kindred. In the adjoining coun
ty his'eyes first opened to the balmy
skies which a benignent God still
bends above "08. “I lfive this peo
ple," said he,“and I know that they
have loved me. I know, too, that
when the light of truth shall fall
upon the record they will love me
still.” f Applause. ] He then re
plied to the Alliance resolution as
follows:
“When I read that statement of
my brethren made in all the solem
nity. of a resolution “that the said
John B. Gordon is no longer worthy
of trust,’I was forcibly remined of
my last interview on the battlefield
with one of the grandest men who
has appeared in all the tide of time.
As f rode back from Appomattox
Court House, after having met the
conquering generals, by the side of
Gen. Lee, he said to me with his
heart swelling and breaking, ‘1, wish
general that I had fallen in one ot
the last battles.* ,r j . , v
“Why, general?” said I. y
“Becauso .-my countrymen will
mis-judge mo.” -
Wow F” said I. '
“They will imagine that with
eight or ten thousand veterans I
ought still to have continued the
warfare ip the. mountains with a
possibility of final success for the
Confederate cause.’ '
“I endeavored to turn his
thoughts on other lines, but Gen.
Lee’s heart was broken at the very
thought that his countrymen might
misjudge him.
“I confess my friends, that, while
I had entirely recovered from that
shock yet when I first read those
words, coming in a solemn resolu
tion from honest, upright, honora
ble men, deliberately penned, delib
erately enacted, as their judgement
of myself, I felt for the moment as
Gen.: Lee felt. ’ ' ~
; “But my friends, I know yet. I
have never hid a moment of anger.
I have had several 'of anguish, but
as truth shall finally triumph, my
name will be vindicated and I shall
live again m the hearts of these my
brethren." [Applause.]
DR, PRITCHARD
bn Rev. Sam Jones—His' Criticisms,
Etc., Etc.
Below tve give some dippings
from Dr. Pritchard's criticism on
Bam Jones, as published in Charity
and Children, \ Dr. Pritchard is
pretty severe in his criticisms, jjnt
he seems to be sincere. He speaks
highly of the work Mr. Pearson did
in Wilmington. Of course, while
this is Dr. Pritchard’s opinion, there ;
are thousands who are strong believ
ers in Sam Jones.
After a few preparatory remraks
and an admission of Jones’ natural
ability, Dr. Pritchard remarks:
To call him a great man would be
to revolutionize my conception of
human greatness. There may have!
been great men with an egotism* as
stupendous as his,“but there never
was one in which this~ quality was
transparent. Certainly, in all the
calendar of saints, history shows not
one whose self-appreciation was so
colossal.
The truth is, the man is badly
spoiled; his great success and the
unstinted adulation he has received
have turned liis head. He assumes
the role of dictator at times; on one
occasion, turning to the preachers
he said: “You fat lazy, rascals!
why were you not here at the early
prayer meeting, trying to save souls,
instead of taking your moring nap?”
On another, occasion he , said: “I
expect to be at the judgemen and to
hear tire excuses oi some of the pas-1
tors of this city for not helping in
this meeting.” The intimation
seemed to be that he not only ex
pected to be at the general judge
ment, but to be a sort of associate
justice with the Almighty, in pro
nouncing sentence and would enjoy
the condemnation of those of us who
did not see fit to join,in his meeting.
Such arrogance would be unbecom
ing in the Apostle Paul, much more
in Sam Jones.
* * ' * * * * *
! ,Iwas soundly abnsed and vilified
in some papers and by private cor
respondence for styling Sam Jones
a vulgarian and a blackguard. Even
the distinguished son of North Car
olina, Dr. John E. Edwards, shot an
-arrow at me from away over in Vir
ginia. After a -fuller acquaintance
with him, I am sorry to say I cannot!
withdraw those charges; on the con
trary, I must add to them one still
more serious, that of profapity, and
if the utterances I submit below do
not make good each of these char
ges, I am ready to be branded a
"landercr of my brethren. ,
“If you jump on your Unde Jones
you have got a government job on
h'and.” “I love to see a man that
stands independent of rules, etymol
ogy,- seed, ticks, and ’possum skins.’’
“Get up on your hind feet.” “Shoot
off your little mouth,’' “you oldfool,”
“you old liar,” “you old flop-eared
hound,” you contemptible puppies,”
“You lousy cakes," “whining pigs;”
“I heard it was likely I would be
arrested for slandering that damna
ble club,” Damnable seemed to be
quite a favorite with him, as he
used it often. “Tf you get between
me and that club I will knock the
filling out of you." “Get up and
tell God you did not approve of Sam
Jones —you little blear-eyed fool.”
Oh, shucks, I have got the dead wood
on these things," meaning by thingB,
the doctrines of grace. “The pastor
that allows his members to sell whis
key is not worthy to be the pastor
of a litter of puppies." He called
some of the most respectable gentle
,men of Wilmington “Pusillanimous
pole cats of hell." “Pole cats of
belli” a brand new style of swearing,
be used certainly as many as three
times, and Of some of-our citizens
he said that if a buzzard should get
scent of them he, would fly straight
up half a mile to get away from the
smell. .
These are samples of the elegant
utterances of Sam Jones in the pul
pit, and thoy ,are by no means the
worst things he said. The Messen
ger, one of our city papers, promised
the public full stenographic reports
On two occasions I asked the ed
itor why he left out gome of his ut
terances-—once when he preached to
nu n Only, and once when he had
SuO ladies before him. - Jlis reply
was aa.' follows: “Doctor, I "just
cmhln’f doit.. My paper goes into
families where there are women and
children.,” ." <r .
* - * • • . ; •
Another lady told me she was
reading aloud one of^Saui Jones
Sermons, when next day she heard a
little boy use one of the ugly expres
sions, and, , when-the child was re
proved, he replied “I thought Jqould
-soy what the preacher said.” • ;
, * * * « * ’.*
An ungodly man said to me a few
days since: “We wicked men can
learn plenty of cuss words from the
:Devil without going to the pnlpit to
be taught new oaths.” Another
man who sometimes; swears said to
me yesterday “If I wanted to curse
a man blue, I wouldn’t want any
stronger words than Sam Jones
uses,” “Pusillanimous pole cats of
hell is goodi” We have certainly
fallen in evil times when our chil
dren and wicked mem, learn new
profanity from the pulpit. ’ God
never" made two laws of profanity
one for Sam Jones, and one for
other people.
* * • ' * * « -
THE RESULTS OF THE MEETING.
I have no data that will enable
me to speak with certainty on this
point. I do not suppose. so many
people ever attended a meeting in
North Carolina before. Fifteen
hundred persons gave him the hand
which simply meant that they would
try to do better. Probably 300, pos
sibly 400 professed conversion, many
of whom were from the country.
The indications now are that, while
three times as many people attended
this meeting as that of Mr. Pearson,
not more than one thirds- as many
Joined the churches.'
Public opinion is generally divid
ed here as to Sam Jones. Many
gqod people would not hear him at
all—hundreds went once ’ and got
enough and never went again.
Many denounce him and his meth
ods, while others denounce those
who would not work. They1 are
getting warm on both - sides and
the prospect now is that the whole,
town w_ill.be set by the earn over
Sam Jones.
That such a state of strife should
exist in a communtiy immediately
after a great religious meeting lias
closed argues that there hits been
wrong, serious wrong, somewhere,
and this wrong I lay upon the pul
pit manner of Sam Jones— that is the
only issue I make with him and bis
friends. It is not a matter of taste
—it involves issues far graver than
that—it is a question of morals.
Sam Jones said We had no issue in
Wilmington—that stagnation was
the next thing to damnation with
him. Well, we have an issue now
—one distinctly joined as to the
right acd wrong in pulpit manners '
and the probabilities of a very con
siderable stir in this community.
That this article will not tend ! to
allay the excitement I do not doubt,
but shall not deplore if, after thu
storm, the skies are clearer and the
water puer.
- I was requested by one of the
city editors to give my opinion of
the man in his journal, but I pre
ferred to wait tilt the meeting had
olosed, and to express my opinion in
the columns of the journal for
which I wrote regularly.
•The boldness with which Sam
Joues deneunces sin is .greatly ex
tolled; but I venture to say that it
takes as much courage to write this
article as he exhibits in rebuking
wickedness. He comeS to a place,
deals out wholesale abuse for a few
dhys and is gone, I remain here
and must meet the .consequences of
my utterances and know what it
will cost me*. Already some of his
admirers who have been uiy friends
are cool in " their manner towards
me. I shall be sorry to lose their
esteem, but if delivering my con
fetpneo on this subject'ouuses me to
surfeit their regards, so be it, God
Inin pat. me .here for tlie defense of
his truth and I must do ft u<> mat,.
ti.T what it .costs. f’JaJ r,mi ilia rti
u t a tin in. r-.
I believe that Mint the scntimen^
of the best people of the State wilt
sustain me—Nay more—l. believe
that it won’t be long bektffi these
very men who now are angry with
me will see that I have been fight
ing the cause of truth and right
eousness, I believe that _rnany
Methodists agree with me, and
I know that one of the
most distinguised of the
younger .preachers of that
church, lately a popular pastor in
Wilmington, N. C., proposes at an
early day to pubish stricures in the
Christian Advocate on the pulpit
manners gf Jam Jones. .. Dr. Paul
Whitehead, whom I know personal
ly to be one of the ablest and most
honered of Methodist ministers of
Virginia, said of Sam Jones’ reflect
ions on him: “I would rather he
would love the Lord Jesus Christ
enough not to wound him in the
house of his friends by .such impru
dent knd uncharitable remarks
about ministers.”
EXTRACT FROM REY. DR. CREECY’s RE
PLY IN WILMINGTON MESSENGRR
TO REV. DR. PRITCHARD.
I have noticed some of the strange
statements you have made and
which I cannot reconcile in refer
ence to Brother Sain Jones. Take
for example what he says in one ar
ticle, “That he does not doubt- his
piety or impugn his motives.” In
this last article he says, “I charged
him with being a vulgarian, a
blackguard and; a •profane swearer,
(italics mine) and what is more, I
proved each of the charges true from
his pulpit utterances.” The Doctor
of course, being the Judge. The
Doctor’s seems to seejthings that ma
ny of his brethren and other Chris
tians do not in reference to Sam
Jones. Many of the good people
of Wilmington, wives, mothers and
daughters—chaste, pure, refined, at
tended the meetings, many of the
Doctor own congregation. They
did not consider that they were lis
tening to a vulgarian, blackguard
and profane swearer, and when ask-'
ed if they had been benefited by
the meeting as conducted by Broth
er Jones almost unanimously stood
up in testimony of th& fact. They
heard more, a great deal more and
saw more of Jones’ pulpit manners
than the Doctor and yet that was
their vote. Take this statement
from the daily Advertiser of Mont
gomery, Ala., under date of 28th
instant: -
“After the conclusion of the ser
vice, Dr. Wharton, pastor of the
Baptist church, Dr. Burkehead, of
the Presbyterian chuch, Dr. Moore,
of the Court Street Methodist
church, Mr. Cummings, of the
Dexter Avenue church and Mr.
Thompson, of the Adams Street
Baptist church, made short talks
endorsing Mr. Jones and expressing
sincere thinks for the great work
he had done in Montgomery. Dr.
Moore took a vote to see how many
people in the audience wanted Mr.
Jones to. visit Montgomery again in
the next'twelve months, and eve
rynoay stood up. , -
There word these men of God,
pure, ehaste, refined.mothers, wives
and daughters, all voting forithe
return of this man of God. Doctor,
his pulpit manners certainly did not
impress them as they did you. You
say I have not touched the issue.
Let the verdict come from the peo
ple and I will be content.
— Thieves steal seed-cotton by ' the
light of the moon in Cabarrus.
The IF"nfcmujrtells it that a lady
of Greensboro who was monstrated
with for her persistency in hard
work beyond her strength, remarked
thnt she had rather die trying to
live than to live trying to die, .,J“_
J, B. Wilson carrried a fine hor
net’s nest to the editor .of the
Greensboro Patriot. That pencil
pusher quickly , vacated his office
when he found a hornet in the nest.
EDUCAIIONAL INSTITUTE.
Public! Speaking.
Prof. E. A. Alderman will, dur
ing the week beginuing Nov. 17th,
1800, h'old an Institute in Carthoee.'
N. C. ' ' :
This Institute is riot for teachers
only, but for the people as well. Its .
efficiency, therefore, will depend
largely upon whether or not the
people attend, let as many ns pos
sible attend the daily exercises. *
Friday of that week will be devot
ed to special exercises that will be
of interest and profit to all who will
attend. Addresses will, on that '
day, be made by Prof. E. A. Aler- '
man and others, which will do much
good to the cause of education if ;
the people will go and hear them.
In Virginia there is spent for pub
lic education on each child, white
and black, an average of about
two and one-half tirpes as much
money as is spent in North Carolina,
and the average length of annual
session in Virginia' is about twice
that of ours. Not only so, but we
•re behind almost all the other
Southern States.
Except in a few of the cities, our .
public schools do not satisfy either
their friends or their opponents.
We levy only 12$ cents on $100 of
property (one and a quarter mills.).
The, fact is, that with so sinall a levy
it is impossible to have an efficient
and creditable system of schools.
Count and see how little it amounts r
to on the assessed valuation of your
property. ‘
The great hulk >of our people are
farmers and laborers in other avoca
tions, who are solely dependent upon,
the public schoWafor the education
of their children.vEven of the white
children, perhaps as many as 11 out
of 12 in this State have no other
schools.
Perhaps you object to dfvidirtg^
with the negroes. As a rule, the tax
of 12$ cents on $100 of property
raises more money to each child, T
white and black, ip the counties
where there are many 'groes than -
in those counties where 'ere are
few or none. It is the lab_ of a
county that makes its wealt.. If
we did not have the negroes we
-would have some other poor people
whose children whould have to be
educated in the public shoots. >
But, whatever may be said about
educating the negroes, we cannot
afford not to improve our education
al facilities, whether we consider
our financial condition and progress
or the perpetuation of our civil and
religions liberties. The matter is
within the power of the people, and
when they come duly to consider
this great question, and see it as it
is, they will willingly tax themselves
more, and give more attention to
the education of their children.
If you say we are too poor, then
I reply that the way to get ■ richer
is to educate our own people Intel- J
leetually and industrially, so that
they may be able successfully to ap
ply labor, to the development of our
many resources. The history of the
world points out this way, and we
cannot fail if we walk in it With
good schools in the country districts
there will be less incentive for the
country people to crowd into the
cities and towns to educate their
children, much of the discontent and
restlessness will disappear, and bet
ter success will attend their labors.
8. M. Finger,
Sup’t, and Sec’y State Board of
Education.
' Local Application*.
The new tariff law puts higher
taxes on the material! used by—
Every stove manufacturer.
Every carriage manufacturer.
Every initiator. - - -
. Every cigar manufacturer.
Every roofer and tinsmith.
Every marble dealer and
cutter.
Every plumber.
Every photographer.
Every house painter.
Every awning maker..
stone
Every blank book manufacturer, ^
Every dressmaker.
Every tailor.
Every printer pud publisher. V V
Aud even every undertaker. "t.
Albany