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' VOLUME 1.
plASHEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, JULY 13, 1878.
NUMBER
10.
THE RANDOLPH SUjh,
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Written for the i Randolph Sun;j i
THE 1LE PUBLICAN PARTY A
I ' v TIIE HOMESTEAD, . .
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The homestead provision - of .the
Oonptitut'o'n of 1808 was the t most
beneficent act cf
legislation er
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If the whole tide of debt .had been
turued loose uptfn " the country in
186 8, a few sharpers in each county
would have: bought up the' greater
portion of the land in thcrtl- Even
as it was every one knows 'tV&t from
1868 to 18'2 any . amount of land was
sold mthis county "under process at
from ten 'cents to one dollar per acre.
Jn one case a sale was twice set aside
by the court when made by an admin
istrator because it brought once only
nine and the other time only thirteen
cents per-acre.. While the prices of
producer c.,, were good, and the
harvcsts'xf undant, there had been no
time to repair- the disastrous results
of war and tlje people had noj money
with which tp protect their home
steads. . Fully brie half ol the home
steads might have been bpnght with
fifty pgr cent, of the liabilities of the
owners and the creditors' would still
have held the balance ol the judg
ments oyer the heada of the unfortu
nate" creditors.' ; There is now more
ability, to discharge them because
they have, had some ' time - to 'gather J
uusieuaucu,- - ,l : . !
, It . was never p claimed that the
horn estefid was an absolute-and a cer
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V HOW. JED 3IISSED IT.
Sjme folks are in. the habit of talk
ing jn their sleep, and Miss Betty
Wiljon was one of tile number.
l is peculiarity she accidentally
revealed to Jedediah Jenkins, in a
careless, conversational way. Jed
ediah had just finished the recital of
a niatriftionial dream, in which the
young lady and himself figured as
hero and heroine he having inven
ted the same (or the sake of saying,
at the conclusion, it was "too good
Ftate. Although: it; has ultimately
been decided to be unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court of, the United
tateR, it has operated as a stay of
old debts for a period, of exactly ten
years from the day of il s enactment.
By means of it enterprising and pru
dent debtors ihavc been enabled to
compromise their liabilities upon
terms which have permitted them
to iraintain themselves and families,
and thousands of those who were un
able to do this, even, have been able
to keeD a roof over their heads and
make a comfortable livelihood d-Jring
the same period. Such have, in ef
fect, held their homesteads, rent free,
for ten yrars. Probably one-half of
the homesteaders of the State have
compromised their old liabilities' Or
might easily have done so. The ob
ject of the law was not to protect men
who could pay their debts in full,
but those wlro eould not It was for
the honest debtor who would other
wise b'e impoverished, and not the
sharper who' sought to avdid. his just
liabilities, whom it was intended, to
"protect. Those men who
deeply involved that they
even, pay ell' their debts
be an experiment in legislation a
new protective policy for. an j impov
erished and prostrate people. The
Republican Supreme Court! of the
State held it goodxind absolute up
on appeal in about forty cases.. The
uncertainty as to the result, iind the
public feeling against the reversal of
this decision was so great and the
distress and suffering it would pro
duce among- the people was so evi
dent that no one could be-found to
carry it to the Supreme Court of the
United States until Col. L. C. Ed
wards, of Granville county, one of
,the Democratic State Executive
Committee, brought suit
to be' ;truc. and bv thvs sDeakinir
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parables, assuring the darnsel of
what, he dared not to speak plainly.
"I ilon't dream," KaidBetscy, "but
J smotimes talk half the night, and
tell everything I know in my sleep."
"You dont say so?" "Yes; I nev
er can have a secret from mother.
If'sfce wants to know anything,
she pumps me after I've gone to bed
and I answer her questions as hon
estly as if my life depended on it.
That; the reason I wouldn't go
to ride the other night. I knew she
would find it out. It is awful pro
voking!" Some days after this, Jed called
at the house and entering the parlor
announced, foun J Miss Betsey, prob
ably overcome bv the heat of the
tain reliefT T Ik VF."" h .-nlL fr ' m U-A -f-n -"-u , Ke . n-
tc nn PYiiori in i n vr lprrial ntirn a I-V
fa.
Now Jed , as the reader has surmis
ed, liad long felt an overwhlming
partiality for the young lady, and
yearud to kiiow it was returned,
but though possessed of sufficient
courage, to mount "the imminent,
deadly breach," or breeches, (connu
bial ones, we mean,) he could never
muster spunk enough to inquire into
the state of 1 er ueart. But he now
bethought himself of her confessed
somnambulic loquacity, and felt that
the time to ascertain his fate had
come. Approaching the sofa, he
whispered:
"My dear Betsy, tell me. oh tell
Archibald Kearsey. an old colored J me the object of your fondest aflec
m an, to take a way his homo! Butltions!''
for this the homestead law1 would j 1 Tho fair sleeper gave a faint'sigh,
have barred old debts to-dav. So ! Knd rescondod"i "I lovo let. mo
thiuk .ere vou might have heard
against
SUBMISSION. I
There is one little words tnat it
takes us all our life to learn) We
begin the task when, as lidld chil-
' It is hard, even then, for lcpiild
ish hands to leave untoucten the
coveted object. Still, as t!c3ears
pass on and on and we put4sjtle our
childhood, with its innogeade and
happiness, and take up thf urdeu
oflilo for ourselves, we findtyiis first
lesson of our youth yet unliiiahcd.
We have yet to learn the fu.Pmean
ing of that word, Obey. t was
easier in childhood, because ticn wo
felt more the need ot somel-jiigher
pqtwer to direct our steps ; wj!c now
ye -so often let go the haial that
leads us through the darknetof to .
day, that we may come ouljirithu
light and -glory of to-morro-.vfchoos-ing
rather to 'Walk alone biight,'
hudinc: at the end only thcS router
darkness." .
Again ana again no we. 1
obey and then when we fini
of our own wisdom, wc come
the arms ever willing to ro
When our lips liare Iccracd oVauie
the vords and our hearts to feel,
Thv will. O God. not mine, bfc dono
10 w m . w
thAn i 1 i fa rrTrntesl crrur: 1 ea r 1 r-l .
ijuc on now many, limes ueire we
finish that lesson will lips quvjbr and
eyes grow dim ! Wc are of fearth
earthy and the heart will hy out
when its cherished idols arc broken j
but ji
kThc paths that have once been Jrd
Arc never so hard fur the feci
And the lessons wc on have Icrtcd
Are never so ham to reneat. c I
Though sorrowful tears inu.tfa'!
Anil the. heart to its IfptIi.4bo-:!e:i.
With storai.s and tempe.-t we it i tii
ail
To render us lit for heaven."
use to
i folly
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that the jecord of the two parties is j
this :
KKPUHLICAN. j DKMr;
1.. This party, jr.- i 1. 1'hi.
tcrtcd 1.00, fKK homes i iiottiu-ed
from cNeeutiun" for led th' homtKstt in
ten H'T. " th"- snv-'. In'JS." nna mile
mi- '.re n'eu irotn u i j;i-i it w iu'it
through
Alcohol as Medihsk. D
ardson has been delivering k
tiieu.
.G llltll'
orcc in
teresting lectures before th lunte-
nan society m the London Eliistitu-
tion on the use of alcohol as &a
lie maintains that total all
is as sound a. principle in tij
in he llth. Tho less Dhvsici tri
to alcohol, he cays, the lei
thev see to believr in it. KvSm
position C-S a medicine, it is oludl th
more uccful remedies the leafttl neces
sary. He insist that the nhysici in
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the beating of Jed's heart
a itricK wain 1 love heaven, my
I 111 1 my
tartv 1 eountrv, ana oaKca beans. Jiut II
ml "i t .-! 1 "hnvft nnc nassifih .ihnv all nthnrs
it is for roast onions!
The indignant lover didn't wake
t - 1
m 1 -a
tnl the ! :n iieeeKarv i.m r, Lmt sloiea at -once a saadcr,
yotutjr from poverty. l so to TnivV'tt h- but r.ot a wiser man.
j. - During this -'. f '.-it ;t t!.' jolU. j
riil fully tvo-tlur.lst J. It wis over-, Victor Ilu-ro s.ivs. "Some da v..
me p,c-:urir v,r.cv o., r.i;.,.. ,i,;.., ;ii i?roLcciion, :n tms tiay
rnntnin nil linm:initv will .illv thorn. I "Iff KllOWlCllgC. Can, lOl
lsr'i U'jh' loaumc member" 111 - - --j - --.
Lr " cf the! order to seem c" ! selves arid be blended and lost, l.kc tHue' CXCUSC' Just,1-V' cr
ilicitie
jsunence
I case as
f
reason
I in its
su tiering
ol me oi'i c i.uins n m ow n uv
i:l lic.ollll' stn.ll1 i t loll of OIlf of itt
iv the lspse'f time I leading memheri in
ami me ikvt ci ine-or.ier 10 .secure, a
who willfully leaves its us
indiscriminate ;hoi e of the
to their :ncrautatte:i iar.L-,
.1 breach of trus. which no 1
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yto the
sfcck, or
mtnits
)yssion-
jkK ;i-
l0..g
.li.lt.
eo.uuromisea a
iicriod, or at the
1 went v cents . on
were- SO ' -tatute of limitation-ulrtit ot; less th:n a
eould not"5 This party triinl I tJiou.nnd d'oMars
i i o nroteet the l'jir :ii;'ins't .a itimr 110-
at the low j ,-rc,iit,.rs hone r.!"i iirro. j
1 a I . . n'V.Kii :l 1M:tTl Wiiiiil! .... HiN'h'lftrn"ii-ii
0 iirotrctf I 4 vr 1,0 1 i ;t tiittii' iiitli.Mio
iiiv tuiin 1 nnnTtliK i ..,. ,.i. '....!.. ... . i.i 1 i
i other M-heine of --.re-'rdowutht. hoinestead.
raies lor wiiien inev -iuignt nave.
the seven cdurs of the prism, in a f
I radiant celestial arch; the prodrgy of
I peace Will appear
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rale or from live to
the dollar,
i lief evtr devi-cd.and Uliotrii u iroU;vted t
UUKJ has absolutely savejl. twice as manv Dcn-
litU be able to s ive their homesteads ! fully, ne half thrjerats as it
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Y:'lt:?A Elizabeth is a little
A ladv said that this .
and tue dazzled t est compliment v.-hich
world rill contemplate the immense ceived : She w;i on hoi
ram dow 01 tne united peoples 01 as sue roue past, an in?i'
Europe:" was standing by the rea l
heard him say : "T wisht if
Elizabeth Allen, in a poem, anks: j prison for the staling ofyc
un, wittmr, whv lorevcr weep.
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