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(:'.! mews. : :-' J - H H I W 1 A W til ii ii n t V ILiliE cite ? '-;'-'; : ., .; : '.'-i f J ' ? "" " - , r ' r O , : . . , I' 4. : 0L l. iTHE: 'NEWS'. TUBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY. H L & J. -.HY'R OYER, Editors, and Proprietors, FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. TEiZJTIS: One year, Six months. Weekly, Do. $3 00 2 00 OnV Square, 1 inch or less first insertion, $ 1 00 each subsequent insertion. 60 Fof one year, one square. . ...... i For six months, i " For three- months, ' . 15 00 9 00 6 00 $25 40 GO 75 40 75 100 125 75 123 1500 20 For Quarter Column, t squares, 3 months, " ', " 9 For Half Column, 10 squares 3 j r -. 12 r Fof Ona Column, 20 squares, , 3 months, ; u .... . . 9 V ' i 12 GOVERNOR'S AGE. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, i - ! Execctive Department. S . ', Raleigh, Nov. 19, 18GG. To the Honorable. , The General Assembly of North Carolina 'Gentlemen: The attention of this whol nation is now specially directed to the Jino inalous condition of our national affairs. It seems fit, therefore, tliat our considera tion 'should be primarily directed to the restoration ot national order and harmony J Alllfough we are now denied any fecisIaJ tive participation in thejl conduct of thel government ot the United btates, we should not b listless as to passing eVents, nor uu4 miiKjlQl ot the benefits to be derived fromi nn occasional review of the past. Mord than: eighteen 'months ago ia bloody sectionj hi win r was closed by the ftotal overthrow of tlje weaker, by the stronger section. Itsf declared object, on the one side, was toi break up the union; on the other to pre serve it. It ended as inicht have been exi pecttHl. Hie commanders of the Soutln ern jjrmies, after the South was completely exhnpted, as to every thing which eons'ij jtut,o$ strength in-war, and' after exhibition uf valor in the field which astonished the woihl, surrendered on the stipulation of lUMiiuuii v i u nit jsurreuuei liiii; Jorces. ivriiisi liad Established the supremacy of the Union Not Ji guerilla party in the South remained iiiKlur arms, i 1 he whole people of theSoutli, the war or sympathized withj-their sectioii jiftcr'jit had began or not, cave every evi- denee tliev could cjtvje of ; .their submission to tl e resu 1 1. of t1i,e coufliei, and their wil Imguess to obey the Constiitutioh and lawd . of the Umtefl -States. What was then iJ the way of an immediate ijestoration of thd . Uniojn 1 The machinery of government irJ the southern States was in the hands of tlitisq yho had given their; adhesion to the) rebeUion. This was a state of things nod contemplated by the Constitution of thd United States. Precedent furnished nq guidance in altering the machinery of thel rebdl'liouSvState governments, so as to worW in harmony with the national government, The president, who owed his elevated posi tion to liis reputation for statesmanship, aoc the Consistent devotion of his life to the ' preservation of the Union, held that he nugljt not to' recognize the officers of tin States who had given their adhesio to ttn: rebellion, even so far aa to make them the instruments. .of reorganization ; that while the States i existed, and thii Union had been preserved, there' were, in these States, no . legislative, judicial, or executive officers " lawfully constituted. To enable these : i States to reform their Constitutions, ant thef pachinery of their j governments, he granted, amnesty to the people who hac favored : the rebeIIion,-with certain ex ceptions, on the: condition' of their renew ing -allegiance to the United States by tak ing an oath to support the Constitution, reserving the right to grant pardons, upor speqial applications, to such individuals o L the .px-cepleU' classes as he might deem ; de I serving of them. IIe appointed Provisiona Governors, under whose orders elections wer'p held for delegates to State Conven tions, those only being allowed to vote, a . such election, to whom general or specia pardons had ! been granted. The. grea ; bo.oy or the people: -complied with the con ditions, and voted ax sue h e ections. Whe our,, Convention assembled, it was under stood tliat the President,.ahd the people o Liie,;uuiiiiiiaiii, oiaies, cxpecieu oi us tnrei amenclments of our Coristitution, as essen tial to harmonious Union, and permanen reconciliation, to wit : the renunciation o slavery; and the repudiation of the debt contracted in the prosecution of the rebel .Holland the ratification by the Legislature, thereafter to assemblejot an amendment tl the Constitution of the United States, pr posed during the war, abolishing slaver throughout the United States. From all we could learn from tho p ress, t h e a vow a's of representative men of the North, ail all the sources ot imprmation, we enter tained no doubt that! these views of the President were approved by the great body of those who elected Jam. Many of our people deemed some of these teiyns hard and injurious to the well-being of the State; but regarding them as the conditions to restored amity, prescribed by our conquer ors, they were accepted with remarkable unanimity, and have! since been observed with str;ct fidelity. One of them reduced i ' 1 -. at : t- . bfonr nnl. i ' .J ""m"er i this 8,,:i " r ? J:: ?!" 0 ? or;teII,gent men ofth V" accel, ea mem, j ul' ugnc t,,ese terms were re quired bthe victors from the vanquished, as all tht was required of us as preliinina ! r1,e8ita restoration of concord between thejate belligerents. We elected Senators ,and Repgsentatives to Congress,) with all ; the qualipcations prescribed in the Consti tution. We were not ignorant that Con- 6'' ""ffugtne war, had prescribed an vmc, uoiiiiuouiy Known as the 4 test oaih," which very few, if any of our jeople vfho had remained citizens nf t! State, during the war, could conscientious ly take. JjWe regarded this act as uncon stitutionii. Article C, Section 3, of the Constitution of th United States, provides that Seniors and Representatives and oth er officers "shall be bound by oath or affirmatin, to support the -Constitution'- of the Unita States." If Congressfhave the power to jadd to this oath such further oath as'it madeem. expedient, -it isl manifest t.hat any lf&r(y, havitig temporary ascen aney in rCongress, can prescnbei an oath which. wljl exclude from Congress all who dojnot aree in sentiment with the domi nant p:arj. This principle would destroy pne verysoasis ot our national sroyernment. It was ntver intended that a nr.rht hnvmo- tern J ascendancy, should have author- to m&e its ascendancy perpetual. We be ievedfroni the resolutions of Congress assed during the war, and the manifest requm-mi! nts of ' enhir htened no hcv. that Ui0 )rti was willing to restore friendly reiationsiwitn the South, and nobody could expect ar cordiality to be restote(f, while Ihis ptklte was held to be in force. We ;xpected;i!t to be repealed, or to be de ilared ufkionstitutional and void oy the Su preme Cfjirt of theUnited States1, in which :ri)unal.!flbrtunate!y for the cause xf civil jibrt, r;irtizauship has as yet made but flight pujiads. We believed that; the con Stitjutiorill guards, and 'the virtuerand intel ligence ot' the electors, were :i .sufficient rlfm' agmst disloyal, ineh finding Heir Wat into t, If! n'ifinnfi (onn -ils rr if expenj eiiM should indicate- the necessity of oti ers tiy : 'would be provided jn ameud- ne nts oflthe Constitution. nnl not in run-. izilm I on In the matter of electing ou Se nalbrs aiid Representatives to Coii- eVlfy citizen who had advocated the loCtriheM secession before the war. or in en colspicuous part in the'iiiilitarv con- 'iil-vieiy ioreoore to. ask or :t sent in PoiijrrJib. n f T . iivi4iL.ii uiiiirtn i;aC1 IlTlICt? l t IllVllirll lllll-llitlt i . --m.v. 4 1.1 na S taUit that those .who ( riiihC or vvronir 111 xiilllited .fnaniv coiira?e in rnilir.-irv to I fli t, 4) rely disr'Tar(!ed thel terms of this State, atf(pii 'when- conrjuertnl. in tio one vv tio liad favored '"thft .initiation "of hd xv ir, tor distinguished.:' himself in the field d lurifikr its progress: nsked to '.hU msik'o a mem be fc. 1 . - - -r ' - . x m v. of Congress Every Senator and irefteni it ive elected had always opposed sect c,ess. orftintil the United States could no Jier pjotect his person or property. Up to jtliis tilie, we thought the wise and mag- nahimjouj jpolicy of the President was about to prodii 1 at an early day, the beneficent results h tre-the.'' cuuicinniaieu. a levy days be- eeti ng of Congress, after we had porri p-iieq with all these supposed prelimi naries ti national-'' reconciliation, - speeches pr.mstiniiislied partizan leaders-'o: the Con ress soii to assemble, gave us -premohi nons oi ine purposes ot tiu? dominant partv 1 need nf I remind you of the ch in": shock wre repeiyy when the action of the domt- waht piiV:in Congress annouueed that our fnmberipTespective of their qualifications, wouh) nq be received and that! the Union, for the H" 'M M reservation ot which so many lives a national Nal:bee id e pt ha cl ost, and so frightful been created, should be practical- ly dissoled until it should bet le pleasure pt the dominant party 'majority to restore at. ; Lp d this tinie; this fmctiio n of .-the Qongres? f vino .nii, lino niii.iuu ui;:nie : on tern plated by 1 1 1 e (to u st it u t i o n ted States, exercise the legisla pi me up . i ' TT ivnuvw, .'. w.iiiioup- ueciarins wiien,'it ev terj or people ofi u i su 1 1 vv 1 1 h i t- o i u 1 1 1 1 o u s , i u e i ; e o i fhe ;othet btates they govern kliall have jre)resentijtion, and the recent elections in jth dom)ant States sanction his action. IHs proJ);r to refer to' the act ons of the jpejopl ajijl the authorities of this State, in l.he lintefiin of these pvtr:iorflirsirxr i j ,; , ,f 7 . - .... ..... uiijuij Ullllllllll bovemelts- Nbt?-a suerrilla nariv:exW.il fKfH 4T ebellious States. In this State pot a sin e instance has occurred! where a Sheiiffh It . : !!.'( -.-J had occasion, since jtl surren to exe- pe,!!to rquure a posse or 'other aid cute civei process Our -bencli of Judges H -H TA,xFHlcu iiien uuiies in a manner r!1011 .M'" have given Hist re to the Judi jciary of I fiy period in .the history ; of i the woriOi. 4tie jsteadiness with Judges jlave held the sealer nf which our justice has at hist orted praise even from those who, at first, i:il IU II 1 rn IHi'iTi r I... . . 1: ; i tne agen of the Freednien's Pu - - r p A few of irau, and I srneve t isay, a few of our own peoph who se con que: to re 'by ine iavor oi our furnishinr alimipnt tn -t !.' i- unjust- rjrhudices, have soughtto make the CJ , : " : W - lii II uipressi, at the Korth, that fieodmen and F " f i " "" "vc justice at me hdndsoidur Courts. To this end emissnris l:aVe bef rt employed to traverse the country and rieculd exjxirte statements' cast odium on the iJministration ot justice petitions ?1ve bel f coyertly got up by some of our own citfe(ns and sent to the (President of theUnitti States, charging disloyalty to our people and favoritism to our Courts, to erhbitte i against us the virtuous classes of theNorW. Amoh-st us these mhehinnt;,. $ . j " , ""j TUESDAY, NOVEMBER, 27, 1866. arwe" understood. The virtuous and in- e North who have set- tied am lonjr us. and especially the soldiers wuo stood in tront ot the fight, on both sides, in the late conflict of arms, despise 3 tnese slanders. Through the acrency of whole-souled men, public opinion, it is hoped, will soon reach a healthy state. Our judges, unmoved by these unworthy impu tations and unaAed by intimations that they would be suspended from the exercise of their functions, if their adjudications did not accord with the dominant party, have silenced slander itself. No murmur is now heard against the fairn ess with which jus tice is administered in our courts. , The fearful increase of crime, the natural se quent of a civil war in which disrespect for the rights of non-combatants was authori tati vely countenanced, if not encouraged, is being rapidly repressed, and reverence for justice is having its natural triumph. Our Legislative Department has been noxiously endeavoring to alter our Code to suit our novej situation,ran(TtobringDrder-out. of the chaos pro-iuced by the late conytrlsioni This review; of our national affairs brings us to the present period. . . y THE CONSTITUTrONAL AMENDMENT.? In June last I received from the Hon'. W. II. Seward, Secptary of State of the U nited States, a communication herewith transmitted toyou, covering an attested cop y of a joint resolution of Congress, propo sing a fourteenth article as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. It proposes irThat "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and sub ject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and f the State where in they reside." Seco?irl, That "no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of the citizens of the United! States." Third,--That "no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due pro cess of law, nor deny to any. person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws." h'ourffi rr hut PI t'acn mate, excluding Indians not taxed. But wien the right to vote at any election t . 1 - L " tor the choice of electors for tlm President and Vice Presidert.of tiie'United States, re presentatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial oflieers of a State, or the mem bers of the legislature thereof, is de-ied to any of the maie iiiiiabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridg ed, except for participation in rebellion or other, crime, the Oasis ot .representation tlierein shall be. reduced in i , , tho proportion which the number ot such male citTztMis ooau pear to rne whole, number ot male cit izens twenty-one velars of age in such State!' Fijih, That "no person shall be aSenatol or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military; under the United States, or under au State, who having pre viously taken an oith, as a member of Conj gress, or as an oilicer of tiic United States or as a member of any ; State Legislature, or as an.executive or judic i a I officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insur'r rection or rebellion against the same. But Congress may, by a vote of two thirds of each House, remove such disability." S,VM, That "the validity. of the public debt of" the United States, authorized by law, inciut ding debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for se'rvices in suppressing iuj surrection or rebel ion shall not be oues ti o n e.d ." Seventh j-T hat "neither the Uni ted States nor any: State shall assume 'or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebel lion against the Unii ted States, or any claim tor the loss or e ma ncipation of any slave; bu t all such debts, obligations and claimsjshall be held' illeai and void.'V fezA, -That "thft Cnnm-o. - , V. tl,e.l,uwer o euorce, by apnro- IM iait- legislation, ine provisions of this ar ticle." : i . -' ; The Constitution provides that, "the Ilouse of Ilepresentatives shall be composed of members, chosen every second year by the people of the several States," and that ine oenate ot the; United States shall be composed of two Senators from eaph Stately This proposition is' not made to us by a Congress so composed, this State, with etev-i en others, being "denied representation iti the body which proposed thus to abandon the fundamental Jaw. ; it was the cbar ini tention of the Constitution that every State should havearight to representation in a Congress proposing alterations in the origi nal articles of compact; and ou this account! alone, no State, pretending to have riglits under the Constitution, can, with proper scrupulousness arid dignity, ratify an a mendment thus proposed. It is remarkable Jhatthisproposedamendmcntcontcmplates; under one article, to change the Constitution i - i i m. ... . w - . . in eignr. particulars, some of them totally incongruous to be ratified as a whole. We are not allowed toj ratify such of them as we approve and reject those we disapprove' T his is the first attempt to introduce the vice of omnibus legislation into the grave ?aZo fhZlS the fundamental law. in 17S9, Congress proposed to the States, pursuant to the 5th article of the Constitu Uon, twelve hew a, tides as amendments! Tnofesewerejratified by three fourths h "e ,reso,ul-o" by which n(i,..;. 7.7. oV. 'o m. e States, ttUu' iuc oiaces to ratify "all or any shall be apportion d among "the several S tlk nof SS' iToZ btates according to heir respective numbers ection in tho Ut, or give "aid and comfort" cuuuuii- uie wnoie numoer ot persons in m the technical sense of thi-s hr.iW ; ! wr7r a Ul t - e rat,QetJtwo tic rejected. Each ot the other three a- menumcnts which have been adopted, to wit: the eleventh, recommended in 1704. I." iKcijm m lboa, and the thirteenth ;n 1SG-5, was confined to one matter. " jection. To others, or the heterogeneous WtlOle. It I hnnurl fl, Gf .;ii her assent. A commentary on all the pro posed amendments would make this docu ment inordinately long. A few remarks, on one or two of them, may not be inappro priate, Under our laws, made in conform ity to the Constitution of the United States, every one of the following State officers, who entered on the discharge of his duties prior to the 20th ay of May, 1SG1, took if. the oath to support the Constitution of the I united states, viz : the Governor, Judges ol the Supreme and Superior Courts, Pub-IiG-rrea8ui-er, Secretary r Si-if n..nn iHj. Clerks of the County and" Superior Courts; Clerks and Masters in Equity, Clerk of the oupreine uourt, Constables; County Trus tees, Coroners, Registers, entry-takers, pro cessioncrs, rangers, standard-keepers, sur cyuia, cvliv valuer Oi Uie lllllltia Affnr- m Generalf State an4 County sJ.S, every .number ot the General Aembly, and cvprv nthnr ..ffi.t. i.ki.i:...- n' veyors, every officer of the militia, Attor- ; ":" y oiuce oi; trust, or nrhhf- in rhw Qr.t.. V i r "",i"'aic' xi.vt;iy lawyer ! was likewise required to take it, though the ' ngnc to practice law has norbeen held to ! . - f i i m - I classes emuracedlthe reat bodv nf tl telligence of the When war had State. boiii inauuratnrl. xv-Lon one section had confronted the othor in mili tary conaict, whon parsonal sacarity com peUed obedience to those in de facto authority consei com tori to tiu Southern soll conn ict. , Jiut strange to sav! itranL'o to sav! tin- ftinn.l. mout loaves eligible toj oiiico" any on " ' want into a conveutioni and vot.l in- th e wno dinauce of secession, aad anyone who volun- l3y.fc tlia-.Coustitutioii.of the United States. xi ic ue neld that a deeper shade of guilt ataeaes to those who had hold ouice and taxen this oath, than to others who owed hke ahegianco to tho United States; is a law yer who has taken that oath and afterwards jciiied in the rebellion, less guiity than acon stable or a post-master, or other inferior oiiicer who hud taken the oath and afterwards given aid to the rebellion? If it be said that tne dispensing power reserved to two-thirds of Congress may-be relied on to prevent any . r ioui, xv in iut;uuueivaoio now so uould bo ratified, it is -brdinvMl fl if single one could be found in the State who Avas. before the war. : a Ixovnvnor n .j,,,i p if wd re;eetifc, we must exoact frnm t.!i ri. inant party in Congress, calamities still more dire than we have yet felt. There is no war rant for either assertion. It Avould have been a3. unbecoming in Congress to offer it to m under any such promise, or such thrpnf mq would be degrading to us to ratifv it under such circumstances.:. It should bo considered solely in reference to its fitness to fona a nart of the fundamental lawj of a country claimiii" high position among enlightened and Chris tion nations. The nftii section of this pro loosed article has the same import, and is in tended to conAey as much power, as if it were repeated at the end of each one of the four proceeding section.s. The original Con stitution, in .closing the catalogue of the powers of Congi-ess, gives the authority 'to make all Liavs .which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the fore going poweis vested by this Constitution in tno Uovernment of the United States or any department or oiiiccr thereof." This authority has always been understood to apply to poAv er conferred on the government of the Uni ted States, by amendments subsequently made, and has repeatedly received the con sideration of the judiciary. If the design of this fifth section is siniply to re-afiirmth,flnn -r established principle of power necessarily im plied under the provision just recited, it i needless surplusage; but if, as its snecM in' is sertion indicates, it is intended to amolify the various po wer3 which would bo reasonably implied from the sections Avhich precede it and to give to Congress a peculiar authority over the subjects embraced in the proposed fourteenth article, it is 'mischievous and dan- crerous. If there be any feature in the Am,,. system of fi-eedom which gives to it practical valae, it is the fact that a municipal code is proA-ided under the jurisdiction of each Sfate by which all controversies as to life, liberty or property, except in the noAv limited field of federal jurisdiction, are determined by a jury of the county or neighborhood Adhere the parties. reside and the contest arises; but if Congress is Hereafter to become the protec tor of lifeliberty and property in the States and the guarantor of equal protection of the laws; and by appropriate legislation "to de clare a system of rights and remedies, which can be administered only in the Federal fit thtrn rn . - . To some ; ot the provisions of this proposed Jourtecnth article, constitutionally, submit tiftl to us, there would probably be no ob t a i ii M I r i (t . s r . . . . . .i" m . i - j - . . vv. a aaa. a aa c l.v 11. i ji i . 1 1 r T T f inrrni. ti.M ... a i 111 i war co.nprise a vast prortioof theUn-! S,3vU ' """L 1 ulat,o,. 0 the State. All postmasters and j patriotic citizens, but under no eireuiastncei SriTif nat ona 1 cSiSon' t others vvho had held office under the U. to sacrifice the honor and rights of SongFeo? the tedsi"X.tl tto &tat.S, had alsoi taken this oath. Thesn ! State. 03 a member of the Union, not in. snestinn bn rri..,l ,. U u i.i ''Z Ill i . . -i . .JL ' J " -a , LilO stinse wriKth fnr.nvn iiifAvii...fi.: 0.;,mf,i;t VTi '7. i, rr--.J : perpetuate-sectional aUenation j-jil: ii j i - ijii i'xv win i l i iai - t i i . i voAv n. m ,n i ' u-at' uua uave merexore, O' 7 , p VLJ,i.L I vil ! I 111 L - L I 1 1 A rt.tinn.- v- 1... i cc t , i " "un r -.u.uu.u a,wiw US WHO CaU rWrtimonr nrr tl.nf U K, f t iio- rt-' u- aiu ana. I i . y wwx. up arms ana uught on the side -LWLlilllo uuu more aosura man tne suppo- 'C"4U,WW J-ue acuonr or our Courts of the South to tho end of tile war, or held a ! sition tliafc tlle great body of them can now as done much to check it Tt U still fright seat hi the Confederate Congress, provided ' ParticiPate Governmental affairs' with any fuUy common. Negroes compjose muclAbe such person had never takon..i nV:t,v ! discretion. A very few of them are diseree.t larger class of these offenders. Miic'i f 1? A. large a body, charged with so manv Tiir im portant duties, could exercise this power with ' jjstice or discretion. It thi n.n on A i Aa" . t M - ilt XX U . the bapreme or iSuperior Court, a member of j btauuv u:?0-i 10 alienate one section j Congress, or member of the General Assom- i couatiT frm the other. When these j bly ot this State Avho would be eli"ible as 1 at Llst cnunmated in war, and. slavery : this dispensation : of two tnirds of Con fess j gi'mvously impoverished and constrained to the blacksmith; i)lank and planes for tho cur The advocates of this amendment ui-e tliat accommodate itself to a violent change, more penter, &c? If not, what-is die to work at? ' - - - Jj-trrnir TT-jWmiWma 1 : . . - i . , i Courts, then the most common and familiar officers of justice must be transferred to the fcw points in the State where these courts are held, and to judgas and other officers, deriv- g ana noiamg uieir commissions, not irom i il 1 1 -1 1 1 P 1 1 rti i uie auiaonty anu peopie oi me ouite as nere tofore, but from the President and Senate of the United States. The States, as by so much, are to cease to be self-governing com munities as heretofore, and trespasses against the person, assaults and batteries, false Im- prisonments and the like, where only our own citizens are parties, must be regulated by the Congress of the Nation and adjudged only in its courts. I cauuo't believe that the deliber ate judgment of the people of any State cfr any section will approve. such an innovation, for although its annoyances may bo ours to day, they must expect them to be theirs to morrow. The5 people of this State, with a singular approach to unanimity, are sincerely desirous of a restoration of their constitu- onal relations with the American Union. In the face of circumstances, renderincr it nearlv impossible, they have paid its gove.nmoat the taxes of former years, laid when another de facto government whose powers thev could i not., haya jWnto.l fc4kjr would, was maljnxi they could bear; they acquiesced" in the ex tinction of slavery, which annihilated more than half theirj wealth; they have borne with patience the exclusion of their Senators and Representatives from the halls of Coutcss ,-l.., 1, 1.., . 1 i . . mSt tiJns, or even to makeown their ?eces.' TTn- innii..'ni ia lu"u'4 tuulu"uu our re- lations is tn rrintiniiP if. c.nma 17 ,1 - , ' f.UowPd to hvo no share m determining. K3 TllrtO 1 O C Iaai -r- n-a-k.l - n JIi: f I ;r;74Tu 1 T 7 T W n-iuiiuuiviu J.il luc rt;,,t S'T 'T on.rirrii,r w.i i 1 1 .u.allot?rJ 7 w -x, u.vx xxx waitu iuuuer- nothing calculated to perpetuate the Union; l,Jl lls lenueney seoms to me better suited to , , and estrange-. no hesitation in -.':a! rauneu. THE AFRICAN RACE. i?.l03t of die African race amonsrns were late- i ij .Mtiv. xueir masters carea tor their sub- t l.r ..l., rn.: i V' ... . . i:sisteneo. ' Their habits illy fit them to nro- I vide iov thc"ir indispensable daily, wants, and virtuous, and have considerable in telli- gence; and when the State shall; be loft free candidly c msidered To grant universal sunra nnroaehftd Jin:i.rf-. frnm mtinn ami , i embarrass the Avisest .statesman and philan- miuiusu umiappay, ourDresent condifmn does not allow such calm consideration. At present it blends itself with our national af- s. rroai the earliest period of our his xj uucier tae xational Union, it has been the cause or the pretext, for sectional strife! Disunionists North and South, have con- A. .. 1 . U -.- . . , . . . . was , , -V mm-, , . ,, T-l, a em3n everywhere, xNor h and South bel sudden emancipation of so manv slave! iT fo.e toe war, were supposed to concur. Anx- posed, if we were allowed to undertake t lous as l wasto-aveitthelate war, and have without interference would bo a miit .1 ffi a a i times been to compose our troubles on cult one. We must face it as U and I the basis ox the Union as our fatliers framed the best we can for the common weal bf t w it,! I can perceive m this proposed amendment diib 4i,0 s r 1 to, manage her internal affairs, without ex- cuuoa.-ami imprisonment swell largely the trr-neous irfterferenco, I do not doubt that the frightul burthen of taxation under which oar question as to what share ou?ht to be crant- impoverished people are laborhi". Th:s ov'l ed them, in I the elective franchise, wfll hA must be remedied, if nossiblol 1 I ire 10 mem now is mrinifpat -tr nVieriwr tjo wer is -conierren on t m . .in-.. ? i... i . n iNV hatouguttobe dOnein reference to' this Pace to erect work houses for thir respbe race, if its consideration could be -annroachofi tive Counties, in which insolvent i-ni.fa Oil t-i i I . . -i I rr fntiii l,.in1 i- I . J.l.- I 1 . iteach btato should manage its own internal I ajairs but so far from the abolition of slave- i yy naving composed our sectional difforencer, lt U:ls oni intensified them, tho negro being still the subject of strife. The North claimed that humanity required its interposition to protect the recently emancipated slaves from aggression on the part of the white people of tne South, and new and strange tribunals ouuacmj muwauwu Lllllll LUO LeaCUlUgS ; OI ljillliiU. Jl U1H V.OUiU l'C- experieuce AVould seem to warrant, all patri- quire the keeping of mules or horses with otic men looked for national repose, a3 a set uncertainty Avhether any, or how many con off; The one great theory of our government, picts would be sent to the workhouse Tho which was supposed to be settled, was" that i Superintendent could not pitch his crow in Avere instituted among us to manage this race, Counties, allowing them, as provided in our claiming and exercising long after hostilities County work-house act, to raise the fine and had ceased,! exclusive jurisdiction, civil and costs by apprenticingthemsclves. I criminal, over whites and blacks, as to all j ; "penitentiary. - matters to Avhich a freedmin was a party and " As to convicts foi the higher grades of resting their decisions and modes of proceed- I rime I think a Penitentiary should be cre ing on no known rules. It behooves every cted. This mode of punishment has been patriotic mind to solve the problem, what is i n long use in most of the States. It lias best to be done to avoid this sectional strife ' never been discontinued so far as I am in in relation to the negro. Is it possible, in formed, in any State which has adopted it, entire consistency with the well being of the t ani I regard this experience as decisive in. African race, to avoid this" enduring source favor of the plan. If this recommendation, bo of animbsity betAveen the sections? It seems - approved, I further recommend that provi- 10 me tnau tne course to be pursued is obvi- ous, it the names to the controvnrav Rmwro. ly desire reconciliation, i. Tnecauseof the trou - ble is the unequal distribution of the race bi twepn the sections. The plain aud practical remedy i j their more equal diffusion. Exist ing Circumstances invite such diffasion. The people of the South (whether from prejudice Public charity is vastly greater than it ever " or not i3 immaterial, to the view I take) do j 'as in any past period of oiir histoiy. A be not regard the nero as their equaL He is I nevolent feature of the Freedmen's Bureau not alioAved the right of suffrage. The Norih was tne issuing of rations to indigent blacks, insists that this prejudice of the South doo3 T 1 understand, Avill be, or has been, dis cruel yvrong to tho African. Among us they continued. Large numbers of them,- too old A are ivcry poor, and feAv of them havocqaired ' or inSrm to labor, and a still larger num local attachments bv ownershin o land Th i ber of children, too 3-oung to labor, and with- results of emancipation and war have made thewhites noor akor nnrl ihn nnrto,-,, A . " J amwAi MA.XA VAA dition of our federal relations prevents the influx of capital or population. Enterprise is paralysed. Few are able to employ labor olov K'nr- ers and pay them liberally. On the other I Til l -. - uunu me dominant state3 are rich. In all of them the wage3 of labor is much greater than Ave can pay. In many of them aro pub lic lauds of great fertility which the laws give to the actual settler at a nominal price. In one of these States a portion of the people IN.O. 34. uas enren a mibfif'iTi;?! i SPrt ?le?Un?, two Africans as members 1 of their State legislature. Everything seen a I to invite their emigration to the dominant1 S;but most.of ihem are to Voot to' pay the expenses of moving. This difficulty may be overcome by diverting the appronn ahon made to sustain the Freedmen's Bure-u to .defraying the traveUing expenses of those who may chooss to move, allowing each one to choose tho State or territory t to which ho would go. hen thus left free and aided to go where they may thiuk their condition will be bettered, no grounds will be left for fur- ' xix lcuonaA BiriIG as to their government. Who that would avoid the rock on which our ship of Stato is threatened with wreck, will object to this schomc of reconciliation? It is .clear that the Northern States will not object to it It will place the negroes, voluntarilv emigrating to them, where they can look after their personal protection and mental and moral culture, much more discre-itly than theycan by a Ereedman's Bureau, or an v other machinery while they remain here. I am sure North Carolina will not object to tnis scheme If it be obiectedtb.it tliP.ml- Ciatipa would bo so uniTprs tl to .. for a Ume,"iiWt, a BumUccjorTaboreraTT and it be conceded thatthis would be tho result, who would not prefer to perform ser vile labor until other labor could be procured, to the inquietude and !t humiliation to which v, ouuiat juau, ouuu wuum uub hcrrJoen IT to tl,at VeIy my of St retain 6 tTli Z wMiy oi mem retain the lemn of we are now subjected? But, such would not ; kindness and confidence which thev fo-me-lv - ieit lowaras their late reciprote the feelin- w and give them every readable aid to I IPTtf'T rhmr rr lif,,... consider what the velfure of the Stale requires us to do in sicial reference to tho Aincn.li race amon The most prominent subjects demanding new legation ar orimn .. O " W"Vt I'UULUll.lUi. Will Courts have bean so nnmV.i n-;A, a n:d siiln nf tliniWt,. !, iun i t i i . vuifc Aibuic uuyuuun j ronlil ho miwi friiTt'i onU- w w.ji (jinn, unr jiiiia j'.rft tne meanest of crimes, and' of nnfrnnn.it. j - " - ai it,oiut;u "-"v; m ims otaie, irom the manner in t., . i ' which the late war was conducted and oHinr- ses, has cOme to be regarded as a, rather larger number of convicts, of all colors', aro insolvents, and the expenses of their prose- Under our existing laws recently enacted, :lirnll -tvrf-vl.- nut tli i i -. - costs of prosecution. The erection of po-H-" uuuums wm cost inucu. Connfi.-K Mimnf 1.1.. ft ill'. lilSK IV If 1 111 Dear the? expense of ereciinir- aroan.l thii-n i sufficient walls to prevent the escape of pris- : -I - - oners. The salary of the iSnrmrirdo-iilont. -i -l .t t - 1 . ana oiuer employees must be coaciderable. J How can' the convict be compelled to labor? What is he to: work at? If a machinist, is it - of our contempiatea to supply each .Countv work strifes shop with necessary tooLs and ianteriaLi? I leather to be provnled for tho shoemaker and " Kt. saddler: coal, anvil. iiaTrimpr nl l..iir. f Vivtni nltr -r. ........ . - fT1 i : uncertainty Avhether he would JiaAe any hands. or "ow many he would have, and almost a . ; certainty that when he put his convict in tho ! fiel(l to work, he Avould run away. I submit whether it would not be , better to keep ir ! "r h'guAvaA-s by taxation, and to compel iif- i solvent vagrants and others, convicted of j misdemeanors, to work with baU and chain " 1 the highways or other public works of tho ! sion De maae ior employing convict labor, as iar a3 practicable, m the constmr-hnn inf hx j ! liecessarj' buildmg3, nnd that a proper com- misson be constituted to carry out the desi 'u m the best manner. PALTEIUSSL The number dependent for subsistence on j out parents, or with parents not providing I I for them, niU3t be cared for. In addition to 1 j 1 1 t f I theie is tne Urge number made dexendent by J ! the los3 or the maiming of their parents in ! tne iaie war. as u me. number oi these last I cannot furnish the statistics, contemplated by the resolution of the General Assembly o: tho tenth of March last; the chairmen of the County Courts of soma three or four counties only, having -sent me any returns, and these do not profess to be full and accur- ( Concluded on 2nd lage.J -
The Eagle [1866-1875] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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Nov. 27, 1866, edition 1
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