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THE BALLOT. PrBUSKD KTTKT Hey PAT BI THE PROHIBITION PUBLISHING COMPANY. ! SnbscX'ptlon Trioe t One Year, -. - $ 2. Oos. Months, - $1.00 BubscrlpuouB are payle In adranca, and -u-.y.parwiu b.ior(lMi thexrlrttoaoi iae iirae paid f nr. f BOJKil OF M -XAGERS. "UJ i-oa aeiKUag . cluKo rarlj subscriber, aocompaiud by hh. will re col v the paper fn year Inw. - ', BarrlnrrT, ,Prw. T. I. VallJS.. Tra.) r: M. Kobfjr, l. W. Otlfi, j 1U I. Johnt-tnit. ' I Would Rather be Right tha .Adrertlslny Rate V J&Tnt Ballot iZicv is located on tho crn?r of Trade and Ollege street?. reasonable, and will be turnUbed on. arpltc Uon by letter on In person. " ! VOL.l. Chaklotte, Nt C4- Mdij day, OctO;M 4 , ?1880. fptlon iyV r ; ; be President."-r-HtftT Cut. -i, ? - ' ' ,,' ... .". 1 No. 10.." THE HEAD AND THE HAND.! th. for strength, and quickness of action, arc doubled, tripled, riuad- The Practical S:le of College tfe.-I.roblc;. . f the Day. AWIVERSARY OKATIO ' ." BEFORE THE STl -DKXTS'Or Tilt ,-OVriI CAKOI.IN. 'OL IT.:Z, lltUVERKD JUNE 23, l.-t, BT " THE IIOX. KRMf P. BATTLE, LL. D., PRESIDENT OF THE CMTERSITT OSTK CAROLINA. It is with mingled feeling that I inanities, Jong-headed and sagacious, prudent " advisers, accumulators of wealth. I value them more highly far "than I do those visionary denii- cranks who can talk knowingly on -nt in a grab bag arid pull out the first !vo separate thetn from the rest of( the thing his. fingers . touch : Would- the ;,y ung men ot the State and give them owners of your beautiful valleys and partial and inferior training. They hillsides, destined at tod distant day, I f till thus enter lifijdwarfed and oqe- verily believe, to De l one or tne gar- si j ea, interior to tnose in otner pro- S f Hj rupled. The trained athlete is. twice thrice, four times the man he was be fore berinninr bis training. It i siniil.tr rr pUia). "Maiid ! many .subjects of literature and science j den spots , of the world, be any lessff S, before tha trainer took charge of and art, but lack sound judgment in i sagacious or successful if they, should bcr was a threc-iuinutc horse, worth - applying principles. Mark Twain ! learn Jhe principles of geology, .and a few hundred dollars. H hen her ! shrewdly hits them off in ridiculing or ! muscles are taught to move, so quickly ! Henry Ward Beecher's. farming: "lie J as to stride over the mile in 2.08 J she ! takes a $3.50 pig and feeds him with brings $50,000. The hunter who j $15 worth of corn and sells the hog aia before vou to-dav. It is a source strides over a three-feet fence has little ; for $7. He loses on the corn but is of pride to me tnd" my friends that I value, but deep is the purse which very proudf doubling his money on j mineralogy, so that they could make intelligent research for the vast treas ures which lie. nnderithe ground, and which, if you are not careful, will go to enrich some cunning speculator'? The sons of the agriculturist should the i, , . . i . . , i: t a : i A alloweu to Man i wnere once stoon, j can secure nim wni-u traineu 10 ny nis pig. in all the rlcntitu 1 f their fame and . like a deer over a five-barred eate in . Think of intrinsic "roatin.-i vtiur Thomwell and 1 a clorious stet-plcchase.- between the colored people of America . tor. or merchant. They should "be j less favored . brethren. , . a aa .. . n r J'rcstin. " And so notice the wondertul uoxter and their cousins on the banks of the intelligent enough to be ready tor any be trained to take as hisrh a stand in wonderful difference the community as any lawver, or doc- ions m intellectual erasn and oad knowledge. Whenever they cdme in contact Trith iheif feilowAelti i' lis in social or political life they will tae second places., The State will be inured by this, division into classes. The homogeneity will be destroyed Harmonious action will be impossible, ualess; as it generally happens, the better trained and therefore more in tiilifrent classes will rule lover -their Many of th6'so who hvSc?offl down to settle among tis,- boasting of theif i 1m proved methods and machinery, have come-to gtlgf'-.Yonpaei by one year and hear sneers at our ignorance, and bragging of' two bales to the acre and countless toils cf elefver on sandy land. The sett year the taunted , machines are beintf scattered to the music of I the sheriff's hammer, and the boaster Another problem demanding our is eoinir toalyperborean resions. Bui I best tborights is in what manner shall thoueh up best planters are 'fully fo nds be worked? The emancipa have always distinguished, our peopled to aid in checking these centripetal tendencies. Great journals are. cabl ing bn-us to-etem tho rushing " torrent which is hurrying our institutions to a dangerous vortex, which may swallow them-up forever. ;, HOW SHALL THE LANDS BE WORKED: The latter. wtt.i occasronal spurts of self-asser- it i a srcc of ditru.t aud anxiety '. ity acquired by tho body. Watch the ' Congo and Niger. The difference is duties of a citizen, whether as magis-tyu, will humbly yield and give 'that I sail. mv f'i'bl harU in the wake i rapidly flying fiugcrs. over the key as great almost as between the savage ! trate in the courts, members of the !: rulling power to the others. Tne of those alLint .-lui!, which have ' board of a piano by a great pertormer, inhabitants of Uritain in the time of ; assembly or congressmen, aoie to nom. iv m ue aown: with tne lanio, out Vailed int the Miadows of the setting ' tho marvelous rapidity of a practiced j Ca?sar and the intelligent peasants who suli thi realm of thi; Ifvieafter.-. . j type-setter, the delicate cutting of the j have turned the England of Victoria My distrust i;i mv ability to stand I engraver. Uld men have told me .that : into a smiling garden., Uur colored their own on tho stump, or in deliber- t:. ative bodies, the peers of the forc-. iaoet:They should not teike back seats mb will be inside the lion rrelma- in order to estab a - senaratei'affrictiTtiraI and 1 - . ., .- , f . L - 1. r -. . . . , . ... I . ' . , . t . .. . . . J .-I i . V. l.nWAa H. m n11TlI1-V tTPT. IMIMJiH II I I'M I ('III ! i IT O milGr ATlUnil IOt"ln Willi CrOMlt til" iri.-ll'.liy crilicism OI ' iue taaa lor tuuvu juvsrr n5, tci jjtopie uc uiuiru tuiupsmuicij' i nutic iuc imui-ib ui men 6--, 1 uju.- vajuu ioijo .urk clebratio!i tln might bave ' enty years ago, sixty piundsa day. far in the walks' of civilization. And j together. They should bey leaders sums for buildings ?and grounds nd Jiopt my nt t.rit for my . settled i Men in my State "have in a race picked ' yet these American negroes, whom to jhemselves. Their lives would thus i equipment, and duplicate five or six conviction t!i..t i;f u -lioiiid uof de- : out 800 pounds while 250 and 300 ' the great honor of both parties, the j be more self-respectful, more happy,; ; of her professorships.. But I do not clihe oj.j.'.itfinitit s to influence .for pounds arc common for first rate men. Southern slave owners have raised so ! and their progress to wealth more j believe it is best. I grant that by p..o.i tho oimg ..pl, of mir laud. In like manner the faculties of the : high in the scale of civilization,: Were ! rapid. They would .become readers giving tuition frde and paying the W!ivn a trawler bv intuitive wariness i mind aro trained. The brain fibres : as a rule denied the culture of books, j and students and experimenters. Every : boys for their; labor -and putting' the r aoi idi nt, .-r bv th.- guidance of and cells . become by .-exercise strong ' Mehemet Ah, the Albanian merce-I field on their plantation .would De sianuara so low as to rob all the high other?, h f-.-ifrlv "us.-d a treacherous i and totigh. clastic, capable of quick : nary who founded "a dynasty in Egypt; j their laboratory. Every pen of sick ford. orclimWd m ouitaiu peak along ' and sustained action. -Memory, imag- conquered Syria, and would have cap- j animals would be their hospital The l-..w..m'.i. ,V,H 1... 1. 1 V... a clfiK ! i.iation. attention, reason, are conder-' tured Constantinople but for the in- i rocks all around would be their mu- rhurl. 1; wo'ul i !i:ivi'.a. the definition ;. fully increased in power, capability of .-terference of the Western powers, could of nuirdcr ha it. '-.- heart rezardless !standing fatigue, dexterity, rapidity j not write his name until he .was 43 of movement. Ihe well educated man ( years pi age. History teems with sim can marshal all his .intellectual powers j ilar instances. Theie are George Ste feady to be marched like a storming j phensons and Edisons.in all ages. . party against the problems of life, or, THE PRACTICAL AiiV THE theoretical. if need be, by a nanK movement ta; f . frost falls I circumvent them. be ' THE ADVANTAGES OF EDCCATI0N. illintaflv disturbance of settled! Thtt .v- f 'i... ftf P(' at;nn of socinl duty, ; i li.:!-chi f," if h s fatally bent uld refuse on hi.s friendly counst-l to those encountering like dangers. Winn a man has ad- paths to vanccd alonff 1 f .'s -.th resrion whereth - toilsome -white thick mi. h!r and- beard he should And so the college graduate may be . ; j. able to turn at sight the stirring ode ' of little Jack Horner into Greek lam- habits Bf min i nr body to iopartof'tn hi experience to h mju. who are s.tt hearts and buoyant journey is bics and Latin hexameters. He may - ii , ineri'iure uui au aauuiuiauuu wj bi- younger country- j though they are important, but ti .i.g out with beating atLetic ,ninds Wc have ftmc seum. Wherever noxious insects as sailed them, would be their battle ground. The orchards and the grow ing plants, and the beasts of burden and of food would be their children, to be tenderly nursed and watched, and clothed and fed, and put! to bed, with a wise and. intelligent care. m 1.- eretorenot an accumulation oi xacis, ; ,.OT1 :c f nf nJainrr ramea, ,-a apc y)ajj wjth parabolically spiral or men it " us ! ii- .- j j. i i il - ' V ! 1,ving Proots ot tulB ?r?al ,truttl- Jbe difference between wheat and bats, or j ! southern omcers tramea at esv; j.. BCB - vnB;nR-; lift utrv .manu .t make rtis w.n wAy ik lojnt, when, after their gallant strug- j The Beminar young fady who8a tran. Tiir. wom.p. . I gle against fate, they were forced to scendental eesay on wstheticism is too I say jrdvi-'-dly.- on a similar, not ! take, themselves to peaceful pursuits, ' ..aVfully smart' for anything,' who on the same jimrn-v. .Yulfum rimt'fe j fouml themselves barred out of the can t r;il hie her than a skv lark and a. law uiaxim applicable to proiessmn ior wnua mej were pecu- j tn bu1 f ,-'may cause liany nttcd. i he army oi tne l nion , h j househofd to ride on horrible HOW THE FARMER SHOULD BE EDUCATED. - ... -)..-.. ,' What shall be the nature of this schools and thejjower classes of the colleges, numbers may be obtained, but it would ; result, I fear, in the exaltation of the practical, to the neglect of liberal studies, and thus divide the State in4o classes of various degrees of intelligence. Evil will be the day when the division into castes, like that jvhich degrades the Hindoo tillers of the soil, and prevents all advancement, khall prevail in this great homogeneous Commonwealth whose ioretather of all pursuits fought side by side' on-. many battle fields f jr liberty; toiled in the lecis lanve nans, sme by . side tree and equal, to lay deep and firm the foun dations ot free institutions. abreast with the most advanced agri culturist; there are many sad instances of deficiencies. - , INTELLIGENT LABOR NEEDED IX THE . FIELDS. v We cannot improve our advantages, use labor-saving machinery, adopt in telligentjrotation of crops, enter on the intensive system of agriculture, in fine, make the maximum agricultural prjd act at Ihe rat aim um cost w i thcu t more intelligent labor, and that labor is the negro. We have no other, and I believe we want no "other. "The talk of colonization is the merest babble. Such a stupendous enter prise, as the forcible transfer of fiye millions of people to distant lands was, never thought of by- even the Assy rian, or Roman,' or Persian, or Mace donian despot of old times." It is tion of the slaves forces us to face the question, of4 free agricultural labor.. How shall it be.finally adjusted?Shall we part with -the possession of the blem. A large mass of ignorant votes leads to one of the following results: Either their confidence must be gamed by tho ruling cl;tses or there will bp bribery, or deception, or intimidation. These last injure the corruptr aa iwell as the corrupted; the bribe-gitr ' well as the bribe-taker. This great problem needs careful, congcicntiou. study. It is needless to' say that iu my opinion our safety lies in winning the . confidence of the voters. There are other problems of great' ninguitude awaiting us 6uch as tho. ' necessity of diversifying our employ ments by the introduction of manufae- ; land on short or long leases, or pay j tories, the regulation of the railroads, . the laborers m money or by shares of ;-which are the highways of the coun- theerops; we hnd these plans oeca- j try, j bwuietalis-ui.: the connection of- sionally all adopted on the ame plan tation.' V e have been experimenting, but we must study j these . questions with care and ry to gather the ex- perience of other '- lafeds." "Custbuiary rights will spring up claims by the workmen be occasionally made and succeed.- Easy-going tempers will'al low customs to'grow into Jegal rights. Harsh tempers' may alienate the la borers until . they -become, revengeful and malicious..: The German land; laws telegraphic, systems with our postal system, the basi of the national banks, which you young;men must face. Pre pare to meet all he difficnUies, of be. future wii intelligence, wnu eouise, with honesty. We p! uen will soon , leave the ship of .State to be managed; by you. If- the glorious fabnc"shall, in undiminished, ever-increasing glo'ry carry through tempest and stornl its . precious, freights, Liberty and Law, yours1 shall Irc-the exceeding great re- Hi'-TIt 1 all the f.. s of lif -. Every child youth. liKUi or woinaii h:us his own pe it liar path. .Of all the millions of millions of people, whose dust 15 scat- tered p;vi r the tarth. or who now. toil on it." Mirfa-r. no two faces are the was not for them. For them not the ; n;htmarcs by he ill-judged mixtures 1 statesmen, build their special tranquil delight ot a city station, or of fl an(l ard ard goda The mere the exciting chase after txcronimo and knowicdge ftf hodilB does' not make Joseph. Sitting Bull and Bed Cloud. truc 0(iucation. There must be the But those noble men, whose only for- r combiiiation of the practical farmers' education? Shall it-be a broad culture such as will enable him to take his part among other educated men, or shall the farmer eonftsa his inferiority to other r l OU u L.JJ t ! INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS, nrofessional men: Shall he add to a: T o-enral ednention the " peculiar 1 I am a. friend td industrial schools ded for' his business. ! I believe that hand education is or shall he possess onlv a ' one-sided I good adjunct to had education. t)ex- teehnieal enltnre? " Lawvers. phv- i terity of manipulation, raccuracy of sicians, 'divines, civil engineers, j eje. sensitiveness .if touch, agility and their special technical ;-strengin -snouui be taught m all nnlfiirn on the foundation of broad - scnoois iroru cnnqnooa up, irom the trenera 1 culture. Shall the farmer aet I kindergarten to the university.. Th as they do? " I student should be trained to use, truly 'samr. Of all th? inilliont. of millions 1 tunc was their glorious reputation aud wjta the theoretical. of sohI in living taberii-i-Ies abidin- rr I'ittitur in tht -ludonrv their athletic intellects, did not de- i p;Q;,.ai !,.. realliod .thesU spair. A handful found congenial cm- truths: and hcaCe-there has spr&nir up ployment in the sultry African climate ioud"praise of self-ma!c men.. jFrieiids under the rvhcdivc. uut tne most , of bool educai0n hive not' always turned themselves to Ihe pursuits of real5zed them, aud hinc-e, liavc not tuiqp uml - &oon mt)vtoriB(T top new , , . ' I, y . ....-p, " eainea tneir connaence: rather have strust or bold defiance. It utmost importance,-for the vocates ill on j knowledge requisite, gained safe liv- j i,1Pp;red d; i will l ings and positions of ' honor. ! I may j ; f fi have his rri..!-. temptations, fears, j add that the wonderfully great men of j ((f thJ te ady()C hopes d. teats triumphs, and. it is j England are moulded by a system of j of biok education ancf of hand ed education which is maiulv directed to the creation of athletic mind ! tion shall come .together .and pull to- rtVier. And n order to An thia fKov But while the discipline of the mind mwt un(orSit'and one another, v the chief aim of your college train- It - not (- t coninaro an n- . - " 11 1 C . . 1 1 ing ami tne greatest oenent, tne inou- , lcarned n.n of ood niind ood C J- ; O '- . 1 J l" 1.. ! cm system admits and encourages ac quisjtions of knowledge of direct . use fulness in our pursuits in life. At any rate we are allowed to put' into our intellectual store room their ax- Hades, no two are idi-ntieal -lust as of the" in numerable grains of snii1 gliftetiing among the waves of the resownding rft-ean, all bave diverse ancles, facets, shapes, texture. .As the ages ro each inli iilii.il ot eaeli generation earful to . think of. his own unaided and and undivided responsibilities. Every m.iu who is made at all is a n-lf . made man. "The extravagant r.ii-e iri:n Miecesstul men, not hav iiic" olb sriate training, is especially in 'Ameriea. all wrong The depreciation f other sm-eessful men It-cause they were poss.v-'-d of these advantages, is 111 AniTii-a estiela 1 1 v- ull - srnnit - There may be some slight excuse for ! ioms, the fundamental truths, the first suvh di-rrimin:ition in countries like ! principles, leaving to future industry Germany, where university degrees are in special callings to build upon those prerequisites to entering certain pro- I foundations. fes-ioi:; but in this free land of teem- ; And, in addition to these, we should iink' soil and boundless gifts, energy, : accumulate such general principles of pluck, t.-u-t. sense, character, combined ! other sciences and such facts Of history .with good health, will always lead to J and knowledge of literature and cul- useful if not an honored career. The ti vat ion of taste in art as will serve us . ii...- i-i -it..- i -i . ro, .r.uiung - a not keep ior illustration in our speeen ana wru- ; know 0 -beUer farmers, merchants llaniiltoii. Webster. Lee aud insrs. and for recreation in our leisure: , a :.r . : .L n Stonewall daekson from great careers, as will prevent that hardening into than SOme University graduates. Lord nor tm- wait of ,t prevent A ashington. i distortion, and narrowing into perma- , Townsend, "the introducer of turnip Andrew Jaekso,,, Lincoln, A anderbilt nent contraction, which comes from too cultivation in Norfolk, which has in.- vP.er. or .my noun iron, occupy- . severe application to one department : made England wealthy was a success ing l.dt v p .s.tions before the eyes of of study or of work. , : ful statesman beforelie. became a farm- th- WorLI. .'iims and labor com-; " ou will see that, I am ot opinion Coke, of Holkham. afterwards i.me.i alpvays ay,,,. I he most Iobori- that college brdd men. and 'among Eari of Leicester, one of the best edu iu-.-m .fni in your eoiiege uoes not tnese the superior students, nave the rated men j"n oiiit.-nsiiy ami unremittingly as best chances ot success, in lite. ibis toilei Abvxander. the tre:it. (.aar. is undoubtedly true, as a rule. The N.j l' on. Ch.irTNnague Great, Washingt.in. or be sense with a learned man of crotchetty mind and bad sense. Ihe sense of the first will gain a measure of saccess, notwithstanding his ignorance. The want of sense of 'the other will bring him to grief with all his learning. Give the education of books to a prac tical man of sound judgment and then watch the result. ' It will be as it as happened everywhere. His education will double his power and double, his success. Chief Justice Ruffin, of North Carolina, went from the bench to be- i conic a leading farmer of Alamance. I in England, took posses sion of, his estatesjn Norfolk, a poor, I sandv cnuntrv ' wnero'. as he Frederick the traveler who rises early and goes on H ..two ranhits could be found" as now work j his way with wise precautions for his j n " py.n ov. the Kam hlade" of H1...1. t - i - ..;.n l i: i- .t z. a . tl . t. -L J " "I.I-K-IUIH-. i ;-in--ii hii'i jisuiarcK. tiijourney, is nor iiKeiy in oe- oeninu am inr-liio d jut Cleveland in this when the sun goes down. I have ob Iist beeau-e of liis sturdy industry. ) j served carefully the students of our ."VI c may give a, young man tougher I time; and the winning of prizes in cars. a itioro trimly shaped boat, a bet-4 after 1 life by the faithful have : been ter knowledge hr-w to steer, a clearer ; sufficiently uniform, to give no encour vi; n of the beacon light atlhe end j agement to the idle and the listness . of the voyage, but across the tempest-! I have seen in our Supreme Court all rs ho miftt force his 'solitary ! the Judges "first honor men. from Chapel Hill. Our two Senators our Governor and two of the present uorts- waters ho must torce his solitary way. Hi:; superior oars and shapely r.ont and sight of the shining goal will n ; save mm trom wreck, it he will not ' Judges ot the Supreme Vourt ;are ot toll 'resolutely and without ceasing, j the best in their classes. The shores 'are filled with fragments! The warrior Lee, who gained great caM no bv fiie waves, bv reason of in- ! est fame in our recent struggle, who do! nee er .self-indulgence. t will go down to history as pre-eminent- grass', and by wise rotation and fer tilization made, it one of the best farms of the world, a model for the agricul turists of all Iands And on inquiry wc will learn this significant fact, that the George Stepherisons and Cornelius Vandcrbilts those men who, by. ge nius and will power, force their way, in spite of early disadvantages, to high places take care' to give their- own children the best advantages the; coun try affords; and the Sir -Robert Ste- phensons and Wm. H. Vanderbilts, with perhaps less genius than their fathers, surpass their attainments. 1 t A PROBLEM FOR THE, FARMERS. Now I ask the skillful but unlet tered farmer, would some knowledge Right here is the farmer's great danger. If he shall content himself with a cheap "smattering of learning, if .1 under the furor for industrial training he subordinates the education of the head to that of the hand, he is condemning thimself to that in feriority which I am so earnestly begging him to throw off. The busi ness of a farmer gives as much sce-pe to intellectual activities as any other. The framers of the Land Grant Act of 1862 understood this, because the I institution contemplated by that Act i .i i-i .1- ti . ., must ue iiKe tnis college; must use tne interest on the fund, not for building barns and workshops, not for buying stock and digging silos, not for pur chase of pitchforks and steam engines, anvils-and ploughs, lathes and mow ing machines, but for teaching. For teaching what? Not practical agri culture or working in. shops, not ac tual ploughing or hoeing, or driving planes or wielding axes, but to teach ing branch'es of learning. What branches of learning? Classical studies says the law. Scientific studies gen erally. Scientific studies as are taught in other institutions, but es pecially must the interest of the fund be devoted to special instruction in the j branches of learning relating to agri- i culture arid the mechanical arts; not,i agriculture, mind you, hot the .me- j cbanical arts, mind you, but . the ! branches .relating thereto, such as chemistry, industrial and agricultural? botany, geology; physiology and zoo logy', &c, &c. I need not complete the list. I find it in your catalogue. all his bodily functions. Such ..train ing should be a part of the graded arid all other schools. In other words, let the body receive its general education justAaWup the mind, anel then all the boys and girls of the State will be ready to go each into his or her special calliug. The; State cannot .frovide schools for teaching all the trades of the -State.-- lo favor somc-ovei"others is'.unequal. and inequality is injustice The charge thac Southern universi ties and colleges are inculcating, indis position to bodily labor is totally un true. The war ha . beaten - such no tions out of our beads. I find the young men of the pieseut day willing . ' - i . i i . -1 r-. to engage in oouiiy ion iwr proper re muneration. Numbers of our students go to college on the proceeds of their labor, and ; spend their vacations in earning further funds. Never in all our history have we had greater need of jeducating our boys. Never did more p(jrtentious problems present themselves for solution. They threaten the continuance of .our free dom, the existence of civilized society. They can be solved only by the intel-v ligent classes, among whom it is your privilege-to belong. Let me name sonfe of these. 1 . preposterous in Republican America. berg and others they were simplified made just to landlord and tenant. In France a bloddy revolution overturned the ancien regime ajod distributed the lands on new principles. ,In Ireland we see horri'ije difficulties leading to starvation, emigration, bankruptcy and blood, and finally to such Glad stonian legislation in the -interests of tenants as in. this county would drive., our land owners, to arms in defence of their property. Great changes are imminent in Scotland, and ' even in conservative ' England, which- have been quiet chiefly because of the wis dom and benevolence of the landlords Shall we adojt .'the! Manor system on our great plantations? .hall we sell and convert our. lands jntoismall hgld- grew into such complex difficulties j ward. - But if if shall ignominiouslv that the State, was forced to interfere, J perish on -tbf crocks of anarchy: if lib and by the wisdom of ctein. Harden- j rty shall become, lie It would ruin the negro and ruin -the white, man. He is here, , and hje is here to stay. : Educate him. We cannot be a happy and prosperous people without 4the harmonious co-operation of the , races. Let the olive branches be pur " emblem. Let us gather amicably around the corn pile and bury our ill humor in the compost heap; let us smoke the pipe of peace in the tobacco patch. We are the superior race. Let us make him better. When iri old .times the planter trained some of his slaves to be carpenters, 1 blacksmiths, wheel wrights, coachmen and gardeners; was not he successful? Did the noble matron, his wife, I verily believe the most; perfect specimen in all history pf intelligent womanhood, ever fail when she brought into the "great house" from the' cabin the young dusly lasses, to convert them into seamstresses and ladies' maids,' house girls and opoks? , When I recall sthe snowy linen, the neat flower gardens, with the lilacs and the rOses, land the snow-balis and peonies, the table with the spongy buckwheat cakes and light .hot biscuits, and , cornbread pones,' which can be made nowhere else but in Southern land;; -and the lordly turkey, : raising his. white round breast towards the .company in all the pride of his steaming juieiness, while the good lady dispensed , the best coffee and tea behind the shin . i i i ing array ot cups and saucers, ana the daughter, rosy ' and handsome, (your mother, my boys,) tells of the nice beau she had at the last party, (your father,' perhaps,) and the boys tell lies about the foxes they trailed" and the fences their horses leaped, and the fish they caught these glorious memories make my heart throb and my ' niputh water like a fountain, and appejite bubble like the Geysers of the Yellowstone. You "need not tell me, with, such recollections, that negroes can not be trained to' manual dexterity, and discrimination ' and neatness and taste. It has been done, it "can be done again, and the Southern gentle man and gentlewoman are the agencies to effect this great result. , ' iceiiturtisnesf, and law the engine of oppression b-4-hr wicked and the strong, then tut yur heads will fall the disgrace- and tho terrible ruin.' ;; . - - : The dying Cardinal counseled the Let all! the end country s. thy rising Cromwell : thou aimest at be t by God's andruth's; then if thou falj'st. O, Cromwell ! tnuu 'faH'st .! a blessed martyr'! The master he served was a tyrannical king. The favor of our people is not as the favor of kings. They honor the fearless aruj'the truth ful. Thou' wilt hot fall, .young man. if thou aim'st to serve-thy' country.. God and truth. . Thou wilt- gain tin? approval of thv'conscienec. encc and happiness and honor on ' earth-, at Mm then'the reward of the Hereafter. Itld ings? Can: we adopt "' 'the tcifa.nt . sys tem at all? If so, shall the tenancies r ', How (o Keep a Situation. be at will, or from year to year, or shall there be fixity of teiyire; or shall j The following bit of jrood aclvice is; landowners and workmen hafe. the co-j fur the workinglnan, and is , worthy operative plan? j the attention to all our readers':. These are great questions. I shall "t Lay it dywn as a foundation rule not presume to decide or eyen discuss j that you will be faithful in- that them. They must ibe decidtd.by these j which is least:"; " Pick up the loose interested. IVr their proper adjust- ! nails, bits of twine, 'and clean wrap- . .. .,- .... ,1- , i ! i . -.i - . ment the highest intelligence ami epu- i ping-jtapcr, anu put, But experience.' rightly interpreted, i in science and skill", who appears to me sh-'-w thit collegiate training is anlthe'most perfect public man of our advant3-'e of verv rreat value " Tt i time, was one of the hest. eeholars at ciws a beti r start in life. It fur-1 West Point, while Gladstone., the Lmore .tnan.he s now, do him any nis-'f s weapons' wi'i; wiii h to l:r-W We n-'ii 1 harm ? THE LAND.ORANT ACT. T 1 .1.., . in oraer that there might be no doubt of the intention of Congress, the object of . the Act is set down plainly 'in additional words: "In order td promote the liberal and practical jedueation of the industrial classes.'' that is, 'not; only must the industrial classes ihave practical education by being' taught what specially1 relates to their trades or pursuits, but, like lawyers and doc tors, riave a liberal education, . a rounded, brotd education. Congress seems to have had a fore-knowledge that thoughtless or narrow men. would arise, would endeavor , to use this money in order to send out a set of half-educated, stunted, distorted men into the several industries of life, and was not satisfied with the foregoing description of -the generous training it aimed to provide. Tt went further, and made" such positive H Li m.l: 1 super or temner rrreatest of al EnH sh statesmen. w;is ui" "uumpuuiug a units more I , 1 CT . C 1 . t - i , . 1 aa .aa. . a, a m ' - a ma m C1 iTl int A hia r in j tt ri I mif- n r -rr i .voir way through senior wrangler at .Oxford, lbc best -"X-rohibit on as Mnnftt ha A;a-AaA K tUax- ..- i.-i r. !..;- ki..J o - -i already there . Is his head like a fulFs.-. .. , . . . i. . , ,.u. c-.uvIUc, a iui.,.-u. jiwiinoui Dreacn oi" trust, and will rust and lose s able end useful officers in the late war. LU" iiwirinw)oieDi- ed r' with idleness, and tho more art. re ! Grant. Jackson. Sheridan were nnarer ! if additional matter is thrown in co.eprJttr. with his blacksmith-forged. ! the middle of their classes, it is true, ' Wou,d he ruQ h5s f"urrow less straight and true if he should understand the principles on which' his. plough is con structed sbould know whether it has the proper curve to turn over the soil with least expenditure of force in his j animals? Would he be less able to i -1 JD p-is i :I com. strvug lion. bav. ho.n. -n.?.i. inirloinents. will hew his but such is the severity of the train wa r i". f- r. you an 1 gain the crown of - ing:at the military academy that this .'vi-t.ry..- proves7 a high degree of culture. The . . zxriLtzisCE v;TiforT work. ; ordinary lazy college student is im- . ' ..,. . , , mensely below even "Woodcn-spoou" - Ta? w:.i f iB:.tcs of young men j of w . ,, eomtr.-i.i i;-t kc.q".n;g m mind and! ' ' i take care of his animals if he should ctk.-r o-, tlie fact that the bodily and j T,IE CLO?E 0F .ee training xot. famiIiar Uh theip anato their roent.il fi-ulries are closely analogous. I the eno of like. ; internal ergaus; if one should die of inifrr.ng the man can be- v must confess,. however, that the j a strange disease, should know how to tiu itorec. active as a ; training which leads to success is of-: dissect it iind search for the cause of -vision f.ir-seeing as an ! ten gained elsewhere than in college, i the disease ? Would he be a iv less a eagle's, ht-aring acute as the deer',s, j and we must diKuss this question j farmer bee-ausc' he should understand fihell tle'ieate as the dog's. Vou see j fairly and candidly. .Thc friends of j something of the laws of his country how in -sur gymnasium the bov who t learning do their cause much barm bv and of its constitution ? Tf be should gro.ins , a? . lifting -a, dictionary soon (not frankly admitting this; by not 1 know the various plants and insects on j leanw to .-w ing casity a twenty-pound i recognizing that a' valuable education ; his farm, which arc. valuable j and j luiiib-brfl: how one who stumbles ' van be . had without a knowledge .of which are noxious? Would his net j awkwardly over a stone in the path, j books. With a feeling of respect .and ? returns be any wh. diminished - if he so' a clears gracefully a hve-feet bar; adnii how on - convulsively kicks like a ' who, without familiar acquaintance I try to tell whether the fertilizer he felon on the gallows in his first effort with a single .letter of the alphabet, j buys is suited to the wants of his crop; has learned by observation and expe- I whether the price he pays is exorbi rience to perform his part in life wisely taut; whether, like a victim at. a aa mm a m mm IV .' m . ar lowers, j and well. vvc have them in. all com-; church fair, he is to plunge his hand trust, and com manded that no part of the ' funds phalte used for the purchase, erec- i a. ' huh ana repairs oi Duildins-s: no T i workshons and bams no Hiloc A f emergencies; he cribs, no cow shelters or any other ! ?n? motlves Structures for farm and nieebanle 18 les& aVemi; It thus appears that all" institutions enjoying the benefits of this grant which have omitted to provide - classi cal instruction, which have neglected to provide, in addition to the branches relating to agriculture and the me chanic arts, other scientific studies, are not carrying out the law under which they get their money; have ta ken money given for one purpose - and j .1 . r . . , I useu ii ior anotner. jny Mate has the right to use her own funds for a distored, dwarfed .education for' its citizens, but it has no right to allow the use of the funds of another.' to rais?.l;i chin over a ladder s round - j soon climbs, hand over hand to the topmost rvTVn-I. The muscul admiration I shake the hand of a man should understand enough 6f chemis- i there must be so division OFjelASSES Ihe liberal culture conrmanded by the Act of Congresses best for the farmers and mechanics for another reason. I capoot imagine a greater injury to Urem and to the State than ALL yOBKINOMEX SHOULD BE EDUCATED I havcalready indicated one of these problems that M the higher.education of .the agriculturists and mechanic-s of the country and j have advocated broad, liberal culture. Another is the education of tte laborers, colored as well as whiter : In my opinion, ! sound policy demands this also. , ! There is some jskepticism on this point. It is feared that indisposition to work, especially in the field, will result. This may be so, if only a few enjoy this advantage. The raising ot a few above their -fellows' may resub in that feeling of superiority which of ten leads to arrogance, appropriately expressed by a carit1word, big-headod ness. xut wherever the whole mass is simultaneously I raised to a higher plane of intelligence there is no indi vidual superiority, because alt, are alike. The Scotch laborers are as good as any in the world, yet they have superior culture. The Germans are all subject; to ! compulsory attend ance in schools, yet we find no stouter or more reliable workers than those brave peasants, whose intelligence and pluck carried; the day against : the Austrains at Sadowa and the French at Sedan. The intelligent workman has -more quick and clear prception of the processes needed and the uses of his tools. ! His memory is stronger and his recollection more ready., He has more sound judgment and reason ing; ne nas resources to meet sudden has higher ambitions. the mere drudge; he he fis stronger and more dextrous. n Polar' expeditions in the desert of the Soudan, in ship wrecks and privaiions of all kind, the educated laborer lis the more enduring. He lerfrns readily to use machinery and to repair it when out of order. He is absolutely necessary inbef exacting service of a stock farmNo breeder would trust a bloodca colt or regis tered G uernseyto a common planta tion negrOjvVithout "better skilled farm l&hett wc .cannot compete' with the xnaustless loam lands of the rthwest and the Southwest. We must adopt modern processes and modern' machinery. . those ' who admit Northern modes of cultur hfall respects to our own. Our best farmers understand the j cultivation of their lands and manage- i ment their affairs a well as any. j - it, . : ,; - r .'. .. V 1 ani not of the suieriority of THE DANGERS OF CENTRA LIZA TIO. Another 'great' mission before the educated Sp-uthron is the preservation of this Government frbm the tender cies to consolidation. The General' Government is strong enough to take care of its own rights. - Under the pas sions and neccessities, real or supposed, of the civil "war, and the resulting cation are necessary. And oo such proper decision will depend ihe social life, the prosper ty and happiness of this great State of all , tfyjc SmiH. The horrible relations bclweeijxland- lord ancL tenant in Ireland should warn us of the dahger of driftiuglistlessly, iguorantly, stupidly intoimilar dan gers. Let ui be warned in time. CAl'ITAL ASD labor. ; ; ;. - ' We cannot hopCHo escape (although thus far tfiey have not reached. us ) the difficulties arising from! the. relations of capital and labor the growth , of corporate power and the colosssal ac cumulations of-wealth, and the striv ings of -the workingman for -larger shares in the div.sion.of profits. They appeaf full of . tremendous dangers to free institutions, and to civilization itself. ' Civilization is founded on law. Withou due submission to the' rules agreed onas proper for: the preserva tion, of peace among men; the protec tion of property and, the liberty of every one -i-o pursue his 'own happiness in all lawful ways, society "will be re duced to warring and discordant ele ments. It devolves" upon the educated men of the country to teach this cardi- tlieni in , their. places.. Be ready to throw in nn odd " . hour oij half hour's time when it will be- ' an j accommodatiOii, ajnd don't seem to make h Imerit of It. Do ii heartily. '.Though not a I word ;bo said be sure your cinpluyer "will make a Jiote of it. ;Make yourself indisjien sable to fiini, and he will lose many- . - Will ts. It follows of wealth by dependi eral tTOvernment felt by the new States in qonsequencc of their dcriv ing so niuch unearned wealth from its land olnce, and-the like dependence felt by someiof the older States on ac count of the wealth poured into their bosoms . by . protective tariffs, ' there have been sijch departures from the ancient moorings as should make Pat rick Henry s eloquence resound from the grave, and even Alexander Ham ilton, James Madison and John Jay to dispatch a revised Federalist from the realms of the spirit land. State banks have been crushed" in order, to estab lish a grand national banking system throughout the Union, Federal offi cers superintend and -control elections. The Supreme Court has been remod elled in order to reverse its decision, in order to give Congress power in peace and war to make' paper prom ises to pay legal tenders for pre-existing debts, in other words giving Con gress supreme power over the busi ness of our peoplej A State Judge - . w has been punished I by Federal author ity fpr deciding that colored men could not tit on a jury in his county. The Federal Courts are vested with power to take murder and other criminal cases put of State Courts on the afii- davit of the prisoner, that his alleged offence was committed as a Federal officer. Pensions have been voted with' a lavish extravagance. Negroes have, been attemnted to . bo forced into hotels, &c. Tariffs haHbeen imposed which enrich one Section and impov erish another. . The - telegraph and railroad lines, some claim, must ;be seized and run by Government offi cials, and the labor question settled by national legislation. We may think some of thesexmeas- ures.are! for the best; but thej are ... . . . certainly great changes, ouch ctfiuTges as these, not to name the extraordi extra constitutional acts attendant von the reconstruction of the Union; are making men of all parties look toJie South for that prudent conserv that' fear of centralization nal truth in all- itfT aspec that all accumulations. breach of law, i e., by fraud," by op pression of the helpless,! by the 'officers of corporations using their powers for their own emolument, should be stcrn- Iv prevented or punished. It. follows of the opposite - kind before4,, he- part with you. ; ' , Thtc young men w:ho ijvateli the. time to -see every second thcir" work- ing hour is up. who leave, jlio matter what state the work may b' in, at' precisely . the instant, who calculate ' the cxirii amount they can tdight-the-ir work an(Uyet not great reproved who are lavish .of 'their einp'.oycrV goods w ill always be the fifrst to re ceive notice that times nVe'. dull and. their services are no longer j required. Franco iuwl th rrirtcoi. Ji The RepuUicait I7e1ij.l1 Government have"' ord:red all the pretenders', imperial aud royal, to the. Crowir of France. t 'quit the . country. ' The- -i..... .1- . :..;. oiuie ue 1. aris now iinm-n self - the rival pretensions, in him- of, .the f problems following its close, as well ,further that all organized efforts! to as the natural dependence on the Gen- m.l,,rr. K bo-eottinV i,r coerce employers by - boycotting, or, 1 . . . . - l- - - . unving awaiy worKinen, or injury 10 property, being unlawful are there fore, of necessity, 'W-ron. EvcniStrikes, -though every man has,, if he breaks no contract, the right to work or not work, may become wrong if "they interfere-with the rights of others. - The employees of a railroad foi; example, cannot quit their employment without injury to. thowsands of travellers and thousands of others whose subsistence or occupation depends on the hauling of freights. Those great principles of Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights, for which our fathers fought, are- for the protection of the weak against the powerful, 'arjd laborers will lose their chief defen.c if they set te example of violating them. ,Richejj is power. When riches are forced to. resqrt to self-defence, it jvillTiot be diffiqult to find mercenariefi who will fight , for them against all assailants. If lawless violence Ts to be the rule, we may ex pect to see theJay Goulds and Van derbilts surrounded by , hired .private soliders. whose business it is t fight, who will protectteir -employers from danger. Such was the fashion'in old Rome. Mark -Antohyj made his fune ral oration over Caesar surrounded by his gladiators.1. The Gracchi lost their lives at;he ; hands of the mercenaries of the aristocrats. -The end ; of such state of society isof course j a military despotism. It is astonishing, and to the ."Chris tian a source of deep gratification- and rejoicing, to observe now simpiy anu completely Christ's Golden Rule will settle all these question. Let em ployers and employees meet ,one an other witb this rule in mind and con ciliation, compromise, mutual respect, harmony will result. Let either side abandon this rule), let coercion be tempted by either,, and the of evil is Opened. Coercioq 1 war. and war is the j - horrors. THE. DANGER OF . ersa Bourboifc iifyft Orleans bjancties of tire ' ftld.Winly Sine. v. He isj-a. erl-iu;an- ing man. uiitl j clever one, as iis lifef and published works show, ij If called ' to thej throne of Fiance he would ' doubtless nifike a respectable hainc f for hijuself aa inonarch. ra-tiee has been fifteen years a rejytblie, and were it not for the c4'ushingi debt she labors iiudyr, duetto thtji German indemnity, she wuuld be as.j'rospcroi.s , as any nafion in, Europe. j- The o-' public .was originally a coinpromii-c. be-e-atise France c ould not j make up. its mind as to the rival e-Iaiiiis of the royalnd impeitial factions. At the Jbead of the iatter'is Prince jS'apidcou-, ' " nicknamed" ' '1on-l'lfi9& man' of parts,, but very erratic. The ex pulsion of these standing claimants for the 'headship' 'of France .'has been criticised as an evidence of weakness', , pn the Republican'. Government. A..v? really popular niliug autbor.if ought, J it is argued, y be able to iguore pretenders to ' a throne which tho people have willed should pot exist. The conduct' of the' United j States is recalled,. after it putdown the rebel ion.'" It neither punished, jdcpoilcd, nor banished any, of the rebels.- Tt was wise enough and strong enough to restore them to full citizenship. But then France is Aot'. the tinted States, nor are Frenchmen Americans. JJemoreft's - ' . ' The Chicago, Ciucinnati &;CharU't ton rdilroad has & strong, force of hands laying track. . Thry have laid down fur miles of track. The rail is a splendid steel - one and &, fraction heavier than the Air-Lino railroad. JI.! Taylor, who is.supcrintending the lay ing of the track, in au efficient man. and is doing thb work Well and is well equipped for the service, as I thcC C. & railroad always isi Tliiey have purchased a splendid locemotivi which is run by Mr. Gctrge Mcrring who i- a skillful engineer, who is venturing a ' a - v across the high trestles ! tirni" that he promm ev floo ;'- .1, 'I - . -',71 - j i T"
The Ballot (Charlotte, N.C.)
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