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"'Where is Yir uinia "At the' Sulphur Springs." -When- is the great multitude from . 1 1 .M tiki t t parts ol tue lanu : At para the modern Bethesda, where t!i angel of health is ever stirring t'l,e witters. But, my friends, the .,rife.t multitude are at home, tle ' taineil bv business or circumstances. Among them all newspaper men, the hardest worked .and the leasl? eom-peii-at' d; city railroad employes, and jerry masters, and the police and the tens of thousandsTof clerks and mer chants waiting for their turn oil ab seiH'o, and households with, an' in valid' who" cannot be moved, and others hindered by stringent circum stances, and the great multitude ol .. . U-to-do oeoiile who stay at home because thev like home better than - any other place, refusing togo away -ifnply because it is the . fashion to 4. 'When the express wagon, with .'."its lmtuntain of trunks directed to the Ca'tskiils or Niagara, goes through tin- streets, we stand at our window envious and impatient, arid woniler .uhv we cannot go as well as others. Fools'-tiiat we are, as though one could not be as happy at home as aiivwhen- else. Our grandfathers """ and grandmothers" had "as good a time' as we have, long before the lirst spring was bored at Saratoga or the first "leer" shot in the Adirondack. Thev made VOL. XVII NO. 29. hear discord sounding her war whoop, and hospitality freezing to death in a cheerless parlor. I stopped one day a Broadway at the head of Wall street, at the foot of Trinity church, to see who seemed the happiest- people passing. I judged, from their looks the happiest people" were not those who went down into Wall street, for they had on their brow the anxiety of the dollar they expected to make ; nor the people who .came out of Wall street, for they had on their brow the anxietv of the dollar thev had lost; nor' the xeoplc whol swept by in splendid equipage, hAthey met a carriage that was hirer thm theirs. The happiest person in all t!ie"crowd. judging from thei countenance, was the woman who f sat at the apple stand knitting. I believe real hap pinessoftener looks out of the win dow of an humble home than through the opera glass of the gilded box of a theatre. I find Nero growling on a throne. I find Paul singing in a dungeon. I find King Ahab going to bed at noon through melancholy, while near by is Naboth contented in the possession of a vineyard. Hainan, orime minister to Persia, frets him self almost to death because a poor Jew will not tip his hat; and Ahith ophel, one of A0 HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UN AWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN' DURHAM, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1888. $1.50 PER ANNUM. RATES FOR ADVERTISING: 1 inch, one insertion...... .$ 1.00 1 inch, one month 2.50 1 inch, three months, 5.00 1 inch, six months, 7.50 1 inch, one vear 10.00 . column, three months, 17.50 colurui, six months, ao.00 column, one year 50. 0C column, three months, 25.00 column, six months, 45.00 column, one year, 80.00 column, three months, . 45.00 1 column, six months 80.00 1 column, one year 150.00 1 column, one insertion, 10.00 2 columns, one insertion, 15.00 Space to suit advertiser charged for in accordance with above rates. , jiiKiu wi-:ii!.; Ten: to t'he next farm house, or, living in New York; they celebrated theevent hv an. extra walk on the Battery. " Now the genuine American is not ' happy until he is going somewhere, and the passion is so great that there are Christian people with their fami lies detained in the city, who come not to the house oi Cod, trying to give people the . idea that they. are out of town; leaving the. doorplate unseoured for the same reason, and for two months keeping the front shutters closed while they sit in the back part of the house, the ther mometer at ninety! Iy friends, if it is best for us to go., let us go and he happy. I f it is W st for us to stay at home let us stay a'fhonie and be happy. Tii ere is a great deal of "ood common sense in Pauls advice to the Hebrews : "Be content with such things as ye have." To be content is to be. in good humor w ith our circumstances,- not picking a quarrel with our olscurity, or our poverty, or our social position. There are four or live grand reasons why we should be content with such things its' we have. - The first reason that I mention as leading to this spirit' advised in the text, is the consideration that the poorest of us have, all that is indis pensible in life. We make a great . ado about our hardships, but how little we talk of our blessings. Health of body, which is given in largest quantity to those who have never been petted, and fondled,and spoiled by fortune, we take as a matter of course. Bather have this luxury, ami" have it alone, than," without it, lookout of a palace window 'upon parks of deerstalking between foun tains and statuary These people sleep sounder " on" a straw mattress than fashionable invalids on a couch of ivory and eagles'-down. The DINNER OF IIKItBS tastes better to the appetite sharp ened on a woodman's ax or a reap er's scythe than wealth- indigestion experiences seated at a table cov eretl with partridge, and vebison, and pineapple. The grandest-lux ury Cod ever gave a man is health. He who trades that oil' for all the --palaces of the earth is infinitely cheated. We look back at the glory ol the last Napoleon, but who would have taken his Versailles and his Tuileries if with them we had been obliged to take his gout? " )h," says some one, "it isn't the grosses pleasures I covet, but it is the gratification of an artistic and intellectual taste." Why, my brother, you have the original from which these pictures are copied: Yhat is a sunset on a wall com pared with a sunset hung in loops of fire on the heavens ? What is a cascade silent on a canvas com pared with a cascade that makes the mountain tremble, its spray as cending like the departed spirit of the water slain on the rocks? Oh, : there is a great" deal of hollow af fectation about a fondness for pic- . tares on the part of those who never appreciate the original from which the pictures are taken." As though a parent' should have no regard lor his child, but go "into ec stasies over its photograph, i Bless the Lord to-day, () man ! O woman ! ... . that though you may be shut out from the works of a church, a Bier stadt, a Huberts, and a Raphael, you still have free access to a srallery grander than the Louvre, or the Luxemburg, or the Vatican the royal gallery of the noonday heavens, the King's gallery of the ' MIDNIGHT SKY. Another consideration leading us to a spirit of contentment is the fact that our happiness is not dependent upon outward circumstances. ; You see people happy and miserable . amid all circumstances. In a fam ily where the last loaf Is on the table, and the last stick of wood on the fire, you sometimes find aeheer- lul confidence in God, while in very fine place you will see and THK OUKATKST LAWYKliS of Bible times, through fear of dying-, hangs himself. The -wealthiest man, forty years ago. in New York, when congratulated over his large estaJe, replied: 'Ah! you don't know how much trouble 1. have in taking care of it.' Byron declared in his last hours that he had never seen more than twelve happy days in all his life. 1 do. not believe he had seen twelve minutes of thorough satisfac tion. Napoleon I. said: "1 turn with disgust from the cowardice and sel fishness of man. I hold life a horror; death is repose. What I have suf fered the last twenty days is beyond human comprehension."' While, on the other hand. to show how one may be happy under the most disadvan tageous circumstances, just alter the Ocean Monarch had been wrecked in the Lmrlish channel, a steamer was cruising along in the darkness, when the captain heard a song, a sweet song, coining over the water, and he bore down toward that voice, and found it was a Christian woman on rplank of the wrecked steamer, sing ing to the tune of St. Martin's : . " Jesus, lover of mv ,soul, Let rue to thy bosom fly, While the billows near me roll, White the tempest still is hi;h. The heart right toward Cod -.and man, we are happy". The heart wrong toward uml and man. we are un happy. Another reason why 'we should come to this spirit inculcated in the text. is the fact that all the ditl'er enco ofearthlv condition are trausi- tnvv The houses you build, the hind you culture, the places in which you hnrter. sire soon to u-o into other hallo's.' However ' hard you may have it now' if you area Christian the scene wUl soon end. Tain, trial. persecution never knock at the door of the grave. A coffin 'made out of pine boards is just as good a resting place as one made out ol silver mount ed mahogany . or rosewood. Co down among the resting places of the dead," and you will find that though people there had a 'great, difference of-'worldly circumstances, how they are all alike unconscious. The hand that, greeted thsenator, and the president, and the king is still as the hand that-hardened on the mechanic's hammer or the manufacturer's wheel. It does not make any difference now whether there is a .plain stone above them from which the traveler pulls aside the weeds to read the name, or a 'tall shaft springing into the heavens as though to tell their virtue to the skies." In that silent land' there are no titles for great men, and 'there are no rumblings of chariot .wheels, and there is never" heard the foot of the il ioco The Eirvptian guano which is thrown on the fields in the cast for luoent of t lie soil, is the dust raked out from the sepulchers ol kings and .lords and mighty men. O the chagrin ot those men it tnej had cer known that in the alter ages of the world they would have been called Creat! William the Conqueror Frederick II ! Louis XVI ! No an swer. I will call the roll of the poets Robert Southey ! Thomas Camp bt 11 ! John Keats ! Ceorge Crabbe ! Robert Burns! No answer. I will call the roll of artists : Michael Ann gelo ! Paul Veronese ! William Tur ner! Christopher Wren ! No answer Lyes closed. Lar3 deat. Lips silent Hands palsied. Scepter, pencil, pen sword, put down forever. Why! should we struggle ;or Sl"CH HAFBLKS? Another reason why we should culture this spirit 'of cheerfulness is the fact that Cod knows what ia best for his creatures. You know what is best for your child. Ha thinks v.ou are not as liberal witl him as vou ought to be. He criti cises your discipline, but you look over the whole held, and you, lov ing that child, do what in your del liberate judgment is best for hirnj. Now, Cod is the best ol lathen Sometimes his children think that he is hard on them, and that he is not as liberal with them as h ; might be. But children do net know as much as a father. I ca l tell you why you are not dargel r affluent, and why you have not been grandly successful. It is be cause vou cannot stand the tempt?. tion. If your path had been smooth, you would haye dependejd upon your own surefootedness ; but Ciod roughened that path, so yqu have to take hold of his hand, if the weather had been -mild, yqu would have loitered along the wat :r courses; but at the first howd of tl ie storm you quickened your pace heavenward, and wrapped around vou the warm robe ot a bavioui ri-rhfeousness. "What have all these inducements to a spirit of JUDGE lVJlllVUUllltJlllj, A ililtV LH v 11 lain morning the human race is divided into two classes those who scold and those who get scolded. The carpenter wants to le anything but a carpenter, and the mason anything but a mason, and the banker anything but a banker, and the lawyer any thing but a lawyer, and the minister anything but a minister, and every body would Vie happy if lie were only somebody else. The anemone wtints to be a sunflower, and the apple orchards throw down their blossoms because they are not tall cedars, and the scow wants to be a schooner, and the sloop would like to be a seventy- four jKMinder, and parents have tue worst children that eyer were, and cyerybo4.lv has the greatest nnslor- tune, ami everything is upside down, or Koing to he. Ah! my frieiRls,you never make anv advance through uch a spirit as that. Y4u: cannot .Vet yourself up; you may fret your- elfdown. Amid all this I done?" says the wheatsheaf to tljie farmer, "what have iMone, that yiu beat me so hard with your flail The farmer makes "no answer, bpt the rake takes off the straw, and the mill blows the chaff' to the winjd and the golden grain falls down tit the toot ot the windmill. Atteri while, the straw looking down from the mow upon the golden grain banked up on either side the floor, . . i understands why the farmer bdat the wheatsheaf with the flail. Who are those before the throni The answer came : These are th who. out of verreat tribulation had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." Would Cod that we could understand that KUSSELL'S. LETTER. 4 i RATING 4)F TONES j I strike this string of the j Cospel harp : "Co4lhness with contentment is great gain. e brought nothing into the world, and it is very certain wre can carry nothing out ; j having food and raiment let us therewith be content." Let us all remember, jf w'e are Christians, that we are going after a while, whatever be our circum stances now, to have a glorious va cation. As in summer we put oil our garments and go down into the cool sea to bathe, so we will put ott these garments of flesh and step in to the cool Jordan. We will look around for some place to lay down our weariness ; and the trees will say : "Come and rest under our shadow ;" and the earth will say ; "Come and sleep in my bosom ;" and the winds will say : "Hush ! while I sing thee a cradle hymn ; and while six strong men carry us out to our last resting place, and ashes come to ashes and dust to dust, we will see two scarred feet standing amid the broken soil, and a lacerated brow bendinpr over the open grave, while a voice, tender with all affection and mitrlitv wfth all omnipotence, will declare : "I am the resurrection and the life : he that believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he livp" Comfort one another with these words. "Why He Declines the Nomination i'or Supreme Court Justice. Wilmington Mrsaeiiger. Mr. J. C. L. Harris "Stirelary Slate Bqjublican E.rectir. Committer, Raleirjh,N. ('.: Pear Sir: Replying to your let ter informing me of ray. nomination forj Justice of the Supreme Court by the late Republican State Conven tion, and thanking the party for the honor conferred, I write to say that I decline the nomination for reasons, some of which appear in this hotter. r irst. Some years ago. .when on the Circuit Bench of this State, 1 held in a published opinion that persons or corporations engaged in the business of carrying or serving the public had no right to discrimi nate ?,gainst any.class or person on account of their nationality or color. but having received from them the same pay as irom oiner persons were bound to furnish equal (though in any proper case separate; accom modations. This ruling evoked much bitter and violent abuse from. Democratic speakers and papers who were then, as now; engaged in drawing the color line.i 1 suggest, therefore, that the jtirty hatl belter take for this nomination some law yer of whom it canniot.be charged that he has decided the;, law. as it is and as it always will be in commu nities fairly entitled to be ranked as civilized. The force of !this sugges tion will be the b-tjer ;appreciated when it is renumbered that man election subsequent to Unit ueci.aon the Democrats madeiit tm-issue and beat us. They beat us on tin-actual and honest vote. SoutHem chclioi; funds-were not!' as .haljilua!. .asy. natural and sale then ia- l e y a re iv Oil ter- OrR TRIALS are the very best- thing .for us. llf we had an appreciation of that truth, then we should know why it was tl at John Novra, the martyr, in-the vary inilst 4f the tiame reached down arid picked up .one of the fagots that. Was C4nsmning him, and kisscMl it, aim said: "Blessed be Cod for the tiinc when I was born to this prefernieni. Thev who sutler with him on eafth shall be glorified with him in heavtn. lie content, then, withsuch thu gs as you hae. Another considertion leading us to ihe snirit of the text is the'assurai ce that the Lord will provide somehoky Will he who holds the water in tine hollow of his haml allow his childien to 4lie of thirst ? Will he who o ns the cattle on a thousand hills,, ajnd all the earth's luxuriance of grin ami fruit, allow his children to starte? Jo out to-morrow morning at o o cl ck into (he woods and hear the birds chant. They haye had no breakfa st, they know not where they will di ie, they have no idea where they ill sup; but hear the birds chant at 5 o'clock iii the morning. "Behold 1 he fowls of the air; for they sow n :t, neither lo they reap nor gather into barns, vet your heavenly Father f'e id ol h them. Are you not much better than thev ?'" Seven thousand people in Christ's time went into the desert. Thev were the most improvident pbo nle.ever heanl of. ; They deserved to starve. They might have taken fdod onomrh t4 last them until they got l.rw.r-' Xntln'iKr did thev take. I A . - - - - - . - i w hid who had more wit than all Lftf them nut together, asked his mother that morning for some loaves of broad and some fishes. They were put ldto sntehol. He went out into tihe 4lesert. From this provision the SEVEN THOUSAND WERE FED, and the more they ate the Inrorpr the loaves errew until the ptO' vision that the boy brought in one satchel was multiplied so he could EGYPTIAN GUANO." Oh how much worth now is the crown of Cesar? Who bids for it ? Who cares now anything about the Amphictyonic council or the laws of Lycurgus? Who trembles' now because Xerxes crossed the riene spont on a bridge of boats ? Who fears because Nebuchadnezzar thun ders at the gates of Jerusalem? Who cares now whether or not Cleopatra marries Antony? Who crouches before Ferdinand, or Boniface, or Alaric ? Can Cromwell dissolve the English parliament now ? Is Wil liam, nrince of Orange, king of the Netherlands? No, no! However much .Elizabeth may love the Rus sian crown, she must pass it to Pe ter, and Peter to Catherine, and Cath erine to Paul, and Paul to Alexan der, and' Alexander to Nicholas. Leopold put the German scepter in to the hand of Joseph, and Philip comes down off the Spanish throne to let Ferdinand go on. House of Aragon, house of Hapsburg, house of Stuart, house of Bourbon, quar reling about everything else, but asreeinsr in this: "The fashion of this world passeth away." But have all these dignitaries gone? Can they not be "called back ? I have been in assemblages where I have hearei-.the roll called, and many dis tinguished men have answered. If I should call tne roll to-day of some of those mighty ones who have gone, I wonder it they would not answer, I will call the roll. I will call the mil nf the kines first: Alfred the Weekly Crop Bulletin of the. X" C. Weather Service. PvALElGH,N.C,Jllly 14, 1SS.S. Rainfall In the eastern and cen tral districts there has apparently been an average amount ot rainial during the week, which has espe cially been favorable to cotton and grain, and somewhat unfavorable to tobacco. In the western district there has apparently been a lefi ciency of rainfall, but crops have not been very unfaVorablv affected. A little more rain would undoubtedly improve the condition ot all crops m this district ; Temnrralure and Sunshine.- in all districts there has been an excess of temperature and sunshine which has been very favorable to cottonl The dry weather has given larmers an opportunity to work their crops, which were sunering irom eeus and grass. REMARKS. Raleigh, Wake County. "Cotton do ing: well. Corn sintering lor rain. Pittsboro. Chatham voumy.-roi ttio mist seven avs there has oeen -"v; ... 1- no rain only enough to iaj uie oust Corn in many localities is puttering verv much. Some localities have had no rain but very light' showers since .Tune '!." Monroe. Union County. Mth onlv a slight rainfall, continued high tonmerature. ami much hot sunshine nil evnrJ hilVO POCn UnrdNOI UOM Ul- tected the past week at this station together with a small area of the county. Portions of the county 4lry sit. the last report ha4l good rams on the 10th, and thcalove unlavorable conditions apply to a stin ies aiea, probably toonbronc-Mtli ot the enure county." Oxford. Grancilte County. (.ran- ville'countv has about 70 per cent. of a crop ot tobacco standing in some few sections. Ihe only cnance ior a good crop is very favorable sea sons. County. now. Thev relied ma rorism. They made r.ice anupatliie. so hot that no white! map hr d vote the Republican ticket unless he had some of the qualities of a i. to. The percentage of heroes was not large enough to save us. j Second. 1 do not want the olhVe of Supreme Court Judge ami would be driven to decline it if by some unfore seen miracle I should be elected. The work is t4 big and the pay toolittle. Third. I have been invited to speak in some of the Northern. Stat4-s 4 hir ing this campaign. : Should I do so. it would embarrass the t'mktit were 1 on it, for I should tell the North'.! hat neither this nor anv otln'r Southern Statewjllgo Republican, but that the South is solid soliil for -State sover eignty; S4il'ul for a strict instruction of the Federal Constitution: S4lid,for magnifying the powers op Ik- States ami minimizing the powers of the nation; solid for ilenal localizing this cpublie and making a league ol independent States boujid together inlv by a treaty calU'tl ttje uhisuiii- ti?h: solid for striking down t he ( on- titution as Washington lain! Hamil ton and Adams made it, and as Mar- hall and Story 4-onstruei it. and tor putting in its place a t; onsui in ioa according to Calhoun ;iik Jetf Davis : olid for reconstructing the Supn-nie ... 4 1 Court so as to vitiate tla-swar amenii- iiieiit-j. w-hieh tli4 South has always ......... , ..... , - , leclareil to lie unconsi hut lonai ami i void: solid for writing: it in tiu'j futiire ami permanent ; history of this! C4 mnt rv that in the civil war the! South fought for Ha Const l- tution and the North against it ; solid for nullifying the Constitution by holding representation in 'n gress and the electoral col.lcge against its 'express mandates; solid for- the right of South Carolina to count ner .disfranchised . negroes for I-'ederal representation, thereby .giving her soliil white V4 iters more than double the -.power of an eipial , nunnVr 4f Vr.vttu.rn white men: solid for the economic doctrines to which the South has been weddeil anil for wlnYh it has consistently contended for sixty years, ami which it planted in the Confederate (institution ; solid for a low tariff, to be lbllowcl by free traile; solid for destroying Northern indus tries and development, but for which the South would have ojitaincil the victory in IKG.j instead of. 184 solid for ni:iintain'mr iirnoranee among the masses, white ami black; so that the cultivated fevynay govern the servile main- solid lor raising raw niaiei iai on broad acres owned by; the order of nobility culled ! 'Soiitheru-geiitlenieii, and cultivated by ignorant pariahs at pauper wages solid for establish ing before the worm inai wnicu me South believes to be the great fact, that the', the Southern master class, are the natural and only rightful rulers of this RepuUic. True it ia that in the frontier thereby acquiring that vast and fer tile dtjinain for the extension of Southern institutions and Southern ambitions which, seeing that free labor was about to clutch from its black embrace some of the Louisi ana purchase, seized upon Texas, drove the country into war with a helpless nation and dismembered it in order that a boundless area should be opened up to the propagation of slavery which violated solemn trea ties with inoffensive Indian tribes and spat upon the decision ot the highest National Court, compelling the great Chief Justice Marshall a Southern man with Northern principles to bow to the shameful admission that there was no power to execute his decrees which, still unsatisfied, proposed to take Cuba by the methods of Attilla, Geughis Kahn and Captain Kidd,and which, when its recovered supremacy shall be secure, will propose it again and do it which demanded the repeal r ii . i: ......I Ol Hie .Missouri cum jn ui n ir-t. .wn got it which demanded from the Snnreme Court a decision dedica ting all Federal territory to slavery, and got it which passed the South Carolina nullification ordinance against the protective tariff' of 1SJS and forced the disgraceful compro mise of ls:;:i, whereby the indus tries of the country wen- prostrated and prosperity set back for more than ii decade which has alreadT renewed the sectional struggle over Federal territory by the persistent exclusion of Dakota, and which, if it carries tins Presidential election and obtains control of both Houses of Congress, will perpetuate its powi r oi-'r the North by the divi sion of Texas into five States accord ing to the conditions of its annexa tion. These Southern men with national sentiment are geographically mis placed. 1'earce and I'uehanan were Northern men with Southern princi ples. Their condition wius pitiful. Ours is worse. We are Southern meik with Northern principles. Rut thev and their comrades who, living in the' North stood for the South, well earned tin- mead of praise which be- lonus, to those 'who sacrifice them selves' ' for the sake of their convii tions. So we who spak for national sovereignty and human rights on Southern soil and brave the obloquy which results, may at least claim the respect, whizh is due to candor, cour age and sinivrn . Fourth. While I should say much on the line above indicated, I would also be compelled to tell the truth on our own party in the South, l-'or in stance, I would rise to remark that, while as a rule the South does not colored people With the lib- treat it cralitv and justice u hich'tliey receive elenee toi in tlie Nort Ii, there t he deep and dire the Southern white mit to negro rule. IS 4't determination of man to never sub The negroes ol States Virginia, North Carolina, i trious thousands among them I en Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri, n larfTp number ot white men, nem- r- Fnuetteville. Cumberland not have carried the fragments hoiie "Crops of cotton and corn notsuf- M tti? I 1- ' ft i. in six satchels. "U, you say," limes fering lor lack ol rain, .otsumcieni have changed, and the day of miia- moisture to make them grow rap- cles has gone." I reply that, what idly." God did then by miracles, ne acjes Littleton, Halifax ouniy. e now in some other way and by nit- na(j a very fine rain on the 10th ural laws. "I have been youn, inst, which affected all crops tavorar said David, "but now I am old; vet Dly." T I. .. nQiro-r conn trip ricrhteOUS tiir- Vrnnl'tin Countu. "A X C lit v..w - .n 1 Jiuiiwuiy, --- . " ,i i . 11 1 hptrfrinpr bread. thp afternoon or the ocrats and hepubheuns, are nurrai DUAU UW "ivj -pD O J I tiVVVl. 1U111 v I . lit 1 4i It is high time that you people wlfco ofJth was of much service, not only and national ana joj.u m u en .,. ;rr oKrmt worldlv oircnm- I ru Knttr.rirrlpn5 melons, itc. timents: but, although they are illC lltllUlK " J IU "Ul " ) "7 ' . . .1 . ' .1 .1 1 KnJem h'or-tiith, Countu. i ne oai geograpnicaiiy m mc ouuui, in..j j- - . - . , , . crop has been harvested and come not belong to tnai uoiu,. aggnive iuf rv.o eav thp vield will asnirinar and dominant political 111 Biiuik. . j 4 o . . ,.tm '....l 11 not be more than half a crop. Corn power which is caneu i ne .-ouin. and tobacco in good condition." which, like the poor of scripture, is Hillsboro, Orange County. "nam always wun us, auu, ;uunsc uic noor, generally on iop 01 us, nmui Count). began its demands upon the rest of . .. ' I . o . . c convention 01 the South are largely savages. We with Northern aid. and sanction kid napped them, enslaved them, ami by most monstrous wrong ile-rradi'd them so that they are no more tit to govern than are their brethren in African swamps or so many Mongolians dumped down from pagan Asia. In North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and other frontier States, there is not the slightest danger of negro government, nor hits there ever been. Hut in South Carolina and most of the cotton States there was negro rule, which was as much a parody upon civilized institutions as is the present Rourbon dominion in South Carolina a travesty . . A X- upon iree government. ow you see when I tell these truths about many of our colored voters, some of their leaders will get mad and that would hurt the ticket. So this is another reason why 1 should get off". I know there are many fools and some falsifiers who will say after reading this, that I have said that all negroes are savages and that none of them should vote. So far from this 1 say, while asserting that intelligence and virtue only should rule, that no discrimination should be made against the ni'gro because of his race, that for all of them I have the deepest sympathy, that I would by friendly contact ot the white race and by protecting and paternal laws drive out vice, crime, laziness anil barbarism, from among them, that I would educate them by National aid and State compulsion, that I would encourage them to be lieve that there is more money, com fort and respectability in honest labor than in politics, that for the educated, the virtuous, the indus- stances, and who are fearing you are enminor to want, understooa inai ine oath of the eternal God is involved in th fact "that vou are to have to eat and to wear. ...... i- ;I Asrain 1 remarK tnat me . reiigiip u of Jesus Christ is the grandest ih- -1S needed for all crops." Cionno in m.iVfl a man contenten. TTmn River. Alamance t,i,u orrotnat all financial and h n fine cbowpr on the afternoon the country in the convi :j4..i i;.m i Tf lma th snirit ir4k ir. Frmprs sav the 1 X, . and lor the hundred succeed- .1 X . : : i C 1 , ,., . , , 1 1 . j , , 1 ! . lu.. tDrU ICT 1 111 V T 1 I ' U I P T fl f ! 1 1 UHluuivo . . I w " , 11.. tV Only this immediate section nas sui- ana genentuy gut mcuj-nur... c.a fr rotn We need more, threatened to prevent the formation 1C1 CVl 1VI ' ' I , , . x t i WTheat crop not a full one. Thresh- of the Lmon unless the siave uaue ing commenced." should be legalized for twenty years rr un . i c j . . liJ 1 that, the rest of the country should uacco auuu-m j , - - . , . c . M .niivirio- th hot sun- become slave hunters tor it o into insignin cance arid swallows up the soul with i,Q V,ifrht nf heaven. O. ve WliO tliv UlUUi.J w - w I have been going about irom plane to place, expecting to find in cham ;e of circumstances something to gie solace to the troubled spirit, 1 co mend you this morning to the war hearted, earnest, practical, COMMOS SESSE RELIGION of the Lord Jesus Christ. ."There is ooWli mv Ood. tor tHe wicked," and as long as you con tinue in your sin you will be miser nWo Come to Christ. Make hitn your portion, and start for heavet, and you will be a happy man yqu will be a haPDV woman. Yetf my friend's notwithstanding shine to kill grass and weeds." Constitutional compact for the ren- irarrenton Warren County. "Cot- dition of fugitives, and got that trn nnH mrn in izood condition and lL-tncr vceU Tobacco in need of IVUlMi-fe ' rain." " H. B. Battle, Ph. D Director Greensboro Workman: I lie crops HPtwoen Mt. Airv and Greensboro are looking well The rains been timely and general. have which said "give us representation on three-fifths of our slaves chattels," and got that by the Constitution which now savs "representation on . five-fifths of our political slave is better than three-tilths olour cnauei slaves," and so takes that in defiance of the constitution which said "buy Louisiana for us" and it was done, tertain sentiments not only ot re spect, but of personal pride, because they are monuments of the right and truth of principles for which, through hatred and obloquy, 1 have contended for twenty years. To me the sight of an inti lligent. virtuous, prosperous, African citizen is as de- hghtlul as to the Southern Jiournon Democrat it is disgusting. There is no justification for the color line in North Carolina, because negro rule is imossible. Any mis rule in the few localities where they largely predominate may be cor rected' by the law-making power, and would be by a Iiepublican as well as a Democratic legislature. Our candidate for 1 Governor an nounces that he would favor a Board of Finance for all such localities a suggestion which I publicly made six years ago, and for which I was denounced by some Republicans as vehemently as I am now assailed for saying that North Carolina is a nurt of the Solid South. Fifth. I do not think we ought to run any State ticket To my mind it is clear that we should aban don the field as to the State officers to the Democrats, but preserve our organization and do our best on the contestable uongressionai uiuvikic the countv officers, the Legislature and the Electoral ticket. By doing this we would annoy and weaken Democratic leaders in their usually successful efforts to arouse white men against the danger of negro rule. That trouble bi'ing out of the way, all white men who. because of national sentimnte or protection views may sympathize with us, might come 'to our support I fit did not breafcit would certainly weaken, the color line. It might save us or gain for us several mem bers of Assembly, ami certain Con jrrcssional Districts. It would tend to remove passion, bitterness, vio- j lei ice and the danger of race con tj ids. I It would help to get us a treeote j iiiid a t'air count. What couli! we I possibly lose by if '.' In the last six teen years there have been in this State 4'iglit State elect ions. , In even one of them we have lu-en beaten, except one. and then we were fraud ulently counted out. As the result of that fraud of 1K7." the true histo rian oftheluture will write it and. il the school lnst4ries oi me Mine hall ever be so reformed as to be a , i. . .i - . i . i . record oi until lnsiciio oi an apoiu- ... . i . : 1 1 i .. . eosis ol treason poiem ui taught that for all these years the leople lived under a Constitution put upon them by fraud and force which the majority was powerless to resist. During this sixteen years we have had three elections in which we made considerable gains. In every one of them our qualified success was attributed to the fact that we had no State ticket in the field. In 1S.7S our State Committee, against the protests and threats of unthink ing Republicans all over the State, refused to call a convention or to nominate a ticket. The result was we were enabled to carry four Congressional Districts when lie fore we had only one. True we did not get all of these four Districts, but the result showed that with a fair count and Republican unity we would ha ve carried them. In 1SS-J the Democrats came near losing tlie State, but the Iiepublican party had no general ticket in the field, its State Convention refusing to make a nomination. In 1SS 1, with party lines strictly drawn, we lost the Stat' bv about twi'iity thousand. Again in ls( we made large gains in the Legislature and in the counties. It is alleged that we had a State ticket, but nobody sei'incd to know it till after the election. Now it will be said t lint all this reasoning should haw been given to the State Convention. 1 answer that the nominees on the State ticket, and (lie State ( 'oininil tee const it lite a bet ter body for calm and dispassionate j consideration of this importaiii matter.- Recently. 'Slaving the be-t of reasons for belii'ving that it would be carefully considered by them, and in the hope of aiding thenrto a right conclusion. I, as one of them, gave my views brieth , wrhaily ami i-rudely to an inquiring reporter of t Ik- Wil mington Mv-, an cnterpri.-hig ami popular iK'W spa per, w hidi can ahvay be safely relied on lobe on tin- W long side of every political qm'slion. l-'r this 1 hear that I am gn-atly blamed and chaiged with an intent ion to stab the ticket in the lini'iest ol tin Democratic party. My sssailants. perhaps, do not know a I do that the course they ndvo4-ate is just what the Democrats want us to do, and their plan 4f campaign, if subnit ted to ihe Ieiiiocratic St ate Commit tee. would be endorsed while mine would be unanimously n-ji'ded. But they- say I ought not to pub lish my views, but give them pri vately." To this I reply that I do not know how to keep a public se cret. A great National orator, who recently made a great National oratorical failure, say's tfeat his trouble was that he ilid not know how to nominate his man for Presi dent before a house of eight thou saml people, with nil the country looking in at the windows and still keep his name a secret. Neither lo I admit that the pub lic expression of these views will hurt the ticket or the party. It will help both. Will Republicans v. ho have stood in a minority all these years fail to vote because they are told that they will be in this elec tion just where they have been all that time? But you "say it will make the opposition more confi dent So much the better. They will be less apt to cheat us. Permit me also to say that I think it woulil be wise for our State ticket to withdraw in- favor of the Prohibition party. In 1881 our vote was thrown to save the grog shops. You saved them ; but just what the party gained by it has been so diffi cult to discover that tlie best think ers among our leaders, who joined in that coalition, now admit their mistake and regret that the party vote was : not given to the temper ance people. Suppose we try it now and go into strike at drunken ness and Democracy? Yours truly, D. L. Risell. Internal Revenue Clause ol'Tarin" 1 Si II Considered X. C. Delejra- " tion Solid for Ket'omi Repub licans Vote Against Total Re peal of Internal Revenue. Washi(;tox, D. C. .luly 16. The internal revenue clause -of the tarill bill was unexpectedly reached this afternoon.'' Hon. Geo. Wise ofi'ered.an amendment to repeal the entire tobacco tax. Mr. Nichols aUled an amendment alxilishing all punishm cuts for violating the law and ii partial repeal 4f the entire system. Col. ( owlcs iVered a more comprehensive substitute for this, which the chairman ruled was out of order. Then Col. Tom Johnston tillered an amendment providing for ; the repeal ot the tax on all distilled spirits made from grain or fruits. This was defeated by a vote of27 to 1 :'.). Tin- N. C. eVlegation. as a unit, voted for the amendment. Maj. Wise, of Ya.. Candler, of Ca., Neal, of Tenn., voted w ith our members. Keed, Cannon, Hill. Adams .and other Republican's voted against - this total repeal ot the internal reve nue laws. When the vote was an nounerd Col. Tom .Johnston made a point on the Republicans by show ing that they had voted against these measure's of relief. Tim House adjourned alter defeating these amendmi'nts, and without taking action on Mr. Wise's amendni4:nt to repeal the entire tobacco tax. Congressman, .lohn N'n-hols ami Mr. .J. C. I.. Harris recently made a trip to N'4-w.York presumably to get funds i'or-i-arrying on the cam paign in North Carolina. Whether Mr! Levi l Morton gaw them 'any I'licouragenient in this direction or advised them to wait until In won his suit against t he State of North Carolina I do not know. Spi-aking Nort 1 1-'The North State is m full hla-M, though the election does not con If till November. We have a biiT State to go over, and not as many railroals to go by as in tin. North. ' so it takes longer to do the campaigning. The Republican out look is 4'iii-ouraging. Contrary t4 expei-tations the Prohibit jimists arc iroLng to get ii good t4'. Their camii'lati' 'for Covernor is a strong man and will poll a large vo'e in the middle counties. lr:nving about equally from both part'n's. Mrs. Senator Vam-i- has gone to Morehead City for a few weeks. Tin Republican Senators, it is thought, will spend a g4iod deal of linn' 4I111 in. the comiiiLr week aliasing tin President for the honest tram iileut iMMi-iou 1 l'eiireseutat ivt Kentucky, says he thinks w ill pass the lloll-e by pari oft he month. Chairman Uarmim rot ( ak View yesterday ami President a long visit. It i. thought that when hind inters llltoll till- St hisiidniini-tration there w ill be two if not three changi-s in the piesent Cabinet. Attorm-y-Ceiieral Curiam!, it is thought, wilf resign and be suc ceeded bv a Northern man. Mr. l'.ndieott.'it is also thought, will re sign ami -In succeeded .by Col. Dan- ' ieT Lamont. whose wise advice has r-i i it ril iiiteil lit) little towards the success of the present administra tion Some people consiiler it Ion bt ful whether Mr. Bayard or Mr. Whitney will remain in the Cabinet. People in Delaware want Mr. Bavard to again' represent them in th..-" Senate, and Mr. Whitney's financial interests require more of his personal attention than his du ti.. :w Secretary of the Navy will allow him t4) give them. of the political situation in Carolina. Mr. Nichols says: 4';imiiiiiirn 111 tlie lire vetoes of kinritlge. 4 .f a tariff bill the hit tel le OV4'f t4 made the .M r I leve- 'oond ti nn of North Kleetric Bitters. This remedv is Jx-comintr so well known ami so ptipular U need no tipec'ial mention. All who Jiave used Kleetric. P.itters sing the same song of praise. A purer medicine tloes not exist and it is guarantees 10 no an wiai Ls claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all dis eases of the Liver and Kitlnevs, will remove Pimnles. Boils. Salt Kheum and other anec- tions caused by impure bood. WiSl drive Malaria from the gvstem ami prevent a eit as cure all Malarial fevers. For aire of Headache, Constipation and Indigestion try Electric Bitters. Entire satisfaction guaran teen, or money refunded. Price 50 its. and f 1.00 Fr 'ttle at K- "'llltkna11 & Son's ,lru' store. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Kheum Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped hands, Chilblains, tarns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guar anteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cento per box. For sale by B. Blacknall St Son. A number ot .North t aromnans, including several ladies, are in this city trying to secure appointments to posititms in the various depart ments. Miss Thorne, of Halifax, was 'appointed to a position last week. General Harrison. (jeneral Msirrison is gi-tting Ix-Her. IJead this news: (ieneral Harrison ami his family passed a very quiet Sabbath within tloors. Tin- (Jeneral rose at his accustomed hour this timrnimr feeling much better than vesferilay, but on tin ml vice 'of his physician he remained indoors - all lay ami 1 not attend church. Tin; General expressed tlie hope this evening that by to-morrow lie should feel S4 fully recovered from his indisposition as to Ik- no longer con.-idereil In his family ami friends a s'n:k man. Telegrams ami letters of mquiry contimm to pour in ujmhi Ieneral IIarris4in from surrounding cities asking him to fix a time when jM.bti cal clubs may call nn him. He has promiseil to" receive the clubs aifil visiting citixus from Springfieltl, Monticello an4l D-4-atur, III., m-xt Tuesday aneriKH n and evening. T,1,s is the only latc for tin- coming week that has been tilleil. AVirs ,1 CHjsrrirr: A negro woman named Charity-Morgan wan l.,cXro Afavnr TJlomtiSOn yesterday morning for unmercifully whipping her child. From the evi dence brought out it appeared that the mother had -been guilty of the most inhuman and unnatural treat ment of the child. It was charged that she whipped it for a half hour and wore out a dozen or more switches on it. She deniiSil having whipped it so long and said she only whipped it about a quarter of an hour, as ehe usually did. She was fined five dollars and sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment. The child was sent to its grandmother to be taken care of. v CJ