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Y - r The Goldsboro Star. GOLDSBORO, N. 0. Saturday, March 18, 1882. Gov. Jarvis and his Counsel de cided on the 17th inst. not to call an extta session of his blunder ing Legislators. It is thought the reason is that the political break ers before the Democratic party are rather alarming, and fore shadow a general crash in the party. We say God grant it. A grandson of John O. Cal houn in Atlanta recently, said ; "If my grandfather and his asso ciates had known as much about the negro as I know, and could have bad the same capacity for progress which I have attained from my own experience, there never would have been neither blave'ry nor war." A tragedy, terrible as it was un Drecedeutee, occurred lately at Itakos Prtlota, in Hungary A peas ant woman laid her baby nnder a tree, against which a scythe was leaning. jThe scythe fell and cut off the baby's head. The father who was working near by, in fit of rage, stabed his wife to the heart, and then, full of remorse for the cruel daed he had done, went and hanged hinself on the same trea underneath which his child had met its death. The Washington Star, Inde pendent, says auotber Indepen dent, is in the field. General L. J. Gartrell, of Georgia, announces himself as an Independent candi date for Governor in that State on a platform of "free education tor all children, opposition to railroad and other monopolies, opposition to the present system Sj leasing the State convicts, a . ecognition of the unity of our common Federal Government, and lualit.y of all men before the law." ' , GUITEAU'S GALLOWS. Gath in the Cincinnati Com mercial, thus describes the lows in which the assassin ol President Garfield is to be exe cuted on : 'The gallows is painted a light green color, and is a rather pretty piece of carpenter work. The first thing that suites you about it, is the height of the floor Above the brick ground. It is. perhaps, ten or twelve feet, or even more, above the floor; and a plain, tall set of steps, widi el ough lor tour people to go up abreast, ascends it directly as you approach. It consists of a plat form, with a large trap in the middle. The trap is half as large as a door to your room, and hinged on one side and on the other well bolted, but the bolts ie withdrawn by the action of a cord which rnns under the gal lows floor, and passes into a small, cell-window right by. A man concealed there jerks the cord, and the trap falls. Several ropes ire here7 which have been provided o hang Guiteau, sent by the ani- " 1 people in different parts ol juntry, particularly in the ahd west. Most of them .refully tied and the slip feuota arranged as if the persons n control had been hanging peo- pie all their lives. He will be "hanged with one of these ropes, for they have all been kept. Over the gallows rises a cross-bar on two supports, and the length of Ahe rope is perhaps twelve feet, so thatsfche prisoner will drop five or six feetXHja head when he stands a np to be hanged, will be, say five feet and a half above the gallows floor, and when he drops the head J I will be halt a toot or more below I the gallows floor. On the gallows A. can stand thirty or forty people, I nd it is about ten or twelve feet THE GOLDSBORO POST OFFICE. There is much rejoicing in a cer tain circle of Goldsboro society about James H. Hatcher's arrest in connection with the post office steal. If the young man is guilty as charged by John R. Smith and the immaculate ex-Poatmaster H. L. Grant, he Bhould be pun ished to the fullest extent ot the law, and this is the general ex pression of the colored people in Goldsboro. But whatsoever disgrace is at tached to this stealing, does not in any way affect the colored peo pie in this community, but rather falls with heavy weight upon the management of the Goldsboro post office and upon the shoulders of our inefficient and unlettered Post Master. First, because the Post Master employed Hatcher on his own accord and contrary to the wishes ot the colored citizens of Wayne county. Second, Hatch er was not indorsed or recom mended by a single colored person in Goldsboro, and not withstand lug the colore', citizens recom-. mended two worthy and cumpe tent colored gentlemen for the po sitioo, but John E. Smith told it in Democratic circles that he would not employ auy one of the negroes recommended, and this declara tion he kept to the letter. Bat what did he do? He picked up a boy between 17 and 18 years of age against the wishes of the colored people, puts him in the post office, and in all probability for the purpose of disgraciug the boy and the colored people in general. The Democrats and hungry white officeseeking, hom-snog-gling Eepublicans are pointing their fore-finger at the editor of the STAR for forcing John R. Smith to take a negro in the office. Yes, fellow-citizens the Star ad. vocated the appointment of a negro to tnat position, ana the columns of our paper are still open for that advocacy, but at the same time we advocated the claims of a man and not an irresponsible boy. And you, gentlemen, who are laughing at the downfall of the poor boy will have the pleasure of being waited upon at the general delivery by a colored gentleman before the ides of another March, and you mark it. Day by day and week by week the Democratic press throughout the State is dtopping iuto line in opposition to the present system of County Government. And why ! Because it is undemocratic and is not in accord with the spirit nor tiaditions of a Republican form of Government. The Ker- nersville News sees no reason why the present system should not be abolished. By July nine in ten of the Democratic papers in the State will be vehemently opposed to the unjust, irresponsible and odious system by which the af fairs of our counties are adminis tered. We are glad to see that the Democratic press have the independence and force of char acter to oppose the unjust County Government system which the Democratic Legislature enacted in 1876 and 1877. But it is well to mention here that the sins of the Democratic party are so great that the people will never pardon them. As for our part, we will give our undivided support to the inde pendent movement, and advise all colored men who live in Demo cratic connties to do the same, for we, as colored citizens, expect none of V the paying offices or the spoils therefrom so long as rings and cliques control, be they Democratic or Rebublioan. Therefore we should act and vote ior me men mat are tor a government of the people, and not mere rings and masters that grow selfish and rich from the votes. Of the poor men, black and white. For the past sixteen years the negro has lived on promises, and to-day he stands politically where he commenced, a voter and noth ing more. MAHONE'S PLATFORM. The National Repnoliwn of March 1G, publishes a letter from Mahone, and the following is an extract of the editorial iu regards to it : "The ringing sentences of Mahones letter are speeches in themselves, and will resound through the land as did his indignant defiance of the lash of the Bourbon caucus last spring. The striking feature of the letter is the bold and states manlike treatment of the status of the colored man, as provided by the triumphant Liberal party in Virginia. Witnoul apology for the fair and honorable treat ment extended to a race so long persecuted and despised and yet always inoff- uiv, Mahoue frank ly declares that the colored mau vindicates by his cuuduct as a citizen all the claims made tor him by his judicious friends, The Northern people, who long ago resolved that the negro should have political equality who have decreed in four Presidential con tests since he became a freed man that he should also be a citizen, and not a political outcast and pariah will note with pleasure General Mahone's assurance that the colored man is at last in the "full panoply of acknowledged citizenship" so far as Virginia is concerned. There is no division of senti ment upon this subject at the North, and even at the South the plea of the Bourbons for the maintenance of race prejudice as means of retaining political power daily loses potency, ma hone merely gives another proof of his remarkable prescience as a statesman in taking a position abreast of enlightened sentiment everywhere, while the Bourbon eaders give renewed proof of their title to the generig designation by which they are known. People at the North who have at times felt that the Southern Democracy were becoming liberalized iu feel ing toward the negro as a political factor will note tbat there is a wide difference between the lib eralism of Mahone and that of the taction against which he re volted last spring and which Virginia forever disowned at her November election. While Ma hone fearlessly declares that the conduct of the colored man is the best justification of his citizen ship, other Southern Senators vote with Northern Senators against the Chinese with the expressed hope that at some early day they shall have reciprocity as against the negro. In other words, the Bourbon still fears, or pretends to fear, the negro as a political power. He still feels, or affects to feel, that the negro needs political repression, despite all he has done to commend himself as a citizen. As between Mahoue and those who cherish such feelings or pretended feelings the country will know whom o trust in the charge of that race to which Ameriacn faith is forever pledged in secuiity of the political rights guaranteed by the Constitution and affirmed at four national elec tionals, and which even Bourbon national conventions every four years hypocritically affirm." In compliance with the order of the executive committee ot the Knights of Labor at Cumber land Md., the miners in that re gion stopped work on the 14th inst. The executive committee had been in secret session all that day at Frostburg framing a re ply to the companies, and con. tinned in session the greater por tion of the night. A telegram o theBrltimoreSun says: "Judge Bnstow's court, in Matthews county, has finished np the trial o! the oyster dredgers, captured by Governor Cameron's military expedition to the mouth of the Rappah acock, and 58 n jhe 60 we e convicted. War is re garded as inevitable at Constantinople between Russia and Austria. DEATH OF MINISTER GARNETT. Information Das been received at the State Department at Wash ington of the death of Rev. Henry Highland Garnett, United States Minister to Liberia, which oc curred at Monrovia on the 13tb of last month. He was borr. a slave in Maryland, and was of un mixed African descent. At the age of eight years he went north, and was educated at Oneida Col lege, New York. He graduated at the Troy Theological Seminary in 1812, and was ordained a min ister of the Presbyterian Church. For many years he was pastor of a colored Presbyterian Church in New York. He was a man ot force and ability, and took an ac tive part in the anti-slavery agi tation, in loio be was elected a life member of the Young Men's Literary Society of Troy, aud took a prominent part in their discussions. The same year he commeuoed the publication at Troy, a weekly paper called the Clarion, the columns of which were devoted to the interests and welfare of the colored people of the north. Besides his local la bors as the efficient pastor of his beloved congregation, there was no good worn or progressive movement relatifig to the colored people in which be was not found in the foremost rank. He was an ardent advooate of the temper ance movement and Liberty Party in the north. Mr. Garnett once said iu a speech in New York City, "I know of no college or female seminary in any city of the Union whose doors are open for our children. Iu the proudest days of Rome when she stretched out her scepter oyer a subjugated world, she called her favorite from the furrowed fields." No one bnt good and pare mo tives could have accomplished his mission from 1839 to 1865 ; none bat the poor, oppressed negro re members those long, dark hoars, whose sorrowful and unmixed gloom preceded the dawn of to day. Then the national and State Legislatures seemad to exist tor no other purpose than to enact oDDreBsive laws against us. The pnlpit thundered forth condemn tions towards up, and we were pronounced as enrsed in Holy Writ. The press, with tew ex ceptions, poured on the increased hatred, bnt by the blessings of God, Mr. Garnett lived to see his people liberated in America and go to his native country as a min ister of the Government ot the United .States. He was one of the purest representatives of the colored race in America, and the only colored divine that ever preached in the House of Repre sentatives in Washington City. The signing of his commission was the last official business that President Gaifield did before he was assassinated. , m i o. i From the day that President Arthur was inaugurated he has been the President of the whole people and the equal friend of all equally deserving Republicans. He has known neither Grant nor antiGrant, neither stalwart nor halt breed. There is no sense in any continuation of meaningless factional lines or designations. The President's aim, so far as party action is concerned, has beenandisto nnite all Republic cans. But it is not to be a onion of some against others. It we are to have harmony it is uot to be based upon the political mas acre of any Republicans. There are not too many voters in our party, and all have equal rights. It is now about six months since the death of President Garfield. Great honors have been paid him, as it was fitting should be done. It is now time for enough independence of thought and action to be asserted to put an end to all unmanly holding ot breath, and to brush aside the popinjays who think to enslave men with their formulas and their foolish exactions. General Garfield has beep President, and bis name will ever be spoken with th reverence due to him and his station. We would serioaaly impress upon our friends the duty of self reli ance upon their various undertake lags. We specially call attention to the need of it in connection with onr uext Industrial Exhibition. It is none too soon for. the people to begin preliminary preparations for the occasion, and, iu order to make it each a success as it de serves, we should be up and doing. It is evident from those that have preceded it that the colored people of North Carolina have it in their power to be foremost among their brethren of the South in enters prises of the kind, and to lag now would be an unpardonable offence. We can and should make our next exhibition a credit, not only to the colored people as a race, but a model enterprise of which the whole State should be proud. Banner. WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, March 6. Editor Star. For some days "Licentiate" has endeavored to set aside a few moments iu order to speak to you and the people of Eastern North Carolina through the columns of your paper. Since 1 had spoke with you the world has moved on with its usual im pulse, and great changes have beeu wroueht dailv inthn nuHnnul social and political fabrics of our republic. First, von will eo with n intn the gallery of the House of Eeps resentativet, and we will Bee what has, and is, being legislated. We will not Lave lone to etav. bnt as long as we remain we can see wnai is going on. The appor tionment bill, we learn, has been decided, and the next Congress will be composed of 325 members. This basis (teems to menr. the, general approval. Next we learn tnar aoove six thousand bills of various descrintiona hava Haah introdnced into this branch ot the National Legislature, and that tha stir below is In the endeavor to get rid of the various approprla auous. vve win not nave time to stay here much longer, as our ume lo bo umitea, one oeiore we leave, we will ake a glance at our representatives. Away over to the left of the Speaker you will observe a face that you re member to have seen daring the storm of laut campaign. Behold the man 1 He is leaning a little to the front as if eager to oaten every sentence uttered by his feN low members. See him glancing through men aud measures with' tbe sharpened, sly inspection of a naturaUbornstatesmau. He seems a little fatigued from the ordinary labor of last week, but, with all, how calm and philosophic he apt pears ; he is thinking, "will this measure now under discussion, be beneficial to my people 1 Yes, you see him, and you are satisfied tbat tbe "lone sentinel of North Carolina" is at his post, and that nothing which would tend to injure or molest North Carolina will pass him without a pro test. Do you ask his namet Well, I will give it; it is Hod. Orlando Hubbs, and for him we say three cheers, which will again be taken up andreneohoed through tbe vales and under the hill until North Carolina shall know the true, resplendent beauty of his cheracter and his great zeal for the continued success of the Re publican army. Tbe bill restricting Chinese immigration has been before the Senate for some davs. and th an ti-Polygamy Bill has passed tnat, ooay. men good wisn.es for the Stab, and a heartv crnnd cheer for the indications of a Rea publican victory at our next elec uon, we are as ever, Licentiate. Henry Clay once said in reDlv - - - . to a question, that he gained most of his knowledge, from reading newspapers. We think this hold good at all times. A man to be well informed mast be well posted unon all current questions of the day, and in order to be so posted he must read the papers. We of course throw out ibis hint as newspaper men In hope that they may be taken aud appreciated by our friends At the coming election, we ex pect to march into the political battle-.fleld with unflinching courage, V
The Goldsboro Star (Goldsboro, N.C.)
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