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' LINCOLN COURIER J. M. ROBERTS. ED1TOU AN I) MANAGLK. EnTEUKD in the Post Office at Lin;olstoN as tsF.coM n class mail MATTER Subscription Cash inlAdt:ance. 3 year SI. 50 t months ,r 3'montb; r, Jlates of Advertisina. Oneincb, one time. 1.00 ; 25c for each subfieqnen insertion. Two inches, one time, 1.50 ; 50 jents for each nbsequent insertion Three inches, one time, $2.00 rrj cents for each subsequent inser tion. Four inches; one time, $2.50 81.00 far each subsequent insertion. : Special rates for one-half and one-fourth column ; also, for any advertisement continued longer than two months. l LINCOLN-TON, N O. FEB. 21 , 1800 $1.50 A YEIrT THE LINCOLN COURIER AH A MAjLIF A TOAMo Since we changed the price of the Courier to One Dollar there has been but little vari ance in the Subscription list and we therefore conclude that the people who want a county paper are willing to pay Sl-oO lor it, at any rate we cannot afford to publish the Courier at $1-00 a year. Henceforth we willhold to our orignial price $l.)0 a year, "A HEALTHY YIlXAtiE" Lincolnton is a remarkably heal- toy village. A lady on the tram Saturday infotmed us, not a -white man bud died in Lincolnton from Jan'y 1, 1S80 to Feby 10, 1890. Shelby Aurora. This is true, and more- Not a white man has died since Novem ber 1888. There has never been a death from any malarial or typhoid disease originating in Lm coluton within our knowledge. The truth is and it can be shown that there is not a more healthful town iu the South. Take for instance the period of the la?t five years and we have had only two deaths of whites between the ages of three and 8ix ty-tive years one of these was from a fever contracted in a ?ieiqh boriiiQ town and neither from any local cause. Go back five years further and we have nearly pre cicely the same record. This is ie- markable for a town of this sz . Secratary Blaine seems to be ex etting himself to have sugar placed ou the free list, giving as a reason tbat sugar being one of the princi pal products of the Central and South American countries, and the bulk of this eogar being bought by the United States, placing it on the free list would stimulate trade ba tweeu those coun'ies and this and open up a market for American profilers. This is doubtless true, but if it be true of sugar why is it not true of all the other products of those countries which may find a maiket in this couutrj? If making one of these products free would stimulate trade and be to the ad vantage of the people of this coun try, wouldn't makiug all their pro ducts free, stimulate it still more and prove still more advantageous? Mr. Blaiue should be logical and not cofine himself to pnttiug sugar on the free list because it is a Southern product, in which the Northern people are not interested. We believe in free sugar, however, and in free salt, free wool, free iron, free coal and a good many other things which Mr. Blaine and his party believe ought to be taxed for the benefit of boodle contributors. WiJ. Star, Represents? iv Uaruth, cf Ken tucky, is a humorist and poked much fun at Fat Tom. Among other thing he s lid. "Mr. Caruth, of Kentucky, said he and his Democratic colleagues had discovered that "gpneral parlia mentary law" was an autocrat, was a tyrant, was a god. The speaker was omnipotent, yet lacking in one of the attributes of the omnipotent he was not the same yesterday, today and forever." Laughter Sen ii tor Vintcr's o,".'rt CoutinveJ from Fourth Pige. '1 he Senator Irom Kansas, in his speech a few days ago, indignantly denied the former assertion, and put the action of his friends alto geiher upon the high groan d of be nevolent patriotism. lie was so can did in admitting the fault of his people for the introduction of slavery into this couutry, and for its retention in the North until it ceased to be profitable, that I was iu hopes to hear him admit with equal can dor that the whole scheme of re construction was intended for par tisan Kepnblican purposes. I con cede this to him, however, and can didly admit that he does so believe and ihat, peihaps, he is the only sane man in Europe or America who is of this opinion. Taking it, then, upon bis ground, is it any wouder that the truth compelled him to say: But it can no longer be deDied that suffrage and citizenship have hitherto not jostified the anticipas tions of these by whom they were conferred. Tbey have not been ef fective in the band3of the freed man, either for attack or defense. In other words, here i a frank adnrssion that twenty-five years o! freedom and nearly as much of citizenship has proven a lamentable failure. It is true tbat he says the whites in the South are to blame for it ; that they have employed force, violence, and frand, of which I which will say more hereafter. I will only now make this suggestion: Ifitbelrue that iu States where they largely outnumber the whites tbey are either intimidated from voting or defrauded in the counting of their votes, is not that a strong argument against their supposed capacity for self-government? Are a people fit to govern themselves and others w ho would suflVr them selves thus to be treated? Is any man worthy of freedom who re quires constantly to be tutored and protected in its exercise? Is a man fitted to run a race who has to be held op in order tbat he may walk? I have, indeed, heard of a beef which hud to be held up in order to be knocked down to fill an army contract, but I have not known men fit for freedom who would be de terred from its exercise in the face ofin'e.rior numbers: The Senator says "Tbat no ether people on the face of this earth have ever submitted to the wrongs, the injustice which have been for twenty-five years heaped upon the colored men of the South,witbout revolution aud blood." More than once this is repeated. It constitutes the burden of his speech, arouud wbich is clustered the brightest display of rhetorical pyrotechnics ever employed to con ceal a paucity of ideas by the gor geousness of phraseology. Tnis rhei torical display across the forensic heavens reminded me forcibly of an astronomei's description cf the re markable tenuity of the tail of a ceitain comet. He said that its length was a huudred million miles as it stretched athwart the kies tbat its breadth was 50,000 miles and yet the solid matter which it contained could be condensed aud transported in a one-horse cart. I listened aud listened with the great est entertainment to that speech, and searched atid wondered where the remedy for the evil was and when it would be announced, and when I should see ti e solid matter of the illumination. Suddenly., be fore the light explied aud we were left in durkuess, he aunounced that the solution was justice, which, however sententious it might be, was about as definite and real as the twinklings which remain uuder the closed eyelids after the with drawal of a fierce light. Justic?, as he explains it, means our submission to negro rule. Hav ing submitted to this for so long a time as he thinks would be fair, should it prove a failue he gracious ly promises tbat he will then con sult with us about some other solu tion of the problem ! What are the facts which support this grandiose slauder of an entire people? What wrongs and injustice have been done by the Southern people to these negroes that call for the ''use of the torch aud the dagger?" They have been given the right of suffrage, not by the free action ot the Southern whites, I ad mit, but at least by their reluctant assent. Since their admission to citizenship they have been elected to both branches of Congress and have occupied almost every position under State authority. They have rontrolled entiro States ounties a id municipalities, and in every iuf-tai ce their inle was marked by failure and in n. It was a war against property, intelligence, and respectability. The few years of tut ir misrule in the, South will be forever remembered in our history tor their corruption and retrogress sion, and will constitute a damnable blot on the memory of those who authorized it, add who looked ou with complacency so long as the thieves were Republicans and the victims were Democrats. Mr. President, I know the negro well. I was boru and reared among them, and have all my life lived iu close association with them. I af firm to you, not that be ia incapable of civilization, but that he is inca pable ot attaining to and keeping j up with the civilization of the race to which we belong. At the very best, his refinement must be of a low order compared to ours. Any attempt, therefore, to force him into equality with us in the race of pro gress can result in nothing else but the retarding of the advancei ment of the Southern whites. Those who have determined to subject, at all hazards, to npgro ru'e those States of the South where they are in superior numbers, have simply determined that the wbiie man's progress shall be measured by the negro's, if, indeed, it does not result in explosion and mutual destruction. Fairminded mea everywhere may accept this as truth. The sons of Ham have had the same oppor tunities that the sons of Shem and Japheth have bad. No where have they impioved them. 'I l-.1 r tit urtfr nrltutltor T atinnlrl oivA ( credence to the oft-repeated alle gation that they are forever feeling the effect of their ancestor's curse, but this I do know, that they have been in close contact with every civilization of which we have any knowledge; with the oldest Egyp tian, the Assyro-Babylonian, the Grecian, the RomaD, and the mod ern ; in each of them we read of his presence and iu every instance he was a slave. He learned nothing for the benefit of his race from his civilized mas ters in all these ages- He has made more progress in one hundred years as a Southern slave than he made in all the five thousand years inter, vening from his creation nntil bis landing on these shores. 1 believe them incapable, for many reasons, of properly controll ing public affairs, but I do bel'eve them capable of makiug valuable citizens under the wiser control of the whites. My solution of the problem is simply, "Hands off." Let no man be afraid that if the North ern people cease their interference the negroes will be driven to the wall. On the contrary, it is your interference that causes or aggra vates whatever of trouble is infiic ted upon them. 'Such is the nature of man. We prefer to do things of our own voli tion that we would refuse to do at t he dictation of those who have na right to order. Within my memory as a child there was a strong and growing antislavery pirty in North Carolina, headed by many of our greatest and most honored citizens, some of whom sat in these seats before me. Orations against slavery find its consequences were freely delivered, and with applause, be fore the classes of our university. This cause, under the influence of its great advocites, would soon have claimed a majority of the voters cf North Carolina, but those fiery zealots of the North, who, as Carlyle says, were so anxious to serve God that they took the devil into partnership with them, began their interference. A crusade against slavery and slavevbolding, in defi ance of legal rights, was begun and kept up until so fir was the cause of emancipation over-thrown that twenty-rive years after these same great and honored North Catolin ians would have suffered insult and violence for repeating their ora tions. Men will not be bullied even iuto doing right. Know, therefore, that every speech you make, every law ycu enact denunciatory of or punitive against the Southern peo. pie, with a view to subject them to the rule of their emancipated slaves, defers indefinitely tbat state of cor dial harmony between whites and blacks which is so necessary to both. There is another way by which, in my opinion, yoa also do the negroes a great damage by your constant interference. You do nothing to increase the cordiality between them and their white neighbors. You know that their well-being de-' pends upon their being on good terms with their landlords and ern p'oers more than upon anything else ; yet you are constantly en deavoring to drive a wedge between them and to push them further apart. You endeavor to inako them look altogether to you for help. You have coddled them eo long and made them to many promises that they have ceased to rely upon their own exertions and have come to be lieve that it is the duty of others to provide for them. No greater in jury could be done to any people. So lar as the evil may be capable of remedy by removal of any kind, I would suggest that it is perfectly practicable to induce these people to settle iu the various States of this Union which now have few or no colored people. There is ample room for them thronghout the Nor thern and Noithwestern States, each one cf which could receive enough to relieve the pressure en tirely upon those States in the South whose progress is about to be destroyed, and yet not incon veniently interfere with the well being of any Northern State. Be sides, if the presence cf negroes in superior numbers does amount to a positive evil in the South, I submit that it is the duty of the other States to assist them iu removing or so distributing the evil that it snail be harmless. If the negro is a good thing we are willing to di vide him up. Laughter. There is plenty of him to go round. Nothing is wanting to the execu tion of this suggestion except the consent of these Northern States. Onehalf of the inducements and the solicitations which they hold out to foreigners, if extended to the negroes of the South, would within ten years draw such numbers ot them as to leave all the Southern States with decided white majori ties ; and it is well-known that there is little or no complaiut of the mis treatment of negroes where there are white majorities. This would equalize the conditions of all the States. The introduction of large numbers of the colored race iuto every Northern State would be equivalent to an amendment to the Constitution and would restrain you effectually from the passage ot any laws or the attempting of any kind of inrter.'sreT?ce that would dis criminate between the States of th American Union on account ot tbeir locality or previous condition of slavery. It would familiarize the masses of our people with the negro, his capacities, his habits, and his needs, and you neither would nor could then strike auy viudtc tive blows at the Southern people without its immediate reacting apon yourselves. As it is impossible for us to be come homogeneous by all being white, this plau would make it quite possible for us to become homoge neous by all being partly white and partly colored, retaining white ma jorities in each State. North Caro lina, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas would need not to surrender any of their colored people, and it would only require the removal of about 500,000 blacks from the States of Louisiana, Alissi issippi,Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina to give every State in the Union such a decided preponder ence of whites as to remove all dan ger of negro supremacy, and all fear of trouble from this source. What say the Republican Sen ators to this ? Of course you will Siy that your doors are open now to ail who may see proper to com-', but that is not t-uffi :ient to induce them to remove. Are you willing to offer them some special induce ment? Are you willing to vote monej out. of the Urdu- i States Treasury to pay their expenses and to support them for a short time until they can get a start in their new homes Surely, you will demonstrate your sincerity in some practical, helpful way, and not con fine your benevolent statesmanship to cheap words. If you will heip neither black nor white, you should, in common decency, bold your peace. Mr. Cleveland has been inter viewed by the Baltimore Swi. He talked about the Australian billet and tariff reduction. Of the former he said like a brave honest man he is: "I have never debated in my own mind whether the removal ot trick, ery from the voter would injure or benefit the Democrat party. Ballot reform is right, and tbat is why I think it should be adopted." He is as enthusiastic as ever for tax reform. Xew England want it Stopped Washington, Frb. 17. The Senate today listened to a continu ation by Mr. Blair of his speech upon the edocational bill. Mr. Dawes presented more than 240 petitions from Massachusetts saying that over 800,000 gallons ot intoxicating liquor are annually ex ported from the United States to Atiica, and praying that uuder that section of the Constitution which authorizes Congress to regulate commerce with foreign nations, this traffic should be stopped. The pe titions were refered. Among the bills passed was one appropriating $40,090 for a statue of Jan. Madison in Washington. At 2 o'clock the educational bill was taken up aud Mr. Blair ad dressed the Senate for three hours. He said the bill would compensate the South in some measure for the passage of the dependent pension bill now threatening, which would distribute 20,000,000 to $30,000,080 almost exclusively in the Northern States. , The cures made by Radam's Mi crobe Killer are in many cases con sidered almost a miracle. If the doctors can give you no hope,try itl For sale by John Reedy & Co. sole agents, Lincolnton. Congressman Want the Gov ernment to Pay the Doctor's Bill. Washington, Feb. 17. Represent tative Capman, of Michigan, introi duced iu the House to-day a bill for the remuneration of a Detroit phy sician for discovery of a cure for la grippe. The bill retires that this doctor has made, a notable discov ery in the tieatment and cure of sporadic poeumoaia, and l-i grippe, which is of e uch a nature that it cannot be protested by pitern or orherwise, and directs that he be paid a (blank) sum ot money as a just and suitable remuneration for discovery; which shall be made public for the benefit ot the people of the United States. Phila. Pa., March 4tb, 1890. Dr. Kit k: Dear Doctor I had a violent attack of gravel, afterwards had pains acres small of my back, extendiug around my side; my sto mach was disordered, bad taste in my mouth, tongue coated : was com, pelled to stop woik for a few days. I took the Microbe Killer according to your directions, and was soon feeling all right again. We always keep a jug on hand to take when we get cold, or for auy emergency. R. P. Mogridge, (with B. Shoema ker.) For sale by John Reedy & Co , sole agents, Lincoluton. 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