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DAILY NEWBERNIAN. Sete M. CABPENTj"i Editor. NEWBERIIE, N. a.UNE 1&, 1874. For Superintendent of Public Instruction : COL. STEPHElTPOOlT'oF Cba.ven ! . , i ITorlthe Senate : - -X -r-. -k T f "C XT U 1 Li A -U U rU, .ss.- For House of -Representatives : S. D. POOL, Jb.. WM. WHITFORD. For Clerk Superior Court : WM. GEO. BRINSON. - For Register of Deeds ; WM. G. BRYAN. For Sheriff: WM. C. BREWER; For Coroner: JAS. II. HUNGER. For Treasurer r. CHARLES SLOVER; For Surveyor : I ! WM. H. MARSHALL. For County Commissioners N. IL Street. Joel Kinsey, Bbyan Wjjitfobd, J. T. Rich, T. IL Maixison. GRANTS THIRD TERM. i A great deal of unnecessary controversy has been going on among the popular journals of the country, concerning a Third Term for Gen, Grant. We think that in a crisislike the pres ent," men are not so important as principles. It has long since been demonstrated that a truly great statesman cannot be: made Chief Magistrate of this Nation. What we must resign ourselves - i ,to, therefore, is an honest, impartial and capa ble executive officer, who will not consider him self under oath, to persecute one section to secure the approbation of another. Our opin ion is, that no politician who has made himself conspicuous in the infamous reconstruction pol icy of the last ten years, and who has at least given silent consent to the outrageous embezzle ments of the public money, will stand any chance of political preferment, when the era of reform is fully inaugurated. President Grant shows a power of endurance, and a vitality of fame which are truly wonderful, j His marked departures, moreover, from the destructive pol icy of the Radical leaders, shows that he is no longer the tool of a party, and that his feelings are conciliatory, even fraternal, j towards the oppressed and misgoverned States of the Union. His endorsation of Baxter and humiliation of Brooks, his hard money, Democratic veto of the currency ideas of Morton, Logan and Ferry, his courteous treatment of prominent South erners, and his well-known, opposition to the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, are all taken by Radical gossips; as evidence strong as holy writ, that Grant is done with the Radical party, and is casting his net on the other side of the ship for Democratic fish. To us these manifestations of the President, only show that he appreciates the situation, that he is tired of being made the instrument of a jacobin faction, and that he in tends for the future to use his great military fame and his enormous personal popularity, to bring peace, unity , and honor to his country. If he should have the wisdom to do this, and to weild his magic wand to restore the Southern States to their true position in the brilliant sis terhood, what a wonderful climax! it would be to . the career of this strange man, who, con sidered by almost every one to be of ordinary intellect, has yet done some of the most extra ordinary things in the history of this government. In the meantime, the winning card is in the hands of the Democracy, and they will hardly throw it away as they dioV in the Greeley nomi nation. They have thoroughly learned, that it never pays them to enter into a J compromise, fusion or amnesty merely for purposes of expe diency. They are rich in strong, true men, who are fully capable of leading them to victory, and are qualified to reflect honor upon the nation when once they are entrusted with the reins of power. It is furthermore pretty evident, from the signs of the times, that the old States Bights doctrines of the party, which were its pride and I they had to keep giving away before the Tories J of by any man. The nature of history will its gloryr before tjfe ; Dnglass pn Bttehar -pr feJMh j Briti'sh troops ; taut I jtell your nxrrp notf nUow to make a minStei? 0f feuds wasted its vigorjr j agair gp ing to 'j.a ory haJbepn killef, by pewter. Affc-y the worl of tkr great t.d goc jman; can the only bone of contention between the North haved very well, and gave my mother a guard. connected with our theme, the old toiru of and Scrathy is buried TOtf nothing hencefdrthJ'cAn'dirida mother -answered InJyy f mj mthe Legislature of the State, s ajadL Tcpoxi, splendid commercial talents and robust endur-l son's. 'What, this boy's, aod he put the hat on I memory is Yiyidlyijmpressed . the last, borough anceof the, one added tothe exquisite .political my head, which covered it up. My mother, felt election under the old -constitution the free genius and finished, moral origination of the ashamed at hieing, caught andreplied, Iiave negxoe&Jthehwexe3Uowea here are they If de- eeneral thins supported Gaston. 5 The excit- .. . . . If " . " ,;. . . - officer. She captain; tint it j this privilege from . all - Negroes, Indians, or mixed-bloods within the fifth generation. : other, we can leadfthe civilization of ,the.c Vnere are they?? de- general thing supported Gaston. nes. President lirant was a uemocrat at tne manaea tno omcer. &ne saia, somewnere me question or. tne .day was v tne taKing oi beginning. He has staid with the Radical party about the huckleberry ponds, until he' has mastered. ts plans, crushed ; its. will be dangerous looking after them. arrogant assumptions of infallibility," andmade' Thus we behold, that in les3 than twelve years A remarkable character of that day , was John it the complacent cup bearer.pf; bis own leisure alter tne completion ot Xyrons palace, our rebel j c. Stanly, a mulatto, better known by. tne nama. and convenience.-vNow-; he ' may'comprete hisk forefathers were stripping its roof to turn it into of Barber Jack. ' He was the owner of nearly an mystical piwgramme, .by. offering himself ;3to the. deadly . missiles against the oppressors :who hundred negro slaves, and though he might be regenerated Dem6cB.:n6d?fie& from his raised it. And when we look for the cause of seen among groups of our first people in .cbn Radical sins, absolved: by the priestly: act of a this rebellion, history teaches. lus that it afose versation on the streets, it was with that defex nation's gratitude from partizan guilt, and win- from unjust, excessive and oppressive taxation, ence and respect towards them that no exception ning official station among the; elect by his5 new Let future tyrants take warning from this,.and was ever taken to his company; he never over- fledged devotion to . their principles and inter- learn in time that there is a point beyond stepped the bounds of decorum and prudence, . ests.x In: order to be President for a Third which endurance is no virtue; and let them but with humility acknowledged that superiority Term, he! would still ..have the traditions of the study closely where that point is; and not oyer- of race which his own good sense and conven- government against him, : and we should dislike step the bound, like King George, and thereby tional rules required of him. . We introduce ; very much to see any man fill, three times the lose all.' About this time fell the deeply him here because, in the campaign referred to, honored seat which ! Washington filled- only lamented Gaston. Uncle Joe told us every par- he was the;, warm advocate of Gaston, and to twice. But still these are strange times, and ticular with much minuteness,' ajfi-ering, hbw- mention a remarkable saying of his, he "did ' nothing is impossible to a sharp thinker, backed ever, in only one important matted from the not see why they wanted to deprive the free ne-' by a tremendous personal popularity. . account given in Wheeler's history, but aslour groes of their votes, since they always supported memory is not altogether so retentive as i was the gentlemen." And such in factrwas the NEW BERNE! WHAT SHE WAS; WHAT Uncle Joe.g we receive the authority given as truth, for thev were even at that-day less inter. SHE IS; WHAT SHE MIGHT BE (Continued.) Our veneration for learning, and our old time- honored institutions, has ; caused us to devote more space than we intended to this branch of our subject, and has brought us rather precipi- he had made as he thought, his escape the correct one. Pursued by the Tories, ;as a ested in the great political questions that di- rebel of great power and dangerous influence, vided the whites, than they were with the re- with that hatred and malice which seems to be spect that was due the candidate. They had no the natural accompaniment of those who take use for poor "Bokras," no matter which side in a stand against their own country and people, politics they represented, but were governed by tately down to the present time and aspects. 5 by their respect and veneration for the men of getting into a small flat, and he and his comrades means, and those who were regarded as great by . We must, with the . best grace we can spare, re- had pugh(;d Qut the river hejonithe the inteUigent whites-those, they idolized and but worshipped as a Deity, rather than the humble vx vv, uuuu; ordinary range of the muskets of that day; t s , still witbin the bearing of his disappointed re- servants of the people to do their bidding. In an necessary o e comp e e lstorj o our Xentless pursuers, who jeered and taunted :him the election referred to, the contest was warm Old tOWn. , 3 ' ' a a I . . . -J: , - i t st. ' k ' Deyouna enaurance, ana ne aenanuy in return ana exciting ; unanes onepara, a young man ot , We have gathered much of our historical lore shookhissword at them,when they fired a voiley great popularity, and of the highest order of rom no printed record, for there is none such, but from an intimate acquaintance with two re markable men of their day the one still fresh in the minds o"f many citizens, the old vener able Clerk of the County Court of Craven, James G. Stanly, and have often regretted that 'we had not taken copious notes of his "interesting con versations; the other, Joseph Burney, who died at the extreme old age of ninety years, with a memory very tenacious of the events of the rev olution, at which time he was a lad of twelve years old, too young to be a soldier, and yet of 1 he age to receive thea most lasting impressions of the mind. The last time we saw him, shortly before his death, he presented to our mind the picture of a patriarch: he .was nearly blind and could not recognize us, save by voice; : his snow- white beard covered his red-flannel shirt and fell -below his breast.1' He was a devout Meth odist, and talked much of his approaching end; and there he sat in his old arm-chair, venera tion personified. We thought we . would ,try his memory j and of recent matters he had no recollection, but when we asked him, Uncle ' Joe, who did you say were the Tories about Newbern, during the revolution ? his answers were as clear as they had been more than ten years before, when we first questioned him, and would have filled a volume of themselves; but as it is no part of our mind to. recur only .to the most prominent- relating to the town, we shall present them as he delivered, showing how poorly we must have been equipped in those days that tried men's souls, to meet -King George's men : V 3.-;; ;V , - -' - ; "Why, ".said Uncle Joe, " we had no powder and ball. I saw with my own eyes Col. John Tillman strip off the lead from the Tryon Palace to run into bullets; and at that time pewter bowls and pewter ware of every kind was used, and the ladies sent in all they could spare to be run np, but with all we could do, it only made a few rounds for our troops, and from the shore, and he fell, mortally wounded talents, had been nominated by the ardent and by a random shot. The loss of such a man, at youthful spirit of the times. Gaston was such a time, was the cause of deep sorrow to pressed into the field, only the day before the the patriots; but what shall we say of the in- election, by the older and more steady citizens fliction upon his dear wife, who at the time the of the old borough, and by a very small major sad information was conveyed to her, was nurs- ity was elected. The call for a restricted Con ing upon her lap their infant, William, That vention followed, and in 1835Y assembled, ho boy, who even then was the pride and joyf of being again called upon to serve as a member. her bosom, made doubly ! so by this sudden be- Here he displayed those great' talents as a deba- reavement, seemed to nerve her :to .withstand ter to a greater degree than, perhaps, had ever the shock, and from that time the entire energies before been shown by any man 5 in, the State. ' of this noble matron was devoted to the rearing of The old constitution contained some religious this promising pledge , of their union. jith dogmas that were prejudicial to the Roman jealous care she superintended the! education of Catholics. In addition to the ordinary belief her son,i and trained him early in the was of in a Supreme being, it enjoined a belief in the morality and religion. He was brought up a Protestant religion, and while Gaston himself strict Roman Catholic,8 and never for a moment had no great scruples upon the construction of in after life seemed forgetful of his . early train- language, he felt that it aimed a blow at the ing. . He graduated at Princeton, and has been church of which he was a devoted and faithful heard to say that the proudest day of his jlife member. The appeal he made, to have the ob- was when he handed his diploma into the hakds jectionable feature stricken out, was creditable .. . . ' ' r t i i . ..... ,, of his devoted mother, who had inade such a alike to h is head and heart. His argument wa3 struggle and sacrifice to secure him the means incontrovertible, but the thrilling tones of elo of obtaining Jt. He rose rapidly to eminence quence in behalf of his religion, struck a sym- in the profession of his choice; he won not only J pathetic cord in the bosom of his associates, the esteem of his clients who employed him in their cases at law, but was so correct in hisl'de portment as scarcely to make an enemy of those against whom he was engaged. But his laurels - - -! I : i If' Were not all to be gathered in this field; he was ; elected to represent this District in Con gress, and there met an adversary worthy of his steeL He might be considered the leadet in the House on the Federal side of that question of such vast importance as the British war of 1812, when Henry Clay, that "man of men," jwas marshaling his forces for the conflict, as' leader of the Republican sidi. J And although j the struggle was severe, and the popular side of the question was with Clay, he came out? with: re nown and glory through defeat, and was ac knowledged by his great opponent to have made all out of the question that it was capable and the dogma was stricken from ' the organic law of the land forever. : When the question arose as to disfranchisement of all Negroes, In dians and mixed bloods within the fifth degree, and the word WHITE engrafted into the new constitution, as the only element for electors, jurors or official stations, it met with.opposi tion from him npon that great fundamental principle, that all property was entitled to "rep resentation; and that thcw who paid the taxes for the support df government should be heard through their representatives; but when he was closely questioned, as to how many of this class came within the scope of the great principle he applied, he had to acknowledge they were insig nificant indeed, and withdraw all further objec tion. So profound was the esteem throughout the whole State for this great, wise and good (I it u
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