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'I,-: . ft .Wn.tlt fit jftflUtttit .l&tflii advocated the rcccp .t Convention movt- . I - met In November, 1870,r knowing thai inability, to seeat that moment entirely interest on ? the public debt would re- true. This, however, we opine to be qu i re prompt payment upon January too great a refinement to attribute to 1- Annl 1. and Julv 1. 1S711 and that I these centlemen ' and Drefer our own thrw wlm fliniwht f hov hnil : ' l. ti , i " - 7 j i : tr- . in neiuiiK w 1 favor of that measure, it is certain that if the Convention were called, it coqld j explanation as above. Certainlythey know him best, his vote was massed in I sling, upon the otner, " . I those jp&pcf? fWS they proclaimed it to bo such. It was not act in time to relieve them of their do notice the way of escape! Every- favor of the iK)Ucv'wliicli';"'fQr form, and with armor Uttering I fear,' tnerexorehap -i au tne great oug-ocar rcuea upon 10 irignt- 1 uuiy in regard to tnese instalments, 1 npay Knows mat. en the people from their propriety. J yet, after avowing a knowledge and From the inauguration of the Conven- keen appreciation of their duty under without Inter- Fytterill Street. Mt'id Of ItALElQHf AUGUHT Ol. 1871. The Grand Duke Alexia of Russia and! suite have sailed from Cronstadt for New York city, and will bo due there the early part of October, The Wisconsin Democrats .met .in State Convention at Madison, on the 23d i nstl A "new departure" platform was adopted. Jas. Il. Doollttle wan nomi pated for Governor, j ment, thought that the condition of the debt was : an im eratitc argumad in at the recent election is in many ways creditable to him. In 18G3, to all . expectations upon the partt ,of those who thought they had reason to men vatin , long vers in 'poUteC-tetteMS? lip ulal 'Url nfinhilitvi eloauence, and cap u- .-7. afm0st'un to in PrcbV " your, w,uirv "" - r "i - rr ' i, i-.no - " ,i irofvi to warn tne uaer- personal gius. V4-f were -tr- m!g ofjuror,; who side was Bight, with simpie -r "iY":he tlitlcal party of' which 111 Ulli" 1 uu6 , ii,jiiKw? in The Board of Trade of Louis ville,Ky., held a special meeting on Thursday ind adopted an appeal to Congress to refund the taxes on cotton paid by the Southern States in 1C85, 18CG and 18C7., tion campaign, in February last, to the day of election, the canvass was, in a great measure, a set of variations played upon the following passage in the Legis lative address : - ! "There is one overwhelming considera tion to which we invite particular attention, and which of itself, renders the call of a Convention, in our opinion, an imperative necessity. One of the most striking pro visions of the present Constitution has never been enforced, and yet it contains a direct mandate to tne uenerai a- the Constituton, and parading their honor and their oaths, they wind up by suspending the Constitution upon the very point involved. "We can and we will'?. they, say emphatically ! " Upon the whole then the People are safe? .; A question remains, nevertheless, whether whilst the General Assembly were around, impeaching, last winter. whether it was an inspiru- This suspension, be it observed, was not a pretence by the General Assem bly, or by the Governor, or "by the Speaker; of the House, and President of the Senate," which latter persons are rj1 1 perhaps as competent to that as to they did not,1 among" others, impeach ability to do it, is a matter for sincere themselves, ana wnetner tne aoove aa- congratulation amongst all men Who him political freedom. The recent vote J deadly. isjso far.proof.thatin any struggle which the long threatens that political eOualitv. I he was triumphant! sit -11 . . 1 11 I Irnjlinol nr whether . r . !. I .. ... A -rA! Arnra whlrfl 13 DOl posesl for its defence, so lone as ne tion 01 inut nuvm.v , can do this," he is In great measure safe. That he has given , such evidence L of , Ilia V? A VIA a-'-' o . ItTll auw- vw . i m As ever happens everwhere, w J 'this investigation as, free from Tlie attention of our readers Is direc ted! to -Uie correspondence in another column between J. Z. Falls, of Cleave land county, and IIU Excellency, Gov. TodB. Oddwell.-The reply of the Governor Is exceedingly appropriate. It will probably be of some service to the Ku Klux of : Cleaveland and Buth- ford. ' ' ,f 'I': - ' and Dositive sembly, which men of common honesty, rarftrdful of their oaths, and who feel bound by the opinion of our Supreme some other functions assumed by them Court In relation to the limit of taxation, Af it U a. Rn5TWnsinn hti resrtfu- know not how to disobey. It is in these j latf u 13 a suspension oy resocu- words : "The General Assembly shalL by (ton of a caucus of the Conservative Par- appropriate lejrlslaUon and adequate taxa- This is! as it should be, for the in dress be not the record of such im peachment, the judgment having been solemnly awarded, after a long and patient hearing, by the People, on the first Thursday of this present August? "We may discuss this matter farther, at some other time. wish him well. Liberty is hot an alms. to be bestowed by another from time to time ; it is a right, which remains in esse only so long as its possessor values, sruards. challenges and vindi- ot enter from :but. kaemn dath in this augus j pres ence to niakeatruedeliverance between f?Rtite and the accused, I'deterrmned. UUUU1 r'" 4f ..J inred fn rov helper, to render a true far from every one 01 imrttial Verdict redetermined t6 menoticountyofCea JsiDle,what I had . resent liow much is possible for the Vrom every other source, and look in defence of their rights. They were pi opposed to a Convention, and, not- Jrconvinced .beyond the w?fiiafinHn all that had been pre i-jrtT, nt a. doubt.' that during the Hnnn in Caswell ! to overawe Hftd intervening between the Lautumn. them toev have made their views to f 1868 and the iS2 ' tnem, iney vcuia"0 , , t 1 1...,, Ian7 wflq nnt adeauate to the pro- payment or tne interest on i and regular e public debt." We know very well that any such tax would crush tho people into the oust. Yet we have talf en an oath which cannot be ful Alled unless we do make such a levy; and way or escape. a Convention, as honorable men, we see no waj unless the people will Call A gentleman writing from Chatham county, Aug. 2Ut, says : b The article in the Era of Thursday, the 17th Inst., headed the proscription of the Radical Conservative party," is moo lathing I have been long look ins? and wishing for, and have often wondered why the Republi can prow of the State would not place the word Radical where it rightly belongs, on tha'Bxtrefno men of tho 8Ute, the Conven tion men, and xocp it there.", . . - i r . ,The Supreme Court of , California has uccuieu uia& a potxpunuieiu buuuiu have been irranted in a case' where it I uiw shown that the counsel for the de fendant was prevented from attending by . dangerous Illness , in his . family. TbeL cane; in point having resulted in favor of the plaintiff, the Judgment of thelCourt below 'wa reversod and a new trial ordered,. - . ' j . . and relieve us from the dilemma, by chang ing the Constitution in this particular. we cannot believe the true and honest people of North Carolina expect us to violate our oaths. We therefore appeal to -them to come to our rescue, and their own ! Let a Convention be called, that the constitutional revision respecting tne public .Debt may altered, and the debt itself put in the way of being compromised, or otherwise adjus ted, as the people may deem proper. If steps be taken towards the accomplishment of these things, we can and will delay any action hi the premises until after the Con vention has perfected ita task. But if the people themselves refuse to oall a Conven tion, and to amend the Constitution by striking out the aforesaid ' provision, how can we avoid interpreting their action to mean that we must proceed to execute that provision, and levy upon them a tax too grievous to be borne T , We beg . the earnest attention of the people to the foregoing con siderations." ; : . suspension of one or more provisions of the Qtate Constitution, can be a conservative measure only where done by a Conservative secret society. It re quires such high endorsement to pre serve it from the charge of being a pre tence destructive of all law. Some The recent election is fruitful of pleas ant topics for discussion; We will do no more than enumerate some of them, placing them upon record for future elaboration, perhaps: It was an unnnecessary, as well as an impertinent application to the people. The rebuff has been based, in a great Party would, in fact, and with the eyo are conscious rf thA TWfpral Hnvprnrnfint nrton them. I It is a matter for fi j.i.L -o-- ,oiArifv nnon the gen- 0 j it ia sufficient to say . that the : and henceforward : vwy snenn 'strength 1 1 sworn l; i r 'Tii they Now.whether or not the Conservative era! question januii- " "T,wtll j rn duty it was to preserve the peace have undertaken to interfere with the political rights of the colored man,may be questionable; but, that there are 'no favorable precedents in history for a people recently freed, to entrust their j fortunes into the hands of a party unau gurated for the sole purpose of defeat ing their attempts for freedom, is un- 3 their ownstreng . ngihe .violators of law to Justice, general xngratula- X, adding ,to his own. evidehce, measure upon a conviction of this on Conservatives frequent secret societies the part of the people. In old times, whose objects are to suspend the pro- the people of North Carolina had been visions of the Constitution as to the used to being asked, during the canvass proper political ' place " of the colored for the Assembly, whether they wished questionable I The repentance, in the man,' and to make him "know his such Assembly to take steps for calling J case before us, is too recent, and affejets ptac,, as declared by the fundamental a Convention, or . for amending the j fundamentals too much, to render it decrees of such societies: other con- Constitution and, so, too, having the wise that friendly protestations hy the result of. such election operate as in structions for or against such measure. This was" not so here. Elected upon tion and we tnereiore, .;wub"7 memoer vi udvvxv vj.v.v.. . w ! The Mm upon the been distributed very generaUy in, an ourd jnaitreated and murdered ciU- sections of the States Probably, more Jf the )unty and destroy ed their than 30 000 white vptes havo been property and caused themjo abandon tnan w r,; Tr,tx of these thefrhomes, for , no other reason than counted in the majority. J orwese their gwiw. incurred the displeasure facts are very agreeable to us. ? v it" Vnarauding midnight band of servative secret societies, we -see, sus pend; other constitutional provisions. The principle running through all Conservative Party. should be repaid with more than similar coin.. Except Republican, the i recent l"Jr were up pressed the EepUbUcanirarty very .mirpi whlppin n, or that no one i peace anu oma mi?,"1 Ui' i. i ' I tAnnr wMintv. were also of, this orrmn- of S lt, coma oe u VToiTd t is in proof that them Tlds address was signed by. 105 Con servative Members of the present Sen ate and House of Kepresentatives. A plain man might suppose that in the ae- tual circumstances in which the recent election has placed these gentlemen, a tax. bill of the proportions indicated in these societies is the same : in practice, certain grounds (perhaps, in view of they can decree the suspension of any what has followed, we might say, prer f surprize, and : ill temper. this would constitutional provision that is offen- I tenses) the members of the Assembly seem undeserving of a pause in our dig sive ; even if in protection of life itself I ' they can, and they will, " and we may add, they have! But, unworthy of intelligent consci entiousness as this avowal may be, it no doubt deprived their appeal of much of the force that otherwise it would have had. '.. The British Parliament was pro rogued on tho 21st, until Nov. 7. The Queen's speech was read in the Ilouse of Lords. .Bhe alluded to the recent use of the royal warrant, the condition ot Ireland, the . French . commercial treaty, the II ass Ian conference, and the treaty of "Washinfrton. Tho termina tion f the old feud between the United Ktates and England is regarded by Iter Majesty as a matter for mutual rejoic- Iiitr- . - - i-- - They presented ; themselves to the the address, will certainly pass into a law I People with most piteous lamentations at the next Session and that the people I as to their condition : We have taken ari are thereby to be "crushed into the dust." Meanwhile, in fact, no consid erable number of persons expects it. The farthest that leaders among the Conservatives go,is, that such a bill, for consistency sake,ought to be introduced. oath," " we see no way of escape unless you relieve us," " ve cannot believe you expect us to violate our oaths," " we Appeal to you to come to our res cue, and your own !" It was the case of the wagoner throwing himself upon New York City Is governed: by a corrupt clique known as . Tammany Democrats. The National government is governed by Ilepublicans. i We ask the people to scan the following- fig ures: l , ' , f ' ".. No one is hardy enough to pretend that the ground, and praying to Hercules to it should be passed. We may say, by help him get his team , out of the mire, the way, that we shall watch, with in- of '.which Esop tells us. The People terest for the gentleman who intrpdu- have rigidly followed the precedent set cesit, even! Zeis to be the Curlius of by Hercules. Seeirtg that, with all their his party burying himself forever in a outcry and affected helplessness, they vain attempt to render respectable the set forth, in the very address which . 11KBT OP NEW YORK CITY. December 31, 18C9, April CO, 1871, $34,407,047 84.M1.18G Increase In 23 months $50,134,139 DEIIT OF THE UNITED STATES March 4, 1809, ' August 1, 1871, 12,525,475,259 2,283,328,858 Decrease in 29 months, $242,128,401 "! i. ... ..... , . It ,is supposed that a part of the money which Tammany has received is laid away to aid in electing a Demo cratic President next year. , . . ! ! - A white man's party in North Carolina is now a necessity a party under young; able ami active leadership must be organ iezd Moon, or we shall continue to be de- -' felted at each election. "Up with the flag !" BattUboro Advance. . ,. ; , The Conservatives are closing up their ranks. ; One by one they fall into line. I The re-orgnnlzation of the White Man's Party is a fixed fact "War to the knife, and the knife to the hilt," is the mottA of the opponents of the Ke- solemn pledge of the Conservative members of the Assembly ! ; The Conservatives have no intention of levying such a tax. The lit of ayes affixed to the address will be sadly broken, when Craige, and London call the roll, upon the passage of the bill. Very unpleasant occurrences have trans pired in North Carolina, touching the honor and character of many who have represented the people in the General, Assembly ,or otherwise,since 18G5 ; but, iii all candor, we know of nothing more unfortunate and to be lamented, than contains their prayer, that they had, of themselves, freed their consciences when involved in a dilemma the very same in principle, the People, on the 3rd day of this month, gave them the answer which in old time the wagoner received, viz: Whip up your conscien ces out of their trouble, as you did before! made the chief work of their session a matter upon which very few of ; them had consulted their constituents, and it proved, as is usual, an" Aaron's rod, to swallow up all other legislation It sums up the .whole matter , to say that, aping the victorious United States, they proposed to force ' another recon struction upon North Carolina. It turns out that they . wanted the necessary power, and have made themselves ri diculous, if they have ' not 'also com mitted virtual suicide. Esop tells their story : " An eagle having carried off a sheep in the sight of , a jackdaw. .; the latter thought he would do -like wisO, and having pounced '' doWh upori: an other sheep, became entangled in the wool, and at last was taken in this sor ry plight by the shepherd, and carried home, to be made sport of by his chil dren.' It follows that the people who, as some think, have unnecessarily been broken in spirit by their unsuccessful resistance of former projects of recon struction against their f TMffmriinnr to say that every one I j00-liQA assassins. . ' It also ' appears who voted against the call of a Conven- thevidpnee PjjSH tho tion was a Republic Who voted in favor the j recent election gives UpWarcis of sixty cases of murders, . , for the surprize that has been expressed theUD JSfmithS , in high quarters at the actual result orcontroiiing ne y - X " Pot a 'single case of trial of nri: -ivna-rm 'fempthis would for some time herealter. .,J Xr.t'-hvt!ie (urts of law. ejt- mif this! f Without fresh disaster to tne pr"rhap6, a single instance in which cussion. it is very much, to say, that i owi.( --X;- ;'rriuVlTr rl j i iHrtn ' fnr th next twelve: i ii uu li ia, i inis state oi uimujj, aw i-vicM,uic. iv wniFH 1&M it 1 1 1 till iifit, fill Nil in rnimni 14 1 i ... . . 1 1 -a " 11 i A. - ' their own liberty! Hostility, is nei followed at once, by an unreserved c fidence, and embrace. Not everi where Kindness ana a tnorougn: Knowledge oil - w -"n... , tafA each other preceded the hostility; j If after hostility good offers eoine . from the other side, there', nevertheless, and as of course, follows a period : of jealpus The' colored ., man has to say of the W J171 1 great mass of , white men m North Caro lina, that they were bom and bred in the belief that he, was unfit for political privileges, and that some three years ago, to give effect to that belief, they banded themselves conquering therein some most intense' and long continued i 1 . ta. . j I7avii nil- s nnrm w in inirii i. t iryj: s u lvjil . uid ili i m- uusxu . f-u. Augu?, , r r ; - 1 1 an injury .which it uia require years ; 1 1872.-4 hi !; rtuwi,-- " 'i I ! I to repair; pudhc , sentiment in Aia-. i 'I'Kaw iim 1 1 hd ui lr'ri iiiwikiiii i - i mnnwi anil I ji.nwri i . tt.ii itz a hula ia i iiim . We cannot find it in our hearts to lay down our.r)en without returning thanks to those, who conceived, and promoted, and forced into existence, the ? election fection seems to have been extending into other and adjoiping counties. CivU law was inadequate tto remeny the evil, andtilj became absxuytely pecessary.to resort to other means to stay, the tide, of Their political health destruction or, to rcve up Jhe directed inside of their aim party -j is a; toast with all true Republicans ! , Confusion be. to all' Conservatives who will. not have their Party to follow such I IMPEACHMENT OF GOV. HOLDEN. . They will obey these instructions! Having excited general admiration by their ingenuity in discovering and magnifying.; this point of conscience, the fact that 105 of the very centlemen they will carry that admiration higher, whom the people elected in 1870 for the by their display of ingenuity in evading expressed purpose of auellinjr public 111 11 wm runi out to Borrow an apt, vice, and restoring the State to the old paths, 105 of the apostles of the new morality, should have issued an ad dress containing the paragraphs above quoted. . j if inelegant, figure from Iludibras, that they have excited an " itch 11 upon thi matter, merely to illustrate their ability to "scratch!" ! recent success, will plucK up courage and be more themselves. A very large majority of the people will (without reference to their own votes at the late election) speedily come to value, and hug to their bosoms, the recent victory ; and this, in light, especially r I, of their finding out how notorious a cheat was attempted to be put off upon them upon the Taxation and Debt question ; and 2, of their being more and more aware, as they become more cool, of the imminent danger the State was in of a collision with the United States, and the consequent ill-effects to the character and prosperity of the com political disgusts as regarded each Oth er, into this very Conservative Party, baptising it with a new name, andjin venting a ritual in accordance with its designs. ; ' - I How many years ought to pass, be- fore, according: to the precedents of.lib- vti, by their erty, he ought to give such a Party ;his confidence? - The colored man of North Carolina owes his political rights to .provisions in the State Constitution, conjoined with the XlVth and XVth Amend ments to the Constitution of the United States. The National Party with which Conservatives in North Caro lina co-operate, regard the point whith- j er those "amendments" have really been adopted, as still a question, j It denies tnat tney nave oeen. , ucn was its latest authentic deliverance, -nd what are its present impressions may t L A t Jl J ? That the public mind is undergoing a change relative to the impeachment and removal of Govl Holden from office, is undeniable. It was thought by a great many that the action of the Legislature was prompted by the purest motives ; that' the Constitution ha dbeen violated: 1 .-...! that for the security of - futurel genera tions, and as an example foremen who may occupy high official positions in the future, Gov. Holden should be de posed. This was the opinion of thou sands of men in this State when the Senate rendered a verdict of f 'guilty." At that, time a very, large portion of j the people of this State believed the Ku Klux Klan to be a myth j that it was gotten up by a sensational press and unscrupulous '' politicians j for the purpose district . to, , the .tender, , mercies , x a heartless Ibahd of .disguised midnight , executioners. The. alternative..,, was chosen ; the military, force of he coun- , trv was called into requisition by tho . Governor to suppress violence, to pro tect life and to save property, and ;for doing this he is impeached, and 1 am called upon to pass between him. and his accusers, and for my verdict and upon mv oath I do say, " he is not guilty of the first and second chargcs."t OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE STATE. I In to-dav issue will be found the official vote of the State for arid against Convention. The majorityj against Convention is 9,2i5.; The total vote is 181,259. The vote for Convention falls short of Shipp's vote 1,G41. jNo Con vention receives 11,825 more than Phil lips. It will be observed that; the vote against Convention: is 1,4C0 less than the vote given for President Grant! ins November, 18C8. The registered Vote of 1868 is 117,G40 whites, and 78,b2S black. Total 19G,5G3. The vote total for and against Convention falls sluyrt presume more to lat in : Far be it from us to suggest that, we are able to foresee the exact manner in which they will relieve the People herein. We know somethings that they do not! If they were now to resign their seats rather than encounter the terrible al ternatives which by their own avowal, are before them as legislators, although j can do, all that they can, we the act of sacrifice .would be respectable, We have belief, hope, apprehension and It could not deliver them from the in- knowledge, upon the general topic, jury which ; the confessions of the ad- For instance,--! " i I I knrf.tttfau4r lnn th hni n L instance, they! say that if steps of the address will rid themselves of the from ; Cherokee to Currituck, is being made upon the . Reconstruction . Acts be erathered from the censure so verier- munity, no matter how brief such col- ally heaped upon the so-called "lew Departure." Conservatives in I North Carolina in the late canvass verv sen- ; mi i 1 :-tji.. i .l. cm j jluv jjcupic nave avwu, vieu yruuiu, and that ground thereby becomes the more their own I lision may have been, and how readily the Statomay have given way. the recristered vote of. 18G8. T would make 20,309 votes noi cast the recent election. 1 11 The counties of Ashe, Beaufort, Ber tie, Bladeril Brunswick, Caswell, Chat ham, Chowan, Craven, Cumberland j and tho Negro. The banner of - the White Man' Party is tnrown' to the breeze. The vote of - thej. cooreo! man is not wanted and will not be sought by , Uie Conservative White Man's be taken towards the accomplishment I dilemma by resignation ; for, it were of these things" viz: if an act submit- I easier to suspend the Constitution stiU ting the call of a Convention be passed, I farther, than to resign ; and be ratified by tho people, "ire can I : 2. We hope that none of them will and will delay any action" in' regard to I die I . , levying the frightful tax. How singu- I 3. Ve apprehend that none of them lar a piece of morality!. If the Consti-1 will undergo a translation to a better tution enjoin a solemn duty, such duty I world ; for although their conscientious- ln connection with tins latter con sideration,, it also seems to us thatTthe solid vote against Convention cast by the colored men, may, come to be so appreciated by the property holders of j the State, as having been given strictly in the interest of these latter, 'that a fine prospect for a political entente cordi ale between the two is opened up. The scarecrow of excessive taxation being out of the way, as it will soon be seen never to have been in the way, it will follow, to all men's apprehension, that the vote of the colored men, was as wise for the white property-holder, a class of makinc ' nnlitinnl ra.nitnl. . as brought to light by the Outrage e mIh.t add ftve thousand Committee at Washington, D. C, by the confessions of the Rutherford coun ty Ku Klux, and the testimony of Plato Durham, has convinced the great mass of 'the people that the Klan is not a myth or a political hobbv : but that erallv exhorted the colored mnnl to it isasedretoKramtion aRlumhArinff Vaxe, -. Davie, Edgecombe, ' Forsythe withdraw his objections to the don- volcano in the midst of every commu- ranKim , uran vuie, Greene, jllalllai, vention movement, upon the ground nity ready at any moment to deal Henderson, Jones, Irioir, .,Madis9n, that they would not if they could, and, death and destruction 1 to all who op- "RIartin Mecklenburg, Mitchell; ilont- : also, could not if they would, interfere pose thej White Man's Party.,;? r - Somery -Oioore, Nash, -New Hanover, with his rights. The amount of reli- The effect of all this has been to set Northampton i Pasquotank, -1 Perqui- '. ahce to be placed upon the first branch I the people to thmmne: about the im- J"a - Jf oik, , iiandoipn,, iiicn-7 of theproposition depended upon cbn- I peaclrment and coriyiction of Gov.'Hol- moni Bobeson, Itutherfod, Surry, . sidprfltionft nlrpjiflv nrpspnfpH orim. mcnJ Th nin Cas?fis out of AVAn ieW if 1 AJ'rlii YVaJKe. VVarren. .vvashinftonv ! Dined witn tneiact tnat tne uonserva- i nas. neen aeciqed in tn ,tive Party had tto. national existence prejudiced peoplei-rth except as a satellite dfthe Democratic J was impeached .and deposed because he j counties of Alamance, .jAlexair- xr'.!. I der.' 'Allechanv. A JL CtJL L JT UrXXVI. UlUt tUlO laUCl 'Sl. 4XX i llfCLW VAJLVJH V V1VU AJ JA.V UUVVU llk3 JLVUl XVlUi V f f UJL1VA111 for doctrine, that the Constitution of It is being talked among the! people Burice Cabarrus' Caldwell,' , Camden, ' the United States did not guarantee that justice or a proper regard for con ret, Catawba, .Qierokec,'' Clay, the political rights of colored men,- sMutionai liberty had very little to do v ' A"mous, Uurrltuck, Dup- The Asheville CUhmXes its place 1x3 s?ff ffa ness has reached an unworldly pitch, ny to injury by in- tlie ranks as a supporter of the White Man's Party.1 It says: j j . For the future we unfurl the white man's 1 winner to the breese and beneath its folds Intend to battle against the black cohorts of Radicalism until the quostion is settled -whether or not this is a white man's or negro's government. proposal to strike out the injunction ! J yet occurrences of that kind have, up to In former times the; Constitution for- the time of the meeting of this Assem bade non-freeholders to vote for candi-1 bly, been so infrequent, that new cases dates to the StateSenate; Gov. i Reid I are not rashly to be expected. proposed to amend ItwAcoording tot 4. .Without hinting at the shape in storms, as, , undeniably, it was for himself. . It 'appears from the recent j election, that the colored man, although himself, as the Romans used to say, a new man," and, therefore, to be the XlVth and XVth being only Iso- called Amendments! Noscitur a sociis : clearly, the kindness of the : Conserva tive party to the colored man was iin reliablei politically. Then, f for Con servatives to exhort the colored riian to confidence in them, upon the ground with the impeachment and conviction of ' v381011 Gates, Guilford, Iarnctt, J GovMTolden. 7einrt. nfhOhi. fh Ilaywood; Hertford.' If vdA. hTiii M revengety 'personal andpolitical enemies; i'1 and obedience to the mandates of the Ku McIowelI Onslow,:, Qrange, jpersonl , removal o the above extract, the provision as to which these gentlemen will relieve the charged as naturally "desirous of .. ... , 1 - ..M "Plato Dcbham's Tkstimont. Plato Durham, Esq., a resident of Cleveland conn ty, X. C, who was recently examined be fore the Joint Investigating! Committee in this city with regard to the Ku Klux disor ders in his Ntate. has seen fit to publish a can! in tho Raleigh (X. C) Sentinel, stating tluit there were not three lines of truth in tho evidence given by him before the com mittee, as was reported in the Daily CAroni-t-le All we have to say is that the ' state ment of his testimony was carefully ! eon- deiiMed froui the sworn evidence given by Mr. Durham, and that it is true, as report ed, hi every particular. Will Mr. Durham lo good enough to publish a phonographic report of it to the county t We dare him to do so. Washington Chronicle, August 18. who should vote for Senators ought to have been considered as suspended as soon as the first step was taken to ac complish Gov. Reid's views. That however was not the way in which the People in this respect, from what, we I lutians" is canahle of HvW..w, 7-,.- i4. ai , , o o jwkuyici, ua wuaiuciuiai, tnC am ,1,, conservative, and ra1ciiln.ter1 ert still farther this implied powernf render secure the class of property susnongtheCnshtutionoftheState, holders. We know that in communi of right inherent in Conservative secret tiM wherft hifl votfl WflS v ittxa nmuageu m uicguuuwu i "ucu , ur, niuy iuay upuie uiu Ulntotl at the recent rffifition. hA lfsfn. wit id wjw Buppuooi nuu uuivuiNU- I iiiuwuvu ait iiiv last siuu iur. i .i inffntlv tr f!ir7iec?ona iy ncid, tnat a law was binding during -ftiorris, or Henderson, lor a repeal of the pendency of an attempt to amend,as the above section of the Constitution by much as previously, and that it was the legislative method of amendment, suspended, or otherwise modified, only and then, by the very words of their by a successful issue of such attempt. I address, all ..'the -while " steps are tak- Here, however, a- number of gentle- ing" under this method, their consci men who had presented themselves be- ences will be dormant, if it take ten fore the People in 1870 as fit persons to years for accomplishment ; or,inasmuch 4 For general that his rights,' at all events, were jse- forthinkIngfair-mindedpeople,wepub Jorities for nventtonV.',yi,-'a: ril-CA iinrloi tlta X I Vf h nnrl r I hah tha nniniAn ff Usrttr-m L ' TIT T I '.t'. 1 - 1 - ' - Amendments i. e. "they could hot ment, of Robeson. ', upon thet first' and . ln ?U.B Ia?t 188116 w stated that sixty- -U it a.1 a. A.11 I i i: i . x their second articles as.preferredbytheHouse lxor the delegates elected wer6 antl-i1 inlza- ofReprientatives:' U r; i-j Convention ndn,' Vd'frfife'1: Mr. CniefJmtiandSenators:. Being Wf -called upon to discharge oneof the most X n ?nd Conservatives. The J during a should , like to seo this question embody the desire of tho latter to re- as they say in their address, that the l)otween Mr.Durliam and The Chronicle, j turn to a state of public affairs in I mandate of tho Constitution as to taxa- settled. Their statements are directly which their representatives were both I tion cannot be avoided by " men of corn ed intently to canvass, in which these .points were made to him with great plainness, and at length, viz.; that if the movement turned Out to be a revolution, and was put down as such, he. was not , so inuch interested in opposition to the call, as the white property-holder, but that he was, for other reasons, Interested to , upon the? first and if they would," all the while1 that own party, in its .National; orerani tion, held that these were no Amend- ments, Was a grand experiment upon his rrpdiilitv-and. if ;h.A hnrl owTiifzil -.7 J J LVI tkAJIUVU I ' J ' ' mrm .... W W SA AAAKs IllOb I -Kf. it, would have been a demonstration j?Prnt and responsible duties of my mnitesloners threw; out enough 'votes of his i risrhts upon him. It has turned out otner- the whole State of North Carolina, but ' e?nPadethcirreturhs In fig-' 1 . also the character and :wmntjiArt ffho UTO m&teaa' of wiitino?,'Anl tl- A7 Tk r A A J 11 A, . - - .... yixwi magistrate 01 i me tate, i reel i It to be my solemn and bounden duty to enter oiirecora tne reasons which; Impel me to give the vote which I ami about to cast upon the guilt or innocence of the respondent on the first and second wise ! This position in favor or the massed vote recently.cast by the colored man against a Convention, is entirely Im pregnable, and, upon consideration, of writing;. and a1rWi nine ; was put down by the Comniission ersforar. This elected Dowil, Con servative, when the true coiidt elects. ' Jas. tu Currie;anti. This wouidinako, mo ueieerares Ktnnri u for the reason under consideration, he : An 1L .11 A 1 J .1.11! . l r AT ..1 1 A 1A- 1 A 1 .1 .. .v- AUUlU opposiie. uao or uie ouier nas i npx imeuigen ana coubcieiiuous, ana i wno ionon i.ouey regummi o, tneir oatns," teful estimatioil of the whiie told uie trutn. , ,iie vnronicie says tne nau oeen eiectea upon tnat pretence, uiey may ano ngnuuiiyj taKe ground art fhtxi. .i t-U w w m'xxa aA i i a. m . i . i ayaav luoiAuuciiu un tir? iiial hiiii Nivfinri i .a.llul- kmipm c?iv- vote it down, and that if he did it ordy against him ihthe nftyight. We win rX.C . tne articles oiimpeachment.! j t - i - w I testimony of Mr Durham as published la that paper, is true. That it ;was condensed from the sworn evidence as taken down by the Committee. ;Mr. Durham says ; there . is. not three lines upon a stage oerore their tnat this proposiuon does not include lu . TTnnoafftn1M,f" K wiistituents, idl in a row, and declare them as they are men of uwmmon hon- dwiU maturing convictions, foun- that Inow in oiv-kirt o eT-vrwi fi fnnsrini. I Aenr'nfrnovmavcavionrlcnimillnifhof I . ded upon cool reflection on the risks conservative gentlemen, wno since recent election, have suffered them selves to talk of re-establishincr "white line." . T lav0 endeavored, Mr. Chief justice the an.d haters, throughout the whole of Wr i . this protracted trial, to give a patient AVeIcan from the Long Brah of the truth in the testimony as pub- proposition to amend It 1 The consti lLshed by The Chronicle. Which has rational provision cited by them is : told the truth? The only means by The General Assembly shall provide come out consti tuen that they can avoid a specific 'constitu- j esty; or they may say (and soundly) that, tional injunction, by .suspending the Constitution, durinsr the pendency of a . A V . mm . wnereas me aaaress nam it, tnat "we see no way of escape" from making the levy in question, that may very well consist with there being an hundred- such ways ; for, if there were such, which Mr. Durham can sustain him- by Ac, fcc, for the prompt and regu- they would not be objects of sense, and, self is , by publishing a phonographic tor payment of the interest on the pub- therefore, not - of sight. All that they report of his evidence. Will he do it? lie debt." Every child knows what is say, is that they do -not see them! Unless he does, the public must be- meant by prompt and regular. These Some suggest that, in order to make Heve the statement published by ! 77te . gentlemen formed the large,, and em-1 this true, each signer shut his eyes as he Clironide to be the truth, - bodied, majority of an assembly, which affixed his name, thereby making his by him recently encountered, the white man of North . Carolina cannot fail to felicitate himself upon, at least, his good luck in having been overwhelmed by the massed colored vote of his neighbors and , fellow-citizens. Who shall hinder good nature, and good feeling from acting their appropriate parts in such event? The massed vote of the colored man In this point of view, weespecially hail - the result in the county of Cas well: 7 Other counties afford very good examples to the. same effect, but, as perhaps will be generally conceded, Caswell the best! ' It is understood tnat in no part of the state Is the color ed man less organized, tect himself. The contest such very r.-K 7i -r" xieimooid that ho "f"1 nuu wuu greai pleasure oriri , ' "'""""S nnuer a . ???Ji3ei in, i the prosecu- sioned by his business (liffiouH:, uyu auu oi lueueience ; 1 nave endeav- that the statement u4. u V ored to divest mvself of all nrtAnA. and bias as far as it was possible for X,L , , result : of eicessive poor weak mortal man to do. t T fcnr ""nkinglis inconWt aa ,7i-- ' ,i mediate uin a . T - "f exami-.. Dr. T. i a community, and another not the accused as I should have been and NeiSxrfJUo: of unequal even in point of num- tobe." The many reports, whoacfefa? MYork, bers, and all other respects vastly let- iTmTuW ch visers in the cwM" ter equipped, and led by two gentle- ( pres before the meeti S S!
The Era (Raleigh, N.C.)
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