'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!