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. ' ; I,- mfiriMHMTnr"-rm' i utttm TRI-WKKKLT AXI WKKKLY BY The Era Publishing Company.! Rte or f3ubcxiitiou s TRi-WKKKLTOno year, in advance,' . 6 months, In advance, - 3 months, in advance, 1 month, in advance, Wkeklt One year, in advance. Six months,-in advance, . .. : y y i urn? i. ! i i w ; tiff i- ; k wffl i. 2 oo ! I " . ; : : . ..; . . ! ieii - : : : r : : : : : : .... - .. .. ... 7 'r p ' - ?ioj Vol; 1. . - RALEIGH,; N. C:, THURSDAY, JUNE 1872. We are infonned that Hon. Thomas Settle has resigned as a candidate for I Elector at Large. ' '. -"M- T Who gave the poor man of North Carolina the benefit of the Homestead? Gov. Caldwell and his friends. The workingmen of the United States assembled in National Conventiorj in New York City on the 24th inst.i to and Vice- Presi- EHHSB3ESI No. 62. Hates Ono square one two time. - - - - - Si 00 time.-, 1 so thro tunes,-. -., - - - .2 00 A square is thk width of a column, and 1 inche deep. I . , t 4v . Contract 'Advertisement? proportionately low rates. Profeafeional Cards, not excelling 1 square, will be published one year for $, ;-,t t j , ; taken at nominate a President Increase the circulation of The Era and you deal Democracy a terrible blow. Democrats can't stand the truth. Not a single "Republican paper in ; Iowa, Minnesota, Igan indorse the I Hons. Wisconsin Cincinnati or Mich-nomina- Who labored day and night to defeat the poor man's Homestead in North Carolina? Judge Merrimon and his friends. dent of the United States, in accord ance with a call of the Working Mn's Central Union of the State of Iew ork. The Convention was called to order at 2.20 o'clock by Colonel Hed- mond, of New Jersey, who was elected temporary chairman. The usual com mittees were appointed. The call of the roll showed delegates from thirty States to the number of over two hun dred. A permanent organization was effected by the election of Colonel Gib bons, of New York, as chairman. CORRESPONDENCE. .TbeEdItor must not be understood sia enidon Hij "tlio sentiments of his correspondents.' Comnmnications on all bubjects are solicited, which will be given to the readei-8 of The Era as containing the views aid sentiments of the wntersl For the Carolina Kra. Salisbury Correspondence. Mh. Editor: Perhaps it would in terest your readers to have a word from this pleasant city of the west. No town in the country can boast of - better or more zealous working Republicans than Salisbury. f Without disparagement . to others, pardon me for naming among the true, n ,i t ti v.i: . t t Colonel Gibbons, on taking the chair, Baily Jr. .Dr. i. W. Jones, Dr. W. H. euiegizea urant s recent action in re- Jlowerton, CoL W. F. Henderson, Col. gard to the eight-hour la w reviewed f -U is, ong and D. L.i Bnngle, Esq., fcliafham Counlf ConTcnlion. Accordinsr to previous appointment. the above Gonventioi met in Pittsboro on the 25th of May, 1B72. Silas Burns. Chairman of the County ; Executive Committee,' took the chair, - and an nounced the objectofthe meeting. He then moved that B," 1. Howze be made President of the Convention. The mo tion was carried and Mr. Howze took the chair, with a brief .address. On motion of W T Guhter, Thos Taylor was elected Vice-rresiaent. j t Mof- fit wras appointed secretary and W A Loner Assistant Secretary. On motion of Kelly Mitchell, a coun ty Executive Committee was elected as follows: I . , New Hope towsship, Jesse Horton. Williams' township, W A Long. Centre townshiD.H. P Straua-hn. ' - en Bald wintownshipXClaiborne Justice. The Voice of the Southern Con- The Grant-Lee Correspondence federacy. ' In the present crisis of nublie affairs the voice of theSouthern Confederacy is enti tled to be heard, at least by the Democratic party. Tha voice has pronounced decided ly for Greelev and Brown. In the issue of his paper of vesterdav. Gen. D. H. Hill, ono oi uie advance euard , or tbe . Confederate Army, pens' the following article, which. iuu oi irutns Despatch. We give is worth reading. Cltarlotte The article from TJie Southern Home is as follows : Ed.1 to-day the lettor of his policy, and said he was the only . A great many gentlemen who display whita hats in these piping times ol peace displayed the white feather during the war. . Exchange, -For instance: Hon. A. 8. Merri- mon, Swepson's candidate for Governor. master at this place. ..1,1 . 1... 11 ' 1 I " ixiu. iuuju nufttw uy me wwk- thing to be & iiepublican ing classes.. i A series of resolutions were reported embodying the following principles: The reduction of the national debt ; un conditional settlement of the Alabama claims : enforcement of the eight-hour jie unicago uima, me leading ana law; low rate or interest, as common most influential Democratic organ of national law ; encouragement of ship Ihe North Western States, Is out against building; giving United States mails Greeley, saying he has utterly failed the; accommodating and polite Post It is worth some here. Per haps, there is no place in the South where political feeling run3 higher, and all honor, and credit is due these and many -other noble Republicans who stand by their country and its flag through such severe tests. Mr Editor, those who have never tried it know but little of the feeling of one who, for opinion's sate,- has to stem the tide of popular opinion pierced at every step by the keen arrows of so- to unite opposition to Grant. The statement that Horatio Seymour has promised to support Mr. Greeley (is denied. He will support the Balti more nomination, although he want3 the Convention to nominate a Demo crat. . Of 1A2 German newspapers in the country, but 6 thus far have declared for Greeley, and only 4 of these are daily, namely, one in Cleveland, one in Chicago, one in St. Louis, and one in New Orleans. Of i h whnlA nhmhor about 50 are daily. exclusively to- American-built ships, cial ostracism. No weapon is so severe ; and sympathy with nations struggling noTarrow more pointed. access to the best society; his own home the gay retreat of the fashionable and the tlitey cut and snubbed by these former associates, and for what? Sim- ly, Decause he saw lit to diner with is' old neighbors on the political issues of the day and to advocate what to him seemed best tor the common good. Such a picture will vgive you a faint idea of what these noble Republicans have undergone for their country. All honor to them I say, and history will record their deeds as the highest exam ples of moral courasre and patriotism. You shall hear from me again. . ; Latter. Salisbury, N. C, May 24, 1872. under oppression. j F. M. McGee, of New York, recom mended President Grant for renomina- tion. The Missouri delegation recom mended Horace Greeley. A ballot was had and resulted 204 for Grant and 5 for Greeley. The nomination of Gen. Grant, was then made unanimous. Senator Henry Wilson was then nominated for Vice President $ the following ballot : Wilson, 1G0 ; Edwin D. Morgan, 25 ; Colfax, 24. A committee was appointed to pre- '1 of A Nashville paper says ex-President Andrew Johnson is willing to become candidate for Congress for the State at large under the law giving Tennessee an additional Representative. The mends of General Cheatham wish to announce him for the position. pare an aaaress to the wormng men the United States. A motion was adopted to hold a rati fication meeting at"Cooper Institute!! Oakland township, Hadly's township,' Cape Fear townshi nail. O A.Williams. Owen Lindlv. Thomas Black- Albright's townslip, J G Fowler. . i Matthew's township, Maloyd Jordan. Hickory. Mountain township, Buck. Gulf township, jJrilo. Moflitt. Bear Creek township, John Gains. -It was moved by AB Chapin and car ried, that the, chair toppoint two dele gates from each toVnship to recom mend suitable namei for the Lesrisla ture and the county dSices. -The Pres ident appointed the following as said committee: i . Is ew' Hope J E Bell, Thos Burgess. Cape Fear Calvii Ledbetter, Thos Blacknall. Williams' W Clark. - C Matthew's Mai old Jordan, Jas Pace. Oakland O A Williams, Calvin watson. Albright's J G Fbwler. John Stout. . , t . v - Bear Creek AJ3 Centre Richard Straughn j ' Hickory Mountain Buck. Clegj. Gulf Jecry Hend As sfmhlinr For the Carolina Era. II. N. Brown. the time approaches for theas- of the Republican Convention Pfiousands of our people were ruined by the war inaugurated by the Demo- to be held at Prospect Hill on Wednes cratic party, and yet when the Repub- . On the 28th May, the Lower House of the C ongress refused by a vote of 94 to 108 to suspend the rules and take up Senate bill extending the habeas corpus provlMuu the eubrccat ut. - On the same day the same body re fused by a vote of 113 to 83 to suspend the rules and take up Mr. Sumner's Civil Rights bill. This action kills both bills. lican party offered the people of the State a Constitution which provided a homestead thus enabling our people to save a home from the general wreck, Judge Merrimon and his friends la bored hard to prevent even a home be ing saved. ..Is he a ponrLjpan's friend ? rt is our opinion that he now believes the homestead unconstitutional, null and void. Can we trust him? ! Wanted Ax Answer, We desire an answer to the following question : If the Baltimore Convention nomi- , nates a straight Democratic ticket, will j The News and Sentinel support that ticket, or will they support Greeley? We presume our.brethren have made up their minds, and we ask a square- ; toed answer. Shall we have it ? Ku t - are The Democratic members of the late Legislature said in a public address to the people of the State that if the Con vention bill was voted down they would be compelled to levy a tax of $50 to every thousand dollars worth of prop erty or perj ure themselves. They didn't levy the tax. Can you trust men who rather perjure themselves than injure their party? They Offer Him Up. The Democratic-Conservative Klux party of North Carolina seeking, first, power; that attained, they cloak not their determination, to tear down our Constitution, with ts well tried, and wholesome safe-guards, and establish upon the ruins thereof, a Constitution which will bear upon the working man and the colored man, j and become a most intolerable yoke- a Constitution which will enslave the poor white and the poor black, and candidates for the-20th Senatorial Dis trict, to represent the counties of Or ange, '-Person and Caswell, surmises are ; .made as to who shall represent the county of Orange. The preference expressed by a large majority of Re publicans both white and colored is that H. N. Brown is the strongest man that the Convention can nominate. At me D reading-omr or tne late war he raised his voice against secession and refused to sanction the course of the secession party in bringing about a war against the best Government on earth. Although a Democrat of the old stamp, he advocated the principles of the Union party, and refused to acknowl edge no flag save that of the stars and stripes. He bitterly refused to aid the secessionists in erecting a pole to raise the emblem of" secession to the breeze. He told them that the course they were pursuing was asrainst the best interest of every freeman in the land, and would finally end in a disas trous defeat to the Southern cause. He maintained these principles until the surrender, lie remained at home dur ing the war and done everything in his power to alleviate the sunenngs of the soiuiers wives, ana was one among tne Wilson, Samuel 'hapin, Jno Gains. Kamsey, H P -Benj Rogers, en. Fisher Rives. Hadly's-rU wen ii ndly, John Wil liams. I During tne absence of said commit tee, J A MfDonald was called out, and made a strong and stirring speech. W T Gunter was also called out but de clined makSng a speech. He stated the reason whf W A Smith' was not in at tendance. Tne co ommend man, the dates : Senat i urn ed e w ittee on nominations rec- through A B Chapin, chair- bllowing names, as candi- H Headen. House LT A McDonald, B I Howze. Sheriff-fWillis Wilson. Treasurer J M Woody. County $ommissioners James Pace, W J Edrards, H P Straughp, O A Williams Claiborne Justice. Reglstefof Deeds W H Hatch. Surveys 11 W Dlxoh. : Coroner-Dr. A. Budd. T. H. Burgess moved that the above report lie 6a the table for the present, and that the chair appoint a committee of three to (rait on J. H. Headen and enqire if he would accept a nomination from this Convention. He urged that course, because he believed a number of the delegates did not know Mr. Headen's pcntieal status. The motion prevailed and the chair appointed T. H. Burgesslv. B. Chapin, and Richard .ttamsey as; tne committee. The com mittee soon returned in company with Mr. Headen! who stated that he had decided views on the political issues of tneaay wium he would always be ready. to -avdY ' under proper circum stances, but lie must be excused from doing so nowk the Convention in the make rulers from the ranks of he foremost men in Orange that possessed present stagefof the proceedings, tie 1 J A. V- I ' HUUUJICi) 1 WA. I WV-VH AAA 1 1 1 1 t.l L If V lilt" I IIIM f CM I . . ... . m , The Washington correspondent of The 2?ew York World, says the two f leaders of the two factions in the Re publican party in Pennsylvania, Colo nel Forney and Senator Cameron, to ! gether with a number of leading Re j publican Senators and members, met in conference on 23d inst., and buried the hatchet, both agreeing to work to gether to save the State for Grant. This result will bring into the fold the very few recreant Republicans in the State who were disposed to accept the Cincinnati ticket. : among these changes, they will justice3 to himself and the party he rep ish the office of Superintendent of resents, we ask of the Convention to give him their . unanimous support for one 01 the two senators to be nomi nated, and if you will do this all will be well. ' LIBERTY. Hillsboro', N. C, May 24th, 1872. Cols. G. M. Arnold, W. F. Hender son, and T. B. Long addressed six hun dred people in the city Hall at Salis bury in the afternoon on the evening of the 30th. , Thereatest enthusiasm prevailed. The ball is.in motion in j Rowan. ? The Republicans will gain largely In the county. Honest Demo crats are disgusted with the nomina tion of Mr. W. M. Rabbins overa high toned, honest, pure gentleman, such as Mr. F. E. Shober. 1 mm m DroKen uown aristocracy, who once counted their slaves, only to tell how many millions of. dollars they were worth. This party of destruction, propose many changes in the Constitution and least abolish Pnblic Works, and notwithstanding they have determined on this change, they offer the grossest insult to the mechanic of the State, by placing j on their ticket for that office, the name of J. H. Separk, a mechanic a bait thrown out to catch the vote of the mechanic an empty honor proposed to that class of people, than whom, no more intel ligent are to be found in the broad ex tent of North Carolina! The fraud is too apparent, and' will not succeed. The men who labor who build our houses, and carriages,1 and thousand of indispensable articles,1 will not yield to such; an insult; nor can the fine-spun rhetoric of Mr. Mer-' rimon make these people believe that Aw party are entitled-to credit or that there is any sincerity in their profes sion of love for the hards hands and sun burnt brows of the mechanic and laboring men, merely because he name of J. H. Separk, a mechanic, has been tacked on to the "tail-end of their ticket, for a position which he rcill never Jill, if elected, because, that office theyf the Ku Klux party, have sworn to abolish, just so soon as they obtain power. ; We regret, for. the sake of the fair name which he has ever borne in our midst, that Mr: J. H. Separk, should have swallowed the barbed hook, I to the eloquent. people, and he is to-day, as he was dur- that his name,had been proposed by a ing-the war, the poor man's friend, nominating cpoimittee as a candidate TT. 1 x i , I r a i - a . ... . . . . xxe inus never turneu any away empty, ior me oenate, out that no action had ana it is tne ciuty, as well as to the in- Deen taKen oil their report.- Should icrest oi me laoonng ciass, to give him J tnat report oe i mcAi ciuuuuri ii jiuxiiiuaieu, as it wouia " uuiy m poiingrateiui to ao otherwise. to the convent acceptable ;to t hesitate to r assigned him committee w up and adopt dressed the con Among other t lopted he should esteem nvA hi 4 viows frnnlrlr n and if they were not it body he wrould not re from the position The report of the then on motion, taken when Mr. Headen ad ention at some length. ings, he stated that he professio7iallt prostituted himself to de stroy North Carolina." V General J. B. Kershaw takes a novel view of the duties of the Southern i lmocrats In the coming canvass. He does not want the South Carolina ; Convention to send delegates to the ' Raltimore Convention or take anv part in the election, for the following Please lhe high-toned i reasons: . "If Grant be the nominee of the Itepubli ran?i he wii hare a ereatcr power for good or for evil to our unhappy people than any other person or party. It is, perhaps, hope- : ie!iH w conciliate, but, in view of his possi ble election, it -oulJ 8uicidai to exas perate him by a vain and fruitless opposi tion. .The last consideration you may de nounce as unworthy a frco people. But ro member we are not a fre roonl. Vhil it might be dastardly to suffer our political. ronuuCT 09 comwued by the fear ofper HK,alconequenco, the weuare of the peo ple U the noblest motive of the statesman." . For the Carolina .Era. Judge Merrimon and (he KuKIux. ... ' - i'have carefully read the elaborate speech of Judge Merrimon at Greens boro', accepting the Democratic nom ination for Governor, and I amsurpris- ea to nna not one wora of condemna tion of the infamous Ku Klux in it. This is the more striking as the Judge took time to prepare himself after the nomination was made. Judge Merrimon knows, as we all now know, that the character, object, and aims of that organization will make one of the main issues of the coming campaign. Why is he silent in it? Why was he so silent at Greens boro'? There is but one explanation: Judge. Merrimon was . nominated bv that wing of the Democracy, who favcr ana constitute the liu lvlux. That wing beat J. M. Leach, who is trying to oacK out irom the oganization and never denounce it. They also beat D. M. Barnnger, who signed the letter to Judge Bond of September 30th, prom ising to suppress the Klan. Judge Merrimon did not sign that letter. Hence his nomination. When we note, also, that Judge Mer- .rimon made It a point, in his Greens boro' speech, to extol and glorify John averr, josian xurnerana otners, Known to be in full sympathy with the Ku Klux, we think the signs ominous for had taken ho pirt in politics since the surrenaer, ex meetings of hi vitation again that he had bee a radical, a seal names, but that terrors for him have in the futu; peated. He sail two political pi name) now in cratic and the That he certainly with the Democ entered the field must be on the si party. Quite a n nating committee friends, and he hai made known to th his views on poli he coula not presu be willing to place tion, by recommei any connexion wh proper. He conclud pi to aaaress some fellow-citizens by in- a Convention. For greatly abused, called vag and other hard ort of a game had no lihea- and would not o should thev be re- there were really but ies ( worth v of the ie held the Demo tepublican parties. hould not co-operate tic party, aud if he politics at all, it of the Republican mber of thenomi- were his intimate frankly and fairly a in conversations cal questions, and & 1 hat they would lm in a false post jng his name in e it 'would not be d by saying that the cunning Attorney, who, for pelf, the future peace and order of the State. Not only Republicans but law-abid ing-Democrats should see to it, that j uuge ivierrimon is called out on this question on every occasion. It might as well be made known at once, that there can be no peace in this country until the ivu lvlux are broken up root and branch ; and the general government tcucsee to this. under all the circumstances he felt not only justified but called upon to accept the nomination wltich had been so generously tenderal him. Messrs. McDonald land Howze also briefly addressed the icon vention and accepted their nominations. On motion of Silas Bums, the Countv xecutive uommitteei were "requested to appoint a cnairmr organize, and to infor of the State Executiv the same. c : The Secretary Was, rectea to send a copy o 'Pirr. : speedily and the chairman 'Committee of on motion, ai- proceedings of prolix a Era In 1SC8, Judge Merrimon and his friends attempted to defeat our State Constitution by asse ting that the white and colored men .would be forced to muster In the same militia companies.1 Gov. Caldwell and his friends denied j Judge Merrimon and his friends told this. The Constitution was adopted : the people of this State in 1868 that the nave white and colored men been adoption of our present Constitution forced to muster together? Who told meant social equality. Did they tell the Convention to The for publication.' The Committee then aHourned. 13. i. nuvvAti, resident. THOS. TAYLOR, 'ice-Pres't. J. T. Moffitt. Sec'y. W. A. ONG, ASSt. you the truth and who did not? the truth? A western orator thus' .definition of eternity : menas alter a million ol rolled away in eternity i hundred thousand years time." i i vinds up a 'Why, my "years had would be a o breakfast accep tance of Hon. Horace Greeley. There are .some expressions, which we would like to see struck out. But on the whole, it is liberal,; catholic, frank, generous and manlyp We think that the Balti more Convention can safely aceept'hini with this letter and the platform upon which he Stands. He has come more than half way with extended hand to meet the h estranged and oppressed South, and we can consistently, with our ideas f honor and chivalry, step forward to welcome him. ,- , It is simply -preposterous to sav that this is an abandonment of principle or a stultihcation of our previous action. The true men of the South rejected the XlVth Amendment with scorn : it was calling upon them to ban their most trusted sons; whom they had put for ward to be leaders in their sacred cause. They could not have sanctioned this measure without incurring the repro bation of all honorable men and with out consigning themselves to everlast ing infamy. The South rejected the XVth Amendment. She was prepared to grant equality before the law in the court house, but she knew that unlim ited suffrage among the negroes Would make them the dupes of designing knaves and result in carpet-bag rule, roguery and ruin. If the true men of the South had to vote on these wicked measures to-morrow, thev would reiect them with the same scorn and indigna tion. But disapproving a thing before it becomes a law and submitting to it afterwards, are very different matters. The noblest spirits of the South resisted ior lour years the vokeof the North: but when the Irish and Germans in the Yankee army proved too rjowerml for them, they submitted in good faith and nave Deen the most law-abidinsr citi zens of the whole United States. The landed property of Great Britain e-oes no further back than the Norman con quest. It, was then acauired bv fraud and violence, but the title to that, property is now held to be indisputa ble; It would be a srreater wron to attempt to right the wrong than to let it alone. . The Liberal Republicans have forced Grant to abandon the XlVth Amend ment, and we could not.-if we would. disturb the rights acquired under the XVth without aitatino- the whnle country and destroying the peace of society. Let it pass. It is not our sin. .Let an era of good-feelinsr be inaugu rated by the election of Mr. Greeeley. We must get rid of this thievish bavo- net rule, else the South will become a desert. The Democracy of the North cannot understand our position, for they know nothirftr about it. Thev do not see daily j arrests of our best citizens upon the testimony of brutish negroes or more brutish whites.. They do not see officers of the army, gentlemen by birth and education, playing bum bailiffs to gratify the money greed of dirty United States Marshals. They do not see the industry of the country paralized, the fields and farms aban doned, homesteads deserted, and pover ty, and ruin staring in the faces of thousands. They do not hear the cries of wives and mothers, when their loved ones are hurried off to felons' cells. None of these things are understood by them, and they accuse the South of being recreant to principle, because she is ready to accept Mr. Greeley. We know certainly that the election of Gen. Grant means robbery, outrage and op pression. ; We believe that the election of j Horace Greeley will bring relief. We are in no condition to try experi ments. It is possible that ji Democrat can be elected, but it is not probable. Property,1 life and liberty are at stake with us. We cannot afford to take any risk, and we ought to sav to the North ern Democracy that ice will not take any. we oeiieve that it is better for the South to keep away from Baltimore. The Northern Democracy would then sees the hopelessness of putting up a canuiuate oi tneir own. jut ii south ern delegates must go there, let them go resolved to win. Proposed Indictment for Treason Gen. Grant Recommends Amnesty and Pardoji. -- V' - v';' ;' ' 1 1n his personal explanation last week, Mr. Voorhees alluded to the fact that when Andrew Johnson was President Gen. Grant intervened, to prevent Rob ert E. Lee . and other rebel generals from being indicted for treason. The following is the entire correspondence on the subject : . - , Richmond, 13th June, 1SG5. General: Upon reading the President's proclamation of the 29th ult., I came to Richmond to ascertain what was proper or required-oi me to do, when I learned that, with others, I was to be indicted for treason by the grand jury at Norfolk. I had sup posed that the officers and men of the army of West Virginia were, by the terms of their surrender, protected by the United States Government.- fram molestation so long as they conformed to its conditions.- I am ready to meet any charges that may be preferred against me, and do not wish to avoid trial, but if I am correct as to the protection granted by my parole, and am not to be prosecuted, I desire to comply with the provisions of the President's pro clamation, and therefore inclose the requir ed application, which I request, in that event, may be acted on. ; I am, with great respect, -s-a'a ' : ' ,j,Your obedient servant, -, (Signed) It. II. Lee. Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant, Coirtg the 'Armies of the United States. i ' : ' COPY OF INDORSEMENT. - ' "r '" f Richmond, 13th June, '65. ; Lee, II. E. Understanding that, with others, he is to be indicted for treason by the grand jury at Norfolk, states his readi ness to meet any charges that may be brought forward. Had supposed that the terms oi ms surrender -rr-r Our " Commonplace President. No single nan since the days of Washington has done so much for his country s General Grant. He gave to the nation its grandest victory, and i victory averting national ruin. To him the country owes, its existence. His arm saved the Republic. In his case it is as true as m the case of Washing ton, that the common patriotism fur nished the mch and means and that other heads share the clorv. In other respects the pomparison magnifies Grant. The war found him obscure. After many great chieftains had failed, his prowess attracted the confidence that put the hopes of the country in his hands. Washington had no pre cedents of failure. , He was tho coun try's first choice as Commander-in-Chief, and was retained till seven long years of darkness and disaster achieved triumph over an enemy beyond sea. Tho peril and -the task of Grant were mightier. In his silent and stubborn devotion to his purposo in the teeth of so many signal failures, in the presence of the most critical and exacting public opinion, and against most formidable obstacles, therejshonoa moral heroism to which history will do Justice. In no crisis of thati dreadful struggle did the assaults of Grant's personal enemies divert him from his duty to his coun try. His sole reply to them was a quiet persistence: in his .work. , To patriots who recall those J days, " Gfant in the White House 14 the identical Grant of the Wilderness. --- -- ! -f He has been precisely the President promised by his military life." Com monplace " he seemed while the master soldier of his age', solving tho toughest A t 1 " they should, he desires to comply with pr- problem ever presented by war. 41 Com- visions ofamnoctv nrnplamQtlnn onrl -fliir-a- TYinnnlnpo" Via ia 3 a isf rtrViiIrk nnAi uvi,ivv 1V 4 V WA1W UUl fAU4U UUUV4 his Presidency the great war debt 13 visions ofamnestv proclamation, and there fore incloses the required application, which in that event he' requests may be acted on. One inclosure Reed, at U. S.t June 16, 1865. Respectfully forwarded to the Secretary f War. I In my opinion, the officers .and men pa- vanishing, the mighty taxation dimin ishing, the national credit flourishing, the gold value healthful, peace with foreign nations guarded, business and. trade everywhere thrivinsr. and the roled at Appomattox C. H and since upon general prosperity increasing. I Ameri the same terms given to Lee, cannot be tried ior treason so long as they observe the terms of their parole. This is my under standing. Good faith as well as true policy dictates that we should observe the condi tions of jthat convention. Bad faith on the part of the Government or a construction of that . convention subjecting officers to trial for treason, would produce a feelinor of insecurity in me minas oi an paroiea orn- cans abroad, removed from tho petty clamors of envious politicians,' and far from the mists of detraction raised: by the would-be Presidents, hear with wonder any suggestion that tho patri otic masses of this country can fail to appreciate Grant. Of small , 'men ab sorbed in self-contemplation and self- seeking, and of simpletons who think cersand men. If so disposed, thev mifrht 5 V" even regard such an infraction of terms by uie, lVamJ .OI greatness must DC unique the Government as an entire release from all obligations on their part. I will state further, that the terms grant ed by me met with the hearty approval of the President at the time, and of the coun try generally. The action of Judge Under wood, in Norfolk, has already had an in jurious effect, and I would ask that he be or dered to quash all indictments found against paroiea prisoners ol war, and to desist lrom turther prosecution of them. U. S. Grant, Lieut, General. Headquarters A. U. S., June 16, '65. i Richmond, June 13, 1865. If is Excellency Andrew Jolinson, President of the United Mates : Sir: Being excluded from the provisions of amnesty and pardon contained in the proclamation of the 20th ult., I hereby apply for the benefits and full restoration of all rights and privileges extended to those in cluded in its terms. I graduated at the Military Academy at West Point in June, 1829. Resigned from the United States army, April, 1861, was a general in the Confederate army, and in cluded in the surrender of the army of West Virginia, 9th April, 1865. i nave tne nonor to oe, very respectfully, your obedient servant, R. E. Lee. COPY OF INDORSEMENT. ! Respectfully forwarded, through the Sec retary of War, to His Excellency the Presi dent with the earnest recommendatiou that this application of General R. E. Lee for amnesty and pardon be granted him. The oath of allegiance required bv the recent order of the President to accompany applications does not accompany this, for the reason, as I am informed by General Ord, the order requiring it had not reached Richmond when this was forwarded. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General. Headquarters," A. U. S., June 16, 18S5. ana imposing, ,tne country i has tan abundance, of whom thousands con ceive themselves much better qualified than Grant for the Presidency. But American history will call this "com monplace" General and President the true man of his times. It will speak of him as the strong citizen whose sin gular prowess crushed the rebel hopes, and so drew upon himself the resent ments of multitudes of his fellow-citizens, who sought to avenge themselves by his defeat when he was a -second time, by the spontaneous voice of tho Republican masses, .nominated for the . Presidency. History will add that tho unapproached and unapproachable pre eminence of this man in the regards of those masses aroused tho jealously of certain Republican leaders, and drove them to plot for their own exaltation and his humiliation through an alliance with ex-rebels and the party of the re bellion. But history will concludo its record by saying that, despite the ha treds created by his. martial achieve ments, and despite the machinations of envy and jealousy, the popular in stincts leaped to his vindication, and gave a fresh proof that Americans were capable of self-government. Missouri uemocrat. The Need of the South. Notwithstanding occasional Ku Klux troubles and other lingering remains of the rebellion in the South, that sec tion is making steady and) most grati fying progress in all " the elements of material prosperity. The old system of subordinating every other industry to cotton-growing, and depending npon other sections or countries, not only for all wares or fabrics, but even for food Governor Caldwell. We have been flooded and bored with insane charges of every conceivable sort and shade that ingenuity could desire, supplies a system born of slavery and or malignity suggest, until even De- encouraged by the British free-trade mocracy got disgusted and began to scnooi oi political economists has been cumpreiitjnu me motives actuating these disinterested and patriotic citi- B-Y-n-B. Billy Smith, called by some, BIow-Your-Horn-Billy, by others Major Smith, arid not unknown inthissection as the President of the North Carolina Railroad, jwho used to give poor people an occasional free ride on the said road, is now the Republican candidate in this section for Congress. He has al ways been a friend to poor preachers, crippled jsoldiers, . strapped printers, travelling orpnans oi society, m fact, floating waifs of every kind who with but one patch to cultivate and call "home," and that was in their trow sers, he has invariably sent from him moving on in their course as the man in the fable who felt like the morning n : 1 1 cjmuu - "oi . a t tt sun. -u 1 1 1 y toLuiiJi.ui. 1 uur-norn- Billy or Maj. Smith or whatever his name may oe is certainly the poor Lman's iriena ana it is no onence we hope to tell the truth and say it. And Billy Smith or Blow-Your-Horn-BilW or Major Smith deserves all the credit of a "Self-Made Man that Frank Leslie has given! him, "for from firing an en gine and greasing the car wheels he has worked up to what he is now, and whether he be called radical or rascal. saint, devil, or sinner, he wears a heart under his; coat that many of the mi' lord3 we wot of couldn't get into their bosoms without enlarging their breast bones; let! along a, good huge share of energy and brain. lliusboror Reeor der, Democratic. Some one who is styled " a modern philosopher": has ascertained that people go according t to their brains. If these lie in their heads, they study ; if in their stomach, they eat : it in their heels, they dance, and if in the region of their pockets, they steal." zens. This class of tactics has gone on so long and so persistently that we have sometimes thought that perhaps some of the smaller Democratic orators, actually believed themj. though we honestly confess we were unable to see how they could do soi j The Ku Klux branch of the. Democ racy might howl and I demand his im peachment, but the Legislature,' rash and inconsiderate as it was, dared not attempt-it and go. before the people the coming fall, and the Governor feared them not. ; Although some Radical Democratic papers demanded his im peachment, and all the machinations their ingenuity could devise 1 were thrown around him ; jhe was firm as a rock and could not be moved. As Governor, Tod E. Caldwell has proved himself honest, firm and true. His great strength in the Con vention proved that the people had confidence in him, and desire to retain him in his present positron, and we believe he will be returned to the chair he has so worthily filled. His firmness in our hours of danger, and his un swerving devotion to I the principles of A. 1 1 ? II rt i i t our puny, muKe mm especially nitea practically abandoned in most parts of i.1 A. AL Al . inuir umoriunate region, ana a lively appreciation of manufaptures and min ing industries is beginning to bo mani fested. We notice in Georgia and Al abama the most rapid advancement is making in this direction. Thousands of spindles have been set In operation since the war within sight of the cot ton fields, and there are now running in Alabama six cotton factories, which number in the aggregate over 48,000 spindles and consume upward of 20,000 bales of cotton annuallv. " Hithertn. it is said that less than one-fifteenth of " the cotton crop has been worked up in . Southern factories. Yet water power and coal abound in the cotton districts, and if the proper effort were made skilled labor and capital could bo ob- tained there as easily as elsewhere, and . by thus bringing the factory and the plantation together a large item in the cost of transportation is saved. ' i The time is coming when one-third if not one-half the cotton of the South will bo made into yarns, at least in that section, and, when it does come, what has been the poorest portion df the country will become the richest. Stimulated by the greatly-increased ' home market for food, gram farminir to be our standard-bearer. Wilminaton and grazing will then be no les3 orofita Post. ble than cotton growing. Thus there will be a practical diversity of Indus- Primary Meetings. As the time JiAes wu. V .lls resulting prosperity, anu for holding primary j. meetings is fast inVre win oe no longer an excuse ior approaching, we beg to ' remind our exhausting and abandoning to a worso party to remember that these meetings Jflan their primitive wildness whole Let the Southern people! general ly be stirred by this industrial awak ening, eschewing the rancors of poli tics, except to see that neither free-trade demagogues nor carpet-bag' adventur ers misrepresent them, and a glorious future awaits them an era of wealth, business activity peace, and good feel ing, which shall consign to a perpetual oblivion the distraction, desolation, and bitter hatred which resulted from -the war. Philadelphia Rress ...... - are what they choose to make them. They are necessary, to carry out the Erinciples of our party and must be eld and should be largely attended, for upon their selection of delegates, victory only depends. If corrupt men are nominated it is. as much the blame of the good people who stay away from the primaries, as of those corrupt men, who are aiiowea to control them Every election is, and must be to the end of time, a compromise of individu al choices.? We hope that our primary meetings, soon to be held in this county will be- largely attended and men of character, invariably, selected as dele gates to the County nominating Con vention. If you stay away, ypu have Al" . A. V W A V 111 -A- VV1A1V1A1 ATVA. 1AA14 . Ketc I3erne Republic and Qntrier, : Miss Drummond, the Quaker preach er, was asked whether the spirit ever inspired her with the thought of get ting married. " . ; j "No, friend " said she; ."but tho flesh has." -. r i t - -' -..... . N :