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Official Oixn of tlie United States. Office, la th MStaadard building, East id of Faycttcrtll Street. THURSDAY, JUNE Cth, 1871 REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. 4 mmmt ELECTORS AT LARGE: MARCUS ERWTN, of Buncombe. , For Governor: StOD R. CALDWELL, 'A'S:.. Of Burke. For Lieutenant Governor : CURTIS H. BROGDEN, Of Wayne. For Treasurer: DAVID A. JENKINS,. Of Gaston. For Attorney General: TAZEWELL L. HARGROVE, Of Granville. j For Secretary of State: WILLI AM H. HOWERTON, ! Of Rowan. . For Auditor: JOHN REILLY, Of Cumberland. For Superintendent of Fub. Instruction, JAMES REID, Of Franklin. For Superintendent of Fublio Works: SILAS BURNS, Of Chatham. For Congress 1st District: , CLINTON L. COBB, of Pasquotank. For Elector: Dr. E. RANSOM, of Tyrrell t For Congress 2d District: CHARLES R. THOMAS, of Craven. For Elector: W. F. LOFTIN, of Lenoir. For Congress 3ri District: NEIL. McKAY, of Harnett. For Elector: W. A. GUTHRIE, of Cumberland. For Congress 1th District: WILLIAM A. SMITH, of Johnston. For Elector: THOMAS M. ARGO, of Orange. For Congress 5tii District: THOMAS SETTLE, of Rockingham. For Elector: S. A. DOUGLAS, of Rockingham. For Congress 7tii District: DAVID M. FURCHES, of Iredell. For Elector: Dr. JAS. G. RAMSAY, of Rowan. For Congress Sth District: iW. G. CANDLER, of Buncombe. f I For Elector: JAMES M. JUSTICE, of Rutherford. cents over the rates contained In the bill as it passed the House. . ' - Southwestern Missouri has been visited by a terrible tornado. Several farms, with their houses, barns, orchards, and fences, were completely destroyed, and besides two persons killed twelve were wounded, some of them it is feared fatally. Added to this there was a heavy fall of rain at Verona in the same State. Immense damage was done and three persons drowned by the flood which the rain produced. j The Louisiana State Republican Conven tion met on the 30th May. All differences were amicably settled. Gov. Warmouth was renominated, and Mr. Pinchback was nominated for Lieut. Governor. A resolu tion was adopted endorsing the administra tion of Warmouth and to meet again on the 9th of July, at Baton Rouge. After adjourn ment Pinchback made a speech stating that he wonld support the nominees of the Phil adelphia Convention at all r azards. Mr. G. II. Pendleton has written a letter to a Mr. Barr, of Pennsylvania, in which Mr. Pendlaton says that while doin justice to the personal integrity of Horace Greeley and approving the Cincinnati platform and the letter of acceptance of Mr. Greeley, he recognizes fully the difficulty of securing to such a life-long antagonist of the Democra cy the support of a majority of its voters in the North, and views with apprehension, if a Democrat of undoubted strength is not nominated at Baltimore, the possibility of the election of President beini left to the nouse of Representatives. ' The Revenue Reformers held a very large meeting in Steinway Hall, New York City, on the evening of the 30th, under the aus pices of the Free-trade League, the object of which was to protest against the wet blanket which the Cincinnati Convention threw upon the hopes of all reformers in the shape of the ticket it nominated. Resolutions' were passed embodying in strong terms the pro test, and providing for the appointment of a committee to co-operate with all organiza tions in securing tlie nomination of a Pres idential candidate who would adequately represent their principles. Speeches were made by William Cullen Bryant, David A. Wells, Edward Atkinson, and others, the text of all of them being, " come w hat may there will be a third candidate in the field,' The remarks of these gentlemen were greeted with great applause, and the meet- intr was one or enthusiasm almost un bounded. .! t. I - I - I i and their defense ,TiiE Era, until further notice, will ! le under my control. t J. C. Logan Harm. THE NEWS. Hen. Charles 11. Buckalew i Democratic candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania. The spotted fever is prevailing with ua. wonted fatality in some portions of Penn sylvania. I The monthly statement of tlie National Debt, shows a decrease of four and a quarter millions. Jaiues Gordon Bennett, veteran Editor of the New York JTerald, died on Saturday last. Aed 77. Twenty thousand emigrants landed at Castle Garden, New York city, last week, a larger number than in any week on record. I House bill to establish a Western Judicial District for North Carolina passed the Senate last week. The President will approve the bill. The Centennial Commission has appoint ed & Committee to prepare an address to the people, showing the purposes of the exhi- bitlon. Rumors from London represent the Washington Treaty as in danger; that England will withdraw from the arbitra j at Geneva. It Is proposed to have Congress take a census in June, 1876, to show the growth of the country for the benefit of those who visit the Centennial anniversary. The supplemental apiortionment act which gives New York and eight other States and additional Representative, has passed both Houses of the Congress. Congress having diminished the appro priation far the Third Auditor's office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1S73, the dis- charge ofUiirty-fivecl?rk swill be necessary, j A dispatch from Paris says the trial of Chateau for setting fire to the Tuileries ter minated, on the 30th, with a verdict of guil ty, and the prisoner was sentenced to be shot. Senator Bayard, of Delaware, Represen tatives Conner, of Texas, Davis and Here ford, of West Virginia, have written letters opposing Greeley's nomination at Balti more. Advices received in this city from Pensa oola, Fla., report that Stephen R. Mallory, ex-Confederate Secretary of the Navy, has declared his intention to work for Horace Greeley. Mexsrs. Frank Blair, of Missouri, and Henry Wilson of Massachusetts, have been appointed by the President to be visitors from the United States Senate to the West Point Military Academy. The receipts of internal revenue for the month of May -will foot up about twelve millions of dollars. For the fiscal year ending the 30th of June previous, the re ceipts will amount to about one hundred and thirty millions of dollars. . The staUment telegraphed from Nash ville, Tenn., that Mr. Jefferson Davis had written a letter to Wade Hampton favoring the election of Mr. Greeley, and saying that the Democrats would act unwisely in mak ing a nomination, is untrue. Mr. Davis states that he has expressed no opinion in the matter. - ' The internal revenue bill has passed the U. S. Senate. The House will doubtless concur. The tax on whiskey remains at seventy cents per gallon, but on tobacco a uniform tax of twenty-four cents per pound was agreed on, boing an increase of .foar The Legislature and the Ku KIux. The last Legislature attained to pow er upon the cry of corruption and fraud. But little was said during the canvass about impeaching the Governor or about an alteration of the Constitution. Installed in place, however, its mem bers became bold and reckless, may be characterized for of Ku Kluxisin. Mr. Jarvis, the Speaker of the House, canvassed the State last Summer in advocacy of a Convention, and spoke of the members of the Ku Klux Klan as " ministers of justice." It is true he qualified this expression by saying they were "disguised and unauthorized," but nevertheless they were- in his opinion ministers of justice. According to the evidence of James E. Boyd, jiis stated by Judge Settle before the Out rage Committee of Congress, Dr. Moore, of Alamance, told Boyd that Mr. Jarvis wasa member of the Klan. Boyd further stating that Jarvis was present in a room in the Yarborough House in Raleigh, when Hamilton C. Jones, Senator from Mecklenburg and chair man of the Senate Judiciary Commit tee, gavehim the signs of the Invisible Empire. j From the same .purce we learn that F. X. Strudwick, a member of the House, was, on a certain occasion, n his way to assassinate Senator Shoffner, who tied the State to save his life, having become obnoxious to the Klan because he was the author and success ful advocate of the stringent inilitary bill, by virtue of which Gov. Ilohien attempted to put down the Ku KIux conspiracy. Corroborative evidence that Jones was a member may be found in the tes timony of Plato Durham before the same Committee. According to his tes timony we also learn that Mr. McAfee, a member of the House, was the Chief bftheKlanin Cleaveland county, jln Tlie Weekly Telegram, June 24th, 1871, it is stated that the Grand Jury of Clea veland county nominated this Col. L. M. McAfee as a candidate for the Convention. This fact is significant, If all the facts could be brought to light the public would doubtless be surpris ed to learn, that other and influential members of both Houses were as deeply implicated, as the individuals named, The outrages perpetrated upon Mi. Justice, of Itutherford, a meraberj of the House, on the night of the holy Sabbath when the sanctity of his family bed chamber was invaded by these " unauthorized and disguised" outlaws, and he bleeding and almost naked torn from the side of his horror-stricken wife, and compelled to undergo indig nities, at the mention of which human ity itself shudders, one wTould think sufficient to alarm the fears of all good men in that General Assembly, and prompt them to investigate the whole subject of Ku Kluxism, were it not for the fact that when petitions from their constituents were presented asking for, investigation aud the expulsionj of those found guilty, they were spurned, and investigation refused, a member going even to the daring extent of in troducing a resolution to expell any member who should, by the introduc tion of such petitions, cast any imputa tion against the immaculate character of any member of that august body. But how was it in the case of Judge Logan? His alleged incorripetencyjwa? not the only reason why his impeach only reason we have heard given why he was not impeached was, "it would injure the Democratic party." This same Legislature, however, could ap point a'committee to look into allega tions against John Pool, regarding him as their representative, but deny the right of the people whose representa tives tfcjey were, either to prefer charges against any of their members, or to compel them to investigate such charges- ' - : - i. , Furnished with these facts we are not surprised that Strudwick presented, a petition from Dr. Moore and others, for the- impeachment of Gov. Holden, before the House had been fully organ ized at its first session, and that he also introduced a bill repealing Shoffner's bill, and that both these measures were carried through. And if, forsooth, two or three Republicans did vote for both, it should be remembered that Major liearne had not at that time published his card declaring that Jo. Turner had been a member ofthe Klan, and this $ther fact should be duly remembered also that no Republican voted to depose Gov. Holden from office the Democrats alone did that by a party vote. But further: after the publication of the fact that the courts were about to prosecute the murderers of Outlaw and others, Senator Graham introduced an amnesty bill, calculated to shield and protect those murderers ; And near the close of the last session two bills were passed for the benefit of the Klan one allowing co-defendapts to testify for themselves and each other, and the other repealing the laws making it felony to go disguised. Thus, Speaker Jarvis being Judge, these "ministers of justice" if not positively authorized may not now be punished for being disguised. So much for this black chapter in the history of that Legislature. All impartial and good men who have in vestigated the facts men who love righteousness and eschew evil must conclude, as we do, that the last Leg islature was controlled by iheKu Klux. In closing this item in our bill of in dictment against the Democratic party, in the last Legislature, in which to quote an extract from a speech of one of the most distinguished jurists and statesman of this country, chosen and paid by the Ku Klux of South Caro lina to defend them in their recent trials iii that State. Our extract is taken from The New York Tribune, whose Editor,- Mr. Greeley, is just now in such bigh favor with the Liberal Republicans and Democrats. Mr. Rev- erdy Johnson, the distinguished coun sel referred to, in rising .to defend his clients sliid: . - ? "I ; have listened with hoi ror to some of the testimony that has been brought before yon. The outrages proved ha ve been shock ing to humanity ; they admit neither of jus tification' nor excuse; they violate every obligation, which laws and nature impo upon nicri. These men appear to have been alike -insensible to the obligations of hu manity and religion ; but the day will come however, if it has not already arrived, when they willjdceply lament it. Even if justice should not overtake them, there is another tribunal from which there is no escape. It is their own conscience, that tribunal which sits in the breast of every living man, that still small voice that thrills throuirh the 'heart, and as it speaks gives happiness or torture the voice of conscience the voice of God.' And if it has not already spoken to thc'm,'in tones which have waked them up to the enormity of their conduct, I trust in tlie mercy of heaven, that a voice will speak before they shall be called to the dread tri bunal to account for their transactions in this world." Such are the words of one whose of fice it was to excuse and paliate if poss ible, the conduct of his clients and who would gladly have denied the charges against them, could he possibly have doncse. Coming from such a source, and under such circumstances, they wither with the blight of eternal mil dews the horrid Klan and their more horrjd 'apologists. We cannot and do not believe all the Conservative mem bersjojf the Legislature approved of the proceedings of that body in reference to this matter, but we ask for their dis claimers, and call upon, them and upon all good' and true men and patriots everywhere, to come out from a party which nestles such ; an organization withir its bosom, and denounce and repudiate it. They may listen to Mr. Trumbull if they will, who regards the suspension of the habeas co?pus uncon stitutional, but if they have wisdom, .humanity and patriotism, if they will not stifle ' " that stilly small voice that thrills through the heart," they will j turn; rather to that sometimes erring politician but benevolent philosopher Horace! Greeley, who says, when speak ing of the South Carolina trials, referred to above " in the developments of these trials, we submit, that the policy of the Republican party in dealing with the Ku KIux disease finds an ample justifi cation i . m ! a mnnff thA many accessions wnicn the Republican party has received within the last twelve months, none are more valuable than Messrs. E. B. Saunders, Geo. T. Duffy, Robert Ward, Edgar Ward and Major Russell, of Onslow county. These young men have cast their lot with the Republican party. The crimes, of the Democracy drove them from the support of that party. These gentlemen are men of first rate ability, ; high : character, and are among the best citizens of their county. Their influence will work a complete resolution in j Onslow for the Republi can ticket. All honor to young men who have the courage to ally them selves with the .party of progress and peace. Social ostracism and proscrip tion for opinion's sake is fast playing out. ; He the Governot could not arm a com pany to exterminate the Lowrey gang, who have killed so good citizens, but he could arm this negro compauy In Wilmington." Sentinel, 1st. j , i Gov. Caldwell furnished the Demo cratic Commissioners of the county of Robeson with one! hundred stands of arms, and amunitifn, to' equip a com pany of citizens ofhat county, to march against the Lowry gang over twelve months ago ; and if the valorous writer of Tlie &72fmk wiil'organize a company purpose, he will arms to them also. will not require Ex. D. D. now for the likd doubtless furnish But as the company the services of a rotating who has dropped Ibis sacridotal robes, we suggest -that the associate of The Sentinel can Iremwn and run the ma chine, as it is evident his present call ing as editor of ? malevolent partizan journal is more cdngenial to his taste than either preAc Caldwell is in-fav Grant, wlio is with brains. Sentinel. Of course. It brains to whip thd And this samd of the re-election of dut honor and without Jng or fighting. didn't require any late Confederacy. Grant didn't have honor enough to tike Gen, Lee's sword when he tenderedit to him. And he had so kittle brains that he allowed Confederate soldiers to - take their horses bomb to make crops in 1865. Yes, he wai actually fool enough to say he would Resign, ii Mr. Andy Johnston attempted to violate tne pa role he gave Gen. j Lee by trying him j ally charge that any law which author- (Lee) for treason. A Mare's Nest. The Wilmington Journal and The Raleigh" Sentinel have discovered that Gov.' Caldwell has issued arms to a colored volunteer company in Wil mington, and the editors of those sheets are frothing and foaming over it. The Governor is charged with " usurpation and bloody purpose," and the cry is raised that the Governor is about to inaugurate a military despotism. : What are the facts ? Some time since a number of public-spirited colored citizens of Wilmington organized a volunteer I military company. They applied to:G5v. Caldwell for arms, &c., and on tendering, a bond for the safe keeping and return of the same when ever called for by the State the arms were issued to them. Gov. Caldwell had the same right to issue arms to this company that Gov. Ellis had when he furnished volunteer companies all over the State in 1860-'61. The Governor furnished guns to the Democratic Commissioners of Robeson county a year ago to arm a company of citizens to operate against the Lowery gang, and only a few days ago applica tion was made through a prominent citizen of Raleigh for arms for a white volunteer company at Charlotte. This gentleman was informed that the arms and equipments would be shipped as soon as a bond for their safe-keeping and return was filed writh the Adjutant General. Arms were also issued to Col. Bing ham's School on the same terms by Gov. Caldwell. Now if; there is any thing in thjs grave charge against the Governor it shows that he has issued more arms to white men that he has to colored, and the Renublican party has as much ground to charge that the arms Issued to white men were intended to be used for political purposes as the Democracy has to charge that the arms loaned to this Wilmington volunteer company was for political purposes. The truth is the Governor had ful legal autnonty to issue tne arms There was nothing political in the mat ter of issuing to the colored company of Wilmington or the promise to issue to the white company of Charlotte, and the editors aforesaid knew it when they made the charge against the Governor. When these Ku Klux journals virtu- For the Carolina Era. PROGRESS OF TIIE CAMPAIGN. Gov. Caldwell, Col. Hargrove and Gen. Brogden invincible "before the People. Discussion at Magnolia, Duplin County. Mr. Editor: According to previous notice Gov. Caldwell, Col. Hargrove and Gen. Brogden spoke at Magnolia on Tuesday, May 28th. Although it was their appointment they knew they nad nothing to lose by a lair and non- Directors of the Penitentiary when he had acted most outrageously, because; they said he was a member of the Democratic State Executive ;Commits; tee, and it would be a reflection on the Democratic party to turn him out, al though he had acted very badly, j ' Gen. Brogden showed that the labor ing classes now receive better pay for their labor than they did under Demo cratic rule. That the farmers now re ceive much better prices for the pro ducts of the farm than they j received when the Democratic party controlled labor and the prices paid for labor. He showed that any charge in the gen eral administration of the government would be certain to produce a deleter ious and injurious effect upon the labor ing classes and upon the agricultural and commercial interests of the whole country. That it was generally a safe rule in government to Jet well enough alone. He hoped the honest people who were not office-seekers would seri ously consider whether they are likely to oe Denentted by voting against tno orable discussion of the political issues I candidates of the . Republican party before the country, and they agreed to The Republican party has done morck divide time with J. D. Stanford, the for the laboring people of this country representative of the Conservative party on the occasion. i By agreement Col. Hargrove led off in a speech of one hour and a quarter. and was followed by Mr. Stanford for the same length of time. Col.,-'Hargrove-then '-replied in a scathing and masterly speecn oi nan an hour in which he most effectually and conclu slvely demolished and abolished the representative of . the Democratic-Con servative ivu Jvlux faction Col. Hargrove's opening speech was able, argumentative, bold, manly and unanswerable. In speaking ofi the heresy of secession and the great error which was committed in attempting: to carry it out by force of arms, he stated of Gen. Brogden 's speech, as it abound than any other party that I has ever controlled our government, j , ! President Grant is paying off the national debt at the rate of One Hun dred Million of Dollars per annum, and thereby reducing the amount to be paid as interest on our debt at the rate of more than Twenty Jfillions of Dollars each year. , ' I The Seven Hundred Millions of Dol lars of currency in the country when Gen. Grant came into office as Presiden t , in 18C9, has been Increased in value at least One Hundred and Forty Millions of Dollars by the wise policy of Gen-. Grant.' i . I It is impossible to give even a Sketch ed in facts and figures and statistical information. Justick. And then this fellow Giint showed his lack of honor when he tecommend ed that Gen. Lee's application for am nesty and pardon be grantdl, although Gen. Lee had not taken th oath of al legiance required by And, Johnston. This Sentinel simpleton, Grant, ac tually went out of his way o show his lack of brains and honor by ssking that Judge Underwood, the Fe sral Judge for Virginia, should be on izes tne uovernor to issue arms to a volunteer company would authorize him to organize and call into active service the militia of the State, they simply make themselves ridiculous. red by the ) quash all Confeder- United States Government indictments against paroiei ates. Yes. Gv. Caldwell is fit favor President Grant's -re-elecam, and are the people of North Carolina. Judge Merrimon and his friends are and always have been enemies of our State Constitution. They opposed its adoption, worked hard to cheat poor men out of their homesteads last sum mer, and are still working to repeal as much of the Constitution as possible. Can you trust them ? . of so The Italeigh Era has fountji mare's nest ! It chareres that ! during: the ir a notorious desperado and outlaw in caught and executed by Company. Does not The Maj. Graham obeyed order: partment, and that a lea Lincoln county executed so. The fellow executed ie West, was aj. liranam s ra know that of the war de- ng Radical in order f It is was a Dijrsrer ras- Jndgc Setllc's Acceptance. Greensboro, May 15th, 1872. Hon. Thomas Settle, Dear Sir : A Republican District Convention was held in Greensboro to day, and you were nominated as a can didate, by acclamation, ror congress for the 5th District. I was instructed by the Convention to inform vou of vour nomination, and to respectfully solicit you to accept the same. Very respectfully your obedient servant. - J.J. martin, Chairman ofthe Convention. cal than Henry Berry Lowafy. A fellow- feeling," &e.-IIillsboro' X . ! Who issued the oi the name of the men w order. Mai. J. W. Gri orders to his eternal d corder. er? Give us io executed the iam did obey ?race. jSorth- cote was brutally murdered because of his loyalty to; the Uniojp. Maj. Graham knew he had no right 1j shoot North cote; that the murdereqman was guilty of no offense which Reserved death; and Maj. Graham shoilki have resigned his commission before le shed innocent blood and branded terminator of men b the Confederate Fla Stars and Stripes. mits that Maj. Gral ders. We expected aiiindignant denial of the whole matter.! This admission and excuse as to o The Union people wfil not vote for any man whose hands are dyed with the blood of innocent mlr,. Maj. Graham didact have courage sufficient to protect faainst murder for pmself as an ex tause they hated and loved the Recorder ad executed or- Greensboro, May 27th, 1872. . J. J. Martin, Esq. , Chairman 5th Dist., Rep. Convention. My Dear Sir : Your communication informing me of my nomination for Congress, by the Republicans of the oth District was not received, (owing to my absence from home,) until two days since. You know that I did not desire the nomination, and that I made efforts to prevent it. But since the demand for my services has been made, by accla mation, by the people who have known me longest and best, I do not feel at liberty td decline. I therefore accept the nomination, and will open the can vass to-morrow in Randolph county. From thence I go to the Philadelphia Convention, and upon my return will meet the! people at as many points in the District as can be reached before the election. I am very truly your obt. serv't. Hon. Thomas Settle. This, article was written by a prom inent Republican. We endorse it and adopt it. The author and many Re publicans desire the Republican Press ofthe jState to copvi. We have two more articles from ;the same source which jwill appear next week. The articlesf are well written, and reflect credit on the author, j We will be glad to receve more articles from the same pen. En. Era. opinion's sake, but fore sunrise and 1 dered at sunrise. were committed in call UDon the Uni North Carolina to defeat Maj. Graham' and the whole! ku ilux ticket, because Mai. Graham's riomination is an en dorsement of the murder of Northcote. "3 left Asheboro' be- Drthcote was mur- turders of this kind the West, and we men of Western Futari Wrath. Gen. fLeaventhorpe arrested poor wo men (in 18G4, because their husbands reason wny ins imptucu- i ment was desirable. He had become refused' to ficrht for Jeff. Davis and his odious to the Klan because of his active ; slttve oligarchy. He dragged them off exertions to bring its members to trial j from tbjeir little childen, to his bull andvpunishmeht, aud when a petition pen, and denied them even a moment's "was presented from the county of Meek- : privacy. The Daily Keics of this city lenburg asking for his impeachment, it says ho was nominated by the Demo- was not spurned and rejected, but entertaiped and considered, and was ! crats at Greensboro' as a reward for his the : war service?.. " Already vile charges against our candi date for Governor Have been put in circula tion in various paip of the State." Daily H'ews. I Let the News man be quiet. He has heard nothing yet. Up here in these woods, we know " our candidate for Governor," an(J we will show you proof and facts fcf such a record as will make the bloodtingle in the cheeks of every Confederate who .casts a ballot for him. The old Union men, or " tories " if yod prefer it, of the moun tains, know wliat he was in the " dark and bloody days," and they will yet shame him fof denying it and turning his back uponfthem to seek social posi tion and influence. We will be able to tell you several things before the hot days of August, Mr. News, about your candidate, wkich, in the simplicity of your confederate heart, you never dreamed of. ((Don't get uneasy; there is yet three Months to the election, and in that tiraejyou and your friends may think it best to put another candidate W. G. Candler. The dis tinguished srentleman whose name ap pears at I the head of this article, was nominated by the Republican party of the 8th Congressional District for Con gress on Saturday, the 18th inst., by acclamation. There is no better man than MrJ Candler. Having served his people in the legislature for a long term of years with satisfaction to all, even his enemies are compelled to acknowl edge his! ability as a I legislator. The Republicans of this mountain district should go to work in earnest, and work until th sun goes down on the first Thursday in August, and when the last ray of light shall be fading away in the western horizon, they will have the satisfaction of seeing the flashing rays of their political sun gushing forth in translucent light in the eastern hori zon. So1 go to work and redeem the district which has always been noted for the number of its white Republi cans. AshevUle Pioneer. From The Asheville News, Jane 1st, 1805. PUBLIC MEETING. Merrimon and Kirk. Kirk's Friend Merrimon. the truth when he said that a large portion of. the preachers in the South were in favor of secession. At this point the Rev. Dr. Closs rose and stated that the preachers of his church, (the Methodist church,) were almost unani mously opposed to secession. This was a most inappropriate and unfortunate assertion of Dr. Closs because it wTas not true. Col. Hargrove then alluded to the division of the Methodist church between tne JNortn and south many years before the rebellion, on account of the slavery question. Northern Methodist newspapers were not circu lated in the South because they were not supposed to be in the interest of human slavery. The object of secession wastokeepthecoloredraceinbondapUjgrr2mon Wants Asheville the slave-holding States, to prevent the . GarriSOnsd. siavtss irouu uviug Luugiib io reau. ujo Holy Scriptures and prevent them from assembling together to worship God. jBfSalSf Merrimon Wants Negroes Colon- whelming:, and after brother Closs had I 1 IZCU. received his well-merited rebuke, and left the crowd," the "punishment" in flicted by the eallant Harerrove oh rep resentative Standford, like the punish ment inflicted on Cain for the murder of his brother Abel, seemed to be "greater than he was able to bear," and so Stanford incontinently wither ed and disappeared like a tender plant cut up and cast into the parching sand and scorching sun. Col. Hargrove's burning ridicule of Stanford on account of i the so-called " Legisla tive Address," which he and all the other Conservative members of the Le gislature of !1870-'71, signed and pub: lishfid to lhepooytta, fM-lft: sole nur- pose of scaring and driving inem inter the support of an unconstitutional and revolutionary convention, was amusing to all the audience, except Dr. Closs and Standford himself. That dictato rial and threatening Address declared that the Constitution contained a direct and positive mandate to the General Assembly, which men of common HONESTY, REGARDFUL OF THEIR OATHS, KNEW NOT HOW TO DISOBEY. That immaculate Conservative party MILITARY LAW! Asheville, N. C., May 22, 18G.V At a large and enthusiastic meeting of the citizens of Buncombo county, this day held in the town of Asheville, on motion of Col. J. L. t Henry, Col. Samuel B; Gudger . was appointed Chairman. ! On motion of W. G. Candler, Esq., J. L. Henry was appointed Secretary, a. Merrrmon. Esq.. moved that a committee be appointed to wait on all .Federal held and staff officers on duty in this place, and request them to take seats in this meeting. ! in pursuance ofthe foregoing: motion. the following gentlemen were appoint ed said committee, viz: Capt. Charles Moore, Rev. . A. W. Cummlngs and A. E. Baird, Esq., who accordingly . xtro i frwl fiTkvn on1 ono tfr "V1 fl cg Kirk, Lt. Col. Hubbard, Major Rollins. told the people that if they did not call Adjutant Sutphen. Drs. Roberts and a Convention that honest and conscien- Doak, fcc. tious Conservative party in the Legis- The Chairman, in a brief addraw, set lature would be compelled by their forth the object of the meeting to be for oaths to levy a tax on the people eight the purpose of giving expression to times as much as it was in 1870 under public opinion touching the condition Republican ! rule. Those Conservative of the country, fcc. ! , members declared in their Address they Rev. T. W. Atkin moved that a com- knew very well that any such tax would mittee be appointed to prepare matte r crush tke people into tlie dust. Yet they for the consideration of the meeting.' had taken an oath which could not be In pursuance of the foregoing motion. f ulfilled unless they did make such a levy, the Chairman appointed the following They declared themselves that tney gentlemen to constitute said committee, would be guilty of perjury it they did viz: Capt. Charles Moore, 3Iajor W. not levy the tax, and ; that they would J.Brown, Rev. J. C. Stewart, S. G. either levy that enormous tax on the Kerr, Rev. T. W. Atkin, A.-E. Baird, people or resign. Col. Hargrove then Robert Hawkins, W. S. Murray, Rich stated to the people that Mr. Stanford ard Ledbetter, W. G. Candler, Esq., did not levy the tax he told them his Captain William P. Fortune, Colonel oath compelled him to levy : that of James E. Reid, Rev. William Lank- Col. Neill McKay. We place at the" head of our columns to-day, the name of. Col. Neill McKay, of Har nett, as our condidate for Congress from this District. Col. McKay is at this time the; Solicitor for the Fifth Judici al District, where he was placed by the Republican party on the adoption of the Constitution in 1868. He opposed the late legislative call for aXSonvention and, since its organization in this State, has always acted with the Republican party. He was the Solicitor for this District in , the Superior Court of T aw from the close ofthe war until the adoption of the present Constitution. r Col. McKay belongs to one of the ancient Scotch families of Cumberland county, where he is very popular and highly esteemed. He is a fine lawyer and has qui tea largre practice. lie will in the fieldf-one wrhom you may not f AVield a mighty influence in thecoming r You can riot register on election day. i mington - i 1 .1 , l I .4.. n.tknM rost. Wilm J- "4 course be had not committed perjury : and he most surely had not resigned his seat as a member of the Legislature. He turned to Stanford and asked him if he did not sign that celebrated " Leg islative Address," issued in March 1871. Stanford refused to answer. Col. Hargrove then asked Stanford if he resigned his seat in the Legislature when they failed to levy the tax they declared their oaths compelled them to evy or commit perjury. Stanford still refused to answer. Col. Hargrove inquired of Stanford if he was in favor of the proposed 1 . I l it. - A 9 A ? amenoments to tne Ajonsiituuon in re lation to the number of Supreme Court Jndges, by which the homestead ex emption in our Constitution may be endangered or destroyed. Mr. Stand ford alsojefused to answer this impor tant question. Indeed it must be ad mitted by those who were present on the occasion that Col.' Hargrove gained a complete triumph' over Standford in the discussion at Magnolia. At the conclusion of Col. Hargrove's reply to Standford, Gov. Caldwell de livered a short speech, and stated that as he had become hoarse from speaking almost daily for some time past, and as he desired to speak the next day at Hallsville, in Duplin county, he would give way to his friend Gen. Brogden. The General then brought his heavy artillery into full play upon the shat tered and demoralized forces which the Democratic-Conservative Ku . KIux squads have been trying to organize, ever since they wrere compelled to sur render to that illustrious and uncon querable chieftain and hero, Gen. U. S. Grant. I Gen. Brogden showed that the Democratic-Conservative i Ku Klux party were wholly unworthy of the confidence and support of all honest and well meaning j people. That unprincipled party in the Legislature passed a law to encourage and promote perjury and crime by allowing criminals to swear in favor of themselves and in favor of each other. They passed laws in open and palpable violation ofthe Constitu tion, and some of which laws have al ready been so decided by the Supreme Court. They " refused, when respect-1 fully petitioned by the people, to in vestigate grave charges against somel of the members of their own body. ford, Captain William Pickens, Rev. Robert Patterson, Rev, 11. i w. Patty, Captain John H. Robinson, iS. E. Pen land, Col. R. L. Jones and Col. W. 11. Moore. ! . In the absence Of the committee . tho meeting was addressed by 1 Major W. W. Rollins, Rev. Robert Patterson, Dr. Doak and others. i " The committee reported thefollowing preamble and resolutions, which were read separately and adopted, viz : . Whereas, The armies forming the commands of Gens. Lee, . Johnson and Taylor have been surrendered and dis banded, and in the providence of GQd the rebellion is at an end therefore, Resolved 1. That we, the people of the county of Buncombe, in general meeting assembled, do declare our ad herence to the constitution and laws of the United States, and our unwavering purpose to support and maintain the same. i ! Resolved 2. That wo earnestly hope, for the early and order and most devoutly pray restoration of I civil la law throughout the land. Resolved 3. That we, the people of the county of Buncombe, recognise now, . as we declared by our votes in Febru ary, 1861, the doctrine of secession to be unconstitutional, illegal and revolu tionary, and that North Carolina is yet in point of law as well as fact, in the Union of the United States.! v Resolved 4. That the popular heart of the people of North Carolina, narticu- larly of Western North Carolina,! has always been loyal to the old Govern ment, and that in future it shall beat in unison with, and keep step to themu.sic of, the Union. ! J f f . , Resolved 5. That we sincerely ;'de plore the calamities brought about by the war from which wo are just emerg ing, and we sincerely pray fori the speedy arrival of the time when' the sword shall bej beaten into the plow share and the spear into the pruhincr hook, and the nations of the earth, shall learn war no more. Resolved 6. That we extend to our Northern brothers the right hand of fellowship, and, honestly hope how soon we may all meet as in daj;s of yore, as American brothers and a band of free men around the altar of Freedom. Resolved!. That the great question of discord and! dissenslon-l-slaverv is They refused to turn out Moses A. at an end, and that in our opinion the I Bledsoe, as Chairman of the Board of ' African rnc should be removed froHf I
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