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T 'V. . . , t tytttyyi Carolina 'Jra, TRI'WKKKLY AND WKKKLT BT : The , Era Publishing Company, j Kates of Advertliiitt i X One square, one time, - - ' - ' - l 00 " twoUmes,- - - j - -160 , V three tlnioM,- .- .- - i 2 00 A square is (he width of a column, and 1 ineke deep. jZSf Contract Advertisements akir at proportionately low rates. 1 '! 7 V J - Tttite of Subscription t Tki-Wekklt One year, In advance. S3 00 , ., o monuu, in aa vance, .'.'. 3 months, in advance, 1 month, in advance, WKKKtr One year, in advance, . Six months, in advance, 2 00 1 00 50 $1 00 RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1872. No. 3. Professional Cards, not exc eeding 1 8n uare wiU be published one year for Jllij ii , 50 mi H i hfl . , . . ..1.1 " ' j " Vol. 2. - W V;V The Legislature and Railroads. On the 8th day of, February, 1871, Governor Caldwell refused to execute the provisions of the Convention bill. This refusal is set forth as the reason why the Legislature took but of his hands the power of appointing the Di rectors oh the part of the State, In the various railroads, asylums and the pen itentiary. II is only necessary how ever, to call fo mind a few facts to ut terly refute this pretense. On the 22d of December, 1870, an act was passed depriving the Governor of his right to apioint .Directors on the "Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Road, but retaining to the Legislature, the power of providing in the future for the rep reHjntatiori of tho Interests of the State, whatever they might be. On the Cth day of December, r t v lation under the Constitution. We will not stop to inquire what outside Influ ences Were brought to bear upon that Legislature, but accept it as a fact that the railroad officials were active lobby ists. The valid appropriations amount ing to but $13,950,000 instead! of over $20,000,000, as is alleged, were the joint- work of both parties. The Conserva tives constituted about one-third of the Legislature, and yet among tiem we find the names of Judge Osborne, Ar go, Davidson, Durham, Gatlirtg, Gib son, Ureen, Ivelly of Davie, Malone, Matheson, Nicholson, Painter, Proffitt, Robinson, Smith of Alleghany, Welch, Whitley, and. others, voting, some of them almost uniformly, for many of those railroad bills. T " I In fhe fraudulent use of the bonds, 1870 the office of I th(5f parties stand on an equal footing ' v'-r.:,V.--:wr v Or'T- V.T ;- - k',s afConscrV .tttliti.ijiintiii Am hus of their party favorite, .-'i o results' of this par tizan legislation, so disgraceful to the party the Printer and tho Interests o the State, have been so fully set forth in a former No." of these articles that -we shall not recapitulate we are now dealing with dates. On the 14th of December, the Revised Code a special favorite of the Legislature, in cases suiting them was amended so that that body could take upon itself the trouble of electing another favorite, as Keeier of the Capitol. But the act provided JL'the duties of the Keeper shall be such as are prescribed by law" namely, such as the "radicals" had prescribed. Thus the office and the du ties continued the same, but the ap- jointing power and the appointee are changed. But further: on the 21st day of January, 1871 still eighteen days before Gov. Caldwell refused to execute the Convention act, tho old Board of Directors for the Institution for the Deaf, the Dumb and the 'Blind was dismissed by the Assembly, and a new one appointed. No complaints were made against the old board and no reason given for this high-handed par tizan legislation. For should it be eon ceded, as it is not, that Gov. Holden had made bad appointments, it by no means followed that Gov. Caldwell would do the same, or that he would not correct Gov. Holden's errors in this respect. All this legislation having taken place before Gov. Caldwell , declined to execute the ConvenUonyict.tlieUej2SVi tion that it was entered into on account of such declination, is a ball-faced false hood and an insult to the intelligence of the people. , Another excuse given for this unusu al legislation was that the former Leg islature! had been bribed to make an immense railroad appropriation; the bonds and other proceeds of which had been fraudulently used by "radical" railroad agents. But that Gov. Cald well was implicated in all this does not appear. If there was anything wrong in the original drafts of Mr. Swepson's W. N. C. R. R. bills, it must be attrib uted to the present Democratic candi date for Governor, Hon. A. S. Merri mon, for he says on page 142 of the Fraud Commission :" "I was employed by Mr. Swepson to pre pare various bills, for the beneht of the W. X. C. K. R. Co., and particularly for the Western Division of that company. This I think iiu-ludes all the appropriation bills." But we propose to show that in all this alleged bribing, fraud and swin dling, the Conservatives and Democrats are as deeply implicated, in proportion to their numbers and influence, as the "radicals." The railroad appropriations made by the Reconstruction Convention of 18G8, were made mainly at the instance of Democratic railroad Presidents. These were Col. R. II. Cowan, Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Road, Col. Sam'l McD. Tate, W. N.C. R. R., Gen. W. R. Cox, Chatham Road, and Mr. Mallette, of the Western Road. Col. Cowan represented, that having in an emergency pledged in New -York $1, 200,000 of $4,000,000 of 8 per ct. first mort gage bonds (which lie was unable to sell except at a ruinous sacrifice) for a loan of $400,000, he must have relief or the mortgage would be foreclosed and . the road sacrificed for the latter sum. The Convention extended relief by pledging- the State, as security for the principal and interest when due. Col. Tate addressed a letter to Gen. Abbott, asking the Convention to place in the Constitution such provision and. pass such ordinances as would compel the .State to resume the payment of the interest upon her debt. This he claim ed would save to the State between two and three millions of dollars, in con nection with his road. Gen. Cox wanted an appropriation of $1,200,000 upon certain conditions. Also the Western Railroad, Mr. Mallette; theTarboro Road; the officers and di rectors of all these roads, all Conserva tives and Democrats stood knocking at the doors of tho Convention, urging the passage of measures of relief to their roads, in the way of direct appropria tions, the resumption of the payment of the interest on the State debt, the constitutional provision relative to the ' principal and interest of the same ; in a word, in any way by which the credit of the State could bo maintained. Tho same rule of implication, as to juirties, applies to the "radical", legis- i ay., and,. .as- sudv was appointed a 1 Director on one of the railroads by the Board of Internal Improvements, un der Gov. Worth. Milton S. Liftlefield was a Radical, but was at onetime high in favor with the Conservatives because of his opposition to Gov. Hol den and his friend the Hon. Qilvin J. Cowles. The same Legislature which issued the bonds legislated for their return to the Treasurer, undr heavy penalties, and tho Supreme Court Republican throughout by its decision on the University Railroad case, still further protected the tax payers of the Chai i a. t xi r:L i a ouue. J3ut ib 19 wuriny ui nuucu ngiib here, that a Mr. Porter professing to represent all the Railroad Companies having special tax bonds in New York for sale, paid S. J. Person, E. G. Hay wood, D. G. Fowle, Democrats, and R. V. Badger, Republican, $100,000 in bonds and $24,000 in cash, to argue in behalf of the constitutionality of thesb bonds in this University case.. The two latter gentlemen returned ' their bonds. Thirty of the bonds were charg ed against the W. C. & Rutherford Road by the Company Mr. Porter rep resented, and lost to that Road. Further: an investigating committee i was authorized by tin- Legislature, and Gov. Caldwell appointed MessrsJ Bragg, Phillips and Scott to constitute the i committee. Mr. Phillips went into the investigation a Conservative and came out a Republican. In a speech subse quently made at Graham, in Alamance, when a candidate for Attorney Gener al, hesaid: J " lie -wishelTevery mavllUoriVC-unjima could read the evidence before tte com mittee, if they could they would find that 1SG8; At this latter period the State debt amounted to over $15,000,000, and When Gov. Holden delivered his last annual message the whole debt was " . : . summed up at s.ooo.ooo. me in crease as already stated was mainly for liailroau appropriations, for which we Kave shown both parties to he respon sible, . But owing to the fact that "un ofer radical rule", the bonds have been clled'in, there are . now outstanding of jthese appropriations the sum only of $y;064,000 an . jncrease of only a little cjver $8,000,000, instead of over $25,000, 000as charged. ; ; ; ; ; ' ' From all these facts and many others we cannot now enumerate it is appa rent that the last Legislature shaped ifs action, to insure, the. Railroad and cither offices jind their , emoluments to ; its rrr rtj zans, forj , pa rjlyv purpoaas)" re gardless entirely of the constitution, traditional usages, and the Interests of the people.- " : J ' ; JUDGE ME RR 131 EDITOR IN Till Sketch of. Romantic the Life of the n - - democratic V iriEKKIITION SAVS TO r " BY GONES BE6T- : ' CARTTEIl SAYS TJI J "' III3I. ; N'S NEW neideiits iii .V estern I 'tor; v.v- r';-'j- JAtIE'TOf;; '$ I "Gen Leaven thorpe arrested poor wo men in 1864, because their husbands refused to fight for Jeff. Davis and his slave oligarchy. He dragged them off from their little childen. to his bull pen, and denied them even a moment's dies, in order to defeat them and elect privacy. The JJaxly News of this city Ciov. Vance to tne u. o senate, lien. In continuation of : it we had to say in. our last of Ju ) iMemmon's new - friend, -Editor tlfy. in the West, Mr. Thoma J who has roiiO1- to uie ironi. i . ..i jJtmioeratic party In that region and taken charge of it, a faithful and impartial narrative of his interesting, exciting and roman tic connection and relations with other leaders of his party, requires us here to repeat what Mr. Lusk has said,, that the charge which he maije against Gen. Ransom and Judge Merimcn Of cor rupt complicity with Stepson's swin- says he was nominated by the Demo crats at Greensboro' as a reward for his War services. J r Will He Do It? The Goldsboro' Messenger of the 17th, in an article on the arrest of Opt. Tre- zevant ot Charlotte, says: ,"This ruffian, Canton, comes from South Carolina, arrests and drasrs into another State for trial a free-born American citizen. r Ransom forced him, "at the peril of the loss of his ears," to refract and with draw ; and that tho messengers between these belligerents wero those men " of peace and approved democrats, Judge and could riot have made such a mis take as XX Robbins made when, in the language of one of his, apologists, he "unthoughtedly" mistook a bribe of $XX for a fee. The documents, however, brought out by Mr. Lusk show that Mr. McAden, who was at one time the Dem ocratic Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives in this State, makes a prop osition to buy off George W. Swepson from the criminal prosecutions pend ing against him. The Attorney Gene ral, to whom this proposal was made, not only ' accepts it as the representa tive conservator of the morality and justice of the State, but recommends to the officers of the Court- Judge and Solicitor in . which the indictment against Stepson was pending, that it should be dismissed, and in the future, dmne3tv4'shdtiM'Mbd !&ce3rdeduili&ior all his past offences. To this frecom mendation" we find added to the name of the Attorney General, in a semi-)ffi cial character, the names of Judge Bat tle and his sons, and Mr. J. B.vBatche lor democrats of the finest water, without flaw or blemish politically. The signers of this document may fur nish us with a reason to account for the silence of the Democratic press and party in the Convention campaign about the arrangement to release Swep son from further prosecution which the document discloses. In a future num ber we will resume this strange, event ful history, of the Attorney General's, Some Figures for Taxpayers. Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, - chair man of the Ways and Means Commit tee, launched a thunderbolt into the midst of the Democracy some days be fore the adjournment4 of Congress, by a table of figures i which; he gave to the House and bad published in the Globe. This table proves, by authentic - statis tics, that the actual expenses - of the Government last year, apart from tho J items for interest on the debt, pensions, u.iiKi wtner e-s-pemuiures growing out of the war, are but six millions more than the aggregate expenses for 1860, under a Democratic :administrationf Taking into the account the large increase in population, the expenses per capita in 1871 are shown .to be $1.7& against $1.95 in 1800. Thus,deducting the extraor dinary burdens bequeathed by the war, thetcost per capita of running the Gov ernment is greatly less under Grant than under. Buchanan. . ; , ,;v-- , -; It annears further from t.h Rnm fa. Dies mat in xaii nearly $11,000,000 was expended ior pu diic worKs of various kinds,', including Government build ings, improvement of harbors, rivers, $XX Robbinsgraphs. Fowle and Mr. Batchelor, supervised and produce some other additional in teresting and original documents and directed by that illustrious nego tiator, diplomatist and consistent poli tician, Gen. T. L. Clingman, against whom Mr. T. D. Carter had made quite as grave charges as lie had preferred displaying handcuffs and pistol and treat- against Gen. Random. It is further to ihg this victim of radical oppression as if he be noted as an interesting view of the gere already a -condemned felon, and Tod interior and domestic life of the great fating the adoption of the Constitu H. Caldwell and his whole troop of radical nnrl hnnnv riomnnrntio fomilv that, ini , , . the errave. or an- :.:i i, r. . w ' I llll'l li ri II AMI II I I IIV Jill. I iMMfl Judge Merrimon and his friends, in 1868, stumped the State against our pres ent Constitution. Gov. Caldwell stump ed the State for the Constitution. If Judge Merrimon had succeeded in de ruffians are as silent as plaud the rascally deed." Six days before the above appeared in print Gov. Caldwell laid the matter before President Grant in these words: P "! feel pretty sure that the arrest of Wil liam II. Trezevant was not made in accord ance with law, and therefore deem it my. bounden duty to enter my solemn protest against fan illegal invasion of the soil of ?ortli Carolina and the unlawful arrest of any citizen, no matter how flagrant may lave been his crime. I therefore most re spectfully ask that the arrest, removal from the State and detention of William II. Trez evant be fully and thoroughly investigated without delay, and ifiit shall appear that it hs release bo promptly ordered, ! and he he returned within the limits of the State of against those pious, God-fearing and sanctified saints of Democracy, G. W. Swepson, .T. J: Sumner and E. Nye Hutchinson, are now pending in the Criminal Courts of New York, charg-; ing them with a penitentiary offence.' But by way of compensation for the above named gentlemen it may be sta ted that they have indicted Carter in the U. S. Circuit Court at this place for perjury, and by the aid of strong democratic counsel, which they have i employed to prosecute him, we are in formed that they express great confi dence of his final convlctio and incar na tion, where wTould your homesteads be ? Who proved himself your friend, poor men of North Carolina, Gov. Caldwell or Judge Merrimon ? as many and as prominent Democrats as Republicans, in and out of the Legislature, participated in the swindles and frauds per petrated upon the people of the State, aye, more prominent. lie expressed the wish, that the reDort of that committee eould be placed in the hands of every voter and the names of the Conservatives and Democrats printed in blue and those of, the Republi cans in red. In all the extravagance Mr. Graham, of Orange, and Dr. Moore of Ala in ancfi. had no better record than Mr. Wel- ker, of Guilford, or Mr. Shoffner.J of Ala- jiomet Fire Company of which Capt. mance, wnom or some reason iiej um now see there on that occasion ; that they cast as good, as patriotic, as economical votes as the Democrats named." -As a commentary on the partizan legislation which transferred brth Carolina, and that such proceedings be instituted against the parties who have transcended their powers and authority as will make officials more circumspect here after in the discharge of their duties." li Will The Messenaer do Gov. Caldwell jche justice to insert the above, or will t be " as silent -as the grave?" Or will ; copy Gov. Caldwell's letter to the itizens.of Charlotte for which he was Voted a resolution of thanks bv the Trezevant was a member? We shall ee.. : j jthe ap- y the war inaugurated by the Demo cratic party, and yet when the Repub- pointment of State Directors from the lican party offergd the people of the Governor, who had uniformly exer cised that power, under every Admin istration and party, from the incjpiency of railroading in North Carolina until that time, to the Warren-Jarvjs Hwie, we need to look to but one road as a specimen illustration. "Hie Board of Directors on th W. N. f!. R. R. auuointedby arren-J vv - - w 1 tate a Constitution which provided a homestead thus enabling our people to saMe 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 poor man's friend ? It is our opinion that j he now believes 'the homestead unconstitutional, null Land void. Can we trust hi in ? displaced the . Republican . President, Dr. J.J. Mott, alleging that he had acied unwisely in the financial manage- H . ment Of the road, in the hypothecation: fl I gentleman is a Sliorifl" Sowers, of Davidson. candidate for re- 'i'.'.x: : r 1 : .1 , r nnvfn n rrf hnnrl4 in INPW 3 v''" York. Dr. Mott vindicated limselfl By virtue of a decision of our Supreme fully, stating that heacted chiefly upon tho ndviee of Col. Tate former 1'resi- dent and late financial agent of the ! 'our years. Whatever may be the company. And yet the Doctor as re opmion of the public of Sheriffs who moved and theColonel appointed Pres- oyer, the people of Davidson :,,i n M ni RinrothPTi. thft have cause to congratulate themselves iuc,iu . 1 a tun nr- o. 1 tern Division has been sold, little bya little, not to satisfy the large, pui thej small creditors of the road, andsso qui4 etly sold, that at least, one of theattor-; npvs for the road had no knowledge 00 the sales, until some time after their occurrence. These facts speak fortheni selves. Before closing this article we proposer to notice the Minority Report of the? Outrage Committee to Congress, whenn in the statement is made that the debts and liabilities in North Carolina have: been increased, "under radical rule,nr over $25,000,000. That report jihargeg: everything to "radical rule" ffom July 18G1 until the present time a summing1 up so outrageously unjust that utrag; itself is out-Heroded in making it "Radical rule" in North Carolina exr tended only for about thirty-ticomontJi during the eleven years cited. The ex penses and extravagance of theremainj- o-ht vears ana lour monins 0 ing ei Conservative rule, are unjustly charged to the Radicals. Gov. Holden was pro4 visional Governor, it is truefar a few mnnthsin 18G5, but the expenses in-' curred, including those of the Conven; tion in that year, amounting toaDous $85,000, were paid by taxes levied and: collected, With that exception the ; rvinoprratives held power from ltul to Court. Mr. Sowers and many other Sheriffs held over, and have been in of- ihat Mr. Sowers was continued in of fice: Mr. Loftin, who wras a candidate in 1870 against Mr. Sowers, has been proven to belong to the Ku Klux Klan. iVccording to the oath of Ku Klux, justice would have been a mockery in Davidson county if Mr. Loftin had been elected Sheriff. - I ; Mr. Sowers has proved himself a good Sheriff. Jtle has settled his ac counts with the State Treasurer punct ually and in full. We mistake the peo ile of Dayidson if they do not re-elect m officer of this character. Law-abid-ng voters will not hesitate to vote, for such a man, and we predict his trium phant election. I : In 186S we had a white man's party in North Carolina. Now we have a Iwhite hat party. Fizzling out, ain't it? The Republican National Executive Committee suggest as a suitable cam paign insigna a leather medal, a remin der of the avocations of the tanner and cobbler. It is evident that all the en thusiasm of the Presidential campaign ;of 1840 is to be revived this year. This is the status now ol k ,.r be tween the above named leading demo cratic politicians, and it is probable that if the several prosecutions which they are now carrying on against each other are vigorously pressed, that they will all land where each wants his ad versary' to go. It is therefore ques-j tionable whether Judge Merrimon has much to gain by supplanting his brother-in-law, about whose career as a Commissary during The war, in Ten nessee, there are some unpleasant rem iniscences, and filling the vacancy in the Editorial chair of The AsheviUe Citizen with j Mr. Thomas D. Carter, who has been indicted and is now be ing fiercely prosecuted by his promi nent democratic brethren for perjury. But this is a very singular though it is said to be a very happy and harmo nious family, this democratic family ; which observation brings us naturally , to consider another topic suggested by the Carter-Lusk controversy and the accompanying documents. Whenever it was known in the State, and espe cially in the , Western part of the State, that the indictments pending in Bun combe Superior .Court against George W. Swepson had been dismissed upon his promise; to pay about six cents in the dollar upon the aggregate of his stealings from thef' State, it excited great surprise that during the last heat ed Convention campaign no charge was anywhere made against - the Radical party on account of the manner in which those prosecutions terminated. It had been so long the ; habit of the people to hear anymore or less,: by the incessant din kept up; to credit all sorts of extravagant charges against the Re publicans, that independent and intel ligent men of that party could not well understand how any- rascality could be done in the State without blame being imputed to their side. It was, there fore, only in subdued and smothered whisperings with . one another that they ventured to conjecture that possi bly some democrat might have had an agency in bringing about the nefarious compromise with Swepson, by means of which he has, escaped the punishment he so richly deserves. In looking over the democratic array nobody's eyes would have been directed towards the Attorney General of the State. He had borne the reputation of a man of spot- less integrity and purity of character He was not made of any such stuff as XX Robbins. His understanding was not so obtuse, his moral sense hot so blunt, his need of money, compared to' the wretched impecuniosity of Rob bins, about in proportion to that of any well-doing! professional man and the blind old mulatto, Jim, who rambles about the streets of Raleigh fanning the flies from his face with his leather flap and begging pennies so the At torney General Chapter 22, Laws 18G8, section 9 is in these words : the request of any five justices of a county, to direct, the Colonel commanding therein to detail, organize and equip, from the men liable to military duty in his corkimand,'a sufficient force to preserve the peace and to enforce the laws." Sections 10 to 20 of that act provides all the details of calling out, arming, militia. His untiriner enorrv in ihnt. 1 (Lhe Legislature). is an earnest of what uE-PF ofWm iTi th Congress of the United States." Salem freli. Of course, "his 'untiring ptipww" in taking a lawyer's fee of iiyy whtio o State Senator, "Is an earnest" of his taking a larger one if he should, unfor tunately for the neoDle. he Pltrvi Congress ".',(.. , "He will command the tehnTo of the Conservatives in August." ttr- If he does command "tho whnln vntn of the Conservatives," some of them will lie, because some of them havo al ready sworn they would not vote for him. . , . ... i ; - . ' "XX Robbins 1 This the Kirkites have against Major Rob bins, .our candidate for con2rcss."-T- Western 8entinel: - . ; Not all that "the 3Cirkitos hnv llgalnsrUio"CoriffcIeratCXIajor, XI e tiu'd last summer, "if this convention is not called, I must either resign, levy that tax, or be a perjured villain." v All know the result. Thousrh this is not &c.. while in I860 the outlav c for thpsA was less than $3,000,000. Deducting the "Kirkites' cry," but $XX Robbins u.uv.. vvuuituira iut 1 - o - 1 . nermanentimDrovements demanded hv And now please let us havo the $XX the rapid growth of the country, and it ltes cryor him. Let us havo somcct is found that notwithstanding the great- he has done for the welfare of hjs con- iy inereaseu area 01 tne unitea statf. i buiucuw. ucvci. ucu. iuauics, ana the erection of many new Territories, et us have them, because he has been anu uie payment 01 interest; on tne Jra- lu cvci diucu iub surrunuer, cmc iiauroaa Donas, the remaining anu 11 ue niXS uone notmng ior nis con cost of carrying on the Governmpnt. 1 stituents, he has done all asrainst them. was considerably less in the asrareffate or h has done nothing and is not At for m w a I i ,, last year tnan in lbbO. I congress. i" By the following portion of these ta- "He (lack Robbins) did take $20 bles it will be seen that the present Ad- unthoughtedly as a lawyer's fee. 1 Ho ministration is the most economirid didn't try to conceal it. ' Ho went him sen ana lmormea the committee on Bribery and Corruption of the fact." since that of 1840 Year. 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1871, Population. 5,305,925 7,239,814 9,638,131 12,866,020 17,069,453 23,191,876 31,443,321 38,555,983 Expenditures. $10,813,971.01 8,474,753.37 18,285,534.89 15,142,108.26 24,314,518.19 40,948,383.12 61,402,408.64 67,S61,091.48 Per Capita. $2.03 1.17 1.89 1.17 1.42 1.76 1.95 1.76 These figures for 1871 exclude what may be termed war expenses, interest on debt, pensions, &c, as well as two or three other small items not nronerlv chargeable to the present Admimstra- corrupt and thieving legislative body- Western Sentinel. Aha ! "He did take $20 unthounhtal- ly as a lawyer's fee " Yes, and ho as "unthoughtedly" kept the $20 for near ly six months, and only offered to re turn it when tne Committee on Bribe ry and Corruption was on his track. Honest Mack Robbins ! As honest as Jo. Turner that agreed to discount his little overdraw when ho . had been caught! , ' . i "He was tried by the most venal. A.Z I X. J. 1 J i 1 i tiou, uut ixiey uo noc exciuae tne Der- manent outlays for public works. De ducting these, and the years 1860 and 1871 stand as follows : rlUU CJ Year. Population. Expenditures. 1860, 31,443.321 58.489.037.16 1871, 38,555,983 57,117,332.43 Mr. Dawes has compiled his from the official records, and Per Capita. 1.86 1.48 figures all his processes, including the items deducted, are given with the utmost fullness in The Globe of June 5. The opposition papers have thus had a week in which to examine and refute them.but so far nave Deen unable even to explain them away. The fact remains, and cannot that ever assembled outside of South Carolina a body that he had denounc ed for their corruption and bribery a body that feared and hated him, and would have given half their stealings to get rid of him, and by his enemies ho was declared innocent of corruption fn tent." Western Sentinel. , .J.tt This is the unkindest cut of all ! Mack Robbins went before a commit tee of this body "that feared and hated him," repented in sack cloth and ashes and begged and prayed for mercy for the sake of his wife and children, j He went further. He told them (so wo are creditably informed) that if they reported that he took the $XX with I Gov. Caldwell and his friends gave jthe mechanics and laborers of this State the first lien law they ever had. "The sum necessary to carput the pro visions of, this act is hereby appropriated and ordered to be paid from any money not otherwise appropriated." THE LAST LEGISLATURE RE PEALED ALL THAT PORTION OF THE ABOVE RECITED ACT FROM SECTION; 8 TO SECTION 22 INCLU SIVE. (See Chapter 134, Laws 1870 '71.) : This Democratic Legislature, fearing the Governor would call out the mili tia to suppress their friends, the Ku Klux, thus 'took away from him all power to call out, or use the militia to put down lawlessness. These are facts which none can truth fully deny. tlbegal n sjl dff f hpt notwithstanding 4he corrupt intent, he would make away ir -,"eaf .HVrr: iiwbUh.laro-rtt I w jUv As "venal and cnrnitit' 4 uiuu ii wuui iu ocuua leiiuvr his Maker unbidden for the sake of $20r7U' Judge Merrimon and his friends are and t always have been enemies of our State Constitution. They opposed its adoption, worked ,hard to cheat poor ineii out of their homesteads last sum mer, and are still working to repeal as much of the. Constitution as possible. Can you trust them ? - " Now and Then. In January, 1871, Horace Greeley was chosen President of the Tammany Republican General Committee of the cityof JNew lorir. un laninginecnaw, he made a speech, in the courseof which he said: - " " While asserting the right of every Re publican to his untrammeled choice of a candidate for next President until a nomim ation is made, I venture to suggest that Gen. Grant will be far better qualified for that momentous trust in 1872 than he was in 1868.". : ' 'V;... f;-f I .., As the policy of the Administration is the same to-day as then, to what shall we ascribe Mr. Greeley's sudden conversion to the one-term principle, and from a position of extreme friend liness to One of open hostility? In 18G8, Judge Merrimon and his friends asserted that if the present State Constitution wras adopted the white children and the colored children would be forced to attend the same schools. ; Gov. CaldwTell and friends denied this. The Constitution was adopted.; Who told the truth ? j Workingmen should remember that Grant and Wilson are self-made men. One, from an honest tanner, became the greatest soldier of modern times and the honored President of the United States. The other rose from the shoemaker's bench to the proud emi nence of the most illustrious of Ameri can statesmen. Who got Swepson off from all his prosecutions in Western North Caroli na? W. M. Shipp, our Democratic never had the motive t Attorney General. labor to land, the ordinary currenfTex penses of the Government are very much less per head now than they have been since 1810. Philadelphia Press. I The Constitution of North Carolina expressly provides (Art. XIV Sec. 3,) that "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of ap propriations made by law." We chal lenge the Editors of , The Daily News and Wilmington Journal (both of them lawyeis) to point to any law of this State which authorizes the Governor to pay one cem for organizing, equipping, transporting or subsisting, or paying any militia force to put down the Rob eson outlaws. Show the law, gentlemen, or you stand before the people of the State con victed as slanderers of Gov. Caldwell Leacli and Settle Many of the political friends and supporters of General Leach do not like him as a man, and only vote for him because impelled by party discipline. Many Democrats, when he was nomi nated for Congress in 1870, declared they would not support him, although afterwards reluctantly wheeling into line. He ran behind his ticket at that election, and was sent to Congress by a popular wave, upon which he rode, but which he did not help to create. There is a reason for all this dislike, that we think is occasioned by Leach's "re cord," concerning which he talks so frequently and so loudly. He has been on too many sides, being ready, as we are assured, to go wherever his interest calls him. Selfishness is the first law of his nature. All this the people see and appreciate. i Not so with Thos. Settle. He is liked and admired, even by his political ene mies, many of whom will give him their suffrages. Why is he thus ad mired? Because there' is no meanness in his composition. He has a large and generous heart, and is a friend to all mankind. He would not stoop to do a disgraceful act, even to ensure success. He deals in nothing underhanded and has none of the tricks and subterfuges of the mere demagogue, f Added to this, he has dignity and courage. He permits no trifling with his manhood. He is a friend to honesty and integrity, whether they be found in the breast of the man of high or low degree. The people also see and appreciate this; and they will come out in great num bers to his support. New North State. so they heard his prayers, and although The Sentinel says "they would have given half their stealings to get rid of im," they sympathized with their ve nal, corrupt brother, may be, because he only got $20, while, as The Sentinel says, they "were selling for thousands," and shielded him from a just penalty- expulsion and lasting disgrace merely censured him for stooping beneath the dignity of a Senator. For this act they are to be denounced by $XX Robbins and his friends and they ought to be. They have long since been ignored by the Republican party, not for shielding $XX Robbins simply, but because they were implicated in venality, and cor ruption. But they were not more deep ly implicated than $XX Robbins, and yet, tne Ku Klux Democrats place him forward as a candidate for Congress !-r Let the people mark this difference be tween the two parties in dealing with venal, corrupt scoundrels. Winston Kepublican. In 1868, Judge Merrimon, and i his friends attempted to defeat; our State Constitution by assci ting that the white and colored men would be forced to muster in the same militia companies. Gov. Caldwell and his friends denied' this. The Constitution . was iadopted Have white and colored men been forced to muster together? j Who told you the truth and who did not? j The editor of The News charged that Gov. Caldwell had appointed a Judge to the Supreme Bench who was op posed to the Homestead, j We called on him for his proof. He has not given it. He knows he can't give it. He knows or ought to know for he is a lawyer, that the Supreme Court Re ports prove Hhat Judge Boyden is in favor of the Homestead, j Will The News " have the manliness and fairness" to do simple justice to Gov. Caldwell.' by correcting its statement? The Republican victory in" Oregon is of more significance than was at first supposed. The State has been under Democratic control for four years, and probably would have gone Democratic this time but for the Greeley move ment. It is significant of the Waterloo defeat that awaits the Democratic party and its allies in August and November next. j 1 . 1 Judge Merrimon and his friends told the people of this State in 1863 that cv-. ery vote for our present , Constitution "was a vote for nejrro supremacy, i Was w their assertion true ? A letter from a North Carolinian, now residing in Indiana, says: . j " The prospects for wheat Is only moder ate. The chinch-bug is in it. Oats and corn look fine. Grass is good and the prospect for Greeley very poor." . . ' . ' Who labored day and night to defeat the poor man's Homestead in North Carolina? Judge Merrimon and his friends. it 1: t i Tf there, had been no iBinocrauc i party there would haveech no War. ; Those' who have moved into other j townships since the must register again. last State election If there had been no Republican! party we would now have no Unioiv f in 5 V