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KU KLUX INSULTS-MORE AT
TK3IPTS AT INTI3IIIATION.
United States Fl.iff Itottcii-E
j3 Iiemoorats at Yanceyvlllc
and Milton. '
ATTimrXJ XO GET VP A KlOX TO
ni:KDi:u judcje settle ajjd
COI- IIEXDEUSOX.
We learn from TJte Greenzbord New
Xorlh Stale that on Friday. night, June
2ist, the llepublicans of Milton held a
mass meeting in the public streets. In
. fnmt of tholtoro of Samuel James. v:
, ..... - ----- . .
- A 1XTM E UNITED STATIC FLAG, ;
upon which was inscribed the names of
President Grant and Hon. Thomas Set-
tie, was hanging over the heads of the
speakers. The speakers Were Thomas
Settle, W. F. Henderson, arid "Geo. M.
Arnold. While they were addressing
the crowd, rocks and pieces of brick
were thrown at the stand. A vice
president and secretary of the meeting
were struck, but not seriously Injured.
Some of the missiles were thrown from
the window opposite to where the
speakers were standing.
ItOTTEN EfiGS WERE THROWN AT THE
AMERICAN FLiAO
by the infuriated Democrats. One of
these stale eggs struck a leading Dem
ocrat, a delegate to the State Demo
cratic Convention held at Greensboro'.
. This gentlemen took no part in the
disturbance, and condemned the whole
proceeding without stint. An officer
of the town of Milton, a constable, was
a
RINO LEADER
in throwing out insulting and abusive
threats to Judge Settle and Col. Hen
derson, j. . 'j
Hut the spirit of misrule in Caswell
county is not confined to Milton. At
YANCEY VI LL.E, THE NEXT DAY,
Saturday, June 22, the same speakers
addressed a Republican meeting. The
meeting was held in a large tobacco
warehouse, owned by Mr. Poteat. A
large crowd of Republfcans were pres
ent and the Democrats were there in
full force. It was the meeting of the
COUNTY 'CONVENTION.
George M. Arnold came forward and
reported the ticket agreed upon; after
which he introduced Judge Settle as the
first speaker. The Judge had not pro
ceeded far, when it was evident that
there was a systematic plan arranged
to prevent his speaking. But he would
not be put down by noise and interrup- j
tions. Failing in this plan, as the Dem- J
ocrats did, they then resolved to raise
a riot. Judge Settle disregarded their
insults, knowing their purpose. There
Were many well-disposed citizens
among tho Democrats W'ho sought to
suppress the disorder, and finally the
rioters and the better class, of Demo
.crats, began quarrelling among them-
selves. Nor was this all ; they actually J
fought one another, while
CLUBS, KNIVES AND PISTOI
were freely drawn and brandished.
These weapons, no doubt brought to
use upon Republicans, were employed
by the Democratic belligerents to in
timidate each other. There were three
or rour fights among tne Lemocrais,
with fists used as weapons,
cans had
Republi-
NOTniNQ TO DO 'WITH THE RIOT.
It was none of their fight, as Judge
Settle told them, and he advised them
to keep their hands off, which advice
they heeded. We haye been informed
that it was agreed by certain persons in
Yancey ville that a riot should be raised
and that in the confusion, Judge Settle
and Col. Henderson should be
, !. 8TALBED OE BIIOT
Several "attempts were .made to get
. them off the speaker's stand. It would
. have been an easy matter to have killed
v them In the crowd, and no one would
have known by whom the assassination
had been "perpetrated. Happily the
plan failed, and Caswell was spared the
further effusion of blood. It was In the
Court House in Yancey ville, during a
Democratic meeting, that
STEPHENS WAS MURDERED;
and it is not unreasonable to suppose,
that some of his murderers were en
gaged in the diabolical attempt upon
'Judge Settle. The disorderly element
was squelched, and the speakers were
, heard without further Interruption.
North Carolina Democrats En
dorse tbe Union League of
America. .
Horace Greeley is a prominent and J
leading member of tho Union League
of America. Democrats support Mr.
Greeley for the Presidency. . ;
Col. D. M. Carter is a member Of the
Union League of America. Democrats
support Col. Carter for Congress.
A. S. Merrimon,
Klux candidate for
the present Ku
Governor.1 was a
candidate for Judee of the Supreme
Court in 18C3. and everv man on the 1
Supremo Court ticket, save one got
Jiiore votes than he did.
Freighted" Avith CornintlnTi
and
Crime.
The Democrats of this State toe on
their way up Salt River, heavily laden
with corruption and crime. j -
I. The head of the State ticket and
leader of the part v. Hon. A. s "Morr-i-
I r rwl Till AL . ..
mon, drafted all the appropriation bUls.
5RtTrS7T
t? A ? t of millions of dollars,
t f " J 6vrCIn made
Judge Merrimon a present of the house
on Hillsboro' street in which the Judge
now resides. If th is be so, and we do
not believe it will be denied, Judge
Merrimon stands before the people as
a gift-taker from the Prince of S win-
trr rr W r, -r .
III. Hon. W. M. Shipp, Democratic
vuumuaio lor MwrntjgrvuerasiEPTOiii-
i-ncnQeu In his otnclal capacity as cmeTr more than he was entitled to
prosecuting officer or tne btate, that in-
1A A A TTf n t I
pay
dollar of the millions stolen from the
State. Upon this recommendation the
indictments were dismissed, and for
which Judge Shipp and the other gen
tlemen who signed the recommenda
tion, received two thousand dollars.
IV. Gen. Collett Leventhorpej Dem
ocratic candidate for Auditor, was one
of Vance's Home Guard Generals.
This General, when in command in
Randolph county, had forty-two re
spectable women arrested and confined
in a Bull Pen. Not a moment's privacy
was allowed, a guard attended the wo
men whenever they left the Bull pen.
Some of the women were arrested and"
dragged away from suckling babes ;
the breasts of some of these women lose
and bursted because their little chil
dren were not allowed to draw the
the milk from the breasts, provided by
the Almighty for suckling children. A
Mr. Owen, the husband of onelof the
arrested women, was murdered in cold
blood, for which Gen. Leventhorpe is
responsible. Mrs. Owen was tortured
for the purpose of making her tell
where her husband could be found.
Her thumbs were put between the rails
of a fence soldiers were mounted on
the fence, and the poor woman's
thumbs were crushed to pieces
Leventhorpe is also responsible
high-handed outrage.
Gen.
or this
V. "Mr. John W. Graham, Democrat
ic candidate for Treasurer, was a Major
in command of troopi under GenT Lev
enthorpe in Randolph county. J Early
one SSorhday morning, Major Graham
left his camp before sunrise ; at sunrise
a man by the name of Northcote was
tied and shot like a sheep killing dog
by Maj. Graham's men. The Major
knew Northcote was to be murdered at
sunrise, because he (Northcote) would
not fight against the Stars and Stripes ;
and not possessing courage to prevent
a cold-blooded murder, or to remain
and murder an innocent man, .Maj.
Graham left his command before sun
rise and went to High Point, where he
told different persons that Northcote
was to have been shot at sunrise!
VI. Hon. T. L. Clingman, a leading
Democrat and author of the Greens-
boro' platform, was Swepson's bench
man in all the bond matters in which
Swepson and Littlefield were engaged.
For services rendered Swepson Hon.
Mr. Clingman receivedtCtee? hundred
dollars. This money was stolen from
the State and should be returned to the
State Treasury, more especially,as Mr.
Clingman is just now , engaged in
stumping the State in the interest of
nonesiy auu rciuriu. I
Upon the subject of Geh. Clingman's
transactions with Swepson and Little
field Tlie Raleigh Sentinel is standard
authority; therefore, we produce the
following: .
" Look out fob iiim. The people of the
mountains may look out for Gen. Clipgman.
Ho is coming among them on a speech-
makiner expedition with LittlefielcTa note
for $15,000 in his pocket. This j fifteen
thousand dollars properly belongs' to the
contractors for the work on the great Wes
tern Railroad, or to the farmers who furnish
ed bread and meat for the hands of the con-
tractors on the work, as it came as a bonus
from Littlefield, who took the money de
signed for building tho Road and appropri
ated it to his own use. Littlefield( was a
bankrupt adventurer when he cam here
and he acquired very little money, honestly,
after he got here. Gen. Clingman s well
aware of this fact.
"We think it likely that Gen. Glingman
would be listened to with much more com
placency and satislaction by the moiintain
people, if he would turn over the jnfteen
thousand dollars to the contractors, or to
the State Treasurer. It would help the
State credit, and would be no discredit to
the General himself." Sentinel, May 16,
1870. ' h
VII. Mr. W. M. Robbins, Democrat
ic candidate for Congress in the Sev
enth District, accepted a bribe of $XX
from Mr. J. W. Stephens, of Caswell,
(since murdered by the Ku Klux,) to
I A W 1 m m '
vote to pay Mr. Stephens regular per
diem for time spent in contesting Hon.
Bedford Brown's seat. j .
VIII. Hon. J. M. Leach, Democratic
candidate for Congress in the I Fifth
District, practiced a bare-faced fraud
upon Jeff. Miller, of Davidson county,
by procuring Miller's signature to a
note for $300.00 in gold, when Miller,
as he has since sworn, thought he was
signing a. transfer to another nospitai.
IX. Hon. Sion H. Rogers,
Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in the
tucimenis against ueo. v . owepson De tunately,5 the State Treasurer made Mr. people believe
dismissed, provided, said Swepson Turner j refund the amount "over- and in fact the
DacK six cents in cie
Fourth Congressioaal District, was
President ol a thieving, corrupt lottery
company ; by which the people were
actually robbed of their hard earnings.
Hon. Mr. Rogers is responsible for this
robbery because he accepted the Presi-
I VT ttlts WUJUUUV UUU tXLXKJ V
r Vi o .
of a who patronized the
swindlingoncern ! ' ' '
X. I,n. Josiah Turner, fJf.; Editor
0f The Raleigh Sentinel, and leader of
the Riidicai Ku Klu Democracy, prac-
ticed . a fraud upon the State in the
matter the State Printing; that is, he-
measured his typo by the letter " m,
charged tJie State by the letter "m,"
and paid hls -BaulB by. the . em'qnad. J
By this little : mistake: Mr. Tirrr -
succtTOjtrin nlcmnc tnebtate out Of
according to the written contract. For
State. - s l
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Such jire YAe trusted and honoredlead-
f of th,eKu Klux Greeley Democracy.
Judge Merrimon and hi3 friends, in
18GS, strimped the Stateagainst our pres
ent Constitution. Gov. Caldwell stump
ed the Btate for the Constitution. If
Judge jyierrimon had succeeded in de
feating the adoption of the Constitu
tion where would your homesteads
be? Ayho proved himself your friend,
poor njen of ( North Carolina, Gov.
Caldwell or Judge Merrimon ?
Consistent lave.
Colonel D. M. Carter Colonel, by
virtue pf his open and sworn hostility
to the government of the United
States-4-is known t have professed pen
itence ijbj his revolutionary acts during
the lat$ war, and to have joined the
Union jfjeague and set in counsel with
the League, as to the best means to be
adopted to .perpetuate and defend the
best government in the world, and to
keep the flag of our common country
from trailing in the dust of a Southern
despotism. His words of counsel had
the ring of the loyal patriot, then; and
he was admitted into full fellowship,
and; confidence of the Union party of
Eastern itforth Carolina. He ran well,
but forf a short period, 'and fell, Re-
cturninjr to his wallowing in the mire of
disloyalty, his fc mer hata-Cor the gov
ernment, became intensified, and his
interpretation of State laws is the best
evidence that he is thoroughly identi
fied wth the wrhite man's party, better
knownil however, as the Democratic
Ku Kux party which latter name,
being literally interpreted, means, the
sworn 'enemy of the freedman, and the
hater of laboring men both white and
black, j
Colonel Carter has fallen into the open
arms of ihis old companions and now
essays to lead that party in the first
Congressional District, as their candi
datejfor a seat in the Congress of the
United States.
Professions of friendship, for the la
boring men, by this inconsistent jewel,
is worse than mockery, when we con-
pderthe undeniable fact
that Colonel
David M. Carter, is not only opposed
to the homestead the poor man's only
hopk but that he has taken active
steps tcf have sold this little reservation,
leaving! in tears, and without shelter,
women: and children, the future to
wh(m,is one vast pit of gloom a dun
geon oft despair, which can only be pen
etrated by the hopeful ray which the
defeat ?f Carter, and the success of the
Republican party, will bring.
Trust Carter I Can the fishermen of
thejlst! District afford to trust him!
Can: the shingle getters of the East af
fordl to place in Congress a man who
has I iot? hesitated to drag them from
their swamps and their 'cabins of slabs,
to satisfy, the greed of the bloody Shi
locks whtt.unfortunately held them for
a few dollars! . .; :;-V. .. .
, We appeal to the laboring men 6fthe
first Congressional District, without re
gard to f politics, or color, and we ask
themnfpie name of suffering human
ity j will you put in place and power,
a man who has ground you in the dust
of 1 poverty, and sent you penniless,
upon Uhe charities of the world?
When jmen shall have lost their rea-soni-iwhen
men shall have forgotten
their jbwer at the ballot box when
mamopd snail cease to assert us power
in merica-not, uuui ui, mu wu
be prepared to believe that the freemen
rdf tie; First Congressional District will
o ' ' a' a II.. 11 1
iorges me - insuiis ouereu umm, anu
cast thelr suffrages for David M. Carter,
wh!ci is In full fellowship with a party
whese deeds blacken our State history
VlLil cvcij viaxuc nuunu m iiiu uiut
logue of crime. m
. i if i : .
Between David M. Carter and Clin-
ton L. f Cobb, there is no parallel.
Clihton'L. Cobb stands before the peo-
le a. fire-tried llepublican, a man loyal
to his government ; an advocate of the
"rights of all men ; a friend to the poor
mar,' and a defender of the poor man's
honjtistead. He has stood as a wall of
bnifi between liberty and oppression.
Hej siiands to-day as the unflinching ad
ycKiatefof a free government, and an
enenly; to that party whose argument
has f been, and. is now, the rope, the
W'hnV. the torch ! No man in North
i I UA.1AM f UUlll llliJV, CILUlLLi - UUD
7m
Carolina has done more and suffered
morefor.the good of his coup iry-and
it is the pride of the freem . to ac
knowledgehis. services, by $ivng him
in August next such a majo:ita3. will
consign to oblivion the nacnojof David
M. Carter. - i
1 - '
The Democrats are stiUj Jiowling
about Littlefield's bar, in the; capitol
during the session of 18CJ)i'7d: They
seem to have forgotten that the Seriate
Chamber, was used as' fin ls$ignation
house for miscegenation; purposes by
the Democratic SergeantaKlrms dur
ing the last session, and tpt the bills
were settled with stationer V longing
to thtpfctr v '
uds-e Merrimon Qpboti; to tin1
. Homestead. . ;
Democratic papers would have the
that Judge Merrimon
Democratic' party are
in favor of the Homestead provision of
our present Constitution. A
lettir of
Judge Merrimon's has been resurrected
f"
that the
WTitten a year ago to prove
Democratic candidate for Goverior is
in iavor 01 ana would, -preserve un
harmed the Homestead. Democrats
have no settled principles. The party
is held together by the cohesivefpros-
pect or puDlic plunder. .Driven trom
every position of party faith froi
to the present, it would be astouil
if the Democrats, (let them tel
were not in favor of the. Hoi
and every other provision of the Con
OUkUtlUll JliLH 1111 SWVSSJI tVJJlV ,
and almost every principle heretofore
announced by the Republican party.
about the Homestead. No Democrat
can be trusted with power sufficient to
endanger the Homestead.
Suppose a common thief comes to
you and desires to be taken into your
confidence, and says that he is a changed
man, that he will be honest henceforth
and true to your interests : by. what
are you to judge him? By his former
life and his record as a common thief,
, r " ".I ,
.
ri!868
iding
i it,)
nesueaa
t .i, n. nlvu, Knew more tnan a spinster," ana wnose York, the Tammany Democrats,
""V"" military laurels were gathered inafew that if ever the people should b
' " "ivy vv. . wv i- . weeKS service, as a commissary uu uapa i unlortunate
juernmon ana me emocrauc party: He showed that Merrimon was in part
both of whom made unrelenting war nershipwith a Government detective,
upon the Homestead in 1868.. Judge Sherman, in Burke county, and divided
1 ..." fit t.. a i r
Merrimon went so far that he actually
endeavored to raise money to carry a
case to Vie Supreme Court oftneijnitea
Males tor tne avmcea vurnose u.iJiavuia
the Homestead provision - of Vie Consti-
r ... . - I
tution declared unconstitutionally Such,
in brief, is Judge Merrimon's record on
the Homestead question. TJie.; people
have said that they will not have the
Homestead interfered with. Judge
Merrimon desires to be elected, and.
naturally, like all Greeley Democrats
is in favor of theHomestead, when his
political record sineeGS proves .him
to be an uncompromising foe! of the
Homestead. The Leopard cannot
change his spots, the Ethiopian cannot
change his skin,: much less can the
Democratic party and Swepson's Fri
day, make the people believe they are
friends of the Homestead.
Whatever Democrats may say, . their
own record, made in 1868, gives the lie
flatfooted to their protestations of love
for the Homestead.
The Legislature adjourned 'nearly
five months ago, and yet the laws, doc
uments and journals have not been dis
tributed. -V. AND I YET THE STATE
PRINTER HAS DRAWN HIS PAY
IN FULL FOR PRINTING THESE
DOCUMENTS.
A few months ago the Democrats
were abusing every man who was a
Republican. Many complained be
cause the dictionary didn't contain
words which were vile enough to ex
press their contempt for Republicans
and Republicanism: But after taking
a census of all the "respectable," "in
telligent," "virtuous" and "good" men
of the. all-respectable, nlkintejligent.
all-virtuous, and altogether-good Dem
ocratic party they found they didn't
lunr u luau iu i .u uC
jrieaiuuut, aim uuw mcjr mc iuuuiug
one of those vile Republican "Radi
cals" whom they have r-been abusing
for forty years !
To find a man they really can't,
Who can beat the never-beaten Grant.
So in despair they go quito freely
For that old "radical,' Horace Greeley.
Every member of the late Legisla-
ture charged with being a Ju Klux
has been ruled out of the present cam
paign. Was it by an order from Ku
Klux headquarters, or . was it because
the charges were true, and they feared
to trust themselves again before the
people ?
Horace Greeley Old John Brown.
Horace Greeley is the author of "Old
John Brown's Soul is Marching on."
Democrats support Greeley for Presi
dent. ' ; ' : " ':'' 1
Horace Greeley also gave fifty dol
lars to employ counsel to defend John
Brown.' ' f 1 :. ' '
The late Democratic Legislature re
fused to; investigate charges' of Ku
Kluxism against its 4n embers. But
their party has shown that It was afraid
to trust any of those members before
the people again.
' , '. ' '. For the Carolina Kra.
DISCUSSION AT 1 ANBURY.
The Republicans along the Virginia
Rorder up and at Work.
KZVTIIUSIAS for tlic REPUBLICAN
k ' ' STATE TICKET.
Confidence in Republican Triunipli.
NO MJZEELEY- REPUBLICANS
TO BE FOUND IN STOKES.:
. Danbury, June 22, 1872. i
According to appointment. Governor
Caldwell addressed a large audience of leading men and disparaging and driv
white and colored people at Danbury, ing into obscurity the few honest pub
Stokes county, to-day, the 22nd June, lie men they had left in their ranks,
with the very happiest effect. His de- That in this District. Deach's. thev
fence of his action upon the Convention
against his adversaries, and his charge
upon the Democracy for the falsification
Din was unanswerable unu leiiintr
of all their promises as to what they
would do in case a Convention were not
Called, was inimitable, and brought
down the house repeatedly, with bois
terous applause. lie showed that the
Democrats didn't levy a tax of fifty
dollars on the $1,000 worth of property,
as they said last summer they would be
oblisred to do : that thev didn't resign;
as they said they would do, in case they
failed to levy such tax ; and that, ac-
cordinsr to their own admission and
argument, having failed to do either of
the above named acts, they were per
jured men. He arraigned Judge Mer-
inuuii, wuu ucvw Den a, D4uauiuu iu
the field, nor the division of a battle
Hatteras, for indicting forty women,
the wives and daughters of Confederate
soldiers, lying then in the trenches
around Richmond, while he was Solici
tor in the Mountain Circuit, for a forci
ble trespass in taking a half bushel each
of tithe corn from a Government de
pository in Yancey county ; and showed
that he refused to dismiss these prose
cutions until a Mr. Ray and other
friends would pay, as they did, his fees
against these
amounting: to
unfortunate women,
ONE HUNDRED AND
sixty dollars, Confederate currency.
wiin mm ma iees as a wmmou imuiui-
and that he, Caldwell, had defended
I these men, some of; them Democrats.
xnai i.ierrimon xiau suuueeueci m uuu
victing them, and that he, Caldwell,
after he became Governor, had procured
their pardon from President Grant.
He showed that while he was prosecut
ing Swepson, Merrimon was the fore
most of the Democratic lawyers who
stood up in his defence, and that so far
as he knew he still stood by him.
The Governor spoke with great power
upon a number of other topics, and was
frequently greeted witn rounas oi ap
j lZthe Tttat
he had ever had any connection witn
Swepson, and replied to the charges
recently made against him in a letter
from Gen. Clingman, which had been
published in all the Democratic papers
in the State." He said that, if Demo
cratic authority was worth any thing,
that it had been asserted by Josiah
Turner that Gen. Clingman was re
sponsible for that provision in the Rail-
1 1 ? 1 1 1. V 1 .1
road appropriation law which enabled
Swepson to misappropriate the pro-
ceeds of $tj,uou,uuu or nonas. iina to
show that Clingman, who was the
author of the Democratic Platform
adopted at Greensboro, was as much
implicated in an attempt to sustain
Svyepson as either Merrimon, Shipp or
any othei Democrat, he read from the
proceedings of a Directors meeting of
the road of which Swepson was Presi
dent the following resolution, prepared
and offered by Gen. Clingman, upon
the retirement of Mr. Swepson as Pre-
sidentof the road, viz:
"Resolved. That the thanks of the
. i mm 1 1 l . .
stockholders are due and are hereby Judge Boyden, the late Judge Gilliam debt, and-j will remain, unless Demo
tendered to George W. Swepson, Presi- and others, that by the aid and influ- crats conafeinto power and repeal it. -dent,
Maj. Jas. C. Turner, Chief En- ence of men who now load the opposi- A Republican Congress has so amend
gineer, and G. M. Roberts, Secretary tion that Constitution wTas rejected, ed the Bankrupt law as to give a debt
and Treasurer for the able, efficient, Congress then passed the Reconstruc- or who shall be forced into bankruptcy
energetic and faithful manner in which tion acts, another Convention was call- the present homestead, allowed by the
they have discharged their respective ed, and the present ' Constitution was State Constitution, of fifteen hundred
they have discharged
duties during the past year." The
"past year" being the period within
which Swepson had accomplished all
liis swindling operations on our Donas. I
Gov. Caldwell concluded by intro-1
ducing our elector for the State at large,
Col. Mark Erwin, or uuncomoe, wno
thoUgh very hoarse from speaking in a
discussion with Gen. (Jlmgman at Jior
ganton on Tuesday last, was listened to
for more than an hour, with great at
tention and frequent applause. He
went fully into the charge of fraud and
corruption and challenged any one to
assail any candidate on the Republican
State ticket or on the congressional
ticket with any such imputation. He
referred to what the Governor had said
of Judge Merrimon's connection with
Swepson, and said that if the inference
against a revenue officer who had a !
tine house or a nne norse was necessa
rily that he had obtained that property
by plundering tne- uovernment, wnat
must be said of the Judge who but a
few short years ago went intoSwep-
son's employment poor and was now
reputed to be a rich man. What he
asked could be said of Judge Shipp, the
Democratic candidate for Attorney
General, who recommended that the
criminal prosecutions asrainst Swepson
should be dismissed and that he should
be amnestied for all his past offences
against the State. What could be said Court froni five to three, but the peo
pf Judge Shipp who was ordered by a pie by their vote last Summer have
resolution of the LesJtelature at its ses- shown thev were satisfied with the
sion of 1870-'71, to investigate Governor
Holden's alleged complicity with Swep
son and Littlefield, and who refused
and neglected to do so and never made
any investigation or report as he was
required by law to do, until he was ap
pointed on the Fraud Commission, at
a salary of five dollars a . day. This con
duct on the part of the Attorney Gen
eral was a full vindication of Gov. Hol-
den from the assaults of his enemies,
as no body doubted that if they could
have been maintained that the Attor-
ney General .would have made the in-
vestigation ana report wnicn ne was
required to do. - Still further upon the
charge of corruption Mr. Erwin showed
that after a Democratic committee had
found the fact that Josiah Turner, the
Public Printer; had overdrawn his ac
counts to the amount of $3,300 and his
only excuse was his ignorance of the
business the Democrats had employed
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him to do, that they gave him the
printing again oyer the head of a res
ponsible contractor a good Democrat
who offered to do ' it at a less price.
That with a full knowledge . upon a
report ana action or a legislative com
mittee and upon his awn humble and
contrite confusion of the fact, that
Robbins, of Rowan, had taken a bribe
of $XX.to help Mr. J. AY, Stephens to
him :for Consrrcs3 'over such men asT
Shober arid Cowles, thus endorsing of -
ficial corruption' and villiany in their
had taken him up knowing ; full well
suit and endorsed him as their candi-
date for Congress, thereby saying to the
tne nistorv ol nis JtJrinic-JMilier law
world , that Leach could fabricate a false
claim upon a poor confederate soldier Invited his attention to tne same suu
for $400 sell it 1 to a . carpet bagger for ject in his own State ; that he need not
its full face value stand by and see
the claim suit dismissed and smothered
up because the evidence plainly showed
that the paper on Which the suit was
brought was a forgery, and yet thafhe
could maintain nis position as the
leader and paragon or Democracy in
his Congressional District. ' !
These and a number of other instan-
ces which might be added would satis-
fy the people that according to the op-
portumties thev had the Democracy of
xorin uaroiina xiuu oeeu as corrupt
and venal as their brethren in New
and
e so
as to give tnem power
they would find their leaders support
ing and defending men like Swepson,
as Merrimon had done, or compromis
ing him out of his difficulties as Shipp
had done, or "unthoughtedly" taking
bribes as liobbms had done, or cnarg
ing g, confederate soldier $400 for ser
vices never rendered and fabricating
an evidence of indebtedness and swin
dling a carpet bagger into buying the
forged paper, as Leach had done.
S. N.
Who told the people of Wake last
summer that if the Convention was
voted down, they would have to pay
fifty dollars tax on every thousand dol
lars' .-.worths of - property ? Answer
Judge Merrimon. ' -
"'The' Con ven lion tv nsvotuoV
j who is paying the tax ? Can you trust
a man who tried to deceive you ?
DISCUSSION AT s CARTHAGE,
McKay and Waddell.
KIT KLUX. APOLOGIST COJ1ES
SECOND BEST.
out
Moore County all Right.
Mr. Editor : On Monday, s the 20th
of June, the candidates for Congress in
this District, Messrs. Waddell and Mc-
Kay addressed the people of Moore, at
this place. The discussion was opened
oy Jieiu Mciay in a speecn or an nour
and fifteen minutes, in which he re-
viewed the history of the so-called Con-
servative-Democratic party in this State
since j-soo. xiiau oy me mnuence oi
the same leaders, who are now the
most violent in their opposition to the
Republican party by the Convention of
1865, and submitted to the people was
voted down. That Constitution was
admitted by all to have been an excel-
lent one, being. the result ot the labors
of such men as B. F. Moore, Judge
Howard, S. F. Phillips, T. H. Winston,
framed and submitted to the people,
and ratified by a largeTnajority, and is
now the organic law of the State: That
excepting in a lew particulars is a good
Constitution, vet these same srentle-
men are still dissatisfied; that they
forced the issue or convention or no-
Convention upon the people last Sum-
mer. and the people voted no; they go
immediately to . work and bring for-
ward the same amendments by legisla
tive enactments and the people will
vote down again in August the men
who advocate them. That the present
Constitution gives a homestead of the
value of one thousand dollars in land
and five hundred dollars , in personal
property, and that Congress recently
amended the bankrupt act recog-
nizing the homestead provision in the
present Constitution, so that when a
man was unable to pay his debts as many
r.ever will be from the results of the
war, he could file his petition in bank-
ruptcy, get the benefit of the homestead
nrovision 'and in addition five hundred
provision and in addition five hundred
dollars allowed Dy an act of congress,
making in all two thousand dollars.
And therefore, the people would be
slow to ratify amendments which
would endanger that humane provis-
ion in the Constitution. One of the
amendments proposed is to cut down
the number of Judges of the Supremo
present Supreme Court and they know
further that the Court nas sustainea w t Greeley, where one Republican
SSSa wiil vote agninst him, so far ,uth
nfthe Circuit or Superior Courts de- em Illinois is concerned. Tho same
pendent upon the Legislatures, and they
can reduce or increase tne numDer as
amendment must be ratified and tne
people are not allowed to separate and
vote for : some and rejet 'others, but
their verdict was against these amend-1
ment3 last bummer, and that verdict
they Will not set aside. That for Pres-
dent of the United States he was for
Gen. U. B. Grant whose administration '
had been as successful as it was wise
and humane, that Gen. Grant had re-'
commended, and by his influence Con
gress had passed the Amnesty bill
which was enough to show his oppo-1
nents tnac ne aesirea . tney should no
treated justly.: . That a large amount of
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the public debt had been- paid off. our.
currency appreciated; that the national,
credit Was never better, tKo-bonds and
securities of the United States weraat :
a premium, being sought for as Invest-,
mentsby capitalists even , in Europe,
that the high taxes imposed, in conse-
queftce of the late war were gradually
being lessened, that here in the South
tho necessaries of liCs NvefoYievcr before
1 so cheap." That Gen. Grant's course 'en-
titled him to the support 6f the South-
ern people over Mr. Greeley who would
be supported k by tho Democratic ,
party, lie referred to tlio late speech-1
of his competitor in the House of Rep
resentatives which his competitor ad
mitted was printed by- order of- the L
House, he being unwell, in which aro
certain quotations as to how the prisons
in Massachusetts aro s managed, and
go to the House of Representatives in -Washington
city to find a subject of
that sort, to comment upon. Ho would
find ample material in the "report of
the Joint Select Committoes to inquiro
into the management of the Peniten-
tiary." to thelast Legislature. . Froin the
evidence taken in that report his coin-
petitor need not trouble himself about
such matters in other States. ,
in regard to tho enforcement acts
rnspd hv fJonorpss. ho stilted thnt if
there had been no Ku Klux organiza
tions or outrages there would have been
no enforcement acts or suspensions! of
the writ of habeas corpus ; that tho writ
was not suspended in NorthiCarolina,
only in nine counties in South Carolina; ,
I have not time to give in: full the
Eoints made by Mr. McKay, in which
e fully vindicated the principles of
the Republican party. '- " '
Hon. A. M. Waddell replied .for ; an,
hour and fifteen minutes ; said ho was .
much, obliged to the people of : Mooro
county for the vote they had given him'
over his opponent two years ago ; that
he was not a large man, and thatho '
did not know much and it would hot
take him long to tell it ; that he was
against Grant ; for Greeley, or anybody
else to beat Grant ; that Grant was not
fit to be President ; that before the. War
he was nothing-but a little drunken
democrat a tanner; that ho was In"" .
formed by a gentlemen in Washington
City vtliat '.previous-to tho war Grant
theditchesarid just 'there the peoplo
began to think that the speaker was
perhaps correct in his opening re
marks ; that certainly he did not know.
much about President Grant, to speak
in such terms oi tne man wno nneu
the highest position in the gift of tho
American people. . He denounced Hol
den, Kirk and Bergen, and , talked
about the 'suspension of the writ of ha
beas corpus, and the enforcement- acts,
the arresting of men without warrant,
hut no mention was made bv him of
the many outrages committed by tho
Ku Klux Klan. So after speaking his
time out on Holden, Kirk and Bergen,
he concluded with his opening re- .
marks, that it did not take him long to
tell what he knew. I '
Moore will give an increased Repub-.. ;
lican vote. Republican1.
Carthage, June 20, 1872.
Bear in mind that tho Democrats aro (
still cursing Gov. Caldwell for standing
by our Constitution, although tho pco
pie at the polls have endorsed that act.
These men are not willing for the ico-
ple to rule.
Homestead Given! A Home
stead Secured ! I
The Republican party secured I
homestead to every family in the State,
by a wise provision in the present
Constitution, of the value of $1,600,
which cannot be taken to pay any
dollars l
Let poor men and their families pon-
der these things. Statesville, American,
Bear in mind tjhat the very men who
were so much opposed to the adoption
of our Constitution in 18G8 are the vj;ry
men who tried toj uproot it by uncon
stitutional means last summer, and
thev are the same men who are now
clamoring for its amendment. ;
Republican Headquarters.
The Republican State Executive
Committee have established headquar
ters for the campaign at the Club Houso
on Hillsboo, street, now occupied by
Col. S.T. Carrow, U. S. Marshal.
Rc-
ihliran visiting the Citv are rcsncct-
fulJy requested not to leave the City
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without calling at headquarters, w hero
thev Iwiir find some member of the
Committee and tho Secretaries, ready
to attend to any business that -our
friends may desire to have despatched.
Republican papers will please copy;
SenMfr Logan vsays that Grant will
be elected by a larger majority than ho
received four years ago, and that two
Democrats will vote for him In prefer-
proportion will probably hold good
throughout the wholo country
You cannot register on election day.
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