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EEKLY ' J jONSTTTUTlON. A REPUBLICAN WEEKLY SEWS . PAPER THE CENTRAL1 Olio AN OF TUE PARTY. j ' W. M. BttOWN, Manager. Officii at the old Standard Build ing Fayetteville 8'reet, Raleigh, N. C RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION; One year, - . 2 10 , Six months, - - - , V 1 05 Three month. .-.,'..?., - . . arlSVARlABI-T IK ADVA5CK. tfe . DEMOCRATIC STEALINGS. I.Ut mt lrmMTtle ffletlol4era tvlio piu.ide-cU the Public I'reaa tirj, iib Ibe AukhhI ! Mch t.-'a ..c, sua , pprr trm Official I Mm-u Mart I at. Kuu'l Sw i.tii'.Nw Y-rk. VYih. I'm-. N- Y-ir. ; A- X T'jUiwii, Kj v ext, (1. V. Owen, Mobi.e, Air., J. P. L'aul. ,CrawU,rdvMe, ludiatia, A. McCarty, Indianapolis, I ltd it ii, 11. F. Ed wards Edwards- ville. Illinois, W.'Ul). Ewing,Vaudilia, Illinois. John Hay. Jackson, Miss., Willi Ml.reen, LUiiira, . s ! 1,175 SU.013 IS 1,333 92 " 2,315 70 . . . r- .: 10,754 29 l.ibO 1 .- - - -2,312 12 - -. . - I, 146 2S , 27,2 C 67 CC2l37 i 1 ' "i'OOO 00 i 0,GU 97 1U1I.147 US 2 3ll(i,J! II, 0l 40 ' $3 050 CI 1 ,8Jl HI ! ; .i T! L. .... , J100.0NI 00 i.jcj.io M v l ; 29 "''(. - ' ll 7 tl 70 12 I SI 70' i " -1 i.6.H 4? I I. ill i , .: ... . j 13 7S1 i 2i,021 57 3 50 '-- . It. . Chambers, '-Little KH-k, Arlini, lavid 1. Todd, Opaloiwa, LinuioUna, ' . It. It. IfctgenvOpelounas, v y IxiUiHiia, "Maurice Cannon, New Or- lean, A; W. McDanicl, Washing ton, M btoianipt, JoUn A.Owtntt, XwStcphen, Aiauaina, W. 1. . I larri. -Columbus, vV. Tyir. Chtwb..'Ala.i U i. .iiu:tielf, A latum, tieorxtt l. Cruteher, tnc uw, .rvtsiippi, " timrg it: uajuenm, Choe- law, AiiifMisaippi, S. Uu-Ken.-s Cnctaw, . " ' ". J. W. Ktepb. us ii( Ua'.ena, m Illinois, J.illlebuiy Hawkins, lleUt- . . u, ArkttuiMU, ." S. V lUxtll, Cirtien lUy, S J.. Friend, vv.sjtiia, l,., m . Win. Jl. Alton, Ni. AU- t l n hi. uouKim.. . . . i Gordon D.lloYd.tiolumbiis, o ' Mit.ti.i'ii, ' . It. If . f iriuitf. Ohms hum s . , . Mislvippl, 1'ari.H Chilofi , r-uabur, IjouisLiu, ,. William i-imi. Vandal i, lllllioin, ' ' Stains! . Svu, JjvkMM, Al iMtsiji;!, J. T.. vk, Cru fr.I. . vide, 1 . -oa, Juh L I m.K'Ih.O.k-I'HWv. ; . liultN.i.il, ' . . AIWa i AovMlc, Viuc.htia- u, uhio, - II. J. Alkm, Tall. ha Florida, - . f - RoIkm-i k. Brown, Np-imr,-c liuld, Missouri, TuUI, ' f2,S4,&l 80 Auuu'iai y of Jmh? Sulaiitfl V( the J&rple of A'orlh Unro.imi on Account the Democratic Itrty : j .. RuiK Capiul, f 8.000,000 00 ir.ntf oii iii .4:fHliitr".'i,oi,tM wf .Nt-lKil KuikI, 1.2w,UiU 00 Utiivuraity. , 3UO,0t0 00 Ni.ue IVaiait and Tie-utury -Ntttea,' 18,000.000 00 Suu Sink ing Fund, 2,500,000 00 O.lier pr.,iTty, 5i,u00,t00 to Twial, ?U3,000.000 00 Ninety-three million dollars lost to lh jHiip of North Carolina on account of the fol'y and mismanagemeut of the lhmiocratio party ! ; ; There have Ikjch continual stealings hy Democrats in dilTurent parts of the Union lefore and since the war. Tike iiiocriatic Shtriir, 1 ecu A nan, ofJai-kHoii county, stole all the taxes paid Ly the jeop!e of that county for one wjple year. His securities were Dot able to pay what he stole, and so the Sta'e lost it, Tlie Denjocratic County l'iniimiaioncrs of said county took a .lrav lxnid front said bheritT, so he col lated tho taxes of tie county for ono year, aiul then went off" to Georgia as a jfH Democratio reformer! A.C. LatuaM, the Democratic Resls U r of Ueeds for Beaufort county, Is a dofanlter for a lare amount, and is, a lKiiiratio relnnor.' Joiis I'KauLKa, the late Democratic county Treasurer of Pitt county, is a defaulter for between fS.OOO and $11,000 of th common school money, raised by laxalion for the education of tho poor children or l'itt county, i'eebies ts a Tildun and Vance reformer. He Is in t ijictpd in Pitt county for etnbejrxleinont. John F. IIklkst, late Democratic KberitTof IMlt county, is a swindler and defaulter for $5,000. He now stands in . dieted in Pitt county for embej;z!ement. He is a Ti'den and Vance reformer. j Tim State Treasurer, JosksJ of Georgia, is a defaulter for a ery larffe amount. Got. James M. Smith, in his message to the General Assembly of Gcorgfa, dated January 12tb, 1875, on psj;e 10, says thero was a cash balance agiiiust Treasurer Jones at the time of his removal of fil,4S0,00$.40. $iAyc, the jemopratfc!.tat0 Treasurer of yirginia, was a defaulter,' and his . Democratic friends Raid he was insane n ordef to keep hiin oat of the peni tentiary.; ,;r ; oaKifcs Sookt, Jr., the Democratic St4te Treasurer of few Jepey, wm dofanlter to the State lor a large amount. lie was a Democrat and elected' by Democrats, . : GRok W. CitAWfjRD,a former Sec relary of War, and a bhvalroo.s Do'Qo- cralip tjdef f Geor8la,.awndled the governmpntoutot $115,10.-12. RjciiAKp M. Job is son, Dentocratic Vice President in Martin Van Buren'a administration, swindled the govern inent ont of tl22,3 13.5' . q. Locwit Cass, a former Secretary of War tender President Jackson, swin dled the government out of g8,CQ0.0O, Isaac V. Fowles, a Democratic Post Master at New. York City, under James Buchanan, Chairman of the New York State Democratic Executive Committee, apd delegate to the National Demo , cralic Convention, embezzled the money belonging to tin? government that had come uto his hands by virtue of his of- Ccc. -He was Informed by Lis. Demo- : il ' i 4iW mm . M i ? .'.it .-. I. ltm ii I I ailid ; .,i u xl' i -il v H . 1 - i 4J'l?l t. . . 't " . r ; : i- ; I cratic friends that a warrant, had I been Issued for bis arrest, and he very, sud denly patnoaed the country and went to Mexic where he remained s number of years, until n. nU prosequi waa en tered la hi case. whn. he retorried to New York; This scoundrel . haa never been panhthed for his crime, neltherha one cent of tha money he atole been ve- funded to the government. The was f75,000,: ::;.-. U . GilbertC Walker, an Ex-G Ylrgisia, and present Democratic ber of Congress freuiXhe Ilicbmcm trict. wan president of .the En NaUonal ,B ink of; Norfolk, Virijai Simon Stone, Collector of Internal iter: eqna made a special deposit therein package containing $22,500 In jllxj cent, goldr bearing United State binds, whi-jlt fs.ct was evident by Ihemarkiori the ohreiope containing theoii. SSona died, and this $22,500 of bondA h:u never since been t heard , from, although his heirs have repeatedly , tried to obtais them from this virtuous bank ex-President. He is. MatantTilden reformer. .Stefwk.'C U. PQot the Democratic Superitendent of Publio Inatruetlon of North Caiolina,tole tlie Peabody school motley Troin the poori children of the Slate, id hoa ""co lied about it mofct outrageiusly. He .published toj the world Uiat he would return the money he stol about the 80th of June last but tie has not yet done so, and never- will. The Democrats do not want him pnn-UlM-d for his dish-uesty aiuf rascality, bevaiue be still wears the Confederate gray, and is a blaunt reformer for Til dea and Vanceu iCoUPooLwas thanly Democratic SUte officer In North OaRy-' Una, and thank God he is the lastorte. For the want of time and spaed we mustdeskitrroro presenting many more Dcuiocratie thieves to-day. : i 1 " , iWM. M.Twkjeu, the special friend, of Samuel J. Tilden, the reform candidate for Prtttident, was convicted of haying HUden about fo500,000 of .tb. taxes' of .New York city ana was sent to prison, but h a Democratic friends soon turned uim out The present Democratic Sher iff allowed Tweed to go to hia own rest Ueuce, aua go up stairs unattended, to mw his wife, and thus allowed him; to leave, andtne reform Governor, IHden, has not found time to Investigate the outrsite of letting Tweed. escapa, or' to remove the Sheritf trout olhi. as he has Ibe power to do . ' . ., Thomas C. Fiblds, another Demo cratic iilden reformer, got n appro liriaUon from the Legislature ; to tbe amount or more than siOO.000 nominal ly, for tbe benerit of the nretnen; but he actually stole every dollar of it. - . llaNKY OBBW got an act passed for a court-house In the city of ew York, tie ..tole the f 100,000 appropriated tor i. .-..urt.ii tiiMe. aud me Democratic tsuerttl let Htm'-tw away.. Anl he is a ! Tilden rvforiner. ' . ... -:, VANCE HORRORS. . ,,: J. W. Hays, Esq., former Sheriff of Wilkes eountv. shows in a letter or cate September S, 1875, that the Home Guards under Gov. Vance's orders committed the following crimes during the late war : The mnrder of a Mr. Boyle, in Alexander county ; tho hanging of a Union soldier on "the Blue Ridge, In Wilkes county, who had escaped from Salisbury prison ; the hanging and rob bing of old man Leonard Miller; tRS banking of the girl Mary Clanton ; the account of the samo having already been published, which corresponds with the sworn evidence on the trial or tne case in court. The capture, inhuman tdr ture and murder of five Union soldiers on Hunting Creek, in Wilkes county. These soldiers had esbaped from the Salisbury pen, and were on their way to the Union army in Tennessee. ; Th murder r Jesse Caudill, and three other persons hear'New Hope chHrcb, one or them being a boy under twelve years of age. These murders were com mitted on these people after the' surren der of Gen. Lee. The hanging of old man Wesley 'Nichols. The shooting and attempted murder of Mr. liar's himseifnd the robbing ot his family. These outrages and murders, with many others, are weil remembpred in Wilkes county. -Indeed, they cn never bo forgotten. In addition to these hor rors in WilUes county in 1871, Cap. Price, with a band of Home Guards from "Ashe ' and Alleghany' counties, made, a raid on the Union people oT Wilkes, entering the county about tne head of Mulbery creek, "with ti e and werrf," in accordance w ith Gov. Vance's letter to Dr. Calloway. They burned Johnson Caudle's 'dwelling 'and out houses, and hunted him like a wild deer ; and they shot Lewis Sebas!jau, Esq., one of the worthiest men 'of the county, a member of the SMal Court. They also shot several of his neighbors, and eaptnred a n amber of persons, and returned to Alleghany county witjj them as prisoners. Two. t'f tfcte they hung on the way, and lpft theiu hang ing, denying them burial, and, h rfyany as six were hung by the rarty when they reached Laurel Springs. 1 s -; Mary Cfanton, of Wilkes county, ait inoffensive white lady of good charafe- ter, was also suspended by tho neck by one Pennell and others, from the effects of trhlch treatment sho has never reoov e.-ed. She still lives la Wilkes, a mon ument of the cruelty perpetrated by Gov. Vance' orders., The following is Mary Clanton'a own statement t ' ' My brother and several or mr cou sins and . friends were . sway i in the tlia Union trinv. and did not set back until tbe war was over ; and this is the reason they treated us ao naaty. flow, thA truth of this natter is. that this man Pennell and hia band came to onr house one morning, anu asaru ue ' iuj brother was and where my money1 w a. Thev wero told that jn v brother was away in tlie .Union anwy, and that we. riiil- not have miv iii.ev We never cursed and abused, as h says .we did, for we never icurssed or. abased any Ixxly.j 'e are embers of the Baptist unouui i . dviof mem clDis- chanee ; 7. -.fit 'L'111"" 1 1 , - ' j" " 11 ' h.t tried to live as, we thought members of the church should." They cursea ou. ,Uu u, . j,-.-, said they would, make lis tell. They .k me out of the housel and lurried- by myself to tbe woods My luotherand sisters wantea n r"' mebut they would not let tbem. plus man Penned then put a lanrs ox fope, that he hsll brought with Him.aroond mr neckVi I wa the, time begging l them xtahaye piercy on me,. ana uoi u r .... 4. . . ,fct I. .i ,1 nvur rinna Kill a girl 11KB me, t.u u - anybod 4nV harm. My plea for taer cy wss- answered, with mockery and abuse .Then they bung me, up. till ; I was afivost dead, and then let me down, and asked tne where my brother and mux Aiesey ewaa.i.1 -auswered that I could not tell, and begged them ,ubt to mime. They cursed ine aum; said they were going to hang' mr;dead, and k,nrt n tin u-ai n a and thetv Uxik me down and cursed and abused e ; and I tnen nung me up agm um " most dead, then let me ddwri and; drew. thi irunjon.me, and said thattr itold iha they 'hudg me the rwodjitrsh-oot raeandKill aUthe balanosqi the, family. 1 was hurt very much, sod was con nw4 4n mtf fei tnr a lone' time, aim I am not welt yet, and I can hardly talh.j If an body oouois.wiis,.-iei .wwiiw and see for ' themselyes.f t , j:V.jt 1 u ' The fact, that 'this poor, girl .had a brother, and .friends in the' tlni'on al-my was enough to, rouse the, .jiiinions of Vance against. her.'. She ' was tortured because she was rue to thefUnion.f ' aoy.'Vance' not',oiily issued orders and wrote letters that led to these fior rors, but his opinions .and" views, con stabtly expressed ici ; relation to j all' in whom lingered the least attachment to the Union, were exceedingly bitter. and thus gave license, as from the Governor, for all kinds of cruelties 'on'our 'tJniOn people.'' ated all PtPUi From'the time he joined imseiffully io Mn Davis,' i 1803, (although iie had. been' elected' Governor. solely, by J the Unien people), up 1 to i the, time he liyd before Sherman, he made , this State' a hell to, every one who manifested, the slightest wish to return, to the Unioh Of our fathers. , he is the, same man nbw he was thenw j He has not changed, and xiever,wUL He. declared,, inj lsCd that if he should, ever get power in th Shite he would make , it ..intolerable, to the Union people, and if elected in No vember next, he wili redeem, thin pledge Do the people of this State really desire peace, ; reconciliation . and , K"di among themselyeaf. If they , do, they cannot vote fors this intolerant, this vio ent, this resentful, this bloody man." - Jltock i Deuiocrstts. r The Tilden and' Vance; t:lqt, be- -comlnj' ashamed iif aa-fbciaiingwith their , two ii' K "u7,,R7r'! cr steps,, la-t iiiKht .to'jt)rgaiUze: - Wacfc datn Wtj Imrwthat ,eeH dozen col ird nin nem prt seiit, through .toiriofity, and'thHtJ the quandam . white-Mim m, wr elated at this turnout of i he mail ; and brother.- But it scms that when a motion was made that those who did not Intend to join should retire Until1., 'organization should he .per fected, all i rei in d except ; ft ve, two of these being the I w colored mem bers of l he . w hi te u-1 ub. t A fter llie transfer f ths' two 1k new roilg, the whole nmner :' was exhausted in elected ofn ers ; and now colored privates : are wan ttd r to fight the party thatJ gave frpetlom ",ta tittle five .men J - .. ,rf, .. . :.!ti ;, ! 4 me Hell Gate i:xplojlon. i Gin. Xewtbn' in a" card 'to the pipers fixing the 'Hell Gate explo sion at 2:50 p. "M.V Sunday' says i '8he'r necessity has compelled the appointment of 'this- day,' which in many other respecui i onjecuona ble," lie says jpace will lie formed having a radius of about 6W yards, mcitiured from UdUet'jiPointjWhich will be kept clear of , boats at i the time of the' explosion. After the ex pkwvon, vessels should gi ve Ilal- let'a foint a wide Derm, as tne sur-r face of the reef may In points be el evated above its present level As goon aj possible after tlie explosion, tlie reef ;wil be tnarkea '.out witn buoys. ; There will tie .no commo tion of air, and the underground ef fect will be sHtJitjent unly .tojar bui!dini?2 without ruotunnff or cracking the walls. "Per-ons ai loaat tn the neierhb rhood would do well to have, their windows and floors ouen. and to look out for their oeli- ing,: .Tne best thing toao wouiu oe . . . . a t . to stana oubide until tne explosion is over. '.HivV 'J iioa." J, D.aox, of Ohio of Ohio, asked s pi r? tlnent uuestion : W livd toes tne who- cratic party ex 1st to-da j T ' 1 1 wai al ways pro-slavery ; always opposed to senoois: alwaj h opposed to the true interests of the producing clayea j always in favor of the p?tq per-paid (alior "of the whole world aa against the well-pal 4 labor' of our owii,au,ntry ; always Jn. favor of specie circulation as opposect, to. paper currency, (see Jackson's SpeciQ cirou lar) ; always opposed to war in defense of tne integrity of the Government-ahd J qumAn nui as set iortn in tne jjciar ation of tudeivecdenoe; always autiw progressive i at was a' fossil, and is now .without a single w'itai ielnj or coherent Klea, except iu one ancient and eternal sumuiaut, tue coliesive power. oi piun- der. It '4 now e.rvmir tiio thir l.e- eause it wants to fcieat, and .has no bet ter excuse than.jvjop's wulfMiad to. quarrel with the sheep for 'riiiag'; i the water below Where the wolf drank. The . iiomocratie pa. ty la dead.'' It' commit ted hat i . a, i in urn treasonable 'Conpi. racy with the South, arw-i ia, uniy a 1 vaulzdd corpse, without ideas or soul vuoogh to make a decent ghost. ' . -Sheriff Williands, of Header sort, who came down to bring con- victa, aentenced to the Penitentiary, Informs us that Judge aetth jwiII be certain v to . make a gui a on hi county of . at i least 150 ivoie over that given Xor Governor Caldwell tri .the.last gubernatorial race. V -i -. t i ii,.iji l" f j1"" i I ' " .' I'-i-i " AI6N, ' 11 -" " ' " ' ' ' " J 1 - " . ' f , r m rr- . - - ,i i - ; I I1, r , . 5i"RTTTRi&r VsANGE. r . - d --r 1 !!.'' i DlSCUSSIdn AT CHARLOTTE. lETTlItTSlASTIC GiTiiEitfiG : tSpecia Coxrespqndenoe. Constitution. . t.i CiTATirirrTE. iSent. 19. 1870. -iu ,'iAaige , audience asssembled to day to hear the discussion.. Judge Settle arid .Gov.',Yahce were dri ven dowri to Hhr' -grounds in an 'open carriage., sGoh-Dockery, CJoLSteele: Ieach and . others i were, i present. Jedse Settle had theopening speech. Judire SetUe said, : am here to-. aay to announce myseu as a candi date for the Jhigh office of Governor ol this State, l, trust that l am not uamindul of (he hiah dignity thus crmiprrpa linon me uv iiiu uuuuib ml hrrnsative State-North Oaroilria.l JXeectedJLttin-s&fely '3Rfcl$$fcl intend - to vexecute . the. laws, and transact this government without regard 1 td ' party p and vith - equal right' ioJaili Congratulate my elfandmy competitor upon thetime when th&reDresentativeaof the two great political parties can meet and discuss the issues of the day face to ' face- before the people.'1 This is as U lihould.j be, and' li cam say one other thing, that ; myself,, and. my competitor have known each other from boyhood, and with all thd hard licks we have given each' other In this campaign, we are still personal friends; , But when X ;am lighting him. politically, I do not intend to give nim love licks.' But you hav.e not come here to hear much of either myself or I he. , VYe are here to dis cuss the great issues of the. day. . ' n , From reading any,,of. our. State campaign Democratic" sheets, y on would be 'led to believe that in the adminiatratioo of (hid government, zo cents out of.eyery dollar , was lost to the people, and tho Democratic stump .orators 'and ' campaign liter ature make a' ireat 'hubbub about stealage T.nem is isdmething be sides stealing, Mat needs reform in this coqntry. The man,; that steals your purse frequently steals trash. And L have; td say ''mat' the man who bleulfl .charccter Is frequehtly worse, .than? he who steals your purse, Slrfndt-r and viturerattodft'f J charaeterjieed reform. Politicians' ari ' sometiint dishonest,'1 but .1 ' know that the great massjioi'the American people,, are honestw J. know that tne great laboring class,' the men who toil,1 and work,' and -plow and gain their bread by the sweat ; ot v thei c Pro w are honest. These are the men on - whom poli ticians play their little ,gaures,nd these are tne men I here, to-day de fend. ' You will hear my competi tor , charge the : . Itapublican- party ! with fraud, and I challenge him to-1 day T6r, uvtry- ItepHrbl iearr WiioJ b e I shows, me "I will show him two j Democratic- thieves. When my competitor speaks of fraud and cor-: ruption he has missed his mark; . What, sir, (turning to Vance,) has become of that 53,000,000 of the school fund given to the people of iNorth Carolina lor the education of your childreu What, Gov. Vanee, has become of the sinking fund mat you said -was safe in tne treasury? I ask1 you that. 'My honored com petitor frequently: says politics is a trade.; JL have. ; never U aded in it, but I can assure you.; he has . made enough put of it.. Laughter,) lk And now, I don't come, liere to deal in obtuse figures, as. Vance, does, which he usne(j says can only be understood by. a pine field school master. t But now I want to ase the authority., of Jonathan Worth, whom Gov. Vance will believe Jonathan Worth says that the war has'ariflihilated two thirds of our wealth. "Now; ' , Governor Vance admits 'thaf.1,1 he 'was a 'mover. tri- ' the : war and ! thus; helped to annihilate that tworthirdsof our wealth. r And of all the men upon God's green earth, except perhaps; Jefferson ; Davis, . who is- more re spohsible for those three millions of. school fund, I,' can't say. He says ne does not want to complain of the war todsesL' No man wants to eom- Dlaini of the - badi ho .himself Jias done. iLjaughter.) . ;And; now I have said what J'renet to-uy.that Josiah Turner Is evidence against Gov.! yancei They are old cronies. .Now, ; fellowl citizens; i Joo Turner uvvu that, nf . thfl mnnfiv lost after the war the Democrats got $5 wherp' Thoa'Hjatviihlu-a.na frot g?: Turner tells a! great' deal that you -won't about; stealing.; Laughteri) i Joe Turner says tha tnere are SiH) col ored men in "the -pecjitcrtiafy; for stealing aminldae chickens and apeckitU pigs.' (laughter.f-while he cnpoint tQfjhundredd of DemojrU3 riding around in fine, carriages ana Vnllirnr In wo.fvllh whfl OUht bV rights to Uo'there, but hayn't even lust character.' (Applause.) I haye frequently spoken in mis canvass about a . DsimocraUo. thief, ; i the onlv orhoer-of-that- party m the State- Pool isa standard example of their. corruptiqnists, V,...!U :, , , i 1 .Now, fellow eitin)n$. one of those rrfeh Wn6i they' call old Yankees ..w .tfhn-w vrii'ifn(T?infr3 si. firavoa haBdtmrfuad-td theucation of the children, of thl State."- iooi stole th4s sacred trust from the very children of the land : from the work- m.nHfl rXTlHi'frTt mgmeu, -WJ w hiu m.iiHfi.rHi-iOirFlt honestly be iotiged. .Vance explains it by say in that Pool trot a little, behind. Got a little behind, remember. Bat stealing is the right name lor- it. Xmv. i.mo(TAtic brethren, whm a Ileiu 1cai 'cntrtl nm steals don't calf it sfeaitugaud don't send him ti the Pioiteutiary, where he belougsj.but say h got little be-, hind, with it Uejut a litti" behipd With the ikVA-M a.l,u plaUSe. Zmmm .. . . " I Gov. Vauce says.,andi tells yoU, that Ij&ovlT os r( th i tigs w hen Jie piilithlm To 'me. ' But I have to say thatl 'iiin more careful about makine- statements that I" cannot a -1 fnio 'in r-r fiii-i L i t ... jl 'f-'V mi . " 1 j : ; J ; 1,1 substantiate; Every inch of grobnd 1 Knt A r . I I I .J .Al nHn.yauwjutau (in: uitt upeuirx ot j the canvass; afc Rutherfordtonrhe nas aroppea ana receaea as -i; ad vanced the truth of history, and; the facts about his1 war record. Yon made a 'grtta mistake of; this kind, tiov. Vance at .Yancey,, and you owe u o yoursen to correct iti to day,' sir. " " - '' j My competitor however, sayi he dan't waqt to talk, about , the ex- E eases of the Government, Mr. iristow, a good Republicxn, and ' Governor "Vance; says j te will - b lieve his statement, Jvas asked to send in - a report to Qpn gresspf the losses , in he diffeeni administrations down to the ptea-. enc aay. xnat repof t snows that during the administration of . Jaick 0a the losabnJcustamstowas 4d7.15 I on the $1,000: and. Van Buren's Jdiruai3tration JqvyetL' a 4ps3 ion customs of j 93i 17 - on the 1;000, while with.the lordinaryi expedses oTrthe Government,ci and all thel waitg feporteaoy uie ojeiaoc niey,u the' loss on customs in "Grart t's administration ' has 4 only beeri one centpn the thousand dollars ! ! 1 - . , JVly competitor talks a, great deal I about.air. TCurti. report, and ifj in f it yotr can ona 'wnere JMr. Curtis sees. any fraud or dirt, or anything derogatory to the Itepublican party, you.wiir have, Jto. find, it and. hot me.' f He has no rfght thus to stand up before 'yott witlr speaking of a document he idoes 'not know any thing about. ; : I,: ' : .'v I Z. B. . Vancei calls the. ofilcers! of this great Government, red hgged grasshoppers.'' 1 ; Now1 these , red leggrd grasshoppers Include . every woman j , in dme sitiospitals,,: every clerk in the Dppota every .soldier Iri "the army, tne cadets at West Point and Annapolis and little Zeb, Gov. ; Vance's son, isi educated at; Annapolis; out; of the taxes ! of the people and by, the Government he abuses and viilifies as he doesi I hope,' however, that little Zeb may one day make a great naval otBcier, and be an honor to the Government winch is educating him, but! must admit' according to his father, who Is the daddy of the1 little grasshop per Jthat bby isa little grasshop per, : (laughter) ;and that according to Aiov. v ance s own , concession. AridtiowXiov. Vance will tell you hdw he will do this and do that and how lie will run this Government so. i-i noiu nere in ray nana a ? bill wita his iace ou .it, issued by the State of North ' Carolina during tlw J war. He urged j you to take these notes at. that! time apd' you took it in preference to Uonteclerate money ; useir, anu tins money ateu n ' the pockets or tne people, and thus two thirds of yowx wealth was annihilated.; This is. the way lie raiT a "XiOVermirent.-- Tmsse-are solemn facts, and I cannot see how a man of his talents and Who Is tt candidate for the- highest office in the gift of the people of this State, i . i .1 can . go arounu auu gun mem anu try to laugh the people off the track Uy I11JS VUiga juivc. Now, I pass to- another subject. .The Democracy of this State, after you haye signified by. an over whelming vote mat you ao not ivantf' to amend the constitution, have forced a convention upon you. Au.d when in tho last convention campaign they sawthat the people of JNortii . tJaroiina uiu not want a convention, and ' would not have one, they telegraphed down to Rob- esou county Jto noldRobeson and I save the State.":. And how?. By raiid. Dxs not that bear tne ap pearance of " fraud ' upon its face ? And' what did the Democracy do when Robeson did save the State to that oligarchy? They elected a man President of that convention by his owrt vote; it of itself a shame upon humanity ana ; tne good name or the, Old North State.t-The usurping. representatives ! irom Robeson 3 to that convention were then allowed to-vote -opon their own cases, In other words, -to vote ' that1 they should remain, m that .convention. I can't honest and sensible-minded fellovv-citizens, , sea how in the world you ooutd accept a constitu tioq so reeking and saturated with fraud. Although I believo that the Republican party is. to have the majority, in this btate, I do not want to see any party have the power to make fifty Judges whero we only need . twelve, and tnus let the lawyers fatten oft the people. I do not want to see the jurisdiction courts abolished, f And these .meudment9; do that ! very thing, ,i t s -' ;.i i i k t. : ; My coranotitor has been a pet of Korth Carolina for saie time. He was. sent to. Congress when a. boy, and made Governor when old enough- -Ho is talented, I will ad mit, but with, his. talents- ne :nas abused every power ho ever held. X U4YU iu to, uiku iiiia uuoaie, and anticipate that he wilt tell you every colored man here was ireed by-.4raua. if these coiorea men here were freed by - a fraud, Governor Vance, what hinders you roni miking them slaves again ? (Loud cheers.) He will tell you to-da v tnat-niet justice i'earson Is now occupying the. seat he holds by fraud, and hat the Constitution of the "United States, by the amend ments and reconstruction acts, is a fraud!1 "Vance definesTa man who wasin tho army and"would come home and accept an office as a tle- serter. evidently" intending to cut a lick at in e. . ; I said previous to the war that the ejection qf Abraham Lincoln furn ished no-just cause for the dissolu tion Of the Union, and I stand by that to-day. Vance reaches back 25 years, and briners out some reso lutions offered byme in the State Legislature; -tcP prove that I. was a secessionist. But did they do so? No i they proved, that It was -an aboli tionist. He aimed that blow atmy neaa. mm I supported : Stepnenc A."1jMi3i.iiot it right Uov that'' letter Dou glass ior the Presidency, and , 0 011 that of itself" shows I Was a Uniorr J uiau, anu x voteu ior i. 15. Vance i for , Governor i in 18G2, because! he I . , .1 T 1.1 m T B . - was the nominee of the Union'ele ment of the State, and it was that people that elected him. ne ran at that time against- Col.- Wm. John son of your county (Mecklenburg), whose sentiments were, " An uhre-i mining prosecution of the war; war to the last extremity ; thejlast man and the last dollar ; -Tin dependence . to;, the last ; JenV Davis and the South" (a voiced "fiat's dead") yes,some one says that's dead.' The Republican party killei that long ago. Cheers): The war swept my competitor ?!and my self Into, the army. I wentf, thfcrey served twelve, months and come home, and 'the - reason ' I did kiot bring myTnen oatvith me was be cause the Qhscriptioo ct ios,ugira-" teu uy gjavis ana Z.3D yance Kept them tfiere But before X 'reached thf woads': of tiforth Carolina,' .1 tuxpea arouna ana my. Honorable competi tor was riding , a quarter" race horse following, me. And! at thls time I Used every meanain bay power, I , attended j peaces meetino-s. and when I . was pleading, aijd "When every oia motner and lather stnd child 6f the land was sending jup prayers to stop this inhuman flow of ,' precious-; blood by iclosintj the war ; . . and when these peace meet ings and Christian . A.np.iaf iona were workinsr for this .' end. ni7- lionored comDetitor -.was ' swrAiin Raleigh shouting; . '.'Fight till Hell freezes over and then fignt -them on the ice.! This .man then whom I and. my friends; the union loving in due time . went over horse.1 font and dragoons to Jeff Davis and the Rebellion. Vance abuses carnet baggers, and stirs ud tho hitipri uevinsn nate or section.' I Vant( to show you that he is - doing more to retard . JN orth j Carolina . and hhrt . her prosperity than any. man: that lives iri our borders. I ' i ' In reply to the charges T 'mAx against, him of hi persecution of Union men M he said that the laws he found upon the Statute rtortta were odious, and that heJ felt that a militia could execute them" under his direction mildly. And when he asked Jeff, Davis and plead , to get his troops out of the army, I asked him to keep them in. i Vance You don't ' mean ' in sn v Judge, that I put the conscript laws upuu uic oiaiute XiOOK ' V i JNo. l did not say that, but T dn say that you' put a law u Don tlie Statute Book and you carinnt dpnv it, sir, that would imprison, a moth er and punish" her, if she gave her son a cup of cold water. SI say that Gov. Vance talks a great deal about garbled letters, in refutation nf th letters I have-exhiblted whfch'KQtfsl stantiate my charges- against him. 'Now, sir, (turning to Vance,) you write to the Department at Wash ington requesting all your letters and . will 1 sign it. I want them ail pub.lishedto the world, and they will show you blowed hot one day and cold the next. (Laughter and Applause.) He calls the seal of the United States on these letters a pan cake. This is va seal that every government on the face of the earth recognizes, and every nation bows down to in re spect, yet Governor Z. B. 'Vance calls it a pancake I (Laughter.) What right has he to talk about garbled letters, when he wrote one things to Jeff. Davis and another to the people of this State. - He pub lished a letter during the war a curse upon his own neouie thkt was worse than the curse uoon 'haroh. Here is a letter of his In Which he ..requested troops from Laetomake war upon , the people of North Carolina. This war he fought under the black Has. Lee sent him infantry, ' and Vance in structed them " to take no orison' ers." and those deserters . who re sisted the arms of a usurping gov- erntnent must therefore be shot. This is wnat ne calls a mud execution of the laws upon the statute books. These are his own , words t "It is deemed important that deserters taken with arms should be shot." Now, iwhat was the effect the moral effect ox taking a son Or & brother .out . and shooting him? This "is the 'mild execution" he talks about ; so. " Mv competitor throws spite, hate.1 and maliernitv in the face of the. Government that pardoned himj and he complains of hlsf nnlltiAnl 4rl!c!oK!l;fw oftoi- (ha war, because for four years he at tempted to break down this Gov ernment.- :;: u : ; ' -' : i Now what ofiiim? He proposed to disfranchise Union men. I hold in my hand one of his original State Confederate papers where 'he was to put the hideous mark upon'Union men He proposed to hustlethem rom the polls, insult them in the street and rout them from the State; juries were not to believe them on oatn." v isow now can he nave me effrontery to comehereand askyod, after proposing to ; put the Jiideous mark upon you, , to supportnim, when he attempted to make you as fl-hA f ivirwnMW r f CTrt Trifl TITO ! Loud cheers. ne" wrote -to -Mr. Dortch, he appealed to me legisla ture, aud to tne Confederate con gress, for assistance in 'these jnea3 ured.which cost many precious uvea. Show mey Gov. Vance; the oath of olhco that required you to dp that i He then called on.Jeir lklvis and persuaded him to give him the rein by which, he could ride over jr ou. liere was one of Vance's 'minions arresting a poor old man, not letting him ride dragging him, to Wilkes boro.double quicked him on the way r through the ford ' of a river and flung him in jail so 'that the old man ; seventy, years of age, died. Vance, speaks of , the letters giving this "as .garbled. 'Can any honest heart here say that George Tirown vance sometimes says no was ior EEKLY pOlTITyTION. PUBLIS BED EVERY THURSDAY ;(SEE RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION VON THIS PAGE.)' . Job WpRK executed at short no tice and in a style unsurpassed by any similar establishment ha the State. RATES OP ADVERTISING . Ono square, one time, - . f 100 " . two times, - . - l 60 ' 'V ' - i three times, - - 2 00 Contract advertisements taken at proportionately low rates.4, , peace: The Graham family en trusted to' Montford ' McGee the trust of writing Gov. Graham's life, and this gentleman says that.Gov. Graham's papers prove that Vance never was a peace man; I want to hear you say, Gov. Vance, whethor or not your speech before the Vir ginia Historical Society is -correct or the version of Mr. McGee. Wm. A. Graham was a peace man and r voted for iiim .-since the war.' and you, sir, have stood in his way since the war - of his going to tho U. s. Senate. - o-i Vance tells you that Chief Jus. lice Pearson and all these men am usurpers." " "The pistol and thn bowie knife are the. only Taw." and thus he keeps -alive a Uame that msty in uime"consume tho whole majs,s nestird. up strife. and thus puts down peace and the nronor- ityjpfthI:iState: ZJiy.ltia douuuci v tion of carpet baS'erriadortheni' " men no Has driven ' from the State thousands: pf capital and immigra tion. States, are springing . up in the' west;-while N6tth' Carolina has ti to this dayi laih idle;- because of this vituperation i andi abnseJand sectional : hate of jVancOi and his friends. '-,.,, , -'-;ur:d ; ' Vahce" lias ; saltt , in ' a " previous speech that we- wOdldhavebeen 4?iad if he had joined the - Radicals. un yes, therens jojrrmjieaven, the Bible says over one eiriner that re peuteth i ( Loud and enthusiastic cheers.) t And now, fellow-pi tliens, I must aay 1, thankyou for listening so attentive, to me, .and I now re quest imy. friends jto ply respectful attention, to my competitor Cheers, i Vance then arose and commenced ' the old. Tilden whang of reform. He referred to the. facti that'feomo liar (liar) hadt, misrepresented the recent outrage upon Judge Settle here and harped ' oh, itTfbr "a long time, when it ia known that the re port of thatoutrage.was undeniably correct, t He tried to say that it was a crowd of idle ,drunken 'Boys&c, He spoke of the late 'order of Att. .Gen. Taft as intimidation1. He went into a harrangue about expensoBjand to the reporter ,-eemed to forget that.the goyernneRt,' comprised s States instead of 15, at the time ho alluded tb.n He accused the Kepu b lican party of being a negro party, and attempted to connect Grant with the. wniskey ring. He reiter ated his abuse of. Nor trrern men, and tried to get up a cheap applause by holding up a bottle, wita a' grass hopper steeped in whiskey but wasn't successful. He called , upon the colored men to vote for', him, . (this contradicts the speech he mado at Raleigh in opening the canvass,) and gave as a reason that ho had defended them incourt withoutcom pensation. He admitted that North CaToifmV'tmaf nkVnlot Stater -fn - eulogized dloratio ' Seymour, hnd wound up by comparing himself to that able, statesman.; j , v t . 4 He thought it was a shame : for Settle to brip up Gov. Graham. - Settle--I did what you never did, when I voted for him since the war. . Judge Settle then .resumed, and spoke for thirty minutes, and completely -exhausted Vance with his mast erly arguments,sho wing his cruelty in forcing seventeen year old boys into the fight. He alluded very toOchingly to the butrages of the Democracy in Jones county, when a poor negro was the only One in the county who would take care of a pauper, and he laid the blame at the doors of the white men of that county. - : 1 r ' : Vance then replied in - a short talkr and the large assemblage, numbering 4,000, dispersed. Too effect of the discussion was line, and Judge, Settle, oy his gentlemanly bearing, noble traits, and eta tea - mab-like ! views, has won many votes. - A prominent Democrat hero concedes a Republican; majority in this county, ; ana .Republicans say, put down Mecklenburg for 800 Re publican majorityr" B. D. S. THE IXDIAS. They Sign a Paper to JTIove Ca Iu- dian Territory A Hare Com. olnatlou ofxllfanies-crew- with-a-Good-Voice lie- ) '' . fuses to Sigrn. ;' . Red Cix)ud Agekcy, Sept."" 21. The- attendance - of Indians at the council j to-day ; was much I larger than yesterday. After a long talk, the commissioner finally consum mated' a treaty with the "Sioux,' Cheyennes ; and Arapahoes at this agency, the Indians agreeing to the propositions made to them on the 7th inst.; without the change of a single word. The propositions have already been published in full. Tho following are the names or mo In dians who were selected- by Jcheir neoble to sign for the. O 'all alas after the treaty had boett read 'Over and interpreted to them before signing : . ? ; , ' .r- ':'.'-1. ited Cloud, xoung-man-Afraid-of His-Horses, Red Dog. Little Wound, American Horse, Afraid- of-the-Bears, Three Bears, Piro Hunter, uuick near, ited Leaf Firo EyesKMan.. White Cow, Good Bull. Sorrell Horse, Weasel Bear. Two Lance, Bad. Woundr High. Bear. IT ri-1 . 1.. V 1.1 : L . I J ! Clnin Till 11 " Tf irrV. "VVrtlf Tiio. Tn.n The Cheyennes and Arapahoes wilt not " sign until to-morrow, - after which the commission will start at Once for the Spotted Tail Agency, tc consummate me treaty mere, a Crow- With-a-Good-Voice refused to sign the treaty, and walked away with quite f a show of indignation, but all the others who had been se lected and were present, Laflixed their cross to' the paper," a copy of which was given to them at their request.1;1:,? :i.:l;i ' : ' w ' ' J ar Lieutenant Perrin Busbee, TJ. S. Navy, left on SaturdayTfoc his post of duty; after a short leavo. lie' carries away with him tho boat wisfios 'of this coaimunity, s Si. 1
The Weekly Constitution (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Sept. 28, 1876, edition 1
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