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i z ; MfctlBLT TELEGRAM; A,j a 'p -ji 7 - Tj T ! 1T1 . "!? : 1 f ' V Ooo Square, one day, .............. ' - two daya,. ............ m throo days, " , four days,. " " . fire days, . . . , one week. .. . A Square 1 the uidUi of a Cdnmn and 1 Inched deep.- ' ' ' - ' . Contract Advertisementa tat en at proportlon- atelT low rates. Professional Cards, not exceeding one square, will be publiBned one year for yza, Tlio Long Ago. BY A P. BPKRRY. Every heart has it3 long agro, To which it will wander oack To brqathe tho sweets of the flowers that blow ; On its almost worn out track? - I. And the waves of time with jLhcirebb and flow, will cast on the lonely heart, -Some broken wreck of the Long Ago," In which our fates'owhed part. ' Boautiful, sweet, and gentle words, ' Lifts firt hopes," and loves first glow; Thoughts that folded their wing's like birds, And fell on the breast lik snow; ; " r Tresses of sunlight, and tresses $f jet, . ' . The last fond wave of a pure white hand, And a' whisper of " Do not forget."; j . . Smiles as bright as jan angels dreams,;, . ' Tears that were pure as the mornings" dew, Eyes, that for us, had loving beamsj ' L And prayers that were warm and true; ;," ; Oh! who has-not hid afar in the heart, .' I Some dream of the long ago, ; ' ' " ; Which causes the tear unbidden to start, ' t As lifes' waves make their ebb and flow. - r' RALEiGH, July 14th, 1871. Upon the question" of amending the j Constitution in the Convention of 1835, ; Judge Gaston said : i -! ' "This was one of the most impor I tant questions that had cdjne before j the Convention; for, whatever bene- ! ! fits we may have promised ourselves j ; from our labors in the body, in laying j the foundation of our Constitution on equitable and.fair principles, jf we put i it in the power of bare legislative major l ities to upset them all, then indeed .i have we toiled in vain. lie was not only surprised, but, filled with fearful , apprehension.. It appears as if this botly was .going rashly from one ex treme to. another. Because difficulty ; lias been experienced in calling a Con . ' vention to amerid our Constitution, we f are determined to have a perpetually ohanaina Constitution. What is. the proposition recommended in the Re port? That two succeeding Legisla--tures, by, a bare majority of votes, may alter any part of the Amend ments which may be adopted by this Convention, or any principle in the v Bill of Bights, consecrated for the se , curity ur liver, ?nHaV ard. rrcr , erty. What reason is given for this -s proceeding? That a majority ought to govern. Let us not be deceived by gen eralities. In what sense ought major ites to govern ? That the deliberate will of the people ought ultimately to prevail, no one will deny ; but that the temporary, will of a majority which : mays be produced by the effervescelice of the moment y ought to do ictot it pleases, set up and put down Constitutions from day to day no man can be .so extrava gant as to desire, j uIf nothing more is needed for tho purpose of government than, this -brief maxim, let the majority govern, what " becomes of all our checks on majori 1 ties? AVhy have two branches in Our Legislature? Why judicial' establish ' ments? Why trial by jury ? If we adopt this unfettered principle, why any of these establishments ? - "lie would rather live "under the most despotic government on earth. .!. than under an unlimited government of numbers. He might escape the no- tine of one Tvrant. but there could be no escape from a multitude of Ty rants.' ' " ' " On -a subsequent day, Mr. Gaston, of Craven, thought that the sense f the Convention had been so distinctly ascertained, the other day when the question was discussed, that no further obstacle could be thrown in the way of carrying out the. principles agreed on. But we are now met by the popular cry-, that we are about to limit the pow er of the people. It was not the people but the creatures of the people, that the , amendment proposed to limit. The course proposed was not , an unusual one. It was recognized in three Con stitutions which he had picked up on the spur of the moment; viz: South Carolina, . Alabama and the United States. It is to impose a . check on the Legislature, that it may not avail itself of an xtccidental majority to , disturb the repose of the people by frequently calling them together in Convention. t We are called on by every consideration not 1 to sanction the principle, that a bare majority may authorize a Convention, if we do, we shall be exposed to continual fluctuations. The , people have, it is true, the sacred . riglit of Bevolution, they possess the power of rising in their might and upturning the fundamental. principles of government ; but they cannot do it, unless the " emergency is great. Mr. G. concluded by saying, if the right of a bare majority to call a Convention were recognized in the Con stitution he would not give one fig for all the matters which the Convention had been engaged in adjusting, since it assembled. Instead of any permanent regulations, everything would be set afloat and we should have a new Con stitution every two or three years. I 1 'Nichols and Gorman are J with VLB.- W. W. Holden.,,7-.f , , '- , . I But they were not "with us" when, du ring .the late struggle of the people of the South for freedom from the very ills, they now bear, "with us" meant to be with Wv W Holden and Josiah Turner,! Jr. ............. s oo j.' ; m . , 3r ... ; t - - - - .r- Iu.l ..J . 'J'tt-t-t Kn i - , , .i ..... . . - , , . , t i - i . ... . . . - . - - . One Dbllar-3 VOL. d! published by bequest. From the Greensboro Republican. ' IiAUKEIi VattIky, ) ' June 20th, 1871. Mb. Editob: Will you permit a corres pondent from this memorable place a few words in your paper concerning ascertain A. S. Merrimon, Esqr., who was called from the obscurity of the mountains by W.W. Holden when .-Military Governor and madera Judge and who grew fat and kicked his friend. I see fim recent acts oi Judge Merrimon that he. is one of the most bitter "conservative? atf the Capital and most abusive of, -the Union men of the State, In a speech made on Satur day evening in the Court House in Kal eigby before the late incapable General Assembly met when he was a candidate f or the United States Senatorship, he de nounced all the Republicans (accepting Jo Turner's amendment) as a set of thieves, scoundrels' and rascals.- On.the Impeachment trial of the jnan that made him Judge in the examination of Mr. Rol lins of the Pioneer he was terribly severe on that gentleman and denounced Col. Kirk in most bitter , terms. Will you al low me to reproduce a little of this man's helium record. It will make young ku klux stare but that is nothing new since Judge Bond has been in .Raleigh. During the war, Mr. Merrimon was a leading Union man in Buncombe, and acted , with Col. Henry, W. Q. Candler, Maj. Rollins and others in givingaid and comfort to the Federal army anxj. the Union cause. He never acted with the men who now re ceive his homage and praise. When on March 27, 1865, a meeting was called in' Asheville. in response to Gov. Vance's ad dress, asking supplies for Lee's army, and when Dr. Chapman proposed to give his plate, and when it was resolved to re duce the "supplies of the families of Bun combe to keep soldiers from starving when the impressing officer was asked to visit everyhouse and demand an exhibit of food on hand, A. S. Merrimon was not in that meeting. He drew up no resolu tions was not appointed on any com mittee. His standing was then unequivo cal as a Union man. x On the 22d of May, 1865, however, when "a large and enthusiastic" meeting was held (after the Federal army was m AshviUe) A. b. Merrimon offered this Kesoratiori : ' Besofoed, .That a committee be ap pointed xto wait on all Federal, field and staff Officers oh duty in this place and re quest them to take seats in this meeting." i In pursuance of Mr. M's resolution, the tommittee seated Col. G? W. Kirk, Lieut. Col. Hubbard, Maj. Rollins, Adjutant Sut- phen, Drs. Roberts, Doak, etc. At this meeting a series of resolutions were passed. doubtless, preparea oy Juage juernmon, which for extreme loyalty out-Herod the Yankee-Radicals, viz : as a specimen : "Resolved., That the popular heart of North Carolina, particularly of Western Jforth Carolina, has always been loyal to the old Government and that in future, it shall beat in unison with, and keep step to the music of the Union." ' Resolved, That we extend to our North ern brothers the right hand of fellowship, and honestlv hone that soon we mav all meet, as j in- days of yore, ' as American brothers and a band of Freemen around the altar of freedom," ; Resolved, That we believe it essential to the peace and welfare and protection of the country that a small garrison of troops be kept in this county, and that a com mittee of five be appointed by the chair man of this meeting to communicate our desires to the proper military authorities." (This was Judge Merrimon in, 1865, and it was understood at the time that Col. Kirk was not only thus endorsed and hon ored by Judge Merrimon, but was enter tained as a guest at his house. However this mav be. it is known that the father of the Judge, a minister in the Methodist E. Church, was then an ' enthusiastic, friend of "our glorious old Union." that a Confederate lady reported him during the war to the authorities for preaching sedition, and that1 when the Federal army first " entered Asheville, and the rebels were terrified and fled for their liv es, the old gentleman stood in nis door and call ed cheerilv to his neighbors to "stand still and behold the glory1 of the Lord" Kirk leading) his troops into the to wn. Is it fitting that Judge Merrimon should abuse his whilom friend and guest Kirk? Is it in keeping with his, record that he count Henry, Rollins, Candler and all th e Oilier iteuuuucuua ui ucsiuu vaiuiuiit thieves, scoundrels and rascals," even at the prompting Of Jo Turner, and to ob tain an office. ' MEMORY. "Nichols and Gorman are with us. W. W. Holden Sentinel. "Josiah Turner Jr. is the King of the' Ku Klux." W. W. Holden. The present Convention scheme is ua? constitutional, and undemocratic and wrong, or radical, which is one and' the same thing, and the support of every man in the State could not make it respectable or right. . . "Nichols and Gqrman are with us. W, W. Holden." Sentinel But they were not with golden'. and Tiirner whejithe clanging doors of Castle Thunder, at Richmond, opened to receive Josiah Turner, Jr. for treason against f the South. 'A .': . . - '. ., . . "Nichols and Gorman are with ns. W. W. Holden." Sentinel. . j - - But they were not with Wm. W. Hol den and Josiah Turner, Jr. in disgracing North Carolina before the world, in '64, by. actively opposing the struggle of the South,' enconraging desertions from the army, and protecting deserters. J Indopondont on all Quostions-Koutral on Nn,,: : r:. "---"V.U) ,X RALEIGH, N. C, SATU ; Tliey Bite Tbemselyes. An attempt has been made to weaken our influence-by appealing to the preju dices of the people against our Union record during the war. JSVe, too, might have made sp me capital against the Con vention, party by . appealing to the preju dices of the - old Whig and . Union ele ments against the convention nominees on the ground that they were doth taken from the old secession and Democratio j parties. We scorned to do any thing oi the kind. On the contrary we announcea their nomination with suih notice of them as we thought their personal character de served and entitled; them to. We- have been all the time, and -till - arc ior peaoo and good feeling. v r But those who assail us on account of onr record during the war, like a blind copperhead,, too much inflated with its own venom; only bite themselves. The man- who stood more .closely by us, or, rather, the man by whom we stood more closely than any other during the war was the Hon. B. F. Moore. When asked if he had-written the Davidson Letters, as he was believed by many to have done, he said, "No, but he fully endorsed them, and was ready to subscribe his name to them at any time as - an evidence of his deter mination to stand by the writer." And in his testimony on bath before the South ern Outrage .Committee at Washington, at page 205 of the report, he says that he "never saw the day, notwithstanding he had a son in the Confederate' army, when he rejoiced at a triumph of the Confedei?r the army' that he "was "a Union man throughout the war" that he "met the U. S. Army at the close of the war with kindness" that "when he first saw the flag of the United States floating from the palace of the Governor he rode half a mile to salute it. " So it is perfectly clear that if no consideration is to be allowed to our opinions because of our record during the war, quite as little must ; be allowed to the opinion of Mr. Moore himself. In stabbing at us our adversaries have inflic ted la wound equally severe rap on their own greatest champion, if wound ii is to be considered. Old North State'. r P. EI. Winston on llic Convention i ; Question. ' In 1854, when the bill was before the House of Commons proposing to call a Convention, precisely as the present law proposes to do, Mr. Winston made an ar gument against the bill which has never been answered. Mr. Winston said: If this proposition be tenable, it is time that the people of the State ticere informed of it. I hazard the conjecture that not one man in a thousand ever heard of it before. And that it is wrong J I think lean sliow beyond all doubt. Speaking of the Constitution being amended except by the two modes provided in that instrument Mr. Winston said : I undertake to say that w7ien this part of the act is seeri and properly understood the principle that there is still another mode of amending the j Constitution, besides the two provided by the I Constitution, vanislies into thin air." 1 Mr. Winston urther said : "That the Supreme Court of Jyorth Carolina would decide tnat a von- vention called- byta majority of the people under an act passed by a majority of the Leg islature would be unconstitutional." In the same great argument, Mr. Winston furth er said : : - I.- "Read the proceedings of I the Convey tion and you will find that if there is any sentiment settled in the j minds of the members it was that the Constitution which they were' then settling should not blattered by a mere majority. So much for the new doctrine ; a doctrine which goes a bow-soot beyond anything we have ever heard of before : a doctrine which abolishes the Constitution which our Fathers left us ; a doctrine which will in my opinion, met. the decided condem, nation of the people of North Carolina." Tjie Demacracy of the State is :not at the 4 Hop of the pot" in this Convention. measure. It is the pet scheme of the old Whig party in North Carolina, and has been kept alive and steadily in view by such gentlemen as have said before will own myself a Democrat, I will join the Radical party." 'Nichols and Gormanrare with us. W. W. Holden." Sentinel. But they were not "with n" when Hoi den sept Turner to the Confederate Con - . i ' I gress to complete tbc w-prK or"ohn Poors effort to embarrass the Confederacy, break down the' Confederate government, and crush the Southern people, a work rri which the Holdens and Turners of the South have succeeded but too well. Andrew Jackson, than whoni there could be no better authority with the old Democratic sentiment of North Carolina, has admonished us that the principles of constructive powers, or supposed advantage, or temporary circumstances must never be permitted to justify the assumption of a power not given by the Constitution, The present Convention measure before the people of North Carolina, is based upon the principles of constructive powers; it originated in the idea of supposed advan tages;1 and for the justification of their 'assumption of a power not given by the Constitution" its supporters plead tempo rary circumstances. So long as we hold to the old Constitu tional theories, and States Rights princi ples taught by Cauioun, and illustrated and made glorious by Jackson and his com peers, we shall Oppose all kindred schemes to this revolutionary and unconstitutional Convention measure; originate with whom or command the support of what party, it may- 1 X .TT., '-L.V ; T , r r , ; 7 IN J, 1 . WEELY-Oue year, in ulTance....... ........ 1 CO Tim Convention: party had better reiv upon the truth of their cause, and stick' to the discussions its constitutional merits, than trust to the bare necessity, of i the measure, anu me hatred all good men feel for the party excessevpolitical crimes uu. iumj.mj t:7r-r,iPsa OI "tneitupublican party, Lt the Judiciary of North Carolina is so corrupt, weak: and .unworthy, generally. why was it not purified last Winter,; by impeachment, irhea - tho LeerislaturB wn ngged ill tltvrk-of reformation k' is 10 correct vug auuiciary is one ox the great necessities of Convention, the Leg- islature ought to have removed this rieces- sity, by removing the" unjust Judges." The monster, Radicalism, shows its head this year, in North Carolina, in the Con vention measure of the Conservative arty. As the people last year put it . down when it manifested itself in the persons of Holden and Kirk; and took the shape f of f a military invasion, let them now put it down when itjeomes in the equally dan gerous form .of Convention by a bare ma- lonty. XHE people "of North Carolina pav tax es to support and sustain a newspaper es tablishment, in the interest of the leaders of the : Conservative party,' and bt that parcyis not satisnea. xc aemands that the'Railroads shall all be run in its politi cal interest ; and it even had a ""hanker ing ' last winter after the ?'noble charities of the State,'' the Insane Asylum and the Institutions far the Deaf the Dumb and t.he Blind. - , ; ; ' " The best men of the Conservative par- j. i. it . TT..1.I i i ' l r I .wamiflejiuiuux.womio stop, ana but for a few advocates of "wild justice" and apologists for these gangs of outlaws, xnis species ei aisoraer wouia cease. 1 ting in this regard, and- instead of f holding the great body of the (Jonserva- try es responsible for this crime, fasten it only upon toose individuals , and presses to whom it belongs. I i j i r - r j Attorney General Shipp has been to Rutneriord, in tne interest or peace and good order, jut, though armed with full auinonty ircm tne governor, ne nas oeen able to accoiiphsh nothing. Party spirit is very high in Rutherford, ana even tne iwortny Attorney trenerai comes in for denunciations from men of his own parti It is had when a public 4 official cannq do his duty without incur ring the poli ifcal displeasure of even his town party friends. m Let the pple remember that Judge Merrimon, arq other leading lawyers of the Conservative 'party have been trying Ito get a t case before the Sunreme . Court of the ? . , "i ited States, to , overthrow the Homestes laws of-North Carolina: : Call a.Con ition and these same een- We will Cheerfully and ghvlly make auar-ition,-ana tnese same gen- w..Amma. ha .iiviftin fimA' e t,t tlemen will wi t to go upon the Supreme Court Bench i; and the Conservative party. is pledged to place only such there a will decide the Honestead law, uncmsUtution- dl and void. f 1 , !M ' "Dinna 3a hear the slogan I" 1 All the StsQB officials are elected by the votes of $0,001 negroes, who are . not al- Jlowed to vote for a white man unless he Ibelongs to thelRadical party. The negro rice have been combined for jfive years witlija view of controlling the white race. sentinel. 1 And yet theffist General Assembly elect- ed negroes to Positions about the capitol r , , ,7 , ' 't'j-- pvr the hea of -white men, and good &ld simon-pnia Democrats, Was this done Ito encourag the Radical party in Us con- jduct of political proscription; and to aid jand strengthen jbese negro combinations fagainst "the. rhite race?" - As the SenlinM editorially approved and highly applauded the elevation of these negroes over dctrving white men let its editor answer ttopse questions. The people want to know. . If they had a particle , of manliness, in stead of encouraging the idea that the Editor of the Telegram is in sympathy with the Republican party, because of his opposition to the Convention, the Conser vative Editors of North Carolina would discuss the principles of his position, and accord hitnthe right of honest opinion, for they hnoto he stands where he did in Opposi tion to the unconstitutional, revolutionary reconstruction Convention of '67 ; that in opposition to this jConvention he def endg the very same constitutional principles of the Democratlcparty that he defended then principles phich they know and feel they have, lixe cowards and partisan poltroons, basely lurrendered, in the hope of official rewardand the pecuniary profits of party spoils. ' - i f - ' ill. 1 '. 1 : Not to the passions of .the populace, not the ignirance And prejudices of tho mass es; do we appeal in this campaign against pohtpLion; but . to;j the intelligence and reasdu, of , men,v and .. the y sober second thought of the great Conservative masses of the SUtet : : -v4,-----y.l If is a contest betwe4n Jaw. aid I violence ni1e.i.?-; VCQ. and . war not Mood-r hed )t;rlja:but ar species of warfare in PuWictj ;!!e?lti5aien jwhich threatens the peace ind crood. order- of i cosuiSJ and tlxo party, r c ! r Fifty dollars tax'oh,'the $l,t)00'wprth'of property next year unless prevented' by a to come for; the Qonstitntioii of the. Uni-. ted States takes it out of the .power . of , a State. Contention even to pfecerit.ihQ Jerjz YtrrmolrUMUT. W"" rami it oil 'AATifmtfa i-rh,rAt4 . r . : i , .f r. ahe only wayj thenas to properly iccta- strue tke Constitutibn io members - of, 'the: Legislature and for the people to demand i of them compromise andr equitable ad justment of the State debt, j The ;negro leaguers of Robeson county have been in a State of insnrrKrfinTi fnr three years or tato i,J j- piit no. becomes necessary to givf;af political: significance i to the" outrages and outlawry in Robeson county." " , : xmo io ijic uisb iiLuc iliac any viic uas ever I so " intimated V" Even whenj1 during the, death struggles of the Sbuthehi Con- icuciauj, iiiisr;u,iijj vreie piamg lue pan, of incendiaries, 'proteclors of deserters, -and encourasrers of desertion, in opposition' to thecause of the South, it was not deemed fair to chare;e the acts of these Robeson oiit . - 1; . . "Wc :m4 -0,?:a'v' w party feeling. Our canvassers m the west should not ail to dwell on the nem-o-ridden condition of the white men of the east. Sentinel. r This sounds funny,1 in the ;f ace of their declarations that the Conservatives are the peculiar friends of the necrro, and the prmciples of the Conservative party the only guarantees and saf e-cruards to the permanency of his political ' rule. And the privileges of his new citizenship,- iwhich Ye nim the power to nearo-ride the peo- pie of the whole State, ajrainst which we always protested, while. the.-jflfwid ap- proves, and for years has endorsed "negro io - " Correspondence. . ; .;; Raleigh, July 17th, 1S71, IPear Sir: The ; number: of candidates for Convention before the people of Wake and the time required to discuss the ques- cions mvoivea, renaer ic lmpjacticaoie to have a joint caiivass of all the candidates favoring and opposing the . ? call .of a Coiir, ii i l--z .1 iu..?r. h- rnntmn njovorr nn oca wo iirnn I I r rvlort io nave vourseii join us in our uiscussions before the people from day to day, and. jinyite you to qo.otjroji.jUunjsLliroper. yOU may hav. ample- eppartunity be heard as well aa. ourselves. . very Respectfully, ' v ; i 'it-Mi i t ) D J Mi' B ARRINGEn 1 - f ; ':l ': I Green H. Alford. ' - A. & Merrxmqn. Hoy. S. F. Pinturs, Raleigh, N.' C. y Rajleigh, Monday July, 17, 1871. Messrs 1 Barringer. Alford ;sti Mer i Gentlemen ; The time , allowed r me for a reply to your note of tHsrmbrhing pre cludes consultation' with" niV 'colleagues upon the .anti-convention' ticket, before tin and therefore, I respond; without Bucn-ayaniage-, ... Regretting; for the "convenience of the people, that the proposal heretofore made, tor a joint canvass, was- not . accepted,,! am unable to see how your counter-propo- sition is a proper suosutuie inerer., i ne number of candidates is not so large1 as upon former occasions, when joint : canyasses have been made. -For one Of. us to accept yout propositionj and separate himself from his colleagues and .their, canvass," Jn order to attend upon your discus sions, would - be, perhaps, offensive to them, would impose upon them a dispro portionate share., of labor, and would eith er silence other gentlemen upon his ticket whom , the people desire to hear, or, by bringing about a campaign in. which a part of the ant-convention candidates are at one place in the county, and apart at another, would fail Y6Trelieye"lhe county from the inconvenience of. a double cam paign, at the same timetbat -;such an ir regular and unprecedented separation of colleagues migit occasion mistakes and milrepresentatipns of Jtheir respective views, injurious to their cause and not ary ticipated by yoiirsclves, 3 , 'X 1 I am sure that a slight 'refiecifon' will fender these objections; palpable to you; I feel hound therefore to decline, the ra er anomalous proposal of a canvass'; joint with my opponents separate "from my friends.' :, : ' ' : ' ' ' "n Very truly yours, . .. :. ; ; . . S. F. PHILLIPS. .,. Henry Clay's old home, Ashland, has been purchased by the University of Ken tucky for ninety thousand dollars. T" is a pretty1 conflifcf 3Bf 1auth6tity: VlU':j in the matter of the AtlaUj-andAlQrth ;r ) Carphna, . and tbQiRprt&fCIa roads What, will the sobersecond-thmk ins peopie of thetatet-the' real working matenal men of the country say to this 1 insane, unwarranted political movement'""'1 on jthe fpart" of the XtonservatrrEsjin'theMiT Legislature rsrhd rouldTfhus o iintrodue r party politics into every worlciM.'publip l'j ja ntiehe management, bmith,. tfe.. War. -, as , rood J & thif f ' isttf&P his - preoteJ 1 ti ft Icessoh. -What1 thcn-was i! Ihe'bb jett'f wli lo Tbte, 1 for" tCbnVentidn'J and imrs 1 tho u .I j homestead ;frome( for ,tax.Hr.;: Unit ; Bnjb what becomes of Judge Merrimon'ihiioj effort! to take a. test .case to the Supreme ' uouri o .overmrqw ine nomesieaa law, " V -'iv;t'..; V'iU-u-'i 2.-.iui tt,u') it':?.? fromliis friends to make af iest5caselHdw' can -a C6nventionr::"secui thtiianUstead?.:r.I frpm jsale -for taxWVor;pnvate debjtV"V.ith ' l A f gntifemenf 4ik'o;; Mr. -u Merrimon: on i the . . J Bench, who, fan three years have, been fUhti.i the Homestead, law unco ustitui- , uonai, nnu ana ,yoia ,ana inai .tne aecis-r iinrnnsft'a When. Holden announced in his inaug- udiI KdartsijtorerVii tliatrI only epubhtiSlidrtM i ; adminisiratibn of ' th&to'ydvhn4eBt,-'' and thatDemocrats.Vhd Consetvatiucs uliydlt must take back; s6atsi ho1 liiade the' fattaJi!. ii.r mistake of supposing that the political .'A'. power of the Radical party was perpetual were unchangeable: " : " 'r'1'? In;their Convention measuie the Con sex9atives are imitating Holden, 'ior;J if ' successiui ' m inis auempt, nereaiier any party which happens to be In the kjori- y may; order Conyentipn j and no power , , j. can prohibit,,,fori MMore,; . Criventwn oJJp- the people of , to-morrow, ml i,yi.uh: ', Thetie are left a few old? Democrats ni y North Carolina, who are not yet willing -x : to go into the leading strings of the dis- ; . ; 1 satisfied fossils of the old Whig party. Or,,, T submit to the whip-lash of a disgruntled , ; , old Whig agitator, who, . now ( that there f are no vrepemons v to engage fHfpr Vn-'-rxy. federaeies to embarrass, and break, down, ,4 has quit, thof tented vawted, the, halls of Legislation to betake himself .to. . th6 grinding on an organ, for the edificar tiQn, amuemfeni party Ttifit ahd politlr T. 'cal'f; nstrnctfon?of'' old ' sf mOn'-puri-'hard-; h) - -' sheU-asnianiDemocrats; h. Mti t' $ To such school of Democrats, wo daimv' to' belong, "arid as Democrats bf thia-bld ! scliobl" we 'po'se ! this reVlutiohary,s ifrf constitutional meure of "Mv&tfot'1 ' which, haa boon, jresurjeoted f iqm;,,-a ! grave p.the old.;Whig;party by oBtipal rn,,lf v - -r 1 pnneiplesVtho'ndirf nam'ei theou! political manageVa' in' North Carolina tov "5 difyl are the same as: the leaders pi tlu if n' Radicalparty. .vHun, Av: : :,D -Ai I9 The Conseryatiyq jparty lasfe year in its ; j campaign .was rwitjxput.'aj! feature jlistict-v (1 frdm the Radical party, , and it has been -J found'nepessary to place the lonservativd party on the most advanced ground of Rod icalism, hence this Convention measure. I - -It; is now the purpose of tne old ""mushrooms" to drive ' tne'Ridical party J . back ' upon Constitutional ground ; "and ' compel the Republicans .to i occupy. , ,ho ux old unsacceajf al positions hithorto iield.v - byttiig pemocrats and Conservives Es?; Inj thft name of, tho j true Democracy. t.: , protest against any sujrrendergpf j party prinpipjes or violation pi Pemocratic pre-, r jp cedent, or of Constitutional law,. although . we .are compelled yet for a season; to abido i, laws and Constitutional forms framed by ( the; Radicals in the interest of their party x L mejrely Wd for the f urther oppressions' ,:;' of the Democratic people of the Stated A The governor, judges, an4 all the State, officials are elected' by theT yotes of 80,000 negroes, who are not allowed s to Vote for 0 a white man unless, he-belongs ld$bri xadK. ical party, Sentinel, r, r 'y,-u v;: -iv And , yet the Conseryatiyes, inade , .the . campaign of 1870, from Currituck to Cherokee on their knees fegguiff ttieVotes. ' . otthese 80000 amii from Africa. , , . , . .i. Yhen we were denouncing:. that cam paign, for. this very conduct on the part of. E . Conservative leaders, and denyina the legal r Tight of the negro toiuffrage as wedbnytt , (. TO-PAY, th.6rSehtiriel and its army of .1j ,(.. i- isu.ii L' t H 't tl J . ,Ii ? lrOTa onri . Mna at moxwranairmr Hi a listri- kers of newspaper -sappers and miners. i denounced us as being in j sympathy. '.with the (Radical rty,Ubef ip ! '.1 .' same silly denunciations they nov Indulge J1 1 because of our oppsmto, born Convention measure before tho people. , . , tyr . -.1 . x 1
Raleigh Weekly Telegram (Raleigh, N.C.)
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July 22, 1871, edition 1
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