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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
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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.
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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. .
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 !
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same silly denunciations they nov Indulge J1 1
because of our oppsmto,
born Convention measure before tho
people. , . ,
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