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a , Dollar and-a Half! COMPETITION DEFIED IN JOB - WORK, paper for a Dollar and a Half per Year, and worth every cent of it. KOTH IN WORKMANSHIP.,' PRICES AND MATERIAL. j ; 'i Diploma at the New Berne Fair THE OLD NORTH STATE FOREVER. ' VOL. XIII. WASHINGTON, BEAD FORT CO., N. 0., THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1890. NO. 1 ' : " .- -- -- " ; - ' : . . I I . : . - - .. - "-.-11. i . . ' '.' ' "I , .. I . . mm POWDER . Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marve 'of purity, strength ai'd vibolesomeness on"' economical lh a i idinary kinds i ci cannot be sold in nn: el ition with Le multitude of low , m s. f-Ihh t weight lum or -phosphate powders , Soli only n can by the 110YAL; HA KIN. POWDER CO., ltti WitliM h t i. Xnv Y. iV . For sale Vv . O. J .. M'A-W!UVV. 1 ' - ' ' IHltKCTOltY. ST AT K AND G V KKNM KM', Cnvffuo'r, J)ani i (.. rnwp. ol wake. l.ieu'Hiunt-Gov.i nor, Thomas M . Holt .. alliance. arv of State, W illiain L Saunders Wake. ' ' . - Tieassiirer, lon,-ii. i.ain. nj v aKe. A udilor. icorge . an.lerlin, a v ne. Suiinfin' eiident ol Public instruction, S ilneV M Fiiii,rH', of Catawba. ,; km nev 'vle.neial. Theodore F David son, of 15uiH'oiiUe SJHTK Hf.AltO OK AO KICULTURE. ('.inn issioner, John luihinaon. f.'f-rel:ii,y. T K Brunei-. . ' ( iieiiiist, Herbert 1? HatttjeV A ei i.i I Immigration , 1 M. Wilson. MT'IIKMK COURT. ."' Chief. .1 justice. Will II .Smith, of Wake. Associate J st ices, .1 ,1 Davis, of Frank-, jini August in S M efrimon.of Wake, .lame- H. Shepherd, of Beaufort, and; Alfonzo C. Avery, of 'Burke. j it'IMiKS JSLTKlilOK COURT. ! ' ' First District, George II Brown of Beaufort. Second District, Frederick Philips, of '.Edgeeombe.' ' Third District, II G Connor, of Wilson. S Fourth District, Walter Clark, of Wake. Fifth Ibstnot, John A Gilmer, Guilford. Sixth District, E T Boy kin, of Sampson. Seventh District, .lames c Mcrtae.oi Cumberland. : Kigbt . l-'istrict. It T Armfield, Iredell, "Ninth i 'iftrict, M-'F Graves, of Yadkin. Tenth . Mstrict. John G Bynum, Burke. hleve it li District, V Al bhipp, of Aleek- lenhurg. Twelfth District, Jaine H Merrimon. - of Buncombe. UK I'll KS ENT ATI VKS IN CONGRESS. Senate, Zi-bulon B Vance, of Mecklen burg; M;) W Hansom, of -North-ham pto::; ' j " lbniseol Bepresei.tatives. Yirtt Distiict i Thomas t Skinner, of Perquimans. , Second District, H P Cheatham, col., of ' at ice. i Third l)istrict,'C W McClanimy, Pender Fun rt li District, 1. II Bunu, of Nash. Fifth District, J M Brow er. ofSuny. Sixth I listiict. Alfred Kowland.' Si ventli District, J S Henderson, Kowan Ki-htti District;. W H II Cobles, Wilkes , Ninth District, H G F.wart. Henderson . j; . . ": COUNTY. 'JSJieriff .and Treasurer, li T Iltxlgea. Superior court cleik, G w;ilkens. Register of Ieeis, M K illianison. 'Surveyor, Mayo I, Waters. . - Coroner, Win II Gaskins. Coiiiniissioners. Dr W J Bullock, oh'm; D M Gaskill, . F P H(xlges, F 13 Hooker, T I Waters.-. I. II. Small, Attorney. , TWrd tit 'F.d neat ion, PI Wilkinson, clilnr. 1' H Johnson. F B Guilford. Stuierin'tendeiit of 'Fublig Instruction. KevN.nt Hardiiig. Supt ot Health, Dr W A "Mount. :' ' - ;' t. ?' city. . Mayor, Jos. G Ch-iuuct-y.v C'n ik, J A I'.unrcss. Ti'i :i-m er, J 1! Sjiarrow. 1 hiefof I'olice, J. G. Grimn. Councihneh, J (J Chnuncey. Jiio Hav ;, ens, JS II Wil iam-, II B Mayo, J I) t Coiilon, A .) I'own, IF A Bridgers. '. .' "' ' . , ..' MAILS. Nonliern due daily at 8p m. Clo-ses at JVi p in. ('reenville, due 1"2:i0. closes 1:30 North and South side river due daily at H jS ni ; closes at 6 following mornings. Office. Hours, 9 a rh to 5 p in. ) iloi ey Order and Registry Department, am to 5 p m. (t E Huckman, I' M. S- U. Cai row, Ass't. ' . I ,': ' . ' . C1U KCUKS. ; iletbodist, Rev WR Ware, pastor. Ser vices everv Sunday morning and eeiiiiiL'. Sunday School at 3 pm, A T liomas. superintendent. I'resbvterfan. Rev E- Mack, pastor Services everv Sunday morning and ! night. Sunday School at 3 p m, Jas : b 1 owlet Superintendenti Fpiscopal, Rev Nat Harding, Rector. . Hervices every Sunday morning and ; -night. Sunday : school at 6 p m. Kd inui'.d Alexander. Superintendent. Y. M. c: A. meets every Thursday night. 1 raver meetfng everx Sundav .it 4 o'clock n. in. H ill over Brown's l;:nk. f . ,. ' TEMl'KKANCE MKET1NGS. Heform Club, Regular meeting every -j Tuesdavi night at 8 at Town Hall. ".(' T I', Regular meeting every Thurs ' d.iy-.-l p in at Town Hall Ol fib and Cnion l'rayt-r merting every Miiiday. 111 Town Mall at 2 30 p m. Hai.d of Hope meets every Friday. Loimvs. ' Oif Lodge, No 104. A F and A M meet ; at Masonic Hall ISt and 3rd Tuesdav I nights of each month. K S Ilovt. V I M; R T Hodges. Sec. I'Ual .tix--Lodge,' No 10. I OJF, meets ! every 1st and 3rd Friday night at I their hall, C M Brown, N G; W J Crumnler. Sec. v. W ashington Lodg, No 1,490, Knights . of Honor, meets 1st and 3rd 1 burs - j day nights at Odd Fellows' Hall, T I J arinalt. Dictator; .Arthur Mayo ! reporter; J R Ross. F Reporter. Uhicoru Council, No 350, American Le- ' gions of Honor, meets everv 2nd and I 41 h Thursdav nights at Odd Fellows l.l.alL - C.M Brown, commander; I W M Cherry, collector. I aiulico Lodtre, No 715, Knights and - Ladies of Ho or. meets 2nd and 4th t. Monday niehts-itOdd Fellows' Hall j M Cherry, Protector;TP BroMii I secretary. ; '-xcelsior Lodge, No 31, () G C, meet I 1st and 2nd TOesdav night nt Odd -! Fellows' Hall, D r 8. T. Nicholson conmmuder.Dr H Suell. Secretary SPEECH Ol" yrt .Jonathan Havens Washington on Memo rial Day. in Laimks of the Mkmokiai. Association- and Fellow Citizens :-More than three score years have passed over my head since my eyes first be held God's sunlight on the banks of this bright, beautiful and historic river, Pamlico. In itsj;pellucid waters I have sported j'-oh it glassy surface, "while tiie rude wintry .winds wild ly raved around me," I have swift ly glided; on its bosom when lashed into fury by the howling tempest, I have been safely rocked; amid the venerable" groves that then clothed these banks,' my youthful footsteps have often'strayed, as the evening shades gathered around me', when no sounds were heard;, save the soft sighing of the wind, the gentle rip pling' music of the -moonlit' waters upon the glistening sands, and the shrill notes' of the 1 mocking bird, chanting its evening song of praise in the rustling, waving canopy of green, while every? leaf - vibrated with melody. Since then, my eyes have seen nature in her wildest moods, her grandest - forms, and in all the luxuriance of i .tropical vege tation, but never, never, from those days down to the present time, have I ever beheld a scene so bright, so beautiful and so dean-.to me, " matchless" ami historic river, is this then appeared to my youthful eyc, -as bright ami as beautiful as it was on the day it rolled from the hands of its Great Creator, s Little did I then think, that ere I took j my chamber in thesilent Halls of Death" that I .should see the jwild waves of Fanaticism and Sect ional Hate sweep over these plains of Fain Delightful Peace; that this mighty! continent would r5ock to and . fro with the tramp of contending;; hosts; that I should see this glorious South fid dled by shot, scorched by I tire, and baptized in blood, and that I should hear the sounds of woe and wailing, "Rachel 'mourning for her children, and refusing to be comforted jbe cause tliev were not." As I look around me upon, tuts vast assem blage of the 'people of this! fair coun ty and beautiful town, vtery many of them the widows, wive.sons and daughters of the friends of imy routh, who have assembled here to- av to lav their:; offerings 1 iof bright and beautiful . flowers! mimgled with teals upon the monuiiient, eredted )V lovin-ir bands and hearts, and con secrated by woman's,' ldvie to the memory of the departed illeroes of Beaufort county, who fell in the "randesti noblest eiiusei ! for which men ever laid down theiir lives; I feel, that this is the ' proudest mo4 inent of my life, that I should have been selected on this occasion to com memorate the virtues, tl,iei ptitriotic endurance, the heroic britvery and the love of country u displaced by e gallant sons ot si eaU tort: coun ty. "I hey sleep their 1 iiast isleep they have fought their ::ist battle. No sound shall awake thin tpigljory again . . nt -Though they have jrossd the iver and now rest in thAi shades of immortality, their foinis,seeinii gbd- inr before us,' and shall -we not fel- ow citizens, while asseniifed arojund this nionumental link thjiit lj ihdis us tlowers to the ulonous past, -eatV1' upon this: sacred sot, ani proclaim to the rising general ion i; the great ove of country that an "11 dated these departed Heroes. - :i The gallant men whoisje itnCirjory we celebrate liavet inadu history. From the earliest 'settlemrint Of this State, love of country k land Sitate nride lm.ve been I.Im ftt pedbiJiment elements in the character o 1 r. i si efery North Carolinian. ;No Nfhe iii the records of time,' can 1 t?t found more enduring and - eari. jstf patriot- ism than has lieen cxhilSitei im the history of our beloveds jjbtate. the days '"that tried lijkm'k is In sduls" when the tocsin of; crCiiiil Var was sounded by the Rovalltii GOvef nor North Caroliniansv wjple! iarnimg borders against enemies withinjier fed out of her abundance, t le .s larv ed people of beleainirallUostOn and those much needed supplies, ; passed down this beautiful irivimr, find re a century had rolled awrtvfJ the people of'.Massachusetts :re(tunjid jtbe jkma ness with muskets Mn oMc -: .. . - . ... i A:! I I. II nind ana lighted torches in the other . and this beautiful town was iaidun ashe; rhe bones of her dead bio ached upon nearly every battlil field of the Revolution; the roekvi beig its of niUll Lilt .l.llllpi W . L L the field of Brand vwiiikll the s jitoga, uffer- ing-encampment of illey Forge, the battle ground "of Merman town, of Princeton, of- Mcjnmoutl 1, of Long Island, of Futaw Uof Gi ilford Court House, of Mooi;? fs Cre4 1 1 k, of King's Mountain:, of amance , am the Harbor of Charleston,! all attest the enduring, valor vhd love ; of country of the patriot!!' citiztlns of the coloby of North upon several of .these were rei,esen tati ves couiity . ' juolinai and fields fair battle bf thii The same love of coli htry tlj at an been imated our fore fat hidli. has transmitted to their tleeendaut S; and now, fellow citizens, weiave arrived at the grandest and- -the most terri- ble period in Ainercail history; the late war between the States, or, as it is the fashion to stigmatize it is the "Great Rebellion;)-' accept the term , though it is used as a term of reproach; and ohj ! what a glorious nimbus of names cluster around the word ,' ' Rebel ' 'j Washington , Jeff er son Davis, "Robert E. Lee, Stone wall Jackson, Stuart, Ledpidas Polk, a consecrated servant ' of Christ, Albert Sydney Johnson, Pender, Branch, Pettigrew and a host of others, many of them North Caro linians, whose names shall burn on I I "Fame lea? and angel leaf." It was a grealt rebellion, a rebel lion of riofht against might, the weak against t lei strong, constitu tional truths against political error, States right against centralization; if this wer.e not so, in vain were the teachings of the- Fathers of the con stitution, and in vain, was the blood shed by our ancestors on the battle fields of the revolution. I have no apologies to make, the cause was a great and glorious one; the South followed the teachings of the Fathers of the constitution ; she re-asserted the jright to resume the authoi ity she liadj delegated to the General Government; when that authority .was inj the hands of a part', openly, flagrantly, and boast fully hostile to the South, and also pledged to continue their hostility to the South b- further legislation. These are facts! as clear as the noon day's sun. The results of the war were, the restoration of the Union, and the exclusion! of the system of slavery; and it closed on a spectacle of ruin, such as the world has not sen in modern; times. It is true that our hands jwere laid waste, many of our homes, together with our Temples of &od, reduced to ashes; but therfe are glorious mem ories of the South!, that the war did destroy , and we are yet the same peo ple, with the same distinctive indi viduality intensified, and the same political scholarship; to the scholar ship of Washington, Jefferson, Mad son and others, this county has been always indebted jfor her greatness and prosperity. jDeny this, who can ? Yes, I repeat, that there are glorious me,mories;of the South, that the war did not destroy; said the great Catholic Poet, Father Ryan, "A land withoutruins is a land with out memories, and a land without memories, is a I land without liber ties." "Yes, give me a are spread, and where the ruins And the ljviugtreaq light on the hearts of the dead ; Yes, give me a lan d that is blest by the dust, And bright with the deeds of the down trodden just ; Yes, give me a land that hath legendi j ami lays, f j Enshrining the memories of long van ished days: Yes, give me a land that hath story and song. 1 I To tell of the strife of the Right and j the Wrong." Now, fellow, citizens, as to the part taken by North Carolinians in this ''Great Rebellion," so called; the rebellion of the creator against the created, the tates against their servant, the Federal Government. History relates no greater devotion to a sacred principle, than that shown by the people of this State; true to her revolutionary teachings, her sons, from the everlasting hills to the mighty ! Ocean, sprang to arms. They came from the plough. from the mechanics shop, from the Judge's bench, from the merchants counting room, from the Editors sanctum, from the lawyers studio, and God's Minis terS came from the sacred altars The fafr haired stripling with the down upon bis chin, and a mother's kiss upon his lips, and a mother's blessing upon his head, the stalwart young man and the gray haired sire, 'all with hearts devoted tp their country and each with an eye single to her wel tare. 1 ne nrst victim ot the war was a gallant Pitt county boy, and the last battle charge was made by North Carolinians, under the brave nooie and lamented Grimes; a man without fear anld without reproach. North Carolinians have made his tory, while others have written it; her sons were too modest to boast of their achievements.! In the language of a distinguished jurist and a North Carolinian, 'Uler chivalrous sol diers for four long ,and weary years bore the fortunes of the Confedera cy upon the points of their bayonets" and oh! with what (anxiety did we watch them, and how our hearts did go out in glorious 'exultation when victorious "They swept across the field of Mars," and in the roll and surge of the bat tle tide, victory often perched upon their banners; I theyH seldom suffered defeat. Though in rags, without shoes, and often j without bread, they met the Cohorts of the enemy gleaming in purple! and gold, . and hurled them,! crushed by defeat, across the Potomac; They left more dead upon the battle fields of Yir- gia, than did Yirginia herself. In the terrible cange of Pickett up the blood stained 1 Heights of Gettys burg, they covered themselves with undying lenown. poleon, the Great The Great Na- Frederick, nor Marlboro, nor Hannibal nor Caesar,' ever led such treiopjs as those North Carolinians," wo,i Mid' storm of shot and shrieking bursting shell, I That ring for serried ranks the fatal knell," emerged from that valley of Death and sealed those heights on that terri ble day. History records no grander battle ever made. 1 From the swelling tide of the Poto mac to the eveYglades of Fl&rida, the sheen of their muskets was seen and their "rebel yell" was heard on every battle field. As long as time shall last, their deeds shall be told, and their names will live in song and story,. Nations gazed and won dered much at such, self sacrificing devotion and bravery. God bless old North Carolina, said the great Lee. -. ;',"' 'Grand old State, .fair land, thy dead died bravely tor the right, The folded flag is stainless still, the , broken sword is bright, No blot is on thy record found, no treason soils tby fame, Nor can disaster ever dim the lustre of thy name." It has been too much the custom, fellow citizens, among the popular orators of the present day in speak ing of the gallant men who defend ed the Constitutional rights of the South as men fighting for a cause that they thought was just and right. ask you fellow citizens, could that cause have been .all wrong on- the side, that produced such men as Jef ferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and many others, whose names and -deeds of daring high" have gone sounding down the aisles of time? I answer, no; the civilized world does not believe it and I never will. The South was right. : North Carolinians gave their lives or the success of the cause of the South, and expending millions from generation to generation will bold them in grateful rememberance. The light that led them shines in the traditions of the Hebrews in the dawn of the world's creation; in the histories of republican Qreeoe and iome; in the great Magna Charta wrung rrom tne tyrant donn at unnymeade; on the Alpine Heights of Switzerland, in the rocky glens of Scotland, and on the vine clad hills of sunny France, The light that shone In the; lion-like courage of Wickliffe, of Huss, of Jerome, of Prague, of Ridley, of Cranmer, of atimer, of Sir Thomas Moore, of Calvin, of Luther, of Melanthon, and of Knox. The light that shone in the career of William the silent in his terrible conflict with Spain for the independence of Holland; the light that played around the white plume of Henry of Navarre at the battle of Ivry, the light that led the great Hampden to his glorious death, the light that encircled as a halo the signers of our Declaration of Inde pendence; and from clouds of wit nesses in all ages of the world. The mental training of the South has always been of the kind that led men to enquire strictly into the true principles of our government. For more than a half century they gov erned the country in accordance with Constitutional principles. The whole tendency Of their thoughts and actions, was to preserve the un ion in its integrity; the union as the fathers of the Constitution intended it to be. It was under their guid ance that this country rapidly ad vanced in wealth and prosperity and to be a cologsu! among the nations of the earth ; and In no period of her history, did she make such rapid strides to power and dominion as when Southern minds ruled in her councils. It was under the South ern leadership of the immortal Washington , in. the days that tried men's souls, when the clouds of ad versity hovered over us, and the storm came down, and the billows of conquest, threatened to overwhelm us, that these colonies emerged from the contest and took their place among the nations of the earth. On the borders of Canada a Southern man led the Stars and Stripes to bat tle and to victory. In the South and under a Southern leader, a North Carolinian, its meteor glories burned above the sulphurous canopy and the choicest troops were scat tered as chaff before the wind. On the Plains of Mexico and in her lofty Cordilleras, Southern men and under Southern leaders, "with Freedoms banner streaming over them , ' 'march ed to victory and to Conquest, and though contending against three fold odds, broke in pieces and des troyed the forces opposed to them. Southern men first spread itsstarry fold to the balmy breezes of the Land of Gold, and California was an nexed to this Great Republic. In its march over the mountain wave, Southern men stood under its azure rbe,amid "the broadsides reeling rack;" aye! and should the hand at tempt to obliterate a single star, Southernmen men will rally to its protection, and they will come "Like the Winds when forest are ren ded ! Like the Ocean when navies are stran ded." In the Senate of the Uuited States, just before the "Great Rebellion," so called, said a distinguished Senator in the Congress of 18G0, "It can never be forgotten, it is written on the brightest pages of human histo ry, that we, the slave holders of the South, took our country in her in fancy, and after ruling her sixty out of seventy years : of her exis tence, we shall surrender her to you, without a stain upon her honor, boundless in prosperity, incalculable in her strength, the wonder and ad miration of the world. Time will show what you will make of her, but no time can diminish our glory or your responsibility. This, fellow citizens, is as true as proof of Holy writ. The South ruled this great country from her infancy and guid- I -J I .r 1 . , . .1 . , ! eu uer saieiy tnrougu tne oreaKers, quicksands and, rocks of Sectional ismr and finally surrendered her in to the hands of those, who, during her Entire existence, had oft times threatened to bring about, onievery accession of territory , a dissolution of tne Union. This can be proven by the irresistible logic of facts. The intellect of the South rules this country now. She is geographical ly" politically and intellectually, the keystone of the arch of this Great' Republic. To; rule a country like ours requires the highest efforts of Statesmanship , where the masses in on) section are largely composed of elements without political educa tion," and who sometimes act in a feverish manner, and political faith with them is a; thing of con venience! as has been demonstrated in one section, they are - ready to scatter to the four winds of Heaven all Constitutional obligations, and surrender! their liberties faster than ambitious! men can pick them up; and history: teaches us, that in all civil commotions, it is the most vio lent partyj, whose aim is rule or ruin, that gains; ascendency in council and rides upon the storm and directs the whirlwind-1 This is the plain syllo gism of facts, and they should be impressed! upon the minds of the rising generation. The onlyj security for the perpet uity of this Great Government is a strict observance 011 the part of tho North of the Constitutional obliga tions. The Constitution is the Pharos that should guide I lie ship of State through the storms and break ers of Factions into! the Ports of Peace and Prosperity;. In the lan guage of oiir Governor, Daniel G, Fowle,. ''The Constitution is the Union, and the Union is the Consti tion." . . ' Now fellow citizens, Peace, bless ed Peace, like the Peace of God, that passoth all understanding, rests upon the country, and the bright ef fulgence of her rays j has brightened up the land with joy; and gladness, and the passions and animosities of the war arei passing away , our waste places are being built, up, school houses are'multiplying, temples are being erected to the Living God, the Blue and the -Gray'-- have ex changed fraternal greetings, and we can noWj exclaim "Ours are the Plains 0 Fair Delightful Peace, un warped by" party rage to live like brothers." j Fellow citizens, this is a great country, the freest and greatest the sun rises and sets upon. Yet she is in her infancy. Such is the! the ex tent, that yonder luminary, when he first sheds his morning rays on the one side of it, the other side is clothed in midnight darkness, and five hours will have elapsed, ere he lights up with wondrous glory the great inland seas, the mighty moun tain ranges the valleys, the vast plains, and; the great rivers. Said a recent writer in aub-tance as follows: The busy hum of industry, the sound of her spindles, the wa.s;i of her steamers, the whistle of her locomo tives, is heard from the rolling surge of the Atlantic to the mighty Pacirtc, from the icy regions of the great lakes of the North to the palmy, groves that border the blue waters of the Mexican Gulf. The greatest rivers of the world rise and empty within her borders. She has more miles of railroad and telegraph than the whole world combined, more wealth than Great Britiau by three hun dred millions of dollars; more school houses and newspapers than any other nation ; population is pouring in at. a rate unprecedented in the history ot tne worl l; it is now over (it) millions, at the end of the century it will be 80 millions ; she has more large cities and more hue buildings and dwellings, and a better fed and better clothed population than any other country; the fruits and cere als of all countries grow within her bor dei 8. She excels all countries in miner al wealth; railroads arc penetrating in all directions, followed by a rolling tide of humanity. Wrote ibe good Dean Berkley, of the Church ot England, af terward Bishop, nearly two centuries ago, amid the shady groves ot Newport, Rhode Island, his celebrated poem, so oracular as to the future destinies of America. "Westward the course ofempire takes us way, The first four acts already past; The fifth shall close the drama, of the :-. ' day, j. . '- Time's noblest offspring is the last." Aye, westward and also southward, the course of empire is now taking its way, and our nobis South has put on a new life, risen like Pho-nix from her ashes, and is girding her loins for the great race of prosperity and power. The rush of population is rapidly increasing; the tide is swelling and rolling on I "I hear the first low rush of waves Where soon Bhall roll a human sea," And our glorious South, great in her ex tent, great in her prosperity, great in her achievements, will manifest to the whole world that 1 - "Time's noblest offspring is the last." - i This continent is to be the great seat of population, and is the last refuge of human liberty on earth, it is here that the great problem of the human race is to be worked out. Under the starry ban ner are assembled representatives of all the nations of the earth ; as far as the ken as human wisdom reaches, this great gathering of mankind appears to be the workings of the Divine, Mind in carrying out the great future of this country. But, fellow-citizens,' there are clouds on our horizon pregnant with fu ture trouble, and are only to be dispers ed by the illuminating beams of Chris tianity and education. The Bible, the Constitution and common schools must go hand in hand over this entire conti nent, and the rays of the sun f right eousness reflect over every portion of it, and then, and not until then, Can we exclaim, all is well with us. The dauber to the political stability of this country is the vast immigration of the scum of 1 he nations of southern Europe now pouring upon our northern shores. This tide of infidelity and ignorance, ene mies of the laws of God and man, whose n only idea of liberty is an unrestrained lini.A U ,1,, .,11 L,. 4... license to de-troy nil rights to property, and to; reduce society to cb io and who are now plotting the destruction of all the 'safeguards thrown around every well iegn'ated coinuvinity. This tide . must be met and turned into the peace ful channels of industry and Christi 111 ity, lest fhey become a nucle i- around which; will "gather all the terrible ele ments that enter so largely into our het erogenous population, and lest ! peo ple of the iorth, they become thy Pneti.ri n guard -. - ! : 1 The; 'most painful legacy the late war has t fi to the w -rld, is the turpitude of the so-called historians of tht epoch; ti e have flooded the country with what are c died histories A very brief exam ination of them by any intelligent per son, will show that they are replete with misstatements and glaring falsehoods. It is ah impossibility to. find in any o tliem a, latr account, ot a:.y battle fought; they have, in everyinstance, underrated the strength of the forces of the North, and overestimated the strength of the Southern forces; I am willing to he char itable in my opinion Of them, and will allow all that charity can ask!, and say, that these glaring misstatements! are made from ignorance Since the cap ture of the archives of the Confederate government, the truth of! the; strength of the Confederate forces has been made known to the world. Their ro-ter shows; thai their greatest force in the field was (iO'1,000 thousand men of all arms, and it is a well knownj fact that when the Northern armies were paid off. their numbers exceeded 2 300,000. With ; these facts patent to the world, Northern writers still persi-t in assert ing that their armies vfought ( gainst a great preponderance of numbers. The intelligence of the civilized iworld are of the opinion that had there been any thing Jike an equality of numbers, the results would have ben different ;;and anu sucn is ine opinion or military men. Do you remember, fellow; citizens, in your school days, your school histories related how atrocious- the conduct of Great !Britian was deemed in hiring Hessian troops to subjugate these colo nies? The act was censured by the best element in England's political circles, and so j atrocious was the act deemed that the Great Frederick refused to let them march through any portion of his dominions for the purpose of embarka- 1 1011. unless they paid toll as cattle, they, he said being hired as such. Yet the North, (despairing of raising men en omrh from her native born citizens, ran sacked Europe for armies, and Mr. Lin coln 's Secretary of War. Mr. Staunton, (a man born and brought up to manhood in North Carolina) made the humilia ting confession, that had it not have been for the timely aid of 200,000 ne groes, the-South wouldhave conquered; and first and last there were 1-100,000 Southern troops in the Northern armies, it may not be known to yuu all, that the heaviest bb ws the South received were from the hands of those who were born on jher soil. Thomas, of Virginia, saved the day at Chicamauga. jFrank Blair. Canby, Crittenden, Alexander and Nelson were KentUckians. (Nelson saved Grant from destruction at Shiloh, So say Northern writers. Newton and Cook were Virginiaus; Ord.and Sykes were Marylanders; Dupont was a citi zen of Delaware, and Goldsborough was a Marylander; and their most success ful naval commander, Farragut, was a Tennesseean. ... . . ! ' - ! The South came out of the war with the pro tid consciousness that they have won by their heroic 'deeds jybd military prowls! the admiration of thej world, and Unit there was nothing wanting .-but a change of circumstances to have made lbfiii the victors. Srid 4 distin guished! Virginian; "Tode il witha sen timent liike this, requires '4jhe highest etiorts of s'ate-manship and the most delieatcjotlh es of magnanimity and kind ness.1' j . j1 - Since; the passions Of the saddest hours iii the history of our country have subsided, eYfi'Y unprejudiced nqjind can now clearly see that evil counsels,! pre judice ajnd sectionalism ruled the Con gress of the United States in 1800. Proposition after proposition was made to avert the dreaded calamity of wrar; every thing was done that an ho.iorable people could do, out every proposition looking to a peaceful solution of the terrible trouble was treated with scorn and contempt. There is nothing truer than this assertion;; had the people of the North known the! people of the South as well as the Blue and the Gjrayj now know ne another, theie. would have been no war. History shows n such ma-'nauimous record as is now Of ten ex- hibaed I by the battle-scarred yeterans of the greatest armies the world ever saw, who, after four years of bloody strife, meeting on battle-fields and ex changing fraternal greetings. Itl is a sublime spectacle,! and one over which there is rejoicing among the aingels of Heaven!, ami it teaches a lesson to which politicians should take heed. Fellow citizens, it would be well tojspefik of the causes that led to the ' Great Re bellious" so-called. They were! co-exis tent with the first settlement of the country. The colouies were peopled by a sprinkling of several of the, ijatidnsof Europe,- hut a very large majority of the early settlers were from Greatj Britain; and it might be said that thyj wi re re ligiously and politically hostile, and the religious and political diffciltles of Great ! Britian, soon after the tide of emigration had set westward, culmina ted in civil war, which led ton, still fur ther and increasing emigration. (As the colonies increased in population! and wealth, a sense of common danger brought them together; thb' danger was an attempt on the part of Gieat Urtt-' lantj tax them by oppressive: an'l Oner ous legislation. War ensued; followed by independence. In framing the pres ent constitution ot the country, i then the jealousies that had been smothered by a sense of peril, broke but; there was then an antagonism of feeling on the part of the Northern leaders; that has continued to the present day. j Said antagonism ot that lay wasj only con trolled by the overshadowing influence of the great Washington. The inde pendence of the country hal n tj been achieved for more than thr0e decades before threats of dissolution were made by New England; statesmenl followed by hostile legislation. On the part of the South, the Union, ;ir,orn its inception, was one of affection ; they regarded it as the palladium of thelr liberties, aud a precious legacy! left by Washington aud his cotemporaries. Many of usSvere ot the opinion that a great majority of the North had the same reverence for our Union and Constitution; that the same spirit that animated their ances tors to lend their talents to accomplish its foundation, would pervade the minds of their descendants; little did many of us suppose that sectional jealousy would ever be so great among them, that the teachings of their best minds would be to pervert the Constitution from 1 its true meaning, and make it a means under forms of law, to; tyrannize over a weaker tectiou. TrueJ alai! too true; but then, j "Children were we in simple fa th." The South guarded the Constitution with fidelity and jealous care, through storms bf faction and hostile legisla tion as long as there was an v hope of its being preserved in its integrity, and not untij this hope expired t d she at tempt to throw off the oppressive chains that bound her to a sectkn whose people were bitterly hostile to her, and who elected a President and Vice-President upon a principle hostile to the i nstitutions aud polity of the oth er; neither of them received in all of the fifteen Southern States an electoral vote . T(iey told us that the election was cond uctt'd according to the forms of the Cons tit ut ion, and that we should not take any exceptions to the fact , when they utterly refused tobe bound by thai Constitution, and held it up to us "as a bond tp secure us from defending our property and lives against their oppres sion." From. your speaker's earliest re membraace, the iniquity of the fouth has been a favorite text with New ling land clergymen , and their political 1 al lying cry was, that our Constitution was "a covenant with the devil and a league jwith hell;" and in wrath we were! told that we must be scattered as leave? before the angry wind, it must not be'.tjo return to peaceful and con tented hjomes, we must find poverty at our fire-sides, aud see privation in the aiixious eyes of mothers and rags of children!. The whole coast of the South from Dellaware to the Rio Grande must be madeja desert. In the Peace conven tion held .t Washington previous to the breaking out of the war the most con servative and best element of the South was r presented; they were for peace, peace atiany price save dishonor, a peace that wold insure 'them tranquility, a peace that would keep j armed ruffians from missions of violence; but the boon was nJ jgranted, and not a single prop osition Tsame- from the! North that an honorable' people could accept. The South iiji her attempt to carry out the experiment of a separate Confederate government, asserted the right express ed by' Abraham Lincoln (upon one occa sion, in it very important debate. NoW listen, fellow citizens, and learn vhat political summersaults weak but arhbi tious mejn can turn, when led byfthe talented) and corrupt political dema gogues. He said: -'any people, any where, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake oft the existing government and form a uiew one that suits them better. Nor is the right confined to cases where the people of an existing government may choose to exer jise i ; any portion of such people that can, may revolu tionize ajnd make their own, or so much of their teriitory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such peojple may revolutionize, putting down a i minority iuteruiiingled with them or juear about them, who may op pose their movements." Such were. the words ofj Abraham Lincoln in one of the most important debates eVer held in the Congress of the Uuited States; and it is well known that such were the senti ments of! the founders of this Great Re public, ind I will further assert that such were the sentiments f the larger portion f the great minds; of the Noeth before the commencement of the wr. But, fellow-citizens, in this, as in all civil commotions, it was the most vio lent element that got got bontrol of the government ; every constitutional obli gation ujus swept away by the torrent of fanaticism that rolled oyer the North. The gre4t writ of Habeas ( orpus f'as only regarded as so much waste pager; Thousands of citizens, whose only crime was freedom of speech and a regard for the truej meaning of theiC'oustitutfon as its maker taught in their day and generation, were, at the touch of Mr. Seward's "Little Bell," torn from their families) aud immuied in dungeons, without ia reason being given, or with out the form of a trial. Every newspa per thatidid not approve of the war and indorse the administration, was sup pressed.! Modern history records no people so ready to surrender their rights as were the ipeople of the North during the administration of Abraham Lincoln. The reign of terror was ovet the entire North, and the sen timents of the rulers were; that the safe guards tihrown around the people by the Constitution protecting them "in their persons j houses a id eff ects against un reasohatfte searches and seizures," were to be held in abeyance as long as the war lashed. - Fellow-citizens, the whole theory of the United States government hinges upon thi question, whether the govern ment is a compact between the States, or a government set up elver and above the States. The 7th article of the Con stitutiortreads as followsj "The ratifi cation ojf the conventions of nine States shall be. jsufficient for the establishmenc of this Constitution between the States so ratilying the same. The entire South believed it to be a compact be tween the States. Washington referred ; I L il j: 10 it as a compact, Mauisoii caueu it a compactj. New Hampsire so declared it so did Massa Marshall said in her act of ratification, chusetta. Chief Justice! the union of the States was a league. Such were theopinionso Hamilton; and Jefferson. The Supreme Court of the United States has often (decided ttgat it was a compact, in a word, such w;4 the opinion bf every man w'ho assisted in framingithe Constitution, and it. can oe truthfully said that there was not a dis senting i voice; but when Mr. Lincoln and his followers wished1, to use his own language, "to run the machine upon the principle that this is a government set up and bove the States, and that the States derived their powers from the general government, then the true the ory of toe Constitution; was perverted, and puiiposely so,-to secure sectional aid to cirry on a wicked war. These are plaint, simple truths, and the rising generation should be taught them, and when we are passed away and the places that nov know us shall know us no more foiiever, to them will be commit ted the destinies of this great State, and they in fheir turn will commit them to others. . fTeach them that the cause for which tile South fought was just, and that nottiiag was wanting to gild it in the eyes of the world as tne grandest anu most sacred cause for which men eer laid dowh their lives, savesuceess ; also teach thiem that the Cause for which the South fought is a never dying prin ciple dynasties may ciuinble, nations may pass away, but the right of self government remains as immutable and as firm i the foundations of the earth itself, j i - And n4w, ladies of the Memorial As sociation!, a word with you: To your un tiring enegy and love for a sacred prin ciDlearefche citizens of this beautiful town and fair county Indebted for the erection bf this graceful monument to the memory of our fallen heroes of Beaufort! county. Would that you could gather thjeir- remains together and en shrine thiem beneatn mis sacrea monu ment on the banks of this beautiful nv er, as re! icsof sainted patriots, while those murmuring waves, on their way to the nlifirhtv sea. arei chanting their reauiemi Well do 1 rememoer in tnose I dark, darik days of the late war, the uu- ceasing devotion of the women of North Carolina to the cause of 1 he South; how with tearful eyes and broken hearts ihey sent their husbands, sona, brothers and lovers to the battle field and bid them c me back with their shields oj upon them. Well do I remember the sacri fices they made, their prayers to the Great Being for the success of our anus. How these sacred memories "come back in. the night time of sorrow and J, ,1 - . , . . . 1.1.. L, . l vaic ouuinri 11 men mere nouie. oOULU- ern women were uobler. Such tender ness and kindness, such truthfulness, bravery and heroic self-denial on the part of the women of the o ith war, never before witnessed. The whole world sounded their praises. How often the' invocation of King, David came irom their lips and heart: "God is our. refuge and strength, an ever present help in time of trou'de.: therefore we will not fear though the ear h be re moved, and though the mountains lie cast into the sea, the Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our re fuge." The South was weak and was defeated, but oar gloriou-t mem ris re-. main. The war brought to the surface and opened to the eyes of an astonished -and admiring world the Spartan hero ism, the self-denial and the wondrous Ibve and faithfulness to a sac re I prin ciple of the women of the South. As long as the World shall admire this grand display of the highest attributes, of human nature, so long will the mem ory of their noble deeds live amd their praises be told. God bless the women of the South. PROFESSIONAL AID BUSIIESS C11D JJOTEL M EIIUI AM, j WASHINGTON, N. !. First class accommodations for La dies. 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