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WILMlNmua. N.C.. MARCH 7. 1872
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Immigration.
The Post has, from the beginning of its
j career, adyocated the desirableness of a new
population and the manliest, superiority or
the colored laborer,1 ,a3,a laborer oyer ;anj
other which can be bad. We have pointed
out many of 'tle difficulties randsthe. means
to overcome them. The fact is that North
Carolina stands just where she did; in 1865.
In lieu of any remarks of our ownj we
extract the following from the Old and New,
written by Edward A. Polled, an acknowl
dged writer of great ability. It sets torth
ia strong language" the iaultswandiaOacies
ot Virginia, : and is equally; applicable to
North Carolina! We invite candid and .un
nremdiced atte)ntion to this .article, and, if
Tjoaaible sujreest speedy chanats. where
OU . wm m
they can be birought about.? $ & S'
The question now comes tip how -has
Virginia, arrayed with so many ?d van ta-
frea. vet failed, ud to this time and failed
r 7 a
utterlyof the expectations she had formed
of immigration since the, waif .;TheAeaae
disappointment is visible throughout i'e
South (with the exception, perhaps, of
Florida and Texas); but it is especially
marked in Virginia; both as to the height
of her expectation, and the, extremity of
her failure. The discastton will serve as a
full exponent of tattitsof discretioo and ot
temper which have appeared sincethe waf,
in nearly the entire South. On the clqse of
the war, Virginia proposed to take, tlie lead
of the entire Southern States iu what was
indicated as a new erat material prosper
iity. She has composed all her political
i troubles; : she has been admitted into the
Union on better terms than other tsouthern
i States; she is. in profound peace, UDdis
! turbed by ku klux or any other political
apparation; she renews 'her invitations(tb
rthe immigrant and yet there is an utter fy
i dead failure as to the incoming of the ma
terial prosperity she had expected: The
I industrial interest excited towards her after
the war seems recently to have wholly, re
created; the expected army of immigrants
has not yet made its"lippearaoctr; and "tlie
few stragglers whd Ventured within her lim
i its have genera'ly been diaappointeo, and
remain relu ctantly it they have not actua.fi j
withdrawn in bitterness aut dismay: Titp
condition of the farming industry ,f Vir
ginia to-day is. thus , described in officiaf
language: "Barely one-fourth; of Vrtriuia's
J lands were under cultivation. f in 480; and
since the abolition ot-slavery! its Vsuid oWd
er8 are working but one halt, in many jin
1 stances less than oneVhWlf of what they did
I in i8so." . n : "v ' .- .
For this failure of immigration; into Vir
ginia, the writer mav mention three notable
t causes, each one of which has an interest of
l . -
iteown. and involves considerations isir
I the whole South. jTheare:- f W
I .1.7 Mismanagement: the Want of proper
t w&chinerv of advertisement, solicitation,
! and rmnsnortation ot immierants. . rt
3. Social v prejudice hot only such as
nrTired from the war toward the North,
but such as have grown out f the isolated
and untraveled condition ofthe puthfui
OTle. ---MXAn f . fl x 1
3 A mutual ignorance ot the Virginian I
and of the immigrant as to what isTeahy
wanted. - : ' - ' 't..'.'iH'iHj
The -mismanagement oi the immigratfou
. interest is a continuous illustration 61 a
characteristic; infirmity of the -SoutbA J
fatnlU dianlaved in'the lateWftf:vi2,, Ihe
want of business talent that faculf y "which
measures what it proposes to ao, ana pio
vides for its work meabs systematic an
adequate. The philosophic historian J1
remark: of the South m the pasg
trained collection of paltry - JJgg
tnssy aPan- d o
doing nothing; a great sp i adtinl;acv ;.; n
n utter wt of g
SiMf derate secretary; of, the
Tl-appose that he might raise a
wlwe by collection ,:bags inhe
JLes and gifts of old, jewelry and
which hoped to build gunboats by advt r
tisinff for scrap iron thus inducing a num
Vvo. Af rld ladifiW throufrholit the South to
! send in dismantled kettles and ohl hore
1iop?b Tirpciafilv that which has since
- tn fh attetv to control im
' migration iDto the S-fth and to compete
with the large an well-ordered systems by
which the Nr-th conducts her owa.schemes
1 nf materia prosperity. iuno vwu-m
Dearoce of gf eat and diffuse exertion; a
Smof violent, ift-directed dividual eifortP;
SSet nothing .'one worth mentioning
The "land agency ;i Whict t;nave fbeen
rTORS.rds, andbaviBEadVertisVl
in local nePers and' oi PDted shin-
glc8,hau
rf-4ome impecunious adventurer-to
jjrjje to hunt immigrant geese, are about
jt6 sum of what has been 'don5'. 11 '''
It is true that the Legislature of Virginia
has constituted a 4State. Board oilmmigra
tratioh;" but such a jcaricature f ejdom
been exhibited, even in the"uthsince Mr.
Memminger's plan of replenisbinhe con
federate treasury by chttch-coilections.
inn. n
In the first place, t he egislaju(ac4sot I
Sd March. I860 stiLU'ated t hatpin no events
shall the operations - of said Board be a
charge upon the Treasury of the State."
Tnnda were to be raised bv voluntarV con
tributions, to make I which it was saiot f hef
land proprietors wouiu ue iniereaieu,r jne
country, newspapers .were eloquent', and
would do the advertising gratis, f So the
"State Board begged an advertisement, lo'
some local newspaper, puDiisued an "Ad
rirefM." aind then set to work to obtain fnnds
by donations. With what result? 'asks tbe
curious n kier. "I sueceeded,"; officlaily,re-i
i ports uen. Kicnarason, xa&jrresiaeooi toe
iBoard, "in obtaining a loan of five hundred:
dollars only, and by donation one hundred
sdollars; and the attempt, being manifestly
hopeless, was given up. j a , ' 1 i "
I The thort-signted views of land proprie
tors in Virginia which induced " them to
hold up prices at the first blush of the ap
'(sjance of immigration, rather than to
elicit it by loweiing their prices at the i
prosptct i atmaqa, ana idus wcunug
U said to have given the finisting blow to
the "State Board," whtch at nrst proposed
to co-nperate with those who had thei
lands in market. Thejiatriotic and estimsr
ble Gen. Ricuardaon, who by proper ana
generous aids might really hare doiie some
thing to build up tne iortunes oi iue oiavo
on the basis of immigration, thus relates an
instance of disappointment: ,
Afcyrere notittecutnat'-eariy in ias. ovyz
tember one' of the compaWasteamerr from
Copenhagen, witbCt7nihundred:emigranU
of a select classwaaf4ipected tb iraTUt
sentto.
Virginiar if landscontba purchase&fori
gen tieman ot feAigoasnaracter, t cpnneciea
N!tSxflfettbiiflT;1a,iiie:to Richmond, and,
aftw 'inference ithithel Board, ndeay-i
roao1e1, faiJed'tp make Abe purcnase; ana
Ihefe being" ncf time tor delay, the dppor-i
iuhitjwas; lojtI have been credibly In'-!
formed .y that this company brought more
than u two hnndred and . eiebtv - thousand
dollars irf old.1' ' ' .
tx If any further commentary was needed
on the character of Virginia's immigration
scheme, it i turnished an the fact that this
8tate,"to receive any immigrants she knight
obtain from Europe, has to operate through
ae agent at Castle Garden - acting under the
instructions and directions of the Commis
sioners of Emigration for the State of New
York. The State of Virginia has no ar
rangements lor the landing of immigrants
at her own f ports. Her whole system on
the subject - is one ' of mendicancy, and of
trust to a machinery outside her limits,
-withinthe jurisdiction of - another State,
and likely, of course, 4 to - be controlled to
tlie interest of that State.. But, despite the
wretched public: mismanagement of a vast
concern, there have been some traces ot im
migration made in Virginia, which have a
history of theirown.' - 'i ney nave proceeaea
either from irregular : agencies, or from the
vol n man? movements of those in search of
betters fortunes. ; in some . instances dis
reputable speculators in the emigrant trade,
ODeratimr outside the State, have brought
in the refuse of the human flesh-markets of
EnrOne: and these poor creatures have sut
fered horribly, besides inflicting a nuisance
.and a burden , upon the communities
where the v have been , introduced, indeed,
the "lanfl agenciea'V and ."labor agencies" of
Virginia are fallen into great disrepute,
since. every vagabond and moneyless ad
venturer has found a sort oi last resource in
such business to make his bread out of the
creduhtv of the public, and in some in
stances! to reap a golden reward by sharp
practice and cruet iraud.
10f-V voluntary ; sources of immigration,
whichv . usually yield the best and most de
sifableclassea, there were some prospects
in Vjrglniaf ehortly after the war; many
very'iespectalU Northern men of their om
very
motions svii at
queat'to lant their for
times irrai3titet)f itie resources of which
thev lSew without the intervention of un
trnstworthvafirents and solicitors. Here
was the best prospect Virginia ever had oi
' . . ,
assessions of Dopulation and wealth trom
ablr6arl;but, unhappily, this class ot immi
m
tirauti has a m st wholly taiien on ior i
utculur reason; ifnd, wnat is worse, it is a
class d m ult to be .reclaimed, alter it has
hetto recalled or :dlsapplated.. The mi
ioritv of "buch clesirabe Northern people
w.ho adventured into Vngiuia with capital,
briuuioy: with them nuth wealth and intel
iiirence. atfdiwrfol would socially, have been
an accession, have been driven from the
State. ffiaiMVtmfafecountof Uhe social pre-
judices theywfbuud theyshad to encounter,
toetloertWitn some aspenucs ui wuuiuwu,
such 'as are calculated to revolt that class
of Immigrants who are able to choose their
homes. But the prejudjees surviving from
the war and4 directed against the people .ef
titgNorthnreothtmlyones in the
SouUirliiclefolirauiable class ot im
muzratiop! there is, another narrowness and
bad temper Of which the South will have
to cure ! h'erseli -before- she can extend the
haud of loliowship to respectable comers
tr.ora all "pufis -ol" the world. A keen ob
servation wiiLUtUct in the South a certain
dislike of at r strangers, bred out long
continued habits W an isolated W beyond
which Southern men-in t Pbt seiaom
traveled and which they-ae the standard
of all that was best the worm.
It,remaina tc ?onsidet the last reason as
sisned for the flat failure of immigration
in Yinrnai anQ here 'will be found not
onlv tne greatest' of these causes, but the
ruminant interest of our whole subject, and
one which opens r up the entire industrial
condltibrrof the-South:6 The Virginian has
made a. mistake, and his customer, the im
pecuuious immigrant, has made a mistake,
in supposing that-this State, or indeed any
park ofThe.Soutb,eally, wants labor.; the
realf Want' Sf capital j The! negro labor in
the ooutbis the cheapest and most tracta-
i ble in the world., It is quite as sufficient
as it was in the days of slavery, the best
evi4epce being (all newspaper nonsense to
the contrary) that the negro, since emanci
pation,
shown
has not relaxed as a laborer, but
a jreal increase, of , mdusirv, noi
couuting even the lien per cent, of addition
in numbers he has made in the last decade;
it isiliul faCtii cheaper,; than it was under
slavery, his wages Uelug ijjo" low that the
afgreg16 8 estimateqo' De!jes8 than the
usual- expenditure accumulated in taking
care; oi him when a slave, and when the
extravagance of bis proprietor was notori
ous; and it -denes the competition of the
,ru.lvr,-mau . UJ VUP aoIIlj acquired rrom
slavery aqj live on the lowest scale of com
torts,, : to practice a submission and obedi
ence Which even the lowest of White labor
era would refuse, and to content itself with
modeVbf lite 10 which its competitors aiv
.whbllv.'.-iiiinrS.'wmca sa tar as the
experiment has been made in the South.
tney nave mTariaoiT reyoitecu' 4 -;?
No falser more rnwtaken iiea ever took
posseasioni of .th'sx hastv mind of the South
than that of supplanting thenegro by lor
eign white labr fThergross i nconsistency
of suctfan exp:ectikti6nu states"' but in the
fact, TtbaCthe f hatfre poor whites of the
Bputh;yettbt u fromi working alongside
tbe.cgrotl 'decline the competition;
theyi Vswillnot work in the fields, and it is
yet an imputation upon the lvwest pauper
of themi . beside :bing as . tbey profess a
hopeless -task; for .HvlihoocL to compete in
labox;,4withtthe negro, . Until : the poor
Whiles; of ahe South themselves will eiv e
the example of working by the side of. or
instead of the negro,' and show to the world
that there are -real opportunitiee for the
w b ft? laborer in the South, it is rini ust and
jiruel that 'the Und proprietors should ex
pect to una Ticum ior tne nopeless compe
tition with the; negro amoDg people oi the
Northern States rof Europe, who are at
least. equal in self-respect to men. of the
same coior m mo ooutn, and Who have no
harder necessities to relieve.
Of the refuse of European emigrants, the
State of Virginia has already had seme ex-
pcarience, and is not likely to repeat it. A,
colon j?1 of such thev were illSKcj
wegiana" wasrecen iy piauteu ; i auu -county;
an d yyfUjr moo th s J the j . poor.
creatures, victims or i a nearne .rpuia-
tibni-were at the doors 'otvtne pooroouse. ur
nad oecome wuicnu: onuuiv,u. , ?"
advertised demand Jot Vi ginia is for, a re
spectable efficient-white labor; to suppl&nt
the negro; and such, the writer insists, it
will not find in the world; and tnat tneaq
veitisement for it is a delusion and snare.
The neero is' sufficient tor the:preent
labor demands ot the South; more sufficient
than he everwas; in-slavery. Nowhere, at,
thftaffes: he isSwillinff to accept, I can he
foundjaabore!
habits ot obedience, and more realty tmci-
ant. it -nas 1 oeen f iirireu mc tpwuuu
would have to look to the market oi white:
lahor ancait' for skilled artisans :r t1iattbe
labor of the negro is ponderous and; inae
ris sStedbSfyor the fude workl
IsJBuV berer'tbbis a mistake.,
bbaeHationiJ discovers 'lnal thefi
curate, anq
of the fields.
A luster
heero mav be" educated "for3 an V kind of
work V that the creature ' 'honr xHvrirJtnc
i
has so plainly designed as t iaoorer ; ns
wonderful capacities r s;MieT oat ce nasi
really a nice, nertous nahS,; when itTfaspt
hen aotuallv blunted bV rouffh irsrtr andi
that, kindlv treated and n taught,' hie is II
serviceable through !a' range ot employments H
extending irom me mcea uintw' m unuui-;
craft to the rudest tasks et r the field 'and?
the force. The neero seamitrets itf Virginia,
is famous for her dexterity1 and delicacy of
execution in the most exacting ladles' work.
The examsite artmciar flowers made m i
Brazil, from the marine shells, and"teathers
of the forest bird, are, made by the Hiahds
of negroes. The reproach of coarseness in
his labor is one ' of the many which are;
being lifted from the tfereJTec'dm"es
better known and devebpedunder systems
ot education. , ft-i
So important -does the writer consider
the negro labor of the South, that, as the
preface to all material prosperity.there, he
would have special exertions made to 'con
serve it, and to secure it for all time. .The
question of keeping it.in thes: South is not
so entirely, wita the white man, a onesided
choice, as has been generally supposed.
The , negro, too,' has .to be n consulted. .jto;
Virginia, at least, he has become' so unset
tled and uneasy under the pressure ofjyery
low wages, that there is a :teal 8 danger.of
his eventual desertion of the State. In
1870 no less than twenty thousand negroes
are estimated to have left the State; at
tracted by the better wages of the far
South. Many of these have returned, 'dis
appointed and ill-used by .speculative
agents; but since then there has been a
marked emigration of what are known as
"house-servants, to the Northern cities,
even as fir as Boston, where they get at
least double the wages allowed in their old
homes. Virginia can ill afford ' to lose this
class, th&verv best of her - cotored popula
tion, and long the peculiar . pride bt her
household economy In ; fact a necessity
may soon be evident to secure the residence
of the negro in his old homes and the.ob
vious.sugge8tion are, increased wages, and
some arrangements to, attach him to the
soil. As yet, the. negro has -Kkown but lit
tle ambition to obtain an interest in the
soil beyond his wages 'or share of the crop ;
but such an aspiration, which invariab'i
marks nnd imp ies a certain stage ot im
prbvement in me labor systom ot a country,
will un.ioubiedly be developed ia ,hia&a
he continu' 8 the orf irress he i how mak
ing, and fbould-bft met by wise provision?.
With tue former slaves converted teally , into
what John Randolph"' once, "and at that
time by a romantic fiction d escribed theh),
'a black peasantry, the best in tho world,"
and witi changes of policy and of roanners
to correspond, there is no reason why Vir
ginia, on such a' basis, may not raise almost
any superstructure of prcperityt tand a
model and imitation to rue world, and. real
ize in all respects that "NeW Virginia,"
prophesied and aspired tor at the close of
the war.
If after this commentary upon the real
condition of the South as repert' iabor;
praeefcal advice is asked by - those abroad
if ho are looking to this f.-art of tucr Uuion
wijth hopes of better fortunt. ttie following
may serve as a principal guide t Do no;
come unless you have money enough t
buy and operate a small piece of land, or to
engage in some business other than that ot
a day-laborer with no other means tbao
days wages. In Virginia, grown field
laborers get from eight dollars to ten dote
lars per month ; female domestsc servants
from six dollars to eigti dol.lars,.: Jour
white color may get you jomei slight ad
vance on i these rates; but ybu'wilh1 finil a
habit and countenance of command over
you (naturally surviving from slavery), as a
there laborer, and an expectation that you
will put up with food and shelter such as
you have not been accustomed to, and Will
not be likely to endure. A gentleman ot
the writer's acquaintance in Virginia re
cently imported on his farm Some - German
laborers. The first night alter their. an ival,
they asked wnere they were to sleep'ahd.'
were pointed to the deserted negro, cabins
of logs and dirt fl .ors. The geuUfcmae,
kind and humane enough, bad no idea that
they could expect any thing ielse than what
his negroes bad been content withaud ;was
astonished next morning to find them fled
with. Buch dismay that it IS doUbttUl
whether they stopped 1 this aide bfinr fiLi
lantic.,... But thia is onJyliohe.sidft"Jof the
picture : . here is theiiother; ilfyou have
money enough to make a small investment
in! land, to found an entMprjisebf your own,
probably nowhera Vefse in the world will
you find such an opportunity.. of investment
in Virginia, so small an outlay required
with such a prospect of ; ihcome, rCheao
lands; accessible markets. 'H lHSWtP
climate r the -y;.ot' t yaribhss agricul
experimenis of great and , yet untried
promise ; innumerable. openings for msnii ;
facturing enterprise ; an unrivaflei! raier
power a wnstan jitenMhtiU
coyery of undeveloped resonreekj he.buni
oi an n-iiJorado, wherethe onzeSTjf ; all
minerals, such are the invitations' extend
ed to joiu;:',XJ":iT,' -MrVr-'Hy A '
1 . '.
i Expectatio ns from Pematjracfv.8 i
I. .. . ... . V..
As watchmen-aTtrn;tower, we warn
the people to consider what the enn sequen
ces will be should f btrku klux democracy
ever get into pdwlrlri Jtfii j B fflel Jlslaa
axiom, that4 to judge ol the fnureire mnst
look at the.pasu Dimocracy,1 ktt;; VluxdeJ
mocracy, is tne same to-day that: it-waa in
181; the same proscripti ve sptr i tjf the iMiie
haughty, arrogan t oligarchy; the same thirst?
for power and. pjace whicl animated the
leaders of the rebellion; inVpi red' the forma-5
u ou ui me mans. nese cteaders, as: soon
it was at all pdehfbr:
uj oicps jq lurmiag a poutieai party alter
their failure to break up the Union, conclu
ded to open a war against the constitutiin-
aliy of the constitutional amendments,
land the 1 reconstruction acts of Cohrrcss
they declared they were unconstitutional
and of no force; they claimed in one breath
that they dmacded thrir rights under the
eonstitutino, and m ithel'nr-xt that ney
openly renounced the c institution;' tney
boasted that the great democratic princi
ples ot States High t was yet the Jaw
of the fand, and, though , (thoy Haid);
"We T lea overcome by the force
numtferf , r w heti '"We"' gcV: i nto power
aJL Jlfc? I'tijpjitntiooai amendments, all
tni8e9recrn8tructin' act 4- sliall be repealed;
they wolufd ' accept nothitig; ho, nothiegj
"short "of havine "our1 wq wav." Thev
Aiv attempted in the -.National Legislature
in North, u.ro
. to " allow kn kl-ux- to testify 'xw,
- .thtir? t)-s.n. caus-j when on trul foi-.thtir-'
V -rf" :r&- -!
fiendish crimes. Thor; have 'Attempted mi
thBJLisUcu:e of .North" tJarjiua' to pass a
law b-which all "the ku kiux shall be par-
doncd ffifdfo trial? Ta?y'c ill it amnesty;'
thignity jthe" offence of ku kluxiogi
jdefencelessf poor , men, both, white and1
black, 'us' an effence that admits bt amnestj,
titiat Is, an offence against the government),
aocl at old offenders in that direction, many
having received, -.he c gracious unmerited
pardon from the United States, they cling'
to this last fond hope of escape. They
claim all the decency, all the social position
as they-80 often call it; they threaten, aye,;
and do ostracise all, who-do hot agree with
them in their hellish purposes; they vilify,
abuse : and traduce all who are in power
regardless of age, learning, or merit; especi
ally do; they assail the Judges of our State;
and men who could not obtain a county
COlirt license, add hardly know the differ
ence between a real and a personal action,
Vake upon themselves to criticise the opin
ions, of the .Supreme Court, and impute
partisan motives for their decisions with an
air of i lordly superiority that makes them
ridiculous for vanity and weakness, and
contemptable for their meanness and ma
lignity. Such is North Carolina democracy.
We will now show you the truth ot what
wejsay, out of their own mouths will we
condemn them. Jeff Davis, the Boss man
in this crowd, the ring master of the rebel
lion, the bead and front, body and soul of
the Confederacy ' in open war against the
government, said in bis speech at Atlanta,
Ga;f 1870: V
. I am not one of those who accept the
situation.' I accept nothing. These cant
phras8 that we near so much about, ac
cepting the situation.' and about our rights
having been submitted to the 'arbitrament
ot the . sword1 are but the excuses of
cowards.' .
-Ffatk P. Blair, the son ot Montgomery
Blair, spke tor the Democracy, in 1868,
about the Reconstruction Acts, as follow :
uThre ia but one wsiy to rs ore the
' Governhrenr. and the Oontitnvn, and that
is, tor io r frrsiftt-Tii (Wircr to dsclare the acts
nOlPttbd'void ; compel t he artrjy ro undo its
hstfrpftUoiifi at thc coutii ; disperse the car-pe-ti.
Stfute govern mcnts, alUw the white
peop!i to reorgauiz i their own governments
and etect Senators and Representatives."
In - their Jast Nadouat Convention, at
New Torki-in 1868, they said :
" "We regard rlu-. Reconstruction Acts
(P called) ot Cengrt ss. an Kucb, as usurpa
tions;; arid -unconstitutional, revolutionary
and void. f
In their Convention in North Carolina,
in the same ye- tr, kh-.-r protesting against
tae reconstruction
policy as t4uncon8titu-
tionaV,; unwise and df-struciive to societv,
thv fcttid
rp do ;'!
to
political
t ..... o
ands'fCiti
' R tbert
b
lije'Hnck
lo.(ijos, of G?.:jift, .i leadiner
spirit in the. ubiJlv.u, bticg iotrrvi-wed on
the su jcct, is reported in the N Y. Herald
as follows:
"You have given up, however, all hope
of armed resistance to the United States
Government!'
u Not at all. I don't know but that it is
about time for us to fight again; our only
hope, is in ourselves; every party in the
North iabandooji s. I never expected much
from the Northern Democrats since they
dewjrted us at - the beginning of the war."
: ' But you suri iy do not seriously mean
,that the war oag'it to begin again?"
. Yes, I do."
"And you remember the bloodshed and
misery which that roust invoiver'
Ys; but what ot it? I am not a peace
man. There ' are many worse occupations
ror a gentleman than nghting."
-'When ate' you going to raise the stand
ard ior revolt 1"
'Wh tne vera favorable opportunity oc
teurs.; We wilt wait until your people at the
North are divided among themselves or are
-at war with some forefgn power." ;
I)bnTybu you Regard the acts of the re
xn8trccted Legislatures, then, as binding
upon the Southern people?" '
1 OP taiuTse hot. Th-igi8latures have
-not ben i&r trtected, and whatever thet
uicwu is bueieiore invalid.
Aleiander H. Stevens, "also interviewed.
said:- K - i ; . j- '
All the reconstruction leeislation nf
congress ne Deueyed to be unconstitutional,
fraudulent and void." ! . - ...j'
n- j . ........ . - . w-
tmnM'uere no wrl- oft ths CtnMtitMiism
because their pretended ratification" had
wecu vjie-cieu uy torce- and iraUu- '!17"
':.rWVill rjubte but owmore dectarationJ
!vte.se Mux democrai
P Blairi the leader of the democracy in thW
United! StatrS 8 -nati. th
$?&MM 'fui-and by moy mrelV
feS1! thechief of ;ttt brgin 1
txaUoo In toia speech in the Senate of the
UnUeb? States in 1871 i laid: i ! a- 5
' lSi?ff'y never , have regarded
me
anf4c4teM5hno act! upon -th
va wiVI-islitia id '.hav acted ? Vtni
ose so-called
mt my conTic-
'tio$r' tti -' ednstquHiCes be1 what 'ihW,
tWW1' CaronnaV'wf have set be
fore you the principles of the democratic
party. They are at war with equal rights
are antagonistic to the government under
-l;on5iraciu,n ftcti any part ot the
"M1 ltey&f. if 1 had been in place
lf;P:fhe bad been President)
which you live; they are revolutionary andm the Union, wd Smisa exhibits the ;
deatrictitdb people if
democracy je jtxld ever have the controlling
power in jtfal Jiy.W:-:; :;.tj
Bepnur llnS1 flrDa ibe country, the
people t)!3.It6u, nd.:: none know It
betteratcs-leaders of the democratic
partylii&haMontgomery Blair,-' '.the
father af Prank P. Blair, says in his letter
to the HeiforkyiFiM'W, he gives up the
contest,, pronounces the defeat of the Dem
racy;theselisiFdn "'"PT"
C iTMVmstaB'$irty cannot succeed, on
any platforms-mot even when opposing ku
kiuxbtlla aodmartU14awLJ?rAVitk;
or without i thjBroe"i .'artQo-welt- in.
formed and candid man would bo w " say
that the Deraocrtic3jparty is" likely to carry
the eleetion io W2 - t .? r . 'j
The i democracy mo w -f exclaim J n the ex
tremity of their despnrrF''Oh! Kti Klux, Ka!
KtuxwncreforeVrrthuKirSlslit' T I
Shamelul Treatcront ol' ttoe 'State- Con-:
victs The Prisoners torce4 to levour
Carrion and Fil th Barbarity and Cru
eltr alniost IncredibleThe Kn Klnx
Demoeracr thi Authors of itThe
- Manaxtjrs of ( the -Penitentiary ' Ap
. pointed by the Ha - Klnx jjesisla tnre.
: The testimony given by the Peniten tiary:
Committee, before the late, ku klox .legisla
ture, has. developed and r tuniolded a. ale,
which staggers belief ; ,on ,horrorvs hetd
horrors : accumulate." ... We; fain wou Id, tarn
our eyea from the horrible -acene,,but we
cannot, iwe dare .not. if-, we ,wpald.RThs
sworn evidence of the oonvicts .themselves
reveals , this ; harrowing - story; of ; devilish
deeds, ; worthy pnly of foul fiends. M Bight
in the very heart of: Raleigh; at the. Capital
of the State, as the says, "in the midst
of a people unsurpassed by. any. for gene
rosity, humanity and refinement, and; sur
rounded by plenty,-four hundred unhappy,
convicts have been for months made to suf
fer 'th tortures of ths dvirniedll Such is:
the testimony elicited, before & democratic
committee." What is that testimony? .Why,
that four hundred , men, driven by the un
utterable pangs of starvation, devour all
sorts of carrion, filth and revolting offal,
which the most loathsome-of beasts and
reptiles would not approach. .This is a
chapter in the administration of democratic
directors. ' - . . . 1 j : ; ?
They say thesi. men-1 are criminals,: and
th&t they are placed in the penitentiary to
nndergo punishment. .-We; reiterate it, that
if; starratioti, B barbarity-, ancltionrelentip
cruelty are to be found as rpunisbments, on
the statute booWofNortb CaroJinavA hu
lltus Legislature pfaeeJithm: . there, , jWhat
did this : ku klux jjegislatureda-vattertthey
had received, this mass of incontrovertible
testimony t Die they turnout these. peni-;
tentiary managers. Noi T?y kept them in
office; approving their? course and endvrsinq
their damnable outrages toft t?m prisoners.
People ot North Carolina, we:caU upon you
to mark well and consider well Aafr one of
those Penitentiary Directors is a member of
tlie bloody ku klux Central Committee, and it
would , not do for his partjl to remove
him and his fellow managers, for it
might disgrace . ..them, if ; any dis
grace can attach to the members of the
hellish ku klux klan.' 'Let tho Democratic
instigators and "perpetrators of these dis
g usting and sickening atrocities upon the
unfortunate oonvictsbei withered into idost
by the scorn 'and cbhlemiit 15f evehhmane
man., Let the ku klux Democrlcy ho are
responsible for it all, be driveairom . every
offi which they nowhold. t Let every
Republican fournal in the ' land, herald it
to the people. Let every Republican' bratcr,
on the stump, proclaim it m f he impending
cumpaign. The ku klux Democracy : wiU
be arraigned, for tial before . .an unerring
jury The People. The? charge to that
jury has"- already: been delivered,. and in
August nextj1 Ihat tiry -will f ak!e v the case
and render. ' a? verdict. : 3From tiiat V-reruici
there, will be no 'appeai; Hear also,' what
. , - - r -: i- ,1 .
the Era says: "'pj'---l.--!;'' ixotniUit;
'. "it has been reserveduf6r tne1 managers
of , the North f Carolina '. pehitehtiiry lap
pointed by f a ku klux Legislature, to ex
ceed .all previous prison horrors to bring
unequalled .disgrace upon1 iheir State and
country. . vt--
- MThe testimony of; the penitentiary com
mittee was beforathe ku klux Legislature.
But, in view J oi the facts they continued
the Directors 'in office because the President
is a member of the Demaiis Exemtive Com
mittee and his removaj iroca the, Director-
ship might injure that party ! . Bd said 'h'
leading member on the floor, of the Housed
This action; on the part of the4 Legislature
is hu endorsement ot tho cruelty- practiced
on the prisoners." M'ssym- f V
A Slimv wretch.- A.- viper Stincinr the
jsora . iui , tr armea i iBio .Aue. An
Outcast Reviling His Benefactbr7A
!"pAi.'iie.'J"-'.'-''wl; ' -Vo uaAi(f,l,i
The locaA ku klux st,m.ecsfaey. o
joy, zpublisheat entire,' a communication Hn
Washingttoil City,! Tkett iTfwnsctipt, a demo-
crat! piperZiltrticfe fat question Jsitfci
emanation of the natnnhhf 7ft7 T XrSk&a
(whose name is ywfoi0ify)nd
is aJong rhodbmdntRdeJf mwij&Jlw
hoodidiiectea li8etitartfaib
tTbitWlerrradd Itofol-Dfiarlea
I Grady, who was dqven eu ofhe city ot
Wilmington and; Wo if jeaared Vhow
hiraself terR'LwouldbejImm
prisoned,' hsa telaud. -fmqs jail in this icity
wet' ptekedVp, sik
ator Abbott, m pennilav ball-Starred Bobe-
whk whuicu, ijr ;uiu in a comtorcaDie and
' 'w-f .r a! uf ..sill n c.
respectable pouUpw i $dior,
ccrjr maa ia .,.
the ItepUDlican party, to shun, renndiate
w - X -4
and denounce him. The following takn
der the caption of M Fraud on a; State," 'and
iiig!iei& fietfjiowwJ.lBlibiar? in
the eolumns of a newlv eslabliahd irtni.t 'iW
ol- t&e post,- pecuniarily aided by Senator
lf'atid-suplrortedbynhimjitr
estimation in which this
held thirteen mouths ogo:
miscreant was
(From the Union aid Rt publican, Wilmington
The largest and niot eothusiasUc meet
ing ot the great Cape Fear Repobucak
Harmony Club ever a:wmbleo, met at the
Cjty Hall last night. . Forty-three new
members were enrolled, making the grand
total 1,485. The commit u-e on rec. p ins
reported that all ntcsary ,urranK meutt
jf.ere made to give the II on u U. D ckitc
m. - . rt . ....... rr 1 1
yauu ictcui.uu. l ue It) mi
ti'U were tdopua with a.ab
Resolved, That itc -niziL
ers:
or-
'it:d
11 K
!i, . t
Jl'S U. ABBOTT u tui . M tl i
to- ana uuswers :'q- it
ough ;y ciidoiButiifc iou,
-u:
Ait
titer, him
an hourarj tuaibt
l.-.i
liesotttOy lhat vc iKgiv-.z-; tne Unkn
and Republican as the only ortjan oi tW Ra.
.E?iiB!,P'f.lyiu.:New Hanover county and
tbe 3d Congressionai District'
yiteloticdi That we condemn the couise
pursuett by C. I. Grady as Democratic, and
4 i. . a . . 4. .in a . . .-. . . D ...... L. t . I 1
ucuuuuu: uiui cms aun-iksipuoiitjan, ap'.i re
qut7ailt3pnbiicaQB to withhold their
support from him. ... j . '
. ThU-skn who':sw .endeavors to smear
with Lhia slime, his benefactor and liberator
Senator Abbott, has since that time ranked
anjoBg, the.. f dirty tools of the ku klux ue
macracy. We demean ourselves by any
further, notice .otj this cancer on humanity
but it may be . extremely relevant, and
withal edifying ta ihe Washingtoji Republi
can, it we should interest it with two ab-
sorbinglketches, wAn Exploit in New
York? City," and "Suffering Offspring in
Wilmington."
, TJneonstitiitlonai r.esislation.
Section seven of an act concerning elec
tions in the year 1872, is as follows:
"No elector shall be entitled to register or
vote in any other precinct or township than
i : i. : u u . . i i t
Jide resident on. the day of election, and no
certificate, of registration shail be given.. f
! This section is unconstitutional. It is an
abridgement of the rights oi the c tizen.
It is an attempt to gain paity advantage by
a violation of the Constitution of the State.
It is a'blow at the colored man. The party
which enacted the law of which the above
is a section, claims I to" be par excellence -
the party Of constitutional liberty. A more
flagrant violation of the organic law is
hardly possible.
: Every male person born in the United
States, and every male person who has been
naturalised, twenty-one years old. or j' up-
I ward. who iihall hav fpaiHt-rl in this Smtn
- ;----t-" - " t .
twelve months next preceed ing the election,
and thirty daya in the country in which be
offers to vote, shall be deemed an elector.
. What i authority is there in this section
.that gives the Legislature the right to pro
hibit any person who has reside" in the
otate twelve months next proceeding the
.e'ection, and thirty days in the c uuty,
from voting at any township in jhe county?
"None. The Legislature was pleased to
outrageously violate a plain and urmiptak
able, provision of the Constitution. D mo
cratic membtrs violattd tt eir oath)- c m
mitted pcrjury whtn tbiy tbacud that,, no
elector shub i gis'er or vote in any town
ship other than )iie in which he is a bona
Jide resident on the day of election.
Uem.oerais prol ss a morbid desire to re
turn to the customs ot other days. Before
ithe aioption of thtjpresi nt Const ituin an
elector was allowed to vote anywhere it the
county in which he reidtd. Thtre w as no
restriction of the right of suffrage in those
days." It was reserved, fur the late Lvghda
ture the offspring of murder, intimidation
and, outrage to violate with iiupunity,that
instrument, which, above all o'lier, the
uphold, rl5uch vjolei ce of tht am tal
jlais is.a' disgraceiu' c mm n'. r-s uiu-.u ihe
'aSrV nf 't he ' 'defm.ct Ti -j ?.r.- .1; i U
dence conclusive, J"tii reon.ciats ai. ku
kiux arj capaoie ot c-.;mintrin,g - utiHnus
and unwarrantable- violations1 iw. Con
stitution, undei the form of law, lor the
purpose of political advantage. The liber
ties X)f the people are not to be trusted to a
party Whoee representatives have no regard
tor constitutional provisions as plain as the
noon daysui.
( "This attempt to disfranchise colored
voters, is in keeping with tbeprinciplesand
objects' of -the ku k.'ux democracy. It is
carrying .out principles which are openly
avowed in the dens if not on the stump.
The people so understand it. They will
remember at the ballot box, the party
which has attempted to restrict the light
to vote, the people are the sovereigns oi
this' country. Their voice will be heard in"
Condemnation oi a restriction of their rights
and privileges by the "start-ups" who com
pose the majority of the late Legislature.
' We learn that the enttrprising managers
of the 5 Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruther-
erfordi railroad exnect to nut another nas-.
sender train upon the road as soon a3 the
engines are ready,, The latter are now be-
r i I
intr maniifar.tnrpd at t Vi TtoMnln . i--
uiiimuiiwu,j i;a-iwaic, auu n is expected
to have the new train runninc by the mid
dle of March. kJThis train will run throueh
At night, and will supply, a long felt want
on mis roan, we understand that Mr. A.
M. Alderman is to havt r.hnrorp rtt thia trstn
aiponductor,-rja?5nfan. ;
NEW ADVERTISEMENT
ii"
Slotice ol Appointment as
l i a
t--tun mri AgeigneA. ' - -
fXTHB UNDERSIGNED HEREBY GIVES
JL notice of his appointment as Assignee of
the Bank of Cape Fear, Bankrupt, Greensboro,
N. C, February mh, 1912.
- N. W. D. WILSON.
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