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A KISS FOR SISTER. She was a very little girl, And as I bent and kissed her, “There, that 1* for your.eif,” I said, “And this is for your sis’er.” Last night I ca led in friendly way; Some gay girl friends were there, And laugh and jest went gayly round, To banish weary care. The little girl came romping in And unto me said she:— “I div that tiss to sizzer Bell, ’Ou left for her wiz me, “She tissed me lots o’ times an’ said, When folkes ’ouldu’t see, I might dive ’em to ’on—^mt wait ’Till ’ou’s alone wiz me!” I blushed, and so did sister Bed, The gay girl friends, ah, me! I wished the horrid things were then A thousand miles at sea A Four Hundred Miles Walk by Six Girls. To-day the party of six girls who started about the first of th* mouth o wa.k all over North Caio ina anived at Laurenburg, wuere their walk end.. They are all we‘1 and iu good spirits, and, though much sunburned, are as comely a set of lady pedestrians as ever undertook a long tramp. They started in the neighborhood of Hen dersonville nearly a month ago upon what was regarded by their friends as a foolish scheme to walk over North Ca olina and see the principal points of interest in the Stat*, and to pay special attention to the mountains. Three of the girls were at school when the project was first agreed upon, and the other thre* who agreed to join them were friends. They made all their arrangem nrs for the proposed journey as quietly as possible, for they knew attempts would be made to dissuade them from the undertaking. Their frien Is were taken completely by surprise when they were told but a day or two before the commencement of the walk of the intention to tiamp over the State without any escort. To the suggestions that going alone and with no one to protect them they would subject themselves to insult, they replied that they were willing to make the attempt, and they averred to day that from first to last they had never received one rude word or rough jest from any one, their only griev ances being that once or twice home persons of their sex attempted to pre vent them fr-m continuing their walk by characterizing such an undertaking as immodest and unladylike One old lady offere to be their chaperone if tuc-y p rsisted in their purpose, but the would-be chaperone wanted to go in a buggy, and when she learned that they expected to tramp over moun tains where thers were no lonh, ah^ backed out, aitbsu^h th»y suisffii®v oasly gav* her un i«vi»sdo« so j in On the first week of th^ir trip shay suffered much Lom exhaustion, and the youngest and frailest of the party, Miss Murdock, had to stop and rest By reason of severely blistered fest U was feared that she woo d h^vc m abandon the trip, but she pu-iod •> nobly, and after the eighth day she began to gain strength, and is now one of the healthiest of the air trampr. Her weight when she started was but ninety-two pounds, and she turned the scales »o day at 103 pounds. All save two of the walkers fattened after the first week, while two who were inclined to obesity were pulled down twelve and eighteen pounds. Their record shows that they made 420 miles. They started out with the expectation of making between 500 and 600. Each walker wore a pair of red-leather walking-shoes, and wore shork walk ing-dresses, and carried strong staffs in their hands and knap-sacks upon their shoulders, in which were packed hammock# and other necessary ar ticles. They also wore very broad- brimmed hats, which, however, do not seem to have protected their complex ions, for they are ail burned brown. Two of the parties corrie » pistols to protect them from accidental incur sions of wild-cats and bears. Much of rhe time they slept in the open air in their hammocks under canvas cov erlet*, which were u.-ed to shield them from heavy dews aud rain. One night, ten days ago, apprehending a severe st .rm, they camp -d in a a grave-yard and slept b itween the graves. Another night, in the mountains, they were thrown into co sternation by the ap pearance of a bear, but the beast be ing as frightened as they were, fled without offering to molest them. In the mountains they were in great ter ror of rattle-s -akes, but did not en counter any of the reptiles Along their route they were treated kindly, many of the hospitable farmers enter taining them, but they shunned noto riety and avoided all, the towns and village*, frequently going some dis tance out oi their way rather than meet crowds. A novel feature of their unde.taking was the keeping of what they called their log-book. In this the record of their impressions and adventures were kept, each taking her turn. The book contains 1,246 close ly written pages. Although frequent ly offered vehicles, they always de clined, saying that they started with the detenu nation of walking. They spent three days in exploring the cele- brattd Bald Moun aina who^e myste rious rumblings some years ago crea ted so much excitement. They not only made the difficult ascent to the top, b it went into one of the crevices, which they examined minutely, with the aim of discovering what caused the strange sounds in the interior. The novel trip of the six young ladies has been much talked about, but as taey had avoided the crowded thor- oaghfare* they were ignorant of the interest taken in them, and were much astonished and slightly insulted when they learned that bets had been made by certain snorting men that they would not make four hundred miles in the month. The parties are modest and snun notoriety. They aver they end the trip now because three of their number will begin theij school days e u r«y in September, but they as sert their determination to walk over the unexplored portion of the State next summer. They leave to-morrow by rail for their homes, near Hender sonville.—Monroe (N. C.) Cor. Chicago Times. There are num. nations wc should feel it a disgrace to belong to. To le an American or an Englishman is a great privilege, of which we may feel proud. There is a greater disgrace, however, than that oi being a citizen of any country, however low in the scale of civilization. When Anachar sis the Scythian was traveling in Greece, he was reproached by an Athenian with the barbarity of his native hind. Tr is true,” replied Anachursis, “that my country is a di-grace to in n , but jou are a disgrace to your (OMUtry,” Good Manners —’Tis a rule of man ners to avoid exaggeration. A lady loses as soon a she, admires too easily and to much. In either man or woman the face and the person lose power when th y are on the strain to express admiration, A man m-kes his infe riors by heat. Why need \ on, who are not a gossip, talk as a gossip, and tell eagerly what your neighbors or the journals sty? ^ta e your opinion with out apology. The attitude is the main point, assuring your companion that, come good news, or come bad, you re- main in good heart and in good mind, which is the best news you can possibly communicate. Self-control is the rule. You have in you there a noisy, sensual savage, which you are to keep down, and turn all his strength to beauty. The great gain is not to shine, not to conquer your companion ; then you learn nothing but conceit—but to find a companion who knows what you do not; t» tilt with him and be over thrown, horse and foot, with utter de struction of all your logic and learn ing. There is a defeat that is useful Then you can see the real and the coun terfeit again. You will adopt the art of war that has defeated you. You wi 1 ride to battle horsed on the v,ry logic which you found irresistible. You will adopt the fertile truth, instead of the solemn customary lie. When people come to see us, we fool ishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said fo conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you arc stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. A lady of my acquaintance said, “I don t care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it.” The law of the table is beauty—a respect to the common son! of all the quests. Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three, or any portion of the company. Tact never intrudes on the order of the house, the vices of the absent, or a tariff of ex penses or professional privacies; as we say, never ‘talk shop before company. Lovers abstain from caresses, and ha ters from insults, whilst they sit in one parlor with common friends. Would we codify the laws that should reign households, and whose daily transgres sion annoys, mortifies uv and degrades our household life, we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacri fices. Carlyle’s Religion.—He was a Calvinist without theology. He had been bred in a Calvinistic home, and was by nature firmly and ardently re ligious. His conviction was intense as to the broad fact of the divine govern ment of the universe, and as to the divine origin of a moral law—the right reading of which was essential to hu man welfare, the revelation of which lay through experienced fact—and gen erally as to the spiritual truth of re ligion. He flung away the whole of miracle and the supernatural; it is as certain as mathematics, he said, that no such thing ever has been or can be. The natural was far more truly won derful than the supernatural, and all historical religions were iona fide hu man efforts to explain human duty. On the other hand, ho rejected skepti cism as to right and wrong, and as to man’s responsibility to his maker He rejected also the materialistic theory of things—that intellect is a phenome non or matter, that conscience is tho growth of social convenience; he would have nothing to say to utilitarian ethics. It is unnecessary to pursue this into further detail. It is the Chris tian religion minus its theo’ogy, mira cles and eschatology. Carlyle said that the fragments contained his real con viction, which lay at the bottom of all his thoughts about man and woman’s doings in the world—a^truth which he was specially sent to insist upon. Queer.—Two sisters were engaged to be simultaneously married at Lafayette, Ind. Their affianced hus bands came to town on the morning of the day set for the double wedding, aud called at the house. The mother went t > awaken the girls, and found the room empty, their wardrobes gone, and a letter saying that they had run away to avoid matrimony. Two weeks later they were found in St. Louis, sick from continual drunkenness, and one bruised by a fight with a boon companion. Their exploit is singular, as they bad been gently reared, and the bridegrooms from whom they fled were of their own choosing. Ten Thousand Acres of Oysters.-— The joy caused in gastronomic and epi curean circles by Mr. Olsen’s paper on the “North 8ea Fisheries,” and the great oyster-eating world. Two hun dred miles of oyster beds, thirty to seventy miles wide, that is to say, 10,- 000 acres ®f splendid oysters within easy distance of the British coast, is a discovery to which all those of Stanley and Livingstone sink into insignifi cance. One curi us feature about it is that the oysters lie at a depth of 21 fathoms, thus disposing summarily of the prevalent idea that o; sters can only be raised succes.fully in shallow water. The man who invents a new dish, ac cording to some, the man who plants a tree, according to the Mohammedans, deserves well of mankind; but what is the reward of a man who discovers 10,000 acres of oystezs? And yet all this is tinged with the melancholy doubt whether oysters will be cheaper in consequenca.—Pall Mall Gazette. The Chinese Compositor.—-The Chinese compositor cannot sit at his case as our printers do, but must walk from one case to another constantly, as the character needed covers such a large number that they cannot be put into anything like the space used in the English newspaper office. In setting np an ordinary piece of manuscript, the Chinese printer will waltz up and dawn the room for a few moments and then go down stairs for a line of lower case, Then he takes the elevator and goes up into the third story after some caps, and then out into the woodshed for a handful of astonisheis. The suc cessful Chinese compositor doesn’t need to be so very intelligent, but he must be a good pedestrian. He may work and walk around over the build ing all day to set up a stickful, and then half the people in this country couldn't read it after all. Happiness.—When yon rise in the, morning form the resolution to make the day a happy one to a fellow crea ture. It is easily done; a left-off gar ment to the man who needs it, ft kind word to the sorrowful; an encouraging expression to the striving—trifles in themselves light as air—will do at least for the twenty-fours hours. And if you are young, depend upon it, it will tell when you are old, rest assured it will send you gently and happily down the stream of time to eternity. By the most simple rithmetical sum look at the result. If you send one person away happily through the day, that is 365 in the nourse of a year. And suppose you live forty years only after you commence that course of medicine, you have made 14,600 per sons happy—at all events for a time. PROHIBITION A BOURBON MEASURE. The following is the vote in the Legislature on the final passage of the Prohibition bill. This Legisla ture was overwhelmingly Democratic, and that party is responsible for the passage of the bill. Those marked with a star have since seen the Bour bon trick in the measure, and are now working for the Republican-Lib- eral cause: SENATE. Those who voted in the affirmative were: democrats. Battle, Nash; Bernardt, Pitt; Bur well, Mecklenburg; Carr. Randolph; Cuningham, Person; Davidson, Bun combe; Faison, Duplin; Finger, Ca- iawba ; Gudger, Mitchell ; Harris, Franklin; Harper, Johnston; Hamp ton, Surry; Jones, Carteret; Lockhart, Anson; Manning, Gates; McMillan, Alleghany; Merritt, Chatham; Mebane, Alamance; Newland, Caldwell; Oates, Sampson ; Parish, Orange ; Richard son, Columbus; Scott, Rockingham; Staples, Guilford ; Stowe, Gaston ; Tucker, Iredell ; Williamson, Davie; Woodhouse, Currituck. ^^ REPUBLICAJIS. *Clarke, Craven; Pridgen, Bladen; *Scott, New Hanover; *Spears, Mont gomery. Those who voted in the negative were: DEMOCRATS. Blue, Cumberland; Dortch, Wayne; Foil,- Cabarrus-; *Respess, Beaufort; Spruill, Washington; Whitaker, Hali fax; York, Wilkes. REPUBLICANS. *Carter, col., Warren; Hanes, Da vidson; * Williamson, Edgecombe. Those who failed to vote were: DEMOCRATS. Deaver, Transylvania; Dickey,Cher okee, Glenn, Forsyth. REPUBLICANS. Eaves, Rutherford; Jenkins, Gran ville; King, Lenoir ; Newsom, col., Northampton; Wynne, Wake. HOUSE. Those who voted in the affirmative were: DEMOCRATS. Boykin, Sampson; Bradshaw, Ran dolph; Bryson. Swain; Carter, Bun combe; Click. Iredell; Cowell, Curri tuck; Cox, Hyde; Davis, Haywood; *Day, Halifax; Ellington, Johnston; I Gaither, Iredell; Gardin, McDowell; Gatling, Gates; Glenn. Rockingham; Glenn, Stokes; Grainger, Wayne; Green, Harnett; Green, Orange; Gra ber, Rowan; Gwyn, Surry; Hamrick, Cleveland; Hanner, Chatham; Harper, Caldwell, Joyner, Johnston ; Kilpat rick, Pitt; Leake, Anson ; Manning, Chatham;; Morrison, Lincoln ; Moore, Pitt. McClure, lay; McCauley,Union; McEachern, Robeson; Neal, Mecklen burg; Nicholson, Duplin; Parish, Or ange; Pigford, Duplin, Pool, Alex ander; Ragsdale, Guilford; Ray, Ma con; Riggs, Camden; Roberts, Davie; Rose, Cumberland; Rowland, Robe son; Savage, Halifax; Smedes, Wake; Spainhour, Wilkes; Sparrow, Beau fort; Taylor, Wilson; Terrell, Jackson; Toon, Columbus; Townsend, Cumber land; Tupper, Moore; Turreutine, Ala mance; Walker, Mecklenburg; Web ster, Rockingham. REPUBLICANS : *Battle, col., Edgecombe; Cowan, Pender; Deans, Wayne; Dunn, Lenoir; Hieks, col., Washington; Holton, Yadkin; King, col., Warren; Lineback, Forsyth; Newell, col., Bladen; Rob bins, col., Bertie; Sikes, Tyrrell; *Simpson, Dare; Thomas, Davidson; Waddell, col., New Hanover, Watson, col., Edgecombe; White, col., Craven; Wilson, New Hanover. Those who voted in the negative were: DEMOCRATS : Lindsay, Nash ; Tate, Burke; Worth ington, Martin. REPUBLICANS I Bledsoe, Wake; Bunting, Wake; Page, Jones; Johnson col , Warren.-V The following failed to vote on roll call: DEMOOP ATS: Mr. Speaker Cooke; Austin, Yancey; Brooks, Transylvania; Brown, Rowan;. Culbreth, Sampson; Foy, Onslow; Gentry, Ashe; Heilman, Cabarrus; Vaughan, Alleghany; Yount, Catawba. REPUBLICANS: Benbury, col., Chowan; Bingham, Watauga; *Blaisdell, Perquimans; Bigelow, col., Caswell; *Blythe, Polk; Bowman, Mitchell; Bra Iley, Ruther ford; Brooks, Brunswick; Chappell, Richmond; Cooper, Wilkes; Davis, Madison; Dixon, Greene; Graham, Montgomery; Green, Craven; Hailey, col., Northampton; Harrison, Caswell; Hays, col., Granville; Hood, Hender son; Pasour, Gaston; Perry, Wake; .Pritehett, Guilford; Rogers, Gran ville; Snipes, Hertford; Wall, David son. ■ IS PROHIBITION DEAD ?—READ AND CIRCULATE. [Tha “Spirit of.thp.Age,” (Prohibition Alrgan of the 8®,) Feb. 11, 1882,] We fear that some of those who talked for temperance and prohibit tion in. the recent past have backed down, for back-slidclen, or at best have grown lukewarm. We hear nothing from them—not a word. * * We are sorry for it, * * * be cause, we do not think now that, in the result of the recent election, there is any just cause for discour agement—much less an excuse for a back-down and give up, as some seem Io ‘Link, judging them by their silent indifference; because if the cause for which we have so long con tended was right last year and in the times that are past, it is right now, and will always be right, and, if right, it should be maintained at all hazards. As for ourself, we are determined to continue the warfare, let the con sequences be as they may. In the language of a very eloquent and zealous baother: “We have had a snuff of the battle, and our blood is still warm.” Instead of being dis couraged we are greatly encouraged. [Prohibition Organ if the State, Feb. 21, ’82. A political paper stated recently that Prohibition had “its rise and fall” last year in North Carolina. We do wonder if the editor meant to convey the idea that the Prohibition movement is dead in the State? If so, he is wofully mistaken. It did nob so much as get a “fall-,” in the He Didn’t Know.— A Western Con gressman who was on his way home stopped off at a small town in Ohio for sevi ral hours and while there was ap proached by a farmer, who asked: ‘What’s wool going to be worth thi- season?” “Indeed, I do not know.” “Wheat going to be bighei ?” “I can’t say.” “Do you look for any rise in oats or tatera?” “I have not given them a thought ” “Well, do you think we had better hold on to corn and hay for a spell yet ?” “I cant advise you, my friend?” “You are in Congress, aint you?” “Yes, sir.” “And you help run the govern ment ?” “To some extent.” “And this here country is in the hands of men who can’t even tell whether cranberries will turn out half a crop or buckwheat sells at fifty cents or five dollars a hundred ! Good day, sir! No wonder this country is wrong side up half the time. A Prosperous State.—The tax re turns for the State of Georgia for the present year confirms the claims put forth of the prosperous condition of that State. These returns show an in crease of $16,255,515 over the total value of last year. The value of farm ing lands has increased $4,000,000, while there is an increase of $5 000.000 in town and city property. In cotton manufactories there is an increase of over $1,000,000, but this does not fairly show the boom in this line, as there are in course of erection cotton factories which will cost several millions of dol lars, which were not subject to astess- ment this year. Domestio Comforts.—Among re cently granted patents is one for cool ing dwellings, offices, hotel», etc., by means of compressed gas, which is conducted from a street main into the premises in pipes like ordinary gas. The compressed gas on being allowed to expand within a suitable receptacle, produces a very low temperature. Thus the housekeeper, simply by turning the gas faucet, will be able to make ice, supply the dwelling in hot weather with cold air, and produce all forms and degress of refrigerations with the utmost facility. Our bouses being now supplied from street mains with cold water, hot water, compressed gas, and electricity, we now only need, to complete the comforts of living, a milk main and tea and coffee mains: after which perhaps the public will call for soup pipes. General Butler is full of private bus iness. He has this season built a large steamer, now waiting her ma chinery, adapted to running from Lawrence to the sea; put another in complete repair, making her equal to any tag and freightboat on the Merri mac, and has invited proposals for building seventeen new coal-scows. It is not by constraint or by painful effort that we make real progress On the contrary, it is simply a question of yielding up our will, or going from day to day discouraged by nothing, satisfied with the present moment, thankful to let him do all who has made all, and to leave our will immov able in his will. How happy it is to abide in this condition! How satisfied is the heart, even though it may lack all else! In the Court of Common Pleas at Newark, N. J.. Judge McCarter has rendered a decision which is of inter est to members of secret societies. Brnenscholz, a member of a lodge of Knights of Honor, while discussing the merits of Max Miller, a candidate for membership, made remarks derog atory to‘ the latter, and which caused him to be black-balled. Miller brought suit for slander, and counsel for de fendant asked for a nonsuit on the ground that the language was not used in public, but the Judge held that wor s spoken in lodge-rooms are not private communications. Senator Windom, of Minnesota, says: “I have made a moderate com petence through honorable and legiti mate investments well known to many of the people of my State. In a coun try, developing like ours is, I do not think it is necessary for a man to claim he is a pauper in order to prove his honesty, and he who does so pays a very poor compliment to his own intel ligence. I had enough financial sa gacity to save the government over $12,000,000 per annum during my short administration of the Treasury Depart ment, and I hope I have enough to honestly make a competency for my family.” A friend told a good ?tory the other day. When in the country last week she picked a sunflower in the garden and brought it into the house. Meet ing the landlady on the doorstep, she stopped to have a word with her, re marking, as she pointed to the sun flower, ‘ ‘These are called aesthetic now, you know.” “Do tell,” replied the landlady; “I never heard them called ■ anything but sunflowers.” My friend succeeded in concealing her laughter, and rushed off as soon as she could politely do so to tell one of the hoard ers, a lady of apparent culture from the city. She repeated the story when, to her utter astonishment the lady said: “I always called them that I too ?” A Sermon for Young Men.—Presi dent Porter, of Yale College, gave the following advice to the student# of that institution sometime since: “Young men, you are architects of your own fortune. Rely on your strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance. Inscribe on your banner, Luck is a fool, Pluck is a hero. Don’t take too much advice— keep at your lulm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Think well of your selves. Strike out. Assume your own position. Put potatoes in a cart on a rough road, and the small ones go to the bottom. Rise above the envious and jealous; fire above the mark you intend to hit; energy, invincible deter mination, are the levers that move the world. Don’t drink; don’t chew; don’t smoke; don’t swear; don’t deceive ; don’t marry until you can support a wife. Be in earnest; be self-reliant; be civil; read the papers; advertise your business; make money and do good with it. Love truth and virtue; * |ove your country and obey its laws. recent conflict, at any rate, got no dust on its back.” 1 It is not true, that it got its rise and fall last year; but it is true that it declared a warfare against the le galized liquor traffic in North Caro lina last year; and also true, that it went into battle with unorganized forces and made one of the most gallant fights of this or any other age, coming out of the battle with a disciplined army of fifty thousand freemen, who, pressed back by brute force, were not whipped, but, on the contrary, had more to rejoice over than the majority whose seeming vic tory was won by the appeals to the baser passions of men. The fight last summer was the first effort, as it were, of a stripling un used to partizan conflict against a] giant skilled in all the arts and tricks 1 of the demagogue. How well it sus tained itself in a contest so uneven, the world knows. That man has read history to very little purpose who has not yet learned the fact that revolutions never go backward. And it does seem to us that a new paper could not choose a more certain method of forfeiting its claim to prophesy, than by uttering the opinion that prohibition has had its rise and fall. A certain bill was rejected, but the great question of Prohibition is a live issue, and is growing in stature and strength daily and hourly. It will at last win the fight, and the great battle which is to decide the conflict is much nearer at hand than many people are willing to believe.” The same organ of March 30th, 1882, plainly states the purpose of the Prohibitionists: We are greatly encouraged at what we have heard and seen lately, as to the future of the temperance work in North Carolina. We have been somewhat among the people and talked with them, both in private and from the rostrum, and we are cheered to find them more ready, than ever in the past, to fall into line and make war against the in iquitous liquor license system —the source of almost all the evils which grow out of the traffic. The people are beginning to under stand that they have been cheated by [the politicians; that the bill which the last Legislature passed, in re spouse 'to their petitions, was framed with the view of making it as odious as possible to the masses to the end that it might be voted down at the polls and the cause of temperance and prohibition made odious. They are beginning to find out that nothing may be expected at the hands of the politicians, therefore, they must, if they would ever succeed in freeing their State of the curse of alcohol, take the matter into their hands and manage it for themselves. i The Prohibitionists fully recognize and appreciate the fact that they hold the balance of power in the State, and while they make no threats and are not yet prepared to say what they may do in the next general election they are determined to make no concessions. They are proud of the fight which they made last summer, and, reasoning from analogy, they are very confident that the next few years will decide the matter very differently from the way it was decided last year. We find among the people a fixed determination to stand by the cause of Prohibition, and they are only waiting for a proper time to move forward in the work. CAPT. BELL. In the Prohibition Convention which was held in this city on the 27th and 28th of April, 1881, Capt. W. T. R. Bell, of King’s Mountain, made a speech, in the course of which he declared that whilst he did not desire to carry politics into tem perance he did want to carry tem perance into politics, He then added ; “After this day, party or no party, I will vote for no man and no measure that is not sound on this [prohibition] question; and if that be treason,” shouted the gallant Captain, “make the most of it.” (Loud and prolonged cheers.) Next day Gov. Jarvis gined the brethren. And Capt. Bell sticks to his word. In a letter to the Spirit ofi the Age, (Prohibition Organ,) dated March 1st, 1.882, he says: From my earliest connection with the temperance movement, I have held that the license system was the root of the great evil: and, having once struck boldly at it, I felt that it was a humiliating concession, to abandon a virtual organization, and- relapse into the old guerrilla war fare. With that view I wrote an article over my own signature for the Methodist Advance, urging organiza tion at the proper time, and the ex ercise of all the anti-license system strength of the State at the ballot- box, year after year until our efforts should be crowned with success. That campaign was a wonderful one ; and if followed up by prudent sagaci ous leadership, will yet tell upon the destinies of this commonwealth. I do not stop to ask what effect such an organization may have upon the status of political parties. I have my own party views and party pre ference which I do not propose to sacrifice unless driven, to do so. But when I find party organs ready to apologise for a movement in which every better principle of my nature prompts me to glory, then expedient must go, and what L feel to be right must find a fearless assertion. I have no political ambition to gratify. But when I find both political par-, ties manceuvering for advantage and both seeking to pander to a depraved vicious public sentiment; when policy so far loses sight of all en lightened principles as to ground the drink traffic upon the inalienable rights of man^~ then, with one or a thousand, I am for virtue and truth and reform, and the God of Provi dence, in the mean time, must take care of the State. And if the political philosophy ex pressed in the “bill of rights” pro ¬ mulgated by the Liquor Dealers’ Convention that met last summer in your city, is to be accepted by both political parties as platform princi= ple, then until the sermon on the Mount has taken a deeper hold upon the minds and hearts of the people in our State, I am an inde pendent voter. Fraternally yours, W. T. R. Bell. BROTHER ABERNETHY. Senator Vance’s friend Abernethy writes as follows. We find his letter in the Prohibition organ of March 30, 1882. We suspect Mr: Aber nethy is not so much of a Vance man now as he used to be: My Dear Editor : Capt. Bell, in a recent issue, gives no uncertain' sound upon the great question at issue in North Carolina. I, under, a pressure of abundant labors, stop long enough to say that, I am in uni son with him; and by the grace of God, I expect to fight it out upon this line till the Master calls me to account. Political parties that have to be cemented by the glue and froth of drunkenness, deserve to be con demned by the voice df a free, en lightened people to endless infamy. The elements that should be found in the make up of every political party, should be such as to exclude from its code of principles wha’ever tends to moral or social evil, Every good man in North Carol ii.t knows the laws which we make to permit and encourage the making, buying and selling of ardent spin s, no matter what seeming good they may do in increasing the revenu •, or in healing] as a medicine, never in-less, overbal ance all these good- in the damage they do to the moral and social in terests of our people. The great trouble in our political parties here tofore has been that good and sober men could hardly be elected to our Legislatures. The great mass of the voting population are drain drinkers and drunkards; hence the impossi bility of getting such members elected as would make proper temperance laws. And a goodly number of those heretofore elected, who were sober men, have been too fearful of the loss of their seats in the next Legislature to come out boldly in favor of Pro hibition. They have been like the Irishman when about to die and being told that he must pray: “Faith and be jabbers 1 don’t know who to pray to. I’m not after making ene mies for myself in that far off coun try, and 1 will say, its good God, good devil, for I’m not knowing into whose hands Pm to fall.” Let the temperance element in North Carolina stir itself in organi zation in every county some kind of temperance fraternities, and when the time comes to elect State legisla tors, let these fraternities select and nominate the best man or men they can bring at the front, irrespective ofi political parties. I tel! you that, if the two old parties, or those in them that love the critter, stick to their principles, being cemented only by the liquor element, a third party of good, temperance men in many coun ties being gathered from the old ones, will elect their man. Let us try it. The salvation of the country depends upon this move. Let these liquor lovers call us ! what they please, we will ultimately succeed. They may pile on me what ever epithets they choose, I shall not change my purpose. 1 can’t do it without sinning against God; and I can’t see how any other Christian man in North Carolina can take any other position. It would be remark ably strange, in the more than 200,- 000 church members in North Caro lina, if we cannot elect a majority of temperance members in the North Carolina Legislature. R. L. Abernethy. The Asheville Courier, Prohibition Bourbon organ says: The majority against prohibition last year was large, but there were , 43,000 who voted for it, unsatisfac tory as the proposed measure was, and their number have not grown less. That minority is not the kind to accept such a defeat as final. They will be heard again, and their power will be felt in elections here after. The issue is a live one and will be while the penitentiary, jails and poor houses of the State are being constantly recruited by whis key’s doings. Great evils, and those that were considered invincible in this country, have succumbed to an enlightened public opinion, and this one is des tined to go also. Rev. L. Branson republishes the foregoing in the Prohibition organ at Raleigh, and adds: “It so nearly coincides with mv views and what I conceive to be the truth. Prohibition is gradually gaining ground.” THE BALANCE OF POWER. As for myself you may count me for temperance, for prohibition —for temperance men and prohibition men—and when voting time comes, regardless of politi s, I intend to vote lor the man who is opposed to the present system of license; and I am not alone in this locality, by many* There are temperance people- enough in North Carolina, if they' would speak out and he firm on tins important question, to hold the bal ance of power, Let us have a convention soon, and put our principles and our de mands in proper shape. Then if both political parties reject or ignore our claims, let us nominate, and vote only for such men as will agree to treat us and our cause fairly. The time has come when we should re fuse to be set back to make room for politicians who used us and our votes to hinder and not advanoo our cause.— Green County Correspond ent Prohibition Organ, Feb. 20th 1882. THE MAIN QUESTION STILL ALIVE. Let politicians prate and bluster and turn somersaults, and make wry faces if they d- light in that kind of sport—but, it will all amount to nothing, in the emi, for the prohibi tion sentiment of the country is growing and is going to keep on growing until it shall come like a mighty wave and sweep the deck of the old ship of State so clean you will hardly believe that an anti-pro Lib. or any other sort of a politician ever sat and walked thereon. The bill on which the people voted last summer is dead of course, and will never be revived again, but the main question is still alive. That will not die, nor will it down so long as human lives are being sacrificed for the purpose of raising revenue. — Prohibition Organ, June 14th, 1882. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY’S LOST OPPOR ¬ TUNITY. A correspondent of the same paper and of the same date, writes: Mr. Editor :—I have seen from the papers that the whiskey party think they have it all their uwm way, but they are mistaken as to the meaning of the vote last Augusu Many thousands who voted against, that, to them, obnoxious bill, are not in favor of whiskey domination, by any means. If the Republican party had vig orously declared for Prohibition fourteen months ago, it would have gone into pov r in North Carolina, to stay for some time. But, it is now in great danger of committing; the greatest blunder of all its blun dering career ; a blunder that will be fatal unless the Democratic paz cy should outstrip it in blundering, as it has often done. Politicians should remember, as a rule, that that class of society who are most susceptible to party entl:u- siasin are not the prohibitionists. There are thousands of solid, quiet men, of both parties, who cannot be coaxed or driven against such strong convictions as they have on this liquor question especially when thoee; convictions have been aroused as thev now are. They believe that it is essential for the well-being of this: country, that the liquor traffic be; prohibited by law. They believe it the most important question now- agitating the public mind, one that comes nearer home to every philan thropist in the land. But, they ar« not of that class of voters, as a i ale, who are most likely to be present at political conventions; or, if there they are not apt to be the most noisy members. - - * * * STRICTLY A POLITICAL QUESTION. And thousands of these quiet* firm, country loving and order loving men all over the land of both parties, have determined in the future to vote for men and measures known to be most favorable to laws restraining men from propagating vice, crime, and poverty in the land. This liquor question is strictly a political ques tion, but wo to that party which shall declare in its favor. W. The Prohibition organ at Greens boro, of advises its readers and friends to nominate none but Prohibitionists for the Legislature.. “Col. Dockery is still the nominee; of (he Anti-Prohibitionists, and^ it elected, it will be proclaimed thioughout the nation that Prohibi tion has again been defeated. We^ fight him not as a Republican, butas. an Anti-Prohibitionist.— Spirit */ ' the Age. August 29th, 1882. The Prohibition Democracy does: NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE DEFEAT OF THEIR PET SCHEME AND WILL PASS A. SIMILAR MEASURE IN DEFIANCE OF THE: VOTE OF THE PEOPLE IF THEY ARE CONTINUED IN POWER. THEIR SPEAK ERS ARE NON-COMMITTAL ON THE SUB JECT AND WILL NOT PLEDGE THEM SELVES AGAINST SIMILAR MEASURES. CAN YOU TRUST THE BOUR BONS? There has never been a measure? favored by the Bourbons in North Carolina submitted to the people and by them voted down that the Bour bons did not afterwards, when they had the power, pass it in defiance of such vote. In 1861 the question of convention to take the State out of the Union was submitted to the peo ple. It was voted down and a major ity of the delegates were Union men opposed to secession. In less than ninety days the Bourbon Democracy by Legislative enactment called a convention in defiance of the vote of the people, and on the 20th of May the ordinance of secession was passed-. . In 1871 the question of calling a. convention was submitted to the peo ple, and by them voted down. Ju. 1874 the Bourbon Democracy, In Legislative enactment, again called «.•. convention in defiance of the vote or the people. The people tluu elec ed a majority of delegates opposed to. changing the Constitution, but the- Bourbons took control of the Con-, veution and amended the Constitu tion in defiance of the vote of the ' people. In 1881 the Bourbons passed! the Prohibition Bill and Submitted] it to the people. Lt was voted down: as the other measures had been rhe same men and class of men who lead the party in 1861, 1871, 1874, 1875 and 1881 are leading the Bom-* Rons to-day—that intolerant, deter mined set who never learn and never yield a position in deference to the wishes ot the people. If they are given the power in the next Legisla ture will they not pass the Prohibi tion bill in defiance of the vote of the, people? [t is in keeping with their record to do so. Durham and Vance Counties. The acts creating the counties of Durham and Vance made no provision for the voters in Congressional elec tions, The Durham voters will there fore vote with Orange and Wake, and that portion of Vance taken from Granville and Franklin counties, will vote with Granville and Franklin, for Congressman in the 4th District, and that portion of Vance taken from War ren will vote with Warren county for Congressman for the 2d District.
The Times [1882] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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