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THE PATRIOT PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT GREENSBORO, N. C, BY DUFFY 4: MOREHEAD. TKKMS—Ca«L invariably in ulnae*: One ;nr i'i, nix moulb* |1.2G. tSTAlJ pereon .ending /re *ub<«Tib*r* will reeelve on- ropy •jrati*. The Greensboro »& Kan— of Advertising. ' .! ' *rrtarrnritts jwiynWe in adraner ; ,/rarli adwrtitememU '/unrter/y in miranct. IW lafO VMOS itMOs liMin, lyr tl $ 8 * 4 $ 5 |7 $ W 30 r." i In* inch, Two inchea, Three " Four " Fiw " : (."Itimn, 1 15 4 67- 10 10 H * 4 C 8 10 IV. 14 20 :to $7 \i In •AI SB :lo 4,l 75 Established in 1824. THURSDAY, JU1VE {New Series No. 224. IK Cnuri onlr-m, aix «n . ... four \v«-«k», $•" rki-. $7. MaKi-lrate.' : A'lmiuintfmtora' no Ii.-uhln rat*, lor «JouU« culumu atlrwrtia*-- Hi .■•!.,! n<>Tic**n .*»0 iM-r crnt. additional. WWklj elimigm 'Xi \*-r Mat. additional.— y rhangM 2r. -j^r wnt. additional.— i'l M v :t>! v«TtiBfUi*>nt» changed ((uarhTlrwbvn O^Obitnariea, ofer ten liiief, charged u HtOMnts—p*jabl« in advanc**. Professional Cards. . P. Ml.M.KMIAI.I.. JOnH S. 8TAPIJU. MENDENffALL & STAPLES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, « R E E N 8 B O R~0, N.C., v. |u... lii. in the Courts of Guilford, Kock- .:..,-.. Uuvidaon, Foraythe, Stoke*, Ban- . . Alamaace: alas. I'. S.Circuit and Court*. Special attention given to IM in all parta ot Iba State, aud to ]: It : l|>1 > . i ,- < HBc "or door North of CooH^Hoava. ■:.)v Dillard & Gilmer, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office nv-r Hank of Greennboro, OPPOSITE BENBOW HOUSE, 1y)i.\l I'iCK. in State and Federal Courts, un I in lliejrn untUw of Guilford, AJamance, |,|, Lt.vidson, Stolen, Yadkia, Sony, and Caaweii. 11 . ..t tlw linn will always attend the reg-m ProbatrCourU of Rockiiigtiarn.Alamaao* I , . |fl I.U'OUIlli". April -a, Wi. i«i:ly » . s. l-.il.l . THOS. 1>- KBUOH, [' S. Commissioner. Regiater in Bankruptcy. ■ I vi.l. &■ KEOOH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, I.III K\>liul:n. N. C, IIHACTICK in ill. Court* of Guilford. Daridaon ami Randolph. I Diatrict CoarU ot th« .--.,-,. lor Nortli C line. Pan i dial iltetitioii given to l\TI UML IIKVIMH CAl'KES r s Courta and liefer* the UEI-ABT-MI:\ I tl IV islllMrTOX. W . v- .(..•. ,:il utii-ntioii to the proeeee- . ins again.1 el.-- government for rtr taken by the U. 8. Army, and will preetiee before the Comniieiiiou appointed by -- i- take tli- ti-»tu v. ,:i.i,.l pnunpllj to applieataaW ^ ..... npaUinntf to thi- ... ■. rv ii in.- war oi 1^12. J;,li 1 - I v AN ACT To EsUbUib a Western Judi-cial Dlattriot of Nortli Quo-lint, Be it ematttd h$ the Benale and Hume of Repre*enlatitet of the Uni-ted .Store* of America in Congren nuembled. That that portion of the State of North Carolina comprising the counties of Mecklenburg. Ca-barrus, Stanly, Montgomery. Rich-therein, be transferee] to the dis-trict at Greensboro or Statesville, as the judge may onler ; and all necessary and proper process shall ilsne and be made returnable in said anits and prooeedlO£s to the nett term of said courts, respect-iv$ y, for trial or snch other pro-ceedings bad begun in said last named courts; and the clerk of said district court at Greensboro, shall act aa clerk at said special conrt at Snmner's of mond, Darie, Daridson, Randolph, I Salisbury; andallsnits and other i;\l.l'll liORRELL, Ulnriic) and CoiiiiM-llor at Law, Greensboro, N. C., MLL practice in the courta of Alaaaaui \\ i iuilfonl and Kaudolph, nii'l Dili No, '< Law K'nv on i ] louae. ktteiition ipven to colleeling aim .- couiniitted to hi. care. 47, 1-71:1? and .1. M. Mullei Clark & Mullen, Alloi'iteys At LftM', HALIFAX, N. C, 1)RACTICK iu all tbe Court, of Halifax, Martin, Northampton and Edgecombe ■ . - In tbe Supreme Court of North • and in the Federal Court.. '.V Uollectiona mad* in all parts "I North Carolina. mar 14: ly DENTAL SURGEON. Dr. B. W. Scott, of Baltimore Dental College. ayT3Fra> Mi,.-.. Dm death of Dr. .1. W. tJjWB8Bai|.,»i..tt, my old and much. ^^-A-t *- eeteemed friend and partner, I thought it heal t.» let iny enatouani (wbo have so liberally patronized us) know that 1 am still at the old office of llowlctt Jl s. ,,it, iu Uarratt building. wl,uro I expect lo prarlic,. llelitislrv al }'ric<s Ihnt raiinut Mid at. The Denial College I at-tended is considered tbe U-st in the world ami the 7 rears experience 1 have bad enables me to perform all o|HTationg in the Dental profession flnfiataniiiiffji. ntatlg i the ''.'f styles. Call nod get one of my neat little books ,1 How to Save the Teeth." I refer yon to any of the following natnoa ::iv ululitv as a Deutal Practitioner: l>r. D. \V. C. BVnbow, D. 1). s.; Bngene Moll head, CO. Vales, Sllelill Stiillold ; l>r .1. K Hall. M D.J Dt. 11. II. Staple., M. Ii : Hr H. \V. lUei.n, M. 1) : Robert .Sloan, Jl : Col. Win. Scott, W. It. llogart. Col. I. J.8ealea, Hubert Sloan. Sr.: Samuel Mc- B'. s,11 .line. l.evi If. Seott, W.C. Porter, Seymour Steele, Jesse Lindsay, i apt. j. K. (iilmer, Kev. J. Henry Smith, I'i John K. Logan, M. 1>. July Wtlj Dental Notice! W. V. BASON, M. D., D. D.S., (Of the Halt. .V PbiU.College*,) Kaapeetiullv offers his service, a. I) K X T 1ST. S . Ii tm '•■ bwiiali (rv- f*»r aa |«w- "mere operaton*' and ihe oi'-catlcil N Ii Call* dinclffd to Haw Hirer Port i■ ■-:. I«d ihf firtl oftportunhT. I.i ■■ ; • ■:..'; V"' ".ir- ■ucmaalul praetic*; ih<- nii'di.-al HUH dental NvtVanuaa; an«l tin* -ml-«f Dental Keiurm. nar2fl:3ni D. A. & R. F. ROBERTSON, Surgc«eoii Dentists. Having associa ted themselves in the practice of DENTISTRY, respectfully offer their profeaaioh-al services lo tbe citizens of GreeDaboro, and liie siirrotiu-intrj. ' i ... or tbe other of them ■ ija be found at their office on i> -eon.r up Mans, entrance East Market Street. Satisfactory reference given, if desired, our rea]ieetive patrons during the past twelve or fifteen vears. Sl&tf WINDOW GLASS. •Vholonnlo and Retail. R. W. GLENH A*t SON, Agent! lor Uanufaeture ot Window Glaaa, "\V "'.'■'T" *" "'•"' »»'l 'pialitie. at New ' | lorkand fhilaaXpliia price* fteighl Pancy Glass for Vestibules. Glaaa to, iu\k „!„„„„, or gky-light HOT-BED GLASS, ItGliSSiPUTLte. - •. 1x3a Gailford, Kockinghani, Stokes, Kor-syth, Union, Anson, Caswell, Per-son, Alamance, Orange, Chatham, Moore, Clay, Cherokee, Swain, Ma-con, Jackson, Graham, Haywood, Transylvania, Henderson, Bun-combe, Madison,Yanceyville,Mibch-ell, Watauga, Asbe, Alleghany, Caldwell, Barke, McDowell, Ruth-erford, Polk, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln.Catawba,Alexander,VYilkes Surry, Iredell, Yatlkin and Rowan, and all territory embraced therein which may hereafter be erected in-to new counties, shall hereafter con-stitute a new judicial district, to be called the western district of North Carolina; and the circuit and dis-trict courts of the United States for said western district of North Carolina shall be held in the towns of Statesville, Asheville and Greens-boro, within said district. Sec. '2. That two terms of the cir-cuit and districts courts of tbe United States for said western dis-trict of North Carolina shall be held at the following times and places in each year to wit: At Greeusboro, beginning on tbe tlrst Monday In April and in October ; at States-ville, beginning on the third Mon-day in April and in October; at Asheville, beginning ou tbe first Monday in May and in November. Sec 3. That the district of North Carolina shall hereafter consist of the counties not named in this act, iiml shall be called the eastern dis-trict of North Carolina, and the tciins of the circuit and district courts therein shall lie held at the times and places heretofore appoin-ted and enacted. Sec. 4 That tbe said circuit and district courts for either of said dis-trict may, iu their discretion, order special terms thereof for the trial of criminal ami civil issues at such times and places as tbe court may designate in said districts, and or-der a grand and petit jury, or both, to attend the same, by an Order to be entered of record thirty days be-fore the day at which said special term shall be ordered to convene ; and said courts, respectively, at such special terms shall have all the powers that they have at the regular term appointed by law :— Provided, hotcerer. That no sj>eeial term of said circuit court for either district shall be appointed except by and with the concurrence aud consent of tbe circuit judge. Sec .">. That all suits and other proceeding of whatever name or nature, now pending iu the circuit or district court of the United States for the district of North Car-olina^ except as hereinafter provi ded, shall be tried aud disposed of in the circuit and district courts, respectively, lor said eastern dis-trict, as the same would have been if this act had not beeu passed; and for that purpose jurisdictiou is reserved to the said courts in said eastern district, and the clerks of the circuit and district courts of the present district of North Carolina shall return the records and tiles ol the said circuit and district courts at the places heretofore appointed, and to do and perform all the du ties appertaining to their said offices respectively, within theeastern dis-trict, except hereinafter provided j and nil process returnable to, or pro-ceedings noticed for, any term ot the present circuit or district court shall be deemed to be returnable to the next term of said courts, re-s| M'ctively, in the said eastern dis-trict, as fixed by this act. Sec. C. That upon application of any party to any suit or proceed-ings, civil or criminal, now pend-ing in the present circuit or district court of tbe United States for the present district of North Carolina, which should have been commen-ced iu the proper court for tbe west-ern district ot North Carolina if this act had beeu in force at the time ot its commencement, such suit or other proceedings shall be removed for further proceedings to tbe proper court for said western district, aud thereupon the clerk shall transmit the original papers, and copies of all orders made there-in, to the clerk of the court to which said suit or proceedings shall be removed for trial or snch other proceedings therein as if the said suit or proceedings had originally been commenced tbereiu; the dis-trict attorney of said western dis-trict to designate the court to which all suits aud proceeding, and in-dictments aud criminal proceedings, wherein the United States is plain-till, shall be removed,and the plain-till, or his attorney,in nil other snits to designate the court to which they shall In- transferred : but no suit, indictment, or criminal proceedings where bail is required of a defend-ant, shall be transferred nutil prop-er bail is given for him to appear accordingly: I'rocitled, That all suits and other proceeding, both criminal and civil, now pending iu the Cape Fear district court ot the United States, at Salisbury, with all the original papers therein, shall be transferred for trial or snch oth-er proceedings as shall be meet and proper to a .special term of the dis-trict of the United States, for said westeru district of North Carolina, to be held at Salisbury, beginning on tbe second Monday in Angnst, A. 1). eighteen hundred and seven-ty- two ; and all said suits and pro-ceedings not then finally disposed of shall, with the original papers proceedings, both criminal and civ-il, pending at tbe late term ot tbe United States district conit for the Cape Fear district, held at Marion, beginning on the third Monday Au-gust, eighteen hundred and seven-ty- one, aud not then finally dispos-ed of, shall,with the original papers therein, be transferred to a special term ot the district conrt for said westeru district, to be held at Ashe- Tille, North Caroliua, beginning on the third Mouday iu August, eight-een hundred and seventy-two, to be theu and there tried, or such other proceedings had therein as may be meet and proper, according to the practice of the court, aud all such suits and proceedings as shall not then be filially disposed of shall lie continued on the docket of. said court, at Asheville, to the next term thereof, aud in the meantime all necessary aud proper process shall issue from said last named court and be returnable thereto, and such proceedings bad therein, as if the original proceedings had begun in said court, and the clerk of said court at Asheville shall act as clerk of said special court at Asheville. Sec. 7. That the passage ol this act shall not have the effect to de-stroy or impair the lien of any judgment or decree rendered by tbe circuit court of the. United States for the present district of North Carolina prior to this act taking ef-fect: and final process on any judg-ment or decree entered in the cir-cuit or district court of the United States for the district of North Caroliua, or which shall be enter-ed therein, prior to this act taking effect, aud all other process for the enforcemx-ut of any- order of said couns, respectively, iu any cause or preceedings now pending tbere-iu, except causes or proceedings re-moved as herein provided, shall be issued from, aud be returnable to, the proper court for the eastern dis-trict of North Carolina, and may be directed to, and executed by the marshal of tbe United States for the said eastern district, in any part of the State of Nortli Carolina. Sec. 8. That there shall be ap-pointed a district judge for the said westeru district of North Car-olina, who shall receive an annual salary of three thousand live hun-dred dollars; aud there shall also be appointed a district attorney of the United States for the said west-ern district of North Caroliua, who shall receive such fees aud compen-sation, and exercise such powers and perform such duties, as are fix-ed and enjoined by law. Sec. !'. That the circuit and dis-trict judges shall appoint three clerks, each of whom shall be clerks both of the circuit aud district courts for said western district of North Caroliua, one of whom shall reside and keep his office at States-ville, and the third of whom shall reside and keep his office at Greens-boro, who shall receive the fees and compensation for services perform-ed by them now fixed by law. Sec. 10. That either of the clerks of the district and circuit courts for said western district of North Car-oliua is hereby authorized, under the direction of the district judge of said westeru district and circuit courts of the United States, re-maining iu the office of the clerks of said eastern district, of all mat-ters and proceedings which relate to, or concern leins upon, or titles to real estate situate iu said west-ern district, aud for that purpose shall have access to said records iu the office of said clerks insaitl east-ern district, aud such transcripts, when so made by either of said clerks, shall be certified to, to be true aud correct, by the clerk ma-king the same, and the same when so made and certified, shall be evi-dence iu all courts and places equal-ly with said originals. Arraignment Grant. In the pamphlet form, Mr. Somner bas placed on the title-page the fol-lowing mottoes: "Soeratee—Then whom do yea call tbe goodt Aleibideaa—I meM Dy the good those who are able to rule In tbe city. Soeratee—Not, *arely, over horses. Aleibladea—Certainly not. Soeratee—But over men f Ale i biade*—Tee." [Plato, Dlalognee. The Pint Alcldia-dee.] " Among the foremoit ncn-noeee ought te be the downfall ot tin* odious, insul-ting, degrading, aid daroanpiah, incapa-ble dictatorship. At each a erWe I* the country to be left at the merer of bar-rack council* and ma toaaa politic, f"— [Letter of Lord Durham to Heury Brougham, Aug., 1830. Brougham'* Life and Tinn-s, Vol. ill, p. 41. SALIENT POINTS OF THF. SPKKCH. A teacher questioning little boys alum! the gradations iu the scale of being, asked : "What comes next to man?" Aud here a little shaver who was evidently smarting under a defeat in a previous question, im-mediately distanced all competitors, by promptly shouting,-'-His under-shirt, inarm P An Irishman was speaking of the excellence of a telescope. "Do you sec that wee speck on the edge" of the hilt yonder f That, now, is my old pig, though hardly to be seen : but when I look at him with my glass, it brings him so near that I can plainly hear him grunt.** " Well Sambo what's yer up to uow-a-days I" '•(), I is a carp'ner and j inner." " lie! I guess yer is. What de-partment do you perform T"' "What department T" "Why I does the circular work."" "What's datr "Why, I turns de grindstone."' "Gway." A little four year old child in Portland told his father he was a fool. Ou being reprimanded by bis mother and required to say he was sorry, he toddled up to the insulted parent aud exclaimed, "Papa, I'm sorry you's a fool P "That motion is out of order," said the chairman of a meeting, when a rowdy raised his arm the purpose of throwing an egg. Domestic receipts—babies. Mr. President, I have no hesita-tion in declaring myself a member of the Republican party, and one of the straitest of the sect. To such a party, with which so much of my life is entwined, I have no common attachment. Not with-out a pang can I see it suffer, not without a pang can I see it changed from its original character, for such a change is death. Therefore do I ask, with no common feeling, that the peril which menaces it may pass" nway. I stood by its cradle ; let me not follow its hearse. The Republican party was necessary and permanent, always on an ascending plane. For such a party there was no death, but higher life and no-bler aims; and this was the party to which I gave my vows. But alas! how changed. Once country was the object, and not a man ; once priuciple was inscribed ou the vic-torious banners, aud not a uatno only. REPUBLICAN PARTY SEIZED BY THE PRESIDENT. It is not difficult to iudicate wheu this disastrous change, exalting the will of one man above all else, lie-came not merely manifest but pain-fully conspicuous. Already it had begun to show itself in personal pre-teni ions.to which I shall refer soon, wheu suddenly, and without any warning through tbe public press or any expression from public opin-ion, tbe 1'resideut elected by the Republican party precipitated upon the country an ill-considered scheme for the annexation of a portion of the island of Santo Domingo, in presence of a treaty negotiated by a person of his own household, styl-ing himself "Aide-de-cainp of the President of the United States." I should gladly leave this matter to the judgment already recorded, if it were not put in issue again by the extraordiny efforts radiating on ev-ery line of office, to press its author for a second term as President. PRESIDENTIAL I'RETENTIONS. "On what meat doth this onrC.T-sar feed,*' that he should assume so | much! No honor for victory in war can justify disobedience to the Con-stitution and to law; nor can it afford t''e least apology for any per-sonal immunity, privilege or license iu the Presidential office. Not only are Constitution and law disregartled, but tbe Presidential office itself is treated as little more than a plaything aud a perquisite— wheu not the former, then the latter. Here the details are ample—show-ing how from the beginning this exalted trust has dropped to be a personal indulgence, where palace cars, fast horses aud seaside loiter-ings figure more than duties ; how personal aims and objects have beeu more prominent than the public in-terests ; how the Presidential office has beeu used to advance his own family ou a scale of nepotism dwarf-ing everything of tbe kind iu our history,and hardly equaled iu the corrupt Governments where this abuse has most prevailed; how iu the same spirit office has been con-ferred npou those from whom he had received gifts or benefits, thus making the country repay his per-sonal obligations; how personal de-votion to himself, rather than pub-lic or party service, has been made the staudard ot favor; how the vast appointing power conferred by the Constitution for tbe general welfare has been employed a,t his will to promote his schemes, to reward his friends, to punish his opi>oncnts, aud to advance his election to a sccoud term; how all these assump-tions have matured in a perional government, semi-military iu charac-ter aud breathing themilitary spirit. beiug a species of Cajsarism or per-tonalitem abborant to Republicau in-stitutions, where subservience to the President is the supreme law ; how in maintaining the subservience he has operated by a system of combinations, military.political, and even Senatorial, having their orbits about him, so that, like the planet Saturn, he is surrounded by rings ; nor does the similitude end here.for his rings, like those of the planet, are held iu position by satelites. PERSONAL GOVERNMENT UNBEPCB-LICAN. President has offended in this wav I is, unhappily, too at parent. TWrriMONY OF THE LATE EDWI1 M. STANTON. Something, also, must be attribut-ed to individual character; and nere I express no opinion of my own —i snail allow another to speak In solemn words echoed from the toino. On reaching Washington at the JS-yo'Ooa-wai in December, i*»«, I was paiued to hear that. Mr. fstanton, lately Secretary of War, was lo failing health. As I enteredhis bedroom, where I found him reclin-ing on ■ sofa, propped by pillows, he reached out his hand, already clammy cold, and in reply to my in quiry, "How are your answered "Waiting for my furlough." Then at once, with singular solemnity, he said, "I have something to say to you." When I was seated he pro-ceeded, without one word of intro-duction : "I know General Grant better than any other iierson iu the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so night and day, when I saw him and when I did nut see him, and now I tell you what I know : lie can not govern thin country." Personal government is autocrat-ic. It is the one-man power eleva-ted above all else, and is, therefore, in direct couflict with republican government whose consummate form is tripartite—cxecntive,Legislative, aud Judicial—each independentaud coequal. A government of laws and not of men is the object of republican government; nay, more, it is the distinctive essence without which it becomes a tyranny. Therefore per-sonal government in all its forms, and especially when it seeks to sway the action of any other branch or overturn its constitutional negative, is hostile to the first principles of republican institutions, and an un-questionable outrage. That our NEPOTISM OF THE PRF.S1DENT. There has beeu no eall of Con-gress for a return of the relations holding office, stipend, or mouey-making opportunity under the President. But tho newspapers have placed beyond question for judgment ou this extraordinary case, although thus far tliere has been no- attempt to appreciate it, especially in the light of history — One list makes the number of i>eu-elioiaries as many as 42—being, probably, every known person al-lied to the President by blood or marriage. Persons sccmi*ugtos|)eak for the President, or at least after careful inquries, have denied the accurracy of this list reducing it to 13. It will uot be questioned that there is at least a baker's dozen in this category—13 relations of the President billeted on the country, not one of whom but for this re-lationship would have been brought forward, tho whole constituting a case of nepotism not unworthy of the worst governments where office is a family possession. Beyond the list of 13 are other revelations, showing that this strange abuse did not stop with the President's relatives, but that these relations obtained appointments forotherein their ciicle. so that every relation became a centre of influence, while the Presidential family extended indefinitely. GIFT TAKING OFFICIALLY COM-PENSATED. From one typical abuse I pass lo another. From a dropsical nepo-tism swollen to elephantiasis,which nobody can defend, I pass to gift-taking, which with our President has assumed an uiipiecented form. Sometimes public men even iu our country have taken gilts, but it is uot known that any President 1K-- fore has repaid the patron with office. For a public man to take gifts is reprehensible: for a Presi-dent to select Cabinet councillors and other officers among those from whom he has taken gilrs is an an-omaly in Republican annuls. Ob-serve, sir, that I speak of it gently, unwilling to exhibit the indignation which such a Presidential preten-sion is calculated to arouse. The country will judge it, and blot it out as an example. The case of our President is ex-ceptional. Notoriously he has taken gilts while iu the public ser-vice— some, at least, after be had been elected President—until "the Galena tanner of a few hundred dollars a year, "to borrow the words of my colleague | Mr. Wilson), one of his supporters, is now rich in houses, lands and stock, above his salary, being probably the richest President since GeorgeWashington. Notoriously, lu lias appointed to his Cabinet several among these " Greeks bearing gifts," without seeming to see tbe indecoi urn, if not tbe indecency, of the transaction. ILLEGAL MILITARY RING AT ECUTIVE MANSION. To the dishonor of the civil vice and in total disregard to Haiieck and Gen. Sherman protest-ed, the former, in bis report of Oc-wber24, 1870 saving,^T respect-fully rei*at the recommendation of my last annual report, that milita-ry officers should not interfere in local civil difficulties unless called ont in the manner provided by law;" and the latter, in his report of No-vember 10,1870, says :—I think the soldiers ought not to be expected to make individual arrests or to do any act of violence except in their capacity as njMMa oesritofia, duly summoned by the United States Marshal and acting in his personal presence;" and so this miliurv pre-tention >r.vading civil affairs' was arrested. Meau while this same Presiden-ts usurpation, subordinating all to himself, became palpable in an-other form. It was said of Gusta-vus Adolphus that he drilled his Diet to vote at the word of com-mand. Such at the outset, seemed to be the Presidential policy with regard to Congres. We were to vote as he desired. INTERFERENCE IN LOCAL POLITICS. The assumption of his central im-perialurn, be has interfered with political questions and party move-ments In distant States reaching into Missouri and then into New York to dictate how the people should vote; then manipulating Louisiana through a brother-in-law appointed Collector. With him a Custom House seems less a place for the collection of revenue than an engine for political influence,through which bis dictatorship may be maintained. Authentic testimony places this tyrannical abuse beyond question. New York is the scene and Thomas Murphy, Collector, the 1 residential Lien tenant. Nobody doubts the intimacy between the President and the Collector, who are bound together by other ties than those of the seaside neighbor-hood. But New York is not the only scene of this outrage. The Presi-dential pretension extends every-where, nor is it easy to measure the arrogance of corruption or the hon-est indignation that it quickens into life, QUAR-EX-pre- * 1* < aiiU III 11*1(11 VI IKI '».''■' * i *■ *a- 1 *f>l * ccdent.lhe President, surrOunde.f men; it is no longer a political par- ».s.w..., »..~ — .. , , lint n lu.rsnin ivirle 1-Vi. fYii-himself with officers of the army and substituted military forms for those of civil life, detailing for this service members of his late staff.— The earliest public notice of this military occupation appeared in the Daily Morning Chronicle, of March «, 1800, understood to be tho offl cial organ of the Administration : "President Grant was not at the White Boose yesterday,but the fol-lowing members of his staff were occupying the Secretaries' rooms and acting as snch : Gens. Bab-cock, Porter, Badeau and Dent." Thus installed, army officers be-came secretaries of the President, delivering his messages to both Houses of Congress, and even au-thenticating Presidential acts as if they were military orders. Here for instance is an official communi-cation : EXECUTIVE MANSION, » Maicb 15,1800. j" To Robert Martin Douglas, Esq. —Sir: Yon are hereby appointed Assistant Private Secretary to the President to date from March 15th, 1969. By order ol the President. n<>RACE POUTER, Brevet Brig. Gen. Sec. MILITARY INTERFERENCE AT ELEC-TIONS. Then followed military interfer-ence iu elections aud repeated use of the military in aid of the reven-ue law under ciriumstances of doubtful legality, uutil at last Gen. THE GREAT PRESIDENTIAL REI.LER. As in ncpoti8m,gift taking official-ly compensated, and Presidential pretensions generally, here again he is foremost, having quarrelled not only more than any other President, but more than all others together, from George Washington to him-self. His own Cabinet, the Senate, the'IIouse of Representatives the diplomatic service and the civil ser-vice generally—all have their vic-tims, nearly every one of whom licsidcs serving the Republican party, had helped to make him President. Nor have army officers, his companions in the field, or even his generous petrous been exempt to him. A quarrel is not only a constant necessity, but a perquisite of office. To nurse a quarrel, like tending a horse, is iu his Presiden-tial duties How idle must he be should the words of Shakespeare be fulfilled, "This day all quarrels die " To him may be applied these other words of Shakespeare, "As quar-relsome as the weasel." DUTY OF THE BEPCBLICAN PAETY. Here I stop. And now the ques-tion of duly is presented to the Re-publican party. 1 like that word. It is at the maudate of duty that we must act Do the Presidential pretensions merit the sanction of the party! Can Republicans, with-out departing from all obligations, whether of party or patriotism, re-cognize our ambitions Ciesar as a proper representative! Can we take the fearful responsibility of his prolonged empire? I put these ques-tions solcmiily as a member of the Republican party, with all earnest-ness of a life devoted to the tri-umph of this party, which I served always with the conviction that I gave up nothing that was meant for the country or mankind. With me the party was the country and man-kind ; but with tbe adoption of all these Presidential preUnsions tbe party loses its sphere. Its creed ceases to bo Republicanism and be-comes Grantism; its members cease to be Republicans and become Grant ty, but a personal party. For my self, I say openly, I am no man's man, nor do I belong to any person-al party. The attempt to change the char-acter of tho Republican party be-gins by assault on the principle of one term for President. Let not Congress adjourn without passing tbe one-term amendment to the Constitution. There never has been so favorable an opportunity. All parties are in favor of it; Gen-eral Grant is iu favor of it; the par-ty that supports General Grant de-mands it, and, above all, public morality calls for it. The President desiring re-election becomes the ac-tive head of THREE CO-OPEBATIVE ARMIES, the army of office-holders, 80,000 strong; ihe larger army of office seekers, and the army of the polit-cal party, the whole constituting a consolidated power which no candi-date can possess without peril to bis country. Of these vast co-ope-rating armies the President is com-manib- i iu-chief and generalissimo. THE LIMITATION TO ONE TEEM. There is a demand for reform in the civil service, and tbe President formally adopts this demand, but he neglects tbe flrst step, which de-pends only on himself. From this we may judge bis little earnestness in tbe cause. Beyond all question civil service reform must begin with a limitation of the President to one term, so that the temptation to use tbe appointing power for personal ends may disappear from oar sy» tem, and this great disturbing force cease to exist In the name of the one-term principle, once recognized by him, and which need no other evidence ot iu necessity Ohan bis own Presidency, I protest against the attempt to obtain another lease of power—but this protest is on the threshold. CNFiTNESS FOR THB PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE • I protest against him as radically unfit for the Presidential office, be ing essentially military in nature, without aptitude for civil duties, and without knowledge of republi-cs! institutions, all of which is per-fectly apparent, unless we are rea-dyto assume that the matters and atrrngs ant forth to-day are of no ac-account, and then declare in forth er support of the candidate, boldly, that nepotism In a President is noth-ing, that gilt-taking with repay-ment in offlciaJ patronage is noth ing; that violation of tbe Consti-tution and of law internatiehal and municipal is nothing; that indigni ty to the African race is nothing, that quarrel with political associates is nothing, and that all his Presi, dential pretentious, in their motley •Kgregations, being a new C»sar-i8m or personal government, are nothing. But if these are all noth ing; nor is there any safeguard for republican institution. INEYEEY DIRECTION IS JaTTDDLB, muddle with 'Spain, muddle with Cnba, muddle with the black re-public, muddle with distant Cores, muddle with Venezuela, muddle with Rusia, muddle with England ; on all sides one diversified muddle. [Laughter.) To this condition are we red need.. "FrnST IN QUARREL WTTH HIS COUNTRYMEN." Anxiously, earnestly tho country asks for reform and stands on tip-toe to greet its coming. But how expect reform from a President who needs it so much himself t Who shall reform the reformer f So also does the country ask for purity; but is it not in vain to seek this boon from one whose Presidential pretensions are so demoralizing 1 Who shall purify the purifier t The country asks for reform in the civil service. But how expect any such change from one who will not allow the Presidential officefb be secured agaiust its worst temptation 1 If he fraternizes with jobbers and Hessians, where is the limit to the demoralization that mnst ensue 1 Necessarily the public service takes its character from its elected chief, and the whole country reflects the President. His example is a law, bntabad example must be corrected as a bad law. APPEAL TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. With unmistakable interest will the country watch the National Convention at Philadelphia. It may be an assembly, nnd snch is my bope,|where ideas aud principles are above all personcl pretension and THE UNITY OF THE PARTY is symbolized in the candidate ; er it may add another to Presidential rings, being an expansion of tbe military ring at the Executive Mansion, the Senatorial ring in this chamber, and the political ring in thcCnstom House oi New York and New Orleans. A National Conven-tion, which is a Presidential ling, cannot represent the Republican party. Much rather would I see the party to which I am dedicated un-der tbe image of. a life boat, not to be suuk by wind or wave. How often have I said this to. cheer my comrades f I do uot fear the Dem-ocratic party—nothing from them can harm our life boat; but I do fear a quarrel. Some pilot uuused to sea,but pretentious iu command, who occupies himself in loading aboard his own unserviceable rela-tions and personal patrons, while he drives away the experienced seamen who know the craftand her voyage—here is a peril which no life-boat can stand. Meanwhile 1 wait the determination of the Na-tional Convention, where are dele-gates from my own much-honored Commonwealth with whom I rejoice to act. Not without anxiety do I wait with tbe earnest hope that the Convention will bring the Rcpubli can party into ancient harmony, saving it especially from the suici-dal folly of an issue on the personal pretensions ofone man. Voices of the night—cats. The spenthrift's prayer—"Leave me a loan, will youF The ring is an unbending topic of yoang and-marriageable ladies. The mosquito, as a public singer, draws well, but never gives satis faction. Tbey make shoes from the skin of the walrus, but an eel is already a perfect slipper. An Alabama cemetrey bears tbe inscription overjts entrance, "Posi-tively no admittance here " "Nine, sir,1" observed a social scourge. "I can speak nine langua-ges distinctly; but my father, when alive, could speak no less than tit teeu." "I knew a man wbo could Bpeak five-and-twenty ; and he nev-er said anything worth hearing in any one of them."* The great pyramid of Kgypt weighs 13,670,0110,000 tons, and'according to Herodotns it took the labor ot 100,000 men twenty years to build it. Dr. Lardner affirms that 480 tons of coal, with an engine and hoisting machine, would have raised every atone to its position. TIM ate&krnpt Law. The House of Repre*«na**tfvM on Tuesday last pacsed a very impor-tant bin, which, however, we sup-pose, will scarcely be passed by the Senate at this session. It amends the bankrupt law in many particu-lars. The circuit conrt is to asppeiat registers. It allows the amarabaJ to appoint deputies to help him in bankrupt cases, but cuts off con-structive mileage. &c The MM bill aUotci »U mtemwtiont allotcedby any 8tate Ime on the lit day of January, 1871. This will save to bankrupts in Virginia two thousand dollars' worth of proper-ty. It also exempts a widow's djw-er, or other estate in lieu thereof, if the State law so provides ; also lite insurance to the amount of five thousand dollars. No cost is allowed the assignee where he recovers in a suit la a Federal court for less than #500. No person ean be declared an in. voluntary bankrupt (except upon his own application—Iriek Bull) unless his probable indebtedness exceed 03,000. Liens acquired under State laws aud without collusion prior te pro- •jJHf* iu bankn,PteJ'aUu11 ^ r*> A voluntary bankrupt most pay fifty percent, of his proven indebt. edness aflm- July laea. (Bo we un-derstand the bill to change the law.) No State court shall inq>cach a bankrupt's certificate of discharge. And seme other changes. We shall publish the bill when it be-comes a law—Sick. Dinpateh. tdT The law referred to hero baa passed since the above waa written. —ED. PATRIOT. Washington and Grant. Mr. Snmner, in adducing the ex-ample of Washington against gift-taking, pays Colonel Forney a com-pliment : How admirably he (Washington) touches the point when be asks, "It I accepted this; should loot hence-forward be considered a depeodantT According to our Scripture, the gift blinds the eyes, according to Wash-ington it makes tbe receiver a de-pendent. In harmony with this sen-timent was his subsequent refusal when President, as is recorded by an ingenious writer: unewaa exceedingly careful about committing himself, would receive M AMWrae/eMf kind, and serapojoaaly paid for everything. A large boose was set apart for him on Ninth street, on the grounds now covered by the I ennsylvania University,'whioh be refused to accept."— ColonelForney; Anccdotet. By such instances brought to light recently, and shining in contrast with our times, we learn to admire anew tbe virtue of Washington. « - _■ A Compliment Indeed.—Speaking of the old line party leaders of the South, G. A. Towusend says: "Did you ever thiuk what a great race of men live at tbe South, to have been subject to tbe licentious and profligate contact of slavery for twenty generations, and still pre-serve such energies and so much manly character! We miss them from our public counsels to-day. How capable and direct they were in foreign diplomacy—courtesy and chivalry, truth and death, iu their address. Then, slaveholders as we were, '.ho world knew that we said not more than we meant We did not needlessly irritate our peers among the nations with sardonic sentences like ltancrofl Davis. With tho glove in his hand,and the salk of a king's herald, the .South-erner made his proposition to tbe foreigner. Of him it might he said us of Cromwell: "While he l'.ved, no Dutihmun swept the narrow seas! No Cast!.-. mames dishonored the high places! Vice and folly trembled in his eye, and all good things lay safe beneath his mighty shadow." " Arming the Negroes In the dis-cussion at Wbiieville, Judge Moars made Caldwell confess that he had consented to the arming of negroes in Wilmington in the last few weeks. Caltlwell's excuse was that in as much as he had allowed Col. Ring-bams pupils tho use of tbe State arms, he was therefore justifiable in pennitting his Adjutant General to furnish arms to a volunteer ne-gro company, which baa been or-ganized iu Wilmington, and, aa the Journal says, "is drilling almost every night until midnight" Judge Mears told Gov. Caldwell that the arming of negro volunteer military companies would cost him five thonsaud votes, and we believe '.bat Judge Meats is right The Governor can find plenty of law for arming negro military com-panies, but he can find none to sup-press the outrages of the Robeson-ian outlaws —Italeigk A'ewa, — ...... An Iowa pa|>er says tbe lion of tbe day is the dandelion. An exchange tells disaster where three the dust." of a marine seamen "bit The Rock Ahead—What a young husband sees when the cradle is brought home- An Ohio woman has planted three husbands, and on the tomb-stone of each she has placed the words: "We will meet in heaven, husband.dear." Looks like trouble 'ahead, doesn't it. "Did your wife have an income last year V asked an internal rev-enue officer of a citizen. "Yes, she had twins—both girls," The officer concluded it was a pretty liberal income. A story is told of a Scotchman who went to a lawyer foradvice,and detailed the circumstances of the case. "Have you told me the facts precisely as tbey occurred" said tbe lawyer. "Oh ay, sir I I thought it best to tell ye tbe plain truth. Ye can put the lies iu yourself." " Mamma," said a precious Mttle boy, who,against his will was made to rock the cradle of his baby broth-er, "if the Lord has any more babies to give away don't you take 'em."*
Object Description
Title | The Greensboro patriot [June 13, 1872] |
Date | 1872-06-13 |
Editor(s) | Duffy, P.F. |
Subject headings | Greensboro (N.C.)--Newspapers |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The June 13, 1872, issue of The Greensboro Patriot, a newspaper published in Greensboro, N.C. by Duffy and Morehead. |
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Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : Duffy and Morehead |
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THE PATRIOT
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
AT GREENSBORO, N. C,
BY DUFFY 4: MOREHEAD.
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Professional Cards.
. P. Ml.M.KMIAI.I.. JOnH S. 8TAPIJU.
MENDENffALL & STAPLES,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
« R E E N 8 B O R~0, N.C.,
v. |u... lii. in the Courts of Guilford, Kock-
.:..,-.. Uuvidaon, Foraythe, Stoke*, Ban-
. . Alamaace: alas. I'. S.Circuit and
Court*. Special attention given to
IM in all parta ot Iba State, aud to
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Dillard & Gilmer,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office nv-r Hank of Greennboro,
OPPOSITE BENBOW HOUSE,
1y)i.\l I'iCK. in State and Federal Courts,
un I in lliejrn untUw of Guilford, AJamance,
|,|, Lt.vidson, Stolen, Yadkia, Sony,
and Caaweii.
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ProbatrCourU of Rockiiigtiarn.Alamaao*
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April -a, Wi. i«i:ly
» . s. l-.il.l . THOS. 1>- KBUOH,
[' S. Commissioner. Regiater in Bankruptcy.
■ I vi.l. &■ KEOOH,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
I.III K\>liul:n. N. C,
IIHACTICK in ill. Court* of Guilford.
Daridaon ami Randolph.
I Diatrict CoarU ot th«
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Pan i dial iltetitioii given to
l\TI UML IIKVIMH CAl'KES
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AN ACT
To EsUbUib a Western Judi-cial
Dlattriot of Nortli Quo-lint,
Be it ematttd h$ the Benale and
Hume of Repre*enlatitet of the Uni-ted
.Store* of America in Congren
nuembled. That that portion of the
State of North Carolina comprising
the counties of Mecklenburg. Ca-barrus,
Stanly, Montgomery. Rich-therein,
be transferee] to the dis-trict
at Greensboro or Statesville,
as the judge may onler ; and all
necessary and proper process shall
ilsne and be made returnable in
said anits and prooeedlO£s to the
nett term of said courts, respect-iv$
y, for trial or snch other pro-ceedings
bad begun in said last
named courts; and the clerk of said
district court at Greensboro, shall
act aa clerk at said special conrt at
Snmner's of
mond, Darie, Daridson, Randolph, I Salisbury; andallsnits and other
i;\l.l'll liORRELL,
Ulnriic) and CoiiiiM-llor at Law,
Greensboro, N. C.,
MLL practice in the courta of Alaaaaui
\\ i iuilfonl and Kaudolph, nii'l
Dili No, '< Law K'nv on
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ktteiition ipven to colleeling
aim .- couiniitted to hi. care.
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and
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Clark & Mullen,
Alloi'iteys At LftM',
HALIFAX, N. C,
1)RACTICK iu all tbe Court, of Halifax,
Martin, Northampton and Edgecombe
■ . - In tbe Supreme Court of North
• and in the Federal Court..
'.V Uollectiona mad* in all parts "I North
Carolina. mar 14: ly
DENTAL SURGEON.
Dr. B. W. Scott,
of Baltimore Dental College.
ayT3Fra> Mi,.-.. Dm death of Dr. .1. W.
tJjWB8Bai|.,»i..tt, my old and much.
^^-A-t *- eeteemed friend and partner, I
thought it heal t.» let iny enatouani (wbo
have so liberally patronized us) know that
1 am still at the old office of llowlctt Jl
s. ,,it, iu Uarratt building. wl,uro I expect
lo prarlic,. llelitislrv al }'ric |