The Greensboro patriot [September 27, 1876]

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ORGANIZE A
TILDES & VANCE CLUB
IN EVERT TOWMSHTP
IN THE STATE
Appointments of Scales and
Boyd.
Messrs A. M. Scales and J. E.
Boyd, candidates fur Congress will
address the people at the following
times and places:
Koxboro, Thursday, Sept 23th.
Bushy Pork, Friday, Sept. 29th.
Mt. Tii/..Hi, Saturday, Sept. 30th.
Hollowaysville, Monday, Oct. 2nd.
Papers in I lie district please copy
Appointments of Douglas and
Robbins.
I. (' Robbtni and Stephen A. Douglas
, < iservatlve and Repuldicau
Elector., respectively, f"rtho5thDistrict,
will address the people at the following
, Monday, Sept
: ( love, Tneadaj,
-lay, "
. am -I i>. "
day, "
Wentworth, Saturasy, "
Hill«dale, Mouday, " Oct.
Gibsoni ille, Tuesday, "
bane's, Wednesday, '*
Thnrsday, "
Finch's Store, l'i iday, "
irday, "
Jack Hi■;. Monday, "
Concor I, I ueeday "
Store, Wcducsday, "
Point, Saturday, "
I ii idaj.
both parties in tbe District '
Gov. Vance and Judge Settle's
Appointments.
Governor Vance and Judge Set-tle
will address their fellow citizens
at the following places and times:
ibethtown, IS laden county
'A • dnesday, September 27th.
l-'ayetteville, Thursday, September
28th.
CliotOD, Saturday, September 30th.
Mi adow, Johnston county, Monday
i lutober 2nd.
i:,u I sboro, Johnston county, Wed-nesday.
October 4th.
Johnston's Store, Wake connty,
1 liursday, October 5th.
New Light, Wake county, Satur-daj.
* Ictobei 7th.
I >xford, Mondaj. < ictobcr 9th.
Koxboro, Tuesday, October 10th.
Uillsboro, Thnrsday, October 12th. j
Graham, Priday, October 13th.
Settk Abroad,
Addressing a re-onion of Federal
era al Dayton, Ohio, last tall,
Jndgi -ud:
"1 appear before you a thorough-ly
whipped and reconstructed rebel,
- come to Dayton to take ofl
his bat to the brave defenders of
the Union."
Judge St Ille al ffoaws
tddreaaing the crowd assembled
ai Jonesboro, last week, Judge Set-mi
:
i Ku Kins SCOUNDRELS.
i'OU INFERNAL PIENDS OF
HELL."
Judge Settle on Boyd.
la J - . for Boyd I We venture
to answoi in IIIH negative, uuless he has
- mind since he frave in his
k»"' ■ it.-c! Stater
i ommittee In 1871,
nembered thai a committee
i the I. 8. Senate in
yen* t" investigate the
Kn Klnv. Jodge Settle.belng first sworn,
owe;
With ;u::r knowledge of tho
organisation seeks
its purpose*, do yon believe
-ii- to entrusl its members
I H member* of Con-
11 lire T
No ah Having heard the
itlu / Mill net trull
anywhere.
Would il bo prudent to re-
: sneh men T
would not trust a man
sr publu- who 1 be-lieve
was a member of that organization
...:. thee* oaths.
mnj be found on page
of the Senate Committee.
.i idga Battle is against
one bank on his oath be-mii
tee.
lie!
Where the Independents are
Going.
The World piints the following
! list of Tildeu men, which comprises
I the names not only of those who
| have lately been classed as "Liberal
Republicans" and "Independents,'1
but of a number of gentlemen who
have, until the present canvass,
, been actively identified with the
Republican party :
Charles Frauds Adams, of Mas-sachusetts.
Andrew G. Cnrtin, of Pennsyl-vania,
"War Governor.''
Ex Senator Trumbull, of Illinois.
David A. Wells, of Connecticut.
Wi'liam Culleu Bryant, of New
York.
Parke Godwin, of New York.
Gideon Welles, President Lin-coln's
Secretary of the Navy.
Justice David Davis, ot the Su-preme
Court, United States.
Ex Governor Austin Blair, the
"War Governor*' of Michigan.
Ex Governor l>. Gratz. Brown, o(
Missouri.
George W. Julian, candidate for
Vice President on the Fiee-Soil
ticket in 1802.
Cassius M. ('lay, of Kentucky.
General John M. Palmer, e* Gov-ernor
of Illinois.
General William P. Baitlett, of
Massachusetts.
Prof. W. G. Sum nor, of Yale
College, who wrote the Republican
State platform ot 1871, and who
has now written the strongest letter
of the kind yet published in behalf
of Tilden.
Prof. A. L. Perry, of William's
College, the distinguished political
ecouomist.
Colonel Augustas II. Fenn, the
Republican candidate for Lieuten
aut-Goveruor of Connecticut last
year.
Frank W. Bird, of Massachu-setts,
the founder of the Republi-can
party.
Ex-Congressman John F. Farns-worth,
of Illinois.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., of
Massachusetts.
Henry Brooks Adams, of Massa-chusetts.
Colonel Nicholas Smith, repre-senting
the Greeley family.
George W. Fenton, of Chantau-qua
county, New York, brother ol
Senator Fenton.
Colonel Fred. A. Conkling, ol
New York, brother of Senator
Conkling.
"Fighting Joe" Hooker.
Charles A. Dana, editor of the
Am.
Col. Alex. K. McClure, editor of
the Philadelphia Times.
Judge Henry R. Selden, of New
York.
Howard Potter, of New York.
Charles G. Davis, of Massachu-setts.
Ex-Senator Ross, of Kausas.
Ex-Senator Tipton, of Nebraska.
Ex-Senator Cowan, of Pennsyl-vania
E. S. Cleveland, late Republican
Postmaster of Hartford, Connecti-cut.
D. D. S. Brown, of Mouroe coun-ty,
New York.
General E. F. Jones, of Broome
county, New York.
Judge Edwin A. Reynolds, oi
Orleaus county, Now York.
Colonel Charles James, of Or-leans
county, New York.
Porter Sheldon, of Cuautauqua
county, New York.
Ex-Governor David P. Lewis, the
last Republicau Governor ot Ala-bama.
Judge Dauiel S. Gooding, Liu
coin Elector at-large iu Indiana in
1804. '
Ex Congressman James M. Ash-ley,
of Ohio.
General Jacob Briukerholl, of
Ohio.
Judge noadley, of the Supreme
court of Ohio, supported Hayes for
Governor last year.
E. W. Kittridge, tho eminent
lawyer of Cincinnati, who supported
Hayes last year.
Charles Reemelin, of Cincinnati,
who supported Hayes last year.
Emil Hodman, ot Cincinnati, who
supported Hayes last year.
Ex-Lieutenaut-Governor Jacob
Mueller, of Ohio, elected ou the
Republican ticket iu 1871, who sup-ported
Hayes last year.
Judge J. B. Stalin, of Cincinnati,
who supported Hayes last year.
Frederick Uassiturek, late editor
of the Cincinnati Volksblatt, who
supported Hayes last year.
August Thieuie, editor of the
Cleveland Wachter am Erie, who
supported Hayes last year.
Colonel Edward Jussen, of Chi
cago, brother-in-law- of Carl Schorz,
Ex-Governor Koerner, of Illinois.
General Franz Sigel, of New-
York.
The eminent Germans last named
who have abandoned the Republi-can
party to support Governor Til-den,
represent the great voting
rank and file of the Germans in
America. There is not a single
German of national reputation,
with the solitary exceptiou of Carl
Schurz, who now trains under the
banner of "Zach Chandler."
Let our Democratic exchanges
pass around the list and let Demo-crats
show it to their decent Repub-lican
neighbors. Where an Adams
leads it is safe for tbem to follow.
M-EXttRiENCED
8in.tTjn.ram
WJ,N1£D
FOR PRESIDENT
~~ ' ''III uiuiuan
DILI 1. GREASY, STINKING,
HI BUGS MUGERS is
. e which Mr. Settle ap-plies
to the colored men who be-come
Democrats.
The Use oj Paper.—There are
3,000 paper mauutactories in the
world employing 80,000 men and
180,000 women, besides the 100,000
employed in the rag trade ; 1,800,-
000,000 pounds of paper are pro-duced
annually. One-halt is used
iu printing, a sixth in writing, and
the remainder for packing and oth-er
purposes. The United States
average 17 pounds per head; an
Englishman consumes 11) pounds ;
a German, 8 pounds : a Frenchman,
7 pounds; an Italian M pounds;
a Spaniard, j pound; and a Rus-sian
only 1 pound annually, aver-age.
ford. ST.C0.IUS
THE TWO APPLICANTS FOR PRESIDENT—BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM.
TILIIKX points to the glorious record of Democracy—Eighty years of freedom, peace and prosperity.
HAYES refers by permission to Grant, Belkuap, Joyce, McDonald, Robesou & Co., and fifteen years of Radical
usurpation, plunder, demoralization and death.
American President Makers, Clioose ye between them !
Hon. J. S. Black Pays His
Respects to Garfield.
Hon. J. S. Black, of Penusylva-'
nia, has written a letter to General
Crarfipld, showing np the monstrous '
villianies of the Radical party, I
from which we make the following j
extract:
You tell us that tbe Republican |
party "will ptini-li its own rascals."
calculatiou is accurate, but it cau-not
be very far wrong, and it is not
equal to one-half of the whole
steal, for it does not include the
value of the road itself, nor the
land grants, nor the proceeds of the
bonds to which the lien of the
United States was postponed, uor
the equipmeut bonds. As this
swindle was the largest, so it was
one of the most inexcusably base.
It was perpetrated at a time when
Ihe newspaper report ot your | th u.uion was gwam d wi|h deb
skpi.e.ieioch1 s*■■a)«y•.s- tthlma>t t'ihiti_s wirnasi g1 -r1 e...e1t1e1.1dC ■_ _ •>-__.*
with laughter from the Republican
side of the House. Certainly it
sounds like the broadest of jokes.
It you meant it in earnest, please
to say what you found this claim
of impartial justice upon. You
will hardly prove it by showing
that Bristow and Wilson succeeded,
with much tribulation, in convict-ing
certain manufacturers of crook-ed
whiskey, and thereby got them-selves
turned out of office It is
vain to deny that there is, and has
been a geueral system of dishonesty
pervading all ranks ot the civil ser-vice,
which, so far from being pun
ished, is protected, encouraged, and
rewarded by the highest authori-ties.
You have set your faces like
a flint against all investigatatioue
tending to expose rascality. Proof
of that, if proof were wanting,
would be found in your denuncia-tion
ot the present. Congress (of
poshing its inquiries into those
regions where venality and corrup-tion
might otherwise have dwelt iu
safety.
In all your Southern measures
you have shown a positive abhor-ence
ot honest government. You
forced into ail places ot power men
whose characters were notoriously
bad, ami maintained them while
they perpetrated the most shame-less
robberies. You resisted every
effort of the oppressed people to
throw them oil, and when those
efforts were successful iu some of
the States, you mourned the fall of
the felons with sincere lamentation.
Just look at the crew of godless
wretches by whom Louisiana has
been elmost desolated ! In the face
of a constitutional interdict, your
Administration at Washington re-peatedly
interfered to shield them
from justice, and to nphoid tin in
iu the possession ol power to which
they had no manner ot legal claim.
At this moment they are preying
upon the prostrate people of the
State, under the protection of Fed-eral
bayonets. Is that what you
call punishing your own rascals .
You may answer that the white j
people of Louisiana beiug conquer-ed,
are rightfully enslaved, accord-1
ing to the principles planted at
Plymouth, and therefore it is not
for the like of them to invoke the
protection of law and justice. I
will therefore call your attention to
another case to which the Daho
meian rule does not apply, and in
which the failure of the ltepublicau
party to punish its own rascals has
been equally signal; I mean the
frauds of the Union Pacific Rail-toad
Company and the Credit Mo-bil
ier.
You will pardon, me, I am sure,
for referring to this affair ; you are
the last matt upon whom I would
make a personal point, and I could
not do it here if I would try, for
the conviction I have often express-ed
remaius unchauged, that your
integrity was not staiued by such
connection as you had with that
busiuess. But we both know that
it was the most gigautic fraud that
the history of modern times dis-closes.
Tho magnitude of the
iniquity almost exceeds belief. The
entire amount of the booty already
taken from tbe public aud stowed
away in the pockets of the perpe-trators
cannot be less thau one
hundred million of dollars, and
every six months they make a new
demand, which is honored at tbe
Treasury by an additional payment.
I am told that a late attorney-gen-eral
counts one hundred and eighty
millions as the sum which the
United States will lose in solid
cash, directly taken out of tbe
Treasury. 1 am not sure that this
when the people were loaded with
taxes, and when the most rigid
economy was imperatively required.
All circumstances, as well as the
direct evideuco, shows that it was
no sudden act ot thoughtless im-
VANCE FOR THE PEOPLE.
A STRONG LETTER TO GEN-ERAL
HILL.
THE PEACE MESSAUE OF MAY lSlil.
He Relieves the Suffering
Poor.
STATE OF NORTH OABOLTKA, i
Executive Department. >
Raleigh, April 23, 18113. )
DEAK SIB:—The papers in re-lation
to the seizure of horses in
Moore aud Randolph, by Lieut.
P , have been received with en-dorsements,
&c.
The explanations are very nnsat
prudence, but was willlully, delib- j i8(actory an). disingenuous. It ia
erately aud corruptly pre arranged | exceedingly strange that 15 or 20
and determined. There is nothiug horses should be taken, and the
to mitigate it; you cannot defend
it even by waving the bloody shirt.
How did the Republican party
•• punish its own rascals" in this
case ? Not a hair ou the head ot
any rascal was touched. On the
contrary, they were promoted, hon-ored
and advanced ; the most guilty
of them are now, as they were be-fore,
the very darlings of the party.
Even that is not the worst of it.—
Theso swindlers are periodically
swelling the colossal proportions ot
their crime by taking out ol the
Treasury additional millions which
they claim as tho " precious re-sults"
of their original fraud. They
have no better title to them than a
wolf has to tho mutton he slaugh-ters
by moonlight. The legal
remedy against these exactions is
so plain that ignorance alone could
hardly miss it. But your officers
have found out the way not to do it.
They permit the Government to lie
down aud be robbed semi annually
by a corporation which Tilden
would long ago have disarmed of
its power, and whose criminal abet-tors
be would have swept into tbe
penitentiary by scores.
I cannot describe to you how un-pleasant
is the sensation produced
by your professions of a desire for
peace. Why do you not give us
peace if you are willing we shall
have itt You need but to cease
hostilities aud tbe general tranquili-ty
will be restored. Y'ou refuse to
do that, because peace would en-danger
your party ascendency. To
maintain your plunderers in power! J*tlncl*"lii?tl«
you have uniformly resorted to the
bayonet—you have made civil war
tho chronic condition of tho coun-try—
wherever you could you have
displaced liberty, fraternity and
equality, and given nothing instead
but infantry, artillery and cavalry.
You are at this moment openly en-gaged
in preparing your battalious
for armed intervention iu tbe strug.
gle of the people with the carpet-baggers.
What makes this worse is your
closing declaration that you will
take no step backward. There is
to be uo repentance, no chauge of
policy, and consequently no peace-ful
or honest government. " On-ward"
you say is the word. On-ward—
to what I To more war,
more plunder, more oppression,
mote universal bankruptcy, heavier
taxes and still worse fraud ou the
public treasury I J. S. BLACK.
officers not know who they were
taken from, or who they belonged
to! This being so, in all conscience,
how did he know tbem to be dis-loyal
.
What right did Lieut. P have
to plunder the citizens f By whose
authority did be undertake to try
these people aud decide upon their
loyalty, and proceed to confiscate
their property I And more especial-ly,
who authorized him to burn tho
still bouses of the citizens ? I am
sons I did uot—neither did General
Smith, who sent him to me.
I think, according to his own con-fessions,
ho has made out a case
sufficient lor him to bo dismissed
the service. • • •
Very respectfully vours,
7. B. VANCE.
EXTKACT FROM GOVERNOR'S MES-SAGE,
MAY 17 VII, 1804.
Nor have I, amid all tho embar-rassments
and perplexities of the
situation, been uninindtul of the
great object of all our blood and
suBering—PEACE; or neglectful of
all proper and honorable efforts to
obtain it—knowing the great desire
of our people to save tho precious
blood of their children, if by any
possibility an opening might be
formed for the statesman to super-cede
tho soldier. 1 approached the
president on the first opportunity
presented by the cessation of hos-tilities
last winter, and urged him
to appoint eominissiouers and try
what might be done by negotiations.
hope indeed of those
commissioners being received by
the government of our enemy but
I thought it our duty, for humani-ty's
sake, to make the effort, and
to convice our owu suffering people
that their government was tender
of their lives and property and
happiness. I respectfully recom-mend
that you, as the representa-tives
of the people ol North Caro-lina,
should lay down what you
would consider a fair basis of peace
aud call upon our representatives
in Congress, and those to whom is
committed the power of making
treaties by the constitution, to neg-lect
no fitting opportunity of offer-ing
such to the enemy.
Sensible remark of Judge Moore
at Tarboro court: " I hope every
man before me is a lawyer, a jnror,
a witness or a defendant. I repeat,
those people in this court house
who have no busiuess would be a
great deal better employed in the
fodder lield^
Mr. Wheeler, the Republican can
didate for Vice-President, delivered
a bloody-shirt speech at St. Albans,
Vf., and the election at that place
shows a Republican loss of 244, and
a Democratic increase of 234—to-tal,
478 Democratic gain out of 1,-
500 votes. This is rather discour-aging
to those who would keep
alive the animosities engendered by
the recent civil conflict.
Bayonets for the Whites!
Ballots for the Blacks!
Gen. Grant to the Army.
■•
TWO WORTHY CITIZENS N.WI. A
RADICAL LIE.
Editors Constitution :—In your
issue of the 10th iust., is an cditoral
which purports to give an account
of a little transaction between ex-
Governor Vance and the undersign-ed,
in which you are in error. We
hope for the truth of the affair, aud
injustice to all concerned, you will
publish the following correction :
Some time in the year of 1804,
whether as a committee of a meet-ing
of the citizens or not, we are
not positive, the undersigned, in
company with another party, awited
upon Governor Vance to solicit
bacon for the suffering poor of the
city of Raleigh. The Governor was
very busy attending to several par
ties" who were in the office before
us, when Colonel Little, who was
engaged iu the office at the time,
remarked to the governor that he
would attend to us, and he very
courteously and kindly directed us
to apply to Dr. Hogg and Major
Devereux, state quartermasters,
who cheerfully and promptly furn-ished
the amount asked for, which
was immediately distributed to the
sufferers. Respectfully,
W. C. UPCHTJBCH,
JORDAN WOMBLE.
Raleigh, Aug. 12th, 1870.
Where the Taxes Go.
The Enormous Defalcations and Em
l>e:;lcments of Grants Officehold-ers.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 Senator
Windom, Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Appropriations, in a
speech made in the Senate a few
days before the adjournment of
Congress, introduced a table pre-pared
by Assistant Secretary Con-ant,
purporting to show the receipts
and disbursments of the Govern-ment
from its organization to June
30, 1875; exhibiting also the a-mount
of defalcations and the ratio
of such losses per $1,000 to the ag
gregate received and disbursed,
arranged as nearly as practicable
in periods of administration. In
this official statement the losses
during Grant's administration by
defalcation, and in other ways, are
set down as follows. Total losses in
collection and disbursment of Reve-nue
from Cnstoms, and all other
sources, Post Office, War, Navy,
Pensions, Indians and Miscel-laneous
from 1809 to June 20, 1875,
92,840,192.12. This, it is claimed,
is a very favorable showing, and
special comparisun is made with the
administration of Andrew Johnson,
duriug which it is claimed that the
total losses were $4,019,599.81.
Now, this official statement pre-pared
by Assistant Secretary Co-nant
is willfully and deliberately
false, and the figures in it are
" cooked" for campaign purposes,
as I shall proceed to show. In Feb-ruary
last, Senator Davis of West
Virginia, after repeated efforts, suc-ceeded
in having a resolution passed
the Senate calling on the Secretary
of the Treasury for " a statement
of all balances due to the United
States from public officers, and all
such balances due from other par-ties
(no longer in the service) whose
accounts terminated since 1809."—
In reply to this resolution, Secre-tary
Bristow sent to the Senate,
under date of June 17, 1870, vol-uminous
document, in which this
information in detail was supplied.
The Democratic Senators endeavor-ed
to have this document printed,
but the Republicans strenuously
aud successfully resisted. Now,
from this official statement, pre-pared
under the direction of Sec-retary
Bristow, I extract the follow-ing
summaries:
Balance dne from Posmasters in-debted
to the U. S.. whose ac-counts
have terminated sinco
1889, to Juno 19.1878 $378,371 74
Balance from ox United States
Marshal* on account of ex-pensee
of courts, from 1869
m June 19. 1-70 249,200 01
BalaiK't-s due from officers of
courts, on account of official
emoluments, from 1869 to
Juno 19. 1870 58,06783
Defalcation of U. S. Atty. H.
B.Swope 20,000 00
Balances due the 1'uited States
from Governors and Secre-taries
of Territories 10,788 22
Balances due from sundry civil
officers, *c, out of service
since 1868 to June 19, 1S76.. 205,713 12
Balances doe from late Assess-ors
of internal revenue 1,409 50
Balances due from ex-Col-lectors
of internal revenue,
on their accounts as disburs-ing
agents, from lstJ9to June
IS, 1876 33,518 10
Balainoea dnetbe United States
from late stamp agents, from
1869 to June 19, 1976 69,306 94
Balances One the Tnited States
from diplomatic and consular
ufflcen, from 1-tV.llo June l'J,
1676 41,33309
Balances due from U. State.
hankers (Crews, Aahlcht &
Co.) 130,178 84
Balai s due United States
00 account of Indian services
by officers out of service,
from 1888 to .lane 19. 1876.. 33,872 04
Balance due the United States
from pension agents out of
service, accruing from 1809
to June 19,1-76.. 228,824 80
Balances due U. S. from ex-Col-leitors
of internal revenue
appointed by Presid't Grant,
from 1809 to June 19,1876... 2,312,414 20
Balances due tho United States
by i-x-oilicers of customs
since 1868 73,753 67
Balances dne the United States
from receivers of public
moneys, disbursing agents,
tairveyorsigenerals, registers
of laud olllces, &L<:., from 1869
to Juno 19, 1879 104,630 65
Balances duetlie United States
by ex-Commissioners of di-rect
taxes for the insurrec-tionary
States of Arkansas,
Georgia, Louisiana. Missis-sippi,
North Carolina, Texas,
and Virginia, from 1864 to '09 82,665 21
Balances line from ex-officers of
tho United States Navy and
Others, on the books of the
Fourth Auditor, from the
year 1868 to June 19, 1H76-.. 023,208 79
Balances due, from army offi-cers
out of service, from the
year i-il9 to Juno 19, 1876... 284,653 08
Grand total 15,500,505 93
It will be observed that the a-tnoi:-
• due from ex-Collectors of
internal revenue alone, who have
been appointed by President Grant
since 1SC9, namely, $2,312,544.20,
is nearly eqnal to the total losses
sustained lrom 180!) to June 30,
1875, according to the statement of
Assistant Secretary Conant. The
sums given above are defalcations
pure and simple, and do not include
the vast sums stolen in the col-lection
of the internal revenue and
by smuggling through the Custom
ifouse. Besides all this, the amount
stolen by the Whiskey Ring alone
since 1809 will aggregate, at a low
estimate, $50,000,000!
Senator Bayard's straightforward
and vigorous speech delivered at
Trenton Sept. 12th tells where the
money comes from to carry on this
government. All New England
pays less thau $3,000,000 a year,
and three Southern States together
pay $20,000,000 a year.
'■ My bark is on the sea," as the
cur said when the captain threw
him overboard.
Gov. Tilden is our Man.
Governor Tilden isonr man,
And we'll help him all we can,
The Presidential chair to occupy ;
W. will labor in the van
That so nobly we've began,
As steadily oar forces multiply;
From the East and from the West,
From the annny South, with zest,
Come the tidings that we'll conquer in
the fray;
W. will work without a re.t,
Till our oonntry dear la blest,
With Tilden as the h.ro of the day.
Chorus—Then hip, hip, hurrah • for out
worthy candidate,
He is the man for President, andjastas
sure aa fate,
We'll send him to the White House to
look to matters there ;
For 8am can do the honors in the Preei
dential obair.
Governor Tilden ia our man.
He's the best that ever ran
For the office of chief executive;
In th. cool November days
W. shall distance mister Hayes,
His party a sound threashing give.
Governor Tilden has a mind
Of the good old fashioned kind,
And the tricksters shall not Sourish at
his hand;
He will pnt an end to rings
And the other naughty things,
Thatca»t such dreadful shame upon the
land.
Then hip, hip, hurrah, etc.
Governor Tilden is our man,
Aud we'll help him all we can,
To look out for our national affairs :
We will labor in the van
That so nobly we've began.
To smother all administration snares;
So, come join us one and all.
Let the mighty eagle call
The freemen who love honor, truth and
right;
Let us all held roll the ball.
Let us stay the country's fall,
By working hard for Tilden in the fight.
Then hip, hip, hnrrah, etc.
LThis song in sheet mnsic is published
hy F. W. 11,-miick, Cincinnati, Ohio, pub-lisher
and doa'er in music. Single copy
35 eta. or $3 per dozen, and can he had of
the publisher, or C. D. Yatee. Greensboro.
A fin. lithograph of Gov. Tilden embel-lishes
the title page.—EDS. PATRIOT.'
and truth, they agree to stand by
one another.
Resolved, That this association
appeals to the Chairman of the
Executive Committee to urge upon
the Chairman of District Com-mitee
aud office holders the urgent
necessity of sustaining the Repub-lican
press of the State, leaving the
matter of solicitation to his judg-ment.
Resolved, That copies of these
resolutions be forwarded by the
Secretary, together with the pro-ceedings
of this meeting, to every
Republican newspaper here repre-sented,
and to every editor who has
responded to the call by letter; and
it is understood that these proceed-ings
are not to be published, but
the resolutions are for the " con-fidential"
use and guidance of the
editors concerned.
CIVIL RIGHTS.
The Secret Platform—The Office-
Holders' League Against the Peo-ple.
Resolved, That it is deemed by
this association a good policy for
Republicans to support none for
delegates to the Convention but
those who will pledge themselves
to advocate an immediate adjourn-ment
of that body, in this manner,
defeating those who compelled this
call for Convention.
Resolved, That tbe State Execu
tive Committee is hereby respect-fully
requested by an address or
otherwise, to recommend this policy
to the voters opposed to Conven-tion
; and that the newspapers con-nected
with the association will
heartily uphold tbe policy herein
indicated and use every endeavor
to disseminate this idea among
the people.
Resolved, That there is no more
effectual guide to political senti-ment
than an outspoken and an
iudependent press, and that it is
incumbent upon office-holders who
are pecuniarily benefitted by the
success of the party, to contribute
of their means, to the sustenance
of their party papers.
Resolved, That the Chairman of
the Executive Committee of each
Congressional District of North
Carolina be requested to solicit the
office-holders of tho District, both
State and Federal, to subscribe for
a greater or less number of the Re-publican
journals of his District,
to furnish the post-office address
and names to the Editor, with a
view of circulating such newspa
pers among tbe people. The Sec-retary
is instructed to send a copy
of these resolutions to tbe Chair-man
of each District Executive
Committee.
Resolved, That this association
will oppc.ee the appointment to of-fice
of men who are unwilling to
contribute to tbe support of Repub-lican
uewspapers; and under prop-er
circumstances, will use its in-fluence
to oust office-holders who
shows such illiberal spirit.
Resolved, That the association
condemns the employment iu Fed-eral
offices of those who are unwill
ing to vote the Republican ticket,
and that the employment of such
persons will be deemed a sufficient
cause, when ascertained, to impel
this association to use its influence
for the removal of the beads of of
fleers who thus abuse tbe confidence
of the Republican party.
Resolved, That the passage of
the Usury Law is of doubtful utility
and that it is likely to cause much
distress to the people; and that
while it is not recommended that
the Republican press shall take de-cided
grounds lor or against it, it
is deemed advisable to take such
advantage of an unpopular law as
will inure to the advantage of tbe
Republican party.
Resolved, That an extended dis
cussion of the Civil Rights Bill is
deemed nnadvisable, but that the
Republicans should never intimate
the bill M wrong in principle, or
that it will be disastrous in its
operations, and it is believed time
will show the people that no evil
need be apprehended from its en-actment.
Resolved, That pungent para
graphs and short articles are recom-mended
to our newspapers.
Resolved, That the Radical news
papers represented in this associa
tion, whether by letters or by per-sonal
representation, will co-oper-ate
so far as possible in matters of
opinion, and that they will espe-cially
refrain from disagreements
and quarrels with each other, and
so far as is consistent with right
The Republican Press on
Tilden.
The small-fry Republican news-papers
are just now busy in traduc-ing
Governor Tilden, and to nail
their falsehoods to the counter we
have taken the following truthful
extracts from the more independent
Republican papers in the State of
New York, where Governor Tilden
is best known as a high toned states-man
and Reformer.
No paper is doing more to tra-duce,
malign and caricature Gover-nor
Tilden, and to belittle the great
work he has done for reform, than
Harper's Weekly. All this it is do-ing
in the face of the following
indorsement of Governor Tilden
on August 28, 1875. It then said :
"All good citizens are indebted
to Governor Tilden for calling the
attention of the Legislature and of
the State to the canal frauds, for
recommending the inquiry, and for
instructing tbe Attorney-General
to bring suit, which he has done.
Those who say that the Governor's
action is a mere political trick, aud
that he means nothing evidently
forget tbey are speaking of the man
who, when he once took hold of
the Tweetl prosecution, joined in
pnshing it relentlessly to the end."
This gives the true moasure of
the "Reform" spirit of the bilious
Bristow men who tried aud failed
to bully themselves into the control
of their party. Here are other tes-timonials
:
An admirable man for public of-fice.—
New York Evening Post,
(Rep.)
Personally he is honest enough.—
I New Y'ork Commercial Advertiser,
(Rep.)
Mr. Tilden has fairly earned the
favor of his party.—Syracuse Jour-ual,
(Rep.)
Samuel J. Tilden we believe to be
a thoroughly honest man.—New
I York Journal of Commerce, (Ind.)
We have nothing to say against
Tilden as a man, an exemplary citi-
;zen, aud a Democrat.—Lockport
Journal, (Rep.)
In public aud private life, as a
Democrat and as a citizen, his rec-ord
challenges scrutiuy.—New York
Mail, (Ind)
No one will deny bis eminent re-spectability,
or venture to cast any
doubts upon his integrity Brook-lyn
Union, (Rep.)
Mr. Tilden is a gentleman of cul-ture
and refinement. His has been
a busy life, useful, if not great.—
rjtiea Herald, (Rep)
Wo have respect for Mr. Tilden.
, We utter uotbiug in disparagement
of his character or his worth.—Al-i
ban v Journal, (Rep.)
His honesty and integrity lift
him above tbe foul atmosphere in
[ which they plan their nefarious pur-poses.—
Brooklyn Agus, (Ind.)
Mr. Tilden's personal character
| is so far above reproaefa that it
, will reflect honor upon his asso-ciates.—
New York Tribune, (Rep.)
Wo respect Mr. Tilden personal-ly,
and are glad to have an hooora-j
hie opponent in the coming cam-
' paigo.—Buffalo Express, (Rep.)
A man of unquestionable integri-ty
ami great ability, against whom
nothing can be said ou tbe score of
qualification or experience.—New
j York Express, (Ind.)
Mr. Tilden is a highly respectable
candidate, and no man iu the State
| who wishes to see the return of tho
Democrats to power need be
ashamed to vole for him.—New
York Times, (Sep.)
Governor Tilden, when he speaks
. of the canal ring, does not indulge
in empty rhetoric. He shows how
it does its business so plainly that
he who runs may read.—Rochester
Chronicle, (Rep.)
We congratulate our Democratic
friends on being led by so respecta-ble
a standard bearer as Samuel J.
Tilden. It is a good sign of the
times when even the Democracy
can nominate such a man I'ough-keepsie
Eagle, (Rep.)
He is a man of ability and integ-rity,
and his selection by the Dem-ocracy
as their standard bearer is
an evidence that character aud ca-pacity
are still thought to bo worth
something as qualifications for of-fice.—
New York Graphic, (Rep.
He has always hail the n-puta-tion
of high personal character, and
his opposition to the Tweed gang
of thieves has even placed him in
some degree among political re-formers.
Mr. Tilden is a man of
| great wealth and is generally rec-ognized,
we should say, as a thor-oughly
safe, conservative person.—
Troy Whig, (Rep.)
We speak from no partisan in-terest
or feeling when we say that
tbe Democratic State Convention
of New York did well to nominate
so eminent, able and reputable a
citizen as Samuel J. Tilden as its
candidate lor Governor of its prin-ciples,
"A Free Press—No Gag
| Law." Mr. Tilden is the worthy-bearer
of a Btandard with tins pa-triotic
and glorious inscription.—
New York Ledger, (Ind.)
He will lose some Democratic
' votes, but they will not count for
i anybody else. They will be with-held
entirely. On the other hand
he will draw out more votes from
citizens who are generally indiffer-
; ent about voting at all than any
1 man whom the Democrats can nom-
' inate. Tbe Evening Post believes
that, although Mr. Tilden may bo a
weak candidate with the remnant
of the Tweed ring, he is the very-strongest
whom the Democrats can
put before the people for the otli--.-
of Governor.—New Y'ork Evening
Post, (Rep.)