The Greensboro patriot [October 18, 1876]

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Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1876. {New Series No. 447.
SOUTHERN CHRISTIANS READ
What Hayes is Required
Do, If Elected.
to
OHIO HAYES RADICALS DE-MAND
THE LIVES OF
SOUTHERN WHITES.
ORGANIZE A
I ||.HKN & VANOBOLUB
IN EVERY TOWN8HIP
IN THE STATE
CLUB MASS MEETING,
will be ;i PUS meeting ol
il„- Til'lc II and Vance Clubs of
i,mill,nl. :i Greensboro, on Satur-day.
November 4th. A beautiful
banner will be presented to the clnb
having the largest proportionate
gamber of oami a enrolled. There
will i»- a torch-light procession at
night.
e! Come all!!
HON. A. M. SCALES,
I Dgn as, will ad
the people at the following ! aiders and abettors of those mur-
THE MAJORITY OK THE " WHITE"
UVBIBS OF THE SOUTHERN
CBTTBGHBS ARE HYPOCBITBS
AND WILL liO TO HELL
Hayes, If Elected Called l.'pon to
Declare Martial Laic in the South
We simply wish every honest
Christian nmn, of the South to read
tIn- tnllowing:
A large Hayes and Wheeler
meeting, of whiles anil blacks, the
speakers mostly,so called preachers,
was held Hi Cincinnati, on Monday
sight 21st, to get np enthusiasm lor
the Radical ticket, and here are
specimen resolutions winch were
introduced, We wish theiu care-fully
read, and handed around, and
talked about. We want every man
in the South lo know thai Haves'
friends in Ohio braud the Southern
Christians as " murderers" and
" hypocrites," their religion as a
" mockery," that they will "go to
hell," and that " their churches are
the refuge tor murderers, as they
were formerly used to deceive the
world in regard to the infamous
lives of the slave mongers."
People of North Carolina, the
vote of your Stale may decide the
election in the nation. As North
Carolina goes, so goes the country.
! Can you read such sentimentsabout
' you and yours, by the Republicans,
in open meeting, in Hayes own
State, and hesitate an instant as to
which side you will takef God
forbid !
Here are specimen resolutions.—
They referred specially to the Ham-burg
riot, which has been proven
before a Radical judge, to have been
brought on by a negro mob firing
upon and killing a white man.—
Read for yourselves:
Resolved, That the perpetrators,
times nnd placi
Anderson's Store, Wed'sday Oct.ls.
i iiursday, Oct. 10th.
. h'riday, Oct. 20th.
Hollo* lyaville, Saturday, Oct. 21st.
. Monday, Oct. 23rd.
. i:,, ...iv, Oct. 24th.
i. w i dnesday, I let. 25th.
n II, Thursday, Oct. 26th.
■ in, lav. Oct. 27th.
Saturday, Oct. 28th.
i id. 30th.
. I uesday, Oct. 31st.
i ^tore,Wednesday, Nov.lst
i liurch, Thursday,Nov 2nd
\ oi.■'.-. l'i iday, Nov. 3rd.
■ < m da]. Nov. 4th.
Appointments of Hon A. S
Merrimon.
. mi.il Executive Committee
the tnllowing appoint-
Wiuston, Forsyth county, Wed
,\i, idia, I 'iv nlson county, Thurs-
I 'oint, Goil ford county. Fri
. I HI. -jo.
VASS IN GUILFORD.
li i taxi ■ at tlie ibi-ces,
and the various
. i ' 11, be present
--'licit- fellow citizens on the
laj
lay,
derers should be hung, and we de-mand
the life of M. C. Rutler and
his confederates, Ac.
Resolved, That the lauds, goods
and. chatties of those murderers
(General Rutler and the white peo-ple
of Hamburg) should be sold, to
maintain the families of the mur-dered.
Resolved, That we believe the
Democrats of the United States,
where such outrages are perpe
traled, are incapable of self govern-ment,
and should be put under mar-tial
law.
Resolved, That the machinery of
the majority of the white churches
in the South is rnu in the interest of
the oppre.-sors of an inuocent and!
helpless people, and we believe the
majority of the members are hypo-crites
and will go to hell for tailing
to observe the most obvious pre
cepts of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Resolved, That we believe the
religion of the white Southerners
to be a mockery, and that the
church now is the refuge of Ihe mur
deter, as it was formerly used to
deceive the world in regard to the
infamous lives of the slave mongers.
Further comments is nnnecessary.
Will while Southern men vote lor
the candidate of a party which
tolerates such sentiments !
(let. Will
do 17th
do 1-th
.!„ 19th
do Doth
do -'1st
do 'Jord
do -.'4th
.In Kth
do Hth
do 27th
da Kith
iln 30th
do 31et
-. \\ ..Incsday, Nov. la)
I do Bod
do 3rd
H edi e iday,
-..iv,
I
I "!.i\ .
lay,
ri II daj,
W I
day,
Si ttli Abroad.
~ ig a re iiiiion of Federal
Dayton, Ohio, last tall,
■■nil:
'•I ap| n von a thorough-ly
whipped and lecoustrncted rebel,
, iiic to Dayton to take oft
thi brave defenders ol
• i, at Home.
Addressing the crowd assembled
istwi ek, Judge Set
- Von Ku Kins SCOUNDRELS.
m INFERNAL FIENDS OF
IIU.I..
I in.in should be certain that
toi« ' properly registered.—
.nee- are left off in
i g. Take nothing for
ed li you have moved from
ship to another since you
rej ■'. do not forgel that you
in the township in
i are living or you will not
red to vote. Don't lorget
tin-, Inn attend to the matter.
. lilt up these hands before
"Does Brogden belong to the A-merican
Alliance—the new Repnb
lican-Know-Nothing Party!" This
was the question asked us yester-day
by one of our israelite citizens
who is related to Isadore Cohen, so
brutally murdered at Enfield and
for which two negro brutes were
setenced to be hanged. One ot
them Brogden has already saved
from the gibbet by commuting his
sentence lo imprisonment, tlieother,
Powell, he had respited three times
but he wss to swing certain on Fri-day
last. Now comes the news
that Brogden has again respited
him to the 10th of November, when,
in all probability, the election lieing
over he too will cheat the gallows
and follow bis accomplice to the pen-itentiary.
Well may the Raleigh
Xeics ask "Will the brutal murder
ot Cohen ever be adequately aven-ged!"
And well may ihe relatives
of the murdered foreigner ask "Does
Brogden belong to the Republican
Know-Nothings !" Will these vote
for a party whose leader suffers one
of their most industrious members
to be murdered iu cold blood, by a
few negro savages, and who, after
the law has sentenced them to
death, encourages such monstrous
crime by cheating the gallows of
the two murderers evidently for no
other reason but to gratify his ne-gro
supporters. Was not Cohen's
life as sweet to him and his family,
as is that of Williams and Powell
to them and their families! Poor
Cohen was killed without a mo-ment's
warning,and yet his murder-er
has already been respited four
times. How is this 1—Goldsboro
Messenger.
William A. Wheeler, the republi
can candidate for Vice-President,is
in favor of remanding the Southern
states the military tule, that they
may be the more effectually restor-
-ei,ee ot m v Creator :eUto ^H'eibag supremacy, and
tress, and through publican candidate lor president, is
1 oi temptation aud iu favor of keepings standing ar-cot
i option, which followed the war ■ m>'!? tlle i?oa,h uutil everJ" South-
- ** - —• rke^^iroi'nug'tCS: d their palms ; and
iv that 1 never had a
uicious views fit to all the two high-est
officers in the gift of the Amen
in sell was preferred Cttn I,K°P|0' H 80i lue American
and honor of my' 'i s1"u;c0h','rhiBglh!0Upl<rel rboegal't"itvreUa8s,e't!haWt ol se-lecting
their own rulers, but au iin-peria.
Catsar should grasp the
sword aud make short work of all
their pretentious to free govern-ment,
of which they are so unwor-thy.—
A'. Ilaten Reg.
■'■■ speech at the
1 Mention.
How the Republicans Treat the Colored Man.
Ah. my i!e;,r sir! Allow me to welcome yoo o Wellington.— Tore God, but dis yeah chile war tooked in an' dun gone for!
President (Iriini has heard of you and will be glad to see yon toon Dat war a heautifulum day when I come to die yeah Washing-as
be returns from Long Branch. Consider yourself under the turn. I had all my good close aud $100 iu greenbacks. Hut all
especial protection of the l.esi Government the world ever saw.— iam gone now. De t'ood man wat met mo so eorjumly ,01 tie road
As a token Of our gratitude for what you, my noble colored has gone like the grasshopper twineth. De Pres.dent don't want
friend, did toward putting down the war, we shall give eacb of to see me as yet, I dont got no forty across nor a mule. When I
you forty acres of land and a inn!,-.:, hoiwe and barn ami an otliee. asked ,le p.-tiiee for <le house and l,.,i u *sa was gii. ;.. nie, dev
We have opened 1. Freedman's Hank for your benefit. Have bounced me clar under do bridge. Den 1 put my money in de
placed $1.U01,1)00 iu it as a ftlarter lor Ihe colored folks. Any Freedman's Bank, an' shnah enutl'.somebody took care of it BO die
money yon have with you deposit It in the Hank—we will take yeah chile don't see it agin I Wbeu 1 go to de bank for ii. dev
care of it! If there Ig any one thins a Republican like myself i- fro mo dene cibil rights, and now Pee gwine hack to old Virgiuny
good for it i-- to keep the property oral] poor people. to find <te good ole master and see if he will gib me work.
Fi t!:e N.w York Herald. The constitution of the American If Hayes be elected, and the prin-
THE AMERICAN ALLIANCE alliance, whose nomination Rather-; ciples to which he is committed pre-ford
B. Hayes has accepted and vail, through the influence of his
IS GOV. HAYES A MEM HER . whose principles he endorses and administration the foreign born eiti-as
an honorary member ot tho or sen. although he may have came to
DOCtntENTS TO PROVE HE IS. der, is bound to support, contains our shores when but one year old,
these provisions: | cau never vote or participate iu the
i4rc thai Oenuim or only a Campaign
Bus* .'
Henry Watttsrson says: "Hayes
a brass pin in the rullieot
dj shirt*
We have received, and publish
below, an extraordinary campaign
document from Mr. Pelton, secre
tary ot the national democratic
committee. As will be scon, it as
sumes to give irrefragable proof ot
Governor Hayes? connection with,
and endorsement of the American
national alliance, an organization
opposed to Inreiguers and "down
on the Pope." Governor Hayes, it
be remembered, repudiated all
connection with th" order not long
igo, when somebody accused him
of writing a letter indorsing its
principles and aims. This campaign
documeuts, however, supplies what
purports to be a tue simile of a let-ter
of endorsi ment authorized by
Governor Hayes, and gives day
and date to prove its genuineness.
Tht Herald is not a partisan paper,
but it gives the campaign news as
it comes up for what it is worth.—
We have been furnished with a nice
plate of the lac-simile of the letter,
but we have no room tor it in that
shape. We give the text of tin-letter
and the queer statements ac-companying
it without vouching
for their reliability.
IIAM.s THE CANDIDATE OF Mil.
AltEEICAN ALLIANCE -IiKIAil.nl
HIS NOMINATION- HIS INll'.iJv ll.u
WITH THE COMMITTEE—Ills LET
TEE OF ACCEPTANCE—\. FAC
BTMILE OF IT—THE "Al it Mi
FOREIGN DOBN CITIZEN TO VOTE
OR HOLD OFFICE—EXPOSURE OF
Till: SECRETS OF THE ORDER.
At. a convention of the American
iiiNsmnioN OF THE AMERICAN I a";Vrs °' Rpveruuiein.
ALLiANCE,OBGANiZED 1871,1873, - Can anything add more to the
1876-AMERICANS TO RULE A ' duplicity of Governor Hayes!-
Elected to office by foreign votes,
asking the suffrage.- of all, vet pre-scribing
all born abroad ; prohibit-ing
them ever taking part iu the
government of this country or ever
casting a vote.
MEBICA.
ARTICLE 1. Tho name of this
Order shall lie the American Alli-ance.
Art. 2. Sec 1. The object lor
which this Order isorgauized is for
; maintenance of American prin-: HA1 ,.s- , Bri.KK (J1, ArCK1.TANrE.
elides, as follows : An amendment fjOLtTMBOS, Ohio, July 10, 1876.
o the naturalization laws, limiting DBAB Siu:-C.overuor Hayes
the suffrage to persons born in this ; j,,^^ 1IR1 „, a(.kllow|eu „,.,;,„
country, or of American parents; | o| vullr ,..,,,„,,, ,.lvol. ot ,,„|v » ,.„.
the election of American born citi-zens
only to official positions in this
country.
DOWN WITH CITIZENS OF FOREIGN
HIRTII—EVERY MEMBER OF THE
ORDER MUST TAKE TUE FOLLOW-ING
OATH :—
" I .solemnly swear that I will not
vote for any person or persons for
any official position iu this country,
under the laws thereof, who are
not American born citizeus, and
that I will not betray any of the | To L. S. TYLER, box 2071, N. Y.
secrets ot this order or give the 1 . L . _ .
name ol any person belonging to
the same without his consent, ami
that I will faithfully obey all rules
or orders of the same not in conllict
with the constitution of the United
States and the State of which I am
a resident; and that I will do all in
closing resolutions of the American
alliance, aud to say in reply that he
is deeply gratified by this expres-sion
of confidence. The importance
of carrying t be Slates of New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut iu the
approaching canvass is fully recog-nized,
and at the proper time refer-ences
will be given your commit-tees
for such aid and co operation
as seems to be advisable.
Very respectfully,
ALFRED I). LEE, Sec'y.
Judge Settle on Boyd.
Is Judge Settle tat lioyd I We venture
to answer iu »he negative, unless he has
changed his miud since he gave iu bis
Bwom testimony before ihe United States
Senate Investigating Committee iul-.l.
It will lie remembered that a committee
by the U. S. Senate In
Lo,nary of that year to investigate the
Ku Klux. Judge Settle.being first sworn,
was exami 1 as ft lows:
alliance, hi Id iu Philadelphia on the endorBement, after reaffirming the
fourth oi July last, Rutherford B.
Hayes and William A. Wheeler
were nominated as the candidate:;
ot the American alliance lor presi
dent and vice president of the
United States.
On the ."ith of July, iu oue of the
pallors ol the Continental hotel,
Governor Hayes received a com-mittee
from that
which Lamb,
principles of their constitution, read
as follows:—
ORDER OF THE AMERICAN ALLI-ANCE,
CONFERENCE OF THE
GRAND COUNCIL, INI I ED STATES.
PHILADELPHIA, July 4,1S7G.
At a conference of the grand
council of the United States ot the
American alliance, held at l'hilad-convention,
of elphia, July 4 and 5, 1S70, the fol-ol
Ohio, was lowing resolutions were adopted,
chairman, which committee inform- and the conference recommend all
ed Hayes ol his nomination; and American boru citizens, without
Hayes thereupon thanked the com distinction of party, at the ensuing
mittee and accepted the nomina-1 national election, to cast their votes
tion. ' jn favor of American principles as
On the 9th of July, 1S7C, tho the only safety for the future wel
resolutions of the convention, with fare of this country:— • * *
a copy of the constitution of the' That the nomidatiou of Rather-order,
the oath, the address and a ford B. Hayes, of Ohio, for presi-certineate
of honorary membership dent of the United States, and Wil-were
duly presented to Mr. Hayes, Ham A. Wheeler, of vice president,
at Columbus, Ohio, by a special be and the same are hereby en-uiv
power to lorward the interest ol
• ' . ,, ., vaa appointed the oider generally, and my council.
Of which I am a member, and of
American principles in this country.
So help me God."
I Question.—With yoor knowledge or the
THE ORDER FOR HAYES. I"e'"'" 1,v w,'k'' "'" organisation seeks
—, , ,. - 1. to accomplish ita pnrposes, do you believe
The resolution ol nomination and .it woul,d/,beani,e 'to e' ntrust,.us mem.bers
with political power as members of Con-ress
or the State Legislature .'
Answer—"': >;:. Having heard the
character of thofat oaths I could not trust
them with auythin'j aaswsriv.
Question.—Would it be prudent to re-move
the disabilities of snefa men I
Answer.—Well I would not trust a man
is any position private or pwbiic who l be-lieve
was a member of that organization
or who had taken these oaths.
This testimony may be fonnd on page
'M of the Report of the Senate Committee,
Feb. 3, 1871. So Judge Settle isagaiust
Boyd or he has gone back on his oath he-fore
this committee.
How is it Captain Bottle '
committee of five, of which William
T. Black was chairman. Hayes ac-cepted,
thanked Ihe committee, and
said he would make formal acknowl-edgment
iu writing. On the 10th
dorsed by the American alliance
conference, and we earnestly advise
all who are in favor of American
principles as advocated and set
forth in these resolutions to give
of July, 1876, through Alfred E. 1 these nominations au active and de-
I.ee. his private secretary, he did termined support.
make formal acknowledgment and
indicated to the society that he
would put them in the way of get-ting
money to help carry the elec-tion.
The committee which waited npon
Hayes at Philadelphia was com-posed
1 Lamb, ot Ohio; Perry,of
Newark, N. ,1.: Warburton, of
Hartford, Conn.,Eimhall and Tyler,
•1! New Ycrk, and Black, ol Penn-sylvania.
The committee which
waited upon him at ColombUS was
composed of William T. Black, ol
Pennsylvania, Lemuel S. Tyler, of
New York; C. II. Smith, of Con-necticut,
aud Perry, ol Newark,
N. J.
By order of the American alliance
conference. L. S. TYLER.
Secretary.
Rutherford B. Hayes accepted
this nomination promptly and eager-ly,
and reiterated his acceptance
solemnly and formally after he had
been lully acquainted with all the
details of the organization, the con-stitution
and the oath. He formally
aco ! ed the honorary membership
and i> bound never to support as a
candidate nor appoint to otliee any
foreign born citizen and to labor to
so amend the naturalization laws
that only American born citizen
cau vote.
We must give the Washington
Republican credit for speaking the
truth at least once. It says:
"Let it not be forgotten that
there would have been no Republi-can
party in the South but for the
carpet baggers : that they stood np
tor the Government aud the freed-man
where nobody else would, and
that the native white population re-fused
to participate iu any measure
of reconstruction."'
This is folly demonstrated by the
fact that in tiie States from which
the organized robbers aud corrup
tionists known as " carpet baggers-have
been expelled by the honest
indignation of a plundered people,
the Republican party has no
strength whatever. Wheu thieves
and scouudrels " staud up for the
Government," there is manifestly
something very rotten about the
Government.— Courier Journal.
Remember that William A.
Wheeler the candidate of the Rad-ical
party for the Vice-Presidency,
votedJor the Civil Rights bill in its
most odious form.
From the Richmond Dispatch.
Open Letter From John H OU-mer
to the President.
RICHMOND VA., October 3, 1876.
SIR :—It is always, on fitting oc-casions,
the high prerogative privi-lege
of the American citizen to
approach the President of the
United States iu person or by com
munication through the public press
on any subject which legitimately
belongs to his executive duties and
administrative responsibilities. In
imperial governments proper such
is not the case, except at the risk of
the writer's head. We have not as
yet reached that stage ot human
progress iu the advanced state of
political science which generally
eventuates in a splendid govern-mental
magnificence, to end in na-tional
degradatiou, individual pau
perism, aud the utter humiliation
of the people. The time may come,
but not yet, when thought will be
criminal if it combats the policy of
the "powers that be." I crave
leave, as one of your (former) sup-porters,
to avail myself of the
interim to addtess you briefly, but
seriously, on matters of the highest
import, in which we are all inti
mately involved.
History, Mr. President, teaches,
when candidly pursued, many im
portent truths to the people. To
avoid danger it is always wise to
confront it at the threshold. The
human soul—and this without re-gaid
to "race, color, or previous
condition,"—dwarfs when the light
ot liberty is shut out. It will
struggle in its last grasps to catch
the last lading glimmerings of its
heaveuboru light, though it may-be
emitted by the lurid flash of
lightning as it plays in derision
around the shattered dome of her
temple, or trembles athwart the
gathering storm. Liberty is the
light of the soul. Death is prefera-ble
to its extinction. But the lib
erly which is craved by man is not
vicious. It is a jewel—pure, gen-uine,
costly. It is of the soul. It
seeks to elevate all; to depress
uone. It knows no passions. It
indulges iu no wanton cruelty. It
seeks to shield all alike from the
hand ol tyranny and to gather all
under its hroad and invincible
shield. It lifts up the weak and
stays the hand of violence. It
warns the tyrant, while it nerves
the patriot. It rebukes the aspir-ing,
and draws arouud the oppress-ed
,he shield of law, right, justice.
It guarantees freedom of speech,
guards a free press, and scorns
baud : repudiates falsely-assumed
virtue in its officers. It is quick to
detect and swift to punish any cou-
Bpiracy against the Government;
but it is alow to listen to interested
eavesdroppers aud despises spies.
It holds to the integrity of consti-tution,
while it seeks its own every-where.
It repudiates martial late
and ubides by the civil law. It
scorns force when peace, with its
hallowed wings, has covered over
the past troubles. It is gen -roiis,
charitable, confiding. It envelops
its authority with the moral power
ol law, and abides with self assured
confidence in the fundamental laws
of the land. Let not rashness seek
to violate its sanctity. Let not
ambition seek to mar its visage.
Let not passion seek lo pollute with
fraud, or to cover with blood, its
abiding place.
But, in limine, to approach the
chief object of this communication,
let us consider one, and only one,
of the many issues which you have
rashly presented to the American
people. It. is paramount to all else,
aud will be met and decided by the
people. As toyou.it preseuts at
once a fearful question ; as to the
people, the majesty ot the people,
it presents tho issue of liberty of
conscience—liberty of action—lib-erty
of franchise—liberty and power
of all that is dear, valuable, sacred.
It involves the freedom of election,
which embraces the source and ex-istence
ol liberty itself.
We of the South are already iu
the power of the Government, and
you are the Government, if the At-torney-
General's commands, backed
by General Sherman's orders, are
ailowed to stand. The people of
the North and Northwest must
now choose between a tyrant and
tree government: between ichite
xlarery, pinioned by the bayonet to
the car of poicer, and a constitu-tional
system ot organized govern-ment
in which the States, in con-stitutional
subordination to the Fed-eral
Government, shall keep and
exercise local State jurisdiction and
authority. This, sir, is the issae
which, 1 rejieat, you have rashly
raised, and called upon the north-ern
people to staud with folded
arms quietly by aud witness the
scene, not of the humiliation of the
Southern States and people, but the
cold blooded, long-premeditated,
and heartless murder of the consti
tution—the utter overthrow of ev-ery
franchise—the actual downfall
of every constitutional barrier—aud
along with them all the annihila-tion
of each and every State, and
as a consequence the overthrow of
the majesty of the people. This,
.Mr. President, is the single, isolated,
monstrous question at issue. Ex
pede Hercutem.
We of the South, who advocated
in 1872 your re-election, anticipated
no such bitter fruit from your sec-ond
term. But, sir, this entire
question is by us entrusted to the
manliness, the heroism, the firm-ness
and patiiotism of the non-siaveholding
States. We are se-curely
wrapt iu the panoply of jus-tice
; and, conquered as Southern
States, we are yet men, eudowed
with one virtue—Fortitude—above
all others. We shall as men seek
to do naught. We do not fear your
soldiers. If they come, which, for
your sake, God forbid, they are
American citizens—troe men and
good. So are we. They are under
the "star spangled banner." So are
we. They are men under orders,
with bayonets in their hands. We
are men, without arms, engaged In
the patriotic duties of loyal citi
zens, and will discharge our duties
fearlessly, prayerfully, successfully,
under the Coaififnitoii, fearing none
but God.
The issue which you have so un
necessarily aud rashly forced upon
us and the American people will,
in the eud, rebound with a moral
re action too powerful to be resisted.
The colored people neither need or
desire the protection of soldiers-
It is all a mere make shift to cover
the corruption of party aspirants.
Sir, the robberies and frauds of
these people—by the agents of the
Freedman's Bank—will lose fifty
voters where martial laic will secure
one. Y'ou will live to see the dav '
when your nobler, manly feeling's
are again yours, and will regret the i
fatal hour you signed that and |
many other orders. The eyes of I
Christendom are on yon.
It is asked, "Did General Grant
save the Union that President
Grant might play with its destinies
as a plaything, and at last erect au
Empire on its ruins—causelessly,
wautonly, recklessly inflicted bv
himself." This question, with its
unutterable significance and bound
less import, Mr. President, is silent
ly whispered by millions now; pos
terity lor ages may sound aud re
peat it in tones of thunder even
loud enough to disturb the dead.
It will then be too late to check or
counteracted the effects of your
counter-revolution. You will have
passed away, and with you the last
reliable hopes ol man in a republic.
It is now a meaningless truism—
"Let us have peace." Wheu the
storm-king has lashed the ocean
into fury, suth apothegms sound
very like child's play. The ship ot
state lies well nigh dismantled. It
is now nseless to cry out. as she
rolls in mid-ocean, for the life-boats.
The ship must be righted. The crew
must be united. The guns must be
thrown overboard. No mutiny
among the hands. It will not au
swer for the leaders to take sides in
the mutiny. A clear head, a stout
heart, and a strong hand at the
helm. No voice but one can bid
the deep waters be still—no human
voice but one can hush the mutinous
clash of arms—bat one. When the
President sides with either party
the ship is lost; unless, indeed, a
mightier power—the majesty of tin-people—
commands the peace. Then,
indeed, the ship will be safe.
But let the people in their majesty-speak—
as I hope and believe they
will—and all will be safe. The
ship will be righted, the arms
throwu overboard, the mutineers
overcome, and the old ship of state
once more safely anchored.
In conclusion, Mr. President,
allow me to assure you and my
brother Republicans everywhere
that the " colored people" of the !
South are to-day far better off—hap-pier
aud more prosperous in every
way—than the colored people of the
North. They are more respected,
and when worthy, more encouraged j
They neither need or ask protection. '
They desire to labor in peace—real ,
peace. Your interference on their i
behalf is as gratuitous as it is mis- ,
chievous.
If any apology is deemed proper
to writing this letter, it will be
found in the fact that it lies been
written by oue who exerted his best
energies of mind and heart iu 1872
to secure the electoral vote of Vir-ginia
for you. You have deviated
from the path of true Republican
ism—have sought strife rather thau
peace- and ate now throwing your
power against harmony,and in favor
ot a sectional party.
Your obedient servant,
JOHN H. GILMER.
A Republican Judge on
Taft's Order.
At the October term of the Court
of Common Pleas of York county,S
C, Judge Mackey, who is one of the
most prominent Republicans in that
State, in charging the grand jury,
characterized the recent order of At
torney-Geueral Talt in regard to tin-powers
of United States marshals
and their deputies as "the most for
midable and audacious act ot politi
cal intimidation at present within
the knowledge of the court," and de
dared that "the judge of a court
who would permit the provisions ol
that order to be enforced in his cir-ouit
would be false to his duty."
Judge Mackey furthereaid that I
niteil States marshals and deputy
marshals on his judicial circuit
would not be permitted to carry-out
the provisions of the order ol
the Attorney-Gereral to the extent
of disregarding the duly issued pro
cess of the State courts, and should
they offer resistance to the judicial
authority adequate force would In-invoked
to maintain that authority,
aud the court would assume the re-sponsibility.
The Georgia Election.—Full re
turns of the Georgia election put
the majority at 78,000. There were
four counties iu which not a single
Radical vote was cast, three iu
which only oue was cast, ten with
less than ten, and nineteen with
less than fifty. There are three ne
groes elected to the House, one Re
publican in the Senate and seven in
both houses. Thousands of negroes
voted the Democratic ticket. In
Bob Toombs'county not a Radical
vote has been cast in three years.
The election returns insure a solid
Democratic delegation iu Congress.
Don't Care.
You don't care for politics t Yon
ought to care. It is your "Don't
cares" more than anything else
that's brought politics into disre-pute
and the nation into danger.
For
I. You are a trustee. There is
no such thing as universal suffrage.
Women, children, lunatics, crimi-nals,
and nnnatnralized foreigners
do not vote, only about one in ev-ery
ten of the whole population
does vote. You represent ten peo-ple
in your community. If yon
send a man to Congress and be is
too busy making money to care for
politics you count him recreant.
If you dou't. care for politics you
are equally recreant. You are a
representative. It is your duty to
care.
II You owe something to poster-ity.
What would you say of a man
iu 1776 who did not care for poli-tics
f A more devastating army
invades the country now. The
plague of domestic flies is worse
than the plague of foreign locusts.
The office-seekers are more danger-ous
than redcoats. Dry rot is
worse thau bombardment. If you
wish to baud down the inheritance
ot the fathers to the children, yon
must care. Indifference is treason—
of a mild sort, but deadly.
III. If higher motives do not af-fect
you, self interest should. What
has paralized industry ; stopped the
wheels of manufactories; left half
the nation barren and unproduc-tive
; left us a money without sta-ble
value and a future without cer-tainty
; created universal distrust
aud suspicion ; and filled the col
utuus of our daily papers with scan-dal,
half of it slander, the other
half of it truth! "Don't care" has
done it. So long as substatial men
"don't care" who administers the
government, or on what principle it
is, so long taxes will be high, and
corruption great, and mismanage-ment
profitable, and reform spas-modic.
The reform must begin,
not at Washington, but in the hearts
of men all over the country who
"don't care."
IV. You cannot do anything T
Have you ever tried t You can go
to primary elections. You may be
beaten at the first venture, you de-serve
to be if you stay beaten. But
even defeat may be a prelude to vic-tory.
The presence of men of char-acter,
of wealth, of influence, in the
primary meetiugs will make itself
felt.
V. You can resolutely refuse to
vote for bad men because they are
put on your ticket. You can break
away from party leaders ; and when
you do, party leaders will have to
consult you and such as you or fail.
You can write and sign a declara-tion
of independence on your ac-count.
The office holders and office
seekers are an insignificant minor-ity.
Look around yon any Sunday
—how many are there in church T
Stand on the sidewalk and look at
the throng in any city street—how
many are hungry for office! Go
through a railroad car and take a
census—the vast majority are hon-est
and disinterested as yourself.
And you cannot do anything? Non-sense.
You can do everything.
The independent voters, the men
who care mere for country than
party .and for parly only as it serves
Ihe country, can control politics
any time they choose. It is don't
care that, makes the humble Ser-vents
of the polticiaiiH whom they
affect to despise. Wherever patri-otism
in the many is stronger than
the love ol pelf in the few, the conn
try will lie redeemed. Its greatest
cause is "don't care.'' That is its
old man of Ihe sea : and you are the
one to help throw him over.— Chris-tian
Weekly.
The discussion between GOT,
Vance and Judge Settle took place
in this city on the last Tuesday,
the lllth inst., and notwithstanding
there was a large crowd present,
supposed to be about 4,000, Judge
Settle was not mobbed nor in any
way disturbed, but the best of or-der
prevailed during the whole day.
But we are sorry to say that Judge
Settle did act altogether as if In-wanted
the day to pass off SO quiet-ly,
for in the closing up of the dis-cussion
he let his temper get the
belter of li 1 tn and acted more like
a—well we dislike to accuso a man
of Judge Settle's standing of being
in any way under the iulluenco of
liquor, nor do we like to say that
he is insane, but something was tho
matter, and the pitcher was emptied
—but then it might have been fill-ed
with water, for we did not taste
or smell it.—Charlotte Jtemocrat.
The Ketc Territory.—The new
Territory of Pembina, which is to
be erected ont of a portion of Dako-ta,
covers 7l',0.'i() square miles, and
is ou the northern boundary ot the
United States. There are within
its limits 2,000 miles of navigable
waters, including the Missouri,
Yellowstone and Red Rivers The
letter furnishes communication
northward with Manitoba.
Bismarck is the railway terminus.
Excepting on the Bed and Chey-enne
rivers there is very little tim-ber,
while a iarge district is com-posed
of sand and gravel, and is
known as the "bail lands." Notwith-standing
the long and intensely
cold winters, this region is said to
be a good one for stock raising.
There are shout 12,000 people in
the Territory, half of them white
settlers. Bismarck will probably
be made the capital.
A prudent man advised his drun-ken
servant to put up his money for
a rainy day. In a few weeks his
master inquired how much he had
saved. "Faith none at all," said
he; "it rained yesterday, and it all
went"
A Western editor retuned a tail-or's
bill, endorsed "Declined hand-writing
illegible."
The English rule in Fiji at first
destroyed every third pr-rsou by
measles, and has lately had a little
war with the mountaineers still
cannibal. Of the 100,000 inhabi-tants
l.'JO.OOU have been converted
to Methodism, but the other 211,000
thought this would not injure them
as an article of diet, and came down
upon them like the wolf in the fold.
The English governor of course'
punished them severely iu war, and
condemned 30 of the captured ring
leaders to death. Fourteen were
executed, aud the cause of Christi-anity
is uow firmly established in
the laud. The Methodist Fijians
refrain from dining on their prison-ers.
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Would it be fair to call a dog who
keeps barking all night a barkkeep-er!