The Greensborough patriot [July 8, 1865]

              PATRIOT.
GREENSBOROTJGfi, If. C.
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VOLUME XXVII....- :.. No. 1,252.]
• SATURDAY, JULY 8th, 18«5.
EDITOBOFTHB FATUIOT : The etorni of abuse to
which yo« have subjected me w«uU certainly have
eVtirred me from another attempt lo disabuse your
ns-.n.l, did I not find ia your iui " rampige" over
cay short reply the cause as 4 suppose of the dir«ct
and covert assaults on me, that have ladened the
...lufflii of your paper for several weeks. Tou say
one of the resolutions teportad to the public mee-ting
at '• Pleasant lnion Church vat in rfcet a call
ap*7t the iHIIJSSIlYsjl to *«'=« andionfiteate the cjfirt and
maUriale+of Tht Patriot. Men equally at smart at Mr.
Welker profttt I* undtritand the ruolution to imply a
desire- to have evr cjjict teixtd." Here it is ! This is
the horrid spectra that has haunted your train and
saade it give t»rth those trfrrible spasmodic utter-
• ances. My only reply for myself and all the gcntle-
' ■ .n who with me reported these r«solutious is that
-here ie not one word of truth iu all this wild c»a-
.totare, not one but ie opposed ia principle te all vio-nu
either by an unorganised mob or by arbitrary
military power. It has never even been hinted that
sjuch was the intent of the authorities. 1 am by in-itinot
the advocate of a free press as well aa free
speech, aod I should be foremost to denounce any
set of the authorities looking in this Jireotien. Such
a. thought had never even as to possibility entered
aj salad, aad I was eecfounued when 1 saw this
iaJqoity war charged upon me. Were I wicked
•uough to a*«»tr« such thing, I hope sir, the day is
AI: when such an iniquity can bo perpetrated by*
my authoiity. But it is vain to deny what those
'•mart" man may understand to be aduire tor suci
a Joei. The history of my past life must bo my
rerutstioa of so foul a calumny. Bat even yourself
in oalmer meod will not bo able to find any ground
for such a charge In that resolution. It is your un-doubted
right to express your own views and to
advooa'e any principles and measures that yon ap-prove
in your paper, and it ia the unchallenged
right of theso who coincide ia your utterance, and
n 1 others to patronize your paper. That resolution
eoBeedes all this. But your viows are not the views,
and your pri'noipics and measures not such as many
Isyal :-ien approve. TI<o meetings at Friendship and
fascestewn afost this, if 1 am not misinformed. New
have such man ne right in the premises. May 'hey
net at least talk of or recommend the establishment
it Greensboro of a paper that will express thair
views and advocate their policy la the reorganiza-tion
of this State. You nor your paptr are assailed,
Tonr views are not assailed. No attempt is made to
ieiatcii your patrons. Now whore ia thacrime ? You
3* not elaim a monopoly of Greensboro for your
press, tho pr*po£ation of yoor views. These priv-illgcsar*
all that that resolution designed te claim
•rtzeretse. All it is tnjdt to say beyond this is
without the content ef those who suggested, repor-ted
or adopted it. The committee suiely are com-petent
to say what was their peopoM. To suggest bo
their l'eliow ouiseus of Uuiiford and the adj-Mniug
counties of Iik? mind with themselves the propriety
of having such an or; *a Is "The very head &;id treat
of my offending." To ebsrge this with viu'diclivoiiess
*r h'.Uern^as of disposition i» u.-iu.p!e absnrdity.—
There was no motive fer it. Although without a
«e>raenal acquaintance, the reletion betweea yeur-aolf
and myself so far aa I earn know was f.-ieadly.
Thers need not be any other feeling present when
tiere is expressed the desire common te many Unieu
And loyal men to have an exponent of their views
oveu in Greensboro If there is an expression in that
raaolution that uaii justly b« interpreted asotfensive
te your.-e'.t" or any oliier 1 am sure it was not de-signed
to bo so. If the authorities feel that they
were called upon by it te .acize and ceutscate your
property they do not undei stand the loyal men of tin.
•euth who have for four years sutiered for resisting
just such aots of tyranny as this. But even if
" jeudaest had ruled the hour" in that meeting
would that have justified the naentr of your attack
ex. me ' What cause had I ever given yea to believe
that 1 cher.shsd ill-will toward you • Why should
J who like yourself am one of the people raise n.y
voice to invoke the arm ef power to erushyouT
Your kindred anJyoui father's kindred are members
el my church—ethers arc my most trusted friends,
and Why should I assail you ' 1 de not believe
Uiat the bitterness evinced against ae iu your paper
has i'.a inspiration ia your heart. You have done
wrong to your nobler nature I You have bees misled
and in tho hour of sober thought it will casio you
sinoere regret.
" The point you make" and insist upon it that I
made a war speech ai.d war pre-eminently- success,
ful la induoicg cur youth to volunteer under the
standard of the rebellion, And supposed that 1 had
aimittei the faot of having made a SharOOeply when
sailed a pan. I oouU also prove that one who seemed
to lead in tUaira in that day shcu'.j after asserted
that I had poured cold water on the effort to get
volunteers. But I imagined I had, sufliciently an-swered
" this point" so vehemently insisted upon. I
•onceife honeotly that it I ma.le war speeches, and
induced men to aid the rebellion, that unreliable
M you make »c I was at least at tl;%? time an advo-cate
ef the rebellion. I brought a witness who aayg
that laliayt was a l.'t.iori mas, that from the be-tinnicgl
wae disaffected to tho Davis government.
Ton iare not dispute tho intelligence or teracity of
this witneee. Although i do not profess to be 'smart"
in the law of evidence, yet I supposed that when I
fercughl unimpeached testimony to a point in regard
of soyseLf that it were better than my denial, and
that it tetiied " the point" so so cei.udentiy made.
Ail the reply I get to this is another jet ef vitupe-ration.
1 am tali that I io not know what I waa—am
allied upon to onler the confessional that you may
■hrive mo a step upon the rac-, that you may gWe
the wheel another turn until I am made to cry picca-
T!—that I have proven roywif a traitor to my State
• and all that." if you call this fairness—jf you
dignity this w'ti< the nams of argument, then it only
bocemosanother reason why the-loyal men of Guil-ford
should have a paper ia which they will not re-ceive
snch Iteauneat. You made a personal attack
and now as the Editor of a rospectab'e paper is this
(eoer.ns and is it right Do I deserve this vilification,
there ."i^jS and all that contemptible treatment of
you ' ': I ■.'.-> I shall ae*. murmur. But I have yet
ti learn that sdMssj is argument or that :: is i*;j tv
4/ive from the conu.-'. om whom -on atU .k by ro-viiiag
-.Yords. ilut to all (his personal abuse and re-lerst
on ef stats slanders I <io not intend to reply.
it should bo only one mans vooatien. It must ao-eoaalish
(bs mission en which you sendiu All the
instincts ef my nature and all the etlects of my
Feuruylvaaia training lorbid mo to encounter you
In that arena. There I am fairly beaten. I shall not
dotrnotfrom nil the cr«4ii it btipgs, or th« benent
it m»y perchance be lo your paper. Were I to te-turn
abuse for abuse—pileepitbet epos epithet until
I had exhausted my vocabulary what'oad \.euld t
serve? Neither shall I attempt to fathom your mo-tive
for yeur ctnduct, for I would de you no irjus-tioo
eien by miaapprehensioB. I have but patiently
to bear the wrath of " The Patriot' and silently
await its effect. I hate duuag tht so four years ef
horror attempted to) do what I conceived to be my
duty. I have undeterred by threat 3 of the halter,
or tho hostile bold on try coarse. My conduct
as a minister and as a citizen is open to honorable
criticism and I do not ahriak from it. I have not
gone beyoiad the limits of the Churches where I
Lave served tho people in My capacity. The spee-ches
I have made, the resolutions i hpve written
have been at their urgent request and at their sug<
gestion.
You say I am about "played out.'7 Tteintyfrvr
years is a Ungor term than is usually required te
accomplish euuh a feat. Itaeems I do not move as
rapidly as you wish anil you lend yeur columns te
accelerate my speed in the process. Tou may re-alize
jour prediction. This is an era however of
fblse prophets. It is even possible that your efforts
to " play-me-out" may retard my. motion. They
msy tire like the Dutchman's gun—they may go off
at both ends and the recoil—may possibly de more
harm than the discharge. I have net consciously set
down aught in mslice. Regret rather than anger
marks my foiling toward the kiasman ofeno ef the
best ,'riends I have in the world.
Vteat is my offenoo ■
Where ie the evidence that doth accuse) mo ?
Yours respect fully,
Q. W*. WELKEK.
warning the people of the dangeru to which
auch nltra 9ontiruonts as propagated and ex-pressed
by these men would lead. If it was
wrong in 1860 for Union men to be mobbed
in Mississippi, and we thi .1 thought it was,
it is now wrong lor Union men to hunt down
and proscribe those who have taken part in
a war which was forced upon them. And
such conduct is more reprehensible in such
men as those who made flag-presentation
speeches or who furnished bowie-knives to
soldiers lor the moderate commission of
" Yankee blood." We now have in onr
midst a great many men who have fought
the battles ofthe Union and who, in risking
their lives for that purpose, were sincere in
the wish to have the national authority re-stored
; but none of them have as yet mani-fested
a desire to " deal sternly" with those
whom they meet upon our streets. This ex-ample,
we think, is worthy of emulation by I
our neighbors.
* There are other points in the above card
which we decline noticing for want of room.
But .the resolution which every man who
read it interpreted to mean what we have
heretofore charged, was not a " horrid spec-tre"
which " haunted our brain." As affec-ting
UH personally, we cared, nothing about
it. But others did. Men who were averse.
Welktv to a " storm of abuse." We know
that we have most sincerely regrettsxl that
he,—a gentleman ofhis eminent ability, learn-ing
and piety,—made it necessary for us to
combat, as we conceived it to be our duty to
do, through Trim, some very fanatical, ex-treme,
ultra, really dangerous doctrines,
which deotrines, if not propagated by him,
were at least written " at the argent request"
of his friends and parishioners, and to that
extent received his sanction. Without ad-ding
many words, we are quite willing, in
the best humor possible, " to leave the
matter as it presents itself." The whole af-fair
lies in a nutshell.
A meeting was publicly advertised to be
held iu this town on the iCth of last May.
All persons were invited to attend. A large
to suah extreme and arbitrary rule as that
We do not think wo have subjected Mr. covertly recommended in the ninth resolu-tion
of the Union Church Union meeting
were pained to see such a disposition ema-nate
from so respectable a source. Whatever
may have been tnew-.t by the resolution,
quite another inference is plainly deducible
from the proposition.
Some peraons, those who have not been
in our community until quite recently, no
doabt suppose THR PATRIOT has ever ,1jeen
an exceedingly, blood-thirsty naper, a war-to-tbe-
knife-and-kuife-to-the-hilt sheet. And
they wonder, from the present tone of cer-tain
new spapers how it was possible for the
editors of them to get through the war
without spending tbejr tjine in Castle Thuii'
dcr. If men whose) curiosity is thus excited
will turn to another column in this paper
and read the article under the head of
Capt. Low's district; Elias Perkins, in Capt.
Webb Kirkman's district; El wood Morgan,
in Capt. Payne's district; Wm. I,. Kirk man.
in Capt. Coffin's district; John C. Hunter, in
Capt. Stewart's district; .William E. Goley,
in Capt. Woody's district; John M. Bowman,
in Capt. Pegram's district.
William D. Trottsr was appointed Clerk of
the Superior Court of «.Juilford.
• Ordered by the Court, That the special
Court, with two additional Justices, meet in
the Court House, on Saturday next, the 8th
July, at 10 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of
passing upon the bonds to be tendered by '.he
officers appointed by the Cojtt.
OnUred by the Court, That the next term of
the County Court of Guilford be held at the
Court House in (Jreensboro, OD the third Mon-day
in August next, for the transaction of all
such business as may not be of the class of ca-ses
triable by a'jury.
The preamble and resolutions following
were unanimously adopted by the Court, viz :
WHKRKAS, The present is a proper occasion to
express our earnest de.iro lor the establishment of
r.ublic order and quiet, er attnohment to the Union
ot our fathers, and our confi lenco In tho executive
heads of the Federal and State Government over as ;
therefore,
Resr'vtd, That we most cordially recognize the
authority of the United States Government, and
promise to render a cheerful obedience te its lairs.
Utivh- -.', That aii have conlidenoe in the patrio.
tism and ability of President Jonasox and Governor
HOLDBH, and we will give them all the assistanoo
in our power in restoring civil government and so-cial
order to the country, »i:d maintaining tho prin-ciples
of American liberty.
It it hereby ordered, That the Clerk of this Court
spread these resolutions on the record, and trans>
in.t a copy of the same to President Johnson and
Governor Helden.
and respectable concourse of people assem-, « Clcircoal Sketches," the mystery envelop-bled
in tho court-room. The meeting was or- ing the fact that they wore not " punished"
ganized by calling a very clever gentleman
to the chair. The meeting was iirst addressed
by certainly the must consistent and the
most honest public man iu the county of
Guilford. The complexion ot the committee
appointed to prepare resolutions can be
guessed at by any person knowing the gen-tlemen
who composed it, and their names
have been printed in this pjper. The reso-lutions
have been given to the country. They
were read twice to tho niectiog. If they did
not express the views and santtmeuts of Ihe
people whoso organ Mr. "Welker claims to
be, Mr. Welker had the undisputed right to
VAj ~,o in that meeting, and to propose any
amendments which he might have seen prop-er,
Tl)p meeting was-called for the purpose
of UNITING the people of the county, and
if, in Mr. Welker's opinion, the resolutions as
submitted, were likely to fail in that particu-lar,
not only was it his right, but his duty to
then and there point out their defects. It is
not our purpose, indeed, it is unnecessary, to
review or criticise these resolutions. They
as completely expressed a willingness to re-turn
to the Union as the English language
can be made to express such a sentiment;
but they did not propose for the people-to go
bat-k ijito the Union like whipped dogs.—
And the first speaker, wlio most grieved the
people whose amanuensis Mr. Welker
claims to be, said nothing more nor less than
one, two, three or four years ago, • will be
satisfactorily cleared away. Can any such
" strong language" as that referred to be
found in THK PaTittOT P If Mr. Welker
thinks it would have been wrong to havoac-tedlu
1861 with the. man who indited the
bloody paragraph under " Charcoal Sketch-es"
headed* "Ask no Quarter and give
None," is it not wrong to now act with that
class, composed generally of the same mrn.
who so innocently desiro to prcsoiibc nii.c
tenths of the consistent portion of the people
of the South? Let Mr. Welker think of
this matter.
The kindly feeling evinced by Ml. Welker
toward us; we cordially reciprocate, letter
for letter. We have been taught from
childhood to revere and to respect him. And
as regards the " playing out" process, we
can only say that our language In that respect
was intended only to apply to the ultia po-litical
doctrines which we supposed he was
advocating, but which it seems he was only
writing at the suggestion of others. We did
not mean the expression in the acceptation
in which Mr. Welker receives it. . To the
contrary, we hope his shadow may never
growJess.
the people of Guilford were free from
their birth, that they had rights and privile-1
gee, now, just as they ever had, and it was
their duty t.o contend for theni. This in a
few words is the amount of his speech. If
Mr. Welker in behalf of the people whom he
serves with his tongue and his pen, thought
differently, no one in that assemblage would
hare disputed his right to have there said so.
If he thought every man in G uilford county
should henceforth wear a collar with the in-scription,
" A whipped Dog," pngraved up-on
it, he ought to have told the crowd so at
the time, so that the matter might have been
discussed, for a free and fair discussion seems
to be one of his principles.
So far as we have been advised it was not
the intentipn of that class in this county with
whom Mr. Welker claims to have acted dur-ing
the war, to ti.k u prominent or active
part in meetings of the character of those
which have been held over the country since
the termination of the war. That class
claimed that those who had been contending
for subjugation in preference to honorable
compromise were the proper persons to tike
the h-ad in Union meetings, and in acknowl-edgfrjg
their subjugation as complete ; but
Mr. Welker, it seems, acted otherwise,
and figured conspicuously in a mooting
whifh went further in all extremes than we
Would have a right to look for from those
extremists of eighteen sixty and eighteen
sixty-one, whose ultra doctrines a^d teach-ing
brought the country to what it now is.
In onr review of that meeting, or in anything
which we have siuce said in regard to Mr.
W -Iker, Dr. Black, Loatider York, (he who
J'UuC the bovie-knifc for a Confederate sol-dier
and only charged him to bring it back
at the end of the war weli stained with
Yankee blood, and who permitted his son,
before arriving at the proper sWfes»sy*KFe, to
volunteer in the Confederate army.) or any
person who has pissed from one extreme to
the opposite, it wa* ouly with the view of
A
Provisional Organization in Ouil-fbrd
County.
The Justices of the Peace appointed in and
for the county of Guilford, by the Pro-visional
Governor of the State, assembled in
the. Court House on the 4th of July, A. D.
1865, for the purpose of organizing a County
Court" and appointing County officers. .Forty-two
of the newly-qualified Justices appeared,
and were called to order by the Commission-er,
Joab Iiiatt, Esq. I'raver was made by the
Rev. N. II. D. Wilson, and addresses on tho
stale of the country were delivered by Thomas
Settle, of Rockingham, and Robert P. Dick,
of Guilford. The Justices proceeded to the
organization of the Court and the appoint-ment
of officers as follows:
Chairman of the County Court—William
A. Caldwe'.l.
Astoriate Justircs—Jesse Benbow, Shubal
G. Coffin, Wm. S. Garner and Joseph A.
Houston.
Clerk of the County Court—Lyndon Swnim.
Sherif—Robert M. Stafford
Public Register—Ezra Willis.
County Truslet—Wyatt W. Ragsdale.
County Solicitor—David F. Caldwell.
Coroners—John A. Pritchett, Manlef Jar-rell,
and Johu R. Huffman,
County Su,-veyor—Joseph W. Gilmer.
Committee of Financr^—Wm. M. Wiley,
Moses D. Young, arid Alexander H. Lindsay.
Standard Keeper—Charles G. Yates.
Treasurer of Public Buildings—David
McKnight.
JoVtnjMww W» Kirkmac, Moses D. Young,
and William P. Heath.
0//)Atf/is' Court—Wm. W. Wiley, Abner
Apple and Nathtn Hiatt.
Wardens of Ute Poor—1. Wm. A. Csld-well,
2. Reuben Sechrest, 3. Abraham Clapp,
4 Wm. P. Heath, 5. Alexander If. Lindsay,
6. Andrew C. Murrow, 7. Wm. M. Mebane,
8. Joseph A. Hoskins, 9. Hiram C. Worth.
Constables—Hugh Shaw, in Capt. Whar-ton's
district; Newton H. Parker, in Capt.
W. W. Ranking district; J. H. Johnston, in
tn Jamestown corporation ; J. M. Harriss. in
Capt, Wall's district; Tuomae Stafford, in
RANDOLPH COUNTY.—Tho justices of the
peace appointed for the purpose in Randolph
county, proceeded to elect county officerson last
Saturday. J. H. Brown was re-clocted Clerk
of the county Court; Z. F. Rash was ro-elected
Sheriff; J. II. Bulla was re-elected County
Attorney;-P.J*. Freeman and Mr. Lowdermilk,
the old incumbent were elected Corrcners; and
Banjamin Moffit was appointed County Trustee
in place of J. M. Worth. The justices compos-ing
the spocial Court, are, on the cast side of
Deep river, P. P. Fraeman, B. A. Sellars and
Henry M. Foust. On the west side of theriv-
■tt Zebedee llush, Jesse Walker, and Willie F.
Brookshire.
We understand that Jesse Walker and S. S.
Jackson are spoken of a6 the choice ot* the peo-ple
of the county to represent them in the ap-proaching
convention.
RUCIPE FOR MAKING BLACKBERUY WINK
Express tha juice of the berries and let it stand
->vcr ni,jut in a eool place, ir'kim next morning
ind strain into a barrel or keg, adding to each
gallon ofjuico 2 i or i> pounds sugar of good
quality. Keep in a dry callsr uptil cool wea-ther,
when ehetwi&e may be racked off into
jboUlcs for use. Ne water must he mixed with
the juice of the berries at any time, aor will it
do to keep ths juice in any other vessel but a
keg, or barrel or a demijohn, as wrc-u put into
vessels of any other shape it will sawr and be-joine
un£t for use.
ruinous course. The efforts of the Abolitionists
will be directed towards the embroilment of the
people of the South with the Admiu ist rat on,
that they may thus control its policy, a9 they to
a great extent controlled that of the late Presi-dent.
It will be their purpose to re-establish
military rule over the .South as it existed dur-icg
the war, and to prevent, if possible, the res.
toration of peace. They would, if they could,
reduce it to a desert, but we believe, notwith-standing
the late proclamation of President
Johnson, that it is his design to defeat their
plars, and although no partisan of his ia any
sense, believe he is entitled to the support of
every truo friend of the South in his effoitj in
this direction. Certain allowances must be made
fur the position in which he is placed, and Wl
credit must be awarded for what has bees al-ready
done, and we say that for tfwjirm stand
he has also taken on this most serious question
ofnegro suffrage tltefriends ofthe South have
every reason to ferlgratified. Standing by it-self
this is indeed a favorable indication, and
while we have Dot hesitated to speak without re.
serve of the character of his so-called amnesty
proclamation, while we have given free expres-sion
to our views upon the arbitrary, unconstitu-tional,
anti-Democrutic and un-American policy
set forth in its fourteen exceptions, we are pre-pared
to give President Johnson our fullest and
most cordial support iu his stand against negro
suffrage, and in which he is entitled to the active
aud earnest co-operation of every man who
would save the country from all the horron; of
anarchy and social disorder.
As to the ptocltmation itself wo have already
expressed our belief that it cannot be enforced
to a great extent, and that in the course of a
year it will become inoperative altogether. The
only thing that ca» give it vitality wt'l be the
local outbreaks throughout tho South, acd we
cannot too strongly dissuade our friends from
resorting to such a suioidal way. of repelling oat-
A Lesson of Prudence and True
Policy.
From The New York Aietroroliun Record.
Our friends will btli«:vc us when we tell
thorn that there is a party still here in the
North—tho party of strife and discord, the
party of blood and fiendish hate, and that it
will leave no means untried to provoke them to
uprisings, to futile and sanguinary insurrection*
is this and that locality iu the hope that it will
;hus be afforded more pretexts for the execu-tion
of its devilish desigjs. At present this
party is engaged in the fiendish, but we believe
impracticable work of inciting the masses of the
Northern people to a DCT war upon the South ;
and two distinct parties arc being formed upon
the issue which it has p'c:ested to the coun-try.
We regard thii movement as an exceed-ingly
auspicious cno for tho South, and, there-fore,
we desire nothing shall bo done by the
Southern people that will aid or strengthen it
in any way. This issue ha» be?n prcacntcd to
the public by Wendell Phillips and has alrea.
uy produced quite a sensation .^Tireu^hout iho
J<orth. He has Wssonneed it as the intention
of the faction, or party of which ho U the head,
to advocate repudation of our great and crushing
war debt, if the crinnci^sslcd negio is by the
radical abolitionists. There can be no tfttUsg
the question now ; the interior race shall or
shall not be allowed the right to vote, and eve-rythiDcr
else that follows and accompanies that
rofusod equal political rights with the white
■voters. We are glad that the matter lias been
at last brought to a head, aad that the people of
sho North must fake tbciretuud upon one side
or the, other cf the line which has been drawn
tight—social equality, oilicial position and in-tercourse
with tho white population in all the
relations of life.
The radicals have thus defined their position,
and they have already commenced tho new war
by assailing—who ? President Johnson. They
do not, as wc suspected from tho very iirst, like
him ; they arc dissatisfied with certain indica-tions
he has thus far given of his policy, and
they have all their ire aroused by their knowl-edge
of the fact that he has determined to leave
tho question of negro suffrage to be decided by
the States themselves. No man knows better
•«han he that the granting of such political pow-jr
would bo employed to his disadvantage here,
after, and that it would affect his prospects of
re-election to an injurious degree. He cannot
j-i-ld to the radi"sl< and "th« resolute str.nd he
•as taken at the outset proves that ho is deter-mined
not to yield to them.
Now there is ouly one thing that can alt.r
this new position of parties, aud give strength
to the faction which' demand* political eqaUity
for the negro—local outbreaks and insurrec-tions
in the'Scutbcrn States. AH provocations
must be met by a firm determination not to be
driven or ueduced into such a disastrous, suoh a
rages. 1 ime and patience alone are required to
heal their wounds, but let us take care that they
are not opened afresh, that the conflict be not
renewed to tho disadvantage if not the utter
ruin of the helpless and the piostrato. Let the
noble, ths disinterested advice of Governor
Magrath of South Carolina, be followed, and,
t-bove, and beyond all, let cot the cause of the
South be entrusted to the care and keeping of
the rash, the inconsiderate and the reckless.—
The truo policy now is the development of the
vast wealth which lies in the soil of the South,
and to this end hbor and enterprizo should be
invited and encouraged by the most liberal and
gentrous inducements. There nectl be no/ear
that those who seek the means of independence
in th-j South through howst labor v:Ul be in-imical
toils interests ; it is the only tho adven-turers
whom the TWowswlsSS so faithfully and
graphically described that will be hostile to the
Southerners; it is only tboso whose appearance
in tho South is to be dreaded and who this ex-cellent
authority on the subject informs us are
" the. very meanest being* that ever ftooil on too
''j-—ci.ini.-uj, rapadoue, hypocritical, ever
ready to siiiit a flint tokha borrowed knife.
and make (for others\ a soup o'U of theprrl-ings."
It is this class our friends must look out
for, as they are " rapaoions," and will, ia rur-suit
of ill-gotten gain, resort to every triok, ev-ery
devilish dseiee that their " cunning" can
invent to steal the property of the Brothers.
people. . These «meanest beings that ever
st-tod on two legs," this " unclean brood" will,
as the Tribune tells us, " overspread the
South like locusts, starting schools and player
meetings at every crossroads, getting held of
abandoned, or confiscated plantations [how well
be knows them,] and hiring laborer* right and
left, cutting timber here, trying out tar and tur-pentine
there, and growing corn, cotton, rico
and sugar, which they have sold at the earliest
day, and rui away with tho proceed*, &c." That
is s faithfv! photograph, and if the people of
the Sooth don't recognise the character when he
appoaro among them, then they are not tho
people vfe take them for. Tho rogOtV gallery
has, in fact, no likeness more .correct to the
original in all its features, more accurate iu all
its lineaments. Look out for him in whatever
garb he appears, whether as a pedler, or a dis-turber
of the peace; whether as t vender of
wooden nutmegs and other notions, or as a so-"
eial incendiary who arms himself with the
brand that is to fire the dwellings of the peo-ple,
that he in the oocfnsion may ply his pro-fession
as the «cunning, rapacious, hypocriti-cal
adventurer." He ia the firebrand who
would kindle in the South the stance of insur-rection,
and following in »ho track of the armed
thousands from the North would reap in his
harvest fram confiscation acts and other legal-bed
measures for the pjjmder of the rightful
owners.
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Gov. Vance.
The arrest of this Stale officer by the Na-tional
authorities sossa weeks ago, produe. d
very general excitement and sympathy in the
State. Among those, however, who anticipa-ted
the action of the Federal Government to-wards
all persons in high office who had been
active in tho >ebSale Sals his arrest caused no
surprise.
Wc find .there is very general anxiety to as-certain
his whereabouts and his present con-dition
and prospects. We regret that we aro
notable to relieve this anxiety. Ihe last au-thentic,
information we had of ban was, that
he was still confined in the old Cap.tol prison
in Washington city ; that all who visited him
were obliged to obtain permits from the au-thorities,
and that all interviews with him
were limited to a few minutes. In othe re-spects
he was said to be doing well. His
cheerful, genial spirit continued to shed light
and go- J cheer even upon the gloom of his pri-son,
and to impress even his guai^s with tiio
excellent qualities of his noble heac and heart.
His arrest by the government was an act
which ail sober thoughtful minds must ap-prove.
None expected it snore certainly than
he did,and hence ne sought not to evaed ft, nor
did he dread investigation. Gov. Vance like
others has his faults, and his adrninstration ne-cessarily
partook of those faults, but they
were faults of a young man, who had the care-end
burdens whieh befitted only the shoulders
of ripe wisdom and years. I'ow men are wise
enough in such an ordeal, to eschew altogether,
faults ofthe tongue, of the temper or ef hsstr
Yet after all tha unkind abuse which ha-: been
heaped upon him, who could have done better,
p!p.ced"precir.i:ly in th* same circumstances ?
There is a rumor, that, Gov. Vanes is on
parole and allowed to«go about the metrwf>di«.
Wc doubt the truth of this rumor. The prob-ability
is that be m ill bo tried for treason with
tire other rebel Govenors, and if convicted will
be pardoned by the President, utdess the Prer-ident
should deem it equally just'to the gov-ernment,
to pardon, him upon the presentation
of a petition from the people of thisolate ;
which we believe he would do upon a proper
understanding of his true position and of HI"
surroundings. We presume Gov. Vance ha f*
no desire to enter again the arena of polities,
though from our knowledge of the man. we
know no one that we could trust more confi-dently
with the conduct of public affairs, were
he to take the oath ot allegiance to the Federal
Government. True to the old lnion to the last
moment—true to Xortlt-fferoliua aud towh.it
he honestly conceived to be his duty and the
obligations of his oaths of office, no man would
be truer to the lnion and to the Federal Gov-ernment,
than Zebulon B. Vance would be,
were the clemency of tho President extended
to him.
t»f Gov. Vance's politics we have nothing to
say nor is it our place to ntlsc into his de-fence
when charged. Nor do we desire ni|
release aud enfranchisement in order that be
may again be mixed up with N-jrth Carolina
politics. We want no political conflicts, Dor
fconflicts, of any kind, while North Carolina is
passing throughthe process of reconstruction.
Nor coeld we for one moment favor the con-ferinfr
of public office upon any man about
whom there could be a reasonable doubt of
his fidelity to the Union and to the Federal
Government, as we are sure there could be none
about Gov. Vance were he to swear ■llssrbMeori
to the government. No. We arc looking to
no peliticial consideration'in desiring for him
tho Executive clemency ; but we aro touched
by the condition of his iatereting and needr
family, who need his daily presence and labo'r
to support and cheer them. If (Jo v. Brown of
Georgia, could be permitted to return on pa-role
to the bosom of his family there is no rea-son
whu h occurs to us, why the same clemency
cannot be moted out to Gov. Vance.—.V. V.
Adoocate.
EDITOR OF TUB PATRIOT :—I police ia Thr
Raleigh Daily Progress an .idvertiscmmt of a
Real Estate Agency iu that city, established
for the purpose of bringing to the notice of
Northern people fine inducements now presented
in tho State of North Carolina to men of capital,
energy and skill, by the depressed condition of
mining, manufacturing, mechanical and farm-ing
businels, such investments and enterpri-see,
having bees) objected to iu former years on
account of the system of slave labor, heretofore
protected by law, but which has been effec-tually
removed by the war, thereby opoi.ing
a new field for free labor to the Northern Emi.
grant, and also to all Foreign Emigrants to set.
tie in this old country, which is now so much
belaud the age, [when compared with Northern
and Western States.] The climate is healthy,
absndauce of good water, timber, mineral coal,
lime, gypsum, marble, fire clay, brick clay,
pottery clay, stealite(soapBtonv,) alaa, eulpbnr,
gold, silver, copper, lead, nickel, eobalt. iron,
ores of all kinds, plumbago,\c. The ■rsaJaols
of the soil ara abundant to fec*d a five fold pop-ulation.
The lands of the middle and western
portions of the State need lime and gypsum to
recover them from sterility so as to produce
clover, and tame grass. The enterprise of sheep
raising, has sever received any notice, dogs
having always been protected by law. Bat Wool
growing by proper attention would increase the
amounrof exports largely. The mineral pro.
ducts of this State offer large and profitable
returns to capital, still and energy, jn the
operations of mining, a thorough practice! ob-server
will see th:it w;-.ste of sifbstanrc left on t!>
ground are the results of haste and speculation,
and if iu many instances sulphur had been urst
sought after, and obtained, the very resio'.ae
would have yielded more gold or silver that
was ever produced.
Internal navigation and railroad^ a..' ad-vanced
sufliciently to afford an outlet and inl< i
to commerce, and as thoroughfares to ail the
central and western conntic* of the iStste ot
products manufactures,, minerals, good? he..
therefore such Agem-y will facilitate biiiiri'
between the buyer and sells.-, the capitalist, i B
igrant, and opcrativo in obtaining propcrtj
very cheap.
Gr.encboro is more convenient to tho nainiag;
aud manufacturing portions of the State, aud
being at ths junction of the Danville and liich-mond,
and N. C. ilaiiroad, contiguous to sucL.
interesting localities, where a similar agenc
should be established by men whoso experi-ence
and •'iualifieations fit them to it* usefulnesf,
and to arouse these ■eetlons of th» '-'laic froi"
the apathy produced by the war.
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