The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-02-20


been made, let us also unite in the work of
making new States and popalatirg them with a
/ people who are worthy of the government which
protects them And let those new State gov
ernments be founded on principles in harmony
with the great machinery devised by our faith
ers.
REMARKS OF MR.. CovINGToN.
| UNION COUNTY,
/ In the SENATE, an tdoor Of The Bill to Prevent
the DistiNation or Grain. f
Mr.. Speaker doubtless, great portion of
the people of the State are looking, with much
anxiety, to the action of the Senate, in relation
/ TO the bill Eow under consideration, (it having
passed the House of Commons,) and, as we are,
each OF US, about to make record either for or
against this measure, deem it duty owe to
the people of the State, and particularly those /
have the honor to represent on this floor, to
state briefly the reasons which influence me to
support the bill. .'taRtt4. q. : -.-}rsaesrf
l am opposed, Mr. Speaker, to taking bread
from the mouths of the thousands of suffering
families of North Carolina, and converting it
into liquid fre-into that element which has
dug so many premature graves, that clement
which crects the gaows, fills up our jails, in-
creases the demard for poor houses aud pre-
pares subjects for luna,ic asylums. That Sir,
which distracts and deranges whole neighbor-
hoods and entire communities, interrupts the
family circle, capactates man to say his fellow
man, makes him worse than brute, a raving>
maniac. That element which dethrones reason,
blights the intellect and fills the dockets of our.
courts with such overfowng records of crime
Senators may have in their pockets letters and
remonstrances against the passage of tho BILL;
but, Sir, let the piteous cries, the solemn ap-
pealS on this occasion, be heard from the thou
Il
fering children, throughout the length and
breadth of North Carolina for bread, and for
the stills to be stopped In my opinion, their
cries would be Irresistible and all opposition
would yield.
The quantity of corn in this State is too lin
tied at this timc, 70 suffer it to be converted
into so deadly poison as whiskey. Why, Sir,
in that portion of our State, which was over-run
by the Federal armies last spring, suffering, if
not starvation, (uness the stls-thoso infer
nal machines stopped,) is inevitable.
testify to that portion over which Sher-
man, with his mighty army, passed 10 our State
with fire and sword, and like mighty tornado,
creating desoaton and ruin wherever be went,
as the smoking ruins, empty barns, wasted fields
and uptorn farms, all along the line of his
march, will abundantly testify. Ard how could
corn be made, with horses and mules all taken,
fences burned, and negroes freed? Could the
returned soldier, to his wasted farm, make corn
enough? Most assuredly not. Propitious as
the seasons were, the crops were short, and the
quantity on hand, in the district which L have
the honor to represent, is limited indeed. q
Corn is rapidly advancing, and unless the
stills are stopped, will continue to rise. heard
of sale few weeks ago, in certain county in
this State, not far from the one that represent,
where corn brought So 20 bushel bid off by
dstier. The soldiers wife was there, with
her hungry, starving children by her side; but
the hcartless -distiller could afford to pay more
than the poor woman, and she got no corn.
Letus, Mr. Speaker, stop the stills, and tax
foreign liquors high, and, if the people will
drink, aud thus contaminate and corrupt the
very atmosphere they BREATHE let them pay
dearly for it, The House OF Commons has
passed this bilf and already are they receiving
concentrations and praise all over the State;
and shall il be said that the Senate branch of
the Legislature of North Carolina refuses to aid
in this humaue work? | hope not feel il
due to my constituents and TO my conscience to
20 for it.
Notwithstanding such truthful appeals as
the above were made, the Senate rejected the
bill
WHAT THEY WORK FOR IN INDIANA.-The
picking to certain Of the inhabitants of India
napolis, as it is to u.s. Manufacturing establish
ments are discharging their hands. The rents
are so high that hundreds Of men, with wives
and from FIVE to ten children, are houscless-
they being unable to find employment Labor
ers express themselves as perfectly Avilng to
work for their board %
Here is subject of study for crazy fanatics,
! who are so deeply interested 10 the welfare OF
the "poor freedman" Let practical applica-
ton of its truths be made augusta Chronicle.
Ba~ OF all the papers at the North, making
pretensions 10 decency and rcspcctability, none
have either by text or pictorial, shown more
malignant spirit, or donc-morc to foster aud en-
courage sectional prejudice than the Harper
publications And in doing SO, no publishers
have ever committed baser more wanton in
gratitude for Southern patronage has inainly
built up the prosperity. warmed into life these
! literary scrpents, whose hiss and bite have for
years been directed against their benefactors -
But leopards cannot change their spots, Ethio-
plans their skins, nor can blood be expected out
of turnps. Whoever expects charity, justice,
magnanimiiy or kindness from the Harper press
when these qualities do not ray will be mista-
ken.-Rtchm,ond Times.