Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-12-16
NUMBER 80.

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be considered may well be questioned. Mate
rial wealth that form of property which mani
tests itself in great and costly enterprises, expeu-
Slve mansions and other indicia of opulence
/ though valuable in themselves and the accepted
/ evidences of prosperity, may be purchased at a
cost and maintained by means that will make
! them but the sure evidence of a nations deca-
/ dence. 10 may be true in q large sense that the
interests of capital and labor are the same. But
/ the capitalist and the laborer do not make bar
gains with each other under the principles of
aOSlract political euc0uomy. Each is prompted
1 ny selt-Inlerest and pushes any advantage Of
tered by the occasion each ayails himself Of the
others necessities. Amy system which intro
/ duces q class of hborers whose wages are ex-
/ ceptlonably low for special reasons, gives the
capitalist that advantage in making terms and
whatever has tendency to establish fixed line
OF demarcatlon between capital and labor and
create a lNborlug caste is a social aud political
evil. Under the stimulus Of mechanical nyen-
tons there is no danger but wealth will be Gre
ated with sufficient activity The danger is it
VIII be massed and not distributed, and that
danger Will be increased 10y any system which
has tendency to make labor scryle or place
human labor upon the eNlct equality with the
productive power of machinery. The control of
the question of Asiutjc immigration lies excu-
svely with the Federal Government. Treaties,
commercial relations and national traditions are
all arraYcd against any Interference with free
emigration to these shores, and much difficulty
may be found in bringing our national legisla-
tors to fully comprehend the evils threatened,
which are now local and not general. 1t is the
general sense Of the public that Congress should
be memoralizcd upon this subject and such re-
strlctou sought at the hands OF the Federal Gov
ernment as will secure this State, with its hope
tul future, to the possession Of people that can
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PROTECTION OF LAW TO ALL.
1t is however under aud through the law alone
we can act With these, or any other people
within our borders, there can be but one course
full, perfect protection. Mob violence is the
most dangerous form in which the law can be
violated not merely in the immediate outrage
committed but in the results which often fol-
Iow--communtieS debauchod, Jurors intm-
dated, and courts controlled by the political iu-
Hnenee of the number that are guilty. The un-
successful prosecutions for the crimes Of mob
teach that the number and bolduess of the per-
petrators too often give immunity to the Of
fense and not only is the crime unpuushed but
justice is mockcd in her very temples, 10y tho
erection of u tribunal higher than the law. And
when to all this banded ruliuujsm selects FOR its
victims race notorously dclenselcss, when
pllIage and murder are its exploits, the race from
which such wretchcs are recruited, the commu-
oihclals who stand supnely by without an eff
fort to prevent the crime are sharcrs in COM
mon disgracc-aud the statute which prevents
the victim from teStiNing becomes party to the
oHense. trust that during my administration
the spirit Of lawlcss violence which has some
times d8gUccd our past may never be eXhibi-
bed. Should it be, there Will bo no cXcrton
spared on the part of the executive, to extend
to all, from the humblest to the highest, the
sovereign protection Of the law, aud to visit the
guilty with the punishment their crimes deserve
II have omitted to discuss the national ques-
tious at issue between the TO great political par
ties, it is not because my convictions are not
deep and sincere. | believe can best manifest
my gratitude TO the party which has honored me
above my deserts by earnestly cndeavorng to
administer the laws imparualy, so as to main
tain the honor and advance the interests of tho
whole State
The Tmr-raoor NEGao.-Tho Denton (Md)
Union, after correcting some statements going
the rounds about Nathan Cooker, the colored
man known as the " Carolina Fre-King," goes
on to say; ale can, however, eat red-hot an
thracito Goals stir up rcd-hot Goals ia a furnace
with his naked hand, lick red hot bar Of iron
until it is cold receive molten lead in his mouth
and keep it there until it cool7, and it has been
said that he has walked on rodhot bars Of iron
barefoot This feat we have never witnessed
ourselves, although we have seen him apply u
a red-hot bar Of iron to his bare feet and keep it
there unit. in had lost its redncs5. But we have
noticed that there are times when fire seemed to
affect him, and we have seen him start back
from its touch We remember few years ago
while he was mixing lime for the plastorcr5 who
were at work finishing q building for us in this
town, he ran his hand into The lime while being
Stacked, to take out the core, but he withdrew
it in a twinkling. The lime burned him and he
felt It's effects very sensibly. Another time
company Of men got Cooker rather badly He
made wager with them Of twenty dollars that
he could sit on a reG-hot stove for fifteen min
utes The stove was heated up until it was all
aglow with reduces the lre-kiug took his seat,
and actually, it is said, sat out ten minutes of
the time but one Of the wags, pouring little
coal oil on the stove, drew him from his posi-
ton in doublc-quick and burned him severely.
lie is a remarkable negro, aud no one yet has
ever been able to explain his icalngs with this
element"
4 Scorcu ENroMoLoGlsr AND HIS GUEsT.-There
is a story, perhaps forgotten by all but men who
were students at a certain college nearly thirty
years ago, Of an enthusiastic professor of ento-
mology, not celebrated for his exercise of hospi-
tality, who was so delighted at the arrival of an
eminent pursuer of insects that he invited him