The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-29

ization will be pretty thoroughly destroyed -
North Carolina is one of the states in which
there is strong preponderance of whites,
the colored people numbering only 39l, $50
to 67S, 40. The colored vote numbers about
$4,000, and Judge Tourgee, leading carpet
Dagger, remarked in 1872 that out of this
number not more than one thousand could
read or write. The state was repub-
lican until 1870, when the demo-
Gratis got control of the legislature,
and they have managed to bold it ever since,
although the republicans elected their gov
ernor in 1872, which preliminary victory it
will aforementioned was hailed with the
widest delight by tho party, as the
prelude to'the presidential triumph. Last
year the democrats carried the state
by msjority OF 5000. In letter from
Raleigh, dated the 18Th instant, Nord-
hoff reports that the best of feeling pre-
walls between the two parties throughout
the state, and there is none of that bitter
political strife social ostracism complained
of in other portions of the south. He says:
North Carolina is at peace l tell you this on
the authority of the ablest and foremost repub-
Icans IN the state, and, indeed, there is no pre-
Jence mere 10 the contrary. 1.-THE democrats
mean no violence, no wrong to any one, no hos
crime in the state, there is no intimidation by
the whites. They mean only to defeat the rad
lcals and keep them down, and they dislike
negro rule" This was said to me by one of the
foremost republicans in the state, federal Of
nee holder, and it was confirmed by not less
than dozen Others, all jealous and some bitter
republicans, and by leading colored men also.
said, too, that the enforcement acts are of no
use or Importance any longer in North Carolina.
Inere is no necessity for such laws in the state.
time for them has passed" They are now only
a reproach to the republican party, and ham
die for the democratic politicians
Thus II Will be seen that the democrats
have afforded DO serious grounds of COM
plant, and the charges brought against them
of gerrymandering in redistricting the state,
passing usury law and ordering consti-
tutional convention are not, on the whole,
very damaging, compared to the record
made by their opponents. The republicans
have run the debt up from SS,372,
900 in 1860 to $50, O00,00O issuing
S12,0OO,OOO worth of railroad bonds in two
years, for which there is nothing to show
But the general and local corruption of the
party has not been the most effective cause
of its uupopularity. The agitation of the
civil rights question has drawn a color line
in politics, uniting the majority of the white
republicans with the democracy.
The impartial observer already quoted
sums up his observations with the remark
that the administration party in North Car
DINA is worthless organization which is
happily approaching dissolution. The
trouble with it seems to be that there is no
means by which the really honest and high
minded men can assume the lead of the
MISSES. They are too ignorant to be open
to the methods so common in the North,
and are handled entirely by INSCRIPTIONS
partisans, who come in personal contact
with them. For the party which claims to
represent the intelligence OF the country the
extract will prove interesting
1t is believed that not mora than 25,OOO news
papers are taken in the whole state; but of this
ocratS. Some republicans to whom L submitted
this estimate, made by republican for me, re- |
marked that in their opinion the repub leans
daily newspaper in the state, and only six or
seven weeklies, ali small and edited with little |
They tell story here in Raleigh, |
of the owner of the official organ of the party |
VINO determined to wind up the paper, and be-
ing ask ed to cont nue. its publication, remarked |
DO you think I'm damned fool to print a pa |
per for party that can't read?" political party
of course, easily deceived and misused by de- |
signing men, and Ii scarcely look for the re-
spect or the confidence and cooperation of the |
Intelligent and property holding class.