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Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
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q GOOd News from the FrOnt-Samp
SON County all Right.
e DEAR SIRs The Convention can
vass in Sampson, is now nearly COM
pleted by the standard bearers, Fai-
son and Kirby. 1t has been conducted
in the most successful mahner possi-
ble. The history OF the Infamous
Candy Constitution, its inadaptability
to the citizens of the State and their
necessities, the expediency of calling
the Convention for it's amendment
and the Importance of the issue have
been forcibly impressed upon the
voters of the county, in the happiest
style of the Convention nominees.
The election of our own Democratic
candidates is certain. The people are
determined to support them and their
principles. The patriotic Conserva-
tives entirely ignore. the Radical cant
and Billingsgate twaDg of Messrs.
GiIden and Wards. They are highly
amused at the former gentieman's eff
forts to prove himself Co1serva-
tive, after being nominated by the
negroes-twO whites being present
in the hall above his own shop. We
are rejoiced to know that both of the
above gentlemen will board at home
next year.
The Democrats are confident of suc-
cess. They entertain no fears. They
want. and will have a homespun Con-
stitution. Let all the Democratic vc-
ters unite and our delegates will weave
one of the strongest fibres next Sep
tember.
CONVENTION.
P. 8. If any one should desire to see
Mr.. Faison or Kirby, about Septem-
ber next, they can be found in Raleigh,
throwing the shuttles.
CONyENTION
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calling a Convention, neutrality is like
ly to be as fatal as an abandonment of
our principles.
AS to the objects for which the Con-
vention ia called and the specific amend
ments which should be made. they are
too numerous to- he set forth in this
address. The work of the Convention
has no binding effect until it shall be
approved by the peorle. When you
come tn pass upon that work. it will be
time for considering the proposed
changes. Let me only remark that a
Constitution of Government is in our
country, made for the people, not the
people for the Government. That the
present one in North Carolina was
formed and adopted under circumstan-
ces, when the people of the State we're
under constraint, which deprived them
of that freedom of will which is neces-
sary in providing a Government for
themselves and that in many particu-
lars it may be greatly improved, and
relieved of provisions now seen to be
injurious; and that safety, economy,
justice and tranquility, may be greatly
promoted by judicious amendments.
Should I be chosen one of your del
egateI, I shall devote to their duties
such faculties as possess, and will
take plea sure in laying before you, for
your approval or rejection such Con-
stitution as shall result from the joint
deliberations of the delegates of the
whole State, and thus make some re-
turn for the many tokens of conf
dence I have received at your hands.
Your fellow citizen.
VIM GRAHAM
Fl llsboro, July 18th, 1875.
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define his matrimonial position and to
make it comfortable than this unfortu-
nate scion OF the illustrious house of
Campbell.
Matters, probably, have not bettered
for him by the fact that his younger
brother, SO well known in New York,
Lord Walter Campbell, has just gone
into partnership with a firm of bro
kers on the London stock exchange.
1t Is rUmored now that both the mar
Quis and his wife &uld be well pleased
to transfer their residence to the New
World. Here, at least, the Teuton IS
not often to be metwith in the shape of
u prince; and where princesses and
marquises are alike uncommon, the
distance which separates one of these
glitteriug shapes from the other would
scai c+ly. perhaps, be discovered Ly the
naked eye of an admiring public.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
JEFFERSON DAVIS.

The many reports in relation to Mr..
Davis removal to Texas for the pur-
pose of assuming the presidency of
its agricultural college are put to rest
by the publication of the correspond
ence between Governor Coke and him.
self. The former, as the ex-officio
head of the board of directors of the
college, rendered Mr.. Davis the presi-
dency, with salary of $4,000 per
annnm, with residence properly fur
nished and as much land attached as
might be desired for yards, garden,
ETC." And then in behalf of the peo-
pie of Texas he urged Mr.. Davis ''to
come and live with and be of us, and
n 40 your home and resting place,
after long and eventful public SER
vice, among people who will never
cease to love and honor you"
Mr.. Davis gracefully declines the
proffered appointment in brief letter
bearing date July Sth. He says
No occupation would be more ac-
to me than that which would
enable me to cooperate with you in
the organization of a system for the
instruction Of the youth of our coun-
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Trust the Little OneS

call to mind two families thath
grown up within my KNOWLEDGE 'o
homes presided over by parents wto
were anxious to do right. and to s "no
their children to do right. In ona .at ~
those homes the lock and key were nut
npon every door behind which cata ta'
pie nd sweetmeats, were stored o"s
upon every drawer containing cn,;"S u
tiles or trinkets. The good motifs.
and the sternly just father meant ws,,
They meant to remove temntat;on
from the path of the children-hn.
what was the result As the child -
came to the age of reflection tbey wera
forcibly reminded of the fact that tLav
were not trusted. If they were mot
trusted by their own parents who knew
them well, of course they were No,
wcrthy of trust. They naturally sc'
cepted the situation, and, just as nat
urally their wits found work in cir.
cumventing the keepers of the hidden
treasures. Fruit or pastry, accident.
ally left exposed, wa, sure to disau-
pear. If the culprit was found he was
punished. By-and-by the elder of the
children found false keys to fit tba
locks of the closet doors; and 40 il
came to pass that systematic thieyirp
became the order of the day.
In the other home, with the Same
number of children, nothing that could
possibly excite the normal desire of
child was ever locked up or hidden.
From cellar to garret, all storing pla
ces of fruit, pastry and sweetmeats
were open and free. One of the very
first ideas impressed upon the iminds
of the children was that they were
worthy of trust. And they were trus
ted. NO false desires or appetites
were created by concealiDg from them
good and pleasant things. And SO,
being trusted, they grew up trust
worthy; aud the good mother of that
household would as soon have thought
of finding her child cutting it's own
fingers off as finding it using those
fingers in stealing.
And who shall say how much of this
early education is carried into the af.
terrific, for veal or woe Far more
l wot, than is generally considered.
There is a vast difference between
needlessly setting temptation before
the little ones, and a generous, hearty
trusting of them. And, again, there
are exceptions to nearly all rules. l
know a child with eyes SO weak, and
lungs 50 painfully sensitive, that he
cannot bear the sunlight or the fresh
air. Yet, we believe sunlight and fresh
air to be generally healthy for chill
dren. Kleptomania 8 not the normal
condition of our little ones. If, per
chance, an unlucky urchin is discoy-
cred to be absolutely affiict
that pilfering disease. let the remedy
OF restraint be applied; but, in the
name of love and mercy, do not ad
minister the medicine to the dear
child that is healthful-it may be AS
dangerous as it is unjust.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
WHAT MORE PROOF Do WE
WANT! IHET TRUTH Al LAST!

1t is known 10 our readers that Judge
Watts has left his district to canvass
the West in behalf of the
negro party, but it was not supposed
he would boldly avow his appreciation
of the civil rights bill before the white
people of the West. He has done SO,
however, without any reserve, as ap
pears from the following C .rtifcate
which we take from the Piedmont
Press received last night.
Let every man read what Judge
Watts says about civil rights.
MARION, MCDOWELL Co., N. q,
July 22nd, 1875.
We, the undersigned citizens of Nc
Dowell county, do hereby certify that
we were present at discussion to-day,
at this place between s. W. Watts,
Judge of the Sixth judicial District of
North Carolina, and Maj. w. J. Mont
gomery, during which, to question
propounded to him by Maj Montgom-
cry, the Judge answered that he was
in favor of the civil rights bill, and that
he thanked God it had passed.
Signed: I. A. Bobbltt,
G. w. Jacobs,
J. K Hawkins,
W. II. Bobbitt Jr.,
S. n. Neal,
K j. Burpin
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30

The New York World has at last
openly expressed the hope that the
Democratic party will be defeated in
Ohio this fall. 1t says:
"Every honest hard money Ohio
Democrat ought to repudiate and re-
ject openly and publicly, within the
whole sphere of his influence and to
the full measure Of the responsibility
Gas Sena'o or Thurman in his Baltimore
interview gives us reason to believe
that he VII do,) these Republican
doctrines, and the fostering of them
into the platform of his party; and he
ought to take abundant precaution
that the men who did it and who in
dorse it never are chosen by his help
to the councils of the Democracy
again"
We are glad to learn, however, as we
do from the Cincinnati Enquirer, that
the World is understood in Ohio. It
is known to be the tool of the Eastern
money changers. It sees nothing in
politics save the interests of its masters,
1t wants the bondholders cared for at
the expense of all political organiza-
tions. The opposition OF the World
will make voters for the Democratic
ticket in Ohio. Our people have no
love for the World nor the money
sharkers whom it represents.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
STRANGE STORY OF AN NFOII
YUNATE WOMAN.
= he outrage OF the Wife OF Colonel
MerrIt i'm New York Killer Escape
from the Government Insane
Asylum and her Sub-equent
Adventures

New YORK, July 22.-The woman
who was outraged Tuesday night on
the tugboat Mike Norton is about %
years old, shabbily dressed. but of re-
fined and delicate appearance. She
told the police captain that her name
was Louisa Merrit, the wife of Col.
MERIT, of the army, and that about
three weeks ago she made her escape
from
A LUNATIC ASYLUM NEAR WASHINGTON,
called St. Elizabeth's Asylum, but
better known as the Government Hos
for the insane. She mad been confia-
ed there by her husband, she said, a
year ago last Septenber, in order to
break her of the habit Of eating NOR
phine at the time mentioned, She
managed to make her escape through
"a hole i'll the wall, and vent to Alexan-
dria, Virginia, on foot; from there she
went to Baltimore, and thnce to Phila-
delphia, wheIe she remained some
days. She then sold a heavy gold
ring she had in her possession, and
procured few necessary articles of
clothing. She saw in the Philadelphia
newspapers that Detective McDevitt,
of Washington, was in the city and
fearing that he might be looking for
her determined to go away at once.
She therefore took the train for Jer-
sey City, where she arrived on Tues
day morning. Hoping to find stu
alton, she locked over the ADVERTISE
ments in the daily papers, and saw that
a stewardess was needed on a steamer
and she came to New York to apply
for the position. She lost her way
during the day, and at last when she
attempted to retur" toJersey City,
BECAME BEWILDERED
and wandered aimlessly about. Near
IL o'clock at night she found herself
IN South street, and while standing on
A corner was approached by a man who
asked her what she was doing there.
She told him her story and he said he
vas agent of the vessel she was looking !
or, and told her he would take her On |
BOARD. She then went with him to !
he tug Mike Norton and entered the |
,abin with him. After she had been |
here short time four other men
made their appearance and
THE ASSAULT WAS MADE
The moment she effected her escape
he sought the protection of the first
,atrolman she met, who took her to
he police station. It was with great
Iif1culty that the police captain could
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try in the two important branches to
which the colleges at Bryan are to be
specially devoted. L cannot fully
thank you for the generous 6 nfidence
manifested in Offering to me the pres
idency of those colleges, and it is but
fair return that / should cordially
confess that you have overrated my
ability, and in the consciousness that L
could not satisfactorily perform the
duties OF the office, decline to accept
it. As soon as my private affairs will
permit, I hope to revisit Texas at more
leisure than when last among you, and
will be glad then to confer with you
on the subject of an educational sys-
tenn for Texas. and as a volunteer to rem
der slsch service as my small acqui ire
ments aid shattered constitution may
allow
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
Don Piatts paper. the Washington

LOU ihlbS pHper, tilo "aSulIASIOA
City Capital, says:
Ex-Governor Shepherd is reported
by Il contemporary as having r. ferred
to Postmaster-General Jewell as ga
little bobtail clam Yankee" Such Ian
guage iu colored debating society
would be denounced as unparl, lament
ary and the ''gemman" would be called
TO order. Such language i'll diplomatic
circles would be liable to the suspicion
of ineiegancy. Properly understood
the expression is robbed of all often
siveness Mr.. Jewell is trying to do
right, and no state of mind is compare
be to that resulting from an approx
ing conscience, or as Pope expressed
it:
cone selt-approving hour whole years out
weighs
Ofstupld starers and of loud huZZas."
In this respect he is a clam-a clam
at high-tide. That Mr.. Jewell should
wear a short coat or be q short man is
the fault of his tailor or the design of
all inscrutabe providence; that he
should be Yankee is an accident of
birth and misfortune over which he
has nO control.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
Lady Jane Franklin.

Lady Jane Franklin. widow of Sir
John Franklin, who died in London Oh
the night of the 18th instant, was born
in England about the year 1900, and
was married in 1928. She was the
daughter of John Griffin, T. r. A., and
was OF French Huguenot descent on
her husband to Tasmania, of which
colony he was Governor from 1886 to
1S43, and there showed her naturally
humanitarian disposition by paying ten
shillings each for the destruction OF
dangerous serpent until the species
was entirely extinct. On the Doth day
of May, 1915, Sir John Franklin sailed
from Sherness, England, on his last
voyage of Arctic discovery, in COM
mand of the ships Erebus and Terror
which were equipped III the most COM
piete manner, and their crews amount
ed in all to one hundred and thirty-elSht1
men. This expedition was last heard
from Ill July. 1916, information beng
furnished by a whaler who met the
ships in Baffin's Bay, and for years
afterwards their ultimate fate was
shrouded in mystery. 10 discover
the tiaal history of her husband De-
came the chief end OF Lady Franklin
life, and as she was possessed OF ample
means she fitted out an expedition loi
that purpose in 1857, which was piaceo
under command of Captain FRANCIS
McClntUck.
The vessel used was the steamer Fox
of lit tons, with crew of twenty-fotf
volunteers. In a sledge journey by
Lieut.. Hobson, of this ship. he ionnd
on the shore of King William 5 land rec
ords, placed in a cairn-lat. 69 deg.'
81 min, AZ sec., long, SO deg, 4 mln.'
Is sec.-signed by James f1tzJanes;,
Captain of the Erebus, which stated
that Sir John Franklin died Oh
the 11th of June, 1S47. Various rec
ords of the ill-fated members OF olr
Johns party were also found by dlnef:
ent voyagers. Lady Franklin also
contributed to the fitting ont OF many
other expeditions for the purpose vi
obtaining additional Information upon
the subject of her husbands voyage
aud all papers and relics COLLECTED
them We're carefully preserved by tne
devoted VIII. She did not cease ~
these endeavorings during her he, ou'
was Interested Ill one which sailed from
England only a week or two ago. Lazy
Franklin was the second wife OF on
John Franklin, he having maIr.ed ia
1928 Eleanor Ain Pardue, who died ia
1926, the day after her hust and had sall-
ed upon one of his voyages of discovery,
La the death of Lady Franklin we lose
1ne of the most beautiful characters i'll
he annals of history. No more re-
instance of wifely devotion
md untiring energy is recorded. Be-
,ides her great work of elucidatlDg the
doubts concerning the lost expedition
md commemoratlng the work OF hel
husband, she was known by multitude
# charitable deeds in Great Brltaln'
nd was ever as ready to assist the uli-
ortunato as to aid i'll noble enterprise.
he death of Lady Franklin VIII 10
nourned and her bright example kep'
n memory by tine civilized world.
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get her to tell her story 90 .,
that she did not want her t,o,'n, sue said
be made public, and that al, i,Tuoles es to
sired was to be allowed to on ae slle de.
safety. She had appea:ea to to ay away III
Ger for protection only. A hait tae Off
coarse cotton hankerchiefs Gu e., Dozen
her possession are marked und ,.m IN
Waldron." She accounted for ~: y: :.
saving that she bought them - ms q, BY
delphia, and had them so marI - 5LIla-
cause she proposed to take that o BE-
as she had a brother-in-law hane,
lame of Charles e. Waldron ny tue
ton Besides the hankercbiafa Dos
A QUANTITY OF MoRpH1sr
was found in one of her pock.t
the police captain SAYS he ,t,' and
was under its influence at tb.. =: :iks Size
was brought into the station. tLle Hl sie
that her manner and lanonsoa e says
c"ted that she is a refined and o,,, lndl-
ed lady, though evidently sne ae,l'vHt-
from the excessive use of mo.ne.h
A medical examination discIoapu pune
fact that she has two severe won%, The
her arms. The two men arres.os .as on
the charge of completely in tho bes aa on
have been committed. onalr
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
TO-DAY WEEK-VICTORY Or
DEFEAT?

DEFEATF
One week more and the die will be
cast. Generations yet unborn will
look back with blessings or with cur
ses to the action we shall take on
Thursday next. If we shall acta men
who knowing their rights dare main
tain them, hundred years will pass
away sooner than the benefits that will
accrue to North Carolina. But if we
shall prove recreant to our race and to
our color, to the traditions of the past
and our hopes in the future. time it
self cannot tell when posterity will
cease to heap bitter and burning cur
ses upon our heads.
Whatever wedo next Thursday will be
done with our eyes wide open. We
know, and we know we'll what the is
sue before us is. We know that
we are fighting to free our
selves from negro rule. This is the
sum and substance of the whole cam
paign. White men ought to be ruled
by white men, and not by negroes.
The Candy Constitution subjects our
people in the East to negro rule. If
wo would be free, then, We must strike
that infamous Constitution from our
way. If we shall do our duty on
Thursday, before six months shall have
gone by. it will be numbered among
the things of the past, and we shall
be once more living under Constitu-
ton and Government of our own
making.
Nor could there be better time for
the people of North Carolina to make
desired changes in their organic law.
We are at peace at home and abroad.
At last the heavy hand of the Federal
Government has been lifted from us.
There is now neither talk nor danger
of Federal interference. Federal bay
onets will no longer gleam at our cleo
ton precincts. The change that has
come over the public mind of the
North and the near approach of a
Presidential election, render it impos-
sibIe to be threatened any longer with
vengeance from Washington if we as
sert our rights. Not even Grant him
self dare now molest US.
The great work of freeing ourselves
from the domination of the negro par
ty needs to be done, and the time is
meet for doing it. Let US, then,
see to it that when the
sun shall 60 down on Thursday next
it shall go down upon a people still
impoverished it may be, but yet once
more free.
Is any man, fool enough to think
the white people of North Carolina in
tend to continue..to be chained down
to the level of negroes ? If white
men would settle this matter peacea-
bly, let them go the polls on election
day and vote down the party that has
done them this foul wrong. Never
did people have greater inducement
to assert their rights than we have
now.
The time for action has come. The
man who fails to do his duty in this
crisis will deserve, and will receive
the curses of all true people so long as
he shall live, and long after
he shall have passed away, the
heritage of shame will still cling to his
children.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
RADICAL HONESTY

The Raleigh Sentinel says:
Capt. T. M. Argo left for the West
Saturday evening to canvass some of
the western counties In the interest of
the Republicans. Mr.. Sam Merrill
asked him on the streets Saturday
what he was going for? He replied,
"Io beat your party" Mr.. NJ: "Well,
what good is it if you do beat; your
party won't do nothing but meet and
adlourn?" Capt. A.: eyes we will do
something. We ,OiU gerrynaander the
State so that youW neuer touch 1t
again."
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30

WHITE men Of North Carolina, are
you ready for mixed schools, for negro
Judges, for negro Representatives, for
negro Senators? Are you ready to
forget that while you guarantee to the
negro all his political and legal rights,
this is a white mans government,
framed by the wisdom of the white
men, and secured by the blood of the
white racer If you are ready for such
tremendous change, says the Char
totte Democrat, stay away from the
polls on the day of election. If Won
are not ready, come up, every man of
you, and vote for the men of your race.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30

1st, did not see it until two days since.
L have noticed the claim in regard to
the habeas corpus, to which you refer,
among others which they boast
ingly set up in behalf of the
present Constitution. This dec
laration nnanifests an inexcusable
ignorance of the provisions OF the
Constitution of the State, which were
engrafted by our forefathers on the
Constitution of 1776, and which have
withstood all alterations and amend
ments made at any time since. The
Judge seems to have utterly forgotten
sections IL and 13 of ''The Declaration
of Rights of 1776-which constitute a
part of the Constitution, and are as
follows: s3ns -.y
SEC. 10. No freeman ought to be
taken; imprisoned, or deprived of his
freehold, liberties or privileges, or
outlawed or exiied, or in any manner
destroyed or deprived of his life, lib
erty or property, but by the laws of
the land.
Sec. 13. Every freeman restrained
of bis liberty, is entitled to a remedy
to enquire into the lawfulness thereof,
and to remove the same if unlawful,
and that such remedy ought not to be
denied or delayed.
The Judge either forgot that these
provisions constituted part of the
Constitution, or was profoundly ig-
norant of the meaning and effect which
every Judge in the State had at all
times and under all circumstances Civ
Ell to them. It certainly never occur
red to the trainers of the Constitution
of '76 that any higher guarantee for
the liberty of the c.lizens was necessa-
ry to insure an inquiry into his deten-
ton neither did it ever occur to the
distinguished patriots, who provided
for amending the Constitution of the
State in 1884, and am certain that
during the whole period of our State g
existence from 1776 to 1868 there
never has been a question with
any Judge, fit to hold a seat on the
bench of the Superior Ceurt, who has
doubted that under the thirteenth sec
ton of the Declaration of Rights, it
was the sworn duty of every judge to
hear, aOithOut denial or deiay, any
complaint made by the humblest citi-
zen in the State, of his unlawful i'm
prisonment, and to give him the same
benefit of release, if unjustly impris-
oned, as Judge Buxton would now be;
and further, that the Legislature Was
then as much forbidden to suspend the
privileges of the Writ of Ho6eas
Corpus" as that body would be at this
day.
Thanking the venerable gentleman
for this very clear and convincing ev,
idence of the utter worthlessness OF
Judge Buxten's letter, we turned the
conversation to other subjects.