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Wilmington journal., 1875-07-23
TIE SHEER ElxN AND SEsEixGDAN
ATROCITIES. Ois THE NEW
YORK Xy.EsLD,S s.LITELE
ENEssA ETEE1sS.,"

The New York U'Orld affects to lead
the national Democratic party, but it
vastly overrates it's influence, if it be-
lieves It's claim to leadership to have
any foundation-at leGet in the South.
Southern Democrats admire honesty
and straightfOrwardneSs in their poll
tics as in other things. They have,
therefore, not admired the World since
its treasonable proposition to withdraw
the names of Seymour and Blair IN the
presidential campaign of 1868. Since
that day Southern Democrats have been
unable to believe that the World held
Observation-Disclosures 20 be due to the nation
al Democratic party. Southern Dem
ocrats have, too, the feelings and pas
sions natural to the human breast.
They have, therefore, been una
ble to work kindly in the IVO1ldS
harness because of the harsh and un-
kind illusions that have from time to
time appeared in the columns of that
sheet, as to matters pertaining to, and
growing out Of the late war. In adj
dition to this, the impression has been
created that the World regards the
southern wing of the National Demo
cratic party as composed of hewers
of wood and drawers of water, so to
speak. The position, too, of the World
on the currency question, and its evil
dent purpose to force that issue upon
us as National party issue, regard
less of the almost unanimous opposl-
ton of the South, is not at all palata-
bic to us. All these things have work
ed together for harm to the IVOrtd,
until it may be said, and truly too, to
have lost what little IL fuence it may
have, at any time heretofore, possess
ed among US.
We have been led to these refec
tions this morning, by one of those
heartless, fippant remarks that the
World has, at times, been careless
enough to utter, even though it must
have known they would long rankle i'll
the Southern heart.
In its issue Of the 18th the " Orld
says
That the London .St07lddrd should
! review Gen Shermans Memoirs as it
/ has done is not at all surprising, for is
not the .Staadard an English paper,
| and an English paper Of the political
stamp of Mr.. Roebuck ? At the same
time, despite all the prejudice which
the article displays, and its very fre
quent errors of taste, it is impossible
not to concede it's correctness in some
essential points. AS to Sherman and
Sherjdan's manner of making war there
is this to be said, in the words of the
French proverb Il la gtIerre cOuaDte
q la gaterye. War is war at all times,
aud III all places, aud until some i'm
droved and painless method of con-
pu cting.it is Invented, the little extra
items will hardly be noticed in the ter
rible total.
1t may be, in the eyes of the World,
little extra item to ravish Southern
women +; it may be little extra ite N to
burn Southern homes it may be lit
tie extra item to lay Southern cities in
ashes and without cause il may be a
little extra item to murder aged, non
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-23
EiE TNIVEfkSITY. EFEERSON
DAVIS, AND THE NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN

lhere Is paper, a daily paper, pub
l'a"d at Washington City called the
-N4'"'s4I Hrpubijcqa. 1t is of the
l'1dleal persuasion and enjoys along
WIN much public patronage the bad
em'nence of being recognized as
"Fants own as well as the peculiar
administration" organ. This would
De sufficient to damn the paper to ever
5S'irS lntamy even if it did not of it
S'Ii deserve the OpprobiUmi its surround
ii5' must necessarily entail upon it.
i''it II IS not Eecause of its surround
'''SS only that the RcDu6Hcan is in
''u repTte. SANDER and falsehood
ere Its tavorite meats, and especially
,',''s II seem to affect these dishes when
'E'h Carolina affairs are 10 be served
~. Where the gall comes from that
'a'"noms the Hrpubjjcau in regard to
"''' affairs, We know not, but certain
1t - That 1t comes from somewhere.
>''A'ng but the blinirst passion
''.'. ".F. space in the columns OF the
H. ""l| ri to such ungrounded and
''4-crSsafy mis.tatcments as those
contained IN the following article. If
"lAer consideration had prevented
''' facility with which the truth couId
p''o!iS!led, would have prevented
''l' appearance of the article in any
PAPER llr calling itself respectable. But
'' republican feels nothing but
t',s''n and blind hate when it refers
- North Carolina And we'll if NAV
North Carolina is not healthy for Rad
icals. ''''-'y ioi la"
bnt, to the article. 1t is entitled
Jefferson Davis, and is as follows
,o1 alter their unsuccessful attempt +,
pain of upon the public the raba ~
"li OF the MeckIenburg Centennia
genuine affair of history. il wa
asohably supposed that the defiant
Pentant traitors of North Carolin,
i;t,t I'm lie still and slumber" for
,,f n1}ie while, and not seek to attrao
r'"hc censure upon themselves hu
10" and much more faP raut insul
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-23
VOL. 81.

tothe decent!y loya sentiment of tne
country. But it seems this was too
much TO expect.
! North Carolina has a widely cele-
/ brated institution OF learning known as
Chapel Hill University" where many
OF the youths of that State are to be
educated, and Oh the 10th Of June last
Tie Trustees met for the purpose of
eltcting pre-ld"ut. Among the trus-
tees assembled on that occasion were
'E-Gnv. Graham, WHO amiably remark
ed once on time "the Ku-Klux mur-
''ders were a species OF wild Justice,
necessary to a proper regulation n of
''soclety," and Gov. Vance and Viii
liam l.. Saunders, Grand Cyclops of
the ku-ktu2 Khan; Paul G. Cameron,
Kemp L. Battle and others of that same
class OF men, but not SO well known for
their adherence to tue lost canse. JEFF
fersOn Davis was the first and last
choice Of the trustees for president,
and came within one vote of All election,
and good majority would have been
given him but for the fact that he has
been recently elected president of a
college in Texas, which can afford to
pay him larger salary Hoping to
be able to make arrangements for this
Davis Is not proper person to i'll
struct the youth of this country in its
history, its government and obligations,
and bis appointment to such posi-
non Is a menace to the integrity of
American institutions.
la reply to the above, we are au-
thorlzed to say that neither jefferson
Davis nor any other man has been
voted tor by the Trustees 5 President
Of the University at the meeting on the
10th of June or at any other time.
The only action taken by the Board
of Trustees in the matter at the meet
ing referred to, was to appoint a COM
mlttee of nine to report whether it was
preferable to have President or to |
govern the institution III some other
way-by the Chairman OF the Faculty, |
for instance, or by Il Visiting Commit |
tee of Trustees. The committee sub
sequentIy met und agreed to report
i'll favor of the election of a President
as soon as the funds of the University
would Justify the Board of Trustee
IN guaranteeing a suitable salary. We
repeat, that we are credibly informed
that there is no foundation whatever
for the statement that Mr. jefferson
Davis or any other man was voted for
by the Trustees as President of the
University on the 10th OF June or at
any other time.
But lest we may be misunderstood
from what we have saId above,
we take occasion here to declare
that IL our opinion no better man than
jefferson Davis can be found in all /
these United States to put 1T the head
ofthe University, if it is desired to
put that institution upon a sure and
stable foundation from the very outset
The equal, If not the superior, of any
man III the United States in natural
ability, in general scholarly learning,
in broad craftsmanship, il personal
purity and in high-minded patriotism,
and beyond any man living identified
with the cause of the South, Jefferson
Davis would give to Chapel Hill an
eclat and prestige that no other man
could give.
Unlike the RcpubHcan, we look
upon Jefferson Davis as the properest
person to instruct the youth of this
country in its history, its ,vern
ment and Obligations.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-23

combatant Southern men it may be a
little extra item to destroy Southern
farming tools, that when there shall be
no bread in the Southern land, South
ern armies may hear the vail of South
ern women and Southern children as
the pangs of hunger force them to cry
out, but Southern Democrats do not
So see it, and the sooner the World
realizes the fact, the better it will be
for it's own good, and for the good of
the National Democratic party.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-23
THE REST ON THE,
CONVENTION ARE THEY
BINDING

For good honest square blow thai
strikes the nail on the head and
drives it home, commend us always to
our good friend of the Duplin Rec
ord. And such was our involuntary III
terance as we read what the Record
had to say in it's last issue about the
binding force of the restrictions,
placed by the Legislature, in the Act
calling the convention.
It is, indeed a curious spectacle. The
Democratic party asserts and main
tains the force and validity of the re.
strictions while the Radical party ut
terly scouts the idea that they have any
restraining effect whatever. The Dem
ocratic party denies the convention
has any power to touch the homestead.
The Republican party asserts that it
has that power. And yet the Radical
party claims that the control of the
convention ought to be put in its
hands-in the hands of men who pub
licly proclaim they can destroy the
homestead, rather than in the hands of
men who publicly proclaim they have
20 power to touch it. Verify no i'm
pudence save Radical impudence
would be equal to such a bare faced
proposition as that.
says
"Are the restrictions binding upon
the convention? Our enemies say not
Every Radical paper and candidate
says not. The Conservative press, with
one exception. says yes. Every Dem
Ocratic candidate, without exception
says yes.
We say the restrictions are legally
binding; that the Legislature only
called restricted convention, and if
the delegates, when they meet, were to
attempt to disregard tue restrictions,
by refusing to take the oath, it would
not be the body called by the Legisla
ture and consequently would be ille-
gal. This question was fully debated
in 1885 by CASTOR and others, and set
tied then. If the people elect dele
gates under this act they ratify the
act, restrictions and all, and make the
restrictions binding on every delegate.
Butif it were not legally SO, it would
be morally. The Legislature called no
other sort Of a convention the Con-
servative party is pledged by every
act to maintain the restrictions, and
every candidate, and we venture to say
every one who will be candidate on
the Conservative ticket, favors observ-
ing the restrictions fully and unequivo-
cally. None but Radicals say they are
not binding. Let the owners of home
steads look to their interests"
We have nothing to add to what our
contemporary has SO well said, save to
advise the people to vote for no man,
as delegate to the convention, who
will not pledge himself in the most
positive manner to obey the restrictions
imposed upon it by the Legislature.
Vote for no candidate who WiU not
0ledgc himseTto obey the restrictions,
Will the Radical or negro candidates
thus pledge themselves?
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-23

the iron interest is again PROSTATE,
some of its largest representatives, like
he Aberdarr works in Whales, have
gone into liquidation.
They made their venture on the belief
that iron would rise. Let not our cot
ton people venture anything on like
belief about cotton. The demand is
likely to be no greater than for the past
year, incoming crop promises we'll and
the stock on hand both of raw fibre
and of spun goods is very large. More
over, no prices are likely to rise within
a year.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-23
A novel way OF breaking q hus.
band from getting drunk.

One of our subscribers, and an
acquaintance, took to himself wife
about twelve months ago, (the taking
to himself the wife, IS nothing strange,
for there has been several young men
married after subscribing for the HER
AID. We give a monthly account of
Ansonians who marry, and seeing SO
many of their friends marrying puts
them in the notion; SO young ladies,
Just get your lovers to subscribe, and
it will make them pop the question.
'just as quick as never vas."D He had
been in the habit Of taking little
''tangle leg" with his friends when
they would meet. After his marriage
he joined the Friends Of Temperance
but the old evil was stronger than
the influence of the temperance society,
or his wife. So he came home one
evening drunk His wife talked to him,
telling him the pain it caused her, to
see him in that fix. H9 promised to
never get drunk again; but how often
are our promises and determinations
cast to the winds. After having held
out for a short while longer, he came,
or rather was brought home one night
baastly d-unk-so drunk that he didn't
know anything. His wife put him to
Deu-anu alGef the ones unaG nau
brought him home had left, she went
out and got her handful of good
sized switches, and returning, tied
him down to the bed-stead, and pro-
ceeded to sing the following well known
hymn, keeping time with the switches
on her husbands bare back:
'tHOw vain all things here below,
How fattcring, yet how fair
Each pleasure has its poison too,
And every sweet 4 snare >
The next morning The thrashed hIls-
band called his wife 10 him and said
edo you know what makes me so sore?
1 cant hardly turn over"
81 expect it was that spree you got
on yesterday"
"Wen if getting a little tight serves
me this way I'll never get drunk again."
He has held out SO far, and We are
of the opinion that he will continue
| faithful to the end. ''for he got some
hint of what made him sore. We don't
know as this remedy would effect
a cure in all caeses, bnt tD4re is nothing
like trying it W0desboro HearraIG.
The annual harvest of the laundry
people is at hand. Those white vests
and muslin mysteries of the feminine
| wardrobe do run up wash bill fast
and furious.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-23

Political gossip in Indiana says that
General Benjamin Harrison will be the
republican nominee for Governor there
next fall, and that the Democrats will
put up against him Congressman W. S.
Holman. That shows thas both sides
realize the Importance of nominating
good men.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-23
us5,g tssE: Co>NE >Fi0> 0E 1868
,ziU SgsbGA go <$ff "a ssn>
.y.FaI%a.

,SzIU sE.'sE go <>Efgs ZION
n. lil,icult to say which amazns ue
=, .,o,oth.im impul-nreo, the isuoranc.
-. the men who drew up the Canby
Constitution It seems scarcely pos
IN, that men should be SO ignorant
+bat being so igno mt, they should
=, impudent as 10 untertake tue
,..rc grave aask OF framing the organ
l.r,f 4 st IT.. Ye, 20 1T was.
O,o orring instauc,, of their / no
u,na, Of the very tirss principles of
..,-,r.c law-makiuE, appears in the
.,. .;r.t article Of the GonsLitu ion
- }~,;- That article is entitled "A
D...,ir,tlon of Rights. Now, De-
ol..r..ion Of Rights and a Constitution
arc +Hi,,cs entirely S parate and dis
II, ~ IN their natures and purposes.
a.. - the assertion of natural, iuaI-
,aa.,E!p inherent God-given rights
those rights which man neither gave
T. nor can take away from man. The
other IS the machinery which pre-
..,,yrs and enfo1ces these rights. AS
.7thnrItv for this, we need 90 no fur
thor than blackstone, who says:
"TEr first and primary end of human
l,rrs is 10 maintain these absolute.
,5,;.f- of individuals.
rar Declaration of r glt5 of North
Carolina contains all the declarations
O uap.t Chuto, Pet ton of Rights
Il i Bill OF Rights, and we're made by
olr ancestors on the 18th of Decem-
her, l77G, prior to and without refer
euce t0 the formation Of any Constitu-
ton. Afterwards, anC as the best
means to compel adue regard for those
absolute rights thus declared to be
inherent and uualienabIe, a Constitution
v,as aIoptcd. The Declaration of
E;oIts was paramount in authority
.s we'll as prior Ill time to the Consti
tntinq and in case Of conflict between
fine tno the Constitution being the
weakrr, must have given way. More
than once. and by more tIIan one emf
I,.at man. has the Declar ltion of Rights
t,.n,,. .s.,iJ to he entitled next 10 the
divine mmaud, of the Decalogue it
self to th.. highest vencratiOu and re-
gard. 1t was put forth bv Our great
c-t ana best men, after full and free
consultation with kindred spirits
from other States. The elder Adams
was especially enthusiastic in his
alyairation of it. INT ,uched bv
even tie most ruthless hand that
sacred Declaration stood ike q guardi-
an angel in war rs well as in peace
over the rights and liberties of the
fcoule OF North Carolina. from l776
ut;l the vandals and vampires of the
Convention of 1865 came. into power.
fl the Convention Of ls3I to WILLIAM
GAsroS was entrusted the task of re-
writing the organic law of the State.
hut he altered not word. changed
PIT line. of that Declaration. Six
centuries had ELAPSED since that DecIa-
ration began to take shapc and during
SOM time or other Of that period each
wore, and each sentence lad received
Judicial, construction. and judicial i'll
;erpretation About the true intent
ana meaning thereofthere could be no
doubt no wonder then tLot tba graat
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-23

The Galveston NeaOs says that be-
tween thirty and forty persons are now
living ia Galveston who voted at the
election for President of Texas in S38,
when the whole vote of the then
republic was 7,147. Since then the
population of Texas has increased
amazingly. Its present estimate is
million and quarter.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-23

The annual harvest of the laundry
people is at hand. Those white vests
and muslin mysteries of the feminine
wardrobe do run up wash bill fast
and furious.
, 1875-08-26

been fr'naea with rrcc'nne. a'on"H 4! which
tho rocketa only r"tnaf,cd wl,"n 1t fell int" ths
hanils Df tho dtnlstr in sfcunihnh garments:
hut. even III its dhAtti,1ntc +tatr hla1i'ciI Tad
pfvFn I4n for it. NFuhi1. however. hne
clothes. such NJ "httiily Hnils," bccana the
ptorarty rather of tho trnEcdiaus than tho com
cdlanH. Ciul,or acacl,,cs TIM dtyin,on. on the
HnbJect Of tireea, exiatinE in tho "Conmon'
wesith company. ot al,ci hn formed member
in 1G3G. "1hc trascjtlts, lie "riIen, . ''AcGnlsd
to tallo their rank a. tnuch asnye thu cofHedlahs
a. tbs charactetB they tesGtslly ncte0; when the
first wsro in their tircrv, The latter wero impa-
tiert 1t t1le e1enso n1,I looked upon it AZ rather
laid out upon tho tca' than tito fictitionh person
Of tho actor. Nav. havo known IN our own
cOnlpariy this riticnuE Hort df Tegfet carfo'i 30
far that tue ,ragctIan han thought kImso1f in
jnrcti when tho comedian j1ttsndctf to "Hhr 4
ilne coat" Powell, The traHetiian, surveying the
lKcns worn by Elbicr Al Lord FOphlnJfo1, fair,y
lost hia toInper, nud con,plalnch IL ruas tsrmH,
that la had nut 10 good suit In which TO play
CtEs1r RorJta. Ihrn, again, when l3ettrrtun
prof o,od 10 "mounI' a tfaYs'lr, tho oamie acs.
q weIo 6uro 10 nurmur at Tho cost uf u.
DoRget e.p"cfalIy regarded with tmraticnce
"tllo coatlv trhiuA md }Dn1cs 0f tragedy. 10
which, uosiDg l,niseii To be nsetc4B, be thought
they we're nll yam cxuasagancc." Tragedy,
however, rnA certainly al expensive entertain.
nent At tlliH tme. Drydou's "Ail for Love'
had bern revived at cost Df nearly -EGUD for
droases,--"a sum unhcasd NJ for many yeass
before on the like uccaslop."-AA the lear
KounI
, 1875-08-26

s1so f1te.1 against Charles II, Htchardsoh, hi
Hecnr, Wooilori County. oi1arei's l',ht WIN
SUSPENSION Of payment al commercial tar1t, tt1t,,
end with nAxiug rsotcrentiAl aaA1eimen u ~. ~
stock 10 Il, r, Hereford OF Tic Mn III NAV
lnst. anil also will, .naxIupn transfer u Large
an,ount q. notes to hip brnthor Aaron. r'io
% u s,,ow c.nsa aert. wss sssued Tho fo''ow.
.moan, ,"s sa Of their claims; Dotid, brown Co.
it, I.uui., e1,0I4G3; r. y. Weber 4 Co., s1.-
100 ntn,lskopf, Darbo 1 Co., fiUl; floo,!man t
I,arbo, ft5a; Ablam Ftoneh, el9s.2}: y. II.
lnampe9u 4 e." sol'2i y I, =: e Whssef, ,f.s,
ho,rinr and creditors meeting will bs held
Oct. G III tlo case Of Alexander Mcdonald.
bUrEnfN EoEnT IN RRiEF.
Michael 1lnacf, and Johu koelu snod John
Il, i,nrenan L HIND and Ja,nes g. Miller
cact, brought suit for sl,tNu against tho der
man Insurance Company Of Erie, "a.
lcfurot Ku;otcrbucker Insurance Company.
Trunk 1,odan bounn M action ib trearans
agniuat hl9ritz Husand, laying damages ~
{. s. Waller sued +. r. rlunyan for a1.boo
1..J. t1aso hesau o suit for s2'6oo agasost
Ea~asd nuhy.
tou against 1oaua A. aud Patrick iicaron' y.
Morlcaee COMPANY, and II. J. Sheldon. asking
for 4 mechanics lion 10 tho amount Of 81. .C8l on
I.ot i OF Uarry's Subdivision OF Block Of the
Canal Trustooa' Subdivision OF part Of Sec.
A. 40 IA. and Lot ID ft tho subd!vialon or Out-
lot e OF WrRhtHool.
c. It. Stecle brought suit for $4,000 Aganst E.
H. Paul, Dawson kcrr, Jr.. and Obadiah lluac.
Hinna Eyett commenced snit Ia tieapnss
sRaiuat Frederick Dufnann 10 ruoovor $4,000
damages.
CRIMINAL COUNT.
Frank Wilson waa tried for tho larceny OF ~.
found guilty, and seutchcod To two montha Id
tho ftauso 0f Correction.
Judgment wna rendered t,y 1efault against J.
G. Wsbtr aud G.. W. Mltci,oll. bondsnsn In tho
atm o. a5,G00 easA Tor j. q. Huwe, the
bunkoist.
Jrn 1NESTH.
BErEnIoR OouKT- KT--taNrssstns1-F.ranttel Aron-
xtru w. G. n Perkins a,s Samuel Hsan, $t2o.-tUl-
Itis White '. John r. Heil0s and Nathan T. Fitch,
SiU I41.-NAthan Near. ct Al. ". Joseph Thlo1sr
ftlUH'-S4tional Itfe 1nbnrAuro Company W. y.
Hsar,, ti,'fu25o.-Jailaa Meyer ". D. 4. Hacrthcr
{ta5,10.
CIRCUIT r-Cosfrxt1oss--uenr Absahams ".
8anuei ao&1aton, $tIJ.
, 1875-08-26

Aapy nobismen aud apa gsutIsmsu favored
especially Ut shoao "bitthdsy yuits. "-.o,,rt
drosses of great sendor. worn for ths il,.t tt,ne
At tho birthday lesess, or drswiug.rooms Of Ia
sovereign. AZ P0pe rritaa. =.
Or wasn from court Mssnl.y spIs bestowed,
Indeed. to SONS OF tho o;akles snrn h, ,o,,c,.
complete h,senry IL sttsched. Tie wsrdtoha oi I
Muhdsu tue comedian, contained = bjsnf 5lsro.
velvet uo.t, Which had opcs belonged 10 Kluc
9onsfs ~ .shil9 smother coat hossted also =
9..lc. Sa tSsaEsts e. tna seud be traced q
tl'e occasion Of tds Prince Of WsIss' m.srare. N re-
Il h&a Originally coat &, ,00o l. tUut thar 4 III