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Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04
TH r GROWING NFAnY.-JORN N
POOL,S ARI,OININENT.

If any one had said week ago that
Governor Brogden would dare to ap-
point John Pool to fill the high and
honorable position of Superintendent
of Public Instruction in North Caro-
lima, no man could have been found to
believe it. But SO it is. John Pool has
been appointed to the Office and has
accepted it, and therein is consum
mated the crowning infamy of Brog-
den's administration.
A confessed perjurer, if Senator
Doolittle, of Wisconsin,, is to be be-
lieved, and if Mr.. Badger is to be be-
lieved, a would-be murderer by proxy,
there is no man in n ortb Carolina more
infamous or more deservedly infam GUS
than is John Pool. Yet Brogden who
knows all the facts, appoints him Su
perintendent of Public instruction.
We do not exaggerate or speak at
random Mr.. Doolittle declared on
the floor of the United States Senate
that John Pool assured him that in his
course during the war, his purpose was
to embarrass the Confederate Gov
ernment. a part of that course
was to take an oath to support the
Confederate Government. Ii that be
not perjury, we know not what per
jury is. Mr.. Badger swears solemnly
that John Pool gravely proposed to
Governor Holden to put in military
service during the Kirk war one
Mo Lindsey(now the Radical candidate
for Congress in the first District) for
the reason that he would close" such
persons as Graham, Bragg and the
like, if they became troublesome. If
this be not consentng to murder by
proxy, then we know not what it is.
Nor is this all. Unless Oliver Dock
cry be liar, Or unless w. W. Holden
be liar, it was in John POOLS traitor
GUS bosom that the Holden Kirk war
had its origin. And this is the man
whom Brogden, with ali the facts be-
fore him, has dared to appoint Super.
intendent of Public Instruction.
No man ever so pers;stently sought
to bring sorrow and shame upon the
land of his birth as John Pool. Hated
and despised from one end of the State
to the other, his name has become
bye-word and reproach among good
men every where within her borders.
And yet Brogden, knowing all this,
has dared to appoint him to high and
position. No man ever
slaHdered his native land as did John |
Pool. Brogden can not plead ignor
ance. No man better than he knows
who and what John Pool is.
1t is time for the people to be on
their guard The actor i'll the Holden
Kirk war are coming to the front too !
iapidly and in numbers too great not |
to engender fear for the liberties of |
the people. Settle, the complaisant |
Judge who so Enthusiastically sustain
ed" Holden, is the candidate for Gov
ernor. Holden is a member of the |
Executive Committee, Nc Lindsey is |
a candidate for Congress, and now
John Pool, the arch-fiend of them all,
is brought to Raleigh as Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction.! Kirk only |
is wanting, but he too can be easily
Gan our people look with indiffer~
ence upon such an accumulation of |
proof of some fell purpose on the part
Of the Radical party :?
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04
VANCE AND Sc ErrLETs1E Dir
EEKHEfElIE.

Governor Vance represents the Dem
ocratic Conservative party of North
Carolina, the party that while just to
the negro,is yet emphatically the white
mans party. Judge Settle represents
the Radical or negro party. 1t is
not possible to separate seither candi-
date from his party. Tf q man votes for
Vance, he votes for the white mans
party, and if he votes. for Settle he
votes for the negro party. How false
and unfounded is the claim that the
Radical party is the friend of popular
rights and the champion of civil
liberty for white men is briefly but
admirably and pointedly exposed by
the Raleigh Sentinel. 1t says:
They claim to be the great cham
pions of popular rights. Is it true?
Have they any claim to. this high dis
tinction !? Let us see. Their first
claim to it is doubtless based Oh the
disfranclisement of thirty thousand
white men in North Carolina, and then,
as they were pinioned 10y eighty thou~
sand liberated slaves, forcing the
Constitution of 1868 down their throats
at the point of Canby's bayonets. Is
this in accordance with the principles
of American liberty? Was it for this
that our ancestors humbled King
John at Rnnymede and King George
at Guiiford and Yorktown?
They point with great JUNCTION to the
homestead clause in the Constitution
and claim that as one of the great
works of Republicanism. Was there
ever such unblushing impudence ? FAi
from protecting the homesteads of an
impoverished people, they curtailed
them, and no less q man than Edwin
G. Reade, one of the Republican JUS
tices of our Supreme Court, is our au-
thority for the declaration. In the
case of Biount VS.. Cheshire, he who is
called the great homestead lawyer of
North Carolina, says that the homes
stead law of 1868 is curtailment of
our former Democratic law. Bit er
partisan as Judge Reado is, this was
wrung from INN by it's truth.
champions of civil liberty indeed
When under the constitution of 1868,
Il governor of State could, in n time
of profound peace organize an army;
declare whole counties in a state of
war; invade the homes of peaceful cit
izens; drag them from the bosom of
their families without warrant, and in
carcerate and torture them for weeks
at the mercy of an irresponsible SOL
diery; and then when the people, in
stead of rising in their might and
crushing these. ruthlesa brigands to
the earth, appealed to the courts of
the country for that protection which
has been the right of every man of
Saxon blood since our race has had q
history, they were told by partisan
court, of which Judge Thomas Settle
was a member, that the constitution
of North Carolina was unable to pro-
tect it's people from tyrannical gov
ernor. backed by that last resort OF all
tyrants, the bayonet and the howitzer.
ooh liberty how many crimes are
committed in th y name"
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04
VANCE AND SETTLE.

The contrast in the course of. these
two men in reg ard to the great writ of
Habeds Corpus is, to say the least of
it, a very striking one. SO long as the
writ of Habeas Corpus is respected
and obeyed, the liberty'of the citizen is
safe, but the moment it is disregarded,
citizens become slaves and rulers be-
come absolute masters.
Even in time of war VANCE main
tained inviolate this great safeguard of
personal liberty, but SETTLE in time of
profound peace perm tied Holden and
Kirk and their cut-throats to trample
it in the dust.
What Vance did In Etane OF War
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT OF N. c..
ADJurANT GENERALS OFFICE.
RALEIaH, May Goth, 1876.
General Order No. 9.
Militia officers are ordered not to
arrest any man IA c0nscript or de-
under writ of hdbcHs cOrpHs tried
b,fore any Judge Of the Supreme or
Superior Courts of this State.
They are further ordered to resist
any such arrest upon the part of any
person not authorized by the lrgui or
Ier or process of court or Judge
having jurisdiction of such cases.
BY order Cf Governor VANCE.
DAN'L c. FOwLE,
AdjutaI.t General.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04

One of the changes made in the
third Article of the Constitution pro-
vides for the establishment of a de-.
partment of Agriculture, immigration
and Statistics and for the enactment of
laws for the protection of sheep hus-
bandry. This amendment was pro-
posed by Mr.. G.. z. French of New
Hanover, if we mistake not, at
the request of the State Grange,
and was passed without a dis
senting voice so far as the record
shows. 1t was put in at the request of
farmers and for the benefit of farmers.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04


Clerk of Halifax county.'
OFFICE SUPERIOR COURT CLrpp
Halifax, N. c., Feb. 24, 1875
Aoj, W'la. Il. Heo,7c, Raleigh, ~ q
My DEAR SIR: Yours of tho oot.
January asking for information onu "
cerning action of Solicitor Harris -
reference to the poll tax Indictments % -
they ure commonly called, is dnlv ~
ceived and would have had attent;o.
earlier but for such a continuous ons
heavy pressure Of business in of;oa
aud sickness in my family.
Sometime during the months Of Jr,-
and August last l received from C,Y
Harris, per express, several packages
or rather [ suppo ,ed they were ssni
by him. as they were shipped from
Raleigh and contained between 000
and 6.OO0 indictments for failure to
list poll and property, and commonlv
known as "poll tax indictments,
The packages were at once openaa
and along with the indictments
We're found some of the poll books
Of the different townships in the
county, These indictments were drawn
in plain, neat, legible handwriting. a
handwriting with which l was not
fam liar; were arranged in alphabeti.
cal order 10y townships, and purporteJ
to have been fonnd by the grand inv
at the spring term 1875 Of the Superior
Court of Halifax county. Harris name
| as solicitor, my nan.e as clerk of the
| court. with the usual certificate of
"swOrn and sent, and j. w. Faucets
| name AS foreman OF the grand jurv
we're signed to each Indictment and ali
in the same handwriting. Upon An OK.
| animation of these bills and upon In
quiry l learned that very many of the
persons indicted had been dead sey-
| eral years, a considerable number of
them had long since left tine county.
| and quite number were beyond the
| age of so years, and some | learned
were from 65 to 20 years of age.
Upon receiving these indictments
| and upon minute examination of the
same, | felt, ut first, considerably per-
picked rs to what was the best course
| to pursue. After deliberating over
the matter, / concluded that they
were not, and could not be construed
| tho VI luc CtDlTU uuu
| thereupon declined to issue capiases on
them, although was ordered so to do
| by the solicitor, Col. Harris.
/ consulted the members of the bar
here in Halifax county. and they each
and all fully and readily concurred
with me III my conclusion.
I did not then consider, neither dc I
now consider, the indictments as drawn
as being records of the court. Had /
so considered them, [ would have is-
sued capiases on them as the law d.
rects.
Col. Harris wrote me several times
to issue capiases, but owing to the ir~
regularity mentioned, I refused.
The indictments are not now in my
Office, but are here in the registers Of
fee, having been, at our fall term
1876, taken from this office by SOlici-
tor Harris and carried there.
[ know nothing as to the interlinea-
tions made in Indictment No. 6l, at
special December term, 1875, State vs..
Fayette @ ay. Your attention is re-
spectfully called to statement in re-
ference thereto, as made by my depu-
ty, Geo. T. Simmons, Esq, and here
with enclosed. Yours truly,
JOHN T. GREGORY,
Clerk Sup. Court, Halifax CO., N. O.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04

We trust every white man who reads
these lines will also read the letter
from Mr.. Askew of Jones county to
the RaleighIN Meas printed in another COL
umn, showing how under Radicalrule in
that county white people are hired out
to negroes. The facts as stated by Mr..
Askew are true and afford food for Sc.
rious reflection to all thinking men.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04
THE IfANNER 101IN..-

Good for Catawba The pia.,,
Press states that there are now :.
GRAFTON in Catawba county, six 1S,s!>
and Vance Clubs, and thev bora en
thousand members. Is there ar,., '0
county IN the State that has more th '
one-haf of it's white voters o,..
enrolled as members of Tilden .s
Vance Climbs. If there be such . 'o
let her come to the front. Cot.N''
is certainly the banner county thu.
far. '"us
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04

Ex-Vice President Colfax is already
on the stump for Hayes and Wheeler.
He says he was in favor of the ticket
weeks before it was nominated. Of
course he was. So much for honesty
and Reform
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04

The New York Times does not re-
serve all of it's denunciations for the
Democrats and their candidates. It
disposes of BEAST BUr1ER's preten-
sions to a candidacy for Congress as
follows:
Benjamin f. Butler is anxious to
go. to Congress again. His nomina-
ton would be a disgrace to the party,
and his election both disgrace and O
misfortune to the country"
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04

The statement is made that Lieu
tenants Hodgson and Mcintosh, killed
in the Custer fight with the Indians,
were both young and promising Geor-
gians, recent graduates of West Point.
and still beardless boys.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04

~ hat ~rftte diO ih sshe OI fchCe
holden CoNvICrs SETTLE.
STATE OF NoRTH CAEonINA,j
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
RALEIGH. August II. 1870.
Ia the President of the United States:
SIR The Chief Justice # the Su-
preme Court of 'iiis State, sustained
Ly his 1ssoni,ttc Justices, has de-
cided that l have right to declare
counties in q state of iusnrrectiOn, and
to arrest and hold all suspected per
sons i'll such counties. This [ have
done.
But the District Judge. Brooks, re-
lying on the fourteenth amendment
aud the acts of Congress Of 1867. page
3Sj, chapter %. has issued writ of
hubeus corpus. commanding the Off
Ger Kirk to produce before him the
bodies OF certain prisoners detained
by my order.
[ ,ieny his right thus to interfere
with the local laws in murder cases. L
hold these persons under our State
laws, and under the decision of our
Supreme Court Judges who have lurls-
,lction OF the whole matter, and it is
not known to Judge Brooks i'll what
manner or by what tribunal the prls-
nn"rs will be examined and tried.
The officer will be directed to reply
10 the writ that he holds the prisoners
under iny or Ter, and that he refuses to
obey the writ If tho marshal shall
then call on tho posse cOnlitatHs there
may be conflict, but if he should call
first on the Federal troops it will be
for You to say whether the troops shall
be used to take prisoners out of my
hands
Tt is my purpose to detain the pris-
oners, unless the army Of the United
States under your orders shall demand
them
An early answer is respectfully re-
quoated. w. W. HOLDEN,
Governor.
[sEALl J. B. NEArHERY,
Private Secretary.
PEARSON CONvICTs SETTLE.
At the conclusion of his opinion in
the case etpartc Kerr and others, page
$50, vol. 81, North Carolina Reports,
Chief Justice Pearson says:
'sIt is gratifying to be able to say
that the other Justices have been in
| unreserved conference with me, and
that all concur in these ha6eas corpus
proceedings.
WHO WE'RE JUSTICES.
From n. G. Reports, Vol. GA, Page Ill ]
JUSTICES OF TIE SUPREME COURT.
Richmond Nj. Pearson, Chief Justice.
Edwin Ct Reade.
William B. Rodman.
Robert p. Dick.
THOMAS SETTLE.
Can the people of North Carolina
hesitate q monaert in choosing be-
tween these two men and the parties
they represent? ? The time will soon
be here when they must say which man
shall be Governor. One represents
freedom, the other represents slavery.
Which shall it be ?
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04
From the Raleigh Sent;no
RADICAL RASCALITY.

NEGROES OPPOSED BY rn,
MOSES.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04

The people of the South
afford to divide until after th.
DENTAL election next Novan'.
United. we stand divided vo -"I
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04
Efargr0Ve fai 1876.
sGargrOVe IM 1872
WANTON ATTACK ON MINISTER
OF THE GOSPEL!

MINISTERS AND MEMBERS OF THE METHo-
DIST CHuHCH SOUTH PUBLICLY SLAM
DERED AND DENOUNCED BY THE RAD
ICAL CANDIDATE FOR ATTORNEY GEN
ERAt IN THE PRESENCE OF CALD-
WELL.
The following letter from the venerable
William Gloss, ID. D., To Honorable A. Nj.
Waddell explains Itself. We shall not say
anything about the character of the Rev
ercnd William Gloss. The people of North
Carolina trusted and loved and hOnOred
him years before we were born. Nor have
we either time or space at this late hour for
comment on the gross insult and wantOn
outrage thus publicly put upon that intelli-
gent, patriotic and Christian class of our
fellow citizens who belong to the Methodist
Church. The ministers and members of
tie Methodist Church South, need neither
defence nor apology. Strong i'm the con-
sci .lsness of good deeds, and noble inten-
tions they may proudly point to their record
and defy the malice and SANDER of all who
may assault them. But this unprovoked
assault of Col, HargrOve was not directed
against the Method st Church alone. 1t was
far broader and more sweeping in its char
acter,
1t was natural too that Radicalism,
through its chosen defenders, conscious of
The warfare it is maintaining with every
thing that is holy and true, should find its
most feared enemies in the ministers and
members of Christian churches. Cons. iOus
thai at last right was about to prevail over
wrong, Hargrove doubtless gratified the
master passion of his heart when he
sought out for wantoIl attack and gross i'll
suit the venerable DR.. Gloss.
CLINTON, SAMPSON. Co., NC}
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04

A -PECISiE kAD CAL CANDI-
DATE-COL. EIA HGEt"VE ANB
THE LID OVDEERX GANG.
The Radical candidate for the high
and important Office of Attorney
General of the State is Colonel Taz
well l. Uargrove of Granville county.
Whether a man is fitted 10 fill place
of such dignity and honor who gives
| utterance to such sentiments as he
hesitates not to utter in the most pub
lie manner is scarcely an open ques
tion. The words of Col HargrOve will
sink deep into the hearts of the good
people of Robson county. The
spectacle of the chief law officer of the
State gloating over the murder Df such
men as the gallant FRANK WIsHART
and the other good and tr.le men who
were 30 fOuily assass1nated will not be
grateful to their feelings These vic~
Tins OF the Lowery gang were their
fellow -citizens, their friends aud their
kinsmen, and the people of Robe~
son will not soon forget that
Col. Hargrove has put himself on
the side of the negro murderers and
against their white victims. But Col
Hnrgtove does not hesitate upon oc-
chsion to shock and defy public senti-
ment.
In the present campaign ere it has
begun almost he takes the stump, and
makes the most violent and infiamma-
tory and incendiary of speeches. Nor
this is not the first occasion he has
shocked public sentiment. Four
years ago when first a candidate
for Attorney General he was
equally outrageous. Thut we do not mis-
represent him the following publica-
tious amply attest:
Gfargrove im 1876.
A letter written from Oxford TO the Raj
eigh Sentinel dated July 18Th, contains the
following:
In speech in this place July 1, Il. l..
IiargrOve, the Radical nominee for AttOr-
i ney General, made the foil )wiug assertion,
or words to this effect:
81 was in the Legislature at the time it
was proposed to '-outlaw" the LoWery
gang. | voted and worked against the bill.
| voted Hud worked against the reward
offered. | thank God for that. Before
they were caught they made [2I twenty
one Conservative Democrats bite the dust :"
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04

5000 Forged Hills OF ina,.,
Letter from John r cr.
Clerk of Halifax Counts''y,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-19

dyspeptic turn green with envy to see
the way they fasteh to anything edible.
ThS' characteristic of sstfoppeRs
appetite is. that all he eaJs1 runs to ap.
petite: Sixty acres of my wheat was
Up. Now it is down-lte gulletssofs the
Iocusts. 1 suppose they VIII take the
residue as it comes through the ground.
Well. l shall have to reseed, that is
all. But the loss of'seed and labor is
pretty sore on me this year. L have joy
in saying, that have eighty acres Of
Gorn'thatJwill try their teeth sdmew at.
II Is as hard as corn caA be. 1 walked
down this afternoon TO See how they
were making.out with it,. They had the
stalks all stripped of leaves, and were
saving, at theccorn. ,ButvI could see
that itwasj no go. Their teeth shipped
over the bright-yellow surface, l nave
gone to hayihgagain, and will hay Until
the locusts leave. L still, keep three
plows running, and will reseed as sdon
as possible. Our garden is perfectly
cleared; beans, cabbages,. tomatoes,
melons, every thing grutteFly gone. The
vines to the pOtatOes,aFeygone, and am
expecting boss hopper up here at any
minute torequest the loan of spade to
dlg upmy POTATOES with. shall refuse
his request with scorn.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-19

The following original and character
istic account OF the Kansas gras stopper
plague is taken from private letter to
gentleman in this city:
SALINE COUNTY, KAN, Sept. s, 1876
My DEAR FATHER-No man can sue
cessiully tight against nature. The con-
test is unequal--nature caring no more
for man than tor a grasshopper. Ah
he."hopper." To-dayI lost sixty acres
of wheat, eaten rinto-the ground in less
than an hour. i thought L had seen
Iocusts two years ago, but was mis-
taken. r.
All about 10@o'cfock this morning /
noticed a2heayyl smoke rising in the
west. l said to myself, sThat is strange
looking smoke. What causes 'it?""
SAT on my Wheat-drill, and watched it,
Rapidly it arose--Smok9 rising to- the;
south, to the north, to the northeast
In a ufe W. minutes the column of smoke
extended fremGthe south around by the
West to the neftheastAtoi the extreme
limit of vision, While was saying to
myself, Eyes, i understand you now,'
my heart slowl sank Unhitching my
team, put my full heata sacks inl the
wagon, ,ihitehed to it, drove to the gran
AIRY, ,un1oaded,, drove to the house, got
my gun, and Went, prairie. chicken shoot
prise.', =, I.
Quitting work on o beautiful day to go
shootiAgswssSa queepthingy she thougat
Idia NOT haNefthe ,heart to tell her that
in less than tour hours her nice garden
would be cleaned out and that all our
wheat would, be, gone., Soon the low
hum, as OF a distant threshing machine,
filed the air-the advance of the locusts,I
Louder, louder, ever louder the hum, till
in roar the countless billions of de-
yourers were on us, all around u.s., The
air was stiff with them. / could look at
the, sun without blinking. They settled.
cons taptly, Theiearth was covered, with
them, yetnot ohe in a thousand stopped.i
ro the east they went ina vast cloud!
A west wind, a gale, blew them.
! For.sixhoufs they few, "a solid cloud
and tonight there is not wheat plant
left in any OF thep counties about here.
sat on hill and watched them, and
smiled as. I saw some hundreds tackld
i sun-fiower, and / laughed as L saw
that sun flower vanish. How thick thew
wefelf HJwa harmless they hooked; but
great Jovey h0withey saiel AM what
appetites they. have. It would make a
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-19
MIRACULOUS.
Child Run Over by Railroad Train Escapes
Unhurt.

"A tHlu nun OFeF Dy aKAllr0ad Train Escapes
Unhurt.
One day last week an eighteen-months
old child of Mf. Hayes, boss of a gravel
train on the ConnellsVille branch OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad, was PLAYING on
the track near Connellsyille. In its in.
fahtlle mind there was no sense of
danger, and it tottered about from one
tie to another unconscious OF the fact
that the iron monster was nearing the
spot with terrible and irresistible speed.
The roar aud rattle of the approaching
train grew more distinct, and the culver
ing rails announced the approach Of the
train. Still the child sat between the
two long lines of cleaning iron playing
with the sand and pebbles within It's
reach. ln another moment the alocomo-
tive shot around the curve, and the
little mortal, with fear in it's eyes, looked
at its approach but made no attempt to-,
escape. The engineer, man named
McGurr, observed the child, and his
heart almost stood still as he whistled
down breaks and reversed the engine.
1t was too late. By it's tremendous
momentum the train still rushed on. In
an instant the train was upon the spot,
and in another the child, as the engineer
supposed, was under the wheels. When
The locomotive and one car had passed
over the spot the train was checked,
and the engineer jumped off, expecting
to find the mangled remains Of the child
strewn along the track. What was his
surprise and delight, however, to discoY-
er the infant comfortably lying between
two ties and holding out its hands 10 be
lifted out, not having received so much
as scratch. The engineer, who is not
much given to kissing children, kissed
that one.