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Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14
rHE PEOPLE AGAINST TH f OF
EICE- n Oh. ID ERS.

The Convection. that was called to
propose amendments to the Constitu-
tion met and adj djourned after session
of thirty working days. Numbered
among the things of the past, it is uo~
for evermore powerless both for good
and for evil. Its work is done and tFae
fruit of it's labors nay he summed mp
in the brief but comprehensive decla-
ration that at a comparatively small cost
it has put it in the power of the people
of North Carolina henceforth to gov
ern themselves.
If the people desire to regain the
power to shape and fashion their gov
ernment according to their own will
and pleasure, all they have to do is to
go to the polls in November next and
vote in favor of the ratification of the
amendments. And this with all it i'm
plies. that is to say, the peoples rule
and an economical expenditure of their
money comes of the Convention of 1875.
The apprehensions of friends favor
able to constitutional reform, but fear
full less the movement that led to the
Convention might be a hazardous po-
litical experiment and the ISLANDERS of
enemies hostile to any change that
promised to free the people from the
burden of the cast-iron Candy Consti-
tuition. have alike proved groundless.
The question now is, not whether the
Convention ought to have been trusted
TO change the Constitution, but whether
the people of North Carolina can be
trusted with the government of North
Carolina.
It was the purpose of the Candy
Constitution to take from the people
the power to govern themselves. 1t is
the purpose of the proposed amend
| ments to restore to them that power,
and in the amplest manner. It was
the purpose, we repeat, of the Con
vention that framed the Constitution
to fasten upon the people OF North
Caroline a government that for years
to come they would be unable to
| change, and so has said one of the
most influential as we'll as one of the
most unworthy members of that Con
Yention. How successfully that pur-
pose was carried out is shown by the
fact that to-day after eight years oi
persistent effort, we have still to undt
their Infamous work, have still before
US the task of freeing the people from
the power of the officeholders.
But we are now, thanks to the Con
vention, no longer helpless. If the
Candy Constitution remains unchanged
it will be because the people of NORTH
Carolira declare at the polls that they
desire it to remain unchanged. If it bt
not changed now no man in Nortf
Carolina may say that its provisions
do not represent the will and the wisl
of the people in North Carolina
Which is the better for our State, tn.
cast-iron Cauby Constitution and th'
rule of officeholders, or the amend
ments and the rule of the people
Let the people speak out. The powe
to do so at the ballot box is placed il
their hands by the proposed amend
ments. They must speak out now o.
hereafter hold their peace.
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14

but the civilized TERRY seeks his dead
comrades honor as we'll and tries to put
upon him blame, that if deserved, must
blast his reputation forever as soldier.
But.can the living TERRY thus ssve
himself by the sacrifice of the dead
CUSTER We think not. There has
been q fatal blunder but who com
mittei it? Gu what single point has
TERRY's plan been successful? True so
far as appears, he imputes blame only
to the gallant young General who lies
dead among the hills Of Montana
But it is q vain task. The age. the
race and tho country that could pro-
duce CUSTER and his gallant band can
not but write their names high upon
their most houored monument. while
casting into contemptuous oblivion and
with merited execrations, the name Of
TERRY. What has Crook done, what
has GIBBoN done, what has TERRY
himself done ? Oan TERRY boast any
thing save that he still breathes the
breath of life? And yet the dead Gus
TER must bear the blame! But 30 it
will not be, unless indeed all the man.
hood of the age died vita the gallant
CUSTER and his gallant band.
The story of this great slaughter is
unknown, save that there was no sur
render there and that death and death
alone, the death of the last man of our
race stopped the fight. If blame be-
longed to any of the glorious dead,
common decency ought to have
prompted the inglorious living to
bury in a soldiers grave the soldier
error rather than the soldiers reputa,
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14
MH. KINGSHUKY's 0x* HD AD-

A correspondent of the Raleigh
Neaos, writii G from Oxford, describes
the celebration in that place on the 4tll
inst. as unprece,le lted before or ince
the war
Speaking of Mr.. Kingsbury'- effort.
it says.
The event OF the day, however, was
the address of L. B. Kingsbury, Ed,
MIR K,ngsbur.% ketched the history
of Granville county and many of its
distinguished citizers from the Fl st
settlement. He spoke for two hours
apd forty-fve minutes, though he did
not venture to repeat all his manu-
script which would have consumed
four hours IN its delivery. The ad-
dress added greatly to the reputation
of its author as a gentleman of ability
and skill in the handling of historical
data. 1t was production showing
great rsearch In garnering up impor-
tant facts relative to past age, and
presenting them III terse and feicitOus
English. To characterize the address
as an able one does not 90 it full JUS
| tice. 1t was SO well conceived, SO
iudiclously arranged, and SO full of i'll
struction that it was the theme OF
much commendation, particularly
among the more Intelligent portion OF
the immense audience. Occasionally,
| too. interspersed with passages of wit
and eloquence that drew forth hearty
| and spontaneous applause.
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14

The summary if not contemptuous
ejectment OF Governor Jewell from the
Federal Cabinet is one of the first
fruits of the st. Louis Convention.
Had not President Grant and his POI
litical advisers felt assured that all
hope of carrying Connecticut was gone
the favorite son of the Radical party
in that State would never have been
treated WITH such indignity. It will
be remembered that a week had not
passed since Governor Jewell had
formally declared his purpose to re-
main in the Cabinet until after the 4th
of March when the new administration
will take charge.
Now, if it were not for TILDEN Con-
necticut would not in Radical sight
seem such assured Democratic ground
If any man has doubted the wisdom of
the nomination made at st. Louis, let
him ponder the action of President
Grant and the causes that led thereto.
Nor is the appointment of Mr.. TYNER
any less significant than the election
of Mr.. Jewell. Mr.. TYNER owes his
promotion to the fact that he is q citi-
zen of Indiana, the supposition beirg.
as Mr.. Jewell testified before the Com
mittee, it would strengthen the Radi-
calls in that State to have an Indiana
man in the Cabinet, while it could
possibly do no good to have Connec-
ticut man there. The fight then is to
be in Indiana, and when we remember
that there are in that State "a, 900
native born North Carolinians, we
feel very hopeful of the result. But
it will be a heavy fight.
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14

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of carefully selected barSs, roots and herbs, and
strongly concentrated that it VIII effectually
eradicate from the system every taint of ScrOfula
Scrofulous HumOr, TumOrs, Cancer, Cancerous
HumOr, Erysipeas, Salt Rhenm, Syphilitic Dis
cases. ';.nker, FaintneSs AT the ST. mach, and all
diseases that arise from impure blood Seiatica,
InfkiInmatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Neural
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Fo- Ulcers aud Eruptive diseases of the Skin
Pustulcs Pimples, Blotches, BoiIs Tetter. Scald-
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t0 cftcrt permanent cure.
For t';iins in the Back, KidHey Complaints
DrOpsy, Female Weakness, LeucorrhOea, arising
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For atarrh, Dyspepsia, IIabitusl Costiveness
Pal.ifatiOn of The Heart, Headache, Pies
Nervousness AMI General PrOstraton of the
Nervous System, no medicine has ever given suCf
perfect satisfaction aS the NEGETTNE. 1t puriie:
the blood. clcanscs all of the organs and possesse
a controlling power over the nervous system.
The remarkable cures effected by VEGETINE
have induced many physicians and arothecarie:
whom we know TO prescribe and use it in the
families.
In fact, NEGETINE is the hest remedy yet dis
covered for the above diseases, and is The only re-
liable Blood Purifier yet placed before
the public.
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14
CUSTE Il.


The story of CUSTER and his command
may not be passed by in silence, nor
may their just tribute be withheld
from men who fell as they fell.
A gallant chieftain who had hith-
erto met with no defeat was stripped
of his command and sent into the fight
as subordinate, to execute part, to
carry out detail. when he should have
matured the plan and directed the
whole. The result is known. General
TERRY, the man who superseded
CUSTER, came upon the tragic scene
only in time to learn from their mu-
tilated, naked and CHASTITY dead bodies.
the terrible fate of his late subordinate
and his entire command. There they
lay, the chivalrous gallant CUSTER,
him to whom during four years
Southern bullets and Southern sabres
brought neither fear nor hurt; his two
brothers and his nephew, his sisters
son; there, too, lay the brother of his
wife; there, too, lay the bodies of near
two hundred officers and men of his
devoted command, the gallant Seventh
Cavalry.
1t was terrible story that was told
by those mute lips. Each gaping
wound too had Its story to tell. 1t was
story of bravery that will be repeated
again and again. as long as the world
shall last, for CUSTER AND HIS BRAVES
are now immortal. We care not now
that the man won his first laurels fight
ing the armies of the South. We re-.
member not now that for four years
he .warred against us in bloody battle.
We remember no longer in bitterness
for him. the bloody fields that come back
to us strewn with the dead bodies of
friends and kinsmen, dear comrades
all, though many of them fell before
CUSTER and his command; for in the
contemplation of the sublime courage
and superb heroism of the fatal ground
even yet covered with gore, every feel
Ing disappears save one of reverent
admiration. CUSTER fought and fell
under the Federal flag, but the best
and bravest of those who for four
years fought against it, may proudly
greet not merely as foemen worthy Of
their steel, but as brethren worthy of
their love, men who have thus glori-
ously illustrated the courage and man
hood of a common race and common
country.
But if We are lost in admiration for
the noble dead, what shall we say of
the ignoble living Scarce gas the
dead CUSTER buried out of sight before
the living TERRY began to plot how he
might make wreck Of hisgood name and
fair fame; seeking to bury in one grave
the body of the man and the reputa-
tion of the soldier. The uncivilized
savage sought only his enemy's life,
for CUsgER's body was not mutilated,
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14
THE CAMPAIGN PROG: R EsS En-
VANCE EO BE I'm RALEIGH!

U y
Governor VANCE is not disappoint-
ing the just expectations of the party.
It was thought. and as the sequel
proves, it was rightly thought that if
VANCE was nominated for Governor, he
would make the most thorough and
energetic canvass over witnessed in
this State. He bas been in the Rsid
not yet thirty days and the election is
near four months of, and he has al
ready made four speeches in as many
different places. At Raleigh, at Char
lotte. at Concord and at Albemarle in
Stanly county, his we'll known voice
has been heard in defence of the
principles of the party whose acknowl-
edged leader he is.
There is no such word as fail in
Vance's dictionary, and he believes in
regular, constant, hard work. From
now until November he will be earn
est. active. jealous and patient in the
great work of organizing victory.
He is now just getting into har-
ness good. He said before the nomi-
ination that he would "work
any where" and he was put ''in the
lead" and the way he IS settling down
for steady four months pull shows
that he was hitcned exactly right in
the Democratic team.
We are glad to learn as We do from
the Raleigh papers that Governor
VANCE will make formal opening of
the campaign in that place on next
Friday, the 14th, by an address to the
TI1DEN and VANCE Club. Everybody
is cordially invited to attend. All the
nominees on our State ticket are ex-
pected to be present and rousing
good time is promised.
Weare glad to see too, that the sugges-
tion tnat the candidates on our State
ticket meet in Raleigh at an ea.jy day
and agree upon a programme for the
campaign is to be carried out. The
call for the meeting of the State Exec
utive Committee, published in another
column. is also step in the right di-
rection. The Committee and the gen
tlemen named on our State ticket,
coming as they do from all sections of
the State, will lie able to arrange
the general outlines of the plan
of campaign speedily and INTEL
| ligently. Systematic and organized
| effort is what We want and what we
must have if we would elect our ticket.
The field of operations is large one,
for there are ninety-four counties in
the State and there ought at least to
be one speech from some member of
the State ticket made in each county
in the State if we would bring out q
full vote and upon bringing out full
vote depends the result.
The time has now come when we
must get to work.
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14
A CONITNU3UPJ TO GWANVILIE
FAX PAYERS.

The Oxford Tcrchlight says:
"The County Commissioners have
made three orders to ". II. Wood,
Esq. amounting to S141 90 for ser
vices rendered as first guard of the
Chain gang to the 4th of July, 1876.
They employed him for 81 per day,
and he commenced work about the
10th of May If one hundred and
forty one working days have passed
since that time. we've surely been in a
Rip Van WinkIe slumber. Will these
fellows these County Commissioners
tell II. how it is they paid Mr.. Wood
S14l 20. when he had not worked SIX
ty days. We want to know exactly
how it is' Every Democrat wants to
know"
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14

Ex Lieutenant Governor Gustav
Koerner, a prominent German citizen
of illinois, has issued an address to
Liberal Republicans. in which he ad-
vocates Governor Tilden's election,
asserting that ''Tildrn's name alone
in the words of the Fifth Avenue Con
ference-is a pledge of eform. and he
has earned not only the confidence OF
honest men, but the fear and hatred OF
thieves"
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14
PREPARED BY
II. r. STEVENS, Boston, Mass.

What is VRGETINR ?-It is a compound en-
tracted from banks, roots and herbs. IL is Ma
lures Remedy. 1t is perfectly harmless from any
bad effect upon the system. 1t Is nourishing and
strengthening. 1t acts directly upon the blood.
Ii quiets the nervous stem. 1t gives you good,
sweet sleep ar night 1t is great panacea for our
aged fathers and mothers; for it gives them
lures sweet sleep,-as has b zen proved by many
an aged person. II is the Great Blood Purifier.
relieved and cured thousands. 1t Is very pleasant
10 take: eevry child likes it. 1t relieves and cures
all diseases originating from impure blood. Try
the VEGRTIHE. Give it a fair trial for yOur COM
plants; then you will say to your friend neighbor
and acquaintance, Try it: il has cured me.
NeGETINE, for the complaints for which il is
recommended, is having large sale throughout
the United States than any other medicine.
Why? Fegetine will cure these complaints.
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14

Ii the amendments shall be ratified
q regular session of the Legislature
cannot cost more than $41, 900 for pay
for its members. Heretofore the ave-
rage cost of regular sessions since 1868
has been ever $1O1, 900 for each
session. LIS $4,000 in the cost of a
single session of the Legislature worth
saving these hard times !? If so let
the amendments be ratified. The re-
cords show what we say is true.
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14
A GOOD NOMINATION!
Milton Chronicle.l

The Conservative Convention OF
Person county nominated Montford
AcGehee. Esq; for the House of Rep
resentatives. Old Person will have
able representative in the next Legis-
laturs in the persons of Messrs. Nc
Gehee and Cunningham, in the event
they are elected. Men SO we'll fit to
represent an intelligent constituency,
should have no opposition. Let old
Person give them O unanimous vote.
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14
from the Piedmont Press I

Mr.. Linney of Alexander tells us of
an old man in Wilkes county who has
been Radical ever since the war. He
asked the old gentleman the other day
how he would vote this year. and the
reply was: "WeIl, I've been voting
with the Radicals a good while but will
have to leave them now, for I got in
the habit of voting for Vance before
the war and now We need him again.
Zeh is my man."
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14

Absenteeism seems to be epidemic
in the Grant family of late. The old
man took several chances al it and
won every time-notably the other
day when he was absent from Phila-
delphia on Centennial day. And then,
too, Fred was absent from his COM
mand when the gallant Custer fell.
But then you see FRED was at home
playing with his new baby. So that
when Custer and the others got killed
Fred only got promotion. Clusters
massacre or something else has caused
Fred to be first Lieutenant. But
what does youth care for promotion
from one lieutenancy to another when
he is already enjoying by brevet the
rank and pay of Lieutenant Colonel
And such is soldering when man
happens to be President Grants son!
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14
MEETING OF THE STATE ENECU
TIVE COM MIEEEE.

Rooms CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COM,
DEM. CONSERVATIVE PARTY,
Raleigh, July s, 1876. )
The District Executive Committee
men, who, with the Central Execu-
tive Committee, compose the State
Executive Committee, are requested
to meet in this city FIiday, 14th in
stant, to consult in regard to matters
of Importance to the party. They will
please~egard this as an official notifi-
cation.
VIM. r. Cox, Chm'n.
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14
From tie Kaleigh Sentinel.
Another Judicial Outrage.

Yesterday Mt the instance OF the hHn-
CRY harpies who have for the past two
months been seeking the city offices,
Judge Watts 1851 4 an order for the
arrest of the mayor and alder men of
the city of Ra'eich.
This is juli;;ial outrage unnaraliel
ed in the history of North Carolina Il
is useless to consider now the quas
ton whether the aldermen or the, com
missioners are legally The officers Of
Raleigh. That question is before tn"
Supreme Court and neither Judge
Watts nor ourselves have anything to
DO with it.
TIE facts CT the case are briefly as
oll0we: SCmA week or more since
Judge Watts issued an order command
iug the Mayor nn1 Board OF Alderman
of the city of Raleigh TO deliver up
their offices into the hands of one Jno.
Q. German, claiming to be Mayor, and
certain other persons claiming to be
comm issioners of the city. From this
order an appeal was taken to the Su-
preme Court aud perfected, as is re-
quircd by law. This, as the yeriest
| tyro in legal lore must know, work I'd
what is technically called a super
| sedeas, and therefore Mayor Manly and
the Board Of Aldermen very properly
refused to vacate the offices. Watts ther
issued an order that Mayor Manly auu
the Aldermen appear before him anG
show cause why they should not be at
tached for contempt of court. Thi:
they did, by stating on oath the fact
set forth above, notwithstanding
which Watts, by an act of judica
| uSurpati0n and cOrrJDticn TInhaar0 q
in a free country, ordered them to b.
arrested for a contempt of court
This is the elimination of the dis
graceful career of corruption which
this man Watts has run since 1868 H
has more than once been charged will
selling his judicial opinions, and with
out dignity, principle or knowledge O
law, he exhibits the melancholy picturt
of judge alike devoid of persona
virtue and official integrity.
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14

Make up your clubs for the JoUNAL
and send them in. The subscription
price puts the JOURNAL in the reach
of all. Remember the valuable Wheel
er and Wilson Sewing Machine given
for the largest number of subscribers
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14

All that the amendments seek to ac-
complish is to restore to the people
their rightful power, and to enforce
an honest, economical expenditure of
their money. Reform is what they
seek. Let them be ratified.
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14

They formed Democratic club of q
hundred members in Goldsbore on last
Friday to be called the Gildsboro TIL
den and Vance Club.
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14

Economy aud the peoples rule is
what North Caroline needs to make
her prosperous once more. We can
not get these unless the proposed
amendments shall be ratified. Let us
go to work, then, in earnest.
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14
BUILDING AND LOAN ANSOCIA.
TaON AND THE SU R m r.

TaON AND THE SUPR Il M IL
COURT,
We learn from the Raleigh NeUs
that the Supreme Court of the State
has decided in Building and Loan
Association case that the Association
is entitled to receive the money ad-
vanoed with six per cent. interest
thereon, giving to the borrower O,
redeemed shareholder credit for all
sums he has paid either as. interest,
dues, fines or otherwise.
Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14
VALUABLE INFORMATION.

Boston, Dec. II, 1869.
Gentlemen-My only object in giving you this
testimonial is to sprt ad valuable information.
Having been badly afflicted with Salt Rheum, and
the who'll surface of my skin being covered with
pimplcs and cruptiOns, many of which caused me
great pain and annoyance, and knowing il to be a
blood disease, took many of the advertised blood
preparations among which WAS any quantity of
Sarsparilla, ithout obtaining amy benefit until
had completed the first bottle saw r!,st had got
the right medicine. Consequently, followed on
with it until had taken seven bottles, when /
was pronounced well man, and my skin is
smooth and entirely free from pimples and erup-
uons. | have never enjoyed 50 good health be-
fore, and attribute 1t all to the u.s. of VEG E.
TINE. TO benefit those afflicted with Rheuma-
tism, will make mention also of the VEGE-
TINES wenderful power of curing of this
acute complaint, of which have suffered so in
tenscly
q. II. TUCKER, Pas. Ag't Mi1h. G. L. r.,
90 Washington Street, boston.
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Wilmington journal., 1876-07-14
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