The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-05

The Charlotte O6sertef learns 'hat
an hotel isto be built IN top OF Mount
Mitchell, to accommodate summer Vlsl-
tors.
At meeting of Hickman Lodge, No.
H. L @. G. T.. held on Monday evening
last. the following named officers were
Elected for the ensuing term w. c: T.
I~R. r Lewis. Jr.; w. Y. T.-Mrs.
V BaIIard: w. r. S.-Walter Wool
colt w. +. S.-B. F. Falson w; |.
Miss Blanche Fentress; W. IL
Alexander Kreth W. l. G.-hiSs
Helen Thomas: w. .. John VI.
Moore; ". NC. G. Staunton; +. w
G. T.--Kalford Kreth.
aWe have eason to believe that
ono or more persons are travelling on
the cars, and getting credit at hotelsi,
ostensibly as agents OF the Farmer ana
Mechanic. We have no travelling
agents. and we do not hold a pass over
any Railroad, and no one Is entitled 10
ask for a pass over any road unless
hearing a written request from us, ana
dated since MAY /, 1881.
Will our Railroad and ote
friends make a note?
The bitter and continuous attacks
on Dir. Grissom (evcry issue ofthe Dan
Vile papers for two weeks past contain
ing some disparagement of HIM justify
him in making the reply which he IL
now preparing. BY the by, we recelv
ed last week, the 10Th Annual Report
of Pennsylvania Penitentlary: 1t CON
tains a great many valuable tables, from
which we CLEAN three important state
mentS -
Ist. That the majority of all CAPITAL
crimes recorded in that Institution were
committed by persons OF Insane or
Drunken antecedents.
End, That the large majority of cases
belonged to families of criminal assocla-
tons.
Sd, That two-thirGs ofhabitual Grim
inals are physically diseased below the
full measure of physical manhood.
4th, That three fourths of criminals
had no early moral training.
DR.. Paul, the resident Physician
takes ten of the principal convicts as
follows:
Burglary; fourth conviction; mother
insane.
Rape first conviction father insane;
mother weak and silly.
Arson, first conviction sister insane.
Burglary father insane for years
brother, periodic insanity.
Horse stealing; second conviction ;
sister insane.
Horse stealing; tcelth conviction
the youngest of three brothers, all in
sane father was poisoned by his moth
er, who had periodic insanity; both
grandmothers were thieves; sister
weak minded uncle crazy. This pris-
oner has been in prison five times for
horse stealing.
Larceny; first conviction; mother
insane.
one, crime counterfeiting; second
conviction both parents insane.
Burglary first conviction brother
insane.
Illicit distiller; first conviction moth
er insane.
One other fact deserves mention.
Out of41S convicts, only 50 professed
to never drink liquor. Only 81 out Of
the same number were able to give a
clear view of moral obligations.
We shall greatly regret it if any of
our respectable people attend the play
OF Uncle Toms Cabin" which is a.
v~ertised to appear in Raleigh this week.
The play is an acted lie as false as the
tale upon which it is founded. 1t is
| false in sentiment, false in historic aliu-
| sion, false in details of its realism.
| Tho Spntharpar Uho noyS he p,o,or
to view such a farce is lending his sup
port to a foul SANDER upon his people
for every representation Of its brutal
scenes, its niger whipping, its mock
h%eroics, will serve to disseminate false
ideas about Jul tore-fathers, and all
that pertains to them. Its effect upon
the rising generation could mo- but be
injurious; for many a child is preiu-
diced all during his after life by highly
colored dramatic pictures impressed
upon the wax of his mind while yet it
was soft. We know for a fact that
many young men, educated in Yankee
schools, or taught by Yankee Text
Books, and possibly l~ove-smitten by
some pretty Yankee @laSsie, already de-
nounce the Cause for which their own
fathers nobly laid down their lives
happy in the belief that Heaven would
consecrate the sacrifice.
1t will be said, of course. that those
who 60 to see Uncle Tom" will merely
view it "as a work of art" But that is
thin. The play is based on a lie, and
repeats a lie, and serves to keep ahre
4 lie, and to engender other lies. Har
rlet Beecher Stoves book did more to
bring about the war than ally single in
cident in American history. And We
are feeling its villainous effects to this
day, for 1t pictured the Southern pee
pie as a race of brutes, and assassiDs /;
and it created a bitter prejudice against
the South in all lands (for the book WIS
translated into every European Ian
guagel, so that even to this day there
are millions of sober, industrious, and
well TODD immi grants who would not
come South of Mason's and Dixon
line, even if offered a farm for nothing!
This shameful prejudice, and false opin
ION, Is being aided, and kept alice, if not
Increased, by every exhibition of the
Uncle Toms Play" So that when
our people keep such a play travelling
around, they are helping to SANDER
themselves, their fathers and mothers,
their State and their section.
1t was lmpudence to bring such a
play into the South, unless designed,
as 1t doubtless was, to make a run
among the darkeys.
Below we give two extracts from
Georgia papers, but we trust no such
conduct will occur here.
From the Rome (Ga.) COURIER
The large audience of intelligent
whites that sat Through the performance