The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-02
At the = L N. Business ONCE

L. T. BueAdnon, Esq, successful
young farmer and teacher OF South
Wake, says he is trying Durham Ferti-
lizer this year, and believes i a good
thing. So say numerous others.
Messrs. Parker & Smelling have made
large sales of the various brands adver-
tised in Farmer and Mechanic.
: G. Y. UIafeld, Esq, Laurjnburg,
y. Ca very clever young gentleman,
in renewing his subscription, inquiries
where he al purchase pure-breed Ply
mouth Rock eggs. We pass your adj
dress to our townsman, 7. II. Murray /;
also, to Mr.. {. j. Kerr, of Haw River,
and Mr.. c. c. Moore, OF Saxapahaw.
They have some fine strains. We also
send you prirately the address of certain
Northern dealers who advertise the "P.
r." eggs at - a dozen but we should
prefer you to buy in the State if any
body has them.
--Hg. 10. Bingham, Of Binghams,
kdSStu llIOu-A 1llAC4-A NNoh1AN&r -
Oxford, where a new superintendent OF
the Orphanage was probably chosen
last night. Speaking of the Educational
Bill now being debated in Congress, he
mentioned some OF the points OF his re-
cent testimony or address before the
committee, which o much compll-
ment, and astonished the Bloody
Shirtists." They were told some plain
truths.
Hon. John Manning. Thank you
for pamphlet of the Address of DR..
Thos. {. Manning before the University
Literary Societies at last Commence
ment. 1t is a scholarly, philosophic
outline, reviewing the tendency Of the
times in American politics, but not des-
pairing of an onward, and upward,
march of the Republic. He argues that
the chief danger lies in the expansion OF
the idea that the popular will must
control all things, and bend everything
to its behests.
There must be checks and balances
The founders of our republic clearly I'M
derstood this. Their debates in the
great convention of 1889 attest it. New
er for a m were they misled by
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terance that the voice of the people is
the voice of God. They were not so ig-
nOrant of human nature, or OF the teach
ings of the past as to expect justice
from the reign of untettered majorities
n more than from the rules of a single
absolute despot. They were not such
shallow Optimists as to believe that by
merely conglomerating a number OF I'M
perfect and simple units they could
| educe a perfect and sinless aggregate.
On the contrary they knew that the
evil tendencies of men were intensified
rather than weakened by aggregation,
and that they required even stronger re-
straints in the mass than as individuals.
They would not therefore trust their
country to the unbridled sway of many
erring men. and instead of advocating
the absolute rule of maloritieS they
| combatted it. and their keen ears de-
tected more of satanic than OF Irvine re-
frain the cor popuH dogma that captl-
Yates by its Sonorous expression. They
saw that the great and abiding peril to
their plan of free government lay in the
majority rule, and hence their cardinal
aim was so to fashion and formulate
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becoming supreme and absolute. The
fruit Of their labors is that written in
strument which we call a Constitution,
and which in the perfection fits details,
in the general symmetry of its whole,
in the political wisdom Of which is the
highest expression, there was not an
exemplar, and there never can be a re-
production.'
Geo. T. Stronach, Esq. This gen.
tleman has returned from Baltimore
very much improved in health, and yes
terday was looking ~uncommonly well.
Col. Roger o. Gregory. as good as
ever walked seven feet above shoe
leather, was in town yesterday, getting
plans for his new residence. He says
Oxford is booming like a t~wo-year-old
steam engine. The Yellow Leaf is first
cousin to the Philosophers stone
turning to gold every Sale's-Day.