The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-19

executed such amendments or fur
Their legislation as may be necessary
and proper to prevent evasions Of the
law and TO stop further Chinese inn
migration would also meet my ap-
proval. The expression of the con-
vention upon this subject is in emit. 0
HARMONY with my views.
Our civil compact Is government
by IMPURITIES, and the law losses It's
sanction and the magistrate our res
spect when this compact Is broken.
The evil results OF election frauds do
not expend themselves on the voters
who are robbed OF their rightful in
fiuence in public affairs. The indi-
yldual or community or party that
practices or connives at election
frauds has suffered an irrepatable in
jury and will sooner or later realize
that to exchange the American sys-
tenn of majority rule for minority
control, is not only unlawful and UNI
patriotic, but very unsafe for those
who promote it. The disfranchises
ment of q single legal elector by
fraud or intimidation is q crime too
grave to be regarded lightly. The
right of every qualified elector to cast
one fres ballot and 10 have il honest
ly counted must not be questioned.
G Constitutional power should be used
| to make this right secure and punish
frauds on the ballot. Our colored
people do not ask special legislation
in their interest, but only to be made
secure in the common rights of
American citizenship. They will,
however, naturally mistrust the SIM
certify Of those party leaders who ap
peal to their race for support only in
those localities where suffrage is free
and election results doubtful and
compass their disarrangement, where
theii votes would be controlling and
their choice cannot Se coerced. The
nation no less than the State is de-
pendent for prosperity and security
on the intelligence and morality u
the people. This common interest
very early suggested national aid in
the establishment aud endowment Of
schools and colleges in new States.
i There Ia, / believe, q present ext
7 gency that calls for still more lib
eral and direct appropriation in aid
Of common school education in the
States. A territorial form Of gov.
eminent is temporarily expedient u
T the civil conditions. IL is adapteC
to the exigency that suggested 1t, bu
becomes inadequate and even Op
pressiye when applied to fixed 40,
populous communities. Several Ter
ritories are we'll able to bear the bur
, dens and discharge the duties Of IRE,
Il Commonwealth in the American
) Union. To exclu1e them Is 10 den,
the Just rights Of their people AM
E may we'll excite Their indignant pro
\ tests. Iii n
: No question Of political preference
E of the people Of the territory shout,
{ close against them. the hospitabl
/ dor which has been opened to tw
r thirds Of the existing States. Bu
} admission should be resolutely =.
fused to any territory, a majority 0
/ whose people cherish the institution
{ that are repugnant TO our ciyiliza
: ton or inconsistent with RepuDli
g can form Of government.
al The declaration Of the convention
: against all combinations or c,pita
e organized in trusts Or otherwise, /
' control arbitrarily the condition q
; trade among our citizens" is ia hal
D nony with the views entertained an
( publicly express d BY me long beIor
e the assembling Of the convention
2 Ordinarily, capital shares the Loose
7 Of id;eness with labor, Tut in the on
!, Grafton of the trust in some Of il
r forms, wage-sorkers alone suffer los
f while the idle capital receives il
|. dividend from the trust fund. Pro
s ducers who refuse to join the comb
3 nation are destroyed, and competi
. ton a. an element Of prices Is elm
9 mated. 1t cannot be doubted tha
; legislative authority should and wi
: find . method Of dealing fairly nm
|. effectively With these and othe
. abuses connected with this sub,ecI
} Il can hardly be necessary for M
1 70 say that / am hearth
! In sympathy with the declaration
: Of the convention upon the subject Q
} pensions 10 our soldiers and sailor.
:. What they gave and what they sui
! fsred, 1 have some opportunity 70 oh
serve, and in small measure 10 ex
perience. They gave uBgrudgingly
II was not q trade but an Offering
The measure was heaped up, running
over. What they achieved only
distant generation can adequaiel
tell without attempting TO discus
the particular propositions. I ma,
add that the measures in behalf o
the Surviving veterans Of the wa
and Of the families Of their dea,
comrades should be conceived anc
| exenuted IN tha sn;r;, ~ gr.,... 80