Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-15

vide with pennsylvania tne mineral treas.
ures of the great southeastern and central
mountain ranges should have been so tardy
in bringing to the smelling furnace and
the mill the coal and iron from their near
opposing hillsides- Mill fires were lighted at
the funeral pile Of slavery. The emancipa-
ton proclamation was heard In the depths
of the earth as well as in the sky. Men were
made free, and material things became our
better servants.
The sectional element has happily been
eliminated from the tariff discussion. We
have no longer States that are necessarily only
planting States. None are excluded from
achieving that Investigations OF pursuit
among the people which brings wealth and
contentment. The cotton plantation will
not be less valuable when the product Is
spun in the country town by operatives
whose necessities call for diversified crops.
and create home demand for garden and
agricultural! products. Every ne" mine,
furnace and factory is an extension or the
productive capacity OF the State. more
real ard valuable than added territory:
Shall the prejudces and paralysis OF
slavery continue to hang upon the
skirts of progress: How long will those who
rejoice that slavery no longer exists cherish
or tolerate the incapacities it puts upon their
communities / look hopefully to the con-
tinuance of our protective system and TO the
consequent development OF manufacturing
and mining enterprises in the States hlther-
to wholly given to agriculture, as a potent
influence in the perfect unification OF our
people. The men who have invested thelr
capital in these enterprises, the farmers VINO
have felt the benefit of their nelShbor-
hood, and the men who work in shop
or field will not fail to find aud to defend
community of interest. Is 1t not quite
possible that the farmers and the promoters
of the great mining and manufacturing
enterprises which have recently been estaD-
Eshed in the South may yet find that the free
ballot of the workngnan, without dis
tinction Of race, is needed for their defence
as we'll as for his own: do not doubt that
if these men in the South who now accept
the tariff views OF Clay AMI the con-
stitutional exposltions Of Webster would
courageousy avow and defend their real
convictions, they would not find 1t DILL
cult, by friendly instruction ana co-opera-
ton, to make the black man their efficient
and safe ally, not only in esta blIshlng correct
principles in our national Administration,
but in preserving, for their local communi"
ties the benefit of social order and econont-
the good offices OF kindness and education
have been fairly tried, the contrary conclu-
sion cannot be plausibly urged.
/ have altogether rejected the suggestion
of a special executive policy for any section
of our country. 1t is the duty of the Execu-
tive to administer and enforce, in the me h-
DDS and by the instrumentalities pointed out
and provided by the Constitution, all che
laws enacted by Congress. These laws are
general and their administration should be
uniform and equal. As a citizen may not
elect what laws he will obey, neither
may the Executive elect which he
will enforce. The duty to obey
and to execute embraces the Consti-
ton in it's entirety and the whole code of
laws enacted under it. The evil example Of
permitting individuals, corporations or COM
nunities to nullify the laws because they
cross some selfish or local interests or pre-
JUDGES, is full Of danger, not only to the
nation at la: ge. but much more to those who
tn thoiIs
just obligations or to obtain an unjust adj
vantage over others. They will presently
themselves be compelled to appeal to the law
for protection and those who would use
the law as defence must not
deny that use Of it to others If our
great corporations would more scrupulously
ohsarve their legal obligations and duties,
they would have less cause to complain of
the unlawful limitations of their rights or of
violent interference with their operations
The community that by concert, open or
secret, among its citizens, denies to a portion
OF It's members their plain rights under the
law has severed the only safe bond of social
order and prosperity. The evil works, from
bad center, both ways. 1t demoraliZes those
who practice it, and destroys the faith Of
those who suffer by it in the efficiency OF
the law as safe protector. The man in
whose breast that faith has haan darkanad ia
the subject Of dangerous and I'M
calny suggestions. Those who use unlawful
methods. if moved by no higher motive than
the seltiShness that prompts them, may we'll
stop and inquire what is to be the end of
this. An unlawful expedent cannot oecoms
q permanent condition of government.
If the educated and influential classes
in community either practise
connive at the systematic violation
or laws that seem to them to cross their con-
venience, what can they expect when the
lesson that convenience or supposed class
interest is sufficient cause for lawlessness
has been We'll learned by thu ignorant classes!
duct, and whore courts, not mobs execute
the penalties, is the only attractive field for
business investments and honest labor.
Our naturalization laws should be amended
to make the inquiry into the character and good dis
position OF persons applying for citizenship more
careful aud searching Our existing laws have been
an uniat?,gbe form. We accept the man as
citizen without any knowledge OF his fitness. and ne
assumes the duties of citizenship without any
knowledge as to what they The privileges of
American citizenship great and its duties 50
grave that we may we'll insist upon good knOwl-
edge of every person applying for citizenship and
good knowledge by him of our institutions. We
should not cease to be hosptable to immigration,
but we should cease to be careless to the char
acter of it. There men of all the
best whose coming is necessarily burden upon
our public revenues threat to social order.
These should be identified and excluded.
We have happily maintained policy OF avoiding
all interference With European affairs. We have
been only interested spectators Of their contentious
in diplomacy and in war. ready use our friendly
offices to promote peace but never obtruding our
advice and never attempting unfairly to coin the dis
trcSSeS of other Powers into commercial advantage
to ourselves. We have just right to expect that
our European policy will be the American policy of
European courts. 1t is SO manfestly incompatible
with those precautions for our peace and safety.
which all the great Powers h9bitualiy observe and
enforce in matters affecting them. that a shorter
Waterway between eastern and western
boards should be dominated by any European Gov
eminent, that may confidently expect that such
purpose will not be entertained by any friendly
Power. We shall in the future, as in the
past, use every endeavor to maintain and enlarge