smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

ence, and no man could be punished for
illegal voting, and it is expressly alleged
that in some portions of the Territory
whole companies of Iowa soldiers voted
upon the Constitution. Now il is man
ifest that the Constitution of the
United States contemplates that there
should be something like equalitynmong
the several States composing the Union.
To admit Nebraska with q population
of less than fifty Thousand, with the
right TO send representative to Con-
gress and two Senators, would present
an instance of most glaring inequality.
According to the present apportionment
Missouri can send a Representative to
Congress for every one hundred and
twenty-seven thousand of population.
And so with all the States ofthe Union.
Why should Nebraska, with probably
not third of this number, have the
privilege of sending Representative
to Congress.
Year: 1867

We wish all our readers Happy
New Year happier far than the one
Just closed. The year 1866 has been
crowded full of important events pos
sessiag national interest. 1t has
closed leaving the nation in still more
unsettled condition than it was one
year ago. All the hopes of the reunion
Of the States which the coming of the
last year gave rise to, have, until this
time, been unfultillcd. All the
anticipated blessings of peace
and fraternity between the differ
ent sections of our common coun-
try are still postponed. The year 1855
has witnessed no real progress in the
work of restoration, bu', instead of this.
the lapse of time has only rendered that
work more difficult, and thrown new
obstacles in the way of the realization
of the nations hope. The country is
further from tranquility than it was
one year ago, and the new year is COM
PEELED to witness the fruits cf that sec
tional hatred, to the growth Of which
so many of it's predecessors have con-
trihutrd. One year ago we were
promised restoration of the ancient
peace and the former glory of the re-
public. The rebels had all laid down
Ia fret do of In
uary, lSGi, ana we looked for statesman
ship to adjust immediately the relations
of States to the Union and give to
the nation. during the year then com
mcncinG. the benefit of that domestic
peace which had been so long denied.
But all the hopes of the lovers
of the republic have been in vain and
those to whom the people looked for
bread have given them stone. The
Union for which so much treasure was
expended and for which so many pre-
cious lives were given is still unattain-
ed, because politicians have preferred
party before patriotism and have given
us partisan enactments instead Of pa
cific and national legislation.


The new year. 1867, is ushered in with
the great work of national restoration
still unaccomplishcd and beset with
difficulties which, one year ago, we did
not imagine could exist. But let us
hope that the year which commences
to-day may witness the realization of
our hopes, and each resolve to do his
part in bringing about the grand con-
summation for which all true patriots
ardently pray. Let us resolve to labor
untirinGly and increasingly for the re-
turn during the year of the old spirit
of public virtue, that old feeling
of American liberty and Ameri-
can pride, which our forefathers felt
and upon which our system of govern
ment was founded. Let us endeavor to
restore the ancient landmarks and to
be guided again by the constitution Of
the United States, and cheerfully and
hopefully let us work. In this way
only can we make this "Happy New
Year." so far as our national and politi-
cal welfare is concerned. 1-..l-.


The beginning of the new year is also
a time for the formation Of good person.
al resolutions. 1t is like the commence
ment of a new life, aided by the expe-
rience of the past. Let the year 1867
witness in each of us personal reforma-
tion, personal renunciation of past her
estes anu bad habits, and, when the first
day of another new year shall come,
both we and the world will be better
than now.
Year: 1867

John Smith, second Quintus Curtius,
a citizen of Memphis, desirous of ameli-
Grating the condition of the streets of
his native city, is reported to have
plunged headlong into the mud, leaving
only the soles of his boots exposed,
with the touching inscription in chalk,
"Who will care for mother now"
Year: 1867

70 Many true heart that, like dove
to the ark, would have come back after
its first transgression, has been frighten-
I'D beyond recall by the angry look and
anenace of an unforgiving spirit.
Year: 1867

Meat! Meat!


FHNIIE public is hereby informed that we are
Il now able to furnish meat at the Market at
lower rate than usual. The price henceforth
shall be six ccnts a pound at the Market House
and to persons taking large quantities it shall be
less We feel confident in being able to furnish
those who favor lis with the best meat in the
Parish. G. COMEAU 81 j. G.. HAYES
Opelousas, June 22 1867. eff
Year: 1867




THE Mississippi valley has recently
been the scene of fearful devastation.
The special correspondence of the New.
York Herald from the south, gives
some vivid pen and ink sketches OF the
results of the late floods which have
broken thelevees at various points of
the river, and covered thousands of
acres OF the richest cotton and sugar
lands of the country, reducing the in
habitants to destitution and depriving
us of vast crops of these staples. In the
State of Louisiana alone two millions
of acres We're submerged during the
past winter, and thus rendered wholly
unproductiVe. This region of country
raised in 1860 over sixteen millions
worth OF sugar, nearly six millions
worth of molasses, two millions worth
of cotton, and six millions worth of
coEn-thirty million dollars worth in
ALL ThR internal revenue tax upon
this amount of cotton, sugar and mo-
1asses, if raised last year, would be
eight millions of dollars. When we
consider that this loss in productive
ness and revenue refers only TO one
section of our State, we can imagine
what the total loss in the great Missis-
sippi valley must be. C
Year: 1867

Tie public can by simple reference loosely charges are
mad


Having been somewhat with storage business with the
years. the above agreement also
my knowledge matters e the statement Of the Committee
Mr. the Collector designate General Stores In
only fair TO state that he the only Collector for
Interested form In profits derived
from The business before that Commee
presty agreed promised TO the Collector
friend ANYTHING directly appointment the


and with is statement and that Of the
Collector testimony yen) the Committee report otherwise


feel liberty the public with any comments
their opinion testimony simply stating that ther hag
groundss and prompted by dys
have they been that
cannot feel Indignation, but contempt - - -
Year: 1867

INTERIIIXTUkE OF RACEs.-The n. Y.
Tribune remarks as follows for the BEN
eft of the virtuuus Democrats who have
such noisy fear and horror Of degener-
acy Of blood


We can imagine no circumstances
under which il would seem to us fit and
wise that a White aDd Black person
should be Joined in the holy state Of
nalrimOny and yet we claim no right
to Judge for others in the premises, and
can suppose no case in which the State
ould be justified in interfering to pre-
vent such marriage any more than to
command it, If Democracy has con-
cOcted or borrowed an 'interference
theory which justifies such meddling,
it is worse theory than even are had
supposed. All do know that there are
several hundred thousand mulattOes in
this country; and we presume no one
has any serious doubt that the fathers
of at least nine-tenths of them are White
Democrats, And we hold that these
Democrats, if they agiU have yellow
children, might better than otherwise
treat the mothers respectively as wives,
after the laudable pattern Of that emi-
nent Democrat, ice-President Richard
M. Johnson. Everybody knew what
were the colors of his wife and childreni
yet they didn't cost him the support Of
a single White Democrat-Nsw York
and Connecticut giving him their whole
Electoral Vote, Hence we conclude
that the Democratic aversion to color in
wedlock is neither general or sincere.
Year: 1867

THE ISLAND ST. THOMAS. SEwARD's
PROPOSED PURCHAsE.-The island is a
"pest hole at which the yellow fever
periodically appears; barren in soil, no
vegetation, the water miserable, the
harbOr unsafe, the station a terror to
seamen and to passengers who have
but to stay in one night :" this is the


bargain at seven millionsin gold. which
Seward and Johnson have IN de for
this nation which has all the ports of
the Atlantic and the Gulf, and has far
better on the main land in that region
more convenient for every naval pur-
pose, which are hardly mentioned in
our list of seaports, An idea prevails
that the American people are so inca
pable Of appreciating the value of terri
tory, and such hllibusters by nature
that they will be captivated by any
thing in the name Of an acquisition of
territory. Johnson and Seward are
travelling on this mean estimate of the
popular intelligence, and are trying to
revive a dead and sinking Aministra-
ton by throwing away public money
upon worthless acquisitions. And for
eign nations are gathering about us as
the confidence men Of the town
gather about a rural greenhorn, and
are offering us great bargains out of
their old burdens.-CircinaGh Gasette.
Year: 1867

The late DR.. WILLIAM CROswELL has in
dited with simple force and beauty the duties
which should unite with and be no insignia
can't portion of the healthy enjoyments so
characteristic of the New Years birth. He
htIy and faithfully says:


Go, warm the cold; go, cIothe the bare,


Go, feed the starved ones at thy door,
And let the empty handed share


From out thy basket and thy store.
Go, wipe from misery's eye the tear,


Take by the hand afiliction's son,


Andhappy shall be all the year


That is thus happily begun.


Go, give the sick and weary rest,


GLADDEN. the cells where prisoners lie
Pour balm and oil in wounded breast,


And soOthe the soul about to die.


DO thus and thou shalt 20 to rest


With music round thy midnight bed,
And blessing, shall be trebly blessed


For each such soul thus cOmfOrted.
Thy sun shall make a golden set


This New Years Day, and be by far
The happiest day that ever yet


Was lettered in thy calendar.
Ring out, wild bells, TO the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year Is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring In redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slOWIy-dying cause,
And ancient forms OF party strife;
Ring in the nObler mode of life,
With sWeeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless cOldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mOurnfuI rhymes.
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic SANDER and the spite:
Ring in the love OF truth and right,
Ring in the common love Of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Rind out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years Of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindIier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.


Aired TeHnySOH.
Year: 1867

This body is now assembled in the
town of Atlanta, engaged in the noble
work of revising the Constitution of the
State so as to secure the rights Of Amer
lean freemen to all her loyal citizens,
take her out of the clutches of seces-
.sionists and bind her forever hereafter
indissolubly to the Union. The follow
ing skecthes of the convention by a
correspondent of the Commercial show
that it is fully competent for the work
in hand and is, indeed, one of the ablest
assemblages that ever convened in the
Stale.


The first thing that strikes you, on
taking survey of the Convention, is
the fact that there are but few quite
young men in it. Many are of middle


age, and the majority are apparently


on the shady side of forty.


An air of respectability and solidity


perYades the assembly, and they look


as un1lke professional politicians as can
well be imagined.


They are mostly planters, lawyers,
doctors, merchants, and ministers. A
large majority of them are men of
Southern birth and lifelong Southern
residence, and mostly native Georgians.
OF the small number Of Union men of
Northern birth, most of them have had
| a residence in Georgia of from twenty to
/ thirty years, and have long been thor
oughIy identified with the State.
With the exception of Mr.. Al. G.. Fos-
| ter, Georgian and a wealthy planter,
and all the members Of the COMMITTEES
Year: 1867

The New York Nation, in a timely
article on the "PubliC ConscienceO calls
attention to the fact that our indebted
nesslis not only a FAR lighter debt than
the English have borne undinchingly
for a hundred years, but is "far light
or debt than the Dutch have borne with
out murmur for two hundred years
without extraordinary resources, with
out increase Of population. without anv
great political future. They have new
er sought to wriggle out Of &c or eVade
it, or to twist the letter Of their own
laws for the confusion of those who
trusted them. There never has been a
great party among them In favor of any
such dodge or device"
Year: 1867

Among articles exhibited at the
Paris Exposition was a model in silver
of railway locomotive with tender at
taGbed. The locomotive contains
whiskey, the tender hot water; sugar
takes the place Of coal upon the tender,
and the stroker is converted into
silver sugar-tongs.
Year: 1867

TIE PLATFORM OF FITzGERALD.-The platform
on which Fitzgerald in 1862 is the same
adopted by the Breckinridge Convention of 1861
that nominated ]. r. Mcconnell for Governor.
reiterated, and contains the following rcsolu-
tions


Re'Oired That arYeppoed employment of force
by the General Government against the seeded States Tor
the purpose Of compelling obedience and submission to the
Federal authority.


Hesotrcd That in favor Of tho
Union upon constitutional which will
able to both sections Of the Coucderacy but it that desr
bic contamination be impossible, then in favor
recognition OF the Independence OF the Confederate States
and treaty Of anity and between them and
ted States Government the only alternative which will
terminate the horrors of civil aud bring
happiness to distracted


Hesoiuxd That the President the States Lin
coln has been guilty OF violation tho
usurpation OF powers in borrowing ad apprpatiug
and Increasing the


o Congress, and that euch acts
and tend the Government military iespo
Year: 1867

A WHirrLER.-The TRINITY JOURNAL invites
people of leisure who have taste for seeing
lhings," to "just walk over to West Weaver
and witness the wonderful alacrity with which
the steam saw-mll whittes up pine trees. That
" steam saw-mill is Yankee, miscegenation-
ist bloody, blarsted abolition institution, and no
true Democrat will approve of or countenance it
in any way.


We shall simply say to the rollicking ink
singer Of the Dramatic Chronicle that the saw
mill " in question is a Western institution, but
that It takes nearly dozen Yankees to make it
"whitte " good.
Year: 1867




!. year since Old Abe suddenly sick
prnus pox OF theatre, good Friday night with Booth
on the brain" We quote and witty remark
evidence OF the disgust inspired In the and vir
taous circles OF society by the attempts friends
such cownsh and monstrous specimen Of humanity
cucn VIII always be revenged by the most intelli
gent ana respectable portion of the people We think
are sae in saying that there intelligent white
In this country to-day who respect John Wilkes
than there are who the Of Abraham Lin


We will simply inform the reader that the
atrocious, damnable paragraph, above quoted.
was penned by the editor Of the Chico Press.
Following it was article laudatory of Sprague
and Fitzgerald: the secession nominees for JUS
tice OF Supreme Court and State Superintendent
OF Schools-for both nominees were ardent Sc
cessionists as long the rebellion lasted That
it is Democratic argument, the State over, (al-
though more vindictive than its party cotempo-
raries generally dare to be,) it is hardly ueces-
sary for US to add. Place the State under the
rule of the opposition and that style of Democ-
racy will certainly hold the reins.
Year: 1867

An EDITOR DEAD.-John R. Ridge, editor of
the Grass Valley National, died at Grass Valley
last Saturday, after lingering illness. Ridge
had been connected with the press of this State
for eleven years, beginning editor of the Daily
American, at Sacramento in 1856 Our citizens
will member him as editor of the Trinity Ma
tional during the campaign of 1863. The Sac
ramento Bee closes obituary notice of him in
the following language:


Ridge Cherokee Indian, and claimed legt-
innate chief Of that tribe but Ridges
into exile, and the dethroncd and exed monarch had
scarcely hope OF attaining to the position he looked
upon as his brthrght lie ourneyed Washington some


two or three since in the hope Of prevailing the
President &c make him Chief Of the Cerokees but
Che fresaent declined and Ridge sorey depressed
su sprts Like his tribe he proslavery
negro bondage TO be divine Institutions was against the
war on the part Of freedom and for anything
Chat he once favored the policy of Douglas the
Territories lie opposed to the Acts Of
ConEresA and everything else that the majority Congress
has done.
Year: 1867

The Charlottesville Chronicle, for example,
says, There are three courses for the Legis-
lature to take. The first is to fight The
second is to fold arms and 10 nothing The
third is to call State Convention" And
then that paper says, There would be a
unanimous voice in favor of the first, if we
had any power to make a decent resistance. ~


And yet such people are to call Conven-
tions through the State Legislatures, and
take the necessary steps to restore the States
to the Union. Never! The Union people
of these States will never be led any where
by men who proclaim that they would
unanimously resist the national authority
if they dared, and that they are restrained
only by fear of consequences from involving
the people again in war. Such sentiments,
announced by these rebel leaders, furnish
the strongest argument in favor of action
only by the loyal portion of our people in
the work of reconstruction.
Year: 1867

We make the following extract from let
ter to the Editors, from highly intelligent
citizen of one of our Western Counties. We
are in the daily receipt of letters of SINH
lar character Our friend is right. The
State must be reconstructed by persons sac
ceptable to Congress, or worse will come of
it." Let his warning be needed:


"It is unnecessary for me to say to you
that have great confidence in your politi-
cal sagacity, and while have differed with
you upon some unimportant points, bearing
upon reconstruction. l am free to say, that
in the main you have been right.


/, like many in the South, accepted the
| g Presidents plan,' not on account of any
improper or disloyal feeling towards Con-
gress or the North, but from an earnest desire
| to embrace the most (as we supposedly eXpe-
ditious mode to reconstruct the South. TO
get back quickly, was what we most desired,
the manner of accomplishing it mattered not.
An earnest wish pervades all classes of our
people that the country may be at peace, and
all wish speedy reconstruction of the gov
ernment, and will accept in good faith the
plan now proposed by Congress, and will
give the best possible evidence of their ap-
proval through public meetings, at the bal
lot-box. sc. would gladly give my sup
port in the promotion of that object, but,
unfortunately, fall within the excepted class.
shall, however, on all proper occasions, adj
wise our peopleto organize, and at the proper
time, that they select delegates that will, in
every way, be acceptable to the people at
home and unexceptionable on account of
previous political differences to the dominant
party in Congress. This must be done. 1t
will be idle to assemble in Convention per-
sons whose antecedents are obnoxious, and
whose actions, speeches and resolves will be
offensive to the great ruling masses of the
North. 1t would, instead of improving the
political condition of the South. render it
infinitely worse. There noe Gun be no half
aoay ground. We must be reconstructed ac-
cording to the plan proposed, and by those
alone acho ,oHZ be acceptable to Congress, or
worse will come of It.


In view of the magnitude and Importance
of the question and speedy solution of the
difficulties in our path, l would respectful
ly suggest that you take the responsibility of
assuming that the Standard is the organ of
the party that must reorganiZe and recon-
struct the State of North Carolina; and as
such organ, that it call Convention to meet
in the City of Raleigh at an early day. 1t
may be asked why may not the Gov rnor or
the Legislature or both together do this9
for the best reason in the world The Re-
publican party North look upon both Gov
ernor and Legislature as disoyal and con-
taminated with treason. A ne,o order must
be set up, both men md measures. The times
demand ne1o ideas, neao organizations, ncoo
representatives, NEW MEN. Let us make
haste to establish the NEW and get the old
State on its legs again-there can be no hope
for her future without reconstruction it
would be madness to reject it.''
Year: 1867

The people of this State have at length
reached point where they must act, and re-
store the State to the Union, or incur the
hazards of anarchy and civil war. The
Union people of this State especially have
borne as much and as long as they intend to
bear. They sntend to act. All honest,
thoughtful, decent citizens will either unite
with them in the work of restoration, or re-
tire and remain quiet while the work is be-
ing done.


The Union people of the State will not per-
nit this work to be obstructed or interferred
with. Traitors must take back seats and be
silent. We advise our Union friends to keep
time to submit to no insults from traitors and
c0uards


The loyal people, thanks to Congress, are
now about to take charge of public affairs
Let them do so with a firm hand, and with
q fixed purpose to put down and keep down
those pestilent leaders and their minions
who have ruined, and who would still furth-
er distract and afflict our people. The issue
is Uuion or Disunion. He who is not for
the Union deserves to have his property con-
tiscated, and to suffer death by the law
Our people have been worried, and trifled
with, and imposed upon, and injured long
enough by the rebel leaders. To bear with
these leaders further is to pull down upon
the heads of al-the innocent with the
guilty-irremediable and final ruin.
Year: 1867

GENERAL GRANTS PosITIoN-The Wash
ington correspondent of the Boston Adper.
tiser writes as follows in his letter of the 25th
instant


THE fate of the reconstruction bill at the
hands of the President is not yet certain,
though the prevalent opinion is that veto
will be sent in tomorrow. or on the follow
ing day at the furthest. General Grant does
not hesitate to say very frankly and pointed
ly that it would be advisable for the Presi-
dent to give it his signature. At an inter-
view with the Secretary of the Treasury
this morning he asked the Secretary what
the President would do with it; would he
sign it /? The Secretary evasively answered
that he did not know. The President had
not said what course he would pursue. The
General remarked with much earnestness:
Il hope he will sign it. think it would be
well for him to do So" The Secretary again
said he could not tell what the Presidents
purpose was, adding g He takes time to
look into the whole question before acting"
General Grant thereupon responded: DO
you think he is open to conviction? Would
my opinion have any weight with him?
don't want to bore him if he has reached his
decision, but very much hope he will sign
the bill" Some further conversation was
had. showing General Grants strong desire
for harmonious action between the President
and Congress. Whether he took occasion to
see the President on the subject is not
known"