Year: 1876




rhe great importance Of the politi-
cal contest which will take place in
North Carolina in the month OF
November next, is SO entirely UNDER
stood and appreciated by her people.
that no word of explanation is needed
to impress or magnify it. Not since
the Old North State had an existence,
have her people been called upon to
decide questions of higher import or
of more vital interest to themselves,
than those questions which are in
volved in the campaign that is just
opening before us. When the old con-
stitrtion of the State was formed,
under which her people lived and were
contented for more than eight-tenths
of a century, there were no such diff
culties thrust before its trainers us now
oDstruct the pathway OF her sons who
would lead her back to her once happy
and prosperous condition. Then. there
was a unanimity to construct an lnstru
ment which would result in the great
est public veal attainabIe. There was
ro factious or partisan opposition.
Patriotic wisdom was alone supreme
in the councils of her people. and when
the words of this wisdom wrre written
out and given forth, there was but one
voics to be b, ard in all the land, the
voics that declared spirit of coptent-
ment and obedience.


OF the Instrument THUS formed and
accepted, the people of North Carolina
were deprived, and hy the command
of a military satrap were forced 20
submit to another which was substl-
tut3d for it. Under this odious sub
stitution the people have dragged out
weary existence for eight long years.
At last they have al opportunity of
throwing it off from them forever. The
effort to do SO will be no chiid's play.
1t will require the united strength of
all the good men of the entire State
TO accomplish it. Thank God the
Simpsons hair has grown again, and
with it's length has returned his
strength. AS yet unblinded by his
enemies, instead of dragging down
the pillars of the State for the destruc-
ton of him self aud them, he will
scourge them from the temples of JUS
tice, and will make them who have con-
verted these sacred places into deus of
thieves, flee before his just indigna-
ton.


But the constitution is not the only
question that will come before the
people in November. A Governor,
members OF Congress and memb RS OF
the LIE :islature are to be elected
The prize for which the two op
posing parties are contending, is
indeed great. In entering the contest
no false step should be taken. Above
all things, there should be no factions
in the party. The organization should
be thorough and complete. The enemy
has already sketchod out his plans and
commenced his preparations for the
fray. He will go into the fight, armed
and equipped in every part, ,as he never
which despair can only inspire. 1t is
time the Conservatives should talk of
organization. We must win, and by
such odds as will forever bruise and
destroy the hideous head of Republi-
canism in North Carolina. The only
thing that can keep us from victory is
by the practice of fraud on the part OF
the enemy. And the way to prevent
that fraud is by thorough organization
the enrolment and active support of
every man who proposes to go with
us. This organization must be secured
by early, active and continued labor
among the people. We urge action
now, right away. on the part of every
man IL every county and townshipin the
State. Once commenced it must
not be suffered to flag. The interest
must be Kept up and intensified until
election day. The young men must
come forward. Our leading men must
urge them ont, aud lead the way 1t is
for them to sound the alarm. Their
warning voices should be heard from
the sea coast to the mountain tops.
The young men of talent and courage,
throughout the State should at once
put on 5he war paint, and commence
by organization. Let them go at it in
business-liku way by forming clubs.
Every township and village should
have its club. The larger towns and
cities should each have a number of
clubs. This will result in finding out
and utilizing all the material within
reach, and then our strength can be as
certained and relied upon. The club
is where the very life blood is kept
warm, and kept freely and vigorously
in circulation. From TIE clubs, dele
cations can be sent to the county
meetings, and from the county meet
ings delegations can be sent to nomi-
mating conventions, and thus the party
organization will be such as to give us
candidates who will be acceptable to
the party-@uch as to give us victory.


COLC BIA.


The seventeenth was the anniversary
of the burning Of this beautiful city by