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Year: 1870

This phrase is just now common in the
mouths of the Kuklux stump and strcct-cor.
ner orators, and in the columns of the Ku-
klux press. Within hearing of the colored
man-who owes to the Republicans of the
nation all that distinguishes him as free
man from the slave he was previous to the
emancipation proclamation of President
Lincoln, and who owes nothing but con-
tempt and defiance to the Kuklux party.


have done all they possibly could.


keep him in slavery and its cousc-


egradation, next to remand him to


ter he was declared free, and final.


y and intimidate him by threats.


the scourge and even by death,


Iormanee of his duties of citi-,


lied him by them but secured to


is race forever by the Republican


hthin hearing Of the colorcd man.


1t is now quite common to find the


hg Kuklux Khan bewailing the colored


lot and cxclaiming that he is ig-
| With what feeling of contempt and
scorn must this fall upon the ear of the
honest colored man. and upon that of every
| right-thlnking man, no matter of what race
or color. The Kuklux ''clcmentn sympa-
tliizing with the "colored clement y, The
man OF the red hand, the brand and the
knife commiserating his victim, the "damned
negro" and lamenting that he is not sent
more frequently to Congress and the Legis-
laturel
o Great Power give us patience while we
write these lines, and gentle words with |
which to stismatize this base Kuklux
fraud


The millions Of white Republicans of the
Union risked their political salvation upon
the great principle of the equality of man
before the law, without regard to previous
condition, to nationality. to race or color.
and the Republican party was saved. They
emanclpated the slave and made him free
man. They not only made h i'm free, but
'ney armed him with the mighty power of
.he ballot with which to guard his freedom.
NOT only this, they have determined he
S'a@ use that pooer openly and fearlessly in
spite OF Kuklux intimidation or slaughter,
'Re Republican party has not only recog.
Year: 1870

We quote the following from the resolu
tions adopted at the recent Fairfield COUNTY
(Ohio) Democratic Convention:


Resol0ed, That the war debt was created
under false pretences and in violation of the
Constitution, therefore fraud upon the
people, and it is now exacting, as it has been
the very substance of the toiIing millions to
pay the annual interest of the same; hence,
if continued. must inevitably make abiect
slaves Of the masses to the bondholders
therefore,


Resolced, That We are in favor of disown.
ing the bonded debt, or, in other words are
in favor of rcpudiating it; and if paid, we
arc in favor of letting the Abolition party
and its negro allies pay it.


"The war debt was created under false pre-
tenccs and IN eiolation Of tile Constitution -
The same old cry to which the Democracy
rallied during the war. One would have
thought that four years of blood would have
satisfied these gentlemen, but it seems they
thirst for more. This is the same doctrine
laid down in Blair's letter If the war debt
is unconstitutional the purposes for which
that debt was created were unconstitutional
and so are thelegltimate results of those pHy.
Year: 1870

ing protection to the outraged victii


partizan violence. Unless his purpose


intentions are totally misunderstood
his military force is to insure with certainty
in one way or another that the guilty and
their abettors are so punished as that their
confedcrates will be terrified by the example
to such an extent that they will not dare
repeat their crimes, and communities will
not dare to tolerate such crimes thereafter
Year: 1870

Every man in Wake County has to renew
his registration before he can vote.


Keep this in mind.


Tell your friends and neighbors about it
and so with them to register.


Be sure to register.


You cannot vote if you do not register.
Registration is not necessary in erery
county, however.


1t is only necessary "in counties not dis
tricted at the last registration and where
material changes are made in the boundaries
as to voting places"
Year: 1870

\ great deal of fuss was made some time
since by the Sentinel over the conviction of
three "colorcd Kuklux." It turns out that
all of them were "Conscrvatives"-all of
them Uotcd the Democratic ticket tic last
time.


This explains it all.


The next evening body of veritablc X.
KS. went to the house of an old man with
whom one of the converted parties lived and
gave him terrible beating, telling him
that


"You damned niggcrs are putting on too
many airs. If there is any Kukluxing to lie
done we ill attend it. That's our business
Year: 1870

Vt Tor moment suppose youi


mon sir, to meet our candidate car


from the color of his skin Ii


be no condescention on your part to


hss with him, for gentlemen fully your
al in social position have done 50 before
Nv. We believe Judge Daniel G. Fowle
bet MIR. Harris on the stump constantly dur.
ing the canvass for the Convention. We are
also told that Judge FoNle has good reason
to remember his opponents gentlemanly
kindness, and great ability-the one with
pleasure, the other with pain.


Are you then sir, better than Judge
Fowle! lfso, prove yourself at least equal
to him in courage Judge Fowle was not
chicken hearted tho he was overmatched.
You cannot be much worse whipped than he
was any how


No Mr.. Rogers, this last excuse of yours
is no better than your first You are afraid
to meet Mr.. Harris because you know he is
your superior in intellect
Year: 1870

In one Of the quiet inland towns of
this Commonwealth, many years ago,
there lived an wble aareh faithful minister
of the Gpspei. There was IN his parish
at certain time an unusual interest in
religion, and q sermon was preached on
the Wrath Of God" 1t was u very
pungent discourse, and deeply affected
the congregation. After the sermon, an
inquiry meeting was held. aud mary
remained Among the number were
two wicked young men, who, from
motives of curiosity or mischief, placed
themselves among the inquirers. They
tried to disturb the meeting and dis
tract the attention Of those who were
really serious. After the meeting .lfey
went to the hotel, and walking up to
the bar, called for something to drink.
They were asked what they would have.
One Of them replied "Gve nle glass OF
the wrath of God" The bartender
turned him out something in the usual
way, and lie drank it and instantly teH
dead ,tpon the floor! A powerful I'M
preston was made upon tho young men
of that place, aud to-day that event is
remembered there with fear and dread.
God took him at his word. "For in the
hand of the Lord there is q cup; it is full
ofmixture, and He poureth of the same y
This man had drank at the hand OF
the Lord the cup of His fury"
Year: 1870

lay on her mothers knee; she turned
her face away and placpd her finger ON
q line.


The awful silence grows deeper. The
deep drawn breath Of the brother and
the broken gasps Of the murderer, nione
disturbed the stiffness. The widow and
dark haired boy are breathless The
little girl, as she caught \ feeling:of awe,
stood breathless, her face turned aside,
and her tiny fingers resting on the
lines of life and death. i 4 r.


At length, gathering courage, the
widow bent her eyes upon the page aud
read. It was from the New Testa.
ment:


"Love your enemies"


Oh! book of terrible majesty, and
child like lDve Of subliasity that crush
es the heart with rapture. II never
slione more strongly than IN that lonely
hut of Wissahicon, when it saw the
murdcrer's heart.


Now look how wonderful are the ways
of heaven. That very night as the wild
ow sat by her fireside--sat there with a
crushed heart and hot eyelids, thinking
of her husband who now lay on the
drenched soil of Paoli-there was a tap
on the door. She opened it-and that
husband, living though coverd with
wounds, was in her arms. a


He had fallen at Paoli, but not in
death. He was alive, and his wife pam
ted upon his bosom.


That night there was prayer and
thanksgiving in the wood embowered
cottage of Wissahicon. .r......
Year: 1870

Can mother forget2 Nota morning,
noon or night but she looks into the cor
ner of the kitchen where you read of
Robinson Crusoe, and thinks of you yet
boy. Mothers rarely become conscious
that their children are grown out of their
childhood. They think of them, write
TO them, advise them, as though not
fourteen years Of age. They cannot for
get the child Three times a day she
thinks of those absent from the table,
and hopes the next year at farthest she
may Just have here own family there,
and If You are there, look out for the fat
limb Of a chicken, and coffee which
nobody but everybodys mother can
make. Did Hannah forget Samuel2 A
short sentence full of household history,
and running over with genuine mothers
love, is telling and beautiful Moreover
his mother made him a little cloak, and
brought it TO him from year to iyear,
when she came up with her husband to
sacrifice" A mother mourning at her
frst-born's grave, or closing the eyes Of
a child in death, displays a grief whose
very sacredness is sublime. But bitter,
heavier than the stroke, is the despera-
ton Of the son who rushes over a
crushed heart into vices which he would
chide, even from the abandoned and vile.
Napoleon was once asked by a lady what
France needed for the education Of
youth, and the short, profound reply was
Mothers"
Year: 1870

was instituted-is forgotten or unrealized,


because it has never been placed before


her as a motive, and her partner is as


ignorant and innocent of any actuating


principle in the conduct of her married


life as she is herself. His objections to


her expressed desires and wishes are all


arbitrary and egotistical. There is no


kind and impartial examination of the


facts in the case, presentation of the ar


guments against it, or cheerfully yielding


to what seems the best and wisest thing


to do; but there is assertion and dicta-


ton which arouses antagonism and


stimulates the bringing together of an


array of forces to meet them and thus
the contest begins Where it ends, the


divorce courts show The woman's


movements are good as weapons, but


they belong to state of warfare. They


are the outgrowth of the appropriative,


masterful and tyrannical spirit Of men,
and they will continue until justice, or
at least partial justice, has been done


They are based ON the principle in we'd
lock which made woman take her pipe
and her pot of beer in public house every
evening that her husband did so, until
he became so disgusted at the sight that
it induced him to break up his own habit.
i have little faith in the moral power of
women effecting any benefcent change
through suffrage, when they obtain
vote; because, in the exercise of the bal
lot, intelligence counts for nothing. 1t
is an instrument more powerful in the
hands of the ignorant and prejudiced
mass than in the hands of the educated,
thoughtful and tolerant few. But the
effort to obtain it, to lift themselves to
higher place, to take part in the public
and activities of life, will edu-
cate and ennoble women Marriage in
the future may be less universal, but it
will be more perfect than it is now, be-
cause it will be entered into by both |
parties from the highest motives of duty |
and affection. Men and women who |
wish to live their own lives" as the
phrase is, will not marry, or will consent
to that partial union which admits of in
dividual freedom The doctrine of in
in marriage would be bet
ter than the doctrine of free divorce, for
it would put the idea of duty and obliga-
ton nplace of selfshness and the indul-
gence of caprice and inclination. Duty
IS the noblest kind of inspiration. 1t is
hat consent of our reason and judgment
20 our acts which separates us from ami
nal life, governed only by its lawless in
;tincts
Year: 1870

From the Salt Lake Telegraph - Brigham
! Young's 0rgan.I


Personally we entertain no dread


thoughts of either serious disturbance "
or "open war Past experience has


taught us that there is Providence in
| the affairs of men, and with that as


surance we can listen to good deal of


bombast serenely come from whom il


may. To the war expectation now so


prevalent in the East there can only be


disappointment, and General Shafer is as


likely to be as proper Governor, as far


as that is concerned, as any other man.
There can be no war with Utah on any


pretext whatever. Some of us may be


silly enough to say ugly and provoking


things, and dreamy enough to anticipate


all sorts of magnificent results; but there


is heap Of hard sense out here in the


Rocky Mountains, among both men and


women, and the talk of war anywhere is


to-day regarded as sheer balderdash. We


have no personal acquaintance with


General Shafer, and, therefore, can dis
interestedly tender him the advice to pay


no attention to the folks down East on
the war question, but to come out here
when he is ready, mind his own business,
and he will get along well enough.
His wisdom and discretion" Ignorance
or obstinancy," should he have either of
these commodities even in superabund-
ance, will make not whit of difference
to affairs out here; still we should like |
him with the former rather than with the |
latter. STILL be it either way, progress
and development are written on the I


r
norinclination for war, and we won { have 4
it; it don't pay.
Should our citizens be attacked-be they
poor or rich, high up or in low estate
whatever we can we shall defend them
with the truth. 1t is pretty generally
supposed that the Government designs
testing this question of polygamy at no
distant day In this case the Telegraph
will have something TO say, always as
suming the position that what is consti-
tutional should be obeyed, what is not
must be resisted We will not, however,
anticipate in this or anything else, but
hold ourselves in readiness to defend
whatever we believe to be right.


In relation to the Cullom bill, now
pending. in Congress, the Telegraph
says:


"The last news from Washington is
very encouraging to the friends Of this I
bill II is said that the
bill is sure TO pass the House, and, though
/ may be retarded in the Senate, still
is very hopeful. We have no I
dea that Mr. Cullom has much TO do I
With the bill. as it has its birth and per
ectionment in this city. He will, how
,ver, have a lasting notoriety in that i
We know not a single Gen {
lie in this city who does not say that he |
S not opposed to that bill as it is. But {
Fhile they may be opposed TO polygamy
tself, they cannot 20 the whole length 5
N DISTINGUISHING men for the faith they
-et may have. There is enough Of folly
Year: 1870

and outrage in the Cullom bill to defeat
its purpose. When men fight the faith
or the institutions of the people of Utah
fairly we have no objection to their
course; but when they resort to inquisi-
tions we are opposed to them, and shall
do our best to expose their folly and
wickedness."
Year: 1870

A nightingale made mistake;


She sang few notes out of tune;
Her heart was ready to break,


And she hid from the moon.
She wrung her claws, poor thing,


But was far too proud to speak;
She tucked her head under wing,


And pretended to be asleep!
A lark, arm-in-arm with thrush,
Came sauntering up to the place;
The nightingale felt herself blush,
Though feathers hid her face;
She knew they heard her song,


She felt them snicker and sneer;
She thought this life was too long,
And wished she could skip year.
"Oh, nightingale |" cooed n dove,
"0h, nightingale what's the use;
You bird of beauty and love


Why behave like goose?
Don't sulk away from our sight,
Like a common. contemplate fowl;
You bird of joy and delight,


Why behave like an owl?
"0nly think of all you have done:
Only think of all you can do;
A false note is really fun


From such bird as you;
Lift up your proud little crest;
Open your musical beak;
Other birds have to do their best,
You need only to speak"
The nightingale shily took


Her head from under her wing.
And giving the dove look,


Straightway began to sing.
There was never bird could pass;
The night was divinely calm;
And the people stood on the grass,
To hear that wonderful psalm.

The nightingale did not care;
She only sang to the skies;
Her song assembled there,


And there she fixed her eyes.
The people that stood below
She knew but little about;
And this story's moral, know,
If you'll try to find it out!
Year: 1870

WE observe by the Boston Journal that near.
ly all the Baptist clergymen of Boston unite
IN desire to be absolved from all responsbli-
ty for the disgraceful meeting on Monday, 9TH
er than their attempts to control it, SO as to re-
heve the denomination as far as possible from
the injury and disgrace which it threatened to
bring upon that body. The meeting was call
cd by MIR. Fulton, on his own account, against
the wish OF the Baptist clergy, 10 get an en-
dOrsement of his own course in his abuse of
Charles Dickens. This he failed to get, as we
have already reported; and now the Baptist
clergy wish the public to free them from any
responsibility for his acts, and let him alone
bear the credit or shame, as the public shall
see fit to award it. The public wrote Justin
DOWN an ass long ago
Year: 1870

THE NATURALIZATION BILL as finally
rassed does not amount to much. 1t does not
transfer the power of naturalization from the
State to the Federal Courts, though it pro-
vides for the. appointment of two Election
Commissioners one from each political
party in cities of more than 10000 in
habitants. These with the aid of deputies ap.
pointed by the United States Marshal are to
protect the purity of the ballot box. This is
what the original bill was reduced to.
Year: 1870

This Company are now pushing their work
forward with great rapidity and the entire line
necessary to connect st. Louis and ST. Paul is
graded and under contract to be finished this
season. The fact that this enterprise has been
undertaken by combination of leading bank
ers and railroad capitalists of well known
wealth, experience and ability, insures its early
completion and future success.


The road runs through the richest and most
thickly settled portion of Iowa, and is built
IN the interests of the great Northern system
OF roads which centre at ST. Paul. The
Year: 1870

The FUNDING BILL failed in the House
because it was considered unfavorable to the
banks in requiring them to take the new
bonds instead of those they have already de-
posted. Another objection urged against IL
in the House was the provision for S2oo,ooo,-
600 OF five per cent. bonds, though nopouy In
the House or out has any assurance that
loan at a lower rate could at present be ne
gotiated either at home or in Europe. The
less intelligent branch of Congress has thus
far shown the greater amount of obstinacv.
and there are some of our legislators who
will never be convinced by anything but {:
practical trial and failure, that we cannot bor-
row money at four per cent. even when our
.fUe per cent. stocks stand at discount. The
provision for an issue of five per cent. bonds
Is IN the opinion of practical financiers the
only part OF the loan that could be negotiated
at present. Mr.. George Walker of Spring
held, Mass, an excellent judge in matters of
this kind, says in a recent letter to Senator
Morrill, of Vermont, 81 do not believe it pos
sible for the United States to negotiate a loan
In Europe as low as four per cent. at par at
the present time; and l have yet to hear of
any foreign OR American banker, accustomed
to deal in such securities, and familiar with
the markets, who has hazarded different
opinion. On the contrary, have the opin-
ION OF many very eminent bankers whose
judgment has been educated by large ex-
perience, that we cannot at present hope to
borrow below five per cent. My own convic-
tion is that we should be content, as a first
measure, with reducing the oldest portion of
the debt, the five-twenties of 1862 to that rate.
A subsequent reduction of the later portions
to four and half per cent. would thus be
comparatively easy, and we might possibly
end with borrowing at four"
Year: 1870

The WRONG WoKD-Ouce upon a time, there
lived among the hills old gentleman whose entire
personal and real estate consisted Of wife, we'll
ventilated log cabin, half acre os not very pro-
duetive land, and a fondness for what IS called
"tangle-leg' whisky. One spring morning, the
owner of all this property struck with the con-
viction that his land must be pIowed. But be had
no horse, and found 1t impossible TO borrow one
Nevertheless, the ground must be broke up"
horse no horse, and it was fnay determined that
the "old woman should hitch up the old man, aud
bold the handles and drive while he drew the plow
This was accordingly done, and the plow went
bravely on until the plowshare under a root and
the team was brought to 4 halt. But the serIttsr'
had become warmed up by this time aud a. the old
lady gave him rap with the reins, and cried. Git
up, there ~ he threw his weight upon the harness
with heavy jerk, which snapped the trace short
of and he shot forward against the fence, his bead
striking the end Of rail with the force Of a maui
"Thunderation, old womanr r' he exclaimed, As he
wiped the blood and dirt from his eyes, "why
didn't you say w-h-o-ag'
Year: 1870

The Louisville Courier-Journal
quotes the vicksburg Times as a
Democratic journal, and places
that papers denunciatiOn Of the
s'white party" movement on re-
cord as the sentiment Of the peO-
pie Of this State. How a paper
usually so well informed as the
Courier.Journal could make such
q grave error is beyond our ken
Year: 1870

IsprAss are very skillful in building
srcs. botb in their huts aud in the open
mir They select dry wood and sticks.
and ,loce one end in the fire, while the
o,her ends point in all directions like the
snakes of wheel lying horizontally
,Lev thus keep moderate but steady fire
during the night with an amount OF wood
that white man would hurn up 40 an
hour. Speaking Of the white man, they
say Him big fool-make heap ireand
smoke. stand far of, look at him burn
while freeze"
Year: 1870




CENTRAL CITY, Colorado, Nov. 2l.-Thomas
Gleason, foreman of the Prize Lode, was shot
and dangerously wounded this morning by a
man named shannon, employed by the lender
berg Lode


The works OF the Zenderberg Lode intersect
those of the Prize and the point of intersection
being disputed territory, an Injunction had been
obtained against the Prize, aud work thereon
stopped, and while Gleason with gang OF men
was descending the shaft, he was shot by Shan
non from below. The wound may prove fatal
Shannon has been arrested.


The Capital Removal Question.


ST. LOUIS, Nov. 22.-An unusually large
meeting of persons favoring the removal of the
national capital was held in the Court House
last night. The report of the committee ap-
pointed at the previous meeting was adopte l.
embodying petition to the City Council to
memorialize the Legislature In favor OF the pas
sage of joint resolution declaring for the re-
moval of the national capital to some central
point in the Mississippi Valley, and rendering
the jurisdiction to the General Government of
such territory as may be required for Capitol
grounds, should it be located within the State Of
Missouri. Another meeting will be held next
Monday right.