Year: 1870




lished at this place, has within the pas
few weeks been so erratic and doubtful
that we have felt at liberty to discuss nc
give our opinion as to it's present standing
with party it lately assumed to take
the special championship of.


Failing to secure this coveted leader
ship, and being most respectfully snubbed
by its particular friends, it has recently
leaped into the other extreme, and is now
pronounced and commended by promi
nent Radical papers and politicians.


We have preferred to let it speak for it.
self, and we continue to do so now.


Let the people remember that these Ut
terances are made in the beginning of an
exciting campaign; and, while no particu
lar Importance will be attached to them
by any Conservative, they will be made
use Of by the Radicals and heraldcd forth
as another prominent accession to theiI
ranks.


Says the Carolinian:





principles ofthc Democratic party, as th;,,
organization exists at the North, and some
of the States at the South, we have nc
sympathy for, part in, or fellowship with
any political party, organization, clique
or faction distinct from or known by any
name other than the National Democratic
party of the United States" 49,


1t thus peremptorily refuses to unite
with the party that is now fighting Radi,
calism. In another place we find this
significant paragraph. If that is not Civ
ing or attempting to give aid to the Rad
ical PARTY, we confess ourself ignorant o1
the meaning of the English language


1--WE have been watching the signs o.
the times, as given o"t in the published
meetings of the Republican party in va
riouS parts OF the State, and we fail tC
see any indications of the great breach
in the Radical ranks, and we therefore
conclude there is and will be none. On
the other hand, we notice some good men
figuring in these meetings who were not
ehere two years ago. No party; that's
what's the natter


And now listen, to. some "advice" given
to our neighbor by q leading Radical jour
nal :.


Already do the dogs commence to
howl around our independent neighbor of
the Tarboro CorOli1tidn. We tell him to
keep on and fight the good fight of jour
naistic Independence. If the sham Con
servatives send you out of your party,
come and, join the Nations party, which
is the true Republican, and you will be
saved. Like another Noah, we call to our
brother Carolinian to come into the Re
publican ark, and keep out of the wet.
than that Of sltscc..y, and though the fo0,-
;sh brav and was their big chins and long
ears, the free writers Win always prevali
over the loose ta,llscgs.''


Such extracts speak for themselves,
and though the editor may assert that
this extraordinary conduct on our part
sis either willful and malicious misrepre-
sentation, or the result of ignorance and
stupidity altogether ineXcusablc in one OF
his pFetensons, and of consequence SO
gratuitoRs, absurd and contemplate as
to merit 40 further ROtfce at our hands,
yet the people who see his paper pass no
such judgment, and are fully prepared to
believe the tr1ata of our inference.


OUR QUESTION Observation-Disclosures
CONDITION OF DGECoMBE--HOw STANDS
II We have more than once had occa-
sion, in behalf of the people of Edgccombe
to inquire Of the Commissioners the reason
Of their unaccountab!e and apparently
criminal delay in making public the re-
port of the finances of the county under
thc present administration.


The laye is explicit, and its provisio rs
can only be avoided by set OF officials
willfGlly determined to disregard every
enactment that may in any manner inter
fere with or expose their transactions.


We publish it once more:


Section IA. The Board shall cause to
be posted at the Court House and to be
published i'll one or more county newSpa-
pers, if there be any, within five days after
each regular September meeting, and for
at least lour successive weeks, the name





been audited by them, the amount claimed
and the amount allowed and also, at the
same time, full statement of county rev.
enue and charges, showing by items the
income from every source, and the dis
burscments on every account for the past
year, together with the permanent debt of
the county, If any, when contracted, ants
the interest paid Or remaining unpaid
thereon.


Now, we ask once more, why has this
law been so utterly disregardcd by the
Commissioners of the county of Edge
combe? 1t was no doubt eracted for the
very purpose OF preventing the dcprada-
tions of dishonest officials, and failure
to comply with the law must raise grave
doubts in the mind of every taxpayer.


We do not charge that the Commits
sioners of the County of Edgecombc have
been guilty of fraud Or corruption, but
we do charge gross dereliction on their
part in not making public exhibit of their
administration, SO expressly Joined upon
them.


Can it be that they fear the same infa-
nous result that has followed the oppose
of the TRANSACTIONS OF the Pitt County
Board and which is destined to sweep
in August next the Radical party of Pitt
into a merited oblivion The election is
near at hand, and the people demand Of
these officials an account of their steward
shir.


Every taxpayer desires to have full
statement of the manner in which they
have disposed of their money, and calls
upon the County Commissioners to pub
lish the slme for their information.


Will tbey do it We shall sec what we
shall see; but we venture the assertion
that every demand will be disregarded,
and the people laughed to scorn by this
body of Radical oflice-holders.


MANY TRANSLATE due our friends in
every section of tho State who have re-
Gently cxerted themselves so assiduously
in increasing..the circulation Of the SoUTH-
EENER During the past two weeks we


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