smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

We take the following from letter recently
written by an American citizen prominently
engaged in business in London, to a gentleman
now in this city, who has spent the most Of the
time for several years past in England:


You must have noticed the unexpected
tEough gradual change which has come over
the Alabama controversy IN this country AT
tne close OF the war 1t was very generally con-
coded that not only was America entitled to
compensation for Alabama depredations of a
sum to be agreed on, but that some sort of repa-
ration was due for our haste in recognizing the
S9utl; as well as Tor various other acts of un-
friendlness and hostility to the United States.
Little by little, as the negotiation proceeded
and Mr. Bull discovered Uncle Sans weak
points in the argument, and his indsposition to
push things to extremes. he shifted his ground
until from admitting the justice of the claims
he has at last come to the conclusion as iudge
from the general tone of the press that there IL
no foundation in law or spirit for Uncle Sans
pretensions. Indeed, the worthy old gentleman
seems to have discovered that il WAS your bnII
that gOred his OK, and You must not be surnrised
10 nnd about this trle next year a formal de-
mand made on You for a large sum for


LIST. The destruction of the Alabama


"a Constructive damages from loss of busi-
t;S 10 dltt0, Ia cutting short her career in the
fnll tide of her prosperity.


90 Loss through the blockade of Southern
peIts and interfering with British shipping: and


4th. Supposed loss to Great Britain In the
maintenance OF the Union, and the loss of trade
IN IN the Southern Confederacy as an independent


LONBON. January, 1870.


This bill Of items reads very much like IRONY
or badirage; but the recipient of the letter as
sures US that the writer is entirely serious and
honest, and that he himself is not without belief
that the case will ultimately resolve itself into
a shape something Like that indicated by his
Year: 1870

SENATOR Ross AND THE IMPEACHMENT
TRIAL--Senator Ross has made a reply of con-
siderable length to the notification addressed TO
him by the committee appointed by the Kansas
Legislature to inquire into alleged misconduct
on his part in connection with the Impeachment
trial Senator X. informs the committee that
his Official duties will prevent him from heinz
present IN person to answer to the charges. but
he transmits quantity of documentary evil
dence, and asks that in the examination nothing.
however unfriendly or calculated to sustain the
charges against him, may be kept back or COW
cred up. He says:


For nearly year succeeding the close of the
trlal made repeated and urgent efforts 10 &C.
cure an examination of these charges by the
senate OF the United States, but although the
committee appointed at my request to make that
inquiry was composed of four RepubIiaan SEN
a.crs who voted for the Impeachment. and one
Democrat VINO uI3 not, it was never Organized.
and the chairman was compelled to report at
the close of that Congress that they had been
able to elicit nothing derogatory to the accused
Senators.


Now, however, that the matter has been
taken IN hand by n branch of the Legislature
OF my own State, trust that il will DO the peo-
PIE OF the State and myself the justice to make
the Investigation as thorough and as searching
as 1t Is possible for il to be. If shall be founI
to have traDsgressed the proprieties of my po-
siton, il Is due 10 the people OF the State that il
be shown in time for them to vindicate them
selves, ana rebuke an unfaithful public servant,
at the approaching election for my successor.
IL not so found, il II due To myself, and to the
. Senate of which am a member, that an end
shall be made OF unseeIaly and unsubstantiated
criticism,


"s6 lar a. an inq uiry into my action in the i'm
peaebment trial is concerned, desire, in con-
cluslOn, 10 say to YOU, and through YOU 10 the
honorable House of Representatives, that in all
the history of that great trial, so fraught, as
deemed, with peril To the Republic. L have no
thing 10 adj and nothing TO take back. If am
to be censured for having acted upon my own
convictions Of justice and prOprIety, and for
having dared TO assert in the face of an unex-
ampled partisan denunciation, the right of pri-
yate Judgment when sitting under oath to pass
upon the guilt or innocence of one charged with
fighlcIimes and misdemeanors, so be i'll shall
be content i do not desire to purchase official
position at the price of icial perjury; nor will
i ever consent. at the behest OF any party, to
become an Cnthinking instrument TO condemn
any man."
Year: 1870

The Kuklux leaders have met with an ex
treme reverse They were leading on the
people to another conflict with the Union.
They had decreed the overthrow of the
State government. They were destroying the
peace and good order of the community.
They were making fatal stab at the NOR
ality of our people, and had well nigh un-
settled the divine principles of humanity
taught by our Lord on the Mount, and
sealed with his blood ON Cavalry. Life,
liberty and property were in many sec
tions insecurc-a tendency TO barbaric
retaliation wide spread, and the whole State
evidently drifting away from the principles
of civil liberty and civil right, to mob law
and anarchy.


At this stage the Governor and the Presi-
dent interfered with the strong arm OF mil
itary power. They delayed almost too long,
for their conflict has been severe and difficult.
They haze triumphed, they have nipped in
the bud his new treason, they have broken
! up the insurrection and have captured the
insurgents.


This great work has been misinterpreted.
They could make no explanation during
the active operations of their movements.
But in few days, a full exposition of the
whole will satisfy the people of North Caro-
lima that their prompt action has alone saved
our State from another, and bloody con-
fict. Bad men, the same who once before
| filed our whole land with mourning and
lamentation, were again at work.
In 1860 their rebellion was open and
| fragrant; this new treason secret, and there
fore the more dangerous and difficult to
| meet.


People of North Carolina, you who love
peace and order; you who cannot afford to
be again dragged into conscript armies
YOU who love the Union, and look upon the
flag of our country as the only protection
to civil rights, and the only defender
of the rights of all men-the poor and the
rich alike-stand by your country in her
hour of peril-stand firmly to those great
defenders of the Union, the President and
the Governor of this State Hold up their
hands in their efforts to maintain your rights
and the peace of the country.


An election is at hand. March up to the
polls and give moral support to these, your
| friends, by sustaining the great Republican
party for which they act.
Year: 1870

He has fled! This chief of the highest
order-the invisible Empire -. The
man whose mere mandate could cause the
assassination of any man in North Carolina !;
who long since has decrsed the death of his
Exceiicncy the Governor; and whose horrid
design was only prevented by an active and
vigllant police; the prime agent in all the
terrible crimes which have disgraced our
State-has fled Let him go. 1t is we'll
that we are nd of such dangerous secret
enemy. Let him wander like Mazzini in
mountains and caves; for we tell him that
unless he flies beyond the limits of the Uni
ted States, and of those governments with
which we have extradition treaties he will
be dragged back and punished for his MUIR
ders, and other horrid crimes, of which he
was the prime instigator.


North Carolina's Governor loves her peo-
pie. He is determined to protect them from
this Emperor and all other tyrants. He has
many Of the subordinates in this new treason
now in custody, and we are satisfied that he
will have their chief.


Oh what horrid state of things when
in Republican Government, q secret des-
potism can be established and sworn to sub
vert liberty and to destroy peace and order.
And how unreasonable it is that the appa-
rent friends of liberty should attempt to
thwart the Chief Executive in his effort to
put down this horrid combination.


We are satisfied that the people of NorthJ
Carolina will sustain their Governor in this
extreme emergency, that they will rally to
his support in all the measures he has
adopted to save them from the horrors of
another war.


He has appealed to an unusual, but ne
cessary principle of government, the mill.
tary power, in this our greatest trial. His
justification is in the result. He has broken
up and crushed this terrible Organization
this new and dangerous treason. He owed
it to the people of North Carolina who had
honored him; and we are satisfied that
they will uphold him in what he has done.
He has restored law and order. He has
preserved the public peace He has saved
the poor and the humble from the persccu-
tions OF the rich ard powerful, and as eli
max, he has rid North Carolina OF her
greatest enemy, the Emperor of the Kuklux.
Year: 1870

All sorts OF false rumors have been put in
circulation through the State by the Kuklux
Democracy.


One is that the election will continue two
days. There will be but one voting day.
Another is that the election has been sus-
pended in number of counties, and that it
will probably be suspended entirely. There
is no power to suspend the election.


Another is that the people Of the State at
large will be burdcned with heavy taxes
next year to pay for calling out the militia.
The law requires that the expense incurred
in calling out the militia shall be borne by
the counties declared in state Of insurrec-
ton. Thus the law.abidisg citizens of
Warren and Halifax will not be taxed one
cent to pay the expenses of the mill
tia. That expense must be borne by
the property holders of Alamance and
Caswell who have encouraged the Ku-
klux in their outrages. and who have
helped to screen them from justice. 1t is
further provided that when person or per-
sons is convicted of Kukluxing, the expen-
ses of the militia shall be taxed in the bill
Of costs against said person or persons and
paid into the County treasury.


This is Just. If influential citizens in AL
amance and Caswell disregard the laws and
whip, and mutilate and murder any human
being in those Counties, or if they encour-
age others so to do, they should he made to
foot the bill. If the Taxpayers of Wake
have set their faces against all violence and
lawlessness, and by the force of public opin-
ion, kept down the Kuklux and protected
inoffcnsive citizens, it would be unjust to
call on these w-abiding Taxpayers to pay
for the crimes committed in Caswell and
Alamance, and the law does not require it.


The property holders can exercise whole
some influence in behalf of law and order,
and prevent the outrages which have for the
past twelve months disgraced portions of
this State. If they choose to conspire with
outlaws against the peace of society, they
must pay for their folly, and all good men
will saw amen
Year: 1870

The story goes that monkey once used
cats paw to pull chestnuts out of the fire.
The cat got the scorching while the monkey
got the chestnuts and the monkey though.
it very prudent and praiseworthy trans
action.


Gov. Graham uses the Kuklux to get Office
for himself and Ills son Johnny, but is pru-
dent enough to keep himself and all of his
kin out OF the scrape. He loves the chest
nuts but takes care of the fire.


Caution is sometimes rascally virtue.
Year: 1870

Poor virtuous Jeemes, we pity thee, in
deed we do. Nature hath played thee false.
She gave thee the ambition of a Napoleon,
the vanity of a peocock, and one third tile
sense of a dull mosquito, and this is why
we pity thee


Oh Nature, nature why did'st thou treat
our Jeemes thusly. Or did'st thou think
that by making him Leach he could suck
votes In this thou art mistaken for be is
too virtuous to do so.


Poor, poor Jeemes, he had better leave
and retire. Persistence can only bring NOR
tifcation. 1000 majority for Scott next
Thursday will ring thy political death knell
Year: 1870

Gov. Graham draws the line of color, and
upon this rock they build the White Broth
erhood Can it be that the founder of this
degree has been permitted to put Others on
the rock and cry out, so it boys, while he
fingered in the rear? Does he think that
the rascally virtue Prudence, which has been
his motto through life, will now shield him
from the scorn and contempt of his delu-
ded victims, the Kuklux, or from the just
penalties which the law attaches to one
who aids, comforts, counsels and advises
crime? Did prudence prevent him from
going to Washington with Col. Bedford
Brown, as promised, to pray for his victims
to an offended Executive? Judging from the
tenor Of Col. Browns talk IN Raleigh
while lie may think that Graham's conduct
was prudent, it must remind him of the
catspaw.


He forgot his usual prudence when he told
the boys that the whipping of poor color
ed woman was "a species of wild justice
perhaps necessary" and did not tell them
that wild justice" did not extend to put
ting negroes in mill ponds, and to hanging
them in the court grove and by the high
ways.


Vance has none of this rascally virtue He
rushcs into folly and crime like catamount
in full jump. Though thou bray fool in
u mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet
will not his foolishncss depart from him."
Poor white e-faced, white-eyed, white liver.
ed braggart Turner, nobody expected
anything better of him. His raising was
coarse, vulgar and brutal, and he has never
known or felt any of the impulses that ac-
tuate virtious and good man. To exhort
him to truth, virtue and honesty is to cast
pearls before swine. Graham is better and
in all probability, would have been better
man but for his association with Turner.
You cannot touch pitch and not be defilcd
Year: 1870

E. ! M u K


THE HoT SEAsoN-ITs EFFECT UPON In
DIvIDUAL HEALTH.-The present hot season
has been one of unprecedented length, fol
this latitude. For two or three days to.
gether we have often felt it as warm-but
cannot now recollect of any period when
we had two and three weeks of such intense
heat, and at one time; and while it has not
to our knowledge, materially affected the
health of our city, or even the country i'm
mediately adjacent, we are panied to learn
that other localities are suffering sickness
and death.


From private letter just to hand from
the town of Wilson, we are informed that
that people have been, and continue to be,
greatly afflicted. Many deaths have taken
place among the children, and several adults
have fallen victims. Among the adults, DR..
Winstead, a few days since, died suddenly
from the effects of congestive chill. The
day before he was, apparently, in the full
vigor of health. That community has our
sympathy, and we trust, as the days grow
shorter, and the nights become cooler, the
health of the tnwn may improve, and the
faces that now look sad, may become bright
and cheerful under the return OF health.


While on this subject, we may be par
doned for the suggestion, that our city
fathers may not relax their vigilance in look
ing after the cleanliness of our own city.
Year: 1870

THE New BERNE Journal Of Commerce,
of Friday, has an article on cleaning black
r36On. We suppose it was inserted for the
benefit of our Democratic friend, who will
SOON be obliged to renovate their black rib
bon and old Grape.
Year: 1870

NOTWITHSTANDING the extravagant price
of ice, the demand is far greater than ever
before, and our ice man, Mr.. Frapps, is kept
busy dealing out the expensive luxury to the
heated denizens of our city.
Year: 1870

An Indiana farmer thought he saw a
ghost III cemetery the other night. He
procured his gun, thinking he would try
the effect of cold lead on the apparition,
fired, and brought down his own poor
old white horse.
Year: 1870

Is your fat, good-natured old grand
father living on fat beef and pork,
white bread and butter, buckwheat
cakes and moiasses, rice and sugar,
till be has lost all mental and physical
energy, and desires To sitotrom morn
ing till night in the chimney corner
or at the register, saying nothing and
caring for nOthing? Change his diet
and give him fish, beefsteak, potatoes
and unbOlted wheat bread or rye and
indian, with one half or three quarters
of the carboniferous articles of his fore
mer diet, and in one week he will
cheer you again with his old jokes,
and call for his hat and cane.


Is he lean and cold and irritable ?
Give him the fattest meats with the
best of butter, and as much sugar and
molasses as he desires, not taking
away entirely food for the brain and
muscle, but adapting them to his cir
cumstances. Perhaps his brain has
been overworked, and exhaustion and


itful action follow. If so, he needs
some form of phosphate food to
which he has not been accustomed, as
oatmeal porridge, or oatmeal cake,
with milk or a diet of fish, and pearl
barley or pea soup. Or perhaps his
.restlessness comes from inactivity of
the bowels ; if so, he needs fruits, veg
etables, uubolted wheat bread, &C.,
with care to keep his mind at ease,
and to have only such company as is
soothing and agreeable.


Or perhaps his irritability arises
from the use oftoo much meat and 9TH
er phosphate food; if so, keep him on
a diet in which the phosphates are def
cient as rice, -four bread and butter,
&C., with other food adapted to his
other conditions and habits. But
that a regard to these different condi-
tions, and an adaptation offood to con-
form to them, will very much contri-
butte to comfort and happiness in the
declining years of life, there is not a
shadow of doubt.-[PhilOsOphy Of Eat
ing.
Year: 1870

Treasury, and now held in the Treas
ury of the United States, shall be can
celed and destroyed, a detailed record
of such bonds so Cancelled and destroy
ed to be first made in the books of the
Treasury Department. Any bonds
hereafter applied to said sinking funds
and sll other United States bonds re-
deemed and paid hereafter by the
United States shall also in like manner
be recorded, Cancelled and destroyed,
and the amount of the bonds Of each
class that have been cancelled and de-
stroyed, shall be deducted respectively
from the amount of each class of the


outstanding debt of the United States
in addition to the other amount that
may be applied to the redemption or
payment of the public debt, and an
amount equal to the interest on all
bonds belonging to the aforesaid sink
ing fund shall be applied as the Secre-
tary of the Treasury shall from time
to time direct to the payment of the
public debt, as provided for in this
section 3 of the act aforesaid, and the
amount so to be applied is hereby ap-
prOpriated annually for that purpose
out of the receipts for duties on i'm
ported goods.
Year: 1870

We may truly conceive of God, though
we cannot fully conceive of him. We
may have right apprehensiOns of him,
though not exact comprehension of him.


Then our conceptions of Gods attributes
are carnal, when our high thoughts of one
gives low thoughts of another.


His goodness makes his majesty ami
able, and his majesty makes his goodness
wonderful. His love is not abated by his
greatness, nor his greatness by his love-
His holiness hinders him not from dwell
ing with the poor in spirit
Nothing is great enough for him to ad-
mire, who is infinite majesty; nothing is
mean enough for him to despise, who is
infinite mercy.


God deals with his servants, not as a
passionate master, but as a compassion
ate father.


What pleaseth God should please Us, be-
cause it pleaseth God.
A sight of God begins saint on earth,
and perfects him in heaven.
God takes notice of every particular
man, as if there were none else; and yet
takes notice of all as if they were but one
man.


God repented that he had made man,
but never repented that he redeemed man.
We cannot live naturally without God,
how then can we live happy without him?
We may know what God intends for us
by what he hath wrought in US.


They that have God for their God, have
angels for their guard.


Many have lost for God, but none ever
lost by God. If they have lost in tempor-
ais, they have been eternal gamers. Matth.
air. 90.


This is a sure rule: God neUer takes
anything yJa0ne his people, but he giUes them
something better IN the stead Of it.


God is a great God, and therefore we
should wait upon him he is a good God,
and therefore it is not in vain to wait up
on him.


A man may be worshipper of the true
God. yet not true worshipper of God.


The lowest reverence is due to the high
est majesty.


Fear God for his power, trust him for
his wisdom, love him for his goodness,
praise him for his greatness, believe him
for his faithfulness, and adore him for his
holiness.


All creatures are as nothing compared
with God, and absolutely nothing without
God.
Year: 1870

A child beginning to read becomes
delighted with newspapers, for he
reads names that are familiar and he
will progress accordingly. A news.
paper in one year is worth quarters
schooling to a child, and every father
must consider that substantial infoT-
nation is connected with this advance
ment. The mother of a family being
one of the heads, and having a more
immediate care of the children, should
herself be instructed. A mind occu-
pied becomes fortified against the ills
of life, and is braced for any emergency.
Children amused by reading or study,
are of course considerate and more
easily governed. How many thought
less young men have spent their even
ings in a tavern, or a grOg shop, who
ought to have been reading. How
many parents who never spent twen-
ty dollars for books for their families
would gladly have given thousands,
to reclaim a son or daughter, who had
ignorantly and thoughtlessly fallen in
to temptation.
Year: 1870

A Christians life is nothing else but
a short trial of his graces.


LukeWarttluess is the best natural
but the worst spiritual temper a man
can be in.


There are but few but are sometimes
in a serious fit but how few are in q
serious frame, who have not an abid-
ing sense Of God upon their hearts.


1t is a voluntary CANNOT that keeps
the soul from God.


The gate which leads to life IS
straight gate, therefore we should feart
it is an open gate, therefore we-shouId
hope.


Do the Lords work in the Lords
time; pray whilst God hears; hear
whilst God speaks believe whilst God
promises; obey whilst God commands.


That man hath no sense of mercy,
that wants a sense of duty.


Two duties must run through 4
Christians lifej like the warp through
the wOCfi blessing and trusting.


Religion is much talked of, hut little
Understood, till the conscience be
aWakened} then a man knows the
worth of a soul and the want of a Sa-
vior.


Then doth religion flourish In the
soul, when-it knows how to naturaIiz5
spiritual things, and to spiritualize nat
ural things.


We may judge of our spiritual state
by our spiritual state and our spirit
ual state by the delightful and custom
aTy actions of our lives.


If we expect to live with Christ In
heaven we must live with him on
earth.


We may expect Gods protection so
long as we keep within bounds.


Our opportunities are (like our sOulsy
very precious but if they are lost they
are irrecOverably lost.


That preaching which is plain, pure,
powerful, and practical, men are apt to
dislike.


Religion begins with knowledge
Of mans self, and is perfected with the
knowledge OfGOd. ...
This is a threefold mystery d COS
pei published in the midst of an un-
gOdly world little church preserved
In the midst of devils; and a Iittl6
grace kept alive in the midst of cor
IruptiOns.


The service of God is the SOULS work;
and the favor of God its reward.


A man may be perfect in his Obedil
ence, and yet impartial.


God never fails them that wait for
him, nor fOrsakes them that work for
/ him.


Itis a sign of advanced grace when
opinion is swallowed up of religion.