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Year: 1872

We are hot altogether like the old-time
! Northwestern orator who, when called
| upon to define his position, declared him.
self to be " agin taxes and in favor of the
next war" We are g ag i'll taxes" but We
| are also agin - the next war;" Indeed, we
are fighting this campaign solely upon this
ISSUE We support Mr.. Greeley because
he has been regularly nominated by the
Democratic party OH the ground that he is
pledged TO peace and reconciliation, and
we oppose General GranC because he is the
representative of party that seeks to pro-
long the war and strife that have SO long
afflicted the country.


The Radical party fourishes only amid
strife and contention. For peace and
peaceful methods it has neither respect nor
regard.


The great grief that now weighs upon
the Radical heart in North Carolina
is the prospect of peaceful investigation
into the frauds that it is alleged were per-
petrated in the late election. 1t seems
never to have occurred to the members
of that party that their duty as good,
law-abiding citizens requires them to
submit TO the arbitration of the law
and 20 yield obedience to The verdict
of the highest legal tribunal in the land.
Their first thought is that the Legislature
will decide against them. Their next
thought is that they will 6 resist"


Nor is there any effort at concealment.
The Era, the central organ Of the Radical
party in the State, openly advises Caldwell
to resist, in case the Legislature, the tribu-
nal expressly empowered by the COnstitu-
ton to decide the contest, declares that
Merrimon was elected and that Caldwell
was not elected.


= Now we call this quite cool proceeding,
bus it is only a specimen brick OF Radical
Reconstruction. There was a time when
such talk would have had some effect, but
now all that sort of thing has, in the ex-
pressive words of that eminent Radical,
Colonel Kirk, "played out"


Indeed, if we live until we see g resist
ance" " to the decision Of the Legislature
formally declared in accordance with law,
we shall live many years longer than we
nc,g expect to live. In the first place, it
will be slightly dangerous.


If the Legislature of North Carolina,
in obedience to the Constitution, decides
the contest between MerrimOn and
Caldwell i'll favor j Of Merrimon, and
if. i'm obedience to that decision Merri-
mon is duly sworn into office and
Caldwell resists him in the discharge of his
duties, with force and arms, his resistance
will be SO near akin to the crime of treason,
as defined by the Constitution, as to give
him and his aiders and abettors very chilly
sensations about the neck. There is little
danger that our North Caroliua Radicals
will be so rash as to risk shooting
! first and hanging afterwards in seeking te
overturn the lawful government of North
Carolina. If they could play their parts
| in the rear of Grant and the old Flag they
might try it, but not otherwise.


a. The idea of scalawags and carpet bag
Year: 1872

The trial Of the Impeachment of Judge
Court, as brought to a termination on
last SatI rday.


The articles of impeachment were thirty
eight in number. Upon twenty-six of
these articles the Court found the respOn-
dent guilty" and upon the others "nOt
guilty"


The sentence of the Court was that
Judge Barnard be removed from office and
disqualified to hold any office of honor,
trust or profit in the State. This is the ex-
treme penalty permitted in such cases by
the Constitution OF, the State of New York.


The New Y ork World says that if the
Court of Impeachment had 'Ebeen able to
find any eXtenuation of his judicial crimes
the lesser sentence of mere removal would
have been pronounced, instead Of fixing
upon him tie ineffaceabe stigma Of per-
manent disqualification for every office.
intellectually, Judge Barnard was very
we'll equipped for the bench. Quick and
energetic in the dispatch of business, and
fearless public opinion almost to defiance,
he needed nothing but incorrupible honesty
to have been one of the most useful magis-
uates among the thirty-two judges of our
Supreme Court. Unfortunately, he broke
down i'll that one quality which is as in
dispensable in a judge as courage is in q
soldier or chastity in woman; and he is
thereby irreparably disgraced, as soldier
or woman is when the cOwardice or the
lmpurity is established by evidence


his is the way in which criminals are
disposed Of in New Ork, even though they
may wear the judicial ermne and sit in
the highest courts in the State.


We commend the fate of Barnard to
some of our North Carolina- judges. And
they may well heed the advice i'll view of
the habit, that las grown up Of late years,
OF following so closely i'll the footsteps of
our New York brethren in all matters per
tlning to law and legal practice


Under the code and practice in New
ork. judicial corruption ana tyranny in
creased to such an extent that the people
ana the bar rose up en- mdSse and de
illIIded reform. The Impeachment and
convection OF Judge Barnard and the en-
l"fred resignation of other judges will
uolbIless do much to purify the bench in
tilAI State We doubt, however, whether
liiIs mode of proceeding is remedy that
Strikes at the root Of the disease.


i'll North Carolina, since the dept ion Of
tins code and practice, it is undoubtedly
true that we have witnessed judicial cor
rption and Judicial tyranny. We are not
prepared, however, tC say whether or not
tlls corruption ana tyranny have been
produced by tine new system of law and
practice or whether they have proceeded
from the innate qualities Of those men
who have SO degraded the Bench in North
Carolina.


We are inclined to think that both
causes have united to produce the dis
graceful result. In the olden time the
Innate rascality of men found but little
margin for display upon the Bench, now it
mas ample room and verge enough.


In the olden time judges, if they did not
possess the virtue of sobriety, paid enough
respect to public opinion to conceal. if not
10 deny, the fact that they were drunkards.
Now grave legislator deems it no insult
10 The people or to their representatives to
Year: 1872

urge as reason why Judge should be
left undisturbed in his seat upon the
Bench, the fact that he has been in the
habit Of getting drunk for the last thirty
years to such an extent as in some sort
to have acquired prescrptive right to get
drunk as Judge in North Carolina!


1t may be true that Chief Justi ee Pear
son did get drunk in former days, but it is
also true that it was not until the Infamous
TOurgee, with the assistance of such men
AS Rodman and Reade, who will carry
with them to their very graves the curses
and execrations of all true North Caro-
linians, bad overturned the laws OF North
Carolina that legislator, himself Il lawyer,
who had refused seat upon the Supreme
Court Bench, could have the hardihood to
plead prescriptive right to get drunk in a
Chief Justice OF North Carolina!


We trust that as we have followed New
York customs so blindly, thus far, that we
will go still farther, and that as long as we
have swallowed New York poison we will
take New York antidote and proceed to
impeach, convict and depose all judges
who, by corruption, oppression, drunken
ness or other misconduct, have rendered
themselves amenabIe to such punishment
i'll North Carolina.


Strange events happen every day, and
revolutions Of the most startling character.
tits possible, barely possible, but still possi-
bic, that the next revolution may be III the
interest of virtue and honesty. Indeed,
we think we see signs of its coming. If it
shall come there will be some prominent
fate Of Barnard be a warning to his COM
Year: 1872


Secretary Boutwell, returns on the 1st Of Sop
tenIber.


The balance of currency in treasury is four
and hall million dollars, which is unusually
low.


The Attorney General decides that under the
existing laws the Postmaster General has 10
authority to spend money for postal cards which
Congress authorized, but for which appro-
pratiOn was made. The introduction of tho
postal card system must wait the further action
of Congress
Year: 1872

Almost every Conservative paper in the


State demands that the election should be
contested If there has been fraud it
should be exposed, which can only y be done
by thorough investigation OF the whole
matter. 1t is time that the perpetrators
of corruption should be properly punished.
Year: 1872

1t then clearly remains to our candidates
on the State ticket to contest the election
of Caldwell and those associated with him
by Radical nomination. They owe it to
the Conservative people of North Carolina,
who feel they have been cheated out of the
victory legally theirs. They owe it to the
cause Of Justice. 1t is necessary for the
maintenance Of the purity of the ballot
box. 1t is essential to the free privilege of
elections.
Year: 1872

These charges ought to be investigated
by the Legislature to The end that justice
may be done and fraud condemned, for II
they be true, then is Merrimon our Gov
ernOr elect. We do not undertake. t0lsay
that they are true, bnt,we consider it the
duty of Judge Merrimon To contest the
election, not alone on his own behalf, but
III behalf Of the State aud the purity otthe


ballot-box. We are not prompted to this
by a singing sense of defeat, but by a
simple desire that the elections in this
State shall be above suspicion OF unfair
ness, and that the ballOt7box, which is the
only safeguard of our liberties, shall be
kept pure. If upon investigation no frauds
should be discovered, then we will, hail
Caldwell as the Governor elect by the
choice of $4,000 negroes and 1000
whites, and will try to live peaceably with
all men under such trying circumstances,
but if our people have been imposed upon,
if fraudulent votes have been cast exceed
ing the so-called majority of Caldwell in
the State, then We demand in the name OF
Year: 1872




Oh, the faces We meet
In the crowded street,
With their smiling lips or their weary eye;
And the clouds of care,
Which they often wear
AS they hurry swiftly by.
There are faces as gay
As the waves that play
On the sunny sand of an islet green;
There are eyes as bright
As the jewels light.
That falls on the brow of queen
There are tresses Of hair
Like a golden snare.
And they catch many hearts in their meshe:


[strOng
There are locks like the night
On a mountain height
Ere the day-star heralds the dawn.
There are brows as free
As land blocked sea,
No storms have driven, no tempest tossed
And brows as black
As the desolate track
Which the fire fend has crossed
There are lips whose smile,
Without malice or guile,
Light the face as the sun lights the sea-
And lips where a sneer
ChillS the blood as with fear,
At its da' k malignity.
Oh the faces we meet
la the crowded street.
With careworn brows or gladstone eye:
Are pictures of light, made
OF light and shade.
As they pass us swiftly by.
Year: 1872

MADAM" said husband to his wife
in little alteration which will occur in
the best regulated families, "when a
man and his wife have quarreled, and
each considers the other at fault, which
of the two ought to advance toward a re-
Cancellation The best natured and
wisest of the two said the wife, putting
up her mouth for kiss, which was given
with JUNCTION
Year: 1872

Be genile--if you cannot relieve do
not grieve the poor. Give them soft
words if nothing else. Put yourself in
the place of every poor man, and deal
with him as you would God would deal
with you.
Year: 1872

LIFE is book of which we can have
but one edition. Let each days actions
as they add their pages to the inde-
structible volume. be such as we shall
be willing to have an assembled world
read.
Year: 1872

A PERSON never appears so ridiculous
by the qualities he has, as by those he
affects 10 have lie gains more by being
contenied to be seen as he is, than at
tempting to appear what he is not.
Year: 1872

Those extra nice young men who
never wish to soil their hands with man
ual labor bat aspire to professional and
lazy "geniility," can learn good lesson
from the course pursued by the nephew
of the late Colonel Colt. of Hartford
Connecticut, who received from bis TN
Gle an immense fortune. At the time of
Colt 8 death, the nephew was learning
his trade of machinist, in his uncle's shop
working diligently every day, subject to
the same rules as OTHER apprentices. On
his death. he became millionaire; but
choosing guardian to manage his prop
erty, he continued at his labor and served
his apprenticeship. Now, when he
walks the rooms of his fine house, or
drives handsome and costly team, he
has a conciousness that if his riches take
to themselves wings and ny away, he is
with the means of getting an honest
livelihood, and can make a fortune for
himself He was great mechanic, and
is not ashamed of it again. Labor, with
its accompanying dirt, is not dishonora,
bic or degrading; laziness. and its almost
necessary evils. are di. gusting aud des-
iroying Dirty hands and sense of in
dependence are to be preferred to kid
gloves and the consciousness of being a
mere dronc in the human hive. Tools
rust Of neglect-wear ont from use.
Neglect is criminal-use is beneficial
So with mans capaciiies-better wear
item out than let them rust.


How BLoAT Was CURED-As
our cattle were turned to pasture last
Spring. a nice yearling heifer was af-
fected with bloat. which did not abute,
but increased for more than two weeks
We did not see her chew her cud, al
thous h she was not within observation,
except at milking time. We gave her
a slice of salt, fat pork sprinkled on
both sides with ground black pepper
She ate it readily, and soon made a
spasmodic effort as if to raise something
into her mouth Another slice of pork,
well peppered, was given her. and she
went to pasture with the other cattle as
usual. When she was next observed,
she was chewing her cud. as lesurely as
the other cattle, but the bloat had not all
gone down A teacupful Of salt was
moistened and rubbed upon the bloated
side, and next day the bloat was all
gone, and did not appear again. She
grew nicely through the season, and was
lively and well.
Year: 1872

The finest curative agency in the world
is the mind OF the patient. We do not
mean to say you can cure corns and bum
ions by resolving 10 dispense with them,
or that you can restore your lungs after
disease has destroyed them by having a
cheerful temper, or that cancer can be
eradicaled by hopeful heart. The
Mind Cure" is not warranted TO act as
4 specific fol everything. Hut there 10
10 disease in which the state OF the mind
has not much to do with the state of the
body.


Physicians prescribe travel and sani.
taria; they send one man TO Minnesota
and another to Florida, without taking
the temperament OF the man into account.
We have seen man acting chief police
in ST. Paul, who had been carried ashore
from the steamboat on strclchers, so far
was he reduced by hemorrhages. Gil
mate? Yes, and moro than climate.
Doubtless the man was of hearty tenn.
permanent. and enjoyed the new and
strnnge scenes about him. We have
seen Il hundred invalids in the same eli.
mate pine for home and older civilization,
and die OF nostalgia. Let it be under
stood that no invalid is benefited by q
climate when he stays in place IN hour
after that stay is enjoyable. If you are
IN invalid, arrange your life so that it
may be restlul and happy to you, and
! then enjoy it, We recall man, q bridge
builder. who carried his consumption
over bleak aud snowy prairies, who slept
in cold beds in frontier ,ayerns, coughing
all night, who built bridges and drove
business when his lungs were wasted
away. He said that he was happy al
work, and that work kept him alive.
And it did. Year after year he managed
to spin out his broken lite, happy always,
and making MI about him happy, until
he became walking miracle. At last
came the catastrophe, and he died. II
your business amuses you, and you are
succeeding, and you can keep your TEN.
per happy, then there is no better med
! icine. But he who has distagteful bust
ness, and who has not the will or the
power TO adapt himself to it, is indeed 10
be pitied.


Life insurance companies thump youl
ribs and listen to the whispers of your
heart They ask about your father
and your grandfather and your mothers
sister and grandtather's brother. They
want to know whether you have had any
or all of the following diseases. etc. But
when did life insurance company ever
think 10 ask about your clear conscience
your cheerful heart, your business sue
cess, your amiable domestic relations,
your religious faith, and the rest that &c
to make up the sunshine or clouds il
your liic


Do not listen to anybody who tells yor
to travel ii travel is uncongenial to youi
temper. But il you enjoy it. then travc
is the best of all medicines. An invalio
struggling for lie should not have any
duties. The main business at such {
time is to enjoy yourself. JOY is tonic
above all. .-HcarM and Home.
Year: 1872

during u thunder storm mother
told her little girl that the thunder was
Gods voice. BY and by it Numbered
again, when the child exclaimed There,
he's hollering again. Another little
girl was out on the piazza, when, Tor the
first time she saw it tighten. She came
running in, exclaiming, mother, the
moon just came by, all broken to pieces" {"


An English magistrate terminated a
suit at the Clonmel assizes recently,
where young man and young woman
claimed the same estate. by suggesting
that if they would only marry they could
both live on the farm and leave a clear
title to the next generation. To this the
couple agreed, much to tho disgust OF the
legal fraternity.
Year: 1872

A eroupy youth in Il neighboring
town having strongly objected to taking
his medicine, was induced to make I;
hearty meal of buckwheat cakes and
"maple syrup" but tho latter proved tc
be nice syrup OF squills. The boy said
he Thought something allied the mo
Iasses the minute his father told him he
could cat all he wanted to-"
Year: 1872

Mr.. SUMMERS speech has been excluded from
the columns of all the Delaware Radical papers
They give the old man no show Whatever and
wish to make it appear that all his charges are
either stale or false, because most Of them had
already been made by the Democratic papers.-
But there are many things stated in Mr.. Sum.
ner's speech with such accuracy a. could only be
done by one IN his position. who knew that what
he said was true.


In fact there has been little or no effort made to
disprove his charRes-becauss this could not be
done. Even the Philadelphia Tress regrets the
speech more because of Its "personslity" And
the Press is not paper that is likely to lot false.
hoods about its chief party leader from such high
authority escape without contradiction.
Year: 1872

The co-operators Of Louis Napoleon, when he
forced the Empire upon France. were not more cul-
pable than are the Radical leaders who hold their
places in the Congress of the United States, and
others who occupy high official positions under
President Grant


The difference is more slight than it appears,
and there would be no difference, perhaps. il
France the theatre of their operations. or if
they did not think the surest road to success was
through the sembance Of law.


But when the law Is made for the especial pur-
pose of securing a continuance in Office for them
selves, where Is the real difference between the
aiders and abettors of Grant and the alders and
abettors of Napoleons There is in reality none.
Radicasm is doing everything it can to force
Grant and his oficehoders upon the country
without free and fair ballot. To effect this the
session of the Congress Of the United States is
prolonged at Grants solicitation. that au Enforce
ment Bill may be passed, having for Its sole object
the defeat of fair and honest expression Of the
will OF the people through free and unobatructed
ballot. has heretofore been accorded the people
at our Presidential elections.


In former days it was the custom Of parties to
select such high and honorable mon TO run tor





Men who would not seek the Office, and accepted
it from patriotic motives and the honor it con-
ferred.
But time has wrought wonderful change
The Senators who are now laboring to secure the
passage of laws especially designed to effect the
reelection of President Grant, are At the same
tine operating in their own behalf. They know
that by controlling the vote Of State they elect
legislature ready to continue them in thei,
Seats and the same remark is applicable to the
members Of Congress in the House Of Represents
tves, and also applies almost equally to all othel
official positions.


If Grant is not reelected, in all probability
s,me eight or ten Radical Senators will have t.
return to private life after their present term ex
pires. But with HIM as President and bayone,
law at his command, they feel quite sure Of pro
tracing their seats in the highest deliberat,vt
body in the country.
Year: 1872

WARRINGTON, January 2S.-ThC
! secretary OF the treasury has directed
the assistant treasurer at New YOrk
t. purchase one million of bonds OF
the first, third and. fifth Thursdays
Of February, or hTee millions In all
and to sell one million of gold on the
second and fourth Thursdays, or two
millions in all.


IL is said among republican mem
bers of the house of representative:
that the house will pass the senate
resolution for the adj Jurnment o.
congress on the 29th of May. The
committee on appropriations Is max
ing more haste than heretofore with
this view.


Reports from official sources In
China are to the eject that the atroci
ties OF the GOOlie slave trade which
have recently been brought to the
cOgniSanoa of the public, will arres
attention and excite horror wherever
the English language is spoken, and 6
hope is expressed that the concurrent
opinion and united action of al
christendOm will establish such q DO
lice on the sea as to render all coerced
emigration, inevitably tending to the
ave trade, impossible. There have
been I09,0 coolies introduced Into
Cuba since lS47.


Leading members of the house say
there is DO probability of Utah being
admitted as State, as no territory
having less population than the Fed.
eIal States gain admission.


The subcommittee Of ways and
means propose government bill al
lowing materials used In the construe.
ton OF iron steamships to be admitted
free OF duty.
Year: 1872

LADY OWNING FURNITURE, BUT NOT ABLE TO
"A take the responsibility of house alone would enter
into partnership with suitable person establish first
class boarding house. Address HOME box ll8 Herald