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Year: 1875

Ham, Thomas IL. Ciiltgn1a1e


My DEAR SIR Il take pleasure in
forwarding to you the accompanying
Resolution of Our Board of Trustees.
The cheerful unanirnity with which
they passed it Was but the echo Of
their qualification in hearing it. The
suitahIeness of your subject, and the
happiness OF your manner in treating
it were fully shown IN the unusual
interest evinced by both old and young
| hope that it may stimulate our
Boys" to aim at higher and chas-
ter elcquenco than that which is ad-
mired by the crowd.


Permit me now, to express for our
whole Board, and for myself i'll par
ticular, our regret that your stay WAS
SO short, and our duties so incessant
as to prevent us from being with you
as much as we desired. And let me
hope that you will again visit Us, be-
fore long and thus increase the very
favorable impressions made on Us b.
your first, too brief acquaintance with
our infaut University.


Wishing you better health and all
other needed blessings, 1 remain very
Truly


Your old friend,


W. M. GREEEN.
Chancellor of the University of the
South, and President of the Board of
Trustees.
Year: 1875

ATANTED "A SITUATION BY A
w yoonQ colored man to take care OF horses or
TO make himself generally useful. Aprly 81


jy2i-9ts THIS OFFICE.
NTANTED.-A QUALIFIED LADY
w teacher Of music can obtain board in the
country in exchange for instruction In music on the
piano; at least one scholar In neghborhood can be
obtained who will pay for tuition. Amply at


Jyg1-u THIS OFFICE.
Year: 1875

Now is your time No such chance again In
hundred years! The Bazaar is selling out
their entire stock of Dry Goods 25 per cent.
beiny cost, as they intend giving up their dry
= eals business and keep only Gents Furnish
Ing foods. This is no bogus sale, but a genu-
ine selling out of our entire stock of Dry
Cry Goods, as you will find out by calling at
the Bazaar, corner of Main and Requena
streets, opposite the U. s. Hotel. jel7
Year: 1875

The New Orleans REPUBLICAN of last


wednesday contains very able article in
favor of the canal and in opposition to
Captain Eads jetty system. The whole
subject has been heretofore so fully dis
cussed that no argument we could adduce
would give greater weight to the PROPOSE
ton that the canal alone will give satisfac.
tion to Louisiana, and the jetty scheme is
little more than the dream of visionary
enthusiast. Much stress has been laid on
the fact that number of scientific gentle.
men have signiied their approval of the
jetty plan; yet, on the other hand, twenty
out of the twenty-six of the most emi-
nent engineers in the country have
reported adversely to the project and
in favor of the canal, and number
OF them have declared the .jetties utterly
impracticable. If the canal is built, it will
prove a lasting source Of benefit to all our
commercial interests, while the jetty sys-
tenn will entail constantly recurring
expense from the necessity of repairing and
putting down new j., ties as the river
deposit increases on Al beyond the bars at
the passes. Besides this forcible objection,
by means of the canal great saving in
time and expense consequently will be made
by ~ vessels making the short cut to the
gulf instead of having TO double the delta.
We earnestly hope that the wishes and
interests of our people may be considered
before an ultimate decision is made, and we
may venture the assertion that were a vote
taken on the subject every thinking man in
Louisiana would cast it in favor Of the St.
Philip canal.-Plaque0sines Sentinel
Year: 1875

Without detracting from the merit of
the services of Attorney General Field and
Hon. John Ray before the congressional
committee, it is not too much to say that
the Republican party are principally in
debted to General Campbell for whatever
favorable impression its case has made upon
them. Upon him has fallen almost the
entire labor Of preparing the case, and the
greater portion of the credit due for its
mastery presentation belongs to him. From
the day of the arrival of the committee,
and long before, his labors have been inces-
SAINT. No other thoughts have occupied his
mind; his private affairs have been set
aside that his whole time and attention
might be given to the case.


There can be no doubt that in consequence
of these efforts Messrs. Hoar, Wheeler,
Frye and Marshall have been enabled to
enter further into the case than their pre-
decessors did. Aud not much is hazarded
in saying their report will be of different
tenor than that signed by Messrs. Potter,
Foster and Phelps.
Year: 1875

By an adroit device of Mr.. Shanks, of In
diana, a portion of the Democratic plat
form TOR 1872 was made preamble to the
bill, and the Democrats were thus COM
PEELED to vote against it. That was an
operation, however, more amusing to their
opponents than important to themselves.
No one expected when the platform was
adopted that it would ever obtain from the
party the slightest practical respect. As
that plank was the result of coercion and
intimidation But in private Mr.. Niblack
must have his own opinion Of man or
party that can be 'coerced" by fear of los
ing political campaign into making false
professions. That, clearly. was precisely
the case with the Democrats.-Ne,c York
Times.
Year: 1875

Be brief. This is the age of telegraphs
all around subject % without hitting it, it.
State facts, but don't stop to moralize. It's
drowsy subject. Let the reader do his
own dreaming. Eschew preface. Plunge
at once into your subject, like swimmer
into cold water. If you have written a
sentence that you think particularly fine,
draw your pen through it. A pct child is
always the worst in the family. Condense.
Make sure that you have an idea, and then
record it in the shortest possible terms. We
want thoughts in their quintessence When
your article is completed strike out nine
tenths of the adjectives.
Year: 1875

The New Orleans REPUBLICAN,, referring
to the report of the subcommittee on Loul
siana affairs, said a fewa days ago that
"Foster and Phelps werg as clay in the
lands of the Potter" which, in the light of
the testimony now being taken, would seem
to be about the truth. But the World gets
furious at the insinnation that two Repub-
licans were moulded by the plastic hand of
a Democrat, and brought into subserviency
to his will. 1t really believes that there is
some truth in republicanism after all, but
We think this fact did not appear az CON
spiciously in the sub-committee's report a
it is likely to do in the report of the com
mittee now taking testimony in New Or.
leans.-Pttsbury Dispatch.
Year: 1875

House of Representatives.


The House met yesterday at twelve
O'clock, Speaker Hahn in the chair Prayer
was offered by the chaplain. The reading
of the journal of Monday was dispensed
with, and after correction it approved.


message was received from the Senate
announcing the concurrence of that body
II toe legislative appropriation bill.


Tie Committee on Public Buildings re-
ported favorably on House bill No. 67, en-
titled an act to provide for the purchase Of
State House, to make appropriation there
for 10 set apar. the necessary funds, and to
grant jurisdiction for the enforcement of
the acts of sale and mortgage.


The same committee reported unfayorably
on House bill No. 6S, entitled an act to
remove the seat Of government of the State
of Louisiana from the city of New Orleans,
and to re-establish tho same ut the city of
Year: 1875

ADDRESS ON CITY EvANGELIZATIoN-MooDY


NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. METHoDIsM


Yesterday, instead OF a discussion or an ordinary
prayer meeting the Rev. E. II. Adams d. D., deliv-
cred an address 'City Evangcuzation" The meet
ing crowded, and great interest was manifested
The address of very plain and practical sort II
took tho ground that Methodsm has the machinery,
the ability and the doctrines peculiar to the evangelical
ton of the world. And If the machinery was put
In motion, the Doctor believed Mcthodism could
take the world for Christ in ten years He wanted
Bible the class and prayer meetings pastoral
tations by the minister's and more Christian work dono
by presiding elders The pastor could easily make 900
calls in yearnot calls TO take tea or to talk about
the weather, the family, tho crops anything else but
Jesus The presiding elder could gather tho preachers
together and hold religious meetings in neglected
places, and the discipline expects him TO do this But
while the machinery itself good, unless has the
power TO move IL is worthless. A locomotive is fine
Thing to look at but locomotive on a highway with
out the motive power TO drive IL would be unmiti-
gated nuisance. Methodism is grand system to look
at and to contemplate but dead Methodist church s
the greatest nuisance that this world could have; and
he would be glad to assist at the burial OF such. Mr.
Moody's success the Doctor thought based the
fact that he uses od-fashioned Methodist machinery
The peculiar doctrines Of Methodism referred by Dr.
Adams free grace, the witness OF the Spirit and
holiness OF heart. These were enough to charm and
capture the world for Christ But preachers and peo
Pile wanted the fire aud power of God in their souls


Dr. Adams when he referred 10 the witness of tho
Spirit by which man may know that his sins for
given him, paused moment and asked HIS brethren
II they knew what tho Spirit was and spontaneously the
body of ministers present started and sung the OF
hymn


NY God Is reconced,


His pard' ming voice hear sc.


The meeting resolved to continue this topic next
Monday morning Bishop Peck expressed himself
greatly benefited by the address, and Bishop Foster.
who also present agreed to address the ministers
two weeks hence. The committee appointed to con.
slider the feasibility Of holding union revival meetings at
different points the city not ready report but
expect TO be next Monday. They held meeting yester
day afternoon consider the matter moro fully.
Year: 1875

we give all an equal chance in the
race of life, or shall we confer upon
the Southern white men any aids
save those Of his own brains? In all
the Nornern States, we ask that no
brand oflegal inferiority shall be put
upon any race OF men We concede
to every man the chance TO win all
that his mental powers enable him to.
Shall we concede a different right to
white men In the South !? This Is the
great question of the day, and the
one not to be lost sight of. We be-
lieve the country will say. No! and
with more decided emphasis thnn
ever before, Nothing il settled
which Is not right. ."--lnter- Ocean.
Year: 1875

Among the important bills OF the
session is one prepared by Senator
Boutwell, of Massachusetts. His pur-
pose is the prevention Of LOBBYING.
1t provides that hereafter no man or
woman shall be allowed to press any
measure or scheme before either


House of Congress unless such man
or woman is a regularly admitted
lawyer, and permitted by special
motion to the practice before Con-
gress. Attorneys thus adnitted are
to have the privileges Of the lobby,
and also to be allowed an appearance
at the bar of the House for argument.
Year: 1875

Men are ruined financially by buy
ing too much. They make money
enough for living, but do not save
enough. They buy what they falsely
imagine they need. 1t is ruinous to
go abroad in search of wants. III
your wants are really weeds they
will come to you and press their
claims in an unMislakablc manner.
he who buys what he does NOS need
Is likely soon to need what lie cannot
buy.
Year: 1875

The Democratic Clerk or the Re-
turning Board has confessed, while
under arrest for bribery, that he had
agreed to pay to five negro Republic
can members Of the Legislature, one
thousand dollars each and their ex-
expenses, If they would quit the city
and remain out Of reach. BY this
arrangement the Democrats would
have hard a majority in the iHouse,
and they could have carried out
their revolutionary designs without
difficulty and in accordance with the
forms Of law. Ii was characteristic
trick, but 1T failed. 1t viii be in
order now for the Democrats OF the
country to howl about the corruption
and venality that exists among the
negro members Of the Legislature,
and to ignore the confessed crime OF
the agent of the Democratic party.
Year: 1875

The New York World has at last
openly expressed the hope that the
Democratic party will be defeated in
Ohio this fall. 1t says:


"Every honest hard money Ohio
Democrat ought to repudiate and re-
ject openly and publicly, within the
whole sphere of his influence and to
the full measure Of the responsibility
Gas Sena'o or Thurman in his Baltimore
interview gives us reason to believe
that he VII do,) these Republican
doctrines, and the fostering of them
into the platform of his party; and he
ought to take abundant precaution
that the men who did it and who in
dorse it never are chosen by his help
to the councils of the Democracy
again"


We are glad to learn, however, as we
do from the Cincinnati Enquirer, that
the World is understood in Ohio. It
is known to be the tool of the Eastern
money changers. It sees nothing in
politics save the interests of its masters,
1t wants the bondholders cared for at
the expense of all political organiza-
tions. The opposition OF the World
will make voters for the Democratic
ticket in Ohio. Our people have no
love for the World nor the money
sharkers whom it represents.
Year: 1875

try in the two important branches to
which the colleges at Bryan are to be
specially devoted. L cannot fully
thank you for the generous 6 nfidence
manifested in Offering to me the pres
idency of those colleges, and it is but
fair return that / should cordially
confess that you have overrated my
ability, and in the consciousness that L
could not satisfactorily perform the
duties OF the office, decline to accept
it. As soon as my private affairs will
permit, I hope to revisit Texas at more
leisure than when last among you, and
will be glad then to confer with you
on the subject of an educational sys-
tenn for Texas. and as a volunteer to rem
der slsch service as my small acqui ire
ments aid shattered constitution may
allow
Year: 1875

DEFEATF


One week more and the die will be
cast. Generations yet unborn will
look back with blessings or with cur
ses to the action we shall take on
Thursday next. If we shall acta men
who knowing their rights dare main
tain them, hundred years will pass
away sooner than the benefits that will
accrue to North Carolina. But if we
shall prove recreant to our race and to
our color, to the traditions of the past
and our hopes in the future. time it
self cannot tell when posterity will
cease to heap bitter and burning cur
ses upon our heads.


Whatever wedo next Thursday will be
done with our eyes wide open. We
know, and we know we'll what the is
sue before us is. We know that
we are fighting to free our
selves from negro rule. This is the
sum and substance of the whole cam
paign. White men ought to be ruled
by white men, and not by negroes.
The Candy Constitution subjects our
people in the East to negro rule. If
wo would be free, then, We must strike
that infamous Constitution from our
way. If we shall do our duty on
Thursday, before six months shall have
gone by. it will be numbered among
the things of the past, and we shall
be once more living under Constitu-
ton and Government of our own
making.


Nor could there be better time for
the people of North Carolina to make
desired changes in their organic law.
We are at peace at home and abroad.
At last the heavy hand of the Federal
Government has been lifted from us.
There is now neither talk nor danger
of Federal interference. Federal bay
onets will no longer gleam at our cleo
ton precincts. The change that has
come over the public mind of the
North and the near approach of a
Presidential election, render it impos-
sibIe to be threatened any longer with
vengeance from Washington if we as
sert our rights. Not even Grant him
self dare now molest US.


The great work of freeing ourselves
from the domination of the negro par
ty needs to be done, and the time is
meet for doing it. Let US, then,
see to it that when the
sun shall 60 down on Thursday next
it shall go down upon a people still
impoverished it may be, but yet once
more free.


Is any man, fool enough to think
the white people of North Carolina in
tend to continue..to be chained down
to the level of negroes ? If white
men would settle this matter peacea-
bly, let them go the polls on election
day and vote down the party that has
done them this foul wrong. Never
did people have greater inducement
to assert their rights than we have
now.


The time for action has come. The
man who fails to do his duty in this
crisis will deserve, and will receive
the curses of all true people so long as
he shall live, and long after
he shall have passed away, the
heritage of shame will still cling to his
children.
Year: 1875

WHITE men Of North Carolina, are
you ready for mixed schools, for negro
Judges, for negro Representatives, for
negro Senators? Are you ready to
forget that while you guarantee to the
negro all his political and legal rights,
this is a white mans government,
framed by the wisdom of the white
men, and secured by the blood of the
white racer If you are ready for such
tremendous change, says the Char
totte Democrat, stay away from the
polls on the day of election. If Won
are not ready, come up, every man of
you, and vote for the men of your race.
Year: 1875

Remember that the election law re-
quires "ZHat aOhe,a Uoter is chal-
leaged at the polls upon demand o)
any citizen Of the State it shall be the
duty of the Inspectors of the Election
to require said voter before being al
lOaOed to vote to proVe by the oath of
some other person k,aoaOn to the judges
the fact of his residence for thirty
days previous thereto in the county
asa aUhich he proposes to cote"


Remember also that the election law
says: "No elector shall be entitled to
register or cote in any other precinct
or township than the one in aOhich he
Is IN actual or bona .fde resident ON
the day of election, and no certificates
OF registration shall be QiUe,l."
Year: 1875

those persons who began to eat
large Quantities of fish few years ago,
and have kept up the practice ever
since without having experienced the
desired increase Of intellectual capacity
may thank the New Orleans Repu6li-
can for this explanation: "Uuless a
man has brains, it is useless for him
to eat brain food. It never has been
claimed for fish that it creates it
only strengthens the brains
Year: 1875

Rocky Mount, Saturday 31st July.


It is needless to tell our people that
Senator Ransom is a man well worth
listening to. His last speech in the
United States Senate demonstrated
the fact that he is able to electrify the
people of both North and South.


Let everybody turn out to hear him.
Year: 1875

GOVERNOR RGRAHAM'S q ADDRESS


Governor Graham, as is we'll known.
is a candidate for the Convention in
Orange county. The feeble condition
of his health preventing his taking any
active part in the canvass, he has
addressed letter to the people of his
county. The letter discusses all the
questions involved in the present cam
paign-questions that affect white
men in our section as well as in Or
ange-and we therefore lay it before
our readers in full.


To the People of Orange County.


When accepted the nomination, as
q candidate for a seat in the approach
ing Convention, rendered by a public
meeting of the Conservative Democrat
ic party, during the last Superior
Court, I had hoped to;attend the pub
lie assemblies at the annual tax-gather-
ings, and to make such explanation of
the subject as the occasion would al
Year: 1875

It should be remembered that
though a Federal Judge in Tennessee
has decided the Civil Rights Bill un-
constitutional, he did SO on the
grounds that the REGULATION OF SUCH
MATTERS BELONGS EXCLUSIVELY TO THE
STATES. IF STATE MAKES SUCH A LAW
That is the gist Of the decision.
Year: 1875

The pretension that any person or
class may be prevented from resorting
to public place whose doors are open
to all bnt them, and denied to them
only OH account OF color or race, will
not be tolerated by any court honestly
aud sincerely desirous of upholding
the constitution and the laws accord


ing to their true intent and meaning.
Year: 1875

The time was when the word .sDe-
mocrscy" meant something; when to say
man OF party was Democratic signi-
fed that he was in favor of 'shard money"


t'free trade" and State rights" against all
eomers. Paper money, or bank rags


as il was tie delight Of Democratic
journals and politicians to term the paper
currency OF other days was an sbomina-
ton in the eyes Of the jackson and Van
Buren Democrats. The name Of the
party would seem TO imply deep and un-
swerving devotion on the part Of its lead
ers and sdherents to the rights and priyil-
eees of the masses. But in olden times
the Democracy of this country was ever
the enemy oS the oppressed and down
frodden Esve, and the advocate OF free
tr.de to the extent Of the paralysis Of
American industry. Such were the chief
If The cardinal principles of the Jackson
Democratic party Of thirty and thirty five
Year: 1875

IT is q fayorite method of revenue
thieves, whether they be illicit distillers,
compounders or rectifes Of spirits, or
smugglers of silks, laces, jewels or other
merchandise, to deny their guilt as long
as possible, and endeavor to throw the Off
GERS off the scent or divert their attention
in other directions, but when at last their
operations are exposed and the whole plan
of their inIquitous proceedings is laid bare
to the public, they change their tactics and
express desire to negotiate. They wish
TO compromise, If possible; not because
they are guilty, but because their CONNER.
cial credit will suffer from the unexpected
interruption to their business. The official
members Of the ring are always the most
active in directing negotiations. They
strongly favor compromise. In fact, they
do not believe in being too hard on the
owners, who, perhaps, were not fully
aware of the lengths to which their sub
ordinates were going in their names. But
finally when it transpires that the whole
party, officials and unoficials, are criminaliy
indicted for Infringement of the law and
feloniously keeping back part of the price
of the Government taxes, then these de-
linquent officials begin TO get frightened,
and want to change tactics again. They
want to be made States witnesses. They
are willing to swear any and everybody
else into the penitentiary in order to
save themselves. We can now recall
few instances, both in New York
and Virginia, where innocent detectives
were indicted and sworn into prison by the
very parties who should have gone there
themselves, but who made interest with
the prosecuting officers to be allowed 10
escspe through the States evidence gate.
We trust there viii be no such hugger-
mugger permitted in the revenue cases now
under investigation and about to be tried
in several Western cities. The evidence Of
an sccompIics who does not confess until
he Is inevitably caught always TO be taken
with distrust, and seldom results In good.
1t is usually made strongest against the
least guilty parties Il may assist to con-
vict some small rogues and aid some great
ones to escape scot free or with light pun
ishment 1t is believed that Secretsry
Bristow and Solicitor Wilson will guard
against al such results in the present cases
if possible, but the local officers At the
various points win bear watching
Year: 1875

TIE elongated scandal muddle has ended.


and now. just as the general public ex-
pected. the next thing Is something else.


1t is not professor of religion this time,


but one of rhetoric, whose aim is to make
mankind versatile and eloquent. Hisn name
Is Funk, and Hamilton College has been
his field of rhetorical operations for the
past decade of years. but recently the class
of seventy-fve have taken him in charge
and are putting him into the crucible of in
vestigation. They have presented me-
mortal to the board of trustees urging the
prompt removal Of the professor, on the
novel grounds that he is deceitful, incon.
sistent. unreliable establishment with whom
they desire to have no further mental bust
ness or social contact. Men will err, but
it is rarely ever that boys take them to task
for so doing. .g5l.