the carolina watchman salisbury n g july 27 1882 vol mil tfllsd series no 41 it the boundon duty of the white men o the state to protect these people from the oppressive domination of ignorant blacks j and pledge ourselves to such legislature as will secure this end and whereas it is seriously suggested that vigorous effort will soon be made to compel the state by judicial proceedings to pay the fraudulent and unlawful special tax bonds amounting to 22,000,000 issued under legislation passed by the republican legislature 1868 and 1869 therefore lietolved further that the democratic party will resist such recovery and the payment of such bonds by every lawful means the above resolutions were read seriatim and on motion were adopted as a whole as the platform of the democratic party of north carolina on motion of mr purman the following resolution was adopted : boohed that the present faithful and efficient state executive committee of the democratic party with col oct coke as chairman be and is hereby continued as the executive committee uf the party thanking them for the untiring zeal and triumphant results of their past services hon a s merrimon being called on de livered an address of marked ability the synopsis of which we regret we cannot print in this issue on his conclusion mr paul b means moved that the thanks of the convention be tendered to judge merrimon by a rising vote for his able masterly eloquent and instructive address which motion being carried all the members of the convention rose to their feet with a shout of applause a compliment as handsome as it was deserv ed j yv reid of rockingham being called on made some handsome and eloquent re marks remarks were also made by hon jos j davis capt swift galloway of greene capt c m cooke of franklin ; andrew joyner of pitt ; f g skinner of perquimans j m gudger of yancey and w foster french of rpbeson and after the conclusion of his speech mr ii m fur man moved to adjourn plain thoughts for the colored people from the goklsbore messenger wayne county july 12 82 the voters arc the groat jury of the country to decide on such questions as may come before them and it is of the greatest importance that they should decide fairly and impartially suppose it were known that a jury in any case even before they were sworn were determined to decide in a cer tain way without any regard to evi dence law or justice it would certain ly be sufficientcan.se for good men to consider that such a jury were in fluenced by ignorance prejudice or corruption if truth and justice would have any effect with the colored people in causing them to form unprejudiced opinion it might be well for them to consider how much they have been mistaken and deceived by many de signing men whom they hive regar ded as their leaders and best friends the colored people have been taught to oppose the democratic party right or wrong as a sentiment and not as a principle without properly considering the error and delusion into which such a blind and reckless course would lead them the democratic arty are better friends to the colored race than the white republicans who only use them as tools in elections for political purposes it seems that the colored voters do not think how often they have voted the republican ticket and how little they have been benefitted by it the white republicans get the turkey and the colored the buzzard now which party has done most for the colored people of north charoli na ? of course the democratic party have done more for the colored people than the republican party have done and impartial history will show that this is undeniably true it was the democratic legislature that infused new life into the free schools in this state for before they took hold of the free school system it was a mere sham the republicans had so squandered the free school funds that there was no money left to support the schools but when the democratic party came into power they brought order out of chaos and revived the schools by taxing them selves and their own property tii rough their representatives for the support of colored schools the same as white schools it was a democratic legislature that first furnished state aid to the state colored normal school at fay etteville for the education of colored school teachers it was a democratic legislature that first provided for the erection of a large and commodious colored in stitute at raleigh for the free educa tion and support of the colored deaf and dumb and blind which has been and will continue to be if the demo cratic party continue to control of in calculable benefit to uiose unfortunate classes of the colored race it was the first colored institution of that kind that was ever built in the united states for the separate and exclusive education and support of the colored deaf and dumb and the blind that noble public charity of the slate will siand as a monument to the humani ty and generosity of the democratic party it is shedding its benighn bene fits and blessings upon the poor un fortunate colored children of the state it is supported by liberal ap propriations made by democratic legislatures by taxes upon all the taxable property of the state and it would be absurd to deny that seven i eights of the money raised by taxa 1 tion for support of free schools and ' all charitable institutions for the col j ored race is paid by the democratic party it was a democratic legislature that first provided for building a large insane asylum near goldsboro for the support and care of the poor and unfortunate insane of the colored race a large addition to the colored insane asylum is now being made to make more room for the insane pa tients who may be carried there for support and medical treatment this is another charitable institution for the support of the colored insane and another monument to the real and substantial friendship an generosity of the democratic party of this state to the colored people the democrats have shown that they arc better friends to the colored race on account of their misfortunes than the repub licans of massachusetts have shown the constitution of north carolina was amended by the democratic par ty in 1875-'76 and it secures the same rights to the white and colered race alike it excludes no colored man from voting because he cannot read and write or because he has not paid his taxes in the republican state of massachusetts a colored man is not allowed to vote unless he can read and write and has paid his taxes the constitution and laws of massachusetts adopted and enforced by the republican party would pre vent more that 75,000 poor and un fortunate colored men from exercising the right of suffrage in north caro lina nowhere is the respectable col ored man who would be willing to exchange if he could the constitution and laws of north carolina for the constitution and laws of massachu setts if th,ere be such a one he must be influenced by ignorance and pre judice and not by good reason and common sen e lu rhode island another republi can state and has been so all the time a colored man is not allowed to vote unless he owa real estate of the assessed cash value of 134.00 at least and shows his tax receipt for the same years before he can vote would the colored men of north carolina be willing to exchange if they could the constitution and laws of this states for the constitution and laws of rhode island ? every colored man would say no ! in pennsylvania another republi can suite the white republicans do not allow any colored man to hold an office of honor or profit although there is a large colored population in that state the city of philadelphia has been entirely under republican control for almost twenty years until the last year or two aud no colored man was ever permitted to hold any office of honor or profit under repub lican rule or even to vote until he has paid his taxes but when the present democratic mayor king was elected to that office he put several colored men on the police force and showed more respect for the claims of colored men than any republican had ever shown in pennsylvania there are many colored men of education and respectability and yet the white republicans have never recognized the claims or merits of the colored people by allowing them to hold any public oifice the new york glode a publica tion devoted to the interests of the colored race says that pennsylva nia's colored population of 85,535 is as completely ignored by the politi cians as if it did not contain 30,000 colored voters while the colored population of new york numbering about 65,000 souls with a voting force of 25,000 enters no more into the calculation of politicians here than if it was a disfranchised ele ment the same may be said with equal truth of ohio illinois and indiana with a considerable colored popula tion in each and yet the white repub licans do not allow any colored man to be elected to any office in any of these states the 500,000 colored people in all the republication states of the north have no man of their race as a member of congress or in any other office of honor or profit at the city of washington the re publicans have full control of all the offices and patronage of the govern ment they have the president and both houses of congress but the white republicans do not allow the colored republicans to hold any office of honor or public trust there is only one colored man that holds any office of distinction at washington and that is ex-senator bruce former ly from mississippi there are more than 10,000 holding office under the government at washington alone and more than 100,000 in the united states ; but it is the saine case every where the colored republicans do the voting in elections and the white republicans get all the principal offices in the 46th congress which was : the one before the present the dcnio ; crats had a majority in the house of | representatives aud the power to 1 choose whoever they pleased the ; republicans well knowing that they j could not elect a republican clerk nominated j r rainey a colored man from south carolina he had ■ j been a member of congress from that state for several years aud was fa miliar with the duties of the office , he was nomiuated merely as a joke but was not elected at the organization of the 47th congress the republicans had a clear majority but rainey was left out and edward mcpherson a white repub j lican from pennsylvania was elected clerk his salary is 4,500 with an additional of 600 for horses and i wagons and large extras besides ! there were about 150 appointments at the disposal of the speaker clerk i sergeant at-arms and doorkeeper of the house and many of them with salaries ranging from 2,000 to 3 000 a year and they are only on ! duty when congress is in session ; all these appointments are now held | by white republicans except the la j borers the spittoon cleaners and ; privy cleaners who are of course col ored the white republicans get the wheat and the colored the chaft or cheat this imperfect sketch is intended merely to help vindicate the truth of history as to which party are the best friends to the colored race the republicans or democrats justice a north carolina lake it is a fact to be deplored and still it is a fact that north carolin ians as a rule are more familiar with the natural features of new england thau those of their own state know more of the white mountains than of the blue ridge and know more of the lakes of northern new york than of the beautiful inland seas that lie embedded in the ever green forests of eastern carolina the charleston s c news & courier gives the fol lowing description of the waccamaw lake which our readers will find of interest :] this is one of the most beautiful of all the southern lakes it is situated in coiumuus county north carolina near the iine of the wilming ton columbia & augusta rail road fifty miles from marion and about forty miles from wilmington and although it was described one hundred and fifty years ago by a young englishman who was making a tour of america as the pleasantest place i ever saw in my life it is comparatively unknown to the pleas ure seeker of to-day the lake is oval in shape and covers about twenty seven thousand acres of ground and is five and a half miles broad and eight miles long it is almost entire ly surround by a magnificent growth of forest trees which bathe their hoary feet in the beautiful hood and with their charming colors of leaf and branch festooned by fragrant honey suckle vines and gay colored flowers draped with bright trailing moss present a panorama of exquisite beau ty and loveliness the lake is sup plied by a number of creeks which empty into it and springs which send ! up their never failing currents from the bottom of the basin the water near the shore is shal low but elsewhere reaches an average depth of thirty feet the greatest depth being about thirty-five feet by the course of the waccamaw river which ' is said to form the eastern boundary of the republic of horry the is lake is one hundred and eight miles from the atlantic ocean in an air-line ' the distance to the sea is not more than twenty miles the water is per fectly fresh and strongly impregnated with the juniper berry this whole section of country is on an almost 1 dead level of slight elevation above the sea and no reasonable account of the origin of this inland sea has ever been given one theory is that in the remote past there was an immense deposit of vegetable mould which was burned out and formed a basin for the lake this is not a reasonable i theory and the origin of the lake can j only be attributed to tho*e tremen dous convulsions of nature which , elevated the mountain ridges and hol ! lowed out the seas there can be but little doubt however that this entire section of country was at one time covered by ih waters of the great deep oyster shells and sea shells of almost every variety have been found in excavations which have been made for wells and only a few 1 days ago in digging a well near the | lake an immense block of marl filled with sea shells was brought up thirty i feet from the surface of the earth j immense beds of marl have been found all through this section and these who have given the matter a great deal of attention are satisfied that there are rich phosphate deposits underlying the lake which could be worked to very great advantage several analyses of marl have been made showing that it contains a per centage of the most valuable fertiliz ing properties and experiments have folly established its value a a cheap manure for all the crops that are cul tivated the marl is found in regu lar strata and is ready for use as soon as it has beon mined surround ing the lake are immense swamps filled with forest growths of cypress oak and hickory on the north east side lies the great jgreen swamp which covers an aiea of two hundred square miles this swamp is an ever green jungle containing however many patches of highland which are called islands and are covered with hickory oak juniper long leaf pines birch and other forest trees these swamps have been penetrated in many directions by train railways and a very large lumbering business has been developed in cypress shingle and staves and sawed lumber of oak and hickory col h 13 short owns about 60,000 acres of land at the lake and does an immense business he employs 200 hands and ships his lumber to new york philadelphia baltimore and largely to the west indies and south america about one half of his products are sold in foreign markets by direct shipment from wilmington 1 he islands which are located in the swamps are very fertile and yield large crops whenever they are under cultivation the earliest vegetables in this section are raised on these is lands only a few of which however have any population it would pay well to develop the business of truck fanning for the wilmington and nor thern markets the lake is well stocked with fish and some almost fabulous stories are told of the won derful catches that have been made in its waters all varieties of perch are to be found and the white perch is peculiar to this lake in addition there are trout in abundance black fish pickerel and catfish and col short is now experimenting with ger man carp and the lan*d-locked sal mon to give some idea of the great number of fish in the lake it is stated upon good authority that a party consisting of three went out last week and in about one hour's time caught 263 white perch with the hook and it wasn't a good day for fishing eith er the swamps around the lake are filled with game of all kinds — squir rels raccoons deer black bear beaver otter c two hundred deer have be?n killed here within sixty dajs and an old man named hudson who lives on cusoe's island has for years done a very profitable business in trapping there are also a great many wild cattle in the swamps and many of the people around here win ter their cattle in these swamps which furnish an inexhaustible sup ply of green food the year round there are many romance connec ed with the lake it is said that os ceola the great indian chief whose modest tomb may now be found be neath the frowning walls of fort monltrie on sullivan's island was born on the banks of waceatnaw lake and his father was a white man named powell other stories are told of many terrific encounters be tween the old indian tribe upon the shores of this lake and several mounds may be seen where the dead were bu ried during the war a great many deserters found a safe hiding place in the swamps around here but the wil derness is as dense almost as it was a hundred years ago and the solitude as grand the two most previous things on this side of the grave rc in reputa tion and our life democrats have a right to bo eneonragctl we will again undertake to tell our readers what we understand by or ganization we will do this to-mor row or in a few days we vi<h to say to-day that the democrats can beat because they have the material to work upon tl»e voting population of north crrolin according to the census of 1880 was 294,750 in that year the total vote polled was but 237,447 there were 57,333 voters who did not go to the polls the population of the state has increased nearly 70,000 since the census was taken that gives us 12,000 additional voters so we may say there are very nearly or qnite 70,000 voters who have never gone to the polls of this number what proportion can be counted as radical and mon grel we know the colored troops always fight bravely on election day in 1880 there were 105,018 colored voters how many of them stayed away that year and failed to vote buxton received 115,590 votes suppose we divide this as follows negroes 95,000 whites 20 590 is not this a fair division now suppose ail the negroes vote in 1882 and all the white radicals and mon grels how many will there be sup pose we place the figures as follows xegrocs voting in 1882 105,018 increased vote 4,1)00 white kadicnls and mongrels 20,590 ncrcased vote 2,000 those wlio foiled to vote in l8do . w>0 now no one believes that the rad cal party can poll 136,608 they would compromise now with 125,000 and be glad of the chance what then have the democrats to encourage them ? much every way first they have nearly 7,000 to begin with second they know from the election in 187'j what a vigorous campaign can accomplish tilden's majority was 17,010 third they have reason to believe that of the 57,333 voters who did not go to the polls in 1880 at least 40,000 were democrats or at any rate were not republicans then of the 12,000 in crease in the number of voters at least 7,000 are democrats so all the democrats huve to do in order to scenic a splendid victory is to organize thoroughly if the people will go to the polls bennett bennett will beat docktry 30,000 majority at least i i 7 suir the papers are still mooting the question of cotton adulteration it is known that whatever manchester spinners may say that the experiences of northern and southern manufac turers have not agreed with eng lish complaints the trouble with the english is that they buy the lower grades lo save a little and then grumble because they are not equal to the best grades the philadelphia american gives the following gratify ing information : an association of english and southoern capitalists has been form ed which promises the best solution of the difficulty it will establish spinning mills in tlie cottou growing district and spin tiie fibre just as it ctfincs from llie cotton gin without packing of any kind by importing this cotton yarn instead of cotton our enlish friends will get their article in the very best condition the southern papers have long been urging that the true way is to take the mills to the cotton estab lishing mills to spin the thread is an excellent movement and we hope that english manufacturers and cap italists will see the wisdom of follow in this up by establishing mills for | weaving cloths of various l.iuds — 117 star are not the white people of the eastern comities entitled to protec tion from the wild extravagance the i untenipered zeal in the way of unlina : ited expenditure the costly luxury of i negro rule 1 < not this indeed and in truth a white man's government if so why should such men as jones and clark autagonizetliedeliveranooi i of the democratic state convrnt : on and be a law unto themselves lu the campaign it will be simply im pnssible to play fa>t and lo«'sc a ' man will be complied to vole with . the negroes or stand by the whites — yu mar democratic county convention on saturday august 5th 82 tlic democratic county convention , for rowan will be held at the court ; house ill salisbury saturday august , 5th 2 at 12 o'clock m for the pur pose of nominating candidates as follows i viz house of pepresentiitiyes clerk of the superior court court register of deeds county treasurer sheriff coro ner and county surveyor the conven tion will also recommend a candidate for senator for rowan and da vie counties tms convention is called in pursuance of a resolution passed by the democratic county convention held in salisbury on the 1st day of july iv all democratic voters of the county are requested to meet in convention in their respective townships at the usual voting precincts on saturday july 2 < xli 1882 at 1 o'clock f for the purpose of electing delegates to county convention and for electing township executive committees each committee to consist of five active democrats each township shall be entitled to cast in the county convention one vote for every twenty-live democratic votes and fractions of fifteen as follows to wit salisbury 16 franklin !>, unity 4 scotch irish i mt ullsi 7 locke 6 atwell 10 litaker 6 gold hill <!. morgan 3 providence 8 each township may send as many delegates as it may see fit \ : the township executive commit tees will also meet ill salisbury august 5th to elect a county executive com mittee j v m.w i:v ch'nt co kj com salisbury july id 1832 platform we congratulate tbejpcoplo of north car olina on the era of peace.pto&perity and good government which has lteenun broken since the incoming of a democratic state adminis tration upon the pure and impartial admin istration of justice and the honest enforce ment of the laws upon the efficiency of our common sehool system and great advance mad in education and the general im provement and enterprise manifested in ev ery part of the state and we pledge our selves to exert all efforts to advance the material interests of a'l sections of the state in the future as we have done in the past and we challenge a comparison between a democratic administration of our state af fairs and the crimes outrages and scandals that accompanied republican misrule af firming our adherence to democratic prin ciples as defined in the platform adopted by the national democratic convention held at cincinnati in 1880 : resolved that we regard a free and fair expression of the public will at the ballot box as the only sure means of preserving our tree 1 american institutions and we de nounce the republican party and the inter ference of its federal officials for their gross frauds upon the elective franchise wherein whole districts states and the union have been deprived of their just political rights and we believe the corrupt and corrupting use of federal patronage and of public money drawn by taxation from the people in influencing and controlling elections to be dangerous to the liberties of the state and the union resolved that we arc in favor of the en tin abolition of the internal revenue sys tem with its attendant corruptions and that we denounce the present tariff laws as grossly unequal unjust und vicious we favor such a revision of the tariff as will produce a revenue sufficient for the econom ical support of the government with such incidental protection as will give to domes tie manufactures a fair competition with those of foreign production that there should be an immediate repeal of all laws imposing a direct tax for the support of the government of the united states but if it should prove impracticable to abolish the internal revenue system with nil its at tending demoralization fraud and corrup tion then we urge upon our senators and representatives in congress the importance of so amending the law that the revenue officers whonow receive in salaries in north carolina alone more than 300,000 shall be elected by the people of the localities to which they are assigned resolved that the course of the demo cratic party since its accession to power in north carolina in furtherance of popular education is a sufficient guaranty that we earnestly favor the education of all classes of our people and that we will advocate any legislation lookiugjtoan increase of the fund for that purpose that will not materially increase the present burdens of our people resolved that the question of prohibi tion is not now and never has been a par ty question in north carolina and never been endorsed by the democratic party and the people of the state at the general election in the year 1881 having by an overwhelming majority voted against pro hibition and the supreme court having decided that the prohibition act is not and never has been a law we regard the matter as finally settled and any attempt to re new the agitation is merely a weak effort of designing persons to divert the minds of the people from the dangerous principles and corrupt practices of the republican party . resolved that while we are not wedded to any particular form of county govern ment we recognize the fact that a large part of the taxes of the state are paid foi the common benefit by the white people of our eastern comities and that we consider the carolina watchman ! established in the yeah 1832 1 pkick,$1.3oin advance k ii celebrated i \\ it ig the concurred testimony ol"tliepnbllo l ", 11ll , 1 l r r^-i..n that hostetter's , hih>i'ililr felt thorough anil benign iir"i'ie rivniyi _ liver disorder ii invigor irs ih fi-i-wi ' oiiquits kidney ami bhuklcr " uiulj m ' hastens the convalescence .. ri-ruvi ring i rum enfeebling nis 5 n -- murcovir u ia the grand specific ■ for tfvar indubiie k'or sale by iill driitrjriitaand dealers generally th ltiiniiks itkownk iv.-.'t wm.c coart sec < y home company seeking home patronage bmi proust reliie literal ! term policies written on dwellings - premiums payable one-half cash and bal hfcllcx ill twi'u i iihmlllls j allen brown afift 21,-tliu salisbury n c come at oxce ! john peick's celebeated grain cradles for sale at r r crawford & cos ijpmememeer the dead * : i mo17u2.ients tombs 1 great reduction ix the prices of larble monuments and gravs-stones of every description ill cordially invite the public generally lte;ih inspection of my stock mid work iuri'l.jii.ntiii,.(l i asserting that my past l ru'iico under lirst-class workmen in rmj lit in west and modern styles and at tin workmanship is equal to any of ••' best in the country 1 do not say at my uuik is superior to all others i gi reasonable will not exaggerate in or •' <" accomplish asalo my endeavor is lease and ive cadi eustoniei the val m •'! every dollar they leave with inc jfelces 35 to 50 per cent cheaper ilian ever offered in this town before • i al once or send for price list and de p n - s atist;ii'!ioii guaraut'd or no charge '"■ '•''••■: ion ,,| marble is the last work j^pect which we pay to the memory ■ i-paitrd friends ■ john s hutchinson alimusry n c nov i 1881 i t:itiu>k or voiiii m ( ' kn n.i-:.m,\n who suffered for years from w ■ y-rvuiis dkiiiutv i'kk.mati kk divvy m lalltlu i-tvw!,nfy,,mil l f tl lin i lncrfliim w ill w we rake ouunering lintnaiiitv,*end iveelo ■ who need it the recij p and direction for ■*£ "■- '-' i"m rv.ii.-.lv by which he was j 11 ; 1 '- wi.-lnn i pr.lit j il 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