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nil i 1 • f tit l i i hp i i"polltlpl w 5 ton trm ri salisbury n c thursday july 6 1893 fotl-fourth sekies any home of worship or the mainte nance of any minister contrary to what he believed right or had volunta rily and personally engaged to per form on the contrary all persons should be at lil>erty to exercise their own mode of worship these declara tions involved the downfall of the es tablished church it enly remained for the laws of the new state to be brought into conformity with the new constitution marriage was put on a proper footing in 1778 by a law giving the privilege of performing ihe cere mony to all ministers alike neit tbe terms of the affirmation for quakers moravians mennonites and duukards were fixed the restriction of sehool teaching to men fortified with the cer tificate of the anglican authorities of course disappeared and the law res pectiug the cure of the orphan chil dren or quakers was repealed it iseyident that north carolina from the moment that it declared it self an independent state asserted an exclusive and unchallenged authority over religious matters it could had it so chosen have retained tbe estab lishment and endowment of the angli can or episcopa 1 church it might have established the presbyterian church as it was then aud is still es tablished in scotland it might have given calvin ists of the congregational type the same privileges which they enjoyed at the time in the colony of massachusetts it might had a ma jority of the colonists been catholics have made catholicism the religion of the state it did none of these things but in its fundamental organic lay it made as we have seen a close approach to universal toleration nevertheless there was one provision which in pro cess of time seemed to require amend ment the thirty-second section of the state constitution of 1779 read as follows no person who shall deny the being of god or the truth of the protestant religion or the divine au thority of either the old or new teg tament or shall hold religious princi | pies incompatible with the freedom ! and safety of the state shall be capa ble of holding any office or place of trust or profit iti the civil department within the state as time went on there were various interpretations of the section one theory held that it clearly excluded atheists and kucb deists as made a parade of their infidel ity by proclaiming the scriptures to be false others thought that it disquali fied the jews also on the ground that the latter must necessarily deny the divine authority of the new testa ment still others maintained that | quakers meunonites and dunkards were disqualified because their belief that arms cannot lawfully be used in defence of one's native country is sub versive of its freedom aud repugnant to its safety many lawyers declared and their views seemed to have been | followed in practice that the clause in question excluded uobod ; that for want of a specified tribunal to expound and enforce it the provision was a dead letter there is no doubt that the clause i had been aimed at roman catholics i but it had never been interpreted i against them thomas burke who professed the catholic faith was a member of the continental congress from north carolina aud in 1781 i was elected governor of the state there was no state office from that of governor down to that of constable which hai not at one time or another been filled by a catholic perhaps the mo-t distinguished of these was wil liam gaston who had been successive ly a member of the state senate » rppresenative in congress and a jus tice of th state supreme court no complaint was made when judge gas ton assumed hi seat upon the bench nevertheless it was thought best to amend the section in question when the matter came up in the constitu tional con vention of 1 835 in the con stitution of notth carolina framed and adopted then the word christian i was substituted for protestant and thus in the words uttered by judge imtod at the time was the carcass of the last remnant of religious persecu tion interred les»t its pestilential ef fluvia should poison the atmosphere of freedom there are 30,000 acres of watermel ons iu georgia with a deficit the date of president clereland departure n still doubtful owing to the pressure of important public busi ness senator candetu wants him to join him in a fishing excursion in west virginia before he goes to gray gables but it is not certain that he will be able to do so a leai of north carolina history new york sun there is no question of deeper in terest to the provinces of the ( aiuulian dominion 01 to any country which at present lies outside the boundaries of the united states than the inquiry what would be the rights of such pn vince or country in respoct to provi sions concerning religion within its territory so far as the federal gov ernment is concerned that ax we know is debarred from touching the matter by the first amendment to the consti tution which declares that congress hall make no law respecting an estab lishment of a religion or prohibiting i he free exercise thereof that limi tation on the powers of congress is inrgely due to the course taken bj north carolina which as in well known refused to adopt the constitu tion unless supplemented by amend ments of which this was the chief the fact shows that north carolina was determined to reserve to itself as a state the exclusive right of regulating religion and for that reason the re cord of the relations of church and state in that commonwealth it peculi arly instructive the subject hus re yen tly been discussed at length and with singular lucidity by prof stephen b weeks in a contribution to the se ries of the johns hopkiiu studies in historical and political science in north carolina as in virginia the church of england was by law es tablished up to the outbreak of the revolution and the abolition of it wus one of the first steps taken in each state by the convention called to frame a constitution that a majori ty of the inhabitants of n rlh caroli na were disseiiters through the greater part of the colonial epoch is proved by rhe extreme difficulty not to say im possibility of levying tithes and pro viding other resources for the mainte nance or the anglican clerjiy never theless although tho payment of tithes could be evaded there were other hardships and disabilities which dissen lers including presbyterian as well as baptists methodists quakers mor avians mennonites dunkards unita rians and catholics could not avoid all these tion conformists suffered from the muster law by which a dis tinction was made in favor of the cler gymen of the church of england and against dissenting ministers then again although scotland was supposed to enjoy equal rights with england in the colonies even presbyterian minis ters were not allowed to perform the marriage ceremony till 1700 and when they did perform it the fee went to the local minister of the church of england to other dissenters qtia kers excepted this riyht was not con ceded before 1770 worst of all was the enforcement in north carolina of the schism act repealed in england in 1718 which prohibited any one from keeping a school in the provin ces unless he had obtained a certificate from the anglican authorities there is no doubt that the enforcement of this act up to tb period of the revo lutionary war through the widespread ignorance which it engendered is di rectly responsible for the large per centage of illiteracy and for the back wardness of intellectual activity char acteristic of the state to-day if the revolution really began in north carolina as the natives of that state contend it was because the peo ple were even more inflamed by a de sire lor religious freedom than by the wish for political independence the bill of rights and state constitution adopted by the provincial congress at halifax iu december 1776 asserted the natural and inalienable right of men to worship almighty god accord ing to the dictates ot their own con sciences h was further laid down that there should be no establishment of any one religious church or denom ination in the state of north carolina in preference to any other neither shall any person on any pretence be compelled to attend any place of wor ship contrary to his own faith or judg ment or be obliged to pay for the pur chase of any glebe or the building of tvitclt l highest of all in leavening power latest u s gov't report absolutely pure [■castoria la 2>r sanmd pitcher's prescription for infants and children it contains neither opium morphine nor other narcotic substance it 5s a harmless substitute for paregoric drops soothing syrups aud castor oil it i pleasant its guarantee is thirty years use by millions of aiojhers castoria la the children's paua-.-ca thr mother's friend castoria castoria . ed to children thai cantoria euros o :: :, constipation .,.„., . , ir , , .,::;:,.•!>. rjiarrhoua erucuition ],.. : y.nu worms ;■.:..•.; sleep ;-.: i promo dl „] oxford ■. brooklyn .». . . potion without injurious medication i letoria is bo universal ami u ■it seems a work fc r several years i have mconinientw .... ■t f ware the your ' ca.<torio and shall always continuo tc ■' i not keep castoria ,; , .,, ls it in invariably jiroduced btneflcia ivuulls ,.,. ls . !, ],, knw,:;i ra:c m p new york city 125th street aad 7t!i av new york city tiif ckktauk company 77 murray k-t.kkt xkt york crrr sensation at clayton the xrte and observer of tbe 29th inst.,says mr john t ellington a nephew of th state librarian and the sheriff of johnston county who arrived here yesterday brings an in teresting piece of news from clayton he says that v r pool who was ouce a prominent farmer and who de ired to be postmaster at clayton hxd b*e arrested and taken to smithfield and placed in jail it appears that pool became angry because he did not get the appointment and made a plan to burn tbe town he had made threats to do this monday he spoke to a negro man hannibal smith and told him that he wanted him to set fire to the barns of messrs mcguliers lloney cutt howe and ellington and the livery stables of ellington & barber he made au arrangement with the negro to meet him later in the day and to then give the latter regular instruc tion the negro went to several peo ple and told them what pool had pro posed two uen mccullers and james hinton secreted themselves in pool's barn and overheard all he told the negro the plan was that smith hould take some balls of cotton satur ated with kerosene and throw them iuto the buildings referred to above pool was arrested and on his persoii were found the balls of cotton ready for use he was quickly taken to clayton and jailed after due commit by a magistrate feeling against him is quite high at clayton it is understood upon the further investigation of mr elling ton report it was ascertained that tlie facts that he stated were essentially correct and that pool's animosity was aroused by the position the citizens in question took against him in the post master fight the case involves clearly a question of law but in some parts of tree america the defendant would be tried and convicted without an empaneled jury aarob burr's last relative philadelphia times the last even distant relative of aaron burr is dead he was a hatter he patented a hat machine years ago up to that time hat bodies had been made by hand burr's machine so revolutionized the business that 8,(rx 000 hats were made upon his machine in one twelve-month for many years he virtually had a monopoly of the hut trade and when his patent expired he had amassed a great fortune at the breaking out of the war he practically organized the famous ellsworth zou aves and contributed liberally to our early military establishment he was in many respects a singular man but a pushing energetic citizen his father was aaron burr's first cousin and bis grandmother a sister of jona than edwards he sprang from that urge burr family that once lived mar coopertown n y now that he it dead it will be exceedingly hard to find another man bearing the name of burr who is even remotely connected with the ill-fafed but brilliant man who wan once such a power in our political and social lift _ the silver mine closed a dispatch from salt lake kan sajs the fall in silver causes dismay to mine owners in this region yes terday the daly-west mine at park city ordered a close-down the dia mond at eureka new and the old jordan and galena and bingham utah are also ordered to be closed the owners of the mines as follows ay that they will be closed in a few dajs sampson at bingham bullion beck & champion at tinti caroline at eureka yosemite at bingham crescent at park city and anchor at park city all have been steady and strong producers wgshingtou c h <>., june 20 sabiiu and jeffersonville banks closed their doom this morning caused by the failure of w t hajdock of st louis who is a stockholder in both hanks the sabina bank has a capital of 25 000 startlingjscrease insanity last year the increase of insanity last year orer th preceding year was startling ! think of it per.tuns suffering from nervous troubles such as sick and nervous headache nervousness convulsions neuralgia apopleij dvspepeia bleepiesunexs paralysis nervous prostration epilepsy etc the outlook would certainly b discouraging for you wtre there no bmn of escape any of the abore difficulties and many more arc advance svmptoaa of insanity or some othereqoally deplorablecoa ditiou ending in suicide or premature death dr franklin miles the noted specialist his devoted over 20 yean to the investiga tion of nervous affeotions and in tbe result of his labors lies the only hope of those sj&icr ej with the troubles named his reetora tive nervine is a positive meana of relief if you have any nervons affection attend te it at once do not wait till your intellect it shattered or tbe fre.uy of suicide overcomes you delay is dan emu rov j r miller p.iior of tbe m i chore big run i'a writes " overwork caused me m brent down oompletely tii efforts of several pul doctors ancl ei^ht weeks of travel did bm little good i could uot ree'l or itudr and bf condition wm seriom i began wing dr miles restorative nervine four uties of which com pletely cured me accept in v gratitude •■i wai taken nick last april and had lh attend ancdof three of our bent puytlctaiu tbe result was that at the end of four month i was a heji 1ms invalid could not eat and did not aet thirty ntinutei sleep in 34 houra lett 56 po*n«s is waiifht four weekj ago i began tiling dr mile restorative nervine restorative tonle and nerv aud liver pills have earned is bound ta weight can eat and sleep and fee as wall a i ever did j c stephens cariliu pa " i was afflicted with nervous proitratlon ovat two yean and during that time was unable te perform any work through the tue of dr miles restorative nervine i am enttrelv restored te health and able to conduct mybiuinem the same an before my lirknaet i rerom mended the nervim to a younu man alto lufferine from nervous prae tration and be too received wendvrrtil beneflt from it dr mile remodle are considered » d aceaat our house w 8 cuuhaw.qallen iflch dr mtlei restorative nervine ii anld by all druggists on a r>oaltl ve miaraotee or bv dr miles medical co elkhart ind.on receipt of price tl car bottle or atx bottlei for ts.etpr prepaid il i positively free from all onl«te and dancerotm dnur dr miles serva and liver rills xtswnta par hox flve boxei si 00 mailed asy where fraa book at druggists or by mall two colored boys killed durham sun 30th a very unfortunate and terrible acci dent in its k'liii*tline occurred vester day about noon on tli durham north ern railroad 9 miles from durham charles joss 8 years f>ld james goss ( j years old brothers and george tate y years old all colored l*oys were minding cows and they lay down on the track ami went to sleep the two joss boys were killed by a ptvwing tn but the tate boy escaped at the coroner's inquest held last uigbt george tate said lie waked up in time 1 1 see the engine before it got to him and he jumped and ran 1'he others did not wake up and we do not sup pose they ever knew what struck them engineer l ('. richardson before the coroner stated that i.e w»a run ning around it sliarp curve he saw ol jects on the track but could not t»>|i la time to prevent striking them wil liam \\ ilkes mi employe said be wm riding on the front i>f the engine saw the boy gave signal uip engineer re versed ii ir lever hut could not stop be fore the engine passed over the bodies which were very badly torn to pirces the verdict was to the effect that it was one of those unfortunate acci dents and that no on can if !•■• u blame for it the grand old man bysoutnern associated press london eng june 28 glads ue made the announcement in the h r use f commons ti>-day which ta ised much joy among the irish member and those oi the radical party who beliere that the time has come for throwing out many of the amenduieuu to the home rule bill offered by the op position for the purpose of delaying the passage of the measure gladstone stated that to-morrow he would mut the adoption of a resolution calling upon the house to expedite the :•** sage of the bill tins announcement was greeted with cheers by t lie sup porters of the government 61 tone added that the terms of the resolution were nearly prepared and lie hoped l communicate it to the house before today's session closed in replying to a question asked by lit hon a j balfour leader f the opposition gladstone said that the resolution that he proponed to move would be on the same principle as tli resolution offered in 1887 though it would contain w>m important modification gl.idstoue was again cheered upon making this announcement children cry for pitcher's castoru washington letter from our regular correspondent both ends of the capitol building are in tlie hands of a small army f work men who are putting everything in ship-shape for the extra session of congress everything is being over hauled and freshened up or renewed as the exigencies of the case may demand although the probability of president cleveland making an earlier date for the extra session than september is re garded as exceedingly slim it was l nought besl to rush t'.ie irork nt the capitol so that everyth ig would be • .. ' : ' .. ess to a^embleas early as the utter part of july in case the president should change his mind speaking of calling the extra session of congress earlier than september a gentleman who had a long conversa tion with the president on the subject says the president thinks and 1 agree with him that instead of being a reason for an earlier extra session the action of the government of great britain in slopping the coinage of sil ver on private account in india fur nishes one of the strongest reasons against an earlier session every one lias some sort of an idea of what will be the result of cutting off with a stroke of the pen the market for about one-third of the world's silver but on ly time can show precisely what that result will be if congress were to be called to meet within three or four weeks it would necessarily lack much information upon this subject which y the middle of september can easily be obtained information too that is in my opinion absolutely essential t intelligent and beneficial financial leg islation and any other sort of legisla tion would be much worse than none investigation has brought out the fact that many men who ure drawii g disability pensions are living in soldi era homes without cost t tlieinselvc and are earning regular wages for the erf'iniar.ce of liiunuaj laliep fur tiler investigation shows that excppt in the cases of those who draw pen sions under the act of lb'jo nothing can be done to prevent a continuance if this practice without new legisla tion it is evident that the whole system of pension laws remarked h congressman who was himself a l nioii s l<jier is faulty and in need of a thorough revision but 1 have serious ioubts as to the courage of congress to make that revision pensions have been fsed as capital so long by dema gogues that the people at large will have to be educated on the subject be fore the pre.-sure upon congress be comes strong enough to compel action jhe preliminary steps it this educa tional work are being taken bv the ad iiiinistiv.tion in its endeavors to clear the roil of il.eg.il pensioners later the revision of the laws will come it answer to a public demand in which thousands of old soldiers will join in deed many of them have already done so as soon as pensions are entirely divorced from partisan politics justice will be done alike to the taxpayer and the old soliirr among the fraudulent pensioners whose dropping from the roll was officially approved this week were eleven men shown by the records of the war department to have been de serters at large one man who never was in the army at all several women who continued to draw widow's pen sion after they had married again and one notorious prostitute surely such as these have no business on a roll of honor president cleveland was asked by the committee in charge of the pre parations for the celebration of the centennial of the laying of the corner stone of the u s capitol building to deliver the principal oration upon that occasion but as the president expects to have his hands full about the date of the celebration — september 18 — he told the committee that he could not comply with their request but would gladlv make a short speech introducing the iiinn they selected to deliver the oration to-day closes the fiscal year and while the financial condition of the government is not ail that could be asked for it is very much better than there was any good reason six mouths ago for expecting that it would be at this time in fact there were abun dant reasons six months ago for the fear that instead of the comfortable cash balance on hand the administra tion would have to begin the new year cures all skin blood diseases . . ; ■■s . i •.•■.: nsi -. „. ..,. - ■. : . . ■■• th i 11 ,. id it r m k : v...-r -.'.—. v,~-r 2 rj.ki^i vr..---l :-. ■ss "...'., . . ■. : 1 1 fp 1 mill adi a fl 1 . .',.."".'. t •. . 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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1893-07-06 |
Month | 07 |
Day | 06 |
Year | 1893 |
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Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
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Date | 1893-07-06 |
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nil i 1 • f tit l i i hp i i"polltlpl w 5 ton trm ri salisbury n c thursday july 6 1893 fotl-fourth sekies any home of worship or the mainte nance of any minister contrary to what he believed right or had volunta rily and personally engaged to per form on the contrary all persons should be at lil>erty to exercise their own mode of worship these declara tions involved the downfall of the es tablished church it enly remained for the laws of the new state to be brought into conformity with the new constitution marriage was put on a proper footing in 1778 by a law giving the privilege of performing ihe cere mony to all ministers alike neit tbe terms of the affirmation for quakers moravians mennonites and duukards were fixed the restriction of sehool teaching to men fortified with the cer tificate of the anglican authorities of course disappeared and the law res pectiug the cure of the orphan chil dren or quakers was repealed it iseyident that north carolina from the moment that it declared it self an independent state asserted an exclusive and unchallenged authority over religious matters it could had it so chosen have retained tbe estab lishment and endowment of the angli can or episcopa 1 church it might have established the presbyterian church as it was then aud is still es tablished in scotland it might have given calvin ists of the congregational type the same privileges which they enjoyed at the time in the colony of massachusetts it might had a ma jority of the colonists been catholics have made catholicism the religion of the state it did none of these things but in its fundamental organic lay it made as we have seen a close approach to universal toleration nevertheless there was one provision which in pro cess of time seemed to require amend ment the thirty-second section of the state constitution of 1779 read as follows no person who shall deny the being of god or the truth of the protestant religion or the divine au thority of either the old or new teg tament or shall hold religious princi | pies incompatible with the freedom ! and safety of the state shall be capa ble of holding any office or place of trust or profit iti the civil department within the state as time went on there were various interpretations of the section one theory held that it clearly excluded atheists and kucb deists as made a parade of their infidel ity by proclaiming the scriptures to be false others thought that it disquali fied the jews also on the ground that the latter must necessarily deny the divine authority of the new testa ment still others maintained that | quakers meunonites and dunkards were disqualified because their belief that arms cannot lawfully be used in defence of one's native country is sub versive of its freedom aud repugnant to its safety many lawyers declared and their views seemed to have been | followed in practice that the clause in question excluded uobod ; that for want of a specified tribunal to expound and enforce it the provision was a dead letter there is no doubt that the clause i had been aimed at roman catholics i but it had never been interpreted i against them thomas burke who professed the catholic faith was a member of the continental congress from north carolina aud in 1781 i was elected governor of the state there was no state office from that of governor down to that of constable which hai not at one time or another been filled by a catholic perhaps the mo-t distinguished of these was wil liam gaston who had been successive ly a member of the state senate » rppresenative in congress and a jus tice of th state supreme court no complaint was made when judge gas ton assumed hi seat upon the bench nevertheless it was thought best to amend the section in question when the matter came up in the constitu tional con vention of 1 835 in the con stitution of notth carolina framed and adopted then the word christian i was substituted for protestant and thus in the words uttered by judge imtod at the time was the carcass of the last remnant of religious persecu tion interred les»t its pestilential ef fluvia should poison the atmosphere of freedom there are 30,000 acres of watermel ons iu georgia with a deficit the date of president clereland departure n still doubtful owing to the pressure of important public busi ness senator candetu wants him to join him in a fishing excursion in west virginia before he goes to gray gables but it is not certain that he will be able to do so a leai of north carolina history new york sun there is no question of deeper in terest to the provinces of the ( aiuulian dominion 01 to any country which at present lies outside the boundaries of the united states than the inquiry what would be the rights of such pn vince or country in respoct to provi sions concerning religion within its territory so far as the federal gov ernment is concerned that ax we know is debarred from touching the matter by the first amendment to the consti tution which declares that congress hall make no law respecting an estab lishment of a religion or prohibiting i he free exercise thereof that limi tation on the powers of congress is inrgely due to the course taken bj north carolina which as in well known refused to adopt the constitu tion unless supplemented by amend ments of which this was the chief the fact shows that north carolina was determined to reserve to itself as a state the exclusive right of regulating religion and for that reason the re cord of the relations of church and state in that commonwealth it peculi arly instructive the subject hus re yen tly been discussed at length and with singular lucidity by prof stephen b weeks in a contribution to the se ries of the johns hopkiiu studies in historical and political science in north carolina as in virginia the church of england was by law es tablished up to the outbreak of the revolution and the abolition of it wus one of the first steps taken in each state by the convention called to frame a constitution that a majori ty of the inhabitants of n rlh caroli na were disseiiters through the greater part of the colonial epoch is proved by rhe extreme difficulty not to say im possibility of levying tithes and pro viding other resources for the mainte nance or the anglican clerjiy never theless although tho payment of tithes could be evaded there were other hardships and disabilities which dissen lers including presbyterian as well as baptists methodists quakers mor avians mennonites dunkards unita rians and catholics could not avoid all these tion conformists suffered from the muster law by which a dis tinction was made in favor of the cler gymen of the church of england and against dissenting ministers then again although scotland was supposed to enjoy equal rights with england in the colonies even presbyterian minis ters were not allowed to perform the marriage ceremony till 1700 and when they did perform it the fee went to the local minister of the church of england to other dissenters qtia kers excepted this riyht was not con ceded before 1770 worst of all was the enforcement in north carolina of the schism act repealed in england in 1718 which prohibited any one from keeping a school in the provin ces unless he had obtained a certificate from the anglican authorities there is no doubt that the enforcement of this act up to tb period of the revo lutionary war through the widespread ignorance which it engendered is di rectly responsible for the large per centage of illiteracy and for the back wardness of intellectual activity char acteristic of the state to-day if the revolution really began in north carolina as the natives of that state contend it was because the peo ple were even more inflamed by a de sire lor religious freedom than by the wish for political independence the bill of rights and state constitution adopted by the provincial congress at halifax iu december 1776 asserted the natural and inalienable right of men to worship almighty god accord ing to the dictates ot their own con sciences h was further laid down that there should be no establishment of any one religious church or denom ination in the state of north carolina in preference to any other neither shall any person on any pretence be compelled to attend any place of wor ship contrary to his own faith or judg ment or be obliged to pay for the pur chase of any glebe or the building of tvitclt l highest of all in leavening power latest u s gov't report absolutely pure [■castoria la 2>r sanmd pitcher's prescription for infants and children it contains neither opium morphine nor other narcotic substance it 5s a harmless substitute for paregoric drops soothing syrups aud castor oil it i pleasant its guarantee is thirty years use by millions of aiojhers castoria la the children's paua-.-ca thr mother's friend castoria castoria . ed to children thai cantoria euros o :: :, constipation .,.„., . , ir , , .,::;:,.•!>. rjiarrhoua erucuition ],.. : y.nu worms ;■.:..•.; sleep ;-.: i promo 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