uptfij by hanes & bruner the old north state forever gaston single copie five cent vol iii no 28 salisbury is c saturday march 7 18g8 whole no 317 timid encourage hopes of confiscation land a division of spoils among the vicious land idle and thus to control the decisions of tho ballot-box to counteract these evil influences j to adjourn the great cause ofthe country from these prejudiced and hidden tribunals to the open forum of the hustings ; to assure tho old constituency of white electors that under the acts of congress they are still masters of theii fates and have the power of decision over the present issues in their own hands if they bu r . will to exercise it ; and to giv organization to patriotic efforts for these ends such a conference as the piesent had become a necessity it was necessary likewise to disabuse the public mi id at tho north in congress and among their constituents of an impression studiously inculcated and cherished that there yet exists among the native white people of the state a feeling of aversion to the con stitution and government of the united states and a disposition to persecute and maltreat the enfranchised blacks ; to con vince them that our present struggle is not the offspring of resentment or contu ma«y but only for the preservation of our rights as american citizens and ho de fence of civilization if not the existence of civilized society ; and to warn them agiinet the misrepresentations of interest ed reporters and the tale hearers and m foimcrs who after the close of unsuccess ful revolution though fiery zealots in the lost caiibc while it seemed to prosper be came still more fiery zealots in that which inn won and arc ready to point out whole hecatombs for sacrifice provided they themselves escape the doom of conscious guilt i it is i think not difficult to demon stiate as i shall endeavor to do presently that the question most immediately in is su is not whether there is a hearty obe dience to all the requirements ofthe con stitution on the part of the people of tlie southern slates but whether ihe consti tution shall ke set at naught by taking row each of these states the power to regulate its internal government and i»o ■ ' „ ....-..: u . • . «, 1 fications for the exercise of suffrage among its own inhabitants as was always conce ded to be its privilege heretofore ; and prescribing by act of congress new qual ifications by which some 30,000 white men who have enjoyed this right shall in future be deprived of it and 70,000 blacks nearly all just emancipated from slavery shall be at once invested with this privi lege of electors of the state i speak of this change as directed by act of congress for after the congress has already caused this basis to be adopted in the election of a convention not called iu pursuance of the constitution or any law of the state or by the sanction of the old and lrgiti mate electors but by its own enactment merely and threatens permanent exclu sion from the benefits of the constitution ofthe united states as the alternative of the rejection of its work the act is iu ef fect a mandate for its adoption gentlemen our country has recently passed through a most bloody and desola ting civil war tbe struggle was one of the raobt gigantic in human history it is nutural that the billows of passion and prejudice should continue to roll for a sea son after the storm which set them in ag itation has subsided hut have wc not can we not have peace in this land of the gospel of peace at the end of three years after an honest surrender of all the armies in resistance to the government and a per fect restoration of and profound submis sion to the authority ofthe united states as fully and completely as before the com mencement of hostilities ? are the les sons of history to be lost upon us 1 arc the statesmen who now rule our counsels yet to learn that " to conquer in a civil war is not to triumph ?" that the enemy overcome is their fellow-citizen j and al though it may or may not be politic to se lect and punish individuals for the sake of example modern nations deeming it the wiser policy not to punish yet after the slaughter of his children the desolation of his fields the conflagration of his houses and all the untold chastisements of war to exact of him degrading submission to crush his hope and destroy his institutions will tend but to tarnish the fame and weaken the aim of the conqueror ? it is a pleasing incident in the annals of eng land at the restoration of charles the 2d an era not unlike that of tho re-establish ment ofthe united states over tho south ern country in 180 to hear the parlia ment first assembled claiming to themsel ves tho title of the healing parliament 1 und the chancellor clarendon declaring iu the name of his sovereign the king is a suitor to you gentlemen : he is a hear ty suitor : that you will join with him in restoring the whole nation to its primitive temper and integrity ; to iis old good manner its old good humor and its old nature and the historian relates that clarendon never failed while he possess ed any influence to use it to purposes tho mobt noble by recalling his sovereign's mind whenever a fair opportunity offered i to those great principles and free naxium of the english constitution which as the chancellor's good sense and bitter expe rience had taught him were not only the safe guard of the liberty of the subject but the best security of the crown ob for a temperament so catholic and patriot tic a wisdom so profound and just as that of clarendon in the troublous times which succeed our civil war ! there was no want of food for hitter memories and revengeful feelings in the scenes through which england had just passed when lie spoke those healing words of noble charity a king to whom he was allied by the intermarriage of their children had been deposed and beheaded monarchy and aristocracy had been abol ished a protector whom he regarded as a usurper had seized the reins of govern ment and swayed the destinies of eng land and had subdued the whole realm in a fierce internieine war ; the sovereign in whose name clarendon spoke tho law ful successor to the crown was the son of the murdered king and had leen himself a fugitive and an exile with narrow es capes from captivity and death from his rebellious subjects for twelve long years ; yet the earnest desire of the new sover eign and hi minister was for conciliation and harmony their policy was iu part successful some thirteen — i think this 27.00 3 400 3.700 3.850 44.00 50.00 70,00 was the number — of those implicated in the late king's death were executed — oth ers fled others lost their estates but the passions of men were too implacable the occasion was too tempting to spies dela tors and informers with professions of superaboundiiig loyalty on their lips the spirit of faction was too fierce to allow this wise liberal and humane policy long to prevail a remorseless system of per secutions was soon inaugurated uot thro military commissions and standing armies but by pretended and corrupt courts and juries no pretence was set up for depart ing from this ordinary machinery of jus tice and going outside of the constitution upon any alleged laws of war and con quest by which the noblest spirits of england in disregard uf ibw ( md by the gibbet or scaffold these persecutions with tlieir a tendant cruelties which pro duced and perhaps were inteuded to produce fresh and real offences with va rying objects and pretexts were persisted in until the national mind became disgus ted and it recoiled in a new revolution by which the constitution was restored and righted up and placed anew upon its feet on the firm foundation of the bill of rights of l(j8s and the philosophic commentator on history from whom i have already quoted in allusion to this and other civil wars whether on account of religion or government in each of which there is a like tendency to intolerance and bigotry remarks that of all spectacles the most alaiiiiing to a reflecting mind is the feebleness of reason to oppose religious or even political enthusiasm it is not only the vulgar but it is men of educa tion the most liberal of talents the most brilliant who are almost equally exposed to these fatal eclipses of the understand ing and he adds that the only protec tion ngaiust these fatal consequences con sists iu two wholesome precepts : ia reli gion never to lose sight of morality ; and in political speculation never to depart from the great leading forms and maxims of the constitution these humble pria ciples so obvious and so safe are soon despised by men of ardent temperament ; and it is the first symptom of religious or political eathusiasm to deny or disiegard them it is my sincere conviction gentlemen that the serious if uot fatal disease with which our country is now afflicted which siays its recovery from the gaping wounds of war and threatens the utter depletion and destruction of the section in which our lot is cast springs from the political enthuisam the intolerance of patty of which individuals may not be conscious or not able to resist it which pervades the action of congress and even jaundices its eye when it looks towards this land of the sun ;" and that the only cure which can have the least effect either in benefit to the government or relief to ourselves is that of which history de monstrates the efficiency in free und re publican governments in past ages — a full and cordial restoration of rights to all the states as members of the union and to their people as citizeub according to the constitution : and that the whole scheme of rcconstriction in looking first to a denial of representation which puts its authors to tlieir wits ends to make ex the old north state [ till weekly j efkatks ov subsck1i-tion rj tebms ■ cash in awvanck tri weekly one year is.'x " six months s.'o weekly watchman and n0bth state one copy one year 3,00 " six months 1,50 a cross x on the paper indicates tlie expiration of the subscription the typo on which the " olp north state is printed is entirely new no paiuswill be spared to make it a welcome visitor to every family in order to do this we have engaged the services of able and accomplished literary contributors advertising rates transient kates for all periods less than one month one square pint insertion 1.00 eachsubsecpient insertion 50 contract rates for ieriods of one to fom months 1 mo | a mo | 3 mo | 4 ho | 6 mo 1 square 5,110 8.60 12.00 16.00 20,00 2 sqcahks 7/>0 13.00 17.00 21.00 27.00 3 squares 10.00 16.00 21.00 26.00 3 400 4 squares 12 00 18.00 23.00 28.00 3.700 quar col 13.00 ifl 00 24.00 98,00 8,850 half col 20.00 27.00 33(h 38.00 44.00 3 quar col 25.00 33 00 40.00 45.(10 50.00 one col 30.00 42.00 52.00 60,00 70,00 ~ sueech of hon william a graham on being called on to preside over the con servative convention of north carolina feb 5th 1868 mr gtaham thanked the convention for the honor conferred in electing him to preside over its proceedings while the call for its assemblage had his hoarty con currence and he was more than gratified at the response which had been made iu this inclement season amid the general pe cuniary distress and dejection which per vade the land by the appearance here of so numerous a body of our best citizens — so fair a representation of the character in 1 jli<*..!,p moral worth and of what little p of property remains to lire tcu|m o roe • state j and while he had expected to bear j his part as best he might in tlieir deliber i ations and mutual counsels lie was taken < quite by surprise in the distinguished po j sition assigned him and was unprepared 1 to make his acknowledgments iu befitting 1 terms ' no ordinary occasion — nothing but a firm conviction that the vital principles of free government and the well being of so ciety for ages to come in the country of our birth were seriously endangered — could have brought together this assem bly in the face of so many discouraging circumstances and lie took this occasion rily gave aid to the war on the southern side shall be admitted to a seat in con gre.-s or to hold any federal office bow ever honestly and truly he now supports the government ; and making him ihe accuser and witness against himself u powerful temptation to perjury on the part of the weak and the wicked and a stumbling-block in the wi»y of the manly and conscientious of looking first to a representation from a ciubs iu which it will be difficult to find men of any fitness unless they are imported from abroad and which may include negroes ; then to a pardoning process by congress which may let in such as have propitiated its favor not by maintaining the government during the war but by a profession of de votion to its policy since ; and theu per haps at some remote day though grudg ingly and reluctantly to have a genr.il amnesty — is a grossly mistaken and fatal as well as unconstitutional policy it i a kind of annealing process f'ul of dis trust suspicion aud provocation very pioperly applied lo brittle glass but wholly uusuited to make a tenacious tough and lasting political union oil fathers of the revolution proclaimed of our british ancestors that like the rest of mankind they were enemies in war in peace friends it will require a more convincing logic thau any of our states men are yet masters of to prove that this naxim is uot true as between the late k'lligercnts in tbe american suites if he people of north carolina are at peace with those of kentucky ohio pensnyl vania and new york 1 take it that they ire friends and if friends then equals md fellow-citizens entitled to the same ights as to representation in congress lie regulation of the qualifications of rotors among their own people and iu ill other respects known to the constitu ion i do not deny on the contrary i reely admit that it is the right of tho jovernment acting through its proper aw officers aided by the executive de lartmont in a case demanding it to ar est and cany belore the uourta tor trial n legal testimony kttr l ctta?gell w'ltfi br anding against the united states in the ate war as at any oiher time whether he party thus accused can be convicted f tieasou in making and levying that var against the united states having icted in so doing under an organized gov irnment exercising the power of life and leath over ull within its limits i have lot leisure or inclination to discuss itia i question for the judiciary which i have 10 purpose to anticipate but granting he amenability in the greatest extent it s an amenability to tho courts of justice , with all their safeguards for an impartial rial in the constitution of the united states as in ull otherwise frames of gov irnment the subject of punitory justice r punishment tor crime has not been verlooked treason the greatest of nmes is in that instrument found in the irtlcie establishing the judicial depart ment with a definition of the offence and ind the quantum of evidence necessary for conviction as well for the safety of the govcrnmentas for the protection of the citizen against the cruel and malignant persecutions on charges of this crime which disgrace the annals of english justice said chief justice marshall in a judicial opinion : as there is no crime which can moro excite and agitate the passiods of men than treason no chargo demands more from tho tribunal before which it is made a deliberate and temperate inquiry be directed to the fact or the law none can be more solemn none more important to the citizen or to the government none can more affect the safety of both to prevent the possi bility of those calamities which result from the extension of treason to offences of minor importance that great funda mental law which defines aud limits tho various departments ot our government has given a rulo on the subject both to the legistures and the courts of ameri ca which neither can be permitted to transcend and tho sixth article of tho amendments to the constitution provides for jury trial in this great crime ns well as other capial offences and here per mit me to relate an incident of some in terest in the history of tho federal con stitution i am the son of a man who was a member of both the conventions called by north carolina to deliberate on the adoption of that idstfument i have the copies of tlieir journals which fell to his lot as a member which he gave me after i was grown and had learned something of our government and tho history of the country perceiving that he had voted against the adoption of tho constitution in the first convention in op position to the admirable argumentation of iredell and the commanding eloquence of davie whom he had followed in tho field and in favor of it in the second i inquired why it was that this change took place the reply was we considered • it ns proposing a great revolution by | which tho state was to surrender ini i iiii-iihii powers without adequate sccuri to declare for himself and he doubted not that he spoke the sentiments of every ' member of the convention that so fur as military authority had been extended over us he had no desire to contravene or treat it with disrespect ; and of the congress now sitting or its immediate predecessor while he might assume the privilege to criticise its action with the freedom due to truth and the principles of republican liberty he trusted he should do so with candor and the respectfulness accorded to a great department ofthe government but said mr g elections are about to take place to ascertain the sense of ic people and great questions of constitu tional right and political expediency are to be submitted for tlieir decision it is not only usual but pertains to the very nature of eleciions that there shall be the utmost freedom of discussion and inquiry into all the issues involved and that the voter shall be free to cast his suffrage ac cording to his best judgment of the public interest without apprehension of injurious consequences to himself for the act whe ther it be given on one side or the other in the ancient charter of our bill of rights which next to the decalogue and the maxims and parables of the new testa ment contains the principles most neces sary to be known among men it was de clared that elections ought to be free and that it is the right of the people to assemble together to consult for the com mon good to the end of course that they may compare opinions be convinced of tlieir interests and duties und strength en each other by mutual counsels and co operation such has been the american theory of government and i trust ever will be under tho broad jegia of these principles is this convention here at the seat of government of the state openly and in the face of day to make known its opinions as to the welfare of the com munity and to endeavor to advance them by such means as arc consistent with ex isting authority and no other and here i cannot but express my regret unit se cret associations under names attractive to the ignorant and the curious such as loyal leagues etc arc said to be organized very extensively who meet with closed doors or in nightly and secret sessions and by oaths aud uiystcrieh seek to engender hatred among the black race against the native whites and band the former togother an a party to alarm the the arlington mutual 1 f\ft jmwranre 001110119 of virginia a virginia and southern institution its funds are kept in the south it has met with unprecedented sitccess its fortunes arc established beyond any contingency the company has capital and assets against its liability that will compare favorably with any life insurance company on the continent which is the true test of responsibility luatl'airs are cautiously administered by selected directors of responsibility and business capacity it has established its claim to southern patronage officers pkksin k n t , john e edwards vk'r president secretary wm jj isaacs d j haktsook medical examinkk charles h smith m d i.euai adviier general aoent h c caiikll jno h l'laibouke directors john knders henry k ellyson william k taylor ana snyder samuel s cottrcll ii e c baskcmllc lohn i'ooley samuel c tardy charles t wortham leorge jacobs william willis jr j w allison kil a smith jeorges rainier thos j kvans a ii chocklcy james a stott 11 c cabell ii m ijuarles ii j hartsook w ii tyler john c williams j k edwards willium i tavlor a v.stokes a p a tell j ii morton win b isaacs li ii dlbrell heorge i hidirood william 11 i'almor sauuel m price i^r win j unitiw !■»..- 1 janl7 tw&wtf lexington n c for life insurance only 1 i el m oni real estate insurance company oh virginia authorized capital one million dollars officers w c 0arrington president j j hopkins secretary 0 u perrow m d med advisor this liberal and solvent southern company pays to its policy holders annually s7i per cent of its profits it proposes to aid its patrons by taking notes for one half of the premiums it allows ts patrons to pay all cash if desired it invites its patrons to attend its annual set tlements and sec their rights protected it allow its patrons to change their policies from one place to another its policy holders are not restricted as to tra vel or residence t offers fie following certificate as ui its sol vency : nki.sin coi'irr honsk \\.,\ march 2 r >, 1807 s the undersigned officers of the county of nelson and slate of virginia take pleasure in recommending as a solvent and reliable compa ny the piedmont ileal hstate insurance com pany of this county and b«nides the merit of its solvency its rates and terms for life insur ance are such as to commend it to public pat ronage 1 ts stockholders directors and officers are men of high integrity and patrons can rely on an honorable efficient management of its affaire none of us have stock or personal interest in thia company and simply give this as disinter ested testimony to the merits of a good institu tion quo s stkvksh clerk circuit court john p hu sheriff wm a 11 ill surveyor s ii loving clerk county court c a bingham & co agents salisbury wu also have the agency for good kire com panies traveling agents wanted apply to cai't.jamksf johnson special agent charlotte n c jan 7 ihdrt watwiy bankruptcy vv k have just received a complete assort ment of approved blanks in bankruptcy and arc prepared lo attend to cases in bankruptcy before the registers and the district court u ni ted states boydkn & bailey solicitors in bankruptcy march 3 1r68 tf for sale t no 499 broadway n y a splendid j'iano forte cost 350 may be had for 276 in currant fundi the piano is of splen did rosewood seven octaves extra mould ings terpentine bam fret lyre harp pedal and louis xiv style appl at the li itchma office . april 15 o i brooklyn life insurance company ■ • r ! issues policies of all kinds life and endowment absolutely no restriction upon travel or residence dividexds paid v\\l ally i c su all policies positively non-forfeitable part if the premium loaned and no loan or premium note it a lien or claim on the policy in case of death after the second year o r i , hii company offers peculiar advanta ges to the southern people it in uie most liberal company in i/is united suius iu r»t lioink lower than those of other o mi on uie ol'fick no hi broadway new york city ww m coub secretary christian w bouck prcs information gladly furnished in dotnil.by a w lawrence of raleigh gen'l agt for the state of n carolina w c couohkxour agent mar 3 w&twly salisbury n c connecticut mutual life insurance company ot hartford conn 6tatkmknt l)ko 31 1867 accumulated assets 17,670,288,88 income for 18g7 7,726,516,53 for premiums 6,332,804,95 for interest 1 393 711 58 losses paid in 1867 1568,758,18 dividends paid in 1887 643,005,00 interest received more than pays lossos dividends avorage over 50 per cent all policies non-l'orfeitable for astated amount assurance can be effected in all forma desired saml douglas wait o'-neral agent rateigh n o a philip agent charlotte n c uiar 3-w&twtf " notice t arkntis wishing the educate their daugh ters in a good school would do well to exam ine the place on which elder j 13 jack ion now lives this place three miles west of thomasville containing 205 aeriu land within three miles ol the thomusville female college will be sold to the highest bidder on lie 10th of march if not sold before feb 25 1hgs rdi ilaktfh sentinel eopv onset for it with out being able to find any that are satisfactory to an uupreiu ed observer then to an attainder a mild one it is true if authority could be found for any by disfranchisement from office aud the exercise of the elective franchise of all men who having former ly held federal or state offices took part against the government no matter under what circumstances of choice or neces sity although they are now in sincerity and truth its friends ; of test oaths by which uo man who in auy way volunta