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The JSTorth Carolina Republican
Wm. V. TURNER, Political Editor
FRIDAY, NOVKM bKJt 12th. 180.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
I have the pleasure of announcing to the
Irienda and readers of The Republican
that I have associated with me, as political
Editor, W. V. Tubneh, who will inform
oar friends weekly of passing political
events.
Business of importance will make it
necessary for me to be absent from the city
a greater portion of my time, and daring
such absence Hon. Stewart Ellison will
have supervision of the business depart
ment. Respectfully,
Jas. II. Harris.
"TO THE VICTORS BELONG THE
SPOILS."
race by the appointment or some of th.u
representative men to poirionn worthy of
their culture, intellectual attainments, a: d
moral character.
We have no friends to reward, n: r t;h.
mies to puuisb, but demand that justice
shall be done our race, though the beavrns
fall!
RESULT OF TOE CANVASS.
Now the question as to which of the two
great parties in thin country is to control
the affairs of the Nation for the next four
years has been decided in favor of the Re
publican party, by the electiou of Mr.
Garfield to the Presidency, aud the choos
ing of a Congress in harmony with his
administration, the questions naturally sug
gest themselves to the minds of the think
ing negroes of the country : Are we to be
recognized in the distribution of the im
mense patronage of the government in pro
portion to our voting strength, and our
unswerving devotion to the party repre
sented by the incoming administration 1 or,
are we to be .used in the future as in the
past, for the promotion of the interests of
white men alone T
These questions strike the North Carolina
negro with peculiar force, more especially
here in Raleigh. Here the government
has erected and elegantly furnished a
splendid structure in which to transact
the public business. In it, if we except the
office of Internal Revenue, we fail to find a
single negro employed by the government
in any capacity other than that of menials.
Why is it that Gov. Holden has no colored
clerks nnder hira in the post office f It
cannot be said that there are none compe
tent in this city to fill such positions. Is
it because a colored clerk in tbepost office
would be more distasteful to the white
citizens of Raleigh than they are to white
citizens of other cities where colored men
are employed ? or, is it because Gov. Holden
is inclined to pander to a perverted taste of
caste entertained by the white citizens of
Raleigh! The Governor professes to be a
member of the Republican party a party
that knows no man by the color of his skin,
but recognizes every man according to his
merits and capacity a party whose great
head, President elect Garfield said, in
speaking of the negro 11 No traitor to his
country, during the dark days of the rebel
lion, was ever found wearing a black skin "
a party whose shibboleth in all its battles
has been freedom and equality !" Equal
and exact justice to all without regard to
race, color or previous condition !"
We submit the question, is the Governor,
by the exclusion of colored men from his
department, carrying out the grand cardi
nal principles of the party to which he be
longs f We think not, and it is our inten
tion, by duly accredited representatives of
our race, to lay this particular grievance
before Mr. Qarfield's administration, at
Washington, after the 1th of March next.
W. L. Marcy said, that "to the victors
belong the spoils " and Calhoun, in speak
ing of the Democratic party, said that it was
held together by the " cohesive power of
public plunder.'' The negroes, in unbroken
ranks, have marched with the Republican
party in all its battles for power and victory
in this country, but it cannot be said of
them that they were held together by the
spoils of office; or, in the words quoted
from Calhoun, " the cohesive power of
public plunder.''
The negro has been true to the Republi
can party because its principles are just,
and they ndw demand that only those
white men shall hold positions under the
incoming Republican administration who
will carry out the principles of the party
by the full and just recognition of their
The canvass in this State ha not rebuk
ed as we had hoped and expected. All
things considered, however, the Republi
cans of North Carolina have done well;
but, nnder proper.management, they uoo'd
have done better.
The mistake, in nor opinion, tha l-f the
State to the Republicans, and saved the
Democracy from a humiliating defeat, wh
with ;the managers of the canvass, in an
almost entire failure to recognize the im
portance of au energetic and thorough can
vass of the Eastern couuties by colon d
men. There are colon d men in this Sty re
of first rate ability in every respect, a'id
had the Republican State, Comn.itee,ea)-,
pioyea a nan aozen or more or mem as
canvassers in the heavy colored counties of
the East, the result would have been dif
ferent from what it is, and instead of re
joicing over a partial victory in the election
of Garfield and Arthur by the votes of
other Stajes, tbe Republicans of North
Carolina would have been singing loud
hosaunas of thankfulness and joy over the
redemption of their State from Democratic
misrule.
We are justified in the position we take
by the result in the Wtst. There the en
tire energies of the Committee were put
forth : the whites of that stction revolted
from the ranks of the Democratic party by
thousands : the voice ot Hon. Jay. H.
Harris rung out like the blast from a bugle
in the mountains of the West rallying the
colored voters of that section an they had
never been rallied before, and behold the
result ! Sweeping Republican gains in
nearly all of the counties of the Wes, tae
stronehold of Democracy. How is it in the
East, where the great bulk of the Republi
can vote lies T Ignored by the Commit
tee; left open to inducements from local
democratic politicians ; disheartened by
neglect, the colored voters were easily led
to a condition of indifference as to result?,
and in that section where the Republicans
should have polled overwhelming majorities
aod made large gains, some of the heavy
counties have been carried by the Demo
crats, and in nearly all of them there are
reportf d Democratic gams !
Will the managers of the Republican
party in this State profit in lhe future by
the lesson taught them by the result of the
election just past, or will they continue to
take it for granted that there is no necessi
ty to encourage the 90 000 colored voters
of the State, hoping to carry the State for
the Republican party by the votes of dis
affected Democrats J We shall see. And
from oar posirion, as a journalist, it is cur
purpose, from time to time, to point out
any mistreatment of the negro, let such
mistreatment come from the hands of so
called Republican friends, or open Demo
cratic foes.
THE GREAT TRUST RENEWED.
GAB FIELD AND ARTHUR THE CHOICE OF
THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Once more the country speaks in tones
of thunder, as it spoke iu 1872. Every
Northern State, except New Jersey, has
declared itself for Garfield and Arthur,
giving them 222 of the 369 votes of the
Electoral College, aud au overwhelming
majority of the popular vote. Hancock
receives but 147 Electoral votes.
News from everywhere shows a heavy
gain dver the vote of 1876. The magnitude
of the victory in New York State sur passes
all expectations. Maine redeems herself
with a Republican majority of 5,000 Con
necticut gives Gaifield 4 200 majority.
Massachusetts gives more than 50,000 Re.
publican majority. Pennsylvania rolls up
her 45,000 for Garfield. Ohio 'increases to
40,000. Indiana fulfills the promise of her
October election by giving a Republican
majority of 7,000. News of increased Re
publican majorities comes from the West
Even in Kentucky there have been large
gams. Nevada has spoken for Garfield.
The next House of Representatives will
have a majority of Republicans, as already
the following have been elected: Whole
number 293; Republicans, 158; Democrats,
130; Green backers, 5.
We are happy to see the change, and be
lieve the good days of yore are coming
back again.
The next Senate ot the United States
will be one Republican majority. So the
Nation is redeemed, and the principles
for which Lee, Jackson and others died"
shall never triumph upon America's soil.
APPEAL TO COLORED VOTERS.
Now ihot tiie eirouon ha pifed, nd
the tim for oUt reflation upon our fu
ture statu in this country in our opinion is
at band, we submit the following App. al
to the Colored Vott-rs" from Humor , a
colored weekly published In New York City
by George Patker, E-q. We trust that our
readers will carefully peruse, thorrughly
digest and ntieetively consider this very
excellent article:
We appeal to the colored voters to re
member that we are Ame:ioan cilize . .ind,
at the same time, but a bujall por ion of the
vast multitude that goes to ni4;e ud tne
population of these United Stales. We beg
tneui to remember that the rancor and biU
t rues, !ioru of slavery and cast, has
hardly had reafouable time to buiy itself
and its hydra head out of wight, as does the
ostiieh at the sight of the enemy. We
beg them to remember that ice, the colored
people of this great c, untry, cau gain noth
ing py ee king to keep alive the embers of
the past, aud that if we cannot iorgive all
the nideous niiVmares of the slavery days,
can we riot at hast affect,, for policy's sake,
a seeming fmgetfiftnesa of the same. We
must not loose sight of the fact that we
cannot much loLger expect to be the wedge
tht wilt keep apart the Solid South aud
Solid North. The Southerner, hough he
be mulish aud obstinate, n-ckless and des
perate, is no fool. Many of the prominent
leaders in the Southern States see the folly
aud uselessuess of seeking to regaiu their
losses at the hands of the Nor thern people.
They begin to realize that the past is irrevo
cable, and cannot and must not be avenged.
When this idea becomes thoroughly im
pressed on the Southern mind, nothing will
or can keep apart the people who are all of
one blood, one race, one kin, and at the near
prospect of this achievement it is well to
co'nsider where we will be found at that
time, and whether, (we having sought to
fan these embers of discord and distraction
into lite), will not he crushed by the in
difference or positive disgust of the re-uni
ted Caucasian family of Americans.
At yie outbreak of the war, the cry was,
4 this is a white man's government, and ii
lustrated later by Geu. Hancock's remark
able utterance, We are opposed to nigger
domination.' Lat us remember that it was
this idea, this cry that made the Hayes
policy a fact. Tnat it was this idea that
actuated the government and the party in
Congress whtn they surrendered Slate
after Srate in the Sjuth, and permitted the
red-shirted Democracy, marshalled by the
present Senators from South Carolina to
ride into po et rough shod, without regard
to right or wrong, ami a total lack of pria
ciple or respect for the expressed will o
the people. If the Northern people could
make such a sui render to the South at a
time when that element was bitter and un
compromising ever, what may be expec
ted, when these wounds are healed, these
grievances are settled, aud these differences
swept away.
It is therefore necessary and urgent that
we should look beyond this, the present
time, and prepare for a change in senti
ment, of a new tone of thought, and to meet
this the sectional issues will go away, and
our complaints with them. And we must
not grieve fur or seek to revive them, if we
desire to affiliate ourselves with this onward
movement. This period must come, and
come shortly, for the exigencies of this
great country will permit of no such divi
sion of business and social interests as
prevail at present. It may be harsh and
bitter for us to swallow and forget the bit
terness of soul we have experienced in the
house of bondage but we can console
ourselves with the fact, that, as American
citizens, we are indissolably bound to and
involved in all the great interests and pro
jects of this country, that her glory is our
glory, aud her triumphs, ours also.
For a moment we would revert to the
charges of veuiality, so flippantly ban
died about, concerning us. We do not
believe that black men are more corrupt
than the whites, we do not believe that they
are more trustworthy than the whites ; but
we do know we are human, and humanity
is weaJc, and at all times liable to err. We
therefore caution our people not to be led
astray by spurious arguments or monetary
considerations of a contemptibly small
order. It is at any time a serious mistake
ior a citizen to sell his birthright, and it is
doubly so for our people, who have so much
at stake. Let it not be said of us, as the
opposition has of entire States, that they
rale at so much per head. This is not in
confor mity with our system of government,
and is a grave evil that must be soon met.
Aaiu we emphasize our appeal for mod
erauon aud toleration. For broad and
sincere regard for the nation's welfare,
wheieiu we are all concerned, we beg ot
you to leave the past and its gloomy
thoughts, for its horrors have disappeared
in a gorgeous sunset. Let us turn about
siid gieet the rising sun. 4
m m
Desiring to give the readers of The
Republican the latest and most reliable
returns trom the election last week, and
what we received during the week being far
from indicative of results, we deferred pub
lication nntil it was too late to supply our
patrons with anything definite and conclu
sive of the result in this State election
week, we therefore concluded not to issue
uutil our regular day this week, when we
could give our readers all the news relative
to the great election of 1880. How well we
have accomplished the task we leave cur
readers to judge.
ECTION.
B-low we give the vote for President and Govfrn. r in ISId;
for 1SSO sls bav lweii received :
-t; h r turns
COUNTIES.
i
Alamance, ....
Alexander,
Alleghany, . . . .
Anaun,
KufiJixdy
Beaufort, .
Bertie, ........
Bladen,
Brunswick,
Buncombe,
Borke
Cabarrus,
Caldwell, .......
Camden,
Carteret,
Caswell,
Catawba, .
Chatham,
Cherokee and Graham,
Chowan, . . . .......
Clay,
Cleveland,
Columbus,
(yT&VCHj
Cumberland,
Currituck,
Dare
Davidson,
Davie,
Duplin,
Edgecombe,
Forsyt.li
Franklin,
Gaston, . .
Gates,
Granville,
Greene,
Guilford, . .
Halifax,
Harnett,
Haywood,
Henderson,
Hertford, .
Hyde,
Iredell,
Jackson,
Johnson,
Jones, ,
Lenoir,
IjlQColD v
Macon
Madison,
Martin, ,
McDowell,
Mecklenburg,
Mitchell,
Montgomery,
Moore,
Nash,
New Hanover,
Northampton,
Onslow,
Orange,
Pamlico,
Pasquotank,
Pender,
Perquimans,
Perwon,
Pitt,
Randolph,
Kichmond,
Robeson,
Rockingham,
Rowan,
Rutherford,
Sampson, M
Stanly,
Stokes
Surry,
Swain
Transylvania,
Tyrrell,
Union,
Wake
Warren,
Washington,
Watauga,
Wayne,
Wilkes,
Wilson,
Yadkin,
Yancey,
Pre-Uent. 176.
a
H
32
Pru!ent( i.hho
314
1,317;
B'2'2
1,545
l,Co5
1,3X
1.044
-'7
710
l,63i
44
l,87u
532
806
184
4KJ
770
'J. 721
2,123
3'J8
237
1,173
702
1,253!
3,41j
1.521);
1,120!
845
511
2,0J4
1,067
1,968
3,226
736
427
755
1,081
656
1,242
261
1,68
801
1.506
1.391
846
527
1.5U1
1,77
1.723
1,126
1,397
IJOtr
1,215
1,641
1,1?3
683
1.150
1.4H3
1,874
2,141
6f0
629
315
1,76.
1,431
1,28.
2.23ft
3
it
1,24;
17V
mj. 450
I
a
(lufrmo'. 17V ; 18.
X
c
c
1,463
' 1
C12
624
305
1,782
1 .036
2 ll5
1,652
I AM
1,873
1,250
2,047
896
2,334
1,683
1,070
l.Olo
7X4
1,021
2.407
652
2.174
1.22f
3,46
2,0:2
nasi
3,178
943
2,233
1,883,
1.736
2,015'
1,726
. . . ,
2,(32:
2 822 j
8mj;
so
J i ""
ll'. l.llv 1.277 1.4 47
3.V Ni- 37? 7'.2
154 511 17.' 612
1 37! 1,5-5, 1,632
.! 1,'H..... .
1551 !,' 1,743 1,717
l.t .' 1,1 2i maj 45
1,3, 1
lto !.. M 702
, 1 J'-5'
.2 I l,l'.-: M6 1,""4
9JI, 1. .-'. 1 o57 1 465
1,17;- 4 It' 17 1
553; 67- .......
73 l,Ui
1,62- 1.46'.- 1,70 V 1 4H
4v I.M.' 6li 1,867
1 9 2 2,i;: 1.8-7 2,159
557 ;;.! 6 4 74 h
MU; ;
180, :',!'.'! 185 3'.6
5j6' 1.755! 55 4 l,9l
7t.71 1,43."! 922 1.577
2,8;7! 1,28 2.M6 1,122
2,132, 2 17:. '
31 I '.:. '
24 ( ' 3
l,83.ij 1 714 1,8.-7 1.745
7f 1 .4)1 1 I '
1.244 2. It 4j 1.214 1 '.3
3 849! 1,651 j :M7o 1.7Z3
1,54(1 1,454 1,79; 1,765
i,9i. l. :. l,9y' 2,034
814 1, 235 lunj 3
49-.I 9l.j
2.411 2,134; 3,l42j 2,831
1,073 85.M K5o, 863
1.977 2,264; 1 248, 2,251
3,208 1.6M 2.426; 1,77'
749 l,o5"l 721! 995
43! ;;. 4 10; 95U
7 7 i 71oj 843! '-lt.
Total,
I l.Wd 1,008
... ! 6677, 9j j
j 1 239 ! 2,35il! 1,603, 2,346
I 288! !28l j
...... ..J l.7:.i 2,o5 1.7o7! 2,0.;:;
59, ! K02I 599! 9.
1,247 ! l,41Mi 1.217J 1,370 1.08H
637 1.130 1,11;;, j
282 770 295 747 .
81'2 895 H12 5r 1, ! 937
1,150 1.33-1 . 1,149 1,316 1.2W, 1,36,4
543 963. 542 9.50 555 771
2,649 3,417 .. j 2,5.v 3,428
:. 558 747 87 514 ! 73;', 559 03 497
751 648 759 63 4 89- 6,95
1,203 1,365 I '.Ml' 1,317 1,397 1.452
1,842 1,716 1 ,352 1 68.; 1.3;7 1,556
2,991 1,634 2,20') 1,439 2.9- 1.622 2 319J 1,359
2.191 1,424 2.176. 1,422 2,041 1,215
550 1,35 7 547 1.308 530 1,035
1.668 2,428 1,1)02 2 537 1,675 2,4lo 1,01 4 2, 25
513 745 ;,n; 742
1,224 849 1 22- 847
1.252 1,172 1,252' 1,166 1,216 W&
1,020! 832 1,016! 824
989 1,211 99lj 1,191
1,895 2,136 l,hl)4i 2,125
-1 342;, 40j , 3H' H;, .i-..
1,570 1,775 l -,;;; l,r,9.. i,H; 1 V7
1,456 1,350 1,4,; 1,31:5 l(:itO
1,739 2,117 1,755 2,09; j
1.498 2,155 1.5Jl! 2 100 J,(Y 2,361
1,226 2,189 1,250 2,161 1,359 1,979
1,110 1,278 -1.113 1,231 1,21m! l,2ol
1,667 2,100 i,(;6:i. 2,071 1
427 9a7 472 ).4 6or. 873
980 1,222 .. 1 1,129 96; 1.181
1,012 1452 l,n!:' 1,28. U57 1,370
42 410 56, 37o
236 459 259 437
256 549 251 1 546
724 1,556 824 1,616 735 l,.-.f,l 1 41
4,441 4,315 4,622 4,359 ' 4,467 4.19.' 4,611 4,280
2.499 1,320 2,465 1,315; 2.690 1,354
.. . 1,005 692 1,005 ;76 95o ',21
282 712 301 1 67; 552 672
2,188 2,284 2.205; 2,2 1 8
1,505 1,384 1,199, 1JH4 1,543 !,lo
1,162 1,771 1,159! 1,77
1,086 ' 905 maj. 225 1.1 1::! 8J9 rui. 225
335 746 349' 74'!
.J 108,4191 125,427 1 110 0o'
123. 1981 1
ELECTORS AND CONGRESSMEN.
The electoral college consists of 369
members, and the smallest number by
which a candidate's election to the Presi
dency can be secured is 185, or a majority
of the whole number. Each State is entit
led to as many electors as it had Senators
and Representatives in Congress, and
therefore the number of each State's elec
tors exceeds the number of its Represents
tives in the Hoase by two.
We give the following table, showing
how the two candidates for the Presidency
have divided the electoral college, and the
vote of each State .
Garfield, Votes. Hancock. Votes.
California 6 Alabama 10
Colorado 3 Arkansas (J
Connecticut
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Maine
Massachusetts . .
Michigan
Minnesota
6 Delaware 3
21 Florida 4
15 Georgia 11
11 Kentucky 12
5 Louisiana $
7 Maryland 8
13 Mississippi 8
11 Missouri 15
5 New Jersey 9
Nebraska 3 North Carolina... 10
Nevada 3 South Carolina ... 7
New Hampshire 5 Tennessee 12
New York 35 Texas 8
Ohio 22 Virginia 11
Oregon 3 West Virginia ... 5
Pennsylvania... 29
Rhode Island. . . 4
Vermont 5
Wisconsin 10
Total 147
Total, 222
There are States in the above fable, car
ried by Garfield and Arthur, which no one
ever thought would be carried. To all 6aid
and done by the hungry Democracy, the
people have answered, and places that
statesman in the Presidential chair of the
United Stated, James A. Garfield.
We announce with plentuie the flection
of Mr. Alexander Hicks. Jr., to the Iloutse
of Representative from Washington coun
ty. It is truly gratify iur to u.i to Kt.Vn
that Mr. Hicks received the !nre.t mjori.
ty ever polled bysinv rvindidHie in hia
county for a political tfli j . Toe ninjontieB
in Washington county, at thu late election,
are as follows : G wlieM .ISO, Htixtou .'WO,
Jackson 284, Paul 4JSf. and Hi-!:n DO.
It will be teeu that Mr. Hicks leads
Garfield 9 votes, and ran.s ahead of Buxton
59 votes. The strangest part of the ntory
is, Mr. Hicks is a young colored gn?lma:i,
not more than twenty live years of age, of
rare natural endowment, and li ie educa
tional attainment. He id a straight out
Republican, and m mb'rof the ''publican
State Committee.
What do some of onr color-hne white?
Republicans in thin cmh ty theno that
couhl not swallow Mr. Klliaon ihink of
this! m
All honor to the nob'e aud true white?
Republicans of Washington ccunty; well
worthy are they of the name they bear.
They are Republic ins in deeds, uot iu
empty professions !
A Negho Elected to Conuiikss from
ARKANSAS Memphh, Sor. 8. The latei-r,
returns ivdicate tne f-hciiou of Johnson
(colored), Republican, to Congiehs in tbo
first Arkansas district by 1,000 over Poin
dexter Dunn, Democrat. Johnsou is a
barber, residing iu Augusta, Arkansas.
His candidacy was announced but ouo
week prior to the election.
Patrick, lamenting jis late better half,
said : ' Ocb, she was a jwel of a wile.
She always tuk to me with the soft eud of
the mop.''