OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



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Western North Carolina Eailroad, which, through the 

 hot haste and ill-considered contracts of the Demo- 

 cratic State administration, is surrounded by legal 

 troubles which afford no relief from taxation, and 

 threaten to delay for a long time, if not altogether de- 

 feat, the completion of that work, so necessary for the 

 welfare and development of the State, and especially 

 the western counties^ 



That the Republican party has always been the 

 friend of education. 



That they recognize the mechanic and laborer as 

 the bone and sinew of the land, and pledge themselves 

 to protect their rights and promote their political, edu- 

 cational, and material interests. 



That the recent constitutional amendments were 

 passed by a convention which was not composed of a 

 majority of elected delegates^ and the control of which 

 was stolen from the Republican majority by an infa- 

 mous and admitted fraud on the voters or Robeson 

 County. 



That the present system of county government in 

 North Carolina is utterly subversive of the rights of 

 the citizens ; is the grossest political robbery ever 

 practiced in this or any civilized country ; is the most 

 damnable fraud ever devised or sanctioned by any po- 

 litical party, and calls for the unqualified condemna- 

 tion of all who have the name of freemen without re- 

 gard to party affiliation. We claim the right of the 

 people to elect every officer in the State from the Chief 

 Executive down to the humblest official, and demand 

 that this right shall not be denied nor abridged ; that 



an honest count shall follow a free ballot, and the ma- 

 jority shall determine who shall enact and administer 

 its laws. 



They denounce the Democratic party as an oligar- 

 chyj controlled by railroad corporations and aristo- 

 cratic influences, and, if not arrested in its cour.-e, it 

 will overthrow the most cherished rights of the people. 



That they denounce the laws known as the landlord 

 and tenant acts, as devised for the benefit of a few and 

 to oppress the humble and defenseless citizen. 



That they denounce the present road hi\vs of the 

 State as oppressive to the laborer, and demand their 

 amendment so that the building and repairing them 

 shall be borne more equally by all classes of the peo- 

 ple. 



All the Democratic candidates for State of- 

 fices were elected by large majorities. The 

 Presidential election returns were 124,204 votes 

 for the Hancock electors, 115,616 for the Gar- 

 field electors, and 1,136 for the Weaver elec- 

 tors. There were cast 117,388 votes in favor 

 of the amendment prohibiting the payment of 

 the special tax bonds to 5,458 against, and in 

 favor of the amendment relieving the State 

 from the obligation to support the defective 

 paupers 87,163 to 70,459 against, both amend- 

 ments being adopted by a majority of the quali- 

 fied voters of the State. 



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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. ADAIR, WIL- 

 LIAM P., assistant chief of the Cherokee na- 

 tion, died in Washington, October 23d, aged 

 fifty-two. He was at the capital representing 

 the interests of that tribe. During the war he 

 commanded a brigade of Indians in the army 

 of the Confederacy. 



ADAMS, Rev. WILLIAM, D. D., LL. D., was 

 born in Colchester, Connecticut, in 1807, and 

 died at Orange Mountain, New Jersey, Au- 

 gust 31st. He was the son of John Adams, the 

 teacher and philanthropist, who superintended 

 his education and prepared him for Yale Col- 

 lege. He graduated in 1827, and under the in- 

 fluence of his friend and tutor, Woolsey, he 

 went to Andover Theological Seminary to study 

 for the ministry of the Presbyterian Church. 

 In 1834 he took charge of the Central Presby- 

 terian Church in Broome Street. This small 

 congregation increased in numbers and in 

 wealth, and in 1853-'54 they erected and oc- 

 cupied the building called the Madison Square 

 Presbyterian Church. During thirty -nine years 

 he remained the beloved pastor of this congre- 

 gation. He refused calls to Europe, and pro- 

 fessorships, peculiarly tempting to one of his 

 literary tastes, so strong was the tie that bound 

 him to his people. But in 1873 an endowment 

 of three hundred thousand dollars was prof- 

 fered to the New York Union Theological Sem- 

 inary, on condition that he would accept its 

 presidency, to which he had been thrice elect- 

 ed. Dr. Adams had been a founder of this in- 

 stitution, and he was induced to change to this 

 sphere of usefulness. In 1852 Dr. Adams act- 



ed as Moderator of the New-School General 

 Assembly. In 1870-'71 he was active in pro- 

 moting the reuniting of the Old and New 

 School Churches. He was an industrious writ- 

 er of sermons, lectures, and magazine articles. 

 He published " The Two Gardens Eden and 

 Gethsemane"; " Isaac Taylor's Spirit of He- 

 brew Poetry," with a biographical sketch; 

 " Thanksgiving, Memories of the Day and Helps 

 to the Habit." Dr. Adams was the first who 

 correctly translated the Greek and Latin in- 

 scriptions in the Catacombs of Rome, and ho 

 delivered in New York a striking lecture on 

 those monuments of the primitive Church. 



AKERMAN, AMOS TAPPAN, ex-Attorney-Gen- 

 eral of the United States, was born in New 

 Hampshire in 1823. He graduated from Dart- 

 mouth College in 1842. For four years he 

 taught school at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and 

 Richmond, Virginia. He then went to Peoria, 

 Illinois, but removed to Georgia and supported 

 himself by teaching until his admission to the 

 bar. He acquired a competence by the prac- 

 tice of the law. He was not a secessionist, 

 but after the passage of the act he " went with 

 his State." He served the Confederacy in the 

 quartermaster's department. After the resig- 

 nation of Judge Hoar, in June, 1870, General 

 Grant offered the attorney-generalship to Mr. 

 Akerman. He joined the Republican party 

 just after the war, and an article on recon- 

 struction, published by him in the " New Era," 

 made such an impression on General Grant 

 that when on a visit to Washington he was in- 

 vited to the White House. He held the post 



