QUESTIONS.
1. What is said of the State at this period? What portion of this debt was considered an honorable burden?
2. How was a compromise effected in 1879? How does the State consider the unconstitutional debts?
3. What is said of the Presidential contest of 1876? What was the great issue? How had General Grant acted towards the Southern Commonwealth? What followed the seating of Governor Hayes as President?
4. What changes had been made in 1876 in North Carolina public officers? What appropriations from Congress has North Carolina received through efforts of her Senators?
5. Who succeeded Governor Vance? Who became Supreme Court Judges?
6. What mention is made of the public charities?
7. What tends greatly to the physical improvement of the State? What is said of North Carolina's mineral wealth?
8. What has retarded the State's progress?
9. What was the condition of this sectional feeling during the late Presidential campaign? What calamity befell the country on July 2d, 1881? How did the news of this event affect the whole world?
10. When did President Garfield die? What are the concluding reflections upon this great national calamity?
11. What is the sincere desire of every true North Carolina patriot?