The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-28
VANCE.
A characteristics Letter from the FL
Governor.

CHARLOTTE, N. O., Oct. 49, lS6S.-Messrs N
peebles and others. committee, etc., Jackson,
N. O.-Gentlemen:-Yourl letter, inviting me to
address mass meeting in your town on the
S0th Inst. has been received. L regret that
shall shall not be able to comply: MY time is already
disposed OF either by professional or political
engagements up to the day OF election.
regret my inability to attenl with you, all
North have q tendency to discourage our
friends, and cause relaxation OF our efforts.
THIS greatly needs to be couuteracted. do not
at all regard the election of Seymour aud Blair
as hopeless for various reasons But even if
aid, aad,, ! frankly confess that L have not been
ugntlhg This campaign under the impression
!nat our redemption was to be attained through
Lhe instTnmentality Of the National Govern
General Government. MY great aim
has has been Sen the regeneration of North Caro-
lies blood, and drag down her decent people
Alter all, this can only be done by our own
state action. II is In the power of the conserv-
aaiye men OF the state to work out their own
Grant be President or Seymour. Kentucky
shook of her shackles in spite of the despotisn
her. Maryland did the same, and Georgia is
fast accom- plishing the glorious task. Virginia
and Texas would do the same to- morrow, il
the bay onet was Withdrawn from their throaUs.
So 1t would be, and will be with all OF them for
God has not decreed that the ignorant Africln
and the renegade whites shall rule nobler and
superior race longer than the application of
superior physical force and It's attend
most unnatural position. II they would but
shake off their fear, there is nothing whatever
TO prevent the true men of North Carolina from
carrying the next election by 30 900 majority
without a single ecruitfrom the ranks OF those
who voted for that infamous Constitution last
spring, and throwing off every negotiable poll
t1cian In the State with his congeners Then
would begin our redemption The radical party
was formed and sustained here by the bayonet:
1t has gathered Swiss recruits-Da gettys In
everything except courage and honesty-for a
term OF years, by an impression of strength
and power to bestow patronage. Deprived of
these supports 1t will die speedily. It stinks
already. =
1t Is entirely in our power, then, to strike
down this monstrous concern on the 81 of No
vember, by the peaceful means of the ballot,
and with IL goes down the wholesale proscrtp-
tton of intelligence and virtue; armed partisan
militia, to bully, murder, aud steal; negro
domination in all its shapes; endless and In
tolerable taxation and contiscation of land by
pauper Legislatures; drunken, obscene, and
partisan judges; leprous carpet-bag Congress.
men; railroad rings; and wholesale system of
corruption such as never before afflicted
civilized people ..-D-
All this we can, IL we will, strike down. When
you think OF 1t, gentlemen. In Heavens name,
how can you relax one effort or withhold oue
blow? Here are The real Issues; here is the true
battlefield of our liberties. And may God for
give the man who flinches, like poor bastard,
now, In the very agony of the struggle. His
children Will learn to curse his memory and he
will be regarded by wiser and braver genera
ton as the betrayer of liberty and civilization.
very truly yours, H. b. VANCE,