The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-08-18
NO. 3d.,
arrival of Gen. Fisher in the county. But
the kukluy had done their work of intimi-
dation but too well. The Republicans car
ried only three out of the seven townships.
Rockingham will do better next time.
DELTA. i.
Rockingham, County Aug, 6, 1869.

Rockingham Will do better next time.
DELTA.
Rockingham, County Aug, 6, 1869.
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Excitement among the Sham-D democracy
of Pitt COunty.--Inhuence of the
Standard---A> Protest, &c.
atI-ol ag DEVILS CORNER, y 4
Grcenville. Pitt Co., Aug z, 1860.
To the editor Of them c. Standard:
SIR: can stand it no longer, have
read your impudent paper, and heard your
denunciations against our good old Demo
cratic party until am about to bile over
with outrage and indignation. have been
very quiet man ever since the war, and
would remain so longer if / could. But
when | see our chiyalrous sons who have al
ways been loyal to the, South, digging in
the ground for a living just as our mean
whites and free niggers had to do before
the war, and. see black nIggers and poor
white men, who never owned nigger in
their lives, filling all the offices, that. by
right, belongto us, / say sir, when, Isee all
these things,I can NJ. longer keep quiet, I
must arouse from my slumbcrs, shake the
dust from my feet, come forth from my Sc
| clusion and let the world know what the
Radicals are doing for u.s. But in the first
place let me see if our County is albright.
| There is to be an election in this, county for
Senator this Fall. Our candidate is already
in the field. DR.. Taft is our man and when
he gets TO Raleigh, niggers and Radicals
will wish they had never been born. When
he gets there, we shall advise him to upset
this whole State government the
| very first thing and put good loyal Dixie
men in office everywhere all over the State.
Then we will let you know this isa white
mans government DR.. Taft will come for
you this Fall, so youhad better draw your
horns in a little before he gets there. He
came very near being elected the two last
times he ran for the same office, and he
knows now exactly why he did not get cleo
tedboth times, but that is not for you to know.
Mr.. G. W. johnson and myself are to can
vass the county and run the whole machine
ry of the Democratic party. Mr. johnson is
to take heavy taxation and rascality of State
and County officers for his big speech, while
/ am to show up poor white men and free
niggers. We are just at this time raising
money by subscription to employ the best
counsel in the State to get all the county
commissioners, who are all Radicals, out of
4 office. Then we can manage the whole
thing as We please, after putting good loyal
| Dixie men in their places. Mr. G.. W.
| Johnson is the best lawyer in the State, and
he shall have the money. bet Mr. John
son will make some of the radical lawyers
and judges of this State feel nightly asham-
| ed when he brings this case before them.
4 heard johnson say he made Col. Heaton
| feel nightly ashamed ouce, and he is willing
to bet that Col. Heaton willnev meet him
on the stump again. Now, Sir, there
| is one thing more that is too good
to keep and too good to tell, we are raising
ten thousand dollars by subscription to buy
nigger yoIes with. Mr.. johnson is to hold
he'money, and if we can buy niggcr votes
with promises, as we did the last time, he is
to give me some of tile money, which will
no mole than pay me for the work that ]
shall do for the party. So you see, if we do
get beaten, and Mr.. johnson and myself do
not get any Offices with ten thousand dol
lars we shall be nice men still. Now sir
having made thSsse preliminary remarks,
shall next proceed to notice Individually
some of the most prominent features of rad
icai laws. In the first place there is that
everlasting Homestead exemption law, which
allows poor man to keep every thing he
has while we rich men have to paw our
debts or 60 into bankruptcy. Then there is
that ad galorem taxation, which makes us
| rich men pay on everything, while the poor
man and niger get off scot free by paying
! poll tax. And tlien again, there is the free
school system that allows the poor mans
children to go in the same school with ours
| Now, sir, is. all this right? Are we to have
no distinction between the rich man and the
poor man, or between wealth and poverty
\ If not, wish had the power over you all
who never owned any niggers, that. my
friend Mr.. G. W. johnson had when he was
Colonel. 1 would buck and gag every
I one Of you and make you lie
! on the breastwork six hours in the
4 scorching sun of Summer and keep you in
the guard-housel three days and rights
on bread and water, just as COL johnson
4 did. But, those good old days are gone by
and must sing low. One thing more, ant
l am done, and that is the very point wisl
to make, but you must keep this very pri
vate, it is about your STANDARD. 1t is doing
our, Democratic party more harn in thi
county than everything else. Now sir, if yo,
will just stop the circulation of that pape
in this county for three months, you ma,
fix your own price and we will pay the bill
4 We can get just as much money as we wan
out of our old farmers, and promise them il
Y return, light taxes, and Democratic Jaws
+ Now sir have voluntarily given up my lif
to the interest; OF my party. l am willing
die that Others may live / make this sacri
| fee not that / may be crowned with glory
but that I may by suffering death nysel
bind up other. broken hearts, and heal othc
wounded spirits u.s t.-6,,
i Yours to the bitter end,
/ -"' A PITT COUNTY DEMOCRAT.
+ I'VE inserted the above for the benefit I
our Democratic readers in that section. W
are glad to hear that the STANDARD is hur
| ing the sham-D Democracy and must refuse /
be bought off at any price On the contrar,
we hope that every good Republican wi
subscribe for the STANDARD and get hi
neighbor to do SO too.-ED.1R liIag aa-
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