The weekly standard., 1870-08-03
Violence and Abuse.

The Democratic party in Nortll-Carolina
is party of violence and abuse. Its mem
bers laid violent hands on the government
of our fathers and sacrificed their very sons
in the unholy effort to destroy it. Failing
in this, they set their face against every ef-
fort at reconstruction, and Indignantly re-
jected every offer of the government look
ing in that direction.
They denounced the Constitution OF the
State its trainers and advocates as lnfa-
NOUS" They have labored hard, persis-
tently and insidiously to show that the exc
cutivc was vicious and unscrupulous. He
has been abused for every action and nom
action. The judiciary, both supreme and
subordinate has been held up to the people
as corrupt and inefficient The very Judges
who were elected by the unanimous voice
of the people of all parties and all colors,
have been set upon by a rabid pack of dis
appointed partizans and pursued with a
malignity worthy of the prince of devils
The Legislative branch of the State govern
ment was held up day by day as an assem-
blage of highway robbers, and its members
individually and collectively denounced for
every offence in the catalogue of crimes.
Thus every department of the govern
ment has been assailed. The Legislature
was denounce as ignorant, unprincipled and
corrupt, and therefore unfit to enact laws
for the government of our people. The
Executive was charged to be unfit even to
execute the bad laws passed by bad Le-
gislaturc. The judiciary was charged with
being actuated by partizan motives in the
decision of grave questions of law.
In short every department of the State
government was denounced as unworthy
the confidence or support of the people.
The leaders of the Democratic party, have
spared no effort to cover the private charac-
ter of our best citizens with moral leprosy
in the eyes of the world. Each Democratic
editor was supplied with an inexhaustible
supply of filth, which he was charged to
spread with lavish hands over the character
of every man who dared to support, either
the National or State administrations.
Every Democratic orator was supplied with
volume of epithets, and it was made their
special duty to inculcate the belief that if a
cargo of emetic was thrown into hell the
internal pit could not vomit forth such
monsters as the Republican party had placed
in power in North Carolina.
Not content with words of contempt for
the organic and all law, and all officers,
whether Legislative, Executive or Judicial,
they passed on to acts They have conspir-
ed together and by means of horrid oaths,
with death penalties attached, have in many
sections set all law at defiance American
citizens, loyal to their flag and true to their
country have been by them cruelty scourg-
ed. disseizcd of their property, and assassi-
mated.
And when the Executive in the discharge of
his sworn duty, attempts to bring the assas-
sins OF these men to justice, sympathy is
manifested throughout the entire State
wherever Democrat can be found, and the
Governor is denounced for his efforts to res
store order and enforce respect for the law.
People of North Carolina, will you sup
port this party of violence, abuse, lawless-
ness and crime, or will you vote for law,
order and peace.