The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-06-24
Have They Forgotten?

Have the people forgotten the atrocieus
crimes of the Radical party since 1t heid
sway in this country. from the beginning OF
the horrid civil war to the present day
What base act has it not done +! And what
crime of villainy and treason and wrong has
it not perpetrated +? In fragrant violation
of the letter and spirit of the constitution
Of our fathers, it waged a bloody war for
four long years under the pretense Of saving
the Union and fixed upon the homes and
muscles of the laboring millions, a huge
mountain of debt. which keeps them mott
gagged, body and soul. and will for genera
tons to come, to the rich bond holders VINO
paw no taxes. After the war the desperate
struggle for pelf and p%lunder, and place
was persisted in with an inordinate lust
lust and reckless unscrupulousness never
eoualled in the annals of a people claiming
"a be ciyiIizrd or Christian. Every means
for the oppression and robbery of the peo-
ple of the defeated section. was devised an0
prosecuted with as much malignity and de
vilish ingenuity as any ever enforced by a
triumphant Feudal Lord gloating over the
misfortunes of a rival defeated foe, or a
savage Indian chief thirsting for the blood
of his vanished enemies. Have the people
of North Carolina forgotten the tyranny of
military rule by the satraps of Radicalism Z
Have they forg"ttGn the Candy reign. and
the disf.anchisemen Of thousands OF our
best citizens 2 Have they forgotten the
SWAIN of carpet bag interlopers. sent out
and sustained 10 their lobberies by the
Radical party Have they forgotten when
our citizens were arrested without warrant
IF law upon trump91 evidence, dragged b..
fore the so-called Freedman's Bureau and
fined and sometimes imprisoned on the ex-
parate statement Of subOrned negro witness
es Z Do they not reccollect the style and
pomp and insolence of the pretty, ignorai (
chiefs of this illegal inquisitorial tribunal
ST infamy, sailing through our streets in
their fine carriages and surrounded with
numerous walters and attendants, being
said out Of the hard earned taxes wrnng
from an over burdened people Have they
forgotten the organization of the Union
League by the hired minions of the Radi-
cal party, and the drilling and marching
OF those black cohorts, at the instance Of
these same paid tools, with fife and drum
and musket to the polls to insult and init
midate the white freeman of Anglo Saxon
blood4 Have they forgotten that honest
Jonathan Worth whom the people elected
for their Governor. was turned out of his
Office and Bill Holden put in bis place
Have they forgotten that the Radical party
in this State with Holden at its head. dareG
to organize q band Of cu~t-throats, put a no
torlous murderer in command, and sen(
them forth over the fsir plains Of Nortl
Carolina to arrest her mob sons, throw
them into filthy prisons, and then orgariz'
4 Court martial to try and hang them
Rave they forgotten these monstrous out
RACES against civil liberty, against law ant
sacred right of everg citizen in the enjoy
ment of immunity from illegal arrest 2
Salisbury Watchmon.
Had the editor Of the Waterman been a
Raleigh on Thursday last he would hav
seen his questions answered in the PLANES
manner. He would have seen men VIII
fought Radicalism from the start, and be
came victims Of its virulence, not onl
forgotten" but actually thrown aside as
punishment for having been true and faith
full to the State and the party during tn
Dark Days of the past!