The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-21
ADVERTISEMENT.
Candidate for Congress.
FAIR HAVEN, MOORE Co., y. G.
Snn+nn,lnr Oh 1900

September 30, 1880.
To the people of the Third Congressman
District Of North Carolina:
FELLOW CITIZENs:-For good and sufi
cient reasons [ am induced to offer You my
services to represent you in the next Con
gress of the United States. | am not a par
~ man and have given but one vote for
Samuel J. Tilden. | am not after the Pres,
ident, nor Congress, nor its hOnors, or i'm
mediate rewards so far as | am individual
~ concerned, as | am now nearly ~ years
old. [ never wanted any Office in my life,
and will soon be done with all earthly gov
ernments and affairs. But [ am for the
people, and the whole people, whether
Hancock or Garfield or any one else is Presi-
dent. Party Spirit, and Party Politicians,
with a determination to rule. nave ruined
us and fear will continued to do so. My
motto is "Isdce on earth, and good cW
ona0ng men" [ am against High Tariffs 4;
and heavy Taxation, especially at such atime,
and under such circumstances, as we have
been suffering since the war.
| am for the President, and Congress, do
ing what they can, to benefit the country
and the people. If they are our servants,
and don't work for our interest, | am for
turning them off, and employing other SER
wants; good honest humble servants, that
will be as true to their masters as good old
Abrahams servant was, when he sent him
TO search a wife for his son Isaac. am for
giving the people a currency money a plen
ty, to be placed in a manner that all good
honest men can be accommodated with a
sufficient guam" to meet reasonable de
mands, whether they be rich or poor, and
that upon the most reasonable terms. We
have had a great family quarrel. and family
fight, which Is a disgrace to the nation on
both sides. | think we ought to arraign
ourselves at the Bar of Justice, and ench
man or party pay his own cost, and be friend
ly; or let the leaders in the matter, pay all
cost, and let the poor people of the county
come tree, If | was In Congress, sooner
than | would vote to tax the widows and
orphans of Southern soldiers, killed in the
war, or tax our manned AID ruined soldiers
here, to pay pensions, to the men that did
the deed, / would resign my seat, or divide
my salary with them. No magDanimous
people will exact it. or contend about it,
when confronted and talked with in the
proper way. lit seems that nowadays, in
order to qualify a man for Congress that he
must be a strong party man he must know
how to talk fippantly. tell anecdotes, and be
at least a tolerable black-guard, in order to
put down or over come his opponents, while
a good deal less words fifty spoken, would
answer a better purpose. There cannot be
a vote lost by casting it for HARRIS Tyson.
Have you bettered it in the last % years
Can you better it now? One party is enough.
A house divided against itself can't stand,
two can walk together except they be agreed
We ought TO come at once and reason
together, or tly what we could do for the
good of the people, and honor ot the Ma
ton before the world, that other nations
might call US a Blessed People; a righteous
nation; a happy people; whose God is the
Lord having care one for another. We
talk about being a Christian people, and if
h heather had been here during the war,
he would have been puzzled to know what
kind of religion ours was, and indeed it
has we'll nigh turned some of our own PEG
pie intidels. Born and raised in land Of
Bibles. hundreds have sickened and died at
the thoughts of the past. i shall only say
IL those who know me, and talk against
me. many good deeds have done, for
which of these do ye stone me Z | have
sat my bread. in the sweat Of my face, and
still make my living by the work of my
hands. If circumstances would allow it.
! would canvass the whole district.
think | shall be at the State Fair, and if |
have the chance, make a speech there.
HARRIS Tyson.