Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1880-10-14
ADDRESS FROM THE GEN.
TRAL COMMITTEE.

| RAL CCMWl EE.
We yield much of orlr space to
the publication of the following ad
mirable address of the Democratic
Executive Committee to the party
in this State. Let every body read
it carefully:
To the Democratic Party of NortA
CafOltua:
Rooms OF THE Dem. Ex. COMMIT
TEE, RALEIGH, \. c., September
1880.
In obedience to the time honor
ed custom, this committee greets
the great Democratic party OF
North Carolina, and coneratnlates
it on the successful administration
oi the State government for the
past fonr wears, and the splendid
prospects of the party for the future,
both State and national. -Four
years ago the party accomplished
its first complete success in the
State, and assumed entire control
OF the State government. Since
then they have wrought many i'm
portaht changes and accomplished
much good for the people. They
have gradually relieved the people
OF the burden Of taxation imposed
upon them by Republican gov
ernment, though the objects Of
State care and expense haze largely
increased. They have completed
An asylum tor The colorcd insane
at GolJsJoro, and have another in
process Of complexion for the white
insane at Moryanton. They have
place.! upon an efficient ard per
manent basis the school system OF
the State, and thereby afforded the
best educational advantages to
all OF the children OF the State,
both white and coiored. They
have rehabilitated and placed upon
a high and enduring basis TIE
! University Of the State, the alma
mater of Moth Carciina's past
greatness, and the great hope OF her
future, which, under Republican
rule, had fallen to the level of a
comrnon school. They have made
an honorable compromise of the
public debt with the creditors of
the State, whereby they have re
duced that debt from $12,72T, ,045
TO s., ,511, with interest re
dnced from six per cent. TO tour
per cent. per annnm, and with
thirty years within which 10 pay it.
thereby relieving our people Of a
debt that would have burdened
them for many generations, and
securing fer the State first class
position in the commercial circles
of the country. They have enacted
the county government bill,
whereby hey emanci pate the white
| people of twenty-three negro-rid-
den counties OF the east from the
domipion OF ignorance and corrupt
local government and save to those
counties hundreds of thousands of
dollars. They have adopted legis-
lation concerning the Western
North Carolina Railroad, which
had fingered for twenty five years,
whereby the constructions of that
road has become an assured fact
without further cost to the State,
thereby affording TO the people and
products OF that rock-bound sec
tion a safe and certain outlet to the
great marts of the world. They
haze paid off 100000 of the in
cumbrances on The Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley Railroad, contract
ed under Republican rule, and built
with convict labor, sixty miles OF
that road, without cost to the pco-
pie OF the State All these and
other works Of charity and internal
improvements have been accom-
p'ished by the; Democratic party
and at cost greatly below the an
nual expense OF the State govern
ment under Republican rule. Such
an exhibit entities the Democratic
party TO the confidence and support
of the people.
Il affords this committee great
pleasure TO announce TO the party
the splendid effect of the recent
nomination at Cincinnati and Raj
eigh on the public sentiment of the