The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-10
Vance at Shelby, and WHAT He
Told the People

After a few hue passages of aumor and
anneciOte, Senator auce commenced
speaking seriously upon the evils that
lad been forced upon the people vi lhIs
country b, Keeping the Republican lauy
10 power too long. The Office hold, =
have long >iuce come 10 the conc sIon
that the once, were cIeafed tor their
sole convenience aud benefit. AMI that he
people are their servants, Instead VI Il -
the peoples servants.
il has been twenty -four years or near
y a quarter Of a century, II &C the Re
pub lean party came into the ~cuutrUl of
the government, and tley have held con
troll ever since. IL ha, ceased to be a
party ot princlple, but simply strives 10
keep Itself 10 office solely Tor the sane oi
power and plumber. Its whole course
has been marked b. q series of frauds
more serIOus and gigantic han has ever
marked the history Of any political party
known TO the world. lie would merely
mention, a. incidents oil Republican ru {,
the Credit Mobll,er swIudle, by which
100000, 900 were stolen, Back Friday.
when gold was Withheld FROM VAL stree,
by the secretary OF the treasury at the
command OF General Grant, when for
tunes We're made 10y them through beg
caring thousands OF famllIe~. the Stu-
born contract; the Star Route frauds, by
which 50 OOu,O 900 Were stoien, one halt
of which was turned into the C Eruption
fund oi The Republican party, by which
Garfield was elected President. the r eed-
mems Saving Bauk-all these aud mum
berless other frauds and corruptlons, are
written IL the boo OF chronicles OF the
Republican party and cannot be offacod
1t lives and thuves by an habltual Vi
olatiOn Of the constitution.
Its whole legislation has been marked
BY such violations. The Senator cited,
for an instance. the tune when they con
Guided TO conduct our elections under the
the supervision of United States Mar
>haliS. Among the various corrupt
measures promulgated and and carried
out, was the bill under viii h five hun
dred Ut the best cltlZcus ut our land Were
arrested under pretense OF ku kluXlng
and carried off TO Raleigh 10 be tried
Senator Vance with considerable emotion,
pictured the melancholy procession OF
of these five hundred men and boys to
Raleigh, their trial BY a packed jury and
their conviction by subordinate and per
ured witnesses, their senteucc to Nor1h-
ern penItentlarles, their long confinement
and terrible sufferlngS from the r.gOr-
Gus cold of thai climate, how some OF the
older ones died, how the younger lost
their health, looslng their toe and
finger nails In consequence OF their suffer
ings from cold, and were eventually re
turned home wrecked III health and bro
ken down in body and spirits. After
years of suffering and death in these
Northern prisons a slow, Logging and nu
willing decision was filed by the Supre ne
court hat 1T was demonstrations and
against the law Of land. Justice had
come at last, but too late. 1t could not
restore the cold clay of the old men, nor
the shattered health OF our boys. but the
purposes for which the law was I;s d
had been served.
In this connection he referred to Judg
Bond as the most infamous man who has
ever sat upon the bench in America.
II CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
| Another instance of the fragrant viola
ton of the constitution is to be !oupd In
the civil rights bill, a bill that engender
ed bad blood all over the southern States.
Senator Vance said be was 10 enemy to
the blacks. They have behaved them
selves well since their emancipation I'M
der the circumstances. In sitting all
their disorder and tusses, 1t will be found
that in every instance there was a miser
able, IN an scJundrel of a white mau at
their backs. Ii has always been the case
that the negroes are urged to raise dis
turbances solely to create wind for the
sails Of the bloody shirt. A decision of
the Supreme court declared the civil
rights bill null and void, there was a great
howl from the colored people against the
Supreme court. Fred Douglass rose and
denounced the Supreme court as a set of
low, mean white men. But to keep the
colored people in line and get the sup
port for the Republican party in its hour
of trial-tor now it is on its last legs and
the death rattle can be heard in its throat
this bill which has been declared I'M
constitutional, is to be reviewed again.
The Republican Convention at Chicago
pledged itself to continue its agitation.