The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-04-13
TIL PENSION ISSUE IN POLITICS.
Compared with Hancock, Ingalls, is as
the Dragons Tongue to the Lily.
fSDacial Cor STATE CHPOSI,IE

II HENDERSON, N. -. MATCH 90, 1900
The CHRONICLE is doing a grand and
mighty work for North Carolina and the
Democratic party. We are entering upon
the severest and bitterest, and perhaps he
closest, political campaign waged in our
State since the war. 1t is my honest judg
ment that no man in North Carolina who
wishes to be fully equipped to meet the
arguments and to expose the fallacleS and
falsties of the Republican leaders, can
afford, as an intelligent man, to be With
out your valuable paper. 1t would, per
haps, be well for us to remember that
while the Republican party is almost as
whole illiterate and dangerously corrupt,
still they have some ''brainy ones among
them who can both write and talk 50
smoothly and fluently and assume vir-
tue so easily, which they are, as we know,
so lamentably far from possessing, that
the ignorant and unsuspectlng may be i'm
posed upon. Democrats all over the State
should be prepared to meet such gentle
men, and in order to do SO the more sue
cessfully, they should possess themselves
of the political utterances, facts, amt EN-
POSES which are weekly chronicled in the
CHRONICLE. We thank you for the publi
cation of Senator Ingalls, brutal. cowardly
and unjust attack upon the South and the
replies of Senator Blackburn and o. that
Henry W. Grady, of Atlanta. The South
ern people should rise up and bless them
for their thrilling burning words telling
of our manhood and truth-telling him
and all like him, that they lie when they
say that We are not loyal as they are
when they say that we cannot weep over
the memories and honor the heroes of the
Dead COnfederacy" and at the same time
honor, live for, and fight and die for our
glorious Living Union, Mr.. Ingalls, IS not
only execrated in the South but his late
speech has deprived him of the resp, ct of
every decent man in the North, and writ
ten ''malignant hater and ruthless insul
ter" upon his brow. for has he not with
one hand put back the mournful trappings
of the tomb and with the otier stricken
the honOred and heroic forms that sleep
there with the remOrSeless hand of the
| slanderer-H Hancock and Mcclellan. In
gals, compared with them, is only as he
dragons tongue to the lily, or the wal ped
and twisted underbrush to the majestic
oak. Their actions will be part Of our Ma
tons glory when Ingalls, and his enven-
ormed fulminations shall have vanished
as doth vapor." When he denounces these
two distinguished soldiers as traitors. he
| only causes US to remember thai the
wolf may gnaw the tongue of the dead
lion and field mice play III his footsteps on
| the plain" And more than this, by his
| latest utterance he has saved lis of the
! South, thank God, the pain Of ever seeing
! him our chieftain, desecrating the seat
adorned and made illustrious by the vir-
! tues Of Washington and Cleveland
! We believe there are few men III the North
who think with Mr.. Ingalls,. The follow
| ing are sentiments expressed by represen-
tative men of the North: Il hardly know
/ boz bay ha 70,
years ago emerged from the wood 300
yards away and made the terrible assault
on the Union lines. Let them place their
monument where they wish
God III his all-wlse providence decided
! events. We are now united never again
to be divided. Those who fell are honor
ed as herOes-thoSe who remain are broth
ers III arms, dedicating here mementos of
valor. not of strife. You who
We're once antagonistic soldiers in war,
now friends in peace. say to your children
and teach them to fell their children, the
story of how heroes fought and died-and
brave and gallant men from the south
worthy foes-bared their breasts to defend
a cause IN WHICH THEY THOUGHT THEM
| SELVES RIGHT"
Compare these sentiments springing as
they do from the hearts of brave men who
wore the blue-who were stained with the
blood of hundred battle fields, who saw
death only, by the flashing battles fires of
Cemetery Ridge, and who yet had the
courage to wait for, to hurl back and
break asunder the onrushing waves Of
Longstreet's mighty charge, the grandest
in the annals of war, since the Old Guard
under Ney the magnificent, melted into
eternity and Immortality under the En-
glish and Prussian guns at Waterloo
Compare such sentiments with the vile
calumnies of Senator Ingalls,, and We note
a contrast more striking than any seer
along the Nile when the JaCkal snarls, sole
lord of the deserted temples and desolatt
palaces of imperial SesOstris," Twenty
thousand copies with the replies thereto
should be distributed in North Caroline
as campaign document. Why did ou1
SOlonS and ClcerOs sit quietly and fail t
reply to the insolence and insults of Mr.
ingalls,? For my part l had rather tha
our ''courtly and eloquent" Ransom shoul(
have used his Golden Tongue" on rha
occasion, as he could have done had b,
seen fit, than to have five hundred thou
sand dollar light houses stream along ou
coast as thick as the pearls on a ladies
necklace. And where was Vance, alway
full of wit, sarcasm, eloquence, why die
he let that torrent pass him by, upOl
which all the fiends which could be borl
of distorted mind and a black heart wer
riding in glee, without saying aught t.
stem the flood or to annihilate the bas
calumniator. 1t may be, however, tha
our Senators thought that to say anything
after Mr.. Blackburn ceased, would be il
the language of Judge Bennett, "a matte
of supererorgation, or in that of Shakes
peare, ''to paint the lily or gild retine'
gold
We thank you for the manner in whic
, you so completely answered and dispose'
of Loge's alarming array of figdres in re
gard to Democratic extravaganza.
My people are as yet all ''at sea- in re
gard to the Gubernatorial nomination.
, May the CHRONICLE prosper. May
continue in the future to emphasize th
following lines as working, living repre-
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