The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-08-02
THURMAN TO CLEVELAND.
The Present Administration.

EDITOR 1OLD Liar - llS Nl"e''
trous results the adverse party prophe-
sled would be visited on our country
if the present incumbent was placed III
power has not been realized. Their pre-
diction served but one purpose, to show
the paternity of the lying propensltles
of the vile set. Lorenzo Dow used to
say of certain characters '' beware OF
the breed" Unfortunately for our
country after the war men were elected
to office morally unfit for positions OF
ef. ent trust. Wanting in principle
and bent on plundcr they showed
more eagerness to accomplish their
selfish ends than to promote the well
fare of the nation. They showed no
disposition to promote the prosperity
of the country, and sustain its integrity
and honor. Like vultures they de
| lighted more in moral putrefaction
than in healthful growth and vigor.
With vile propensities, and the means
afforded to CRAFTY them, their minds
seemed Oblivous to the wishes of the
! better class Of citizens desirous OF bet
] ter government. When our Saviour
said aye are of your father the devil,
and the lusts OF your father ye Will do
did he have any reference to the Re
publican rulers that well nigh dis
graced the nation? At any rate the
unscrupulous acts Of many of them
while in power showed they were in
stigated 10y some evil spirit. A
brighter day is dawnins upon our
once afflicted country. Grover CIeve-
land is at the helm backed by the bet
ter elements Of the nation; and the
baneful shadows of Radicalism that
darkened the land are receding before
the approach of a brighter era. Even
the uneducated negroes that were Sc
suddenly invested with the right O
suffrage to enable them to sport il
|, their envcnomed meanness DER the
ruin and disgrace of the South, are
emerging from the degrading thral
dom in which the corrupt rulers wishec
to hold them. They are coming tc
the aid of the better class of citizen:
that desire to promote their happiness
: and build up the waste places of th'
country. They desire the blessings o
freedom and are looking to those whc
t have shown a disposition to elevate
them in the scale of being. Hence W.
: hear the cry from the despairing party
agonizing in the last expiring throes 0
V an execrabie existence, "the Soli'
South !" They affect to see rebellion
: in the unity of the South in its effort
to purify the political atmosphere b
removing the stencil Of RadiCallsm
;. Let Northern fanaticlsm rage and eN
haust itself in Its foaming madness /
i its fruitless attempts to break the unit
of the " Solid South" The South Wi
e stand as deep rooted and mistaken il
IS her principles as the rocks OF Gibraltar
+ against which the foaming waves OF tn
mu.tuous ocean spend their fury. Re
/ proachfui epithets against the Soli
South will not give them the ascend
ency in this government. Like des
olating plague in its fearful sweep owe
.. a land, the traces OF their lnisrule Wi
be seen and felt long after they hay
4 ceased TO hold the reins of government
N The baneiul influences of Radical Col
ruption and .misrule have been fc
Of long enough IN our land, and tru
the time Is not far distant when til
last one OF them will fold his wings
despair, in eternal silence, to brood !
- penltential sorrow over the past. Hi
tory will point to them in their defun'
existence as the vile AChans th;
, brought trouble upon the land.
~ henderson, \. E. r. ". II.