The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-08-29
THE OLD DOMINION.
WHY THE DEMOCRATS Will WIN.
What Hon. Chas. T. O'Ferrall Says of
the Chances of Success Next Fall.
Norfolk Virginian. /

present in Armory Hall during the de-
livery of the remaks of Hon. c. T.
O'Ferrall, will ever forget his impas-
stoned eloquence or his splendid pre-
sentation of the reasons which will
secure victory to the Democracy dur
ing the coming contest. These
reasons, in connection with the pop
ularity of the ticket selected with so
much unanimity, will overcome the
criticisms the platform is subject to.
That our readers may realize the
nature of the contest and judge how
supreme is the necessity of victory to
the Democracy, above and beyond the
mere grouping together of planks in a
platform, the following extracts from
the speech of Mr.. O'Ferrall is pre-
sented:
Fronting with a magnificent pres
ence the uplifted and earnest faces of
the representatives of the Virginia
Democracy, Mr.. O'Ferrail asked the
question
stWILL WE WIN THIS FIGHT2"
and then, as with language inspired,
he asserted:
Yes, we will win this fight, for we
are afraid to lose but 'tis not that fear
which makes towards, but makes brave
men.
Then, in burning words that aroused
the cheers and enthusiastic applause of
his great audience at the conclusion of
every sentence, he continued as fol-
lows:
We are afraid to lose because we
fear Mahoneism; we fear it as we fear
pestilence or famine, smallpox, yellow
fever or leprosy.
We fear Radicallsm as we fear the
mighty floods which now and then
sweep through our valleys and low
lands, leaving death and destruction
in their wake.
We fear it as the people in the great
West fear the terrible cyclone, which
comes with its rushing, crashing voice,
uprooting forests, razing cities, towns
and hamlets to the ground, and des-
olating homes.
We fear it as the people along the
Father of Waters in the Mississippi
Valley fear the breaking OF the dykes
which conhne the water, for they know
that loss of home and property will be
the result.
Will we win this fight?
Go and ask the mothers at whose
knees you learned the lessons of duty,
the fathers from whose lips you drank
in the principles of Democracy, your
wives and children who look up to you
with confidence that you will preserve
them from harm and secure to them
the blessings of a white mans govern
ment. Go ask all, and coming up
from all will be the response, You
must win in this fight.
Will we win in this fght7
By the memories of the past and the
hopes of the future; by the glories that
encircle the brow of Virginia and the
traditions that cluster about her by
the monuments that stand to perpet-
uate the forms and figures of her illus
trious dead, and the turfed graves O
her heroes which dot her valleys and
her hillsides by her homes, her tear:
and penates-her household gods, We
swear we will win this fight.
Will we win in this fght7
Yes, we will win in this fight, fo
God never intended that the blood 0
the Caucasian should be dominated b,
the blood of the African. In no land
in no age has it been SO, and Cod
finger pointing the way of the eau
casian forward and upward will not
in this land, be turned backward ant
downward.
| God never intended that virtue ant
intelligence should be controlled ant
directed by vice and ignorance.
{ He never intended that this soil Q
ours, upon which the cradle of Repub
lican liberty was first rocked, wher
the fires of the revolution were frs
kindled, and where the air first rever
berated with the cries of defiance t
British tyranny, should be governed
by party which tramples under it
, sacrilegious feet the Constitution, ant
would scatter to the four winds tn
: principles which must stand or the re
, public must fall.
f He never intended that the bones c
h,m who penned the Declaration {
S Independence which led up to th
= constitutional government should re
= pose under the sod Of State who's
: affairs are administered by a part
: whose great leader once said that tn
1 Constitution of our forefathers was I"
p covenant with the devil and a leagu
Z with hell"
y He never intended that the tomb
Washington should rest under tt