The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-17

To the People Of the end
Congressional District.

Unlike most Of aspirants for Office,
| was not urged by my many
friends" to become q candidate for
| Congress- in this district. Not one
man in all thcState asked ne 10 allow
NV name to go before the people, but
all nv personal friends urged me t.
the contrary. So ] have 10 friends
TO disappojnt and to mourn because
I will not allow them to use my
name IN the coming contest l was
50 wrought upon and stirred By
the action Of the present Congress
that ! allowed my orpo5lllonS a4c
-euugnancc to get the better Of my
| Judgment and lost my counterrolse
and declared mysclfa candidate for
the nomination before the democratic
| convention.
l hope l did not commit an IN
p2rdonabIe sins. If not, | beg par
don. repent. and now withdraw from
the contest.
| will not under any circumstances,
nor for any reward be q hlnderanco
in the way Of harmony among the
white people Of this district, nor
will | allow for one moment my
candidacy to complicate matters or
10 place the delegates to the cOnven-
tion inside OF outside the Alliance in
2n unpleasant or awkward position.
Iftherc was ever q critical period
IN the history of the Democratic
party and the Federal Union and 4
time that absolutely demanded the
highest order Of prudence, wisdom
and stateSmansbip, that time Is now
upon Us. If concert Of action and
harmony in thought was ever indls-
pensable to the success Of any cause,
it is now absolutely so, il the rank
ana ljie Of the Democratic party IN
this State. For more than twenty
years we nave been engaged in tight
| iug & desperate enemy; and united
8 we have been, we have been I'M
ahle to drive him from the field and
possess bis stron1holds. We have
captured his OUTPOST, sometimes his
rish1 flank, and upon one occasion
we routed his right flank and pene~
tratod his center and captQrei his
strongest farCGcai0n:but our leaders
ha3 neither the wisdom nor courage
to hol3 It.
THIS sane cncmy holds his lines
iol.et.Uc is more wicked aud dcspcr-
ate than ever. From him We have
nothing to expect, all to fear. There
IS nothing he would not gladly DO TO
DEGRADE and humIliatc. There is
nothing that would Cypress and dcs-
troy rs that lie would not quickly
accomplish,
Can auy Democrat in this State
! hesitate or faU!tar one moment in the
face Of such foe? Can any tie Of
blood, section, personal interest, Or
ganlzation or anything else visible
or invisible, cause the true democrat
cy of this State and all the states to
fall short of Its dnty in this trying
emergency? There is q most wicked
and 3amnable effort now being made
and has been for months, under the
Leadership Of the most vil!aino9s
wretch and tYrantin all the land, by
the Republic partY, to hunNliate
and Atricanizc the Soutl; and unless
9 goodly number Of Republican Sen
atOrs should rise above party and
li0in hands with the Democratic Sens
| atUrs to crush the rascal, and defeat
itS ohi0ot - Cy-Il cnoOoal
Tie plan is TO take charge Of the
elections in the South, with Repuh-
Iican poll-Loldere, supervisors, re-
turning boards, juror commissioners,
jurors, witnesses, judges, prosecutors,
and marshals. Ihis is the Repub-
Ijcan plan to control, punish. Cypress,
degrade and Africaniz7 North
! Carolina and the South; ard it is
near unto consummatIon. With these
dangers staring US in the face,
threatening not only our property
our liberties and our honor, but the
lives of Us ali, can any man South
be other than o soldier in common
cause, sinking self, and all else ont
Of SHIT until Tom RoeC anu his
vaGd&l5 are drigca to ambush.
The days Of reconstruction were
pleasant, happy picnic days in CONS
parIaoa 10 what we Shall have under
this new plan OF reconstruction,
The Bill Holden and Kirk war, e c
2pension Of the greet writ Of RIGHT
tie ''H0jeHS C0rYpS" by Chief les
ticc Pearson. and the incarceration
OF more than two hundred Of your
feIl0w-citiz3Gs to be tried by drum
heal court martial, with your courts
"eEhaustod' and the law dead al
dw}ndlc Into insignIficancc in com
pcrison to what your eyes will be
hold, your ears hear, and your sensi
tive natures feel, if the now pending
reconstruction bill shall become :
Law.
n the face o. these dangers, will
| this storm 6and before your eyes
, charged with cmhittered wreth. Cead $
/ to be poured out upon you and yours
| can their he but one opinion, anC
but one united action a;nong the
| white people in the graa.j OH com
mOnTealth Of North Carolina? Oush
VIC not, Will We not, be as TWO hun
. Gred thousand men with one mind
, one object, and enc purpose in view