The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-05-10


in the abundance Of unlicensed plenty
extorted from a people from whom a
recent war andits attendant calamities
had wrung all. even TO the uttermost
farthing; and which aggravated their
offence by boastful defiance of tha,
fundamental principle that taxes should
not be levied without the consent of
the governed; for in no sense did the
component elements of those leoisla-
lures represent the true peepie of
North Carolina-unscrupulous adsen-
turers from abroad, and whites anu
negroes from our own State whose title
to official position was certified to only
under he military power of an alien
official. or by forced and false con-
struction of qualifications which ex-
cluded the rightful voter and admittt d
the ignorant, unqualified, ar1 cor
rupt, admitted for the first time to
participate in the general saturnalia of
plunder, debauchery and oppression.
This was the republican party of
l866-'7O; this was the republican party
expelled by the democratic party in
1870. This is the republican party,
which in the name, and through the
agency Of its secret ally, the third
party, is again seeking control of the
affairs of North Carolina.
1t is perhaps happy law of Provi-
| oence that operates to dull or extin-
guish the memory of miseries once en-.
dured, and to contemplate with a kind
of philosophic Indifference the proba-
bilitv of their renewal. But this in
! diff renee should be tempered not only
by the fruits Of experience, but by the
reflection upon and the contemplation
Of the sequence of causes and conse-
quences. Older men may remember
younger men gather knowledge only
from the experience of their predeces
sors, CT from the records of history
All must know that there was a ras'
IRA q Ii ter, grievous wrong I'D suf
feriDTy All admit that that Era haf
an emu. No sane man can conclude
that it came to an end of its own voli
ton; no one will give the republican
party the credit of loosing its hold upor
that which gave it so freely and abun
dantly both plunder and power. NJ
one can therefore deny that releas'
and relief came through the activ,
agency of the democratic party. No
can anyone deny that through tina
agency was introduced and perpetual
ed that long era Of peace, general pros
perity, enlightenment, progress and ad
vancement in material prosperity, sucl
as the State has never before known.
Do the people, under the pressure O
general grievances to which the Who'll
civilized world is now the victim
propose to seek redress by turning upol
the party which hasassured them by it
wise, generous and honest polio,
many years of relative happiness
and throw themselves again into tn
arms of that party whose every in
stinct, whose every impulse is to ar
, tagonize the measures of it's once victe
rious opponent, and to demonstrate it
capacity for revenge, and also the e1
tremity Of its diversity of views an
action from the party that once hun
:, bled it and kept it SO long in hum;li;
: tion and powerless opposition?
!, Without question, that will come
. pass if the third party succeed in i
g villainous Vaccinations. 1t is but tt
4 tool Of the republican party, which &C
b upon the principle Of diride It ampert
: of breeding discomfort and confusion
# the minds of truth-seeking, suferin
- deceived democrats, ard through Il
?. gaps rushing in and reasser;ing lis o
a power and principles. AS party, Il
=. third party gains nothing; it has be-
a but an instrument, an innocent or
~ willing and corrupt one, IN the han
% Of its shrewd, unscru pulous: but othe
n wise impotent director, the present d
r. cordant, wrangling, hopeless tactic
r. the republican party Of North Carolir
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