The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-09-14
SHE SPEAKS TRUTH
Mrs, Rebecca BledsOe Buxton Pub
fishes a Letter.
She Addresses 1t to All the People OF
North Carolina.
AND SHE CALLS ON THEM TO ACT

AND SHE CALLS ON THEM TO ACT
Her Points Are Well Taken and Backed
by Sound Argument Which Should
Have Some Weight.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. c., Sept. -, '93.
To the People of North Carolina:
Recent events of a grave nature have
caused me much anxiety for the interest,
reputation, and moral stability of our be-
people. born within her borders, loving
her as a child loves its mother, | am con-
strained by fears for her abiding safety
by concern for her integrity-bY a deep
sense Of individual responsibility as a
citizen. Of the state to make this address
to her whole people at large and ask
them to Join with me in earnest thought
and effort-in honest and vigilant regard
to seek out, and point out, and fearlessly
combat, whatever we find hat deters her
onward and upward progress, all that i'm
pairs her strength, cOrrodes her purity,
or mars her dignity.
In the first place, it is Of paramount i'm
portance that the officials Of government
should be men of honor, tried and true.
When the shepherds are wolves the flocks
are torn, scattered and devoured.
No liar, swindler or coward should
hold posts of trust under any govern
ment.
High officials should be held response
bic for the sort of men they place in i'm
tant positions.
The nature, manner and calibre of a
man should be well known to high Off
Gals, and appointing powers, before he
is promoted.
If a man wearing the badge of his state
(or other) government proves unworthy
commits immoral acts-he should be
promptly deprived of his commission.
Government conducted on principles
different from those stated must i~nevita-
bly, arrive at a disastrous termination.
The end will be loss of credit and repu-
~tatiOn, decline of prosperity desuetude,
mental and physical enerVation, loss of
ambition and consequent dependency of
the people.
The press should be the ever.watchful
advocate of all right principles. The
people should see to it that men of ex-
actly the right stamp should conduct
their Journals. If Moses had led the Is
~raelites back into Egypt, robbed them on
the way, and deceived them with lies,
taking their means and refusing them
food, would he be posing as Gods
great, wise law-giver, the man after Gods |
own heart? God would have delivered
Israel all the same, but think what would
have been the fate of Moses.
None but men of highest principles,
untlinching loyalty to truth, right, justice
and honesty, should be occupants of edi
tOrial chairs. :
An editor who opens his columns to
the advocacy Of ~unprincipled men and
closes them to those whom they have
wronged when they would fain expose a
villain, and at the same time defend
themselves, is an editor unworthy of
public trust, is a man hostile to the peo,
pies true interests, and he deserves to
become an alien and an outcast. Let the
masses see to it that such a man shall
not maintain influence among them.
Military officers should be men of I'm.
questionable character, whose honor, and
whose love of honor, should be more
highly priced and dearer than life itself.
Otherwise, in times of war, should the
writ of habeas corpus be suspended, they
would become despots, tyrants and plum,
derers of the people whom they would
despise, whose rights they would ignore,
and whom they would trample under the
spurs Of their iron heels. Swindlers,
liars, towards, traducers and mercenary
tricksters are not the class of men who
should fill martial posts, high or low.
Awake, arouse, North CarOlinians, and
sharply examine the quality, calihre, in
tegrity and ability of those who are bear
ing rule over you. 1e sovereign people,
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