The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-09-21

EDITOR CArCASfAN-MN DEAg
SIE - wish tn congratulate YOU
upon the warfare you are wagiug
against the machine Democrats If
North Carolina, aud ASSURE you of
my hearty approval Of your earnrs,
work. However different our views
NAV be relative 10 the National
Legislation needed, and the policies
To be inangurated, as citizens Of
North Carolina, We are. in self-dc-
fense, advocates of the same cause.
Whether the suppression Of the bal
lot and the prostitution of our free
instiIn tons shall be further meekly
submitted TO, by free people, is the
question for us 10 determine. Wheth-
er We will be longer merials. dong
the bidding of the self-constituted
bosses, whose promotion is received
through the unholy operation of a
North Carolina Election Law, is for
US TO say. The Constitution de-
clares, and its sacred declaration is
written with the blood of ''our faith
ers." That all men are, and of
right ought to be, free, yet We, rs
North Carolinians, see year after
year, thousands of honest voters in
timidated and defrauded, until our
elections are farce and our law hut
a mockery of justice. 1t is a shame,
and | say 1t with regret, that the
manhood of our S ate has not long
since revolted at these unholy deeds
and declared our freedom. Where
Is the spirit of Mecklenburg's i'm
mortal declarations, that our citizens
are allowed to be tranpled upon, and
their liberties torn from them BY the
most high-handed and truoulent
frauds. We have sold our birth
right for less than ''mess of pot
tage," and surrendered our liberties
Internationally to the arrogant few,
where designing ends tend only to
self aggrandizement. The opponents
of free government, have, year by
year, added to the strength of their
compact by the most partisan legis-
lation, until they have an iron ma
chine of mammoth proportions OPP
posed to every interest Of the people.
Where is the clouds with silver lin
ing-the hope of better government?
1t lies only in the strength of our
great masses, and | hail the day
when another Mecklenburg declara-
ton shall arouse the slumbering
pOpulace, to the echo of whose tread,
will be the tramp, tramp, tramp"
of North Carolina freemen, to an
honest election-A FREE BALLOT AND
FAIR COUNT. County after county
has been stolen and the majoritles
against Democracy counted in its
favor, until our whole body polite
is corrupted and our elections "a
fraud upon their face. How long,
| ask, sir, will the people of North
Carolina submit to such intolerance,
and be dominated by men whose
promotion is secured only by intimi-
dation, fraud and theft? 1t is said
the whelp of the lion crouches be-
meath the lash, but when driven to
desperation fights with the ferocity
of demon for life and liberty. We
have been crouching all these years
beneath the lash of Democratic ty-
ranny and intolerance, and yet. when
the people, even those who have al
ways stood by the Democracy, refuse
to longer be party to such arbitrary
methods, and dare oppose the ma
chine, they are denounced as fools,
revolutionists and traitors. From
"Hold Robinson and save the State
in 1876 down to the eliminating
atrocity of 1892, like political yam-
pires they have preyed upon the
vitals of our body polite, until,
with an election law that is a dis
grace to the State and shame upon
every Legislator who was party to
the conspiracy, they have sought to
bind us hand and foot and secure
forever such rule as will best suit
their ends. Instead of fair elections
and honest representation, we have
pillaged boxes, stolen ballots and
bondaged people. We ask for bread
aId are given stone. Will we
longer listen to their Siren song and
remain Laals and Boots as in Swed.
en- and Denmark instead of freemer
and citizens. There's an Oriental
story of an enchanted hill upon
which could be heard the most fasci
mating music. Those who ascendet
the hill were warned that if they
looked backwards they would b.
turned to stone. Thousands, ther
were, however, who, led by the fasci
mating music, attempted the ascend
and as towards the summit they ad
vanced the more fascinating it be
came, until they were lost in tn
wild reverie of sweet sounds; whe
, suddenly the music would procee
: from behind them, and under th
spell of enchantment they woul
,, turn to their charmer and fall ston
upon the ground. The Democrat
party has been an enchanted hill
: and the promises of her campaig
orators the music, the fatal delusiol
j that has led the thousands to disa,
k pointment and ruin. The promis'
b of reform and better times, told
v rainbow colors of brightest hu
have been fulfilled in the form {
a widespread disaster, general stagn
ton in business, financial ruin, pan
and want. A year ago. the hum I
the spindle and the sound of Il
" hammer and the pick were Il
!. music of thousands of prospero1
: industries, giving wages to the !
: borer and happiness to his HON
The Democratic party, upon i
g promises and pledges, like the Sc
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