The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-07-12
kITCHIN At CLINTON.
HON. Va. kITCHIS SPEAKS To AN
ENIHI~IAsTIC CROWD Oh MORE
THAN 2oo0 ON JUN THE 3TH.
4 bile. Conservative. Patriotic. Convincing
and IuaR-werabls.

( THAN 2DOO On il I1 III iTH-
f Able, Conservative, Patriotic. ConNiHciu
and Unan.wersbIe.
The 4th day Of July. 81. was
r great day for the reform movemen
IN Sampson county. The principle
Of Democracy a. taught aud praC
tIced by Jtff~rson and Jackson wer
"A bly defended and the Peoples Par
Ity greatly strengthened. while tn
modern or Cleveland Democracy an,
It's adherentx received death blow
At 1880 Mr.. Jno. f. Fowler,
promising young lawyer. introduce,
the speaker IN eloquent and appro
pirate terms, presenting him to tn
people as man anOse ability is re
cognlZed and whose influence Is fei
IN every section from the mountain
10 the seashore. A man who in q.
promised the people TO leave tn,
party which is now Democratic il
name only. if the promises were no
kept and relief gwen to the people
/ Though he had served the party
faithfully for thirty years, now tha
they had deserted the principles anC
traditions Of the party. he had KEEP
his promise and joined the People,
Party, not because he loved the name
! Democrat less, but because he lOveC
the principles OF Democracy more.
TIE SPEECH.
The first part Of the speech was
devoted to the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence He said:
It has been the custom of our an
cesrors, and we have followed that
| custom from the esta blishment OF
| our independence, to meet together
to celebrate with appropriate ora
| ti0ns the emancipation of the colo
MES from English tyranny and OPP
preston and the independence polit-
icalIy, financially, physically and
commercially from all the world.
This declaration of independence
| declared and promulgated to the civ
ilized and uncivilized nations Of the
earth on the 4th Of July, lis years
ago was inspired by no motive of
sordld selfishness or purified patri
otisI1. mol higher, a nobler and
more exalted motive inspired and
moved our forefathers to action on
this day. Their action sent a thrill
of JOY and gladness to the pure, hon
est patriotic and upright in heart
throughout the earth, while it sent a
thrill of sadness and CONSERVATION
to the king, the potentate, the ty-
rant, the oppressor, the wicked and
the ungodly.
This declaration was the holdest,
most defiant and patriotic protest
against injustice, greed and the un-
bridled and vauhting ambition of
kings. lords, potentates and nimrods
of the earth that had ever or will
ever emanate from the heart and
brain OF man. 1t reached and
stirred the heart of the honest, patri-
otic man whose inward longings had
been for freer, purer political at
mOsphere. 1t aroused to action the
dormant power of the careless and
unthinking. 1t placed the herds
men, the woodSman, the pioneer, the
tlller of the soil, the merchant, the
school teacher, upon the lookout. 1t
placed upon the watchtower of
thought the advanced thinker. the
lover of freedom, the advocate of
human rights and equality among
men. 1t struck the death blow to
the false and deceptive doctrine that
the king can do no wrong. 1t in
spired men with the belief that they
were made equal and were EMIT ed
to the exclusive benefit of their eff
forts and their labor, and that no
king, party or government had an
inalienable or indefeasible right 70
take from them the result of their
la Dor without compensation.
Yes, my fellow citizens, this deela-
tion of independence built the battle
ments and watchtowers of liberty
upon the American continent and
placed upon their highest towers the
patriot, the soldier, the statesman.
Inspired and moved by thi. declara-
tion of rights. We drove the British
lion erouchlng and crawling from
our blessed land back to his home of
servitude and bandage across the
ocean. Had our first fofefathers
possessed no more courage, manhood
and patriotism than we seem to pos
Sess to-day the eagle would never
have found an abiding and resting
place on this continent, and liberty
would have died unborn, and the
cradle in which it has been rocked
would never have been built.
Think of Patrick Henry with but
handful of men to sustain him, in
the teeth of the English lion. with
the most powerful amy aud navy
upOC HIS right and his left. as he de-
claims; Il know not what course
others may tai e, b as for me
give me liberty or give NE DEATH"
This liberty of which Henri, spoke,
our revolutionary fathers wrung
frota the king of England and snatch
ed TO sound the alarm at the approach
of the enemy?
Who holds the citadel of power to-
day in Liberties kinsdom 10 resist
and drive back marching legions
who are invading this sacred king
dom with a strong hand and with
unhallowed feet? o-those on guard
love liberty or do they hate IT. Are
they friends o. are they enemies?
A1e they friends TO the great bulk of
mankind, or are they traitors to the
people aud the organized law under
which we livef
For more thar .L4rsy years this
question aas suggested itself TO the
mind, conscience ard patriotism of
she sober honest-hearted
American thinker. Did We cut loose
from English tyranny that We might
take upon ourselyee a tyranny more
calling aud more intolerable Did
We rise up in our might and power
and crush 6. foreign master to become
the slavish subjects of a foreign and
hOmp arm al nro - /