The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-06-21
Editor THE CAUCASIAN,

Editor THE CAUCASIAN,
Gold-bOrO, y. {.
Dear Sir:-The history Of our ma
ton, and careful and painstaking
perusal Of the pages Of that history
will demonstrate that the people Of
this nation are Of the anglo saxon
race. The strongest characteristic
Of the anglo saxon race is It's devo-
ton to personal liberty. Nations,
and especially individuals, may, and
will long be unconscious Of special
actions which, at th~ir root, are the
means Of, and will, if carried out to
their extent, deprive them Of the
liberties so dear to their hearts, if
such legislation is carried out that
leaves them IN fair state Of pros
pcritv. Then they Will not seek to
change such course until a crisis
spurs them into action. The anglo
saxons Of America first saw that cri-
sis, and the crisis first asserted itself
in the Declaration Of Independence,
and | could not better illustrate
what now have to say than by quo
ting from that declaration that
founded this government: "We hold
these truths to be self evident; that
all men are created equal. That they
are endowed by their Creator with
certain inaIienabIe rights. That
among these are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness! That to
secure these rights governments are
instituted among men deriving their
Just powers from the consent of the
governed.
"That whenever any form Of gov
ernment becomes destructive to these
ends, 1t is the right of the people to
alter or abolish it and institute Il
new government. When long
train of abuses and usurpations.
pursuing invariably the same object,
evinces d design to reduce them un-
der absolute deSpotism it Is then
right, It is their duty, to throw off
such government, and to provide new
guards for their future security"
do not mean IN this letter to
urge the throwing aside our present
form of government; but can say
that the long train Of abuses Of our
government, as it has been carried
out by the ruling powers, compels
lis TO attempt by every means IN our
power to place around us some fu-
ture safeguard, and ask for change
IN its administration to protect us in
what our declaration of inderend-
elce and constitution guarantees to
us, life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
10 quote again, owe have knelt
ut the foot of the throne" We have
sought for redress of grievances. We
have not been spurned from the foot
Of the throne, but at every step We
are met with promises, and Of late
years old parties make nice plat
form to carry out the redress of
grievances, and we trust them, and
at the latter end to repay our trust
we only receive new promise, while
the grievances continue.
The Republican party during its
years of administration refused to re-
dress our grievances. We, at the last
campaign, elected a Democratic ad
ministration by a large majority,
giving them control Of every branch
of our government, and that party
did not even have policy enough, as
might have been expected from them,
to have done, if for nothing else, for
pOlicy's sake, to carry out its own
established platform that promised
to redress our grievances and which
every speaker of theirs in the last
campaign promised to do if we would
trust their party in power only one
time. They have been intrusted
with that power and certainly our
grievances are not redressed; and
neither of the old parties, as now
constituted, (being bound together by
the principle of spoils, and having
been kept in power only by a system
Of election machinery that if per-
sisted in will, of itself, be destructive
of the principle of a government for
and by the people, do not intend to
redress these grievances.
Therefore, |, as citizen of this
government, believing in a govern
ment administered under the princi-
pie of equal rights to all, special
privileges to none," now must, by
these presents say, that now sever
my connection with the present $50
called" democratic party, and an
nounce my intention that, IN this I'M
portant campaign | shall ally myself
to the Peoples party; the party that
is seeking to make these United
States zone grand, indiVisible repub-
lie, throwing loving arms around all
sections; omnipotent for protection,
powerless for oppression, cursing
none, blessing ALL
Respectfully,
B. +. TAYLOR.
Nashville, n. G., June ?, 1894.