The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-21
6 ageS.
SIXTH WEEKS RECORD.
TUESDAY, FEB. 18TH

private bills Senator Lindsay took up
some Of the time in his remarks re-
earding what the press had said con-
corning his Thanksgiving resolution.
He said
Il have delayed some time to take
notice Of tie false and malignant mis-
representations Of a portion OF the
Democratic press concerning myself,
acting on the crouud that the SANDER
Of some men Is high praise, and that
without faIsehood and misrepresenta-
ton some Journals would not be them
selves. | am sorry TO state to this Sen
ate that The most vile among those
editors disappearing my bill to their
reader. we're either ex-minlsters of the
gospel, or profeSsed church members
the Wilmington Messenger, the Char
lotte Observer. and the Winston Senti-
nci. These facts only tend to prove to
what a low depth Of degradation par
tisan politics, using deception and
crime TO further its ends, can bring
man We do not spurn the time serv
ers editing the sheets half so much as
we pity their readers, who are stuffed
with their political poisons till the
moral sense becomes extinct.
II is we'll known to this Senate that
my bill did not abrogate all thanks
giving. but enlarged the duties to that
Of prayer and thanksgiving-prayer to
avert the evils of tyrannicf,l law and to
give thanks for the quantum of bless
ings we may en- Joy
What more would these divine edi-
tors have? Would they have us to
give thanks once year by the order of
some instrument placed in high au-
thority for the ar we breathe? They
say 50. Would they have us thanking
Almighty God for com while the pl
rates Of the nation are robbing us of
our coin? They say so. Would they
debar Us OF the right 20 pray that the
effects Of Wicked laws be averted from
the State? They say so, and enter
upon TRADE of abuse against the man
who should suggest such a thing
1t Is q thing impossible for any man
to pray for that he does not desire and
to give thanks for that he does not pos
sess, But these sanity editors would
deny to the people at the suggestion of
the Governor the right to pray against
the evils which they have indirectly
upheld through the law They do not
desire this, yet they would have the
people in solemn mockery to give
thanks for those earthly blessings some
other favorites of the law enjoy This
is the situation.
! am accused of infidelity by some Of
these papers. To this | say / had
rather be an intidel than a hypocrite.
If there is any Christian virtue In these
editors the fruit ofthe tree fails to show
it. There is nothing which creates
lnfidelity so fast as for protested Chris
tians to maintain and sanction tyranny
under the forms oflaw. This produced
the lnfidelitv of the French revolution
referred to- When devils clothes them
selves III the livery of light, they be-
come ten fold more dangerous to the
human family than all the dark spirits
OF Hades known by the garb they as
sumo. So | warn all men Of the editors
OF the Wilmington Messenger, the
Charlotte Observer, and the Winston
Sentinel. Verify, verify. they have
their reward
/ have an abiding faith in the DEGREES
OF an Almighty Providence which hith-
ertO made me slow to yindicate the
truth. Too much so, perhaps. I be-
lieve He Will vindicate those truths
which make for the good of his people,
and will overthrow, in disgrace. the
hypocrltes who abuse the rights and
minds OF the people, SO might have
waited for heavenly vengeance to have
taken It's course. But it is due nv con-
stituents that they should not remain
without the knowledge of the facts
AS tor my part | would have said moth.
Ing, SO iully armed with a sense OF the
integrity Of my intentions that thou.
sand iorked-tongued editors creates nc
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