The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-08

tieular point with which the court |
has to deal-that Of Power and not ]
Of Fraud, and the decision Of the
court was rendered accordingly.
This is the feature which the News |
and Observer refused to see 10 that
it could vent its partisan spleen
against the court in what We believe
to be an effort to create prejudice
against and contempt for the court.
We therefore said: "It would aston
ish that (the legal profession in
North Carolina if the Supreme court
should fail to move by proceedings
in contempt against those persons
who are responsible for these at
taeks upon the court"
This last suggestion is evidently
what burnt the News and Observer
so badly. 1t seems to have realized
its spiteful recklessness and blind
partisanism, and it has taken some
pains to withdraw what it said. It
has been weak enough to try to
draw comfort from the fact that the
CAUCASIAN ventured to make some
remarks on the action of the United
States Supreme court in the income
tax, and seems to get some consola-
ton from the reflection that if the
State Supreme court should proc, So
against it, the editor of the CAUCAr-
IAN ought to 60 to Jail.
The CAUCASIAN has not said any
thing concerning the United States
Supreme court for which it wishes
to apologize. We do not believe that
a single one of the many thousands
of papers and men in the United
States who have condemned that de-
cision has the slightest desire to take
anything back. 1t has been de-
nounced by the pulpit, the press and
from platform and stump; and if all
the denunciators should be jailed,
there would not be enough men on
the outside to act as guards and
keepers.
But this has nothing to do with
the matter in question. We say
again, the News and Observer "has
thrown away prudence and apollo
gies, has defed the power OF the
court, and must have done so with
a full knowledge of possible results.
WHY IS NORTH CAROLINA IGNORED,
| In another column it will be seer
that the Old Liberty Bell is to b.
carried from Philadelphia to the
Atlanta exposition. It starts on it,
Southern tour on Sept. 18th. 1t viii
be noticed that its route has beer
marked out to 20 through Washing
ton City, Virginia, and then by wa,
of Kentucky and Tennessee to At
lanta. Why is North Carolina ig
nored?
| If there is any State in the Uniol
that deserves to have the famous OLE
bell of Independence Hall pas
through and stop within its limits i
is North Carolina. It should no
only pass through North Carolina
but it should stop by all means a
Charlotte in honor of the Mecklen
burg Declaration of Independence
May Goth 1775, which was more thar
. a year ahead of the Declaration O
Independence adopted by the Cont
mental Congress, over which thi
bell rung out its glad notes of joy
and its bold peals of liberty and it
ringing defiance to British tyranny
Again the first battle Of the reyo
luton fought in the South was a
Moore's Creek in Sampson county
North Carolina. And the last tw,
great decisive battles of the Revolu.
ton were at Kings Mountain nea,
Charlotte and at Guilford cour
house near Greensboro.
/ These three great historic point
marking the daring beginning ant
glorious closing of the great Revolu
tionary struggle and are all on tn
main line of the Southern Railroa,
! and on the nearest route from Lynch
burg to Atlanta. We ask again VIII
is North Carolina, which made suc]
an honorable record and which con
; tains the great historic points of tn
Revolution, to be thus ignored?
!: We hope the route can yet b
changed. Let Judge Schenck, tn
! ever energetic and patriotic Presi
dent of the Guilford Battle Groun,
Company, call upon the people o