Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-05-21
AMATHEMA
Some Timely and serions Reflections
From the Sage Pen Of Jeff
Jenkins.
Fremont, n. C, May 18

Goldsboro on Monday. the 18th
of this month, and saw some of
the delegates TO the two Repub-
lican conventions at Raleigh and
Weldon.
Que little fellow from down
East said he has been a candi-
date for the last few years for
Congress, as he did not not say
what Congress, we took him To
mean a congress of apes.
Sambo was along in all his
glory. Some with beaver hats
and streaked pants, with coats
lsleeves nearly to the elbows.
looking like they were hunting
for some fellow to bring ruin and
disgrace on the poor old State
again. Will this succeed? Dick
Ward says let the above Captlop
oe applied to all such fellows. 1t
does bot need rounded sentences
or fl wing periods to tell of their
devilish purposes intent.
We saw one fellow with black
skin throw his arm across The
shoulder of a fellow with white
skin, and we thought the fellow
with black skin was the worse
hurt. No people ever yet rose
by self aLaSement and these
white men mixing with the
blacks to override all moral and
|civil law will ever feel the ig-
nominy and shame they bring on
themselves and children in thus
clamoring together to defeat
honest government. If they
should succeed, it will be far
worse than the reconstruction
period The material or compo>
sition of the makeup being
worse. Alas! who0would have
Thought such a sad state of af-
fairs would again spread desola>
ton and ruin over the grand old
Estate? From the rock ribbed
coast of the Atlantic, where the
waves play, and laugh at the
looming storm, to the far West
where purpling peaks and
dashing chasms echo the i'm
mortal u%uterarce of the lamented
Vance.-"Democracy can neve r
die, '-let.their be gathered those
who are determined to save the
Estate from Russell and his sav~
lagos. Are there not enough pa
tr,otic sons in the State, who,
lforeseeiEg the evil that is in the
future if Russell and his clans
are elected, will unite on Demo
cratic principles aid save the
State, a State whose people have
always honorei her when duty
called? Shall her noble sons prove
recresnt in this, her hour of peril:
}, Il behalf of those who's, mem
tories we lately honored by strew>
ling flowers over their graves,
tenderly, lovingly and whose
lself-imnolation on the altar OF
: their country, for principle vii
| lever be sweet 10 remember, we
ask their sons to join with US IN
upholding and promulgating the
principles for which they Tough
land died. The same Independent
: Esprit, that love of liberty, ane
detestation of tyranny and OPP
=, lpression, that nerved the heart.
lof our fathers, and AL patriots il
every land, should burn in GU,
: breast as fxedly and steadiI.
q with that same unerring purpos'
q as it did in theirs. We call upol
ali men who love honest govern
t ment administered on Democrat
principles to unite and hold Jh
t Estate from the would he despoil
ers. Let the coming Democrat
if convention nominate good, tru
linen, men whom the people hay
confidence in aud victory is Ger
. tain. The outlook for Democ
Tracy is Frightening, and one caus
E is the vision of the old corruI
at Republican party. looming u
L again and confronting the whit
70 people Of North Carolina. Th
" Tissue is. whether these peopl
shall rule the State, or whethe
honest white government sha
Is lcontinue.
NJ: Now, fellow citizens, the vel
Idiot is with you, such a govern
k ment DIS you want. you a Eav
M Look we'll to yours and 20,
Estates best interest, for the sal
id |of humanity. for the honort
l. name of the State we all low
ad let that verdict be written in lie
ne tiers of gold directed by the Sa.
at of Monticello, white supremac
and the State is saved,
- JEFF M. JENKINS.