The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-25
ENGLAND OUR ENEMY
RothehiIds Are Behind Nor
gan, Spencer and Andrews
nlsTRUsT or EVERYTHING BUT TRUSTS
The Old Time Declared 10 be Better Than thu
New Because North Carolina Settled
All Questions Of Title Then.
The White Sulphur Springs,

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July "A, 1897.
To the Editor: Thanks to your kine
v,ess, the paper from home reaches III
with great regularity and prompthes'
end tjlus am | kept i'll daily touch Wit
Bowed ones. At a quiet mountain retres
ike tbis not far away from Mr.. Buci
suau's home in Lancaster. IN sWee
communion with nature, both dlspos
finn and time are found for Thoughts
gome bitter. some sweet (of the past, tn
present and the future.) Speaking E
President Buchanan a moment ago, %
Sontbern man who voted for him in $50
has some painful thoughts crowdlnS
ON him. as he contrasts the THEN VII
the NOW. How lowered the standar
OF citizenship, both North and Soutl
aimee taen! The influx of foreigners g
Abe North, the enlarged franchise q
fhe South, taking in all of the negroes
yithoat property or educational quallncs
tions, how have these two agehcle
cheapened citizenship and thus GOVERNS
the hallot, endangered the continuity y
life 10 tie Republic, of whose Union
Mr.. Webster called out in all the Josl
GUS. conscious pride of a Then purl
citizenyein. "Esto perpetual. Surely tLt
change 70 neither part of the RepuDHl
has beer for the better. Up to that tllntI
IN the conservative forces found IN suct
men IT. King. OF Alabama, Hunter, n
Virgi1sa Badger, Of North CaroiIn'
there u,le imposed on all forms q
Jaeobinism and Red Republicarism |
most saIutary checg, which, cooperating
with Richardson, of Illinois, Marcy anf
Seymour. of New York, with many oil +
er stat smen Of that type, served to man
tain the purity, because of the SPARTA
simplicity of our individual life. WhaI
a healthful state of repose and polsl
there was in the country at that time, al
compared with the electric upheayals 81
to-day: In these days of growing Dis
TRUST Of everything but TRUSTS
when bloated wealth, fortified behlnI
legislation which it makes and control
by undue influence over the courts, witt
Upas-trees shade, is shortening the lifI
of the Republic. how blessed are mel
like Vance, Harriss, Hill of Georgia, TIL
golden mouthed Grady, and others, Wild
taken from the evil to come. have am
ehored in the haven Of rest with LED
Stonewall Jackson, the two Johnstonl
A p. Hill and many others! These art
sad thoughts and seem not II
one during the month of the 4th Of
July, the Nations birthday. Are thet
not germane too, if they do not grow on
of these disappointed terms of power ex
ercised by courts where Simontons "
not Simony1, seem to flourish? Sad al
is this. view of the situation, sadder still
is this. The history Of the Anglo-Saxol
civilization attests the fact that no politI
has ever gone to the wall, save under TIL
perfdy of it's own people. How fullJ
swollen is the perfidious phalnax at thu
South Are there not men, even in deal
old Raleigh, whose streets and court
were once graced by such men as Ma
Macon. CASTOR, Graham, Badger, Ru4
fin and Battle, who bore themselves TIL
Ionean pride of unbought Caroliniand
who have shown themselves ASHAMED
of their ancestry and of the civilizatioI
which produced it? Do not such mel
invite further humiliation? Does not thI
sickening present satisfy them! WoulI
they beg leave to be allowed to kneel al
the feet af Materialism and invite al
alien civilization, with 'Cui Bono
In raised letter on the affairs, to pour
few drops of Nantucket whale oil q
their brows, with ears pinned back, ask
may beg to be swallowed by the prurlen'
forms and forces Of Plymouth Rocl
iPuritans? In this favoring, cringint
relation these apologies for mel
yould do well to take counsel Of THY
fact that the secret OF Senator Vancel
strong hold ON the undying love OF al
OWL people and the profound respect 9
alr others was because this great MAJ
did nothing to court favor or patronage
AN honest North Carolinlan, un
awed by the glamor and glare OF
conventional age, with deep love 70
everything genuinely Southern, he dle'
with the, heart of North Carolina IN nj
hand and her welfare in his last prayer
on his lips. If the Republic survive IT
present perils, with these Esau betrayers
there will be a day of fearful reckoning
The base ignomy OF the situation
deepened when one realizes with wha
eIf-eomplacency, what spirit or uncton
patronage. these Esaus bear themselve
howard the native North Carollnlan WI
has the timidity to intimate that the oi
was better than the new. Inc Ola llnl
was better than the new because the
North Carolina courts settled all que'
fions of title to property, IN TACT all on
ferences, when there was no wall oyF
her fair borders OF ''Vae Victis," bF
when the finest flowers Of liberty WEI
ready to fruit in the noble deeds of nj
one hundred and twenty-five thousaA
citizen soldiery, who followed Daniel
Pettigrew, Ransom, d. IL. Hill, Pendf
Branch, Grimes and others. The OF
times were better than the new becaus
then such men as Henderson, Ruffin an
Castor were on the bench for life IN tn
Court Appellate, while such men as Oak
well. Bailey, Settle and ct id genus wet
Of the circuit court. When such men Z
Badger, Haywood and Mangum were
the Senate, and Ashe, Craige, Outlay
Smith, Ruffn. Shaw and others were
the House. The old times were bette
Because we had no contention, posltlt
or suggestive, between capital and labs
and because MEN and NOT moneb
these insidious, stealthy attacks WHO
Church or State. Yes, with US the q
times were better, were happier, beca4I
ahe more doubtful aDh0Flsm HHu
been monogrammed over heart a
doorway: ''Honesty is the b.
policy" corrupting men in teaching thu
10 be honest because it PAID, and /
because it was a God-inposed moth
honoring DUTY to be honest. The
time was better because it was q
venal nor yet was it corrupt.
IF the Republic Survive" SuryT
whatf-outlive what? Can it sury,
these insiduous, stealthy attacks VIII
the English government is making