The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
THEIR RIGHTS ARE SECURE
Extravaganza and Corruption Follow
Negro Rule.
IT is LIKE "A HE'LL BORN DREAM
To Save The Next Generation From The Miser-
les of Alien Domination, is a Work in
Which Every Patriotic Man
SouId Take Part.

TO THE PEOPLE OF NORTH CAROLINA
The following letter refers to some un-
rest in the minds of some of the brave
men who have made North Carolina the
heir Of their immortal fame.
In response TO the appeal it contains,
this answer is given, and in behalf of my
fellow citizens Of the great Democratic
party, who are battling, in sincerity and
in truth for the welfare of every good
man, within our borders, and of his chill
dren to the remotest generation:
Wentworth n. c., May Z, 1900.
Dear General The Republican in this
and Western counties are making house
to house campaign against the Amend
ment, telling the people that in the event
it carries the illiterate white voter will
be disfranchiSed.
The prejudice being engendered among
this class, especially among the illiterate
sons Of Confederate veterans is alarm
ing The statement put to these men is
about like this: Your father fought four
years for this country and now that he
is old and mo- longer fit for use, the Demo-
Veteran seems to have vague idea that
he is safe, but it needs confirmation.
Now | but voice common sentiment,
when l say that not only the Confederate
Veteran. but every true son of North
Carolina recognizes in you the champion
of the peoples cause. and feeling thus,
beg to make this suggestion; That you
publish in the papers a card of assurance,
&c tl OJan fa fnr-
ans have nothing to fear at the hands
of the Democratic party and appealing
to them to stand up for the safety of our
homes and firesides, as their fathers did
in the dark days of the sixties. Such a
card, coming from you. will to my mind
land in the opinion of those whom l have
consulted) be worth all the Amendment
literature now being published.
/ am myself the son Of a Confederate
soldier, who was one of the first to leave
for the front, and one of the last TO re-
turn, and because of the fraternal ties
which bound you men to fight common
enemy, so should we, their sons, fight
whatever threatens the peace of our
homes and firesides, leaving no stone un-
turned in our effort to thrust aside the
vicious, ignorant element who threaten
us, and establish a government at home,
and representation in Washington,
worthy of our good old heritage.
| trust you will find my zeal suffi-
cient excuse for the liberty | take with
your time.
Very respectfully,
P. H. SCALES.
To Gen. ]. S. Carr, Durham, n. C.
T. -, -. ,..4-. .,,al - rrbo,,oe
Jefferson, upon the eve of the fiftieth
birthday of American independence, and
the death day of the immortal states
man, these words may be found:
"The form Of government which we have
adopted restores the free right to the
unbounded exercise of reason and freedom
of opinion"
For this Jefferson toiled, and Washing
ten fought. This was the end for which
the prayers of women, the labors of men,
the struggles CT patriots for seven long
years were given that the fathers Of the
republic might establish upon the earth
the government best adapted to the hap
piness of free, enlightened and virtuous
people.
Conceive the astonishment with which
JnG SlBnSTS OF the DocIdTdLlOH, anu lTdu-
ers of the Constitution, would have heard
a prophecy that in less than a century
the greater number of the sovereign
States that nobly won their independence
of foreign control should impose their rule
upon the lesser number of the States of
the South, and attempt to enforce govern
mental policy through the elevation of
the negro race, up to that period slaves
into political mastership over the free
white descendants of the builders of the
republic,
Overwhelmed by immense numbers, shut
out by slander, fraud and trickery from
try desolate with ravaged homes, strug-
Cling with the pangs of poverty that fol-
lowed the rapine of the conqueror and
the exactions of his taxation, to the last
the manhood of the South protested
against the ballot for the negro. 1t was
flung as a milestone upon our necks, after
temptation had been rejected, only
through the disfranchsement of our best
tary electoral tribunals, whose actions
we're directed by satraps without respon-
sibility to the people.
With The advent of the negro voter, en-
masse, unnecessarily ignorant, wholly
inexperienced. and without political con-
science, except dim idea that the Re-
publican party had wa war,