The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-27

10000 of the best white men of the
State and turn North Carolina over to
the negroes, scalawags, and carpet bag
gers, because these men had exercised
their constitutional right to follow their
State when it lawfully seeded from the
chise $4,000 negroes, who are not fit to
exercise the right of suffrage.
Which party is right, white voters?
In Caldwell county, in the Eighth
Congressional district. a similar infa-
NOUS SANDER was circulated by
Fusion leader. 1t is thus related by
the Lenoir Topic:
1.-THE Democratic candidate for the
House, in opening the joint canvass IN
Richlands last Friday, referred to the well
known fact that thousands OF the pest
citizens of North Carolina were not per-
mitted to vote in 1868, while all the ne
groes were marched to the ballot box In
reply to this Mr.. Isbell, the Republican
candidate for the House, SAID that TINS
was because they were Confederate SOL
diers, who had forfeited, not only their
right to vote, but their lives also, be-
cause they were guilty Of treason and
perjury He argued that they ought to
have been deprived of their vote, and
intimated that they were fortunate in
that they were not hung as traitors"
There were no drawer men in the
Confederate army than enlisted from
Caldwell county. They were among
the first and never surrendered until
Lee sheathed his sword. The men who
wore the gray, their sons and their
neighbors and neighbours sons will not
permit any man who thus maligns the
Caldwell Confederates to secure any
office of honor at their hands. The
election of Isbell would dishonor the
memory of men who made-the most
glorious page in North Cardinals his
tory.
j. NJ Burrows, one of the Fusion
candidates for the Legislature in Ran
dolph county, said in his speech at
Back Creek on Wednesday, that every
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against his country ought to have been
DISTINGUISHED.
This renegade Democrat, with such
intense love for the negro, thinks 1t
a great outrage to disfranchise an lg-
norant and vicious negro, but thinks
it just and right to disfranchise the
brave old soldier, who fought for a
principle which he thought was right.
Confederate soldiers, and sons of
Confederate soldiers, what do you
think of white man who would give
public utterance to such a sentiment?
Here is the affidavit that Burrows
used the above words:
North Carolina, Randolph County.
T. w. Andrews, being duly sworn, says
that he was at the political discussion
between the legislative candidates for
Randolph county, in Back Creek town
ship at N. P. Kings on July 18th, 1900,
and heard ]. M. Burrows, a Republican
candidate for the legislature, say that
it was right for the thirty or forty thou
sand white men that were DISTINGUISHED
in North Carolina, for they were traitors
to their country. T. w. ANDREWS.
Sworn to and subscribed to before me
this the Goth day of July, 1900
M. o. HAMMOND,
Mayor of Asheboro, N. c.. and ex-Offcio
Justice of the Peace.
These are not isolated cases, and
they are not made by ordinary citi-
zens. They come from three counties
widely separated and are uttered by
the chosen leaders of the Fusion party
the men who are selected to make
laws if the people of those counties
are so untrue to themselves, to the
fame and deserts of the Confederate
soldier, and unworthy of the heritage
of North Carolinians as to elect them.
The greatest soldiers and statesmen
of the world, the Northern leaders of
the Federal army, history and biog-
raphy unite in giving honor to the
army of which Lee was the great
commander. 1t only remains for the
leaders and orators of the Fusion
party in North Carolina to declare that
they are ''perjurers and traitors" who
were fortunate in that they were
not hung as traitors" The man WHO
utters these libels is disgrace to tie
State that gave him birth, and
''doubly dying shall go down.
ITO the vile dust from which he
sprung,
Unwept, unhonored and unsung,"
while the fame, honor and glory
of the Confederate shall grow
brighter and brighter and cover all
nations of the earth ''as the waters
cover the sea-"
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