The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-21
RANSOM AROUSES
OLD CUMBERLAND
Burning Appeal for our Affairs
and FiresideS.
LONG TRAIL OF INFAMY
The General Reviews the Black Career Of Re-
publicanism in North Carolina and his
Words Thrill his Hearers TO
~ihe Heart.
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Fayetteville, N. c., Oct. 20.-Under the
burning words of General Ransom the
men of Cumberland have rallied, and
are now in line and ready to charge.
Our court house was crowded with ladies,
old soldiers, and voters from every part
of Cumberland. His appearance was
greeted with long and loud applause. He
was introduced by Hon. John c. Shaw in
a short but eloquent address.
General Ransom began by referring to
his love for the people of Cumberland,
calling by name a number who had stood
with him in the battles of the past. His
address proper began with a review of
political conditions in North Carolina.
We saw the Republican party disinte-
grated and with no flag that they dared
to raise. Only line of a few skirmsh
ers, a few independents here and there,
and yet they had deceived some into
thinking that they could defeat the grand
and united Democracy. He reviewed their
past history in the State, with its in
fanny and shame. He then took up the
National Republican party and showed
its hostility to the South. The Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments born
in passion, the Civil Rights Bill carrying
With it shame to our schools and desc
Grafton to our cemeteries, Southern cleo
tions surrounded by Federal bayonets,
and the iniquitous Force Bill. He said:
Men of Cumberland, surely, surely,
you have not forgotten these things and
the Democratic party that saved you
Then returning to the State and the
amendment, he referred to Wilmington
and it's danger, the nameless peril to our
women in almost every eastern county
What party delivered us from it? The
Republicans whipped out had now changed
face and claimed to be white yet none
will say that they accept the amendment
They fear the loss of the negro vote
North. They were appealing to "Inde-
pendents' with a little office here and
there. To no purpose, for there were not
enough offices to go round among them
selves.
He asked Independents" to think what
Republicans from the South held high
office, not one in the Cabinet and only
one, Clayton, of Arkansas, a carpet
bagger holding an important mission.
all able men, been given? Nothing The
North and the world respected the South
and its representative party. They re-
spected men who stood and maintained
the opinions, not those who cringed and
begged Fitzhugh Lee, Joe Wheeler and
NJ c. utler never cringed and when
Southern men were wanted they were
chosen, men, representative leaders and
Democrats. No they might promise but
there were no offices to give. They could
only end in the Republican ranks. the
same old wolf in lambs fleece, It was
so with the Liberal party, the People s
party, and would be so with those deluded
now.
He then reviewed the grand work of
the Democratic party, both National and
state. How that it stood for peace and
all that was best; how that it had hon
ored our Southern men with position; how
that it had saved North Carolina.
He then the back in memory to the
past when the State had sent forth 12O,-
900 of her bravest and best. They had
done their duty Surely they would not
and could not fail now. God grant that
they should not.
And as the old man closed with his in
vocation, there were tears in the eyes
of all. He had succeeded. He had ap-
pealed to the men of Cumberland in be-
half of their affairs and their tiresides.
When the charge is over on the fourth
CAV of November the men of Cumberland
will show the State whether or not they
are false to their own.