The news & observer., 1904-06-05
LETTERS APPROVING CAUSE
OF MIR. JOSEPHUS DANIELS
Friends of the Editor and Other Lovers of Free Speech
and Freedom of the Press Write Words
of Cheer and Approval.
he editor of The News and Obser-

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| The editor of The News and Obser-
yer's mail is so full of letters from
friends that he can do little but open
the letters and read them. From the
many recefved-some while he was
! imprisoned and some yesterday-the
| following are given:
State Owes Everlasting Debt of Gra-
titude.
Siler City, n. c., June 2.-The peo-
pie of Siler City and surrounding
country are with you in your fight
against Federal interference with
State affairs, and most heartily ap-
prove your course in standing tor free
dom of speech and the liberty of the
press.
We feel that the entire State owes
you an everlasting debt of gratitude
for your services in laying bare the
schemes of those who are trying to
wrest the States property from the
hands of those selected by the people
to control it, and that your treatment
by Judge Purnell is an outrage that
true North Carolinians will be slow to
forgive or forget.
(Signed.)
j. d. EDWARDS, NJ. D.
ID. l.. WEBSTER,
ID. G.. FOX, Mayor.
CHAS. X. WRENN,
r. F. WRENN,
WALTER ID. SILER.
j. T. FERGUSON.
c.. n. BRAY.
II. O. VESTAL.
j. G. LANE,
A. r. SILER.
w f. EDWARDS, JR.
W. p. BROWN.
w. A. TEAGUE.
Wilmington's Officer.
Wilmington, N. c., May 30.-If we
can serve you anyway. telegraph.
w. b. COOPER.
Too Common For Decent People TO
Comment On.
Rich Square, n. c., June. 4.-The
outrage perpetrated upon you is too
common for decent people to comment
on. Please accept my congratulations
on the law yet being sustained.
w. J. LASSITER.
Makes a Freeman's Blood Boil
One of the greatest lawyers and
bravest Confederate soldiers in North
Carolina writes: II have not been UNI
observant of what is going on. 1t
makes a freeman's blood boil! And
yet l even congratulate you. A friend
asked me yesterday:
what do you think of your friend.
Joe Daniels now?-is he not in a bad
fix?
mo" 1 replied. "he is in the best fix
| ever knew him"
why"
Because, to stand by and if need be
suffer for a vital principle is always
great and glorious, and covers the
sufferer with honor" Good will come
of all this, not only to you but to our
beloved State. In these days when
high principle is so often ignored and
forgotten it is u real treat to see how
brave and true men rally to one who
has boldly stood for the right-it
shows that the heart of our citizen
ship in dear old North Carolina is still
sound on the fundamentals.
1t Appears in ''JeffersOn's Contribution
to Free Press Published in To-
Days Paper.
Fayetteville, n. c., June PLEASE
give us the text context and sequel of
the Alien and Sedition laws by which
an assumptions Federal executive was
hurled from power a hundred years
ago.
w. ]. GREEN.
Down With Tyranny.
Hon. Josephus Daniels, care u. S.
Marshal Ii. c. Dockery Raleigh
N. c.:
Elizabeth City, N. c., June 2.-The
country will never tolerate the tramp
ling of our rights to free speech by a
prejudiced and bigoted jurist. Accept
our endorsement and sympathy, and
you have the support of the press of
eastern North Carolina. The press
hi Il
ings. Don't pay a dollar of the fine.
Down with tyranny.
WALTER l.. COHOON,
EDWARD M. HEERMANS
Editors Tar Heel
Good Fight and Firm Stand.
Burlington, N c., May 31.-You
The best people are with you. If you
have to pay the fine / am in that
pot
w. c. THURSTON.
Congratulations Extended.
Lexington n. c., June 1.--If / did
not know that the law is with you,
that you have violated no law, | would
offer my sympathy. Instead / almost
feel like extending CONGRATULATIONS
Poor old Purnell. His ignorance of
law in the contempt proceedings will
be exposed all over these United States
and his pet scheme to put the control
of the Atlantic & North Carolina Rail-
road into the hands of it's enemies will
fall to the ground with such a thud as
to arouse his highly indignant
JOHN H. MOYER
Undivided Endorsement and Support.
Fremont, n. c., June 3.-Fremont
sends greeting. You have our undi-
vided endorsement and support. ANY
thing you wish us to do, name it. "Be
as wise as a serpent and as harmless
as a dove" Justice shall triumph.
Your friend,
JONATHAN T. HOOKS.
Petty DespOts Wish To TrampIe On
The Rights of The People.
Woodview, Va, June Sit is with
much pride l notice the manly course
Wa L, A.,I~