The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26
Saturday, Feb. 10, 1900
A Solemn Appeal.

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| hands without regard 10 race, col
| or, or previous condition, to rise to
| the dignity Of the occasion ana Vindi-
| cate their honor, by showing some
| sign of those generous ana patriotic
| sentiments which prevailed IN North
| Carolina, and actuated North carolina
| Representatives, before the accursed
rule of Holden, aided by carpet bag
| stragglerS.
Hands! All hands! white hands and
colored hands. Honest hands and
| roguish hands! Sober or drunken;
| educated or uneducated; hands that
| got gold watches and chains and
| horses and hotel bills from Littlefield,
and hands tina didn't get them; hands
mounted and hands a-toot! we say,
rise and Vindicate your honor; show
| that you can serve your country, and
| if need be, can die for your coun-
try.
Hands heretofore your lives services
| seem to have been devoted only TO the
advancement of private interests and
"Ring monopoly, resulting in the ruin
| and dishonor of the State.
Hands this should not be so, II there
| be one among you who can not elevate
his growing soul to the dignity of
Representative of the people and act
| for the welfare of the State-one VINO
cannot show some of life above mere
animal, sensual, selfish existence, such
as exhibited by so many oxen or asses
who are influenced only by the rattle
of ShuckS or hay in the mangef, then
| let such a one draw his greenbacKS--
| take out an insurance on his worth
| less life for the benefit of some beneV-
client society reserving enough to pur-
chase a rope with which to hang him
self We hope Hands, you DO not
look upon yourselves as so many oxen
or asses sent up here to the capltal
to be pastured and stall-fed and salt
ed and rubbed and curried at the eX-
penSe of the people, merely Tor your
good looks? If not, then we say 10
YOU again. rise to the dignity OF ltep-
resentativeS and Legislators; waste no
more time in windy harangues;;
waste no more time in vain attempts
to shelter and protect rogues and ras-
Gals whom you may have lnadYeftellt-
Nv aided in robbing the Treasury
sWindling the people and running the
credit of the State. If there be virtue
in you, if you have nerve to defy lnose
who would make tools of You Tor thelf
own emolument, or to hide their form
er [ OCCUPATIONS, now is the time 10
show il. or mark it. you will forever
hereafter be classed with the offend
ers themselves. and share their rate.
Did YOU never read, Hands, thal
"there is a time when great states
rush to ruin" That time is now upon
this State.
North Carolina is now no more ike
the North Carolina OF former Gays,
than Chicken stephens is like Bartlett
Yancey, or Cuffy Mayo is like Judge
Gillian The North Carolina served
loved and honored by Castor. Nash,
BADGER. Swain and Ruffin, is the same
North Carolina no more. she is now
the "hog-trough" Of the Union where
Littledeld, Deweese, Lailm, Tourgee'
Heaton, Ashley, Brewer, and Abpott,
and such swine come to walloW with
native hogs. like Holden, Victor and
Greasy Sam.
Hands. we have old men, experience
ed Statesmen. such as Graham, Bragg
and many others. who have served
and honored the State, from their
youth up North Carolina is their
mother and their home. They nave
seen her wasted by fire and sword
ana betrayed ~ her own degenerate
sons in coDartnership with carpet
haagars and vagabonds. HANDS. you
and your Congress- deny them their
brth-right Of citizenship; these Aliens
i'm their own State. as you have maze
and would still keep them. nave u
weight and force, moral and intel
lectuaI. which. in the estimation OF
tho people, would outweigh every hog
in your trough, native or imported.
Hands. remember what the Grand
Jury of Wake said of you; they pre-
sented Littlefield for attempting to
bride you with whiskey and money.
Remember what Sinclair, that sanity
sinner, or sinful saint, and leader or
tire hands in the House. said that he
was posted. and knew that members
were bribed.
Remember what Galloway, your
leader in the Senate said-that Sena-
tors had been clothed and fed by Lit
tlefield.
Senators are clothed and fed by Lit
tlefield: Littlefield is clothed and fed
by the Governor, who made him State
Printer and President of Railroad.
Who feeds and clothes the Governor!
Hands, remember, all the rogues
and rascals and plunderers nave not
suddenly become honest nor have
they all run away. 1t is said that one
of your body has been offered $500
for his vote in favor of the N G. Rail
road That scheme is not yet aban-
doned, and you will be called on to
act with regard to it the very first
time there appears an opportunity TO
run it through. Remember hnally
Hands. that the ills we suffer; the
burdens we bear: financial crisis that
has come upon us; the heaVy taxes
and the heavy debt, all are attributa-
BILE to you. You took the relnS OF gov
eminent into your hands in 1868 with
money in the Treasury; now II is
empty and you are nearly three nun
dred thousand dollars in DEBT, with
nearly a year ahead unproVlded for.
You have no schools worth the name
and, remember your Treasurer recon-
mends using the school funds and
postponing the schools for the pres
ent,
You have betrayed the people; vast
ed their money and their substances;
beggared them at home ana ruined
their credit abroad; you have pushed
them to the verge OF desperation they
will be pushed no further. 90! he
peat; put sackcloth upon your IONS
and ashes upon your heads, anu prlng
forth fruits meet for repentance, lest a
worse thing come upon you.