The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-11-26
Senator Carmack's Patriotic Pledge.

Lexington Dispatch
Once in the Senate the murdered
Senator Carmack, of Tennessee. gave
utterauce to the following beautifully
noble pledge to his country. and
every Southern boy ought to adopt
it as his own:
1.-The South is Il Land that has
known SORROWS; it is Land that has
broken the ashen crust and mOistened
it with its tears: land SCARED and
riven by the plowshare of war and
billowed with the graves of her dead:
but land of legend, ii land of song,
a land of hallOWed and heroic mem
cries.
ITO that land every drop of my
blood, every fiber of my being, every
pulsatiOD OF my heart is cOnsecrated
forever.
Il was born OF her womb: was
nurtured at her breast, and when my
last hour shall come, pray God that
may be pillowed upon her bosom
and rocked to sleep within her tender
and encirling arms
The death of this man is a national
calamity. The horror of his murder
grows with the days He was one Of
those men whose falling is like the
fall on an empire. \ great chieftain,
towering above his fellows, shot
down like Il thug i'll IL street braWl,
without Il fair chance to defend him
self 1t is awful. "A devoted wife, .
says the Charlotte ObSerVerin Il long
editorial on the murder, lis almost
insane from grief. \ little child walls
in misery. Sadness has come upon
u State and the entire country has
received Il shock Shall the men re-
spOnsible for all this 90 their way,
after Il little temporary annoyance,
as il nothing had happened? The
South and the country are waiting to
see.
And we ought to be as fully con-
cerned i'll the punishment of the muir
derer of the humbleSt citizen, also
Homicide is all too frequent in this
land. We of the United States kill
more men each year than any other
nation on the globe. and we punish
fewer murderers than any other
nation. Every man ought to take
this subject home to himself and
lend his energies to the law and its
enforcement. Each citizen should
help convict the man who carries q
pistol, and when that man shoots
a fellow, he should haveiustice melted
out to him.
We are here to say that if the
North Carolina Republicans had put
Il strong local option plank i'll their
platform and pressed the argument
on this issue from the stump and il
their literature, they would have car
RED four If not five COngressiOnal dis
tricts instead OF three and made the
State ticket and the Legisture uncom
fOrtably clOSe.-CharlOtte Observer
On the Bryan buttons was: :"
gave my dollar. did yOu?" After tn,
election some man wrote: Il lost my
dollar, did YOU" Witty but un
worthy sentiment. No dollar OF al
those given by the people and ex
pended IL behalf of Democratic prin
ciples, was lost. Nothing is lost tina
is used to promote the principles O
right.-LeXington Dispatch.
OF the few things the Democrat,
have left for consolation, the election
of JudsOn Harmon TO the governor
ship of Ohio is the most comforting
And another is that the Legislature
OfIdiana is Democratic and that .JOhl
Worth Kern will probably be sent Il
the United States senate to succeed
Senator Hemenway-Raleigh Even
ing Times.
flow much the abuse OF respecta bl
Republicans contributed to the Demo
cratic slump in North Carolina Tues
day no one may say for nobod
knows: but it is certain that vulga
vituperatiOn of men like Elwood Co.
and John Morehead, who are nativ
here, whom the people know an
who have a stake in the State, mus
inevitably react upon the part.
which INDUCES in it. Charlott
Chronicle.