The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07

1oA ANS AA1N S
time as a wakeful editorial sentinel on
the watch towers of North Carolina.
1t is indeed something to have been in
editor in North Carolina before the
var" and nearly eve since a was
declared. It is a long time since, and
if faithful and firm n resolute 1t
must have don some good. 1t is
nearly now or quite hat much since
/ began the hard work Of fighting
malignant vicious politics in TINS
blessed State Of my nativity. When
I began after the war the carpet bag
gers were vigorously to the front, and
Sambo was rapidly becoming a very
political and damaging factor in North
Carolina politics. Since 1856, with the
exception Of two or three years only,
1 a been trying to serve my native
State with my pen as best l could,
using all industry, zeal and con-
secration to duty that l was able to
command. / have done what | could
against the Republican or Radical
party. I have never held an
office for 50 much as an hour
but I have worked industriously, and
could. The party that opposed the
South and oppressed and robbed its
people has been vena1, vicious, base,
deceitful, hurtfu1. harmful, low and
demagogical since 1855, and it is now
so In 1909. See the and
trickery and despoiling plots and
plans of the present Republican Con-
gress. The old, vicious. corrupting
leopard has not changed it's spots or
lost a tooth in all the intervening
years. 1t is evidently the same old
hungry, prowling. ~insatiate. clamor-
Gus. cruel beast in 1909, that it was
in the years preceding when it
~.ravened as a wolf" Look at the Con-
gress now in session, see its plans
uncovered IN part as I write for pillage
and oppression of the people. There
are but little over 100000 manufac-
,<uries- in the United States now and
3 O,OOO, 900 Of people striving for a
living. And yet the ~plundering and
Tavaging continues without real abate-
ment. The hunger continues with
nnabated severity. l have never wav-
cred for one momen IN my
opposition since the old corrupt,
grasping party was organized in North
Carolina. It was born in lust, was
conceived in sin, and has lived in
predatory warfare. / ave never
voted for q Republican,; I have never
sought any f~avors: I rave never &C
copied for an hour it's principles, and
have never rallied for a second with
any of It's leaders. l have opposed 1t
from the first because it was the
enemy of the South: the enemy OF
good, economical, honest government
of the people and by the people and
FOR the people," because it has been
and is the enemy of the prosperity
and peace and true safety of the
people, the enemy Of genuine Demo-
cratic Republican government regu-
lated and limited by constitutional law
It has been and stands now for a
strong government-for a paternal
government. It was SO in 1855, and
Is still SO in 1909 I have stood fast
mans government. / nave ought it
from the beginning, because it was a
party of destruction. of robber taxa
t1on, of trust favoring desire-not for
a campaign or a few weeks or months.
Or once in awhile every two
or four years, according as
1ook mlghs ahea see and 80 see mnny of aeeers
I have done writing Of this for a
moment, but I nave stood four
square all the time, and have fought
from the first day Of every January
to the last day Of every December,
and then when the new year began
the long unceasing battle for the
right, for the blessed South, for the
grand old democracy for the people,
for a clear, distinct civilization, for
mans freedom and independence for
So from soon after 1865, I be-
gan the battle for the right, for the
Wronged and oppressed, for the great
salvation and safety of the South. So
long as / had ANA of a place ! /!
never relaxed my purpose, my devotion
to Democracy, my love Of the people.
1t mas been no temporary spouting
with me. but a long, regular, system
attic fight for principles and my coun-
try, my people. I have indeed been
instant tn season and out Of season
trying to teach n uphold the truth
such as the great Democratic leaders
watchful and faithful and true
In the past have held and taught and
for all sincerity and zeal, and
have fought and defended and en-
forced with all the magic Of eloQuence
and all the fervor of honest. sincere
convictions.