Year: 1868

lIoiii TIC LaSIF anu conveyed through the
columns of the Semi-Wcekly Sentinel of
September the 10Th, has been received.
Having leisure moment, my bowels of COM
passion move ME to send you an early answer.
You appeal ''to the voters of Western North
Carolina" to rescue you and Others of your
kidney from the domination of Union
Leagues, negroes, scalawags, township
Judges, &C.. &c. You appeal to them to
save you from the payment of your honest
debts, and to protect you in all your efforts
to ''act the rascal generally" You make an
assault upon Judges Pearson, Reatle, Settle,
Rodman and Dick, and having convinced
yourself that you are wOndrous wise man.
and we "Wcstem voters" are set of misera-
BILE fools, who can be gulled with your sense
less trash, you subside into your original
insignifcance and obscurity, and go to
dreaming about mean achisky and mulatto
girls. and of the time when, upon your fathers
wealth, you could enjoy both luxuries and
there was no law to make you afraid Your
only regret seems tc he, that those qood oil
times are gone never to return to you again.


"Hinc lilac hchrynae."


My dear Albemarle you are sadly mis-
taken when you say that s'we white men of
the West stood by, silent spectators and saw
you completely ruined by the adoption of
the terrible Constitution which now rules
North Carolina" We white men of the
West did no such foolish thing us to stand
by as idle spectators" We worked, and
worked diligently, and with will, to help
fasten this Constitution upon you, and had
it not been for the qohite cote of the West the
Constitution, which you so bitterly hate.
would have been defeated and you would
still have been running at large preying up
on the poor white man and the negro with
nothing to restrain or keep your bad pas
sions within reasonable bounds We not
only put this Constitution over you, but we
intend to keep you in suhjection to it; to
make you honor and obey it; and to make
you love and venerate the flag of your coun-
try, which you tried for four long years to
disgr.ce and bury into disrepute.


Nj. Albemarle, do you remember a few
years back when we 'voters of Western
North Carolina" appealed to the white men
of the East, who controlled the legislation of
| North Carolina, to divide the school fund
| OF the State among the counties according
to white population This appeal was
| made at a time when there was Il law
upon our Statute book prohibiting col
ored people from receiving the benefits of
education. When it was unlawful for them
to be taught to read the word of the ever
living God. What did you, my dear good
| fellow, and your Eastern white men then say
| to "Western voters" to whom you noW
make such pitiful appeal When We told
you that our children were beng raised in
ignorance, and were suffering for the want
of books and teachers, and that they ought
to have fair division of the public money
with your children of the East, you laughed
at our appeals; you made light of our pow
erty; you Knocked at our desolation, and
sneered ,at our calamity. You then had the
| power, and you used it with all the pride
and pomp of despot. You needed not our
appeals. You refused to let the light of
knowledge radiate upon the minds of on,
children; but suffered them to grow up in
ignorance, while you were taking from the
Public Treasury money enough for the edu


cation of your children, and a surplus to
spend III building fine school houses, and
some for your committee men to expend for
champagne and cigars. What cared you
then for the "white voters of the West 81
You had the same compassion for us then
that the butcher has for the bleatlng lamb
which lies bound before him, while the knife
CLEANS in his hand ready for the fatal
thrust. Oh yes, my dear Albcmarle you
Eastern gentlemen would have the school
money divided according to the white and
colored or federal population. When the
poor negro was debarrcd the right of being
taught his A B c, you Eastern nabobs hav-
| ing ten times as many slaves as we poor
"Western voters" had, got the bulk of the
school fund and sent your children to school
from one end of the year to the other on it,
| while our children could not go more than
month or two in the entire year.. You
grabbed up the money for your Eastern chill
dren, and had no regard for the mental culture
of our children of the West. These things we
well remember; they are too deeply cngraven
upon our memories ever to be forgotten.
We wish we could forget them, but God AL
mighty has given us tablet of ofmemory, and
your have reflected these images of your
sel6shness and wickedness upon it in char
acters too lasting ever to he cfaced. With
all this staring you in the face, you have the
effrontcry to appeal to the voters of Wes-
tern North Carolina" to rally to your as
sistance Heaven save the mark!!


For variety sake let US change the subject
for while and embark in other fields OF OBJ
servation. Do you remember, most amiable
Albemarle, how you and your secession co
adiutors eight years ago, appealed to Wes-
tern men to take up arms and fight against
the Constitution and flag which you now
| profess to love SO much Do you re-
member how you conscripted and forced into
the rebel army those of US who loved the
United States government more than we did
| the bogus Confederacy? Do you remember
| how you begged and implored us to defend
and save your negro slaves for you Do you
remember how you dodged the service your
selves and luxuriated in ease and plenty un-
der your ''twenty-negro" exemption law,
while we "Western voters" who owned no
slaves nor ever expected to own any, were
forced into the service and compelled to lie
| in the trenches around and about Rich
mond under the scorching rays of sum-
mer's sun, and during the freezing cold of a
wintry climate. half fed and worse clad, dy-
ing with cold and hunger, fighting the unho-
| ly war you inaugurated but which you were
too cowardly to defend Do you remem-
Der how you impressed our stock, our looms
| and our smoke houses, and tithcd the little
our poor wives and our children made. while
| we were absent fighting your battlcs9 Do
| you remember how you squandercd these
Naody tithes upon yourselves in riotous liv
| ing, instead of sending them to the suffering
| soldiers to eat and wear? Do you remember
| how you withheld furloughs from poor pri
Yates, who wished once in while to go
home to see sick wife or nurse dying
child9 Do you remember how easily and
readily you granted leave of absence for an
| indefinite time, to your epauletted rich man,
especially when bloody battle was about
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