received into the Democratic family it
is only tolerated as an alien. The ten
drils of the Democratic heart will not
encircle it. It must work for jboard
and clothing and eat at the second
table. Not so in the Republican home:
there it sits at the head of the table:
the honored first born J There is neither
stability, nor safety for this grand
principle outside the Republican Par
ty,
A PERTINENT INQUIRY;
A noted Mohammcdon philo-jpohcr,
centuries ago wrote; "In the course
of my long life I have observed that
the men are more like the times in
whicli they live than they are like the
father's.!' "
In 1S52 the writer then a boy well
remembers going to the polls with his
father full of enthusiasm for that
grand old Whig' ticket of Scott and
Graham.' That ticket represented
Whig supremacy and a "high .protec
tive tariff." , To-day we intend to
vote the same principles and the same
platform in the persons of Blaine and
Logan. Vrherc now is the old Whig
element that then J centered around
the ierson of William A. Graham and
a high protective tariff? Have they
all sacrafied their principles and plat
form and with the sons' of that- honest,
pure minded Statesman joined hands
with "the Bourbon Democracy? Is it
possible that the old Whigs of Orange
and Durham, those who pay an an
nual pilgrimage to the gravp of the
dead Statesman, intend now to vote
for "Free Trade" and againsi a rep
resentative government? We shall
see. I
"Protection as perpetuated under
Republican rule has been helpful , to
the domestic tobacco indusjry and
this fact no one engaged therein irf
likely to forget." Tobacco jLcaf.
Exactly, "as perpetuated under Re
publican rule." The Republ can par
ty is friendly to protection. Democ
racy is hostile thereto. Agitation by
an unfriendly party is worse than re
duction. Democracy cannot touch
the tariff to correct its inequalities
even, without deranging the business
interests of the country. Capital nor
Labor have confidence in an unfriend
ly legislative body
party can legislate
; The Republican
upon the tariff for
the reason that it is familiar learning
everywhere that W3 believe in a tariff
for Protection anil administer it in
that direction. Wje think w6 are jus
tified ia saying that those wio grow
and handle leaf tobacco believes in a
j. - . -
Protective tariff as
Republican rule."
to pull off his coat
hand.'
perpetuated under
Who. will be first
and lend a helping
THE DARBY LETTER.
BOURBOM OPPOSITION TO FREE THOUGHT
AND j MANLINESS SCA THINCL Y
v EXPOSED.
! ' TAUT I. ' ' i
"Wis 1- "IT I 'TV1..W
II utijU.-, iixi . x lev Li iv xi. iyaiuj)
in a communication to the Democrat
ic County Executive Committee, de
clares himself as opposed to the. pres
entform o:rCounty Government, which
we consider of the utmost importance
to the
is
people of this city ; therefore, it
"Rejsolyed, That the Clerk of this
Board is 1 hereby directed to inform
Mr. parfy that his resignation as
City Attorney is expected and will be
accep
In
ed by this Board."
response thereto I have to say
that I cannot comply with the request,
embodied in the above resolijtion, for
the pjainreason that 1 1 have nothing
to resigni I am not holding airy office
from,
anyo;
byj, through, or under you or
her person or corporation. You
did employ me, perhaps by the -year,
perhaps during the term of your Board,
to at :eiul to your law business. ' This
I have', done, receiving therefor very
inadequate consideration. In fact, you
arc and have been about the poorest
paying clients; in my lajvv office. Your
withdrawal therefrom will give pleas
ure ratlier than pain. The loss of
3'our patronage is of no conseqnencc
to me. Possibly .it involves the repu
diation of a contract by you, but men
who conspire to rob a free North Garo
linian of his liberty of opinion, cannot
be expected to observe the inviolabil
ity, of contracts, j Do not imagine that
I would make any claim that there
was
a contract between us, in order
to throw-any obstacle in the way of a dis
solution! of oui official' connection. I
am too well informed of the utter and
contemptible hollowness, of the hypo
critical pretensions to political purityj
of some of you to ever desire a very
close official connection With you
Those vfho under the cover of secrecy,
laruuii, njmiu inruuoj uuj uu t-
tisan opposition before an election, by
considerations in votes to be delivered
afterwards, are not, to say the least,
such official companions as one would
desire to be in too close communion
with,' They are, more than that,
freghted with minds ill-prepared to
brook the candid opinions of an out
spoken iman. 1
Ybur action, as shown by the fore
going resolution, is only important,
because? of the i !
j PUBLIC TRUSTS
which you hold and the reason which
you have given ioryoui conauci. en
trusted, with the power ana amy oi
administering the public affairs of one
of the municipalities of the State, hold
ing that trust for the benefit, not of i
part, but of all of its inhabitants, oc
cupying a place where it should be
your pleasure, as it isyour duty to be
examples of public virtue, you have
prostituted your trusts by an exhibi
tion of petty spite and flagrant intol
erance. You have by you r example
sought to establish a reign of political
proscription and bigotry. You seek
to punish free men, because thej dare
to. diiler with you. ; 1 ou would
STARVK men who dp hot consent to
receive their jtoUticajl opinions j from
you or from those whose willing in
struments you are. j You Attempt to
carry politics into a mere business
employment , which I justifies me in
charging that 3011 seek to establish a
reign 01 terror in ousine.ss ana society,
under which free Americans are to le
tlie nlaves of a bigoted proscriptive
and insolent oligarchy.' . 1 ou seem to
forget that it is agaiinst just this soit
of tyranny that whjte men of North
Carolina are now rising in rebellion.
They are tired of being, driven and
They are begin-
is almost time for!
bo.sseu 111 polities.
ning to think that it
another !
1
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION,
this time for the benefit of the -J white!
men, and they have almost d eterm i hed
to issue it and execute it themselves
This is the fundamental difference
between the two contending political
forces in Southern politics the Bourj
bon anl the Liberal;-The Bourbon J
true to the instinctsj and traditions of
his ancestal party in France, seeks to v
maintain in the South as near as may -be,
j the status quo (under which the
great body of the white men were simn
ply the'politieal and social serfs of a -few
semi-feudal lords. To this end lie
seeks to shackle free thought and
trample out its freej expression. The j
Liberal, on the other hand,' contends ' I,
for the largest 1 iberty of t hOught and. .'
speech. He makes no wr on any
man because of his opinions. He in
sists that the Bourbon shall have his
opinions and the freest expression ' of
them. He would take from the latter
ISo right and no privilege, except the
if tti I'll nrfn nf lontrinir . tlioit fifrVifa fn
others. ( He would impose upon him
no j burden except ithat of respecting
the rights of others. He would toler
ate everything but intolerance and
proscribe nothing but proscription.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Great stress is put upon : the ah-
nouncement, that the payment to the
State of $600,000,1 by the Western
North Carolina Railroad will! relieve
the tax payers of State tax, the pres
ent year, but the bourbon papers fail
to say that the polj tax will be collec
ted as usual. The property of thcriph
men who are able to pay, is exempted,
but the poor man must pay on his
head as usual and. if he fails, he is
to1 be sent to the work-house. A bour
bon Legislature so decrees it.. North
State. ! : i '