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i889-] Document No. i8. 3
tablished are of such vital force that his successor in office
must repudiate the platform upon which he was apparently-elected
and follow in the footsteps of his illustrious prede-cessor,
or the wrath of an offended people will visit with
condign punishment his departure from the paths of wisdom
and good government.
North Carolina turns with grateful heart to her great
leader with the assurance that he bears with him into the
shades of private life her respect, her admiration and her
affection.
* * * 4fr * * *
But enough of the past. Let us turn our gaze to the
present, and deduce from it what is apparently in store for
us and our great State.
A Republican administration will control the destinies of
this country from the 4th of March for the term of four
years.
North Carolina stands ready to give that administration a
fair trial, and to cordially co-operate with it in every effort
which it may make to increase the prosperity of the Union
—and the glory of the Constitution of the United States
—
for, throughout the limits of this State, at least, it is thor-oughly
believed that "the Union is the Constitution, and
the Constitution is the Union." Upon the maintainance
of that Constitution depends the prosperity of the Union.
North Carolina will cheerfully give her aid in making our
country greater and more powerful during the next four
years, because she is satisfied that the attempt to enrich the
few by the oppression of the many, under the specious pre-tence
of affording protection to American labor.^fwill be
fully understood by the masses of the people before the
expiration of another four years, and when the Democratic
party resumes the control of this government it wishes to
find the people as little impoverished as possible, for it will
come to stay until it has performed its great work of extir-pating
those alliances which have for their object the accu-
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| Full Text | i889-] Document No. i8. 3 tablished are of such vital force that his successor in office must repudiate the platform upon which he was apparently-elected and follow in the footsteps of his illustrious prede-cessor, or the wrath of an offended people will visit with condign punishment his departure from the paths of wisdom and good government. North Carolina turns with grateful heart to her great leader with the assurance that he bears with him into the shades of private life her respect, her admiration and her affection. * * * 4fr * * * But enough of the past. Let us turn our gaze to the present, and deduce from it what is apparently in store for us and our great State. A Republican administration will control the destinies of this country from the 4th of March for the term of four years. North Carolina stands ready to give that administration a fair trial, and to cordially co-operate with it in every effort which it may make to increase the prosperity of the Union —and the glory of the Constitution of the United States — for, throughout the limits of this State, at least, it is thor-oughly believed that "the Union is the Constitution, and the Constitution is the Union." Upon the maintainance of that Constitution depends the prosperity of the Union. North Carolina will cheerfully give her aid in making our country greater and more powerful during the next four years, because she is satisfied that the attempt to enrich the few by the oppression of the many, under the specious pre-tence of affording protection to American labor.^fwill be fully understood by the masses of the people before the expiration of another four years, and when the Democratic party resumes the control of this government it wishes to find the people as little impoverished as possible, for it will come to stay until it has performed its great work of extir-pating those alliances which have for their object the accu- |
