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/ OUR FEMALE SEMINARY.
A The subject of a female seminary
(for Zion Church in the. State of North
[Carolina was brought before the late
Conference at Fayetteville, and dis
cussed at a lively rate, we are told.
Now we arc satisfied. The question
is brought where we have endeavored
to get it—in the hearts and mouths of
the brethren. We arc satisfied be
cause we believe we will have a semi
nary iu the very near future. All
admit .the “desirability” of it. but
some fail to sec the “feasibility.”
To those who fail to see the feasibility
we would say, if we want and need
such an institution, let us set to work
to have it. We cannot see the feasi
bility while there is prejudice against
. it. Let us open our hearts and go to
work as we have done before when the
way was much darker than in this
case. Let not the love for one insti
tution bring about a jealousy against
other good and needed efforts. The
feasibility of establishing a female
seminary is in our own desire and
efforts for it.
We believe we are going to have
the seminary in the near future, be
cause the brethren are alive to the
interests of our girls and our race.
A number of the young ministers
pledge their efforts to the bringing
about of this much-needed end—a
separate high school for our young
ladies, where they can be instructed
in the doctrines of our own Church,
and not compelled to be surrounded
by the influences of other denomina
tions.
We arc told that the discussion
upon this question was brought out
on the report of the committee on
education. All parties claimed to
favor the idea, but the real enemies
to the project contended that it is not
yet time ; that we must wait till our
institution at Salisbury is better cared
for, and that the latter is not suffi
ciently supported to justify the effort
to establish another at this time.
Such argument will not hold. Let
us look around us right here in North
Carolina. See how these same men
fought for the establishing of a col
lege by the State while it has other
normals in different parts of the State.
Let us refer to the strength of our
Church and the feasibility of estab
lishing any sort of school in 1880,
when our now promising Livingstone
was in embryo. The very men who
are now the life of that institution
were uuheard of students in some
other colleges, but now have an occu
pation iu which they can do great
good to the race with which we are
identified. The Church had no money
then, but what has been done for us
since ? There were men at that time
to oppose the effort of establishing
Livingstone because the “feasibility
did not appear” to tfeeir dull intellect.
At this age there are those whose in
tellects are blinded by one thing and
another, and for various reasons the
'‘feasibility does not appear.”
Now let us see where the opposition
came from. In the discussion at Fay
etteville, prominent among those on
tho committee who favored the estab
lishing of a female seminary were
ltcv. 11. F. Martin, Rev. J. W. Smith
and Dr. .T. T. Williams. Those who
could not see the “feasibility” were :
Prof. 8. <l. Atkins, teacher at Liv
ingstone College ; Rev. Prof. W. H.
dolor, teacher at Livingstone College;
J. C. Dancy, Ksq., editor at Living- (
atone College, and Rev. W. B. Fcn
derson, student at Livingstone Col
lege. The gentlemen would naturally
oppose anything that, looks like les
sening their numbers at Livingstone.
It is their right to do so. We will
not discuss this objection, but if any
man is too blind to see through this
without discussion, he will learn bet
ter some day in the future We are
forcibly reminded of the opposition
we met two years ago to the establish
ing of a higher normal, which came
: from the teachers in the present nor
mal school.
, Now the “feasibility does appear”
| to us, and by the help of the Lord,
. through our good brethren, we will
make it appear to those who cannot
sec it, by the meeting of the next
Annual Conference. We want a few
of the leading ministers who can see
the feasibility to lend us their aid—
-1 which we are assured—and the fcasi
. bility will appear to all for the open
ing of a female seminary next fall.
Not such an one as will rival Mt
Holyoke or Scotia, the first year, but
such as will guarantee the foundation
of a grand and lasting institution that
will do great good and honor to our
race and generation, as well as those
to come after us.
The feasibility does appear to us,
and a leading minister in Zion has
' been selected to take the lead in the
effort and a site will soon be selected
and donated to the connection, with
house and all, ready to go to work
next fall. The female seminary is a
fixed thing so far as having it is con
cerned. Any person wishing to aid
in the effort or wanting information,
may confer with the editor of this
paper. A female seminary for Zion
connection in North Carolina is need
ed and must be had. Livingstone’s
objection to the contrary notwithstand
ing. It is the business of the church
to fix the destinies by directing the
course of its institutions, but it is not
the right of an institution to govern
the church, and while the conference
should report the judgment and opin
ion of the faculty at Livingstone, it
should not be led and directed by
them. Let the ministers look to the
interests of the church. Let them
give equal protection to all branches
of the connection and let them re
member that “the hand that rocks the
cradle” must not be neglected. The
church must come from the mother’s
heart/-"
WILD MAN IN TOWN.
The editor of the Chronicle advises
the white people of this city to boy
cott the Neptune fire company because
one Ilenry Graham claims to have
been expelled fron the company on
account of his politics. We know
nothing about Graham’s connection
with the company, but we do know
that the Chronicle is now tramping on
very dangerous ground. The present
editor of that paper is the most
indiscreet editor we have yet read
after in this city and this attack on
the best fire company ever known
in this city is unjust and uncalled for.
lie talks about the company calling
upon the citizens for their assistance
as though it was a charitable institu
tion of no service to the citizens. If
we thought for a moment that the
citizens endorsed such a sentiment we
would advise the company to disband
at onco. But we do not think our
citizens endorse any such expression.
They have not forgotten tho service
this company has been to the city in
protecting its property. They re
member but a few months ago all the
white firemen of the city disbanded
and gave up their apparatus and left
the property of the city at the mercy
of the flames ; the Neptune fire com
pany remained steadfast at its post
and has continued to do its duty as
voluntary firemen.
This white editor of the Chronicle
who believes so much in a separation
of the race and who says that a white
republican in the South belongs to
the Negro party, ought not complain
if it be true that a Negro who joins
the white man’s party is asked to get
out of the company of Negro’s.
If the members of the Neptune fire
company know their business we
suppose they know what they ex
pelled Graham for if he has been
expelled. If they know their actions
to be right, let them stand by it if it
causes them to be boycotted and
1 given no work by the citizens as
advised by the Chronicle. If they
were right, they have no cause to
“repeut and reform and make re
paration to Graham.” When you
have to pledge yourselves to anybody
as to your actions which should be
left entirely with yourselves, then
the time has come for you to disband.
When the citizens of Charlotte refuse
to contrihnte to the support of the
company to protect their own pro
perty, then let the company cease to
be a burden upon the good people.
But as to work being refused you,
the cotton fields of Alabama, Miss
issippi and Arkansas are yet white
with the crops of this year and they
are begging for hands at a dollar a
hundred. The farmers in these States
and in California will pay the way of
families desiring work. The day is
passed for men to sacrifice their man
hood for the sake of a situation in a
particular locality. It has been some
time since our firemen have had such
an insult thrown in their face and all
on account of an ignorant democrat
1 “nigger.”
The good people of this city have
shown much forbearance with this
stranger editor of the Chronicle and
it was thought that his incendiary
language would tone down after the
election. He has done more to dis
turb the good feelings between the
races in this city than any man ever
here. His efforts seem to have been
to incite riot and bloodshed. The
men who employ him should look
after him and tell him the races are
getting along nicely together here
and we want to be let alone. There
is a proper way to treat our mistakes
1 and possibly we understand each
other and get along better without
the advice of persons who may
1 misunderstand the situation of things
among strangers.
COVERING THEIR TRACKS.
It is wonderful and amusing to see
how adroitly southern democratic
papers are endeavoring to cover up
the tracks of their own fraud in the
late election. Every southern demo
cratic paper is filled with reports of
fraud practiced by republicans in the
North. How any honest white man
can fail to blush when he reads these
hypocritical articles, we fail to under
stand. For while there are many
honest white democrats in the South
who had nothing to do with commit
ting the outrages in the South, none
are ignorant of the fact of the many
gross wrongs perpetrated against col
ored voters or any white man who
dared to do anything that looked like
frustrating their plans.
As to buying votes in North Caro
lina this year, it seems to have been a
complete failure. Wo have made
special inquiry at the principal towns
on the Carolina Central road, in Fay
etteville, Raleigh, Salisbury, Concord
and other places and all say the colored
men voted the republican ticket more
solidly in November than in the last
fifteen years.
The democrats found that out before
the election, and from the mountains
to the sea, and from Virginia to South
'Carolina the actions of the democratic
party was one. In every county and
precinct it is said they were more
desperate, corrupt and orerbearing
than ever before. They knew it was
a desperate fight with'them, or the
State was gone for Dockery and Har
rison.
In Fayetteville the papers say 300
colored men voted the democratic
ticket openly, while reliable men who
remained at the polls there through
the day, tell us that not exceeding a
dozen colored men in Fayetteville
voted the democratic ticket knowingly,
but possibly hundreds of colored men
had the democratic ticket “shifted”
on them while they were being asked
nonsensical questions by the challen
gers. This outrageous business seems
to have been practiced in every county
in the State. At Maxton, 79 votes
were returned for the republicans, and
men there say they will swear that not
leBS than 300 were cast for the repub
licans.
It is the annoyance of a guilty con
science in these democratic newspaper
men, that causes them to continue the
cry, “stop thief.” They know too
well their goods arc stolen, and the
loss of the National Government
makes them desperate, but corruption
must be punished. The attention of
democrats may be diverted from the
wrongs of the party iu the South, but
the God of the universe has an eye to
these things and He will give to each
man his just reward in due time.
Governor Fowle and all the State:
officers and Senator Ransom’s sucres
sor will certainly have bad dreams if j
they hare any compunction of con- 1
science. How can an honest man
accept a place and receive the pay for |
it when he knows another man was
elected to that place 1 Why do these
heathen rage and these wicked imagine
a vain thing? The republicans are in,
and in to stay. Democracy is dead
and doomed, and the papers had just
as well stop lying about what the
northern republicans did, for the worst
political rogue, bulldozer, intimidator
and ballot stuffer in this country is
the southern democrat.
CIVIL SERVICE.
The democrats are now saying that
Mr. Harrison is a civil service re
former and cannot afford to turn
democrats out of office for republicans.
Suppose he is. Mr. Cleveland was
said to be a civil service man also,
but he succeeded in getting all the
revenue collectors out and nearly
all the postmasters and a large majority
of the postal clerks Now we fail
to see why civil service should protect
a democrat under Mr. Harrison when
it could not protect a republican
under Mr- Cleveland. At any rate,
every office in which a democrat was
put by the displacing of a republican
is a fit place to remove a democrat to
restore a republican. In every place
from which a partisan republican was
removed a partisan democrat was
placed and that is just where the
knife must be used.
Turn the rascals out! Every
officeholder is a partisan. The writer
held office under the last republican
administration, but resigned before
Mr. Cleveland got in. We are now
ready to go back. We can call to
mind only two colored republicans of
this State who voluntarily resigned—
G. C. Scurlock and the writer.
Turn the rascals out and make no
exceptions in the South, Mr. Harrison.
If any set of men deserve encourage
ment and reward for devotion to party |
it is the republican in the south. If’
the Negro shows up a majority in the i
party and the necessary ability for the
offices, why, let him have his just
dues—the spoils.
Turn the rascals out. We never
did favor civil service and never
expect to. If Mr. Harrison shows it 1
any quarters at all, he will that far
displease us. What is there worth
fighting for outside of the offices ?
What fool would fight year after
year and see the very man he bad
subdued, enjoying the fruits of his
efforts. There is of course an nndcr
lying principle in the parties; but
the principles are so far buried we
can scarcely tell one party from the
other by its declarations. Away
with civil service that does not mean
turn the other party out of office. To
republicans wc say watcb, and sec
that none but republicans are left
on guard after the 4th of next March.
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