2 GENERAL COWLES * FOR AMENDMENT Its Adoption Would be Better for Both Races, POLITICAL CONDITIONS RESULT AXT FROM THE EN FRANCHISEMENT OF THE NEGRO. NO NEGROES APPOINTED IN THE NORTH But Negro Appointees Foisted on the Sou'h to Hold Northern Negro Vote. The Only Way Republican Party Can be Regenerated. The following Totter from General An drew D. Cowles, of Statesville, to Dr. Solomon Angles ;i member of the Re publican executive conimite of Iredell county, will be read with great interest throughout the State. Dr. Solomon Angle, Member County Republican Committee, Houston villi*. N. C.: My Dear Sir: I beg leave to acknowl edge your esteemed favor of the 20th inst., and thank you for the invitation to visit you. I have-given the proposed amendment to the constitution consid eration! and have discussed- the ques tion fully with ex-Senator A. C. Sharpe, who you know is a good Republican and a sensible man. We shall not oie post* the measure at tin* polls, believing that its ratification willl lead to a solu tion of the race question and ultimately prove a blessing to the State of North Carolina. The educated colored man is not affected, and the deprivation of the right to vote by the illiterate will stim ulate the ignorant negro to qualify himself by going to school or getting others to teach him to read and write at home. WORST BLUNDER OF THE NINE TEJ9NTH CENT! RY. The fifteenth amendment to the Fed eral constitution was the worst blunder of the nineteenth century, and had President 'Lincoln liven! it would not have been adopted. His wisdom and love of the chivalrous South would have dictated an educational qualification or limitation of age, treating the newly emancipated freeman as a minor in- law and providing twenty-one years or more before exorcising his right to vote. The dark and bloody days of recon struction would have l«s>n turned into an era of congratulation that the incu bus of slavery had passed away, leav ing the South letter off than if we had been conquerors. There would have been no feeling entertained or attempt ed humiliation on the part of the North by making late slaves the equals eriority is not idle or imaginary. Centuries of unfettered opportunity have endowed him with the divine right to rule. He has given the worid its literature and vented the telegraph and girdled the world—almost annihilating time; he in vented the steam engine and almost annihilated distance; the printing press to accomplish universal education and preserve in enduring form the treasures of the mind. The loom, the sewing ma chine, the reaper, the electric light, transforming night to day, are the products of his brain. Up to this time God has never chosen tin* negro to lend any great movement, make a discovery, invent anything, contribute to litera ture. perpetuate himself in song or story, and if be were blotted out of ex istence the world would scarcely miss him in its onward march of achieve ment, nor long remember that he once lived. It would not remember, except the civil war was waged over him and the country deluged in blood; nor care, except the South admires his devotion during tin period of 1801 ami 18tx». THE SOUTH WANTS THE NEGRO TO •REMAIN. The negro remained loyally at bis jH>st; tilled the farm, garnered the crops, fed the soldiers fighting against his freedom, and protected with his strong arm the loved ones of the sol diers at the front, in the castle of the rich and the cottage of the poor. I lie people of the South desire him to re main here and let politics alone. 'llis in terest demands it. Ids best friends ad vise it. The Republican party in North Oarolinu will never have the courage of its convictions as long ns the negro furnishes two-thirds of its votes. Thou sand* of old Whigs would affiliate with if today were it not for the company they are invited to keep. The colored man is docile, kind-hearted, absolutely devoid of malice as a rule. M e know each other in the South and lie is the best laborer for us of all races. Toles and Italians furnish the labor in some parts of the United States and frequent strikes 'leading to bloodshed tire tin* re sult. They- are malicious, revengeful and seditious. Insult one, lie never tor gives—he will have revenge if it takes years. Not so w ith the negro. He is for giving. Il(“ sleeps and all recollections pass with his dreams —next morning a smile greets you as kindly as a sun beam. We want him to remain here and act on tin* advice of Bishop Turner and Booker T. Washington, the greatest leaders of bis nice—eschew polities, serve God. accumulate property, edu cate Ms ( children, frown on the negro who commits crime, stop harboring the Criminal of hi» color as he nonv does to Inis shame tend danger, and be a friend to the whites and as sure as the night follows the day the whites will be his friends. Tin* deplorable lyuchings will cease when the abominable crimes that cause them stop. VITGINTMENT OF NEGROES TO OFFICE I)ENOUNCED. We of the west know little of the east where the negro has the majority. We know that he is becoming more as sertive in politics. Here in Iredell the colored men in the past few years, as you know, have attempted to nominate members of their race on the Republican County ticket and have threatened to knife' white Kepubilcans unless some of them are nominated and supported at the polls, and this in >a county with four whites to one colored voter. A de mand was made on me when postmas ter to appoint a negro clerk. They can t understand why reciprocity is not a good thing. There its, however, reason in their importunity. ’! hey furnish a large portion of the Republican vote ami therefore feel that the offices should be divided. It is very well to give them a place where they do not come in contact with the whites, but it is wrong in the South to make a single one of them postmaster, policeman or deputy sheriff. The party is doomed and damned that disregards the pro prieties so far as to do so. There is an eternal fitness of things in this world, and this practice is out of banmony with Southern civilization —yes. with Anglo-Saxon civilization. Would Mr. McKinley not blush for his wile to be compelled to patronize a country post office with a colored postmaster? Con gressman White; if lie were smart, would rise a'bove the politicians and refuse to appoint a single negro postmaster in his district. He could make himself im mortal and reward such of his friends as In* desired by apjiointments in Wash ington. President McKinley is a good man —a. great man —but he handicaps his party in the South. There is no use trying to build up a decent party if he offends the white people of the iState by appointing negro postmasters and Collectors of custom. Wisdom suggests the contrary to this ]x>lic,v. If he so de sires he should make these appoint ments in New England. WIIY NEGROES ARE APPOINTED IN THE SOUTH ONLY. By eliminating the ignorant negro vote the race question will Is* no longer paramount. When this is relegated the people will diVide on the gretft eco nomic quest ion of the day. Stump speakers will then discuss protection, money, expansion. I believe the State will give its electoral vote to the Re publican candidate in 1808 it this amendment is adopted. Manufacturers, bankers, railroad operatives, laborers, farmers and professional mien believe in the party of protection and sound money, and when the negro no longer constitutes throe-fourths of the Repub lican party white men will then vote upon conviction and not upon preju dice. The Republican party in North Carolina today holds out no induce ments for white recruits, nor does it command the steadfast allegiance ot the white men in its ranks. Thousands voted the Deinkieratie ticket in 18518, and those and other thousands will do so in 1900. With the negro North Carolina will never east her vote for the Repub lican candidate. The whittling down process is going on from year to year. McKinley and other shrewd Republi cans North feel confident of success without a single Southern State, and as long as they can get along without them they prefer to do so. They use tin* South for another purpose. They ap is tint negroes to -influence the colored vote of Indiana and New York and to secure delegates to the next national convention. They do not offend the whites of tin* North by appointing col ored men there. As they do not expect to carry a single Systhern State they appoint negroes here regardless of ef fect and the colored men of New York and Indiana are rewarded bv the recog nition of their Southern brethren. Is there in tin* whole of New England, the home of the abolitionists, a single negro holding an elective office? Is there a lorn* appointee of 4 he President there? Is there a negro collector of customs in New York or anywhere else, including Cuba, except in North Carolina, Louis iana or some other Southern State? Is there one in Ohio, the home of the President? Notice if you please no ne- appointed in States where the Republicans exia’ct electoral votes. They are appointed in Democratie States and the District of Columbia to secure delegates to the national con vention. New York has 2d.000 negro voters. As goes this vote so goes the State. Cleveland wanted it and ap pointed Trotter, a colored man. as mar ■shall of the District of Columbia, and McKinley will get it with Cheatham, of til is S tate. HOW TO PROTECT THE NEGRO. Certain counties in North Carolina are controlled by" negroes, while the in telligence and property belong to the whites. Bad feeling will always exist ami the coored man will be the sufferer. I am not willing for him to control. It is a bud advcrtjtseawnt for a county or THE NEWS AND OBSERVER. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1899. State offering homes to intelligent ana thrifty settlers, humiliating to the white* and unfortunate for all. The white man's pride and passions are constant ly appealed to, and deadly feeling 1 jug pent up at last finds escape in bio sly conflict. Who gets hurt? Not a white Republican but the negro. The Federal government rightly proposes that we shall settle the race question as a State question, and if 10,000 colored men or all of them are killed in riots that is simply the negro’s misfortune. No Fed eral question being involved the Uulte.l States takes no cognizance. I would protect him by taking him out of politics, and every friend he has in the State should vote for the amendment. THE NEGRO’S REAL FRIEND. The intelligent colored leaders in the South, like Bishop Turner, admonish their people to make friends with the* white people. The Southern white man is a better friend than the Northern white man. The civil war was fougiit not for humanity’s sake, but for com mercial supremacy. President Lincoln disclaimed any intention of disturbing slavery even in 1801. All slave or all free was the cry. Free labor could not: com pete with slave 'labor and the struggle was to the death between the two. It was not a sentimental war. Free labor triumphed, and the North soon snowed that it. preferred white free la bor to black free labor. Now at Verdin ami Pana Illinois, a short time ago men armed by the State with Winchesters, backed by a Republican Governor, shot men down whose only offence was black Skins and the desire to exchange the muscle of black free mien for the money of white free men. Thirty-five years ago the same men were bulling our Southland with our blood and their own to free these victims of their wanton butchery. Are these the boasted friends of the negro? How many ne groes from the Northern -States have sat in Congress? Any in the cabinet? Any in foreign diplomatic service save Ilayti anil Liberia where only a negro will go? It is time that the colored man was waking up to the fact that the Southern people are his friends. THE NEGRO AND EDUCATION. He will never have social equality, and this is the one thing he doesn’t want. Any white man who puts him -a* f on this plane at once loses liis self re s]K*ct and the respect of the negro. He wants only such white friends as com mand the respect of the best white folks in the community. So much crime is committed by'the colored people tha doubt is expressed of ever correcting tiler evil propensities. There are those who deny that education improves them, but this position is disproved by tin* facts easily ascertained by visiting our jails and penitentiaries. Out of thousands serving sentences you will seldom find ail educated negro. When ever one is found lie has been convicted of an offence such as forgery or embez zlement of lodge or church funds. No educated negro has ever committed rape in the South so far as l am in formed. To stop this awful crime and safe-guard our women were well worth all the money necessary to educate them. ■Court costs are enormous. Jails and penitentiaries are expensive. Every school house makes these less. The class that the amendment reaches con tains the criminals, the ignorant and the vic ; .is. The class not affected con tains the educated, the preachers, teachers, the thrifty projiert.v holders, really valuable citizens, like Rev. S. F. Wentz, Fred Chambers, of this city— men who enjoy the friendship and re spect of the best white people here. It is notorious that the class that the amendment reaches do not appreciate the privilege they enjoy (in voting. I have seen them bought almost in open market in this city. The educated of my ‘acquaintance are self-respecting and place a high value on the boon of voting. Some of them are Democrats. Our administration will never turn over the destinies of the educated property holding classes to the illiterate, non property-holding classes in the Philip pine*, Porto Rico and Cuba. Yet this was what was done by the victorious North with the conquered South. The whites were disfranchised in the South ern States practically, and the negroes enfranchised. President McKinley in dicates right here that he would have opposed the fifteenth amendment had lie been then where he is now*. But the Anglo-Saxon has yet to meet a problem too hard for him to solve. We know* the course polities has run since emancipa tion. THE PARTING OF THE WAYS. We do not know the effect the adop tion of the amendment will have on parties—we only have our ideas, and should perform our duty, as wo see It. to ourselves. I presume the policy, regardless of effect and consequences of the Republican party will bo in opposi tion. to the amendment. I regret that we have come to the parting of the ways. I would make the Republican party strong, and so decent that it Pain Conquered; Health Re stored by Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound. [LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. 92,649] “ I feel it my duty to write and thank you for what your Vegetable Com pound has done for me. 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Don’t put off writing until health is completely broken down Write at the first indication of trouble. would challenge the respect of the Democrat*. Populists and Proliihatiou ists. With the large proportion of white men. the equals of the best manhood in the State and the best element of the colored population, the Republican party may step forth like a young giant vet carrying the bunmr of protection, sound money and expansion to victory. l>ook around you. The leaders of our party are fast departing and tin* ques tion is w here are the leaders of the tu ture? Judge Settle, and Judge Dick have joined the fathers. Judge Bynum and Dr. Mott have retired to private life in disgust. Judges Fit relies and Faircioth will never care to lead in poli ties again. Senator Pritchard. < bar man Holton and Assistant Attorney General Boyd, ex-CVnigressainn Settle and a few other strong men are now in their prime, but time will move them off the stage sifter awhile and 1 do not know where tile young men are coining from to take up their work where they lay It dow n. Recruits aie not coming to a party with 120,000 negro votes and only 35,000 whites, 'and there is no such thing as n draft in polities. .SHAMEFUL TREATMENT OF THE SOUTH. And again. The treatment of the South by t'lie Republican national ad ministrations lias been shameful ever since the war. No man south of Mason and Dixon's line lias been in the cabi net except Judge Woods, of Alabama, and D. M. Key, of Tennessee, one a carpet-bagger and the other a mug wump. No native Republican lias held ■any distinguished foreign appointment and very few have received appoint ments of dignity and emoluments in tin* government at home. The Sout h ha - ■been treated as alien territory. But for constitutional limitations our local offices would have been filled by North ern .men. In the revuiie department we see this. With a Republican Governor, and the only Republican Senator ’Yon*, the South the President grudiingly gave lion. Ki Gudger a SO,OOO place, Horn. James E. Boyd a $5,000 posit Ton and H. G. .Cheatham one of $4,000, with a few minor appointments. At the same time he gave Mr. Buck, ot Georgia, a Notherner, as minister to Japan, a sal ary equal to all North Oaroliniau’s. Everything worth anything goes North. The reason may be that several Re publicans always want tin* same place ■and they fly-blow each other. President Harrison once told me that if he be lieved what was said of each other every Republican in the State should certainly lie in the penitentiary. They always wash dirty linen in the White House. Powell Clayton, minister to Mex ico, was appointed front 'Arkansas, but was a Union general front tin* North. A list of foreign 'appointments' secured by Senator Platt, of New York, is as long as a man's arm. President Cleveland recognized the South liatwlsoniely dur ing both terms. With the cold shoulder given the South by Remtblican Presi dents, with no encouragement, and the race problem unsolved, it is remarka ble that there are even 35,000 white Republicans in North Carolina. I speak for these white men when I say that most of them are Republicans from principle, and while in election years they have been severely denounced for affiliating politically with tin* colored man they have so borne themselves as to challenge and command the respect of the best people in the State, and they are of the best themselves. They have never been, nor are they now, in favor of negro domination, though the Democrats charge this, because some negroes are appointed to office. They have always been, and age today, in ’favor of white supremacy and I shall be badly deceived if any considerable -nlumber vote against the amendment. 1 shall also be mistaken if the educated, property-holding, thrifty, colored man votes against the amendment. Since be ginning this letter I learn that your co-committeeman, John E. Col vert, and ex-Representative Lee Morrow, agree with us. PR 1 T attract any Gases UUt 01 len A notice, until, in many cases, the deadly disease is fully developed. Cure Found ai Last. Cancer rat.' not bo riiml by a surgical operation, because the disease is a virulent poison in the blood, circulating throughout the system, and although the sore or ulcer —known as the Cancer—may he cut away, the poison remains in the blood, and promptly breaks out afresh, with renewed violence. , , The wonderful success of S. S. 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C. * Our book on Cancer, containing other testimonials and valuable information, will bo sent free to any address by the Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Georgia. solve by legal and peaceful methods the most mom out oils question now before the people of the State, and Hinder the guidance of a kind Providence that has so singularly preserved tin* South through all its vicisisiittides in the past I hope every endeavor in that direction may have the blessing of God and lead to a completion of a perplexing prob lem. The success of the amendment will surely be a harbinger of good-will be tween the races and usher in a better day for all of our people. This is a measure justified on the highest grounds of public policy to sin equal extent with the Chinese exclusion act. These almond-eyed gentle children of the flowery kingdom were not desir anae citizens as they came here with the animus revertendi. Amalgamation was inexpedient and elevation impossible. They degraded manhood and decreased the scale of American labor. The great West prayed for relief; the prayer was answered and a nation with a literature as o3d as the pyramids and a sublime code of morals was shut out. Was it right? The World says it was for public policy demanded it. The ignorant negro degrades the franchise and decreases the scale of American manhood. His suspension till qualified is justified on the same high ground of public policy. It is against public policy to commit murder, therefore the criminal forfeits his life. It (is against, it to steal, the thief is de prived of his liberty and it is against public policy for the ignorant negro to vote, therefore suspend him. With best wishes and kind regards to your family, I am. Yours sincerely, ANDREW I). COWLES. ■Statesville, May 2fith. AM KI i ICA ’iS 1 i EGGS SIOIN AL. (With Acknowledgements to Kailyard Kipling.) 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