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TRUE ATTITUDE OF WHITE PEO
PLE TOWARD NEGROES.
Friendship for the Colored Race on
the Part on the Whites of North
Carolina Clearly Demonstrated by
the Conduct of the Latter in Their
Course of Action, Both Public and
Private.
Wilmington, N. C.. November 19.
ew York Tribune:
I have been attracted and enter,
tained by an editorial from your
paper copied in the Wilmington (N.
wl iiutcuiuer loin. lue
usual editorial expressions in North
ern papers on happenings in the
South growingout of the negro problem
deserve no notiee from thoughtful
.Southerners, beause they are rabidly
partisan and grossly ignorant; but
the editorial from your paper above
referred to is thoughtful, and mani
fests a desire to get at the real situa
tion and to deal honestly by us.
Therefore, 1 desire to call attention to
certain facts which you either are
not aware of, or overloook.
The following quotation is made
from your editorial:
"If the people of the Southern
.States would frankly say that they
wanted to be ruled by their best
rather than their worst citizens, and
proceeded to shut out from suiTrage
undesirable white voters on the
same terms as the undesirable blacks,
there would be one solution. If they
would devote themselves heartily to
the work of training ignorant voters
so as to secure o-ood Government
from them, that would be a better,
though a slower, process; but as it
is, they retard rather than promote
the advaeement and reform of the
most dangerous element in their
population, and legislate, not against
ignorance and vice for their own
sake, but against them as exhibited
bv negroes."
Now, as a matter of fact, we have
always said we desired to be ruled
by our best citizens, and we would
all along have been doing SQhad not
the country committed the stupen
dous mistake on endowing the ncro
with the right of suffrage. Had that
not been done the recent deplorable
conllict in our city would never have
occurred. That having been done,
it made it impossible for anv com
munity where negroes predominat
ed to be ruled by its best citizens.
Will the country "now permit us to
be governed by our best citizens?
You say: "If they (Southern peo
ple) would devote themselves heart
ily to the work of training ignorant
voters,1' etc. We havebeen doing our
utmost to Irain the negro voter for
twent-six years. In this State the
w hites pay (J(h per cent, of the taxes,
the negroes Si per cent. The pro
portion of the school fund paid by
negroes is somewhat larger than the
above.
The school fund is divided between
the whites and blacks on a per capita
basis, so that in communities where
the negro predominates, the negro
schools get the bulk of the money.
This has been going on since the
whites secured control in 1872. We
have provided them with free schools
in the country districts, and graded
sebeols in towns. We have given
them an agricultural and mechanical
college, and various schools for the
training of their teachers. Now
what else should we do, think you,
before it can be fairly said that we
have devoted ourselves to training
ignorant voters?
Again you say that we "retard
rather than promote" the negroes'
advancement and "legislate not
against ignorance and . vice" per se
but against them as exhibited by the
negro. Will you point out wherein
we do that? I have no doubt that
our statute books are accessible to
you; will you designate one such
piece of Legislation? On the con
trary, in addition to the schools
porvided as above, which, wo sup
pose may fairly be taken as evidence
of some effort on our part to promote
the negroes' advancement, and the
laws which provide for these schools
as some legislation against ignorance
and vice per se: in addition to them,
I sav we have provided the negro
with schools for the education and
training of his deaf, dumb and blind, j
anil with asylums for the care of the ;
insane of his people. There are !
houses, under proper custodians, in!
every county in the State for the care I
and protection of their aged and;
destitute. The county of New Han-
over, in which the city of Wilming-
ton is located, is now paying $150 !
each month for the assistance of the
poor of the negro race outside those j
houses and $125 per month for the!
whites in the same way. The erec- j
tion of negro churches is made pofesi-
ble bv the generous contributions of ;
white men. In all other, except J
election matters, the negroes seek t
unreservedly the counsel and as-
sistance of the whites, in the daily;
problems of their lives and receive i
them without stint. In the face of.1
these facts can vou justlv say that
we retard advancement of the negro?
Furthermore I commend to your
consideration the question whether
Democracy, l. e., government by the
people, ever contemplated the sud
den injection into the body politic the
people of a relatively tremendous
number of men who were savages as
compared with the native population
and really aliens? And if, that
being done, we then lind that uni
versal suffrage under the influx of
such an alien element will result in
the arrest of material progress, and
will destroy the fruits of civilization,
can we truthfully say that, therefore,
Democracy has failed?
"The pure and ideal Democratic
philanthrophy" no more -contemplated
the admission of the Southern
slaves to the full right of suffrage,
immediately upon being given their
freedom, than it contemplated or
required the admission of tho North
American Indian to that right.
Jf you really desire to do some
thing towards the proper solution of
the negro problem in the South, vou
would obtain and publish a full state
ment of the facts preceding and con
current with the recent race trouble
in Wilmington.
Whatever use you may see fit to
make of this letter you at least can
not hereafter ignore the facts herein '
stated when you may again write
upon the negro question.
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EDGAR ALLAN POE.
(Edward Gilliam, in Charlotte Observer.)
Msri. n,elacholy and melodious bard,
VYhose fancy was not pawhie r,f i.a
earth.
But in some rare, supernal sphere had
birth.
Posthumous fame followed a life ill
starred Belated and inadequate reward,
lhe Krudging gift for work of priceless
worth,
Envy and enmity he knew, the dearth
Of love, from which such genius is de
barred, Ills was to live in "Choas and old Night."
Ills soul lost in its utter loneliness.
With vultures, worms and tombs to haunt
his sight.
And .evil shapes to mock at his distress,
I rey to all passions and Fate's creatuie
quite,
Death was the only friend he had to bless.
Lebanon, Pa., Nov. 12, 1898.
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store of R. Shoemaker, Perry, 111., says:
"A man came into our store the other day
and said, I want a bottle of that stuff that
saves children's lives. I read in the News
about it. The children may get sick when
we can not get; the doctor quick enough.
It's the medicine you sell for croup.' " He
alluded to Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
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OBSERVATION.
The Faculty of Seeing and Being Im
pressed by a Thing as it is.
(Baltimore Sun.)
The ability to make accurate obser
vations, though it does not in itself
insure success in the professions and
in many business undertakings, is,
nevertheless, an important, element
in the mental outfit of a man who is
to make his mark in any calling. It
is, therefore, a faculty to be culti
vated. Men who have a natural gift
of observation, who not only see
things clearly as they are and "retain
mental pictures tilled with detail,
have one great quality required in
the artist or the descriptive writer.
The mere observation will enable
them to picture the things observed
to others; for that they need means
of expression language of the pen
cil. But unless they can see they
cannot describe; observation is the
foundation of their art. Those who
have had experience in art schools
know, moreover, there are relatively
few people who observe accurately
until they have been taught to use
their eyes, The drawing teacher's I
task is more than half done when he
has succeded in teaching his pupils ho w
to observe an object, and the pupil
soon learns the technique of expres
sion after he has formed in his mind
a clear conception of what he desires
to put on paper. Most people have
observed that they can talk and
write freely upon a subject that has
absorbed their attention, though they
have been ditlident on general topics.
The reason is that they have some
thing to say ; the words and phrases
come readily enoigh when there is a
clear mental perception back of them,
they are elusive when the concept is
shadowy and vague. A parlor game
gives a striking illustration of the
neglect of most people to observe
common objects. A prize is offered
for the best drawing from memory
of the face of a watc h. Very few peo
ple can make an accurate drawing of
the face of a watch until their atten
tion has been called to its peculiari
ties, although they may have looked
upon it a thousand times. It is not
an impeachment of a man's ability to
observe to lind that he cannot remem
ber the details of a watch face, for
the subject is not one of importance
and may properly be neglected, but j
it serves as a strange illustration of
the failure of men to note details,
unless they are trained to observe.
When a father is asked by his little
boy to draw a horse, he excuses him
self on the ground that he has never
learned to draw: bis inability is really
due to his inability to observe. He
has no clear concept of how a horse
is built, and, as a matter of course,
cannot make the drawing. The abil
ity to observe is not only useful, it is
a source of much pleasure to the in
dividual. Children are easily taught
the differences between plants; they
may not become botanists of note,
but the training of eye and mind
they thus obtain will be a source of
enjoyment to them throughout their
lives and may also be of great use to
thorn. Many inventions and discov
eries follow, as a matter of course,
upon close observation. Other facul
ties are called into play to make ob
servation effective, but this is the
foundation of successful effort, and
special pains should betaken to train
children in the use of their eyes and
their memory. They should also be
taught to answer their ow n inquiries
as far as possible, for the knowledge
gained in this way is much more dis
tinctly theirs than that which may
be given to them for the asking. An
observing mind is naturally inquisi
tive, but it is not necessary to ask
questions to satisfy one s thirst for
information. It is much better to
tind out for one's self, for the knowl
edge thus gained remains fixed in
the memory. The child brought up
to observe, to inquire and to think
is sure to be well prepared for a suc
cessful business or professional ca
reer. Observation will give him a
multitude of facts; inquiry will re
veal the reasons for their existence
or the relations existing between
them, and thought will develop the
philosophy which makes use of the
lessons they have to impart. But
the foundation of all this mental ac
tivitv is observation.
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LESSON TO NEGROES.
THEIR BEST INTERESTS UE
ESCHEWING POLITICS.
Views of a Colored Man Who De
dares That for Twenty. five Years
He Has Honestly Endeavored to
Give the Best Portion of fits
Thoughts and Actions to the Ameli
oration of the Ills of His Race. ;
(Washington Post.)
Editou Post: For nearly twenty-
nve years l nave honestly endeavored
10 give me nest portion or my
thoughts and actions to the ameliora
tion of the ills of my race, especially
along such lines as I considered most
substantial. This help was not ad
ministered from afar,- but having
voluntarily taken up my residence in
the extreme South, where I was in
constant touch and intercourse with
all classes and both races for twenty
years, I speak with some information
when I attempt, through your col
umns, to propound some things to
the negroes by way of advice and
counsel, and to the white people of
America, who stand with the negroes
politically, as well as those who have
always been kept at war against the
negro on account of politics alone.
I have always appreciated very keen
ly the position taken by the Post, be
cause it has so accurately defined
the temper and feelings of the white
people toward us and advising as to
our course accordingly, which posi
tions have from time to time been
contradicted in good faith by able
ccJored men as not being the public
sentiment respecting us, but which
has never been contradicted by the
white people themselves. The Post
has certainly reflected what was pub
lic sentiment, and that is that ne
groes have made serious mistakes in
expecting to be sustained when their
interests or demands clashed with
those of the white people.
Referring to the race wars in North
and South Carolina I desire to say
that the negroes have been victimized
and traduced, and in order that they
may not be further deceived by any
belief that the President or the
national government will come to
tneir renei l desire, through your
columns, to suggest that section
5,299, United States Revised Statutes,
discussed in the Cabinet on Friday,
under which Mr. Tolbert wants
Federal interferance in South Caro
lina, was in fcrce when President
Harrison told the negro Bishops that
the President had no power. It was
in force when the United States Su
preme Court gave its many decisions
covering what they considered denial
by the States of the equal protection
of the laws. It was in force when
the white people of Wilmington or
ganized, planned, gave timely notice,
and did forcibly prevent a free elec
tion, and did expel the duly consti
tuted city government and informally
install another in its stead.
The existence of the statute in
question is well known, and is no
new discovery; but it ought also to be
borne in mind that tho statute at
tempts to construe the fourteenth
amendment, defines what is meant
by denying to persons the equal pro
tection of the laws, and directs the
President to interfere in the manner
therein pointed out. The Supreme
Court, our tribunal for construing
the Constitution, has given several
decisions saying what is meant, and
the States in question will not per
mit the President's interferance, ex
cept in protecting the United States
oflicers in the discharge of the duties
appertaining to those offices. If
these United States officials are mur
dered, the United States courts will
exercise no jurisdiction in trying
their murderers, for the threats
against their lives are not made be
cause of their holding said offices,
but because of their course outside of
the duties of suoh offices. Mr. Tol
bert, who appears willing to return
South Carolina and die with his
friends in case there is no power in
the Federal government to protect
those people, will certainly make a
needless sacrifice, for hope held out
by the general government is a delus
ion and a snare. It is foolish to
think there was authority under this
statute all these years, yea, all
through these troubles. The whole
world was given notice that the
North Carolina Republicans conferred
with the President, the Assistant
Attorney General being a North
Carolina Republican, and the Presi
dent sitting by and allowing all these
murders, and the popular will to be
suppressed by violence.
The President has no authority
under that statute, and it is hoped all
the authorities will read what the
Supreme Court says in the Virginia,
West Virginia, Delaware, Kentucky
and Mississippi jury cases, and in
the civil rights cases, and numerous
other cases where they went over the
ground. Their position is uniform
that the individual, who is wronged
in a right under the Constitution and
charged up as a wrong of omission or
commission hy the State, the party
complaining must proceed through
his State courts and exhaust his
remedy there. The cases where the
President may interfere, except in
enforcing the execution of the busi
ness of the United States, are limited
to such conditions where the State
Executive shall call upon the Presi
dent for help, declaring his inability
to execute the laws after proving to i
the President that he has exhausted j
his remedies. j
It is safe to say that no State Exec-
utive, either Republican or Demo- j
cratic, will call on the President to !
aid him in protecting the lives of the '
negroes, and it is just here that I !
want to advise Southern negroes not j
to be further deceived into opposing j
the political ambitions of the South- !
ern white people, of whom 99 per '
cent, are Democrats. Their aim is ,
white supremacy, such as we have !
. 1 1 vr
cumin uer. ieKiues are;
' taught to light and fear this when J
-ueir UU1 uauger auu nun cuiues
from opposing it, for political oppo
sition by the negroes has caused all
their ills since freedom.
Mr. Editor, while the Post and
Profs. Washington and Miller, as well
as Dr. Shadd, were mapping out the
negro's ills and advising him of great
opportunities in the South, I thought
it strange that all of you failed to
R'lvise him to keep away from politics
and political conventions, and to
apply himself along the lines you
pointed out. If this is done, his
rapid redemption and true emancipa
tion is certain. If he wants to vote,
let him vote with the people who
have the power. The Southern white
peple are Democrats, and the white
peopIe,who more there, as a rule, be
come Democrats; only the negro holds
out to pay the debt of gratitude for
nis ireeuoni.
This is foolish. He ehatiJd et his
fortune with the people where h is
piaceu, ami no honest Republican ii
ad vise him otherwise, because this
opposition most naturally brings him
all his ills, whereas, joining in with
the white people whose interests are
certainly identical with our own, be
cause of the same geographical sur
roundings, we place ourselvoe- in
unison and not in opposition, which
will certainly make them take more
interest in us. What should the
negro care about sound money, free
silver, tariff, or government owner
ship of railroads? What does he
know about them? Who stops to
consult him about them? Whv
should negro - leaders go wild over
party success, which means a few
offices for them, but certain destruc
tion of the lives and best interests of
the masses? Is this enthusiasm
honorable that sacrifices the masses
for the few?
Mr. Editor, you mav have noticed
that in these late unpleasant things
the usual result obtained; the unsus
pecting poor negroes were killed, but
the smart negroes came off the vic
tors, as also did their white allies.
who did not help when trouble came.
Those Wilmington negroes could have
been saved and their leaders should
have saved them by yielding to the
inevitable in time and reported back
in time that all was well.
1 can give unsuspecting negroes
this advice, and that is that they will
find they can make better bargains
for themselves looking to their own
interests than any "combines" seek
ing office can make for them, and k
will prove far more healthy. The
negroes of North Carolina have lost
forever along the lines previously
followed. It is to be hoped that there
will be no disfranchisement nor oc
casion for it. The whites want con
trol and are going to have it. Make
peace with them, and go along with
them, obtaining the very best terms
you can. This we must do all over
the South. Do this and our troubles
will end. Make no threats or prepa
ration for 1900; let the white people
manage it; it is best for you. Your
votes decided it in Kentucky, Mary
land and Tennessee, but you know
but little of politics and cannot afford
it, for you know that the more impor
tant the negro element is the more
trouble he gets into; that is why he
is best off in places where his strength
is small and worse off in the black
districts, for statistics show that in
the black districts the white man
owns 90 per cent, of the lands occu
pied by the negro, and the negro
illiteracy is greatest.
It is regretted that bloodshed was
resorted to to end the negro's politi
cal importance in North Carolina, and
as it is now said to be ended, the
writer hopes the white people will
take the negroes into their confidence
and cause them to confide in them
for the good of all concerned, but for
heaven's sake look for no outside
help. Poor Baker was promised pro
tection, and got it not, and his family
is on their own resources, he and
other members of his family being
now in their graves.
The national government has gone
its limit in our interests, and we are
turned over to the States for every
thing. Let us fall in and be with
them, for it is suicide to continue op
posing them.
I challenge any negro champion or
anybody for him, to give better
advice than the foregoing, under all
the oircumstanees. The State gov
ernments cannot injure us, nor will
it profit them any to do so, and we
should henceforth give them no oc
casion to do otherwise than foster our
best interests, after we have deferred
to them in all questions of rule and
government. This I submit for the
consideration of all concerned.
J. N. JOHNSON.
The sooner a cough or cold is cured
without harm to the sufferer the better.
Lingering colds are dangerous. Hacking
cough is distressing. One Minute Cough
Cuie quickly cures it. Why suffer when
such a cough cure is within reach? It is
pleasant to the taste. Phil II . Thomas.
Eugene Field's Arithmetic.
The first book which Eugene Field
had printed was the "Tribune
Primer," published in Denver in 1S82.
It was composed of short lessons in
different lines of study. As there
are said to be not more than seven
or eight copies of this book now in
existence, readers may be glad to see
two specimen paragraphs from the
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RAfF niTPTinN SnilTR I North Caron-W
NORTHERN PEOPLE AND PAPERS
DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT.
Observations of an Intelligent North
ern Man Went to the Carolinas an
Unflinching Republican, But Quickly
Learned That the Democrats Were
in the Right in Opposing Negro
Domination.
(Washington Post.l
Editor Post: Reading V.n editorial
in the Philadelphia Press of the 11th
instant, I concluded to do something
I have been contemplating for some
lime, and do it at once that Is,
write an article on the situation fn
the Carolinas from the standpoint of
a iNortnera man, and one who for the
past ten years has been a resident of
the Carolinas, and is thoroughly ac
quainted with prominent people of
both political parties, and also thor
oughly acquainted with the status of
the negro in politics. I was born a
Republican, being introduced to the
world in Massachusetts in the first
year of the Republican party's exist
ence. I was a strong Republican as
a boy and reached a Republican man
hood in the State of Kansas, which at
that time 1875 was an almost
unanimously Republican State. I
was for many years publisher and
editor of Republican papers, and
would as soon have thought of selling
my birthright as of deserting the Re
publican party. This state of mind
continued until ten years ago, I trav
eled through the Atlantic coast
States and saw the condition of things
politically. Soon after that time
in 18861 settled at Florence, S. C,
a section of the State where the races
were very evenly divided, though the
white man ruled. I saw then, and I
still see no way in which a self-respecting,
educated, or intelligent
white man can vote with the Repub
lican party in the South, in local af
fairs. The few white leaders among
the Republicans in the "Black Dis
tricts" are leaders simply for office,
with no higher aim; no higher aspi
rations than the money they can
make; the notoriety they can attain.
and the petty power they can exer
cise.
For some weeks prior to the recent
election I was in several counties
of Eastern North Carolina, and I can
honestly say, in my opinion, that any
man coming from the North or else
where, who could see what I saw and
keep his Republican proclivities in
local politics is either a fool or a
knave. There are manv srood men
who are Republicans in the Western
portion of the Carolinas, but they
have not been thrown into contact
with the results as have those of the
Eastern portion of the State. This
year, however, the condition had be
come so rotten that the stench from
the Eastern counties was wafted like
a great miasmatic cloud over the
Western counties, raising from the
borders of the ocean and ascending
even to the clouds which cap the
Blue Ridge, and a response came
which swept the State of much of its
disease. The people of the Eastern
counties did not desire trouble; they
nad nothing against the negro; thev
give him employment; they educate
him paving about yo per cent, of the
taxes; the whites build school houses
and tax themselves to- help him.
What then, is the cause for the great
feeling of the recent election? The
negro, in politics, is not a unit in
dividually, but a unit collectively. The
negro does not vote for principle or
upon party issues unless you call his
principle the talisrnanic word Repub
lican. For this word he will sell his
best friend and benefactor: for this
word he will place in office a drunk
en sot or a knave; for this word he
will turn over to rotton officials the
power to destroy the property of his
employer and make it practically val
ueless. Ihe negro knows no such
word as gratitude when he is voting
some will say that it is in gratitude
that he votes the Republican ticket,
but it is not so. It is because he is
petted, patted and cajoled by office
seekers, who are really his worst en
emies.
There is another reason he has
had a taste of office holding. Ne
groes who could not read or write
have held seats in the legislatures of
both North and South Carolina in
the past; they hold offices for which
they have no fitness, mentally.
Hundreds of them hold positions as
magistrates in the Eastern counties
of North Carolina. The negro has
not, nor ever will have, a judicial
mind: it is not given him by nature;
it is one great fault of his physical
make-up, and why should he, because
he is black, be put in a position for
which nature never intended him?
There has been too much talk through
the press of all the faults of the negro
of his faults against the white race
due to his sensual nature; of the dan
ger from him to be feared by respect
able people, etc., etc. I did not be
gin this letter to discuss these ques
tions, but I will simply pause to say
that the negro of to-day is not the
negro of thirty years ago. The old
time negro is honored and respected
by his old-time masters, and need
never suffer if they have bread, but
the "new negro," the boy and the
youth who have grown up in the
streets of the rapidly growing South
ern towns are to be watched and sup
pressed. It is the only hope of se
curity, the only hope of civilization.
Give the ordinary negro "an inch and
he will take an eil." He has been so
cajoled that he honestly thinks, at
least many of them do, that they are
superior to the white race. They
have gotten in North Carolina so
that they dictate to the Republican
bosses and that is the reason they
have been given nearly all the local
offices in the Eastern part of the
State, not because the leaders desired
it, but because they were compelled
to give it. The tool was rising up
against the artisan, and with power
to crush him.
The Press speaks of "honest elec
tion laws." The election laws of
Caroli
inai wuu ine
. i
their owu hands, the Republ
cers could illegally register enough
negro votes to carry the State, and
this without the power of the white
man to challenge. By the present
law all names must bo challenged be
fore the day of election, on specific
days set apart for this purpose. The
voter not being present, how can any
one know from a name whether he is
entitled to vote or not? There is no
challenge allowed on election day.
Thousands of negroes had been ille
gally registered and this is why the
white men not alone white Demo
cratsgave it out as they did give it
out, they would challenge this ille
gal vote with a rifle or shot gun on
the day of election.
The feeling in the Eastern part of
the State, as I learned from a thor
ough study of it just before the elec
tion, was not against the negro as a
negro. The most intense feeling was
against the white "fusionist," and
the white Republican who had organ
ized the negroes for the sole purpose
of forwarding his own political ends.
The tight was really- against the de
bauched office holder and his minions, i
The negro was a secondary cousider-
ation. If he came between the up- J
per and the nether millstone he would
be crushed; but aside from that he
would be perfectly safe. There was
a settled determination that the abom
inable conditions existing should
come to an end, and they "did to a
great extent. Tho day of negro dom
ination of the Eastern part of North
Carolina has come to an end; the
danger of negro domination in other
sections of the State has come to an
end; the day of the negro as a politi
cal weight to elevate unfit persons
to office in the South has come to an
end. With the negro vote entirely
eliminated, the South could be split
by the Republican party on legiti
mate issues. So long as Republica n-
ism means negroism in the South, so
long will the Anglo-Saxon race vote
as a uni; ior men who are white and
represent white men.
The Press says there was no negro
domination. Perhaps not; but.
where, as in New Hanover county,
where Wilmington is located, as well
as other counties, out of forty mag
istrates thirty six were negroes-where
the deputy sheriffs, coroners, police
men, and all similar executive and
judicial oflicers were uegroes, while
the whites paid 95 per cent, of the
bills if this is not negro domination
I do not know what it means.
I wish to repeat that the whites
have nothing against the negro as a
negro. The whites of the South will
do more for the negro than will the
whites of the North. Any inferior
race attempting to usurp the reins of
power, and dominate and domineer
over the Anglo-Saxon, has made a
mistake. The negro has made this
mistake, but he has made it, not of
his owu volition, but at the sugges
tion of white men, who have used him
to carry their own ends, but the dam,
once broken, the originators of the
break cannot control the stream.
The sooner the Republican party
recognizes the fact that ignorance
and color cannot rule and ruin
the education and the Anglo-Saxon of
the South, then and only then can it
hope to break the "Solid South," for
Northern men, Northern Republicans
coming down here to live, only make
it that much more solid; that much
harder to break. I am not now a
resident of either of the Carolinas,
but I wanted to say this much, in
justification of the firm and deter
mined stand the people of North
Carolina have taken. They respect
the negro who respects himself; they
will care for him when sick and edu
cate him; they will do much for him;
but let him put by his vote, incom
petence and dishonesty in office, they
will not, nor should thev.
JOHN P. COFFIN.
Danville, Va., November 12, 1898.
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Result of the Elections.
(Baltimore Sun.)
The result of the elections con
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party in the country at large, and
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Maryland. Considered nationally,
they involve a distinct rebuke to the
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