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- ' -: : ' - ' ' i i '"' -X C -:Ph'f7 bPJ BSfii ' IKE- WASHINGTOli" 'GAZETTE- - 77 j V- .. . : - ) " I "THE OLD NORTrl STATE FOREVER - '' , f; - Keep an Eye Out, and1 ;. - .- - m . -.- - i .. - . " .- - - - - i - -. - i': , .rb Drt,..AC You'll Seei " - ' ' " ; : : - - ' ; : - ' ' : " - - ' ' - : -t : ' - - - ' Read the Story 1 VOL. XII. !: . , - WASHINGTON, BEAUFORT CO., N. 0., THURSDAY, JANUARY 9. 1890. NO. 31. Ilk 11 S Wlt i; POVJDER Absolutely Pure. i)otU'F i'iev'r "varies. A iriarve: i.f purity. Viix'Ti;tb ai d vl-olesomeness Mnre i-)fi in ical th ai onliiuiry kind artfl (viniiot le id in cmnet itiou Willi; the iiiiiltitiMle.ot.low tests, t-htirt weight, a 1 ij n-i or ptiosi'hatu iovi.lt'rs. Sold only in can by the , - . 1 HOY AL AKIN.c; I'OWDEIl CO., 1(H) -Wall Si n 1 1 . Nt w Vr ik . . For sale bv ;)JiO. l'. Sl'A HliOW. I) I It KOTO It Y. Sj1 ATE AND GOVKUNMKVT. ;' - flovt-riiai; Daiii"! ti. Fowle, of Wake. Lieutenant-ioV'1ii(ir, rl'hnias M. Holt, of Alamance. Seeretary of. State', Williuin L Saunders "f Wake. Treasurer, Donald W" Bain, of Wrake; . Auditor, (ieoriie.'W. haiiderliu, Wayne. Superintendent of PuLlic Instruction, . Sidney. M ! mirer. of Catawba. ,.. Attorney (;eneral,vTfirtHlore F DavicV ,. son, or1 liHiicotr,!. e - " STATK-H'-AKU OF AilUICULTL'liE. ' '- Coinrr issioner, John Holiinson. . Secretary, 1 K UrunPiv ' CJieniist, llerlrt H Hatile; ; , A;ent Inn inflation, V. M. Wilson. .6-UrKEMK" COUIIT. CJiiet Justice. in ,s 51 Smith.of W;ike. ' Associate J st ices. J J I iavis, 'of Frank' r lii, Au)?nsu'is S Merrinion.of Wake, :! Jaine-J K; Sln plie'rd, of I'-eauf'ort, ai.d Aif'iiiiZo Q A very, of l.ui ke. I - ' .ICIKi KS SlifKKKJK chJuut. i 'Fint 1 iirict, U orn II lirown, of " 1 W aufori . ! . . ; SiecoTid 1 )isri icr, I Fiederiek I'hilip's, : of Fdt'i'eombe. j L . Third District,-. H (I Connor, of Wilson. Fourt h I isti ic.! ; Walter Clark, of WTake. -' Fifth I)i.-tiii.t, J()hn A (Jilnier. iuilford, Sixtn Pistriet, h V lim km, or Sampson Seventh District, James V MeKae.of Cllliibei htuil. . Eiirlit 1 Mstrit t. U T Armtield. Iredell Ninth District, M F (iraves, of Yadkin. "Tenili District. John (r livnum, liurke. Eleventh District, W.M Shipp, of leck- . : '. " lenhnr''. ? - j Twelfth District. James II ?I errimon, of Huncombii - r. j UKI'U KSfCNT A'lII ViCS IN CONGHESS. -Senaie, Zebuloii di ai.n e, 'f Meckjen-: buiji; Mat W' Uansoiu, of North - fuiiii jf - Iiousf-dl liepiew'e. tat ive.s. First Distiict Thoinn a Skiu'ier.of Ferquiuiaiis. - Seo-rff' District, SI I' Cheatham, col., of Vai'Ce. Third-District', c W M. r'.animy, Pender ...'-Fourth District. II li IJuim. .of Nash. Fifili District, J M 1'rower. o Surry. !Sixth I listiict. Alfred Howl.-ind.-" ! Seventh I ist i t. t. J S Iieudefsori,;Rowa'n, I . I?it:htli District. W II U ( owles, Wilkes. Ninth District, II (i Fwarti Henderson. Col'NTv'. ". . Sheriff and Treasurer, It T IIx!ges. ' t- Superior court clerk, (i. W' ilk"eu. Register of Deeds, M .F W illiaii.son. "Suiveyor, Mayo I; Waters. . -Coroner. W in II (iasUius. Commissioners, Dr . W J Hullock, eh'm; ' T M ( i ask ill, F 1' Hodires, F B Hooker. T I Waters, J. II. Small, ; litiaVl of KducationV V V Wilkinson, ' ch'Ai: 1' U Johnson, F 1 Cuilford. Superintendent' of v Public Instiuction, . 1'ev N.t llafdintr. I -Supt o! Ihvilth, lr W A mount. .; '' ". ' ' . .kiTv: " . Mavoi Jiio. II . Small. Clerk. J A F.ur't'S-. . Tr'e:isurej", J I' Sparrow. ; Chief of Police.-jM.-J-. Fowler : Councilmen, J li inali. C W Tavloe, W Merloni Jr. i M -P.rowuv W J - '-Ciumplcr, A ID F vtoii, Clias Black- leduc. : i . ' " i mails.. -.;'.; - Nortlrt't irdue ddlv at Sp m. Closes at lo p m. " ! Cireenville, diitviP40. closes -M North and So'tnl" side river due daily at - . U.piii;closr'sfat ti following mornings. Office Honrs,'! fi m tt 5 n m. Aloi ey ( inler aijd Kegbtrv Department, '...W am to o p i. (i' K i'.uckman, P M. S. 1!. ( arrow, Ass'l. iiria iir.s. Ietk(dist. H v!W li Vare, pastor. Ser vices eveH Sunday inorning and .-evening. -?-:un(tav.--School. at o u ni. A W ThoiHjas. .Superintendent. ' Presbyterian. Kev ' KMack, pastor, SeFvicesevtf rv Sunday morning and night. Suiilav School, at ? p m, Jas L Fon le. Sperint endeut. Episcopal, Uev Nat Harding, Rector. Services every' Sunday, morning and m-'ht.Sumlav school at 3 p hi, liev .N-Ht-Harding, Superintendent. Y . M- C. A. in -ets eye.ry-'- Thursday night. Praver nieettng eVerv .Sunday sit 4 o'emck ;. -in. ll.-ul over Jrown s P.ank. , " TKMl'EllANCK M KETINOS Reform Club, Regular meeting -every Tuesd'av inght at S at Town Hall. V C T U, Kegtdar meeting every Thurs ' da v , 4 p ni at Town 1 1 all: " ; Club and Vnion Pravf r mertirg every Sutulay, m Town Hall at 1 .w p m: Uaial of Hope meets every Friday. ' -,';.:- i.odoi s. ' ; . Cirr Lodge, No 104, A F and A M meet at Masonic liall 1st and 3rd Tuesday nigrns ot each nionth, E'S Hoyt, V M ; it 1 HcxJireS, ec. Phal inx i.o.iire, -No in. I () O F. meets every 1st and Srd Friday niiiht at their, hall, C M P.rown, N G: W J Crumpler, Sec'y . -Washington" Lodge, No. 1,490, Knights of Honor, meets 1st and 3rd Thurs- - . day nights at Odd FelJowsMIall, T J ( armalt, -Dictator: Arthur Mavo, ,. reporter:.! R Ross. F Reporter Cldeoro Coiuicil, No 3.51), American Le--- . . gions of Honor., meet s every 2nd and 4th Thirrsdav niglit.s at Odd Fellows' iTlall. ', C -M lirown. commander ; W M Cherry . collector. ; Pamlico I .Ul ire,v No 7ir.,Knights and , Ladies of Ho- or. meets -2nd and 4th Monday nigUs t ( dd Fellows1 Hall, n M ci erry. Protector: 1 P. Brow 11 . . Secretary.- Kxcelsior Lodge,. No 31, O G C "ist ard "2nd Tnesdav nitrht nt Odd 1 enows lian.nr 1 .. Aichoisoon comm-iiiuer, ur 11 M.eu, aecretarj . . . . . . . 3 T l l . n - L a. . GRADY'S SPEECH. 1 l)i:iA i:UEl BEFORE AX ASSEMBLAGE OF I BOSTON! ANS. He Discussed the Race Problem In obedience to an inv itation from the Iertdi-ants' Association of Bos ton Ileiiry AY. Grady, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, delivered the-following remarkable speech .be fore that body on Thursday eyen iiiL'. DecWber the 12.th, accepting a subiect Ivliich had been selected for j . - . , , . . , i him bvffihosc who Iiad m.vueci nun, the - 'Race Problem." AYe surren- MrJ Crjrady saidi" . i . Mr" President Bidden by your invitation to a (iiscussiou ui u; mpe nrriblem forbidden bv occa- sion to make a political speech I appreciate, in trying to reconcile or- deijs with; propriety, the perplexity, of t he little maid , who, bidden to learn to swim, was yet adjured Now g(, my darling, hang your clothes o a hickory limb and don't o dear ttie water.''' v The stolitest apostle of the church they 'say, s the missionary, and the missionary, wherever he unfurls his tlag, will never find himself in deep r need ofHincfton and address than I bidden to-night to plant the standard of a Southern Democrat in Boston 's banquet hall , and to discuss the problem d" the races in the home of Phillip's and' of 'Sumner. But, Air . I'resklent , if a; purpose to speak in perfect frankness and sincerity; if earnest understanding of the vast in terests in vol v4d, if a consecrating sense of what disaster may follow further' misunderstanding and es trangement; irt these may lie count ed j to . steady and isciplined speech and to strengthln an ' untried arm then, sir, .si iff 1 I find courage to proceed. Jl ' Happy aril I tliat this, mission ha$ brought my felt at last to press New England's '.Historic soil, and my eyes to the knowedge of her beauty and her thrift, glere within touch of Plymouth ltocy and Bunker Hill w here Webster thundered and Long fellow sang, 'Emerson thought and Chan n in g preached here in the cradle of Anierilan letters and al most of American liberty , I hasten to make the obfisance that every American owes Hew England when first he stands funcovered in her mighty presence. Strange appari tion! This stern and unique figure -carved from the ocean and the wild- erriss its mnjes growing amid the and of wars unti y kindling and storms of winter at last the gloom was broken, its beautv disclosed in the SH'.ishine, "and (he heroic workers rested at its basje w hile startled kings. and emperors gazed and mar velled that from the rude . touch of this handful , cast n a bleak and un known shore, should have come, the embodied genius of human govern ment and the perfected model of human liberty! lGol blessthe memo ry of th'ose immortal workers and prosper the fortunes of their living sons and perpetuate Ine " ; - IXSPlKATKfX OK Tll4:ilt HANDIWORK.. Two years ago,;;.sir 1 spoke some words in New York that caught the attention of the Nbrth .. As J stand here to reiterate, us I have done everywhere j'.-.o'very-word I then ut teredto declare that the sentiments I then avowed werp universally ap proved in the Soiitli-I realize that the confidence begotten bv that speech . . ? . "' ' . " r ' " is larrely responsit,He ior my pres ence here to-night I I shoiyd dis- jioimr myself if J betrayed that confidence by utteing one insincere word, or by withlnSlding one essen tial element of the truth . Apropos of this last, : let; ke confess, Mr. President.,, before tiie praise of New En Hand has died - h ' m v libs . that I lielieve the best? product of her present life is the procession of 17,- U00 Vermont'-. Democrats that for twenty-two years, . undiminished by death, unrecruited by birth "or "con version: have marched over their i t 1 .:i 1 . ' . '.i. .. t ruggeti; 11111s,-. easL-ineir i;tmuci;un ballots. and gone back home to pray for Jheir unregeherate neighbors, and awake to read 'the record of 26,- 000 Republican niajorit'-. May the God of the helpless and the heroic help them, and may their sturdy tribe increase. " ij - Far to the South , Mc. President, separated from tljSs section by a line once defined 111 ; irrepressible dif ference, once .t rated in fratricidal blood, and now, thank Gol, but a vanishing shadovyi lies the fairest ami richest doniaiti of this earth. It is the home of a brave and hospita ble people. Tiigre is centred all that can please r prosper human kind. A ' perfecft climate above a fertile soil yields! to the'husbandman every product of the temperate zone. There, bv night the cotton whitens beneath the stars': and by day the wheat locks the spnshine in its beard ed sheaf. 'In le same field the clover steals the; fragrance of the wind, and the obacco catches the the rains. There quick aroma of are mountains stored with inexbaust less treasures, ij forests vast and primeval; and fivers that, tumbling or loitering, rui wanton to the sea. Of the three essential items of all" in dustries- cottorij, iron and wood that region has) easy control . In cotton, a nxea monopoly in iron, reserve supply! of tlie republic rrom this assured and' permanent I .! - . advdntaire. ajraihst which artificial conditions cannot much longer pre " vail, has grown an amazing system of industries. Not maintained by human contrivance of tariff or capi tal, afar off from the fullest and cheapest sourcej of supply, but rest ing, in Divine assurance, within touch of field and 'mine and forest not set amid. costly farms from which competition ..has driven the farmer in despair, but j - . AMID CHEAT AND SUNXY LANDS, , j rich with agriculture, to which neither season nor soil has set a limit this system of industries is mount- ing to a splendor that shall dazzle and illumine the world. That, sir, is the picture and the promise of ray home a land better and fairer than I have told you, land yet but fit set ting in its material excellence for the loyal and gentle quality of its eitizenshin. Acainst that, sir, we have New England, recruiting the republic from its sturdy loins, shaking from its overcrowded hives new swarms of workers,, and touching this land all over with its energy and its courage. And 3Tet while in the Eldorado of .which I have told you 15 per cent,; of its lands are cultivated, its mines scarcely touch ed, and its population so scant that, were it set equidistant, -.the sound of the human voice could not be heard from Yirginia to Texas while on trfe threshold of nearly every house in Ney England stands a son, seek ing troubled eyes, some new land in which, to carry his modest patrimony the strange fact reinains that in 1880 the South had fewer Northern-born citizens than she had in 1870 few er '70 than in 'GO, Why is this ? Why is it, sir, though the sectional ; line be now but a mist that the i breath may dispel, feAver men of the North have crossed it over to the South., than jvhen it was enm-1 son with the blood of the republic, ! or even when the slaveholder . stood ; guard every inch of its way ? There can be but! one answer. It j is the very problem we are now to I consider .The key tliat opens theprob lem will, unlock to, the world the fairest half of this Republic, and free the halted feet of thousands whose ..eyes are ahead y kindling with its beauty. Better than this, it will .-open the hearts of brothers for 30 -ears estranged, and clasp in lasting comradeship a million hands ' now withheld in doubt. Nothing, sir, but this problem and the suspi- ' cions it breeds hinders a clear un- derstandin? and ai perfect unioit. i Nothhiir else stands between us and such lore as bound Georgia and Massachusetts at Yalley Forge and Yorktown , chastened by the sacri fices of Manassas and Gettysburg, i mi : l 11.. : . c ami uiuiuiiieo wrin me coiiiiiii; 01 letter work md nobler destiny tlian' octier woik ami nooiei uesuny tinui , . ..;!. k o....,.,i eontrlit ot tlif ponnrin's mnntli If this does not invite your patientl rtm' 10 p.u..ei a..u tnni,d,ti,0ov iid loPP1 race, tiieul shall sacri- hearing to-night rhear one more . My people, your brothers in the South; brothers in blood , in destiny, in all that is best .in our past and future are so beset with this problem- that their very ex istence depends 011 its right solution . Nor are they wholly to blame for its ! presence. The slave ships of the republic sailed from your ports the slaves worked in our fields.-You will not defend the traffic, nOr I the institution. But 1 do heie declare that in its wise ami humane admis trfttion in lifting the slave to heights of 'which he-had not dreamed in his own savage home, and giving him a happiness lie has not yet found in freedom our fathers left their sons a saving and excellent heritage. In the storm of war this institution was Ibst.- I thank Goil as heartily as you do that human SLAVERY IS GONK FOREVER from American soil. But the free man remains. With him a problem without precedent or. parellel. Note its appalling conditions. Two ut terly dissimilar races, on the same soil -with equal political and civil rights almost equal "in numbers, but terribly unequal, in intelligence and responsibility - each pledged against fusion one for a century in servitude to the other, and freed at ast by a desolating war the exper iment sought by neither, but ap proached by both with doubt these are tlie conditions, onuer inese, adverse at every point, we are re quired to carry these two races in peace and honor to the end. Never, sir, has such a task been given to mortal stewardship. Never before in this Republic has the white race divided on the riarhts 01 an alien race. The red man was cut down as a weed, because he. hinder ed the way of the American citizen . The yellow man wa shut out of this Republic because lie is an alien and inferior. The red man was owner of the land the jTellow man highly civilized and assimilable but they hindered both sections and are gone! But the black man, affecting but one section is clothed with every privil edge of government and pinned to the soil, and toy; people commanded to make good at any hazard , and at any cost, his full and equal heirship of American privilege and prosperi It matters not every other race has been routed .or excluded without rhyme or reason. ! It matters not that wherever the .whites and blacks have touched, in any era or in any clime, there has been an irrconcilable violence. lt matters not that no two races, however similar, have lived anywhere, at any time, on the same soil with equal rights in peace! In spite of these things we are com- manded jfco make good this change of Americah policy which has not per- haps chaliged American prejudice to make certain liere, what has else - where been impossible tetween whitea under the very j worst conditions, the universal verdict of racial histo ry. And driven) sir, to this super human task with an impatience that brooks lio delay a rigor that ac cepts nd excuse and a suspicion that discourages frankness and sin cerity. We do not shrink from this trial. It is so interwoven with our industrial fabric that we cannot dis entangled it if we would ; so bourid up in our honorable obligation to the world, that we would not if we could. Can we soIVe it? The Cod who gave it into our hands, He alone can know. But this the weakest and wisest of us do know; we cannot sblve it with less than your tolerant . and patient sympathy-r- with less. than the . knowledge that the blood that runs in your veins is our bloojd and that, when "we have done our best, whether the issue be lost or wpnr we shall feel your strong arms about us and , hear the; beating of 3-our approving hearts! j The resolute, clear-headed, broad minded men of the South- the men whose genius made glorious-every page of j -tlie first seventy years of American history whose couragu and fortitude you tasted I in live years of , the fiercest war whose en ergy has jmade bricks without straw, and spread splendor amid the ashes of their war-wasted homes these men wear this problem in their hearts and braizisl, by day and by night. They realize, as you cannot, what this; problem means what they , owe to this kindly and dependent i race t he measuie of their debt to U(L. word m Wuose uptte (hey dj leudeU and maintained slavery, And thougU ttiir ieeC are luudor ed iu itii f uuderg;iovth. and then uiHrch cumbered with Us bind, us, they huVo lost neither tlie p iuei.ee Innn which collies clertinejss, uor the faith lipin which comes ubimijje. Kor, str jwneu in p;sioiiate i0 inents isj disclosed (o theui - that vague atid awful shadow, with its lurid abysses and its crimson stains, into which 1 piay God they may never go, j 'are they; sirucK with more of apprehension than is needed tp their cousecratio ouch is the teuijer ot my people. But what of the problem itsell f Mr. Pi esidenr, we need not go one step further unless you concede Kinhf 1. ti,..t ........1.. I t. .Ir titii. ufrid luau 111c iiruuic? 1 ciicia : lor are as honest, as sensible, aud as just as your people, seeking as earnest I v as vou wou d in t heir place to'rnrhtlV solve the problem i - , " thltt touiJ" them at every vital , . ., 1 uiui, it ju insist luai. iiiev aie t in. ii n,i .1 ...j .1.... ... ..1 1. . 1 ' TJtn-M 111 i' r ruoiviior 01141 wtiv itii patience 111 vaiu. that t.he are But admit then 1 ! . I - r MEN OF COMMON SENSE AND COM- whitesiu tlie South, only Jour J. mon honesty, j times as great. 1 1 prejudico wrongs wisely : modifying an eutiron- him in Southern courts, the record mentthey cannot. wholly disre- shows it to be deeper iu Northern gard guiding and controlling as i Cofirts. I asert here, aud a bar as best they can the vicious and irre 1 intelligent aud upright as the bar sponsible bt either race com-t of Massachusetts will solemuly iu iieusatihar error with ' frankness1 dorse my assertiou, that in the aud retreviug in patieuco what they lose iu passion and Coin-cious all the time that wrong means ruin admit this, and we may reach an understanding 40 night, i The 'President of the U-iited States, in his late message to Con gress, discussing Ihe plea that the South should be left to solve this problem, ask: "Are they at work upon itl What solutious do they otter? When will the black man cast a free ballot I When will be have the civil rights that are i protest lis! I shall i not here against a partisaiiry that, for the first time in our history, in time of peace, has stamped with the great seal of j our Government a stigma upon the people of a great and loy al section; though I gratefully re- membei' that the great dead soldier who held the helm of the State for the eight stormiest years of recon st ruction, never found need" for qwhastep: and though there is no personal sacrifice I would not make to remove this cruel and unjust imputation of my people from the archives ou my country! But, sir, backed by a record, on every page of which progress, I venture to make earnest and res pectl'nl, answer to tht questions that are asked. We give I to the world this year a. crop of 7,500.000 bales of cotton.: worth 8550,000,000, alnd itsj cash equivalent iu griu, grasses and fruit. These enormous crops could not have come from the hands 01 sullen and discontened lalior. I It comes from, peaceful fields, in which laughter and gossip ri-e above the hum of industry, and coutentmeut runs with singing plougii. It U claimed that this ignorant labor; law is defrauded ot its just; hire. ! I present the . tax books of Georgia, which show that the Negro, twenty-five years ago a slave, has im Georgia alone $10, 000,000 of assesse! proerty worth! twice as much. Does not that record honor him, and vindi cates his neighbors? What people nenmless. illiterate, has done so well! For every..; Afro American agitator, stirring the strife iu which'alone he prospers, I caushow you a thousand Negroes, happy in their cabin home, tilling their own land by day, j and at night taking from the lips of their children and lielpful message their State sends them Irom the schooliiiuse itr. And the hchoolhouse te.stiiiiony. In Uorgi its. I '. Iif.irs Utddeil ri.i we i i 9-iU,0JII jto ; ', making h tot;ti i $1,000.000 -a ii.l this in I he scliool more tli,ni i U..i ln -.e ol prejudice uur; vet 'conquered ai the fact that the -whites iiiei asses sed for.lC8,000,000, the blacks ior $10,000,000, nod 49 per ceur.jof rlie beneficiaries are biack' ch ild re ; aud IN THJ5 lioUBT OF MANY WISE ' i MEN ifeducati n helps, oi; pr l le in. C h arle stun j can help, our with her tax- wide values cut! halt in t.vo usiuue 1800, pa-s mord iu proportion lor public schotds tha.n Bostou. , Although it is easier lo j give uiucTj out of much than little out of litlle, the South with onesevViiih oi- 'he taxa property oi t tie cUit j uy, with relatively! I. tiger dest, ili.iving received only oue-tweiittj j as inuciiol public I nids, n'.id having b-ick of its tax b toks u me of tiie ! .f5O0,OO0,000 d houds that eui icti i the N"r ii md,! though it jlu.vs aunuallv plio.OOOloo ro vo'Jr sectnm " , i as pension. ei; gives nearly one- s:xth to the public seinol tiind. The 53 -ip it, since 1863, lias spent I -S i li2,0OU,U00 iu educatmn, aud tln r . ..i . d'Jr fUUOUUI ... .. . t"ai I.- jncif;c;n li vj ,uuu,ovyo nine; loi State and city schools, although the blacks, p.iyiug 1 30 of the tax es, jje 5 nearly oue-'iall of ihe fund. G into our fields nud see w ties and blacks working, suits by side Oil our buildings is t he same squad. Irr our shops at. the ssnne. forge. Often the blacks crowd the whites from work, or lower Wages b, their greater need or simpler habits, aud yet are permitted, because we want ; to bar them Irom uo .iveuue in which t eii feet are lilted to tread. They eould uot there be elected orator of white universities, as they have been here, hut thejT do eiiter I here a hu ndred useful trades that are closed against; them here. We hold it better an I w.ser to tend fhe weeds iu the garden thau to wafer the exotic iu tiie window. In the South theru ure. negro lawyers, teachers, editors, dentists, doctors, preachers, multiplying with tire in creasing ability of their race to support them. In villages and towns they have Uieir military coin paiiies equipjed from the armories of the State, their churches aud societies built and supported large, ly by their neighbors, i What is the testimony of the courts ? Tti penal legislation we have steadily reduc ed felonies to misdemeanors, and have led the worn, in initiating puiiisL'iueut ' for crime, that, we ! ""Sl,t. 8ve- as tar HH, possible, this I dependeut race Irotu Ps owu weak- i -: i" our I''"tteiitiary record 00 . ,...,. ,1. . .... , ... . eeut of the pioseeutois aie ue p-rnes. stud in everv court the ueirr ;s, and in every court t he negro 1 criiuinal strikes the colored -juior. I fliuf. whitf men iniv 1 ml. en his iusi". In the North, one negro in every 185 is in jail iu the South, only one in 440. In the North the per centage of negro prisoners is six times as great as' that of native Southern courts, Irom highest to lowest, pleading for lite, liberty or properly, the negro has distinct advantage because he is a negro, apt to be overreacned, oppressed and that this advantage reaches from tUe juror m makiug his ver dict to the judire iu measuring 'his sentence. . j Now, Mr. Presideuf, cati -itj be seriously maintained that we are terrorizing the people from whose willing hands comes every year $1,000,000,00 of larm crops! Or have robbed a people who, tweiity tive years from unrewarded slavery, have amassed iu one State $U0,O00, 000 of property ! Or that we iuteud to oppress the people we aie ai m ing every day f Or deceive them, when we are educating them to the utmost limit of our ability? jOr outlaw them when we work side by side with ihein f Or reeuslave iheui under legal forms, when lor their beuefit we haveeveu imprudently narrowed the limit of felonies and mitigated the severity of law I My lellow-couutrymeu,; as you your selves may sometimes have to ap peal at the bar of humau judgment lor jutic" aud lor right, give to my. people ouigbt the; tair aud. unan swerable conclusion of these incon testable tacts. But it is claimed that uuder this fair seemiug there is disorder and violatioh.This I ad in it. And there wdl be until there is one ideal community ou earth atter which we may pattern. But how widely is it misjudged. It lis hard, to measure iwith exactness whatever touches the negro. His helplessness, his isolation, his ceu tury of servitude these dispose us to emphasize and maguify his wrongs. This disposition, inflamed by prejudice and partisaiiry, has led to injustice and delusion. Law less ineu may ravage a county in Iowa and it is accepted as an inci dent; in the South a drunken row is declared to be the fixed habit of the C'lmrautiity. Regulators may whip vagabonds tin Indiana by platoons and it scarcely arrests at tention; a chance collision in the South amoug relatively the same classes is gravely accepted as evi dence that one race is destroying the other. We might as well claim that the union was ungrateful to the colored soldiers who followed its tlag because a Grand Army post in 'Connecticut .closed its d.M.rs to a negro veteran asv for , 011 1 to give racial significance to e.i-ery incident in the South, or to ae,;ept excep ttotial grounds a the rule of our society. 1 am nor oPthose who be cloud A men e 'n . inuior wit h ' t he parjule of ihe outrages ot eltuer secnon, and belie Ameiiean char acter by didaring the 11 to' be sig nificant and represeiitative.i I pie f'er to mainraiii that t.hy are neith er. and stand for nothing ;lm t tlie passion and sin of our pobr fallen humanity. If society, like a m -shine, were 110 stronger than its weakest part, I should despair of botn sections. But, ; knowing that socieiy, seutient. and responsible in every fibre, can mend and repair until the whole has the srreugth of the best, 1 despair of neither. These gentlmeu who come with me here, knit into Georgia's busy Hie as they are, never saw, I uar' assert, an outrage committed ou a negro ! And if they did, iio one of you would be more swift, to prevent or punish. It is through them, aud the inc. 1 . wtio think with them m ikiug nine teutlis of every South ern coin man if y that these two races have been carried thus far with less id' violence, thaii would nave Oeeu possible any where else on earth. Aud iu thejr fairuess and courage and steadfastness more thau 111 all ' the laws that can be passed, or all the bayonets that can be mustered is the hope of our future. ''.- But we are asked, PVhen will the uegro cast a tree balloff' When the ignorant, anywhere, can cast a ballot not dominated by the 'will of tlie intelligent. .When the laboier, anywhere, casts his vote unhinder ed bv his boss.. Wheu the poor, every where, are not influenced by the money aud devices of the rich. When the might of the strong aud the responsible will not everywhere control the suffrage of the weak and the shiftless. Then aud uot till theu will the ballot of the uegro be free. Mr. President, 1 shall uot go further into political discussion than is. necessary to make plaiu what is most misunderstood, .and and what holds t he kernel' of .this whole matter.' The white, people of the South are banded together, not through prejudice ag.iiust the negro, nor sectional estrangement, nor the hope ot political domiuion, but because of deep and abiding necessity. Here; is this vsist mass of ignorant and purchasable votes. Clannish, credulous passionate, aud irresponsible. On the slightest di visiou of the white vote P. holds the balance of power. It cannot be merged aud lost in the two great parties for it licks p.ditic il con viction. It, remains a ' faction, tempting every arc of the dema gogue, insensible to the appeal of the statesmau. Let the whites di vide and it become the prey of the cunning and the unscrupulous. Its cupidity is tempred, its passion in flamed, its credulty imposed on, its .prejudiced deepened'., and even its superstition made to playiitspart in a campaign in which eery hon est society isjeopardized aud every approach to the ballot box debauch ed. Ic is auc limn sueli cun paigus as these that the white people are btnded together just as they would be in Massachuset s', if 300, 000 black men not one in a huu died able to read his ballot band ed in race instinct holding against you the memory of a century of slavery and iuspired hv'the parry that had freed them to distrust, and oppose you, had already, iu alliance with your conquerors, travestied government from yourState Uouse, ami 11 folly or villiauv- scattered your substance, aud exhausted your credit : But adunttiug the right of the whites to unite against this tre m'eudous menace, we are challenged with the smalluess. ot our vote. mis nas long oeeunippantly charg ed to be evidence, and has now beeu solemnly and officially declared to be proot, ot political turpitude and u iseness on our part, let us see. Virginia a State now under tierce assault ior this alleged .crime cast in 1858 7o per cent of her vote Massachusetts, jfiie State- iu which 1 speak, 00 per ceut of her vote Was it suppression in Virginia and uat'ural causes in Massachusetts? r . - . 1. CTT -. . juast moutu, Virginia cast ou 1 per centot hervote,aud Massachusetts, ngntiug in every aistnc cast only 40 per ceut of hers.J If Virginia is condemned because 31 per cent of her vote was silent, how shall this State escape in which 51 per cent was dumb! Let us enlarare this comparison. The sixreeu Southern States iu '88 cast 07 per cent of their total votes the six New Eu gland states but M per cent of theirs. By what fair rule shall the stigma be pnt upou one section, whUe the other escapes? A cou gressional election iu New York last week, with the polling place iu touch of every voter, brought out ouly 6,000 votes of 28.000 aud the lack ot opposition is assigned a the natural cause. In a district in my State in which an opposition speech has -not beeu heard in ten years aud the polling places are miles apart- under the unfair reasoning ot which my section has been a cou scant victim, the small vote is charged to be proof of forcible sup pression. In Virginia an average majority of 10,000, under hopeless division of the minority, was raised to 42,000; in Iowa in the same elec tion a majority of 32,000 was wiped out and an opposition majority of 8,000 was established. The change of 42,000 votes in Iowa is accepted .u.n n,ai 1 c-v huu ion m V ii'i'Ijph an inci-eaLse d 30,000 011 -.y s.dtTiiri t jority is declared io be proof Ofpo. litlcal fraud. 1 charge these .fa;cts and figures home, Mir, to the heiart aud conscience of the Ameriftau people who will not assuredly iee one section condemned for "what another syjetiou' is exeuse'd ! If 1 caii drive -them' throiigh the prejudice! of t he partisan, and l aye them read and pondered at the li re side of the citizen, 1 will rest on the judgement there formed and 'the verdict tfiere rendered ! It is deplorable, Sir, that in both sections a larger percentage ot the vote is not regularly cast. But more inexplicable tliat thfc should be so in New England, t han in the south. What invites the negro to thel)Hllot box? (He knows that of all men, it has promised him most, aud yielded him least. His first appeal tojsutlVage was the promise of ufortv iacres Mini a mul f in litijJ.I ,.... ! .. ; .... T second, the threat that Democratic success nieant, his re-enlaveiu(fnt. Both have been proved false iu bis experience He looked for a uome,j and he got the Freed man's bankj Ille fought under promise of the the Joaf, aud hi victory was deemed the crumbs. Discouraged and deceived, he has realized; m last that. Jiis best, triends are ueijgh Iiors with whom his lot is cast, and whose; prosperity is bound, up! in his and that he has gained lioth ing u! politics to compensate ithe loss d their confidence ami syinip 1 thy that is at last his best amjiis I euuuriugiiope. Atid so, without leaders oij orgayiz ition- and lack ing the resolute heroism of party friends iiu Vermont that make's their hostess march over the lulls a high anld inspiring pilgrimage he shrewdly meaures the occasion al ag'tor,, b dances, his lit tie fac couut with politics, touches up! his mule, and jogs down the f'urnow. etting the mad world was as it will! It i Tiie negro vote can never control m the feouth. and it winld be well iif partisans at the north would understand' this. I have seen the white people of a state! set tbout iy i black .hosts until their ate seemed sealed. But, sir, souie irave man, banding them toretiier. would rise, as Elisha rose inlbe- eaguered Satnaria, aud, touching their eyes with faith, bid them 00k abroad to see the very! an "filled with the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof." If there is any huimau force that cannot be withstood, it is the power ofj the banded intelligence and responsi bility ot a fieecommuuity. Agatnst it, uumbers aud corruption cannot revail. It cannot be forbiilden in the law, or divorced in force. It is the in alterable right of every free ;ommunity the just aud righteous safeguard against an ignorant or corrupt suffrage, j Ir is on'thisi sir, that we rjelv in the south. Not the cowardly! menace o( mask or shot gun; j but the peaceful majesty of inteligence and .. responsibility, massed and unified lor the' protec tion of it horaK aud the presera- tion ot it- liberty. Tnat, sir, is our reliance and, hope, and against it all the pojwers of the eart h shall not prevail, ilt was just as certain that Virgiuia would come back to the unchallenged coutrol of her white race that before. the moral and material power of her people once unified, opposition would crumble until its last desperate eader was left alone vainly stfiv ing to rally his disordered hosts as that night should fade id the kindlingjglory of the suu. j You may pass for.ee bills; but theyi will not avail. You may surrender your own lilertie8 to federal, lelec tiou law this old State which holds in jits charter the " boast; that it "is a tree and independent jeoin- monweatn" it may deliver its election ipiachinery into the hands of the covernment it helped to creatd but never, sir, will a single state of this untou, North or South, i 1 . ' - . . . ' De ueitverea again to the control ot an ignorant and inferior race.j We wrested jour state government from negro j supremacy when the-' federal drumbeat rolled closer to the hallot box and j federal bayonets hedged it deeper about than will ever again be permitted in this free government. But, sir, though the cannon of this re public thundered in every votingr dis trict of the South, we still should find in the mercy of God the means aiid' his courage to prevent it.s re-estblish-nient. S 1 rearret, sir, that mv section, hinder ed with this problem, cannot allign it self, 'stands in seeming estrangement to the. North.' If, sir, any man will point out tQ me a path down which the white people of the South divided, may walk in peace and honor, I ywill take that path though I took it alone for at its end, and nowhere else. 1 fear, 13 to be found the full prosperity of my section and the full restoration ot this union. But, sir,- if the negro had notlpeen enfranchised, the ;bouth would have been divided and the re public uinited. His enfranchisement against Which I enter 110 protest--holds the bouth united and compact. W hat solution can we offer for the emblem ? 1 line alone can disclose it to us.l sim ply report progress and ask your pati ence. II the problem be solved at all and I firmly believe it will, though nowhere else has it been it will be solved by the people most kleeply bound in interest, most deeply pledged in honor to its solution. 1 had; rather see my people render back this ques tion lightly solved than to see them gather all the polls! over which jf action has contendedj since Catiline conspired and Caesar'foirght. Meantiine we tret the . negro j fairly, measuring to him justice in thif ulness the strong should give to the- weak, and leading him in the steadfast ways of citizenship that he may noUonger be' the prey of the unscrupulous and the sport of the thoughtless. We:0pen to him every pursuit in which he din pros per, and seek to broaden his w-aining and capacity. We seek to hold his con 1 I : -l ' fidence and fiibidsMjV ami to pin him to the soil witl, ownership that he may oaten 111 the tire of liisowu hearthstone that sense of reijoii,i;,ilitv the shiftless can never know. And we gather him into that alliauee pf property and knowledge thut,thou"-h it runs ch.se td racial lines., welcomes iini'i 1 o-onr 01 .mi' i.u t. ii mis Mirso. continued in our judgment and j.i.stiiiod iu tin, luo-ress already n.a.lv.j we hope t progress slowly but surely to ihe cud. i The love ,ve! feel for that race you eonnot liieasur.f nor comprehend. As I attest ii lieiv. tiie snirii1 f .1... Yi lack 1na.11.11y. jromherhoimMip there looiis do.-.a oil me to bless me, and thro,ig:i me tuiooit of this niht, steals the sweet music of her crolmings as' thirty years ago she held me in her black arms am led me smiling on to ' sleep. This scene vauishes as 1 speak, and 1 catch a vision of an old Southern home with its lofty pillars, and its while pigeons flutterim- do - r-...., v.. , uiu 0 .......ji, rli ir.-k 1. 1 .... : 1 -. - .. . o "- u. 1 see women strained and anxious faces, and with chil- wren alert, yet helpless. 1 s.e uight . - r,v 1 " '.'iu 119 apprehensions, land in a big and home ly room 1 tecls on my tired head the touch of loving: hands now worn and wrinkled, hut tairer to me' yet than tlie hands of mortal woman and stronger to lead me than the . hands of mortkl man as they lily a mothers blessing there while ad her kneesthe truest -altar I yet haye found 1 . thank God that she is safes iu her sanctuary, be cause her slaves, sentinel in the'silent cabin, or guard at her chamber door,' puts a black man's loyalty between her 1 and danger, A J catch another vision. The crisis of battle a .soldier struck, staggeriii"-, fallen. I see aislave. scutlling through' the smoke, winding his black arms about tlie fallen form, reckless of hurt ling death bending his trusty face to -catch the words that tremble on the stricken lips, ko wrestling meantime with agony that he would lay down his life in nis master's stead. 1 see him by the weary bedside, ministering wi.h uncomplaining patience, praving with all. his humble heart that God will lift his master up until .deaths comes iii mercy and in honor to Mill the soldier's agony and seal the soldier's life. 1 see him by the open grave mute, motion less, uncovered, sull'eriing for the death of him who in life fought, against his freedom I see him. when the mound is heaped and the great drama of hjs life is closed,) turn away and with downcast eyes and uncertain step start out into new and strange lields, falter- J ing, struggling- but moving on, until his shambling ligure isdost in the light of a better and a brighter day. And from the grave-conies fa voice saying, "Follow him ! Put your arms, about him in his need, even as he put his about me. Ue his frjend as he was mine." Aud out into the new world strange to me as to him, dazzling, be wildering both 1 follow ! And may God forget niy:people when they for get these! - . . j .-' t - . f Whatever tlj future may hold for them -whetheij they plod along in the VUIIIC UOVVU -Willi It 'llillitrt.rx. o,..l !... serviLiiue iromj wineii tney liave never been lifted simje. the Oyreniati was laid noui upon by tjie Koinan soldiers and made to bear the cross of the fainting Christ whether they "find homes again 111 -uriea, and cutis hasten the nronheev of the psalmistl who said, 'And sudden ly Ethiopia shall hold out her handa unto God whether forever dislocated and separate, they remain a weak peo ple, beset by stronger, and exist, as the . Turk, who lives in the jealousy, rather than in the conscience of Europe, br 1 . . 1 . . . 1 - . , . . . nucLner 111 11 is miraculous republic they break through the caste of twenty centuries and bdy ing universal historvi reach the fiill) stature of citizenship, and in eacemaintaiil it we shall give them utterinoit justice and abiding irienusinp. .vpm wnatever we do, into whatever seeming estrangement we may be driven nothtng iihall disturb the love we bear this republic or miti gate our consecration to its service. I I stand here, Mr. President, to orofess no new loyalty. When General Lee, wnose Heart was the temple of our hones and whose ann1 was clothed with our strength renewed his allegiance to this government at Appomattox, he spoke from a heart tp.o great to be false, and he spoke for ivery honest man from Maryland to Texas. From that day to' this, llamilcar has nowhere in the South sworn young Hannibal to hatred and veu "ream; but evervwliprp In lnv. alty aud to love. Witness the veteran standing at th base of a Confederate monument, aljove the graves . of his comrades, his (empty sleeve tossing jln. the April wiipd, adjuring the youtig men about hiup, to serve'as earnest aid loyal citizens,the government against which their lathers fought.. This mes sage, delivered trom that sacred pres ence, has goiid home t the hearts of my fellows ! And, sir, 1 declare here, if physical courage be always equal to human asnirafion. that thev would die. sir, if need be to restore this republic that their fathers fought to dissolve ! Such, Mr. lresidentj.is this problem as we see it, sjich the temper iu which we approach it, such the progress made. What jdo we ask of you 'i First, patience: out of this alone can come perfect work.. Second, confidence ; iu this alone can you judge fairly. Third, sympathy ; in this you can help us best. ' Fourth, loyaty to the republic for there is sectionalism in loyalty as in estrangement This hour little needs the loyalty t lat loyal to one section and yet holdis the other in enduring suspicion and estrangement. Give us the broad anil perfect loyalty that loves and trusts Georgia aline with Massa chusetts tha; knows no section. A mighty duty, sir, and a mighty in spiration impels every pne of us to night to lose in patriotic consecration whatever estranges, whatever divides. 'We, sir, are Americans and we light for human lilierty ! The uplifting force of the ATiitTibi- Ulea. is under every throne on earth. France, Brazil these are our victories. To redeem the earth kinircraft and depression this ii our mission; jviiu we snail iau. uoa has sown in our soil the seed of His millennial harvest, and He will not lay the sickle to the ripening- crop until His full and perfect day has come. Our history, sir, has been a constant and expanding miracle from Plymouth Kock and Jamestown all the way aye, even from -the hour when, from the voiceless an A trackless oceaa, a new world, rose to the sight of the inspired sailor. As we approach the fourth cen tennial of that stupendous day when the old world will come to marvel and to learn, aniijd our gathered treasures let us resolve to crown the miraclefrol our past, with the spectacle of a repub lic compact jmited, indissoluble in the , bonds of love loving from the Lake to the Gulf--the wounds of war healed in every heartas on every hill serine and resplendent at the summit of hu man achievement aud earthly glory blazing out the path, and making clear the war. upi which all tne nations 01 the earth must come in ioa appoint ed time 1 1
The Washington Gazette (Washington, N.C.)
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Jan. 9, 1890, edition 1
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