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THE DIFFERENG NORTH AND SOI , a*«, wWle people, not under standing them, like Negroes ip the abstract. Northerners tender Negroes a sort of lip-service lik ing. To a Northerner,, there is something foreign about,a Ne gro, whereas Southerners’ accept colored people as “part of the plaee’V This has always been so. And I think the reason is obvious. Northerners (“those people”, as General Lee called them) have never had the experience with Negroes Southern people have had, that is, centuries of in timate, morning-noon-and-night contact. As a result of this experience, Southern people have come to understand that Negroes are dif ferent. Northerners, on the other hand, are prone to look upon Negroes as White people with black faces. Then, when Negroes do-not act as do White people, disappointment sets in. This is followed by dislike, then by con tempt, and if the rub continues, by hatred. That never happens in the South; Southern people, as I can, understand the differences. Let me point this up for you: During the four years it took the North to subdue the rebel lious South, slave trouble in Dix ie was almost unheard of. What trouble arose was on an indi vidual nature, some Negro or another would, turn “rogue”, that was all. Moreover, when things got tough, when Southern people, found themselves ap proaching starvation, Negroes shared equally in what little was to be had. Southerners, during those lean years, didn’t give the first thought to blaming the col ored people for their troubles. There was no impulse to “get” the Negroes. There wasn’t, then, and there isn’t, how. - , But see the difference in the North, once the going got rough up there. -son deadly, destructive desolation kills /i Wood* arson {thousand* of acres and millions of dollars H* of valuable Southern fores* resources. Deliberate bum hfl destroys trees that took years to grow—desolates woods areas for years to Come. Be aware of -*-—*.itfport diiy In the North, by July 1863, t-and-file opposition to the r had grown to such an ex --it the authorities could not fin their draft, quotas. From the very beginning they had had trouble in this regard; Northern ers of draft age would not re spond. And when Lincoln, by his Emancipation Prod a nation, changed the conflict from a war for-uniori into one of free-the slaves, the situation got out of hand, enlistments ground to a ..halt.- . V" ' ' Bounties to $730 were offered as. stimulus (Southern soldiers, nearly all volunteers, were paid $11 per month, Confederate). But that didn’t work, either. In desperation, U. S. agents were dispatched to sweep Europe. As a result, some 400,000 to 500, 000 Irish and German people were imported to serve in the Northern army as many men as the South enrolled, first to last. When even that didn’t suffice, when the New York authorities, for instance, were forced to go after “enlistees” at the point of a bayonet, trouble ensued, trou ble known in history as “draft” riots but were, in fact, “race” riots. Beginning July 10, White mobs began to roam the streets of New York, screaming, “Kill all niggers”. And did their best to do so. For four days terjor reign ed. Whenever a Negro could be caught^ he was either lynched, bludgeoned to death, or burned alive. Kill-all-niggers reached such proportions a mob even swarmed onto a British ship then in New York harbor anc( cruelly beat up its Negro crew. In 10 days time, 350 people, White and Black, were murdered. Not even cannon fire and charging cavalry could quell the bubbling race hatred that rocked Little Old New York, that July of ’63. Quiet came only when the authorities capitulated, promised to suspend REAL HOME MADE CAKES, PIES AND PASTRIES Donate, Glased, Chocolate, Jelly and Cream — Good Variety of Breakfast Bans — Fresh Daily Special Orders for Wedding, Birthday and Party P«l~« Aunt Jennie’s Bake Shop 813 N. Queen St, Kinston, N. C. Phone JA 3*4811 Laird’s Apple Rrpnr1*' *Get the. drift, Harold?1 f the draft — and not another Ne gro was to be found. Nothing like this has ever hap pened in the South. Hardly. Southern people understand and accept the differences between races; Northern people do not. We are on a parallel course to day. As today’s race problems degenerate, the worst results will occur — as indeed they are occuring — in the North. Left alone, Southern Whites and Blacks get along just dandy. But the abolitionist can’t stand that, so they make trouble and, in time, suffer the backlash. Retributive justice; isn’t that the phrase? Renew Your Subscription Today! No Mess — No Waiting — Our Ready-Mixed Concrete Is on the Job When You Need It. Also Sand, Gravel and Crushed Stone. Barrus Ready Mixed Concrete Company Free Estimates — New Bern Highway, Kinston, N. C. Frosty Mom Meats Inc. “Helping to build a better Livestock Market for Eastern North Carolina” Top prices paid for M-> Commission Charge No Waiting c
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