Wilmington journal., 1868-04-03

schools.
CoNsERvATIvE-But the action of the con-
vention meant this, if it meant anything
When the subject was being considered by
the body, it was moved that separate schools
should be provided for the two races, and
the motion was almost unanimously voted
down-and that, too, when they had put q
clause In the constitution compelling child
rem, whose parents are unable to educate
them, TO send them sixteen months to the
public schools-thus forcing the children of
poor oChite men TO associate trih negro chiL-
dTen on terms Of equality.
RADICAL-To be sure, the convention
did not do this A.?
CoNsERvATTvE.-The records OF the Con-
ventlon show this to be true. And besides
this outrage upon the white children of the
State, the Convention refused to forbid the
enrolment OF whites and blacks in the same
companies and regiments of militia, and
carried its infamy to the extent that it re-
fused to forbid the mastering of achise men
under negro officers.
RADICAL.-I would suffer myself to be
hanged before l would be mustered by any
negro.
CONSERVATIVE the way your
party all talk, but you act diferently-and
your acts lead inevitably to social equality
with the negro, and to the very result for
which you exhibit such aversion. But this
is not ALL It was proposed to insert in the
Constitution provision forever forbiddinR
the intermarriage of whites and blacks, and
this proposition WAS VOTED DOWN.
The Convention not only did this, but &C.
tually passed an ordinance legalizing mar
riages of whites and blacks !
RADICAL-This cannot be true. III
believed the Convention had perpetrated
such an outrage upon the white race as
that l. would vote against Constitution
framed by such traitors to their race and
country.
CoNsERvAT1vE.-The record can be pro-
duced to prove it. But my dear sir, the
Convention not only did this, but it abso-
lutely voted down proposition forbidding
that WHITE CHILD should ever be
bound out, as an apprentice, to NEGRO
MASTER-and should this Constitution
be adopted by the people of North Caro-
lima, your children may be bound out to
one OF your former slaves. The truth is
In the Eastern counties, where the negroes
are largely in the majority, under the sys-
tenn of election by the people of all the
subordinate officers, which is Incorporated
In the Constitution, there will be maiori-
ty OF Justices of the negro race, and it is
not only probable, but certain, that poor
white children, whose parents are dead,
Will be turned over to NEGRO MASTERS
RADICAL.-This is hardly likely to hap
pen, for, Notwithstanding the Convention
has done these things, the qOhite men in
that Convention will no sooner submit to
social equality with the negroes than you
will
CONSERVATIVE. You are mistaken again.
The whole platform upon which you and
your party have been acting, is made up of
the word EQUALITY. They sing it, pray
it and preach it, night and day.
RADICAL.-I know this, and admit i; but
we mean POLITICAL "equality." You ought
to make the distinction.
CoNsERvATIvE.-Now, you arc wrong
again. The delegates in that Convention
met the negro delegates, OUTSIDE of the
Convention, on terms of SOCIAL equality
The charge has been made, and NEVER DE-
MED, that CALVIN j. CowLEs, the PRESI-
DENT Of the Convention, went into an
eating house in the city of Raleigh, and
called for two plates of oysters, and sat
down at the same table, side-by-side, with
A. Il. Galloway, negro delegate from the
county OF New Hanover, and the two,
Cowles (white) and Galloway (negro) ate
together, entertaining each other, at the
time, by familiar SOCIAL conversation. 1t
has been charged, further, and never de-
MED, that SAML. ". WATTS, delegate from
Martin county, and Radical candidate for
JUDGEin in the 9th Judicial Circuit, went
into grog-shop in the city of Raleigh with
a notorious negro character of that city,
known as "Boots, the barber" and the
two. Watts (white) and BOOTS " (negro)
drank together a social glass;" toasting
each others good looks Is not all this
SOCIAL EQUALITY
RADICAL-Why, you astonish me ! Do
you tell me it is true that the PRESIDENT OF
THE CONVENTION has been charged with as
sociating In that manner with nigger, and
has not denied it ? and that another aottte
man of the Convention SO acted, and that
he was qfteraC0rdS nominated for the Office
of Judge by the Republican Convention
! CoNsERvATIvE-Yes [ knOU these charges
have been made, and that they have not
been denied. And these acts are not alone
! done by the men whose names have been
mentioned-the members of the Conven-
ton, generally, acted towards these ne
groes in the Convention with q consdera-
| tion equal to that with which they acted
| towards white men. / tell you this and am
prepared to prOre it. Why, On the night
before the day of the adjournment these
delegates, in Convention assembled, re-
solved themselves into a general spree, into
regular Corn-shucklng frolic," and
there in the Hall of the House of Com
mons, of the Capitol of the State of North
Carolina, this glorious old State, whose
people have been famous, the world over,
for their steady morals and correct deport-
ment-there, in that Hall, sanctifed by
Stuart's Hoi,tg representation of the Father
of his Country, and made immortal by the
names of the santed CASTOR and those
grand old statesmen of former days, Ma
con, Badger, Mangum and Morehead-
there, in that once sacred place, was COM
menced the most disgraceful, the most In
famous transaction, that ever occurred out
side of grog-shop Members of the Con-
vention, black and white, and black out
siders, formed a circle. joining hands, i'm
medately in front of the Speakers chair,
and dancing to all sorts of tunes, different
persons singing different tunes among
which the most popular were such as
"Sal's in the garden siftin sand, old John
Browns body is mouldering in the clay" :"
"Come out of the wilderness, "Oh Yal-
low gal can't you come out tonight" &c.
Sir, it was scene that made the heart
sick. and the eyes weep. Candidates for
| T1lT0eShiDS were seen prominent among