The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-05-18
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vative, as well as the Democratic, members |
of the General Assembly, the following par
agraph:
The colored man now enjoys the same
political and civil rights as the white man.
We accept his status as fixed by the Consti- |
tuition of this State and the United States |
in good faith. We regard it as a final set |
Element of the question. 1t now becomes |
our duty as good citizens 10 elevate him
morally and intellectually"
The above would deceive almost apynan,
ntfeaa1lpt conycrsant with the 81 Tenn of !
deception practiced by the scallawags'' Of !
Legislature. But it is plain. They promise
to aid and elevate the colored man morally
and intellectually" but not politically. SAY, |
there's the rub"
They elevate him morally by burning his
churches and encouraging the kuklux to
hang and shoot him.
They elevate him Intellectually by. tearing
down or otherwise destroying his school
houses, and by encouraging the kuklux to
mutilatel or scourge him.
And they elevate him politically by "ask
ing his VOTE" and by denouncing him after
wards as /" being without SOUL" and a
degraded creature.
1t is Office for themselves always, and
intellectual development for the colored
man all the time.
But in order to make the spirit of this ad-
dress palmer, we copy from the remarks of
Hon. VIM. A. Graham, delivered in Tucker
Hall, on the 9Th day of April, 1868, wherein
he said:
"Those of them, (the colored people, who
shall be content to act on this principle, and
to rely upon honesty, industry and good be
havior, will in the end find themselves far
better off than will be such, as intoxicated
with the new enjoyment of freedom, aspire
to become politicians, and rely upon the dispen-
sations of government or party charities, or
the distribution of confscated estates in ex.
pectancy, or other good fortune in the whirl-
pool ofrevolution."
/ uON. 0ldldLl iultuul Sdlu i nave dlIcd-
dy said that the native African, on his own
continent, never established republic, an d
the native negro race is there no further ad-
| vanced in civilization than it was twenty
centuries ago. His highest, his only ad-
vancement has been on this continent, phere
he pas brought and sold into slacery, and near
ly all of his posterity has remained in that
| condition until three years back
Here then is the proposition for moral and
intellectual development in one word, to-
wit slarey. Gov. Graham says, that this
is the. highest standpoint yet reached by
the ncgro--he warns that rage against as
! piring to political prefcrment; and says.
further, in discussing the same question, that,
Gentlemen, the fact before our eyes, that
the colored men, in the election ordered by
| Congress have, with the minutest excep-
tions, been formed and compacted into a
party, upon supposed diversity of interest
and antagonism to the whites, lisa conclu
sive reason why the white men should unite,
exhibit their power, and assert the dignity
and rights of the race, which discovered
| and settled the continent, achieved its indie
pendence, founded its institutions and have
always governed it heretofore. Such con-
sideration renders union on our part mat
ter of self defense, and appeals to the pride
of race and manhood, as well as to interest,
duty, the prosperity, safety, and the well
being of society. Speaking for myself, Ihace
no scruple in declaring, that Ithink the line
Of color should be the line of division in the
exercise Of the electiOe franehisen
Here then is the line of color laid down
in politics, and it has never been withdrawn
though there have been spasmodic efforts to
cause retraction. However the colored
people cannot be seduced by promises of in
tellectual and moral development, when
they are told that the highest state which
they ever achieved was the condition of
sla0ery eaa 49,
Besides when the following list of out
RACES, by kuklux, committed in Orange, the
county of Gov. Graham, is read, accompa-
MED with the acknowledged fact that he
has never turned finger for the arrest of
the assassins, it will appear plainly that
"moral and intellectual development" means
Slavery;
Five men hung, one shot, over dozen
whipped, and many houses broken into and
pillaged in Orange county.
Besides this horrible list of crimes, we
present the following from Alamance county:
Jos. Guy, (colored) hung near Alamance,
Orange line; JEFF. Morrow, (colored) hung
in Alamance; Dan Morrow, (colored) hung
in Alamance; Wyatt Outlaw, (coloreD hung
on the public square near the Court House
in Graham; VIM. Puryer, (coloredD taken
from his house and not heard from since;
Caswell Holt, (colorcd) shot and left for
dead, but survived Henry Holt, house
broken into and rope taken from his bed
to hang him with, but he escapcds SEQ,
Reppy, (colored) taken from his house
and whipped; Caswell Holt, Golored)
taken from his house and whipped
John Bason, white, taken from his house
and whipped Thomas Siddle, white, taken
from his house and whipped; Alonzo T.
Curtis, white, taken from his house and
whipped; VIM. Simpson, white, taken from
his house and whipped Leonard Reppy,
white, taken from his house and whipped /;
Christmas Ringstaff was visited twice at his
house and ordered to leave the county
which he did Salle Holt and daughter,
white, taken from their house and whipped
Jos. McAdams, white, coffin put at his door
and ordered to leave; G. D. Boon, white,
life threatened and ordered to leave Monday
Freeland, colored, whipped; Mike Freeland,
colored, whipped; Henderson Coble, colored,
whipped.
John Bass, castrated, since dead: VIM.
Hornaday, white, shot at in his dwelling;
Polly Gapins, white, house torn down and
orderedto leave; VIM. Long, col, whipped;
10. Harvey, col, whipped; 10. Harvcy's in
FAINT child killed with club = Thomp
son, col, woman, shot in her house Jerry
Isley, COL, whipped and house torn down;
Hamilton Denny, col, taken from his house
and whipped Widow Wheeler, white. fore
ed to leave home; John Shatterly, white,
called from his house and shot at Henry
Wheeler, white, whipped David Loftin.
white. whipped; Nathan Trollcngtr, COL,
whipped Dicey Ducky, COL, choked near.
ly to death; Andy Shofner, COL, whipped;
= Lassiter, white, whipped; John Morrow, /.
COL, whipped; Sandy Dixon, COL, whipped
Porter Dixon, col, whipped Squire Aston,
COL, house broken open, shot at and wound
ed; John Lennens, white, whipped: Mrs.
Lennens, white, whipped; Andy Murray,
white, his negro houses torn down. grave
dug for him and his negroes LINDSAY Kop,