Wilmington journal., 1874-07-31
DOES RADlCALESN MEAN CIVIL


outrage. While his Honor, Judge Rus
=, sell, like the busy bee, is we trus
- improving the shining hours by ad
Q ding to his stock of what he know
about grammar. we propose this morn
ing to see what this negro party dodg'
70 is worth.
We have already shown e1
u tracts by the National. State and Dis
Il trict Radical platforms that the party
Z I is fully committed to the doctrine o1
civil rights. This morning, space will
permit us only to refer to some of the
candidates now before the people and
L to state as briefly as may be what 10
sition they take in the premises.
Clinton L. Cobb has represented, OF
misrepresented,t the people of the First
Congressional District in the lower
House of the National Legislature for
three terms. Mr.. Cobb has, on every
, occasion, spoken and voted for the
passage of the civil rights bill. During
the last session of the Congress, after
the passage of the bill by the Senate,
he voted to take it from the Speaker s
table in the House, to the hindrance
of other business of more practical
benefit to the people of his State and
nation. And yet. opposed rs the
negro party says it is to the bill, at
a convention of that party held for the
purpose of nominating candidate to
IL n,
gress, Mr. Cobb was endorsed by re-
nomination and the party is seeking to
return him to Washington that he may
again assist in the effort to inf1ict this
curse upon our people.
John A. Hyman, colored, is the
Radical candidate in the Second Con-
gressional District of this State. John
has been for several years a member of
the State Senate from the county of
Warren. AS such a Senator, on the
18th day of December, 1873, he voted
for resolution introduced in the Sen
by Henry Eppes, colored. Senator
from Halifax, strongly endorsing the
Sumner Civil Rights bill, and urging
the Congress of the United States to
give it immediate effect by it enact
| ment into law.
In the Third District, Neill Mckay is
the candidate of the negro party for
| Congress. He is the man who told
the negroes that if he was elected there
would be "no parlor and no Kitchen"
4, IL
the wealth and intelligence of the coun-
try" the man who received his nOmi-
nation ona platform that expressly ad
vocated the education of all classes
without regard to race or color, and
received it from the hands of white del |
egates and black delegates, who sat |
together and ate together at the same
table and at the same time. So much |
for the negro party candidates for Con-
gress, and now q word as the Judicial |
candidates.
Augustus S. Seymour, of Craven, is
the negro party candidate for Judge in
the Third Judicial District. Mr.. Sey-
mour has rep1 1esented that county in
both branches of the State Legislature;
and. by his vote in favor of the Eppes
resolution, hereinbefore mentioned,
fixed his position upon the Civil Rights
question.
In the Fourth Judicial District Mr..
Russell is the candidate, though not
the public nominee of the negro party.
His celebrated Opera House oJiter
dictum shows that he holds Civil
Rights to be a higher law than even
an act of Congress. Professedly indie
pendent, because too regardful of the
sacred character of the exalted posi-
ton to seek it through the medium of
a party NOM nation, he is, in fact, the
candidate of party, and is now open
ly engaged in a canvass of Brunswick
county.
In the Raleigh District Mr.. Harris,
the negro party candidate for Solici-
tor. openly announced his endorse
ment of Mr.. Sumner and his Civil
Rights bill.
How is it with other candidates?
In Wake county, James H. Harris,
negro, is the candidate of the negro
party for the Legislature. He voted
for Eppes' resolution endorsing Sum-
ner's Civil Rights Bill in the Senate
last winter
In Craven county, Dudley, another
negro, who introduced a Civil Rights
Bill of his own, into the Legislature
last winter, and Abbott, also a negro
who favored Civil Rights, are the can
didates of tLeir party for the Legisla-
ture.
Mr.. McCabe, white, who voted to
ask Congress to pass the Civil Rights
Bill i'll the Senate, is now the regular
nominee of the negro party for Clerk
of the Court. in Edgecombe county.
Willis Bum, negro, of the same
county, who also favored Civil Rights
in the Legislature, is now the candi-
date of the negro party in his county
for reelection.
Joseph Cobb, white, in the same
county, who also favored Civil Rights
in the Legislature, is tho candidate
of the negro party for Sheriff in the
same county.
In the county of New Hanover,
Heaton, white; Brewington and Banks,
negroes, avowed advocates of Civil
Rights, are candidates of the negro
party. Duncan Holmes, also an
avowed Civil Rights advocate, has
just been made an Alderman of the
city of Wilmington. Edward Cant
we'll, white. who has longpublicly favor
ed Summers bill, and who now advises
negroes to vote for no man who is not
favorable to Civil Rights, is the candi-
Senate.