The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-27
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Three colOred fire COMPANIES f, u
Wilmington came to Raleigh on Tuesday
a. guests Of the Victor" They were
met by the Brass Band.
Ii the negroes really consider them-
selves citizens of America they ought TO
drop the term African in their Church
and Society narnc,. WI, ,ay -Aiu,an
Methodist" ii thcy claim to be Amer
can voters
The slaves have been free twenty
years, but no negro j, really free 20 long
a. he j. afraid 70 vote the Democratic
ticket He has simply changed his
master. taking a new one who never did
anything FOR him personally and only
helped TO free his race in the third year
ot the war, after il was found that the
Southern white men could not be wip-
ped in battle.
Leaving al that aside, 1t Is certainly
true that no man, white or black, is
really free, ifJor twenty years he dare
~ fOtC Ac lt lltb~-S- LHtu II lie
Republican party were as good as the
Democratic, he ought to vote with the
latter at least one time. To show that he
dare do it.
The excursion train hom Durham
to Wilmington had a lively time at
GOldsboro. Some disturbance arose be-
tween the Durham and the Goldsboro
blacks, and the latter ~bombarded tie
train with clods and gravel. One of the
eAcursiouists fired a pistol into the
crowd. 4 woman named Jane Lock-
hart was seriously hurt by a rock thrown
into the train.
The colorcd excursion from Raieigh
to Washington contained one fool WHO
needed 20 lashcs on his back. lie sent
a telegram stating that six members Of
tile party (naming them) had been
drowned. There was great excitement
among the Raleigh blacks, and the lie
is still going over tile State.
The Colored Methodist State Con-
ference meets in Smithfield to morrow,
aud the trains are thronged with stove
pipe hats, white chokcrs, and sable dig
nifty.
\ col5rcd M~etho1ists congregation
meets IN Metropolitan Hall every Sun
day between the house of 9 a NJ, and
midnight shedding sacred melody over
the city Police aud surrounding sinner.
The music is often very sweet.
North Carolina Negroes are get
ting their name in the papers just like
white folks. \ Macon, Ca, paper says
Alexander Bake, at one time a pron.i-
nent figure IN North Carolina politics
aud member Of the Legislature of that
State. has opened a small eating house
on Poplar street, near the synagogue"
- New York Sur Says:-"The Rev.
George Smith, a co.nred preacher of
North Carolina, formerly had charge of a
colored congregation In Flushing, and is
well known IN Queens county. His wife,
Mrs. Lulu smith, Is a mulattO of pre-
possessing appearances and considerably
younger than her husband. A OUNCE
colored man, a teacher in the Sunday
school of her husbands church in North
Carolina, came TO board in the house,
and she left her home with hun, but
when they got 10 Washington the lover
refused TO 20 any further. Mrs. Smith
continued her journey to New York. and
oil Saturday last arrived at her mothers
home in Astoria. On Monday evening
her husband unexpectedly arrived ac
eompanied by a policeman who carried
a warrant for her arrest. She was locked
up despite her tears on Monday night.
She had borrowed SIS from her hus
bands money drawer w ashing-
ton City Post tells of old mar Friday ,
IN this style:-''kIll the Democratic Mig
ger" are strange words to be heard in the
streets OF this national capital, but they
are words used by members of a gang Of
cOiored Republican %rutians on Wednes-
DAY evening last. The Democratic
Niger whose untinely taking off was
threatened, and who has been boycotted
by the colored Republicans of East
Washington, is an old man named Fri
day Jones, or ''lhe Corniield Orator Of
North Carolina" His only offense is
chat he is a Democrat. The respectable
eolored people Of Washington should try
to repress the ardor OF the reckless
spirits who have construed too literally
the teachings Of white demagogues.
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