The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-12-31

don't run together In North Carolina.
But, if you are not willing TO live under
negro government, and think this is a
white mans country, be sure not to let the
Radicals get into power, let white Demo
Gratis look out
Less than two months ago a deputy
marshall, at the order of Federal Com
missioner, actually went into the very Of.
fee of the Governor If Texas TO arrest
him while In the discharge of his duties
as Governor and for what? Because the
Governor'kept in the penitentiary negro
who had been duly convicted Of having
married white wife, in violation Of the
State law Of Texas, which forbids negroes
and white people to inter-marry! The
deputy did not arrest the Governor, only
because somebody advised him that he
was not the right deputy to do the work,
that he was outside of the territory in
which he had jurisdication!
Think of that! A deputy United States
Marshall attempting TO arrest the Governor
Of State, because negro was kept in
the penitentiary for marrying a white
wife!
About this matter Of negro equality, the
Radical party is on one side and the Dem.
ocrats are on the other. The Radical
Chicago platform expressly declares in ia
vor Of legislation to secure all civil rights.
What do the Radicals mean by this? Let
Senator Edmunds' Bill, now before the
United States Senate, answer: Senator Ed.
munds is from Vermont and an able law.
yer. His bill proposes to take every civil
rights case from the Stale Court and trans.
Ter il to the Federal Court, and REQUIRES
the Judge to decide II in defiance of any
State laws and Constitution that may be
in his wayl IL this bill passes, our State
law and State Constitution, forbidding
mixed schools and mixed marriages, will
be as worthless Ms waste paper.
If this bill passes, the States themsel
yes will be at the mercy Of Federal Judges
Federal Commissioners, Federal Marshals
and their deputies. II deputy marshal
can arrest a Governor at the command ol
u Commissioner or Federal Judge. ouI
State government will be at an end. We
know what power the Federal officers
have In tho Internal Revenue service ant
hsw they use II. How will il be If tha
power is extended into other branches o
the government
Are you ready for this, white men o
North Carolina' If you are vote for Yorl
and the whole Radical ticket; for ever
man on II stands on the Chicago platform
and sustains Blaine. II you are not read,
for 1t, then vote the straight Democrat,
, ticket. Every man who joins the Radica
party is obliged to be shall fellow wei
met" with every negro he sees and trea
him as an equal.
What spectacle that was in Raleigh th
other day in the Radical county convention
The white Radicals and the negro Radical
got TO quarreling, and the negroes tol
r their white brethren that they were lial
E and towards, and proiessed to be quit
, ready to settle the difficulty in any wa
0 the white gentlemen might desire
( Aud what was the resultt The whi
( Radicals had TO bolt and leave IL
4 negroes
4 Aud so II will always be. The negro,
will not allow white men to stay In ii
same party with them If the white men d
y not treat them as equals.
? Nor Is that all, On last Wednesda
a night, (22nd 0ct.,) while General Scale
y our candidate for Governor, was speakiu
: in Wilmington, a negro procession wei
by the place where the speaking was 6
n ing on, with u brass band playing at fu
!. blast. The procession Missed and yellt
. and shouted so that General Scales W,
forced to stop speaking, being unable
4 make himself heard In the confusion an
q noise.
n This was done in open violation Of 0
/, express agreement entered into by the E
ecutive Committees Of the two parties, th
the two parties should not come into &C
: lision that night. But this was not a
The negroes were not content TO yell an
: shout they rocked the stand where Seal
was speaking! One stone, brick.ba
!. struck Col Staples four candidate for Ele
, tor,) and Gen. Scales and others on Il
stand narrowly escaped. The force an
: violence with which these stones We
thrown showed beyond all doubt that |
mere child'splay was intended; for, hI
they struck anyone in vital spot, deaf
y or at least the very severest injury short
7" death, would have resulted. And this
= no new thing in Wilmington, for in eve
= Presidential campaign there has be-
!, y some such outrage by the negroes on q
)" whites Are you ready to give up Il
sort Of thing white men Of North Caroiu
- n you are not, uon't vote for the Radica
: Tor the Radical party Of the South Is
" negro parry, and the Democratic party
p = the white mans party; and this Is I
IA whole truth In nutshell.