The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-26
A DANGEROUS DEMAND.


manding State University for people Of
color. 1t strikes u that this IS rather
bold and unreasonable, and they would
appear to better advantage by improving
the advantages they have instead of
reacfing out for a College of their own.
In default Of lhiS they threaten to "knock
at the doors of Chapel Hill. The real
meaning of this we fancy is that some
artful politicians are at the bottom of tie
BUSINESS. and that the negroes, sS usual,
have been taken as the cats paw to use
in this business ~ orfolk Landmarks.
This is the first notice we have
seen of. a threatening, disturbing
element. Soor after the war tie
Radicals got held Of The University,
threw open its doors to the negroes,
put in lot Of sap>heads and LO-
bodies as Professors AMI succeeded
in closing its doors. 1t
was most inexcusab!e and shame
tul act of vandalism and unadul,er-
It'd deyi try. 1t was meanness in
essence and the men engaged In it
have never been fo,giyen by the ed
ecated men OF tie State. The Un~
iyersity will not be again opened to
the negroes for the same result
would inevitably follow. Whenever
the negroes resch that standard of
preparatory scholarship to justify
the erection of a State College for
their special benefit then it may be
aone. But we would sooner expec:
to see the last negro common school
closed than to see State University
for negroes built and equipped and
endowed by the white Taxpayers of
the Stat. There is growing SEN
timent of hostility now to sustain
ing negro schools by white sacrifice
and toll, and it will only require the
| agitation alluded to in the above
paragraph from the Ldndmnrh; to
give a powerful impetus to the hos
Tile sentiment and doom the negro
free schools for all time.
The white people of North Caro-
| lima have male sacrifices for the ne
cr< es that are sublime when their
own condition Of poverty is coasld-
cred. Peeled. stripped, robbed as
they were by the Yankee armies, the
unfriendly Legislation shat followed
the close Of the war. and the devour-
inc carpet-baggers. the whites went
to work to trv to get bread. an to
build up their wasted fortunes
Their sole basis OF credit the me-
groes, had been swept away and ye'
they struggled on, toiling, moiling
sweating, struggling, until at last
the desert began to blossom again
Lin all these Years of labor and sus
,nse ard oppression the white mer
bore with surprising fortitude and
.Quanimity all reverses of fortune
and began to reestablish tie commo~
, schools and the colleges and tht
q diversity.
All through the. years they fav,
deliberately taxed themselves tha
their recent slaves and their childre.
, shall receive primary education
The scucol funl in Moth Ca1O'in;
has at last reached 500 600, will
, an upward tendency, and this funs
, is equally divided between white
and blacks.
, Now, if in the face Of this grant
, effort to educate the negroes the,
should lend themselves tc the vim
! dlctive work of try iny to force them
3 selves into the University, Anowin,
f it would destroy it, they may a
, we'll make up their minds to get al
t. education through their own race
, for the whites will soon abolish TIL
l common school system and let eac
! race educate it's own children rathe