The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-07-04
NEGRO DOMINATION THREATENED.
4 STA RE7LZNG .SPEECHBYA NORTHERN REPUB
LICAN WHO WAS 4 UNION SOLDER.
HE DOES NOT BELIEVE I'M NEGR
(From lie Wilmington Messenger.)

basis of settlement of these question 6
that shall be accepted and respected.
and become part of the platform of
all political organizations, and speedi-
lily part of the organic law of the
land"
Col Edgington does not hesitate to
say that the elective franchise bestow-
ed on the negroes has been a positive
curse to them and to the country.
He favors a reconsideration of the
bestowment and of limiting it. He
does not propose to deprive all of
their right to vote, but to restrict the
right to certain class. He said
"The limitations should be SO ad-
justed as to secure a responsible class
of colored voters whose character and
standing will afford guarantee that
they will not conspire with irresponsi-
BILE and lawless white elements to seize
ON political power. The negro should
be undisturbed in his royalty before
the law, and he should possess sufh-
cient hold on the right of suffrage to
insure the protection of the interests
of his race. His present mode of
discharging his duties of an uncrown
ed king and ruler has degraded rather
than elevated him. The right ofsuf-
frage has been a curse to him rather
than blessing. Any modification of
his rights should be of such a charac-
ter as to impress him with the dignity
and honor of Americn citizenship. The
right should be so limited and adjust
ed as to leave the white race domi-
nant in every State in the Union"
He proposes, therefore to modify
the famous fifteenth amendment. He
discusses this at length. He says that
the man who can see no race contro-
versy is "color-b blind" Hear this
Northern man and let every honest
minded reader ponder what is said
and answer from his heart and con-
science if it is not true. He said:
"Ihere is an irrepressible conflict
between white suffrage and negro
suffrage. All dreams of dividing the
colored vote are utopian. This vote is
now and always will be a race vote.
The negro never can attain to that po-
sition of superiority that will permit
his vote to ever become anything but
a race vote. The enfranchisement of ne
gro suffrage was the great crime of the
age. The guardian angel of our un-
fortunate country was sleeping when
that foul deed was done. Any Re-
publican who sincerely favors negro
suffrage is the misguided victim of a
maudlin philanthrophy. Any Demo
crat who favors it tavors also the
stealing of the ballot when it is depos-
ited."
This Northern lawyer who helped
to free the negroes of the South, said
that negro dominacy in the Southern
States simply meant "white slavery"
He said:
"The negro has never been able to
confer the blessings of good govern
ment on its own race in Africa or
Hayti or elsewhere. He can hardly
be expected to govern the Caucasian
race wisely and we'll. The domination
of the white race by the blacks simply
means white slavery. The whites
will never submit to it. The Anglo
American race in the South has been
familiar with the chains of slavery for
two centuries or more, but they have
never worn those chains themselves,
and never will"
He had much to say on this line,
but we have not space to give him a
hearing. He enlarged upon the de
structive habits and qualities of the
negroes, but we cannot draw upon him
farther in this connection than the
following:
$50 extensive has the destruction of
the old plantations become that the
wolf even that was banished from our
soil century ago returns to howl over
! the desolation of its tillage. These
observations are not set down in NAL.
ice, but for our admonition and in
struction. They are intended to show
that race which has not yet learned
even the arts of common labor is not
yet fitted for the prerogatives of a
sovereign. 1t is intended to unmask
the hypocrisy of those who would JUS
tify the robbery of land of primeval
forests and virgin soil from the In
dian and the turning of it over to the
destruction of the negro"
| This is a very plain speech. Coming
from man of education and of the
North, it is surprising that he has so
mastered the situation and discovered
the true signs of the times. He had
much else to say, but we must close
down. He was hopeful of the future
of the South as great factor in the
Union, provided the white men had
charge. He said the South "dreads
the Ethiopian fetich," and he said
that the supremacy of the white race
must not become another "lost cause. /.
4 When Northern soldier talks in so
original and striking strain on Deco
ration Day it is we'll for all concerned
to ponder and resolve.
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