The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-01-24
NEGRO OUTRAGES.

On the local page OF LnlS Issue u
THE SENTINEL will be found black
weeks record of negroi outrages IN
this community, anu our State and
Southern exchanges contain numel-
Gus accounts of theft, deadly assaults,
rapine and murder-all committed by
lawless negroes.
In Durham last week little girl
was knocked senseless on the streets by
a black fend, and negro named
Bonapsrte, formerly of Raleigh, has
just been jailed at Hampton, Va, for
an outrageous assault on little white
girl, the child of prominent mer-
chant of that place. In South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana
ond other Southern states similar
outrages are reported as having occur
red during the past week.
Now, this is a condition, not the
DRY, which confronts us-a condition
which must not, Ecannot last much
longer among people whose high
sense of honor, of virtue and of bra
very is surpassed in no cline or coun-
try.
Taken as a race, the negro Of this
generation is decidedly bad egg. In
the U. S. Senate last week, Senator
Morgan, of Alabama, said:
"Now, take the young negroes of
the South, and they are the most un-
promising yes, the most God-forsaken
set of people in respect of industry
and Of hopes and prospects of ever
performing anything that requires la
Dor, found anywhere outside of Al
giers or Morocco, or the great desert
Of Sahara. 1t costs us down there a
full thousand dollars to raise negro
child-a boy-from his birth to eigh-
teen years Of age, not to include the
stealing and the other depredations
that the poor creature perpetrates, it
seems from a natural drift /; 1 am
afraid it is that"
"Sir,'' continued Mr.. Morgan, eff 1
could only by decree of law or of
Providence expel from the state of AL
ALBANIA this day every negro in it and
have a barrier erected so that he
cou'd never return, the lands in Ala
bama would rush up to prices greater
than they are in Wisconsin, and the
people would rush into that country
with more eagerness than they are try
ing now to get into Oklahoma."
After descanting upon the beauty
and fertility Of Alabama and disclaim-
ing any responsibility ESQ far as the
present generation was concerned for
the presence of the negro in the South,
Mr.. Morgan said, 1--WE have sub:
stratum Of laboring population in the
South upon which you cannot build a
real, substantial, prosperous industry.
either in manufacturing or in agricult-
ure That is our misfortune. God
knows I regret it. 1 cannot help it.
Il was asked by the Senator from
New Hampshire whether was of the
opinion that it would be for the bene
fis of the people of the southern coun.
try that the negro should disperse into
other states. l answered it by stating
that 1 was always in favor of the prop.
osition advanced by Senator Window
for the dispersion of the negroes.
believe it would be godsend to the
people of the South if that could be
done. do not know that the Senator
from New Hampshire has made any
great effort to draw negroes into his
state. I wish he would start among
the many societies that he seems to be
propagating, a society for the intro
duction of negroes from Alabama into
New Hampshire, and I would do my
best to promtoe his society, to get sub
scribers to it, and to get negroes te
migrate. He can have all the benefit
of them that he thinks he wants."
Now, we do not mean to say that
all negroes are bad-they are not. Al
rule the country farm hands are q
peaceable people, especially the "old
issue" darkies, who were born before
the war. On the contrary, the town
and city negroes, as rule, are not on.
ly lazy, shiftless, impudent, ungrateful
and lawless; but many of them hate
white man worse than they do the
devil himself.
The prevailing state cf affairs, which
promises to grow worse, is such al
should command the earnest atten tior
our State and National Legislators
and engage the thoughtful considera
ton of every true and patriotic citizen
OF our otherwise God blessed Southern
land.