The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-05-03


the universe on questions of grave impor-
tance.t TO preserve their independence yet
Wi b a their faults | thank God for them
Th' y form to-day the only means of com
munlcation between the sections, and, it
seems 10 me. mark an era in the progress
of the nation. They have tempered the
tone Of our organs, so that they do not
scream and below and rattle as of old,
but must OF necessity now give forth
sounds more or less harmonious and r. a
sonaole. And the tune grows better as it
rolls on.
The second great difficulty of the
question | mention is 'tThe negro and his
relation to the local government Of the
South" The rising generation of the
South never knew the negro as slave,
and does not hate him because his skin is
black. Why, then, do the young men, as
as We'll as the Old men, stand as unit in
the determination that the negro shall not
as yet control the local governments? Sim
ply because they know he does not repre-
sent the wealth, virtue and intelligence of
the community, and because they know
tnat negro supremacy in State or county
means bankruptcy, ruin, disgrace and cor
rupflon. have no apologies to offer for
the interference with the negro vote that
has characterized certain sections of the
oOol1 ia tILiCS past. iLtSC Thugs are
mostly traditions now, and it is nv ear
nest conviction, after living in New York
and Boston, that there are as many crimes
OF one sort and another committed against
the ballot in the North rs in the South,
taking the sections as a whole. But what
was the cause then of
Intimidation aud Trickery
in the South? Take North Carolina as an
example. Immediately On the enfran-
chisement of the hordes Cf ignorant slaves,
and before the political disabilities of the
whites were removed the negroes, under
the leadership of adventures rs and Williams,
took possession of the State government
and the county government of about forty
counties. They wrecked the State govern
ment in short order, stole everything they
could get their hands on, even to the school
fund AID the United Stat, S bond script
fund. issued millions of dollars worth of
fraudulent bonds, raised what money they
could on them and stole that. The gov
ernments of these forty counties were
even more hopelessly wrecked The coun-
" scrip was not worth the paper it was
written on. and the land was taxed to
nearly It's full rental value, and land was
the only capital the people bad. What
were the people to do in these 40 black
counties3 Sell out and leave? They couldn't
sell. Nobody would buy Lands worth
$40 an acre could not have been sold for
so cents They did what you would have
done-they took possession of their local
governments they had il TO do or give
up the struggle Of life. They violated the
Constitution you say? Perhaps they did,
sometimes But self preservation is the
first law of nature and antedates the
Constitution somewhat. They said ii was
not right that pauperism and vice and ig-
norance should rule wealth and virtue
and intelligence. and that all the constitu-
tious Of the earth couldn't make it right
After all, didn't You teach them the les
son? \ distinguished anator Of the North
when driven to the wal by the relentless
logic of Calhoun on the Constitution, it is
said. replied: The Constitution be i -d.'
Tie Constitution did stand between the
slave and his freedom. You said II was
not right, smashed ii to atoms and made
it over again. | thank you for doing it.
You said the Constitution WAS not divine
before the war. Could you expect these
Southern men, whose very lives depended
on the issue, to accept ii as divine after
the war?
This dark cloud of the possibility Of local
corruption aud htnkruptcy and ruin hangs
like a pail over the South, and makes the
white race stand together as a solid unit
TODAY. The enfrauchisement of the ne
gro race turned loose too much power. It
forced the southern people to go into poll
tics rather than into business-their life
depended on it. The white Republican
party recently organized IN Alabama is
the dream of a fool. The white race can
not divide until the negroes first divide.
All this i say with the kindliest and
tenderest feelings for the negro race. Yes,
l,-{ .OE L Il
nurse in whose arms the weary head of
my childhood so often found rest, at
whose feet l sat and heard the sad story
of the life of a slave until | learned to
nate slavery as hate hell
What would [ give as the solution Of
the Southern question? Pass the Aus
tralian ballot system or a good educat ION
al qualification for suffrage in every
State in the Union, and it will disfran
chise two thirds of the negroes and one
third of the whites in the South, the ter
ror of negro misrule will disappear, and
with it, believe, sectionalism.
Mr.. Dlxon's address was received with
frequent outburstS Of applause, long con-
tInued after the eloquent speaker had re-
sumed his seat.
Prohibition a Success in Greene County.
[Greene county Cor. Plant.l
The Jail of this county is empty for the
first time in a long time, and by the way
heard the Clerk Of the Superior Court at
our last term say if prohibition and local
option remained in this county he would
not have the clerks Office again for be
would perish to death; that he had made
| more money in two days Of a court when
whiskey was sold, than he would during
the whole term now. The expense and
business now is nothing in comparison to
hat 1t was when whiskey was sold at
every corner. Under the whiskey Or bar
room rule it took the whole time and an
extra term occasionally to keep up the
!, business, now we seldom have more than
Y one week.
Scrap of Paper Saves Her Life.
1t was just an ordinary scrap of wrap
ping paper, but it saved her life. She was
in the last stages of consumption, told by
physicians that she was incurable and
could live only a short time; she weighed
less than seventy pounds. On piece OF
wrapping paper she read Of DR.. Kings
New Discovery, and got a sample bottle
| If helpe6 her she tOupht a large hottie il