The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-03-21
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UTTERANCES OF A PATRIOTIC
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WHITE MAN. n9ll
Shall the White Girls of the South
Marry Negro Men.-A Ringing Adj
dress by Judge Flournoy.
From the Richmond Dispatch, 15tA.1 lsl
The audience room of the Powhatan
Club was crowded last night With
prominent and substantial citizens who
game to listen to an address from Hon.
Henry W. Flournoy, Secretary of the
Commonwealth. Hl8c
Coming to the subject of his address
the Judge said that there is one ques-
ION that is far important to all 9TH
, ers. There were no doubt men in the
audience who differ on the tariff, on
| matters of finance in the Government,
on religion, and about almost every
thing, but there is one subject upon
which all can unite, and that is the
| parpetuation of the Government must
be secured through the white race. 81
Our duty as white men, said he, is
to call the attention of the country to
this great issue-which shall rule, the
white man or the negro? Why was
the right of suffrage conferred upon
the negro by the Republican party {?
The Republicans undoubtedly had a
motive, and the Judge said he was
| going to tell his hearers what it was.
In spec king of the Republican par
ty he referred in particular to the
leaders, for there are hundreds of
thousands Of men who vote the ticket
who don't know that the fifteenth
amendment to the constitution was
forced down the throats Of the people,
and he believed the day was coming
when the fifteenth amendment would
be declared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court of the United States
because it was unconstitutionally
| adopted.
WHITE MAN AND NEGRO. W
The Judge said he would not array
the white man against the negro to do
the latter an injury. It would be a
oon to the negro, it would be like
benediction from Heaven, if the right
| of suffrage we're taken from the negro.
Why was this right of suffrage con-
| ferred upon this inferior race
Was it thought the negro's wisdom
and patriotism were necessary to help
carry on the great. machinery Of the
Government
Was his aid thought necessary to
solve the Indian and Chinese ques-
tions?
Did the Republicans want his ad-
vice about the tariff and banking sys-
TENS of the Government
No; not for any of these reasons
was he enfranchised.
The right of suffrage was conferred
for two purposes-1st. The Republi-
cans wanted those States that had
been charged with treason to come
back into the Union under such rules
as would perpetuate the existence of
the Republican party. I'd. The Re.
publican party wished to put a weap-
on In the negro's hand to defend him.
self.
WHITE MEN STAND TOGETHER.
Now, said the Judge, how can the
negro defend himself unless he has
control over the white man? To give
the negro dominion over the white
man is either the work of fools or the
consumate folly of madness.
The speaker said he wanted to see
the white men of Virginia stand to-
gether, no matter how much difference
there may be on other questions. We
must not let this state of affairs last
forever. There must be some solution
of this race problem. The Republican
PARTY had its birth in the denunciation
of the Constitution-that Constisution
which contemplates that this Govern
ment shall be of the people, by the
people, and for the people.
The Republican party has since its
birth utterly disregarded the Constl-
tuition. We must not lookl to them
for the solution of this great question.
The settlement must come through
northern sentiment. We have suffer-
ed from this curse long enough; we
have endured it wonderfully. We
spend 100000 a year to educate the
negro, who is taught to use his ballot
to protect himself from the white man.
When the fifteenth Amendment
was adopted, said the speaker, the ne
groes in the District of Columbia were
enfranchised, but in 1874 Ben Butler
introduced bill into Congress, to
abolish the popular government in
that District, because the negroes
were enjoying too great degree the
benefit of the white mans taxes. Yet,
at the same time, the carpet baggers
were roamine over the South, and we
appealed to Congress, and the Repub-
licans laughed at US. .las2
The speaker said he had no faith in
some men in the North who vote the
Republican ticket, and he believed
these men will come down South to in
vest their capital and will send back
to the North such testimony as will
arouse sentiment in favor of disfran
chizing the negro. and that the whole
problem will he thus settled.
Langston declared on the stump
said Judge Flournoy, that the only
solution Of the race question il thu
intermixture of the blood of the two
races. The white man, he (Langston
says, has the brains and the negro th'
muscle, and that the intermixture 0
the blood Of the two will produce |
person superior to either race.
INrERMARRIAGE.
I Continuing, the speaker said tn
only issue between the whites AM
blacks is whether the daughters of th
!, former shall marry the sons of th
latter: He called upon his white bre