The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-04-04

DEMOCRATIC NEGROES.
How They are Prosecuted BY Their own
Race.

From the Lenoir Topic
1t does exist at the South, but it is
among the negroes towards certain
members of their own race who have
seen fit, at one time or another, to
vote the Democratic ticket In the
eyes of the average man and brother"
of color a Democratic neighbor in
! black is the guintessence of abomina-
tion and is looked upon with feelings
of hatred more intense than those
which the Jews of old cherished to-
ward the Samaritans. They hound
him from pillar to post; they create
an atmosphere of dread around him
so as to envelop his waking and sleep
ing hours in pail of gloom and sus
pense they jeer at him on all occas-
ions, insult him in hundred ways,
and a fitting opportunity only is lack
ing to prevent many of them from
hacking him to pieces. They even
invade the quiet of his home and
make mysterious appearances and
noises round about the premises, as if
to haunt him with a ceasless dread of
the purgatorial fires that are liable to
break upon him. They would rob
him of all peace at home and abroad,
and they even visit his children with
prosecutions and i'll treatment that
demand prompt investigation by
the law, only the almost certainty that
the race would combine to swear him
down in court prevents the victim OF
their spleen from attempting legal
redress of his wrongs
So it goes, and we need not leave
our own community in search of in.
stances to prove the state of things
which we have described We note
here that such a diabolical spirit is not
SO much among negroes who have
been brought up by us, with us and
among us; they have more the spirit
of justice which accords to every man
the right to think and do as he pleases
they have got more hard sense which
teaches that the Democrats at last are
are the negro's truest and best friends
and with whom many of them would
prefer to act always, even to the cast
ing of every ballot-if they dared tt
! do so.
They are simply afraid of their OWL
color-aud that is the long and shor
| of it.. But for genuine bull-dozer o
his own race, deep dyed in the-wooo
malignant of the Radicalest type, show
us an imported darkey from the regiol
of God-only-knows where, and yol
have surely spotted him. His chic
characteristic is blind, anreaschins
zeal for the cause Of his party.
Doubtless every Community in >th
South has got samples like him ane
if he be educated either as minister
school teacher, or what not, so mucl
the greater seems TO be his uncharita
blepess towards an erring brothe
(save the mark) who has had tn
manhood to stand by his native friend
and cast a vote for the best interest
of old North Carolina. How long
this sort of thing to last; and to no,
snuch greater extent would such stu
pid and fanatical zealots in the caus
of Radicaiism carry their persecu
tions?
They can't down the Democrat
party nor the thousands of whit
people who control the destinies c
this country. The destinies aforesaid
and the voters who control them
both white and black-are under th
protection Of the Democratic party
and ther will suer!y be protected. Th
day is past, never to return, whe
negro ignorance and white-skinne
treachery had the control Of publ
: affairs in North Carolina.
We doubt not President Harrison
policy will soon prove that 5he appr
ciates this fact. 1t is time the Repul
licans nearer home. both colored an
white, were accepting the fact an
acting accordingly.