The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-21
MASS ,IEaTlNG OENEGa:oE>.
They DenOuncc the E.eci>IaIure
for Changing The EiectiOn
E.nsS and Resolve 10 s4cave
the HGafe

Metropolitan Hall in Raleigh was
crowded Monday night, upwards Of
two thousand negroes being present.
1t was meeting called for the pur>
pose of discussing the NV exodus
of the negro to Arkansas and Kan
sas. The sentiment was almost
unanimous in favor of going, The
speakers we've all negro preachers,
Revs. Ferebee, Smith, Davis and
Cornell who inGamel the minds of
their credulous hearers. They charg-
ed that the new election law passed
by the General Assembly would dis
franchise fifty thousand negroes in
the State, and for that advised the
negroes TO 60 where their rights will
be protected. Resolutions dcnounc>
ing the Legislature for passing the
elections laws, resolving to emigrate
to some other section, and calling
upon the Federal Government TO aid
the negroes to emigrate in q body
were passed with a who0p. AS a
consequence the negroes here are
all stirred up and at sea. The best
of them are IN doubt as to what
course to puroue.
To them the Chronicle has this to
say: Tue negro has no better friend
than this writer and he &dYlses them
to DO nothing rashly. If all the
negroes in North Carolina want to
leave, they have a perfect right to
do so. We would not seek to pre-
vent their going. But We do decid-
edIy object to the leaders among
them melting them to 60 hy lying to
them. II t!is: negro thinks he can do
better elSewherc than IN this State I,
let him 60 in peace, but we are re-
solved that they shall not leave be-
cause of misreprese sentations about
our laws. Elsewhere III tO-day'S
Chronicle we publish the election
laws in fal! anl explanations Of their
prOyisOns. THEY DO NOT DISFRAN-
C-HsE a SINGLE NEGRO OR WHITE
MAN N NORTH CAROLINA for any
reason. 1hey are as fair az the cleo.
tion laws Of any State in the Union ,
and the negro agitators and white
Radicals who state to the contrary
are guilty Of as wicked a piece OF
lying as ever dlsgraced any man or
set Of men.
We suppose that the negroes read
the election law rs IT passed the
Senate which, in effect, required an
educational justification and that
this ala1mcd them. If the Demo-
Gratis had desired 20 pass that law
| thr0a2h the U0uee they could have
passed it, bu: they kIllel it; and
afterwards made some needed
changes in the present law. We defy
any negro agitator or white Radical
TO show wherein the prescrt law in
any particular IS III 'st, unfair, OF
will disfr2nchjse any lcgal voter
Tie attempt tc sir up :. e MINI ot
the ignoreut Of tie cOlorod race is
infamous, ard there are no polite
words rough enough with which tC
characterize such mean and con
temptille partisan rancor and hatred
If 10000 CT the less thrifty and III
dustrious Of our negro population
would leave the State 1t would bt
the best thing that could happeI
both for the whites and the negroe:
who remained. We would be glaC
to see ali the iA.e negro dudes whc
loaf about our cities and towns q
and go at once but We DO not lik'
to see the honest and industriou
negroes induced 10 60 by misrepre'
sentations that are as black as bel
of oar laHs.:St1te Chroaic'e.