The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-01-30

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BE SAYS WHAT BE b TH1HKs II OF THE,
~ .4 RACE PR0BLEXa h.
Z il4 4 vTesles5i 7-T--sI oHw n12 -
The Whits People Of, the South WHlHblvs
it, If Not Inter1eFsd With the rdit-
ciansANo Need u Eeenhfion. s5I
Wa .Asngton Spseiql ~ casrlsSs. IA Me'0s p d
Senator Zeb Vance, of North iCaros
lima, has very decided viewS on the
race Question: and he will probably
give them to the country in fis char
acteristic style before tAe present Con
gress terminates. bHe difess. tnolHi.
Senators Hampton gand ButletG M3Mj-
rally as to the bess Imeahs 6f setaline
the NEGRO problem. p 2 Hep c6n:ehds
that nothing substantial can w hc
complished ii that direction BY tie
legislation contained IiH The several
bills now pending ID Cohgre II Is
not a question that can iib9 settled by
loud speeches and COMP II a statr
utAs, but it is one that must b lea en-
tirely to the Southern people 70 work
out in their own way and in their Own
time. Our, Republican friends on The
other side Of the Senate chamber mlse
have confidence 10 Is and b. pessnt
with those men in the EohtheF9 Stateo
who are honestly and hopefallys Mofk-
ing to bring about a better .condition
of things. Those of ~ in the South
who have been, brought in eontact
with the negro ever since We we're
born are better able to work ont this
problem than those gentlemen on the
other. side Of the chamber, who are
actuated entirely by political motives
and personal notoriety. If they will
let US alone and keep their contami-
mating agents away from the colored
people of the South the problem will
work itself out to the satisfaction Of
all concerned. - adj 70 Tsd"o iBtE
1t is this constant interferance ON
the part Of Northern politicians, con +
tinued the Senator, that canses mott
Of the trouble among the colored pep-
pie of the South. Why, at this mo-
ment, said he, I have ID my desk let
ters from colored men in my. State
asking me to see certain Republican
Senator about some money claimed to
be due for some political work. done
during the last campaign, It Appears
that these colored men were employed
to do certain. work for the, Reppbli+
can managers in the last conteek and
they were promised money considr
Grafton for the labor pefaS snedt tTaSee
are hard and the crops are not fht
best down my way, so these political
workers who put their shoulders Il
the Harrison wheel want me to help
them to gel their money Ideclafe
said the Senator, smiling at the ideS
of fpreseEting the letters in question Il
one ofthe richest Republicans in thu
Senate, / am almost too tender heart,
ed to do such an unchafitahle q piecj
of business. The question in my mind
is which will suffer most1. The Sena
tor, upon being brought face to fac.
with such an unrighteous debt, or ths
poor darkies being kept out Of theil
hard earned money! = agfiess sit
| The Senator does not believe in th.
| Morgan proposition TO send the nsgf>
back to Africa. Such aescheme vii
not, in his estimation, be- sandtiOnel
| by majority Of the swhite people D
the Southern States. He doesen0t BE
lieve the negro wants or demands 30
cial equality, and they are sisatisfed Il
move along in their own cianAels d
life until the Northera politicians 81
their minds with ideas Of politiSa
supremacy over the whites. e nigh
as we'll be understood now that. thl
white people of tie South cannot an.
will not submit to anythine Tof IL
kind. 1t, would block the Vhealsp
progress in the South aud qWoQlA de
troy that kind feeling that still axist
in so many places between1the forme
master and the servant. "A large mi
ority Of the. colored people tksre q
very we'll satis6ed with their prasen
lot, and if they are let alone they vii
work out their own salvation sensou,
the people n who Tf have aetuall
done more flor them in.tAs past thaI
their new and over zealous politica
friends at the North IF any Of ID
Northern leaders arc anxious 10 hav
one half Of the negro population .
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