The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-09-12
HARRISON'S OPPORTUNITY
To Heed the Warning of the Late Ne
gro Convention i'll Raleigh.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE.)

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CARTHAGE, N. c., Sept. 1O-Permit
me the use of your columns to suggest
that Harrison's administration now has
an excellent opportunity to show its ap
preciation of the negro vote, and to heed
the warning of the late negro conven-
ton at Raleigh.
refer to the Collectorship Of Customs
at Wilmington, made vacant by the
death of the gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania, Mr.. Pennypacker. 1t is a posi-
ton of Importance and large patron
age-it is situated in the black belt, in
county that is largely Republican, nearly
all of whom are negroes; and if negro
were appointed, he could place many of
his color in Office, and to that extent
stop the clamor for recognition.
There are plenty of eligible men-such
as Price, (col.) Leary, E. E. Smith,
Dancy and Gordon, who are competent
and honest. The town Of Wilmington
has no mortgage on the Office. Nearly
all the of the 1868 carpet baggers have
been cared for, so the colored mans
| time ought to come now or never. No
doubt the three Congreasmen, Cheat
ham, Brewer and Ewart, would readily
unite in urging the appointment Of a
negro to this place, as they are all abso-
lutely dependent upon the negro vote
| for election. It is not in white section,
so it could not hurt much up west, and
it ought not to harm the only negro
member of Congress (Cheatham) to have
it said that he really helped brother
negro to get big Office.
| Cleveland gave to our State two for
eign ministers-Hopkins and Smith.
Harrison dismissed the latter and gave
nothing in return to the negroes, except
positions at Washington as laborers,
doorkeepers and spittoon cleaners. To
South Carolina he gave negro collector
(Smalls), but the Democratic ma jority
there was something like 100000. To
Texas, With an 0,000 Democratic ma
jority, he gave also collector. To Mis-
sissippi he gave an authorship at Wash
ington, perhaps, as thanks for the big
Democratic majority there. To our state,
which is close and elected three Rel.uD-
lican Congressman, he has bent his nose
upward with a whew
10 the disfranchised Dagro loafers at
Washington City he has given q foreign
mission Ool.glass) and the best Office il
the District to Bruce, and see what he
has done for the race
The gift Of these two big Offices does
not satisfy the six million negroes who
live South II labor, poverty, loyalty and
(NorJhern idea) peril. There are b!ggel
Drained and purer negroes South lhal
those men who 40 more represent tht
true interests of their race than doe:
the Southern Republican Associations o
Office holders at Washington represen
: anything South other than the idea 0
holding on to Office by hypocrisy, b.
burning Their records and going out O
the wAooping up business on the adyen
. of Democratic administration.
A particle Of good faith exercised NOV
,, by the administration and our Republi
!, , can Congressman will get recognition
for the negro as Collector at Whining
ton. The peacocks and female mogul
of the Republican party at Wilmington
can lend hand to this end and thereb
prove that the negroes are really
: right smart "BETTER THAN sAvAGEs."
A " 0OCKFRY