The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-10-18
a WORD OF PROTEST.


FINDS THINGS UNPLEASANT.
RALEIGH, \. c., Sept. 5, 1894
To THE EDITOR OF THE Spy The
Southern papers are copying an article
from you recommending Northern
people to go to the South for homes,
and particularly to North Carolina.
can not believe that you are infested
in misleading your own people. You
may have been down in this country as
Il visitor or on an editorial excursion :;
III which case | can understand how
pleased you were with the slick
hospitality and the loud protestations
Of love for the Northern people.
Now, my friend, do not think such
an experience falls to the lot of the
Northern people who settle here.
have been here for 10 years, and know
whereof | speak. | at first thought
could declare my political sentiments
! freely | am a Republican. 1t was
not long before | was classed with the
"nisgers,' and my family and myself
! were called carpet baggerS.' | was
/ soon aware of the fact that | had
/ brought my wife and children among a
/ people who are narrow-minded, miserIv,
! and penuriOus, aud who hate all North
ern people. Our people are looked
| upon as legitimate piratical prey. and
! it is not considered vicious to skin a
Yankee out Of everything he has if it
! can be done. \ Yankee can have no
political standing in the South-he
must drop his politics if he comes here
| to live.
This is true Of all the Sout N
| States. | have been in nearly all of
| them. | know, too, that many thOus-
ands Of good, intelligent and honorable
Northern people came to the South to
| live right after the war | can truth
fully say that 90 per cent. OF them
went back North as soon as they could
get money enough to pay their way.
! and not one per cent. of them took
! back ten per cent. of what he took
| South with him.
! TheIc is no place i'll the South for
Northern people; there is no welcome
! except To the ear with a hope of
getting some Yankee money. Millions
Of Yankee money is buried in the
/
know the people from the most i'm
portant political and business autocrats
to the meanest white trash and the
| ignorantnegro. The native Republicans
are not as friendly to Yankees as the
kukluX Democrats.
Read :. \ Fools Errand'' and YOU
will see the position of the unfortunate
Northern men in the South-Judee
| TOurgee was prophet. He toretold
it all.
Now, for Gods sake don't lend your
influence to send your neighbors South
to be harrassed and prosecuted. !
talk from an experience which | want
my fellow Northern citizens and friends
to know.
As to politics, we have no Republican
party IN this State now. Since lSS.
there has been nothing but IA machine
used by some native white trash Re
publcans and trading negroes to ye,
office with. This machine recently
met i'll State convention and Joined
the Popullsts and political anarchists
So now the disgrace which heretotor,
attached to RepublicaniSm through The
scurvy set that controlled the Fedora
patronage is no more.
If YOU want to be true to your pco
pie tell them to keep their person.
and their money out of the South.
| hope YOU will find it agreeable t,
publish this. | can 90 into details will
convincing facts if my position is as
sailed. 5.
The first question that present
itself to the reader of the foregoing is
Why does Mr.. 5. persist in living
among such people? If he has beel
here for 10 years he must know tha
they are not going to change thel
character, and that things are no
going to improve for him or his family
When we bear a man abusing tn
locality of his nativity or adoption
the locality in which he lives, W
always wonder why he does not &c
out That is the only rational thin
!, for him to do 1t would be idle fo
! S. to reply that he has gotten too poo
to 90 away. The time has not VI
come in North Carolina when a sub
scripton can not be raised to &c
transportation out of the State for
man who talks or writes about it as
does, if he wants to leave.
The next question is as to the fact
Are they as 5. represents them? \
honest Northern man who is living
North Carolina, behaving himself ;
becomesa good citizen and prosecutin
X a legitimate business will say SO. Thel
are hundreds, thousands OF sue
citizens in the State. Many OF tt
most prosperous and respected citizer
7 of this good city of Charlotte al
J.. Northern men and Republicans. The
= are foremost in business matters an
- they and their families are at the to
of the social ladder. They hold the
e political views with as much tenaclt
and assert them with as much boldne
as any Southern Democrat here holt
and asserts his, and are not ostracise
IN business or society on account
them. Northern men come to Mort
\. | Carolina to look out investments an