The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-02-23
NORTH CARoLIyA's MoRTirICAuoN.

We deeply sympathize with every none
and truc-hearted North Carolnian IN inc
modification and shame he must feel by
reason of the amazing action the Legis-
lature at Raleigh took on Thursday III
preferring to honor Fred. Douglass above
George Washington and Robert +. Lee
The action was so monstrOus that
would be thought absurd If ii ola not
touch deeply the very heart Of our ciVlli-
cation.
Frederick Douglass was. no doubt
remarkable negro for he was intellectual
and aggressive lie aspired TO be ana
was recognized as the most distinguish
representative of his race, and, for every
good quality that he possessed, we would
effaceable wrong to society, and 1t
his death would have taken special notice
of his career but for the mortal offence
he gave by marrying out of his color
He found a white woman who was will
ing 10 marry him, and he married her.
TO the southern mind this was an in
offenceable wrong TO society ana 1t
should be so thought by all, irrespective
Of color.
The preservation of the purity and in
.egrlty of the white race is condition
precedent to every other consideration
=. is a law written by the Creator of all
races in. ,he hepAtS of men. and viola
ton Of it - a breach OF the lsw Of IA
ture itself As a transgressor or this
law Douglass became an offender in the
sight OF every man-White or black-who
respects the instincts implanted in his
very being by God himself.
The effect of this action by the fu-
sionists in North Carolina will be TO
deepen the color line again, and TO fur
nish fresh arguments to those who al
ready wish TO cut off the political rights
Of the negro. 1t is the heaviest blow the
negro has received. politically, i'm twenty
years. The Mississippi Acknowledgement
is nothing to it, that action was local, and
was taken by somebody else. this by him
self and his own chosen companions, and
ii will resound throughout the South
If the Republican party of the South is
to be organized on the lines of this
fusion" resolution, it had as well hang
UP its harp Oh the willow tree. The
negro question has kept many man
from voting with that party who other
wise would have done SO, and If the negro
is so irrepressible that he must give such
expression leg.sIatively TO his race pride,
then great efforts will be made to keep
him out of the Legislature by men who
would seek his vote upon national issues.
There was such reckless disregard of
common sense and decency by the author
and supporters of the Douglass resolution
that there is strong hope that the infa-
nous alliance Of free silver Democrats
and black Republicans viii complete their
political suicide. All good citizens OF
North Carolina and their well wishers
outside devoutiy pray it may speedily be
done
TO those brave and good men who are
gtm nghting the battle Of honest Demo
crazy aud uncontaminated blood. we ten
der our sympathy and express the hope
that this dose of fusionism viii sickeH
and bring back to the Democratic party
oil those who, though led astray by the
free silver cry, still prefer Washington
and Lee TO Douglass and the pure and
undefled Anglo-SaXon blood to the re-
pulsive mixture which Douglass practiced.