The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-11-07
A NEGRO'S PLEA
FOR JUSTICE.
8ooE foAcielE AND INTERESTING
STATEMENTS MADE IN TINE IA.
nonAA col0ReD CONFER
Ence.

tUUWA COl06EO COWFEH-
ENce.
Negroes Have 10 Desire 20 Cossrel - The
sosth-They Declare They Want Justice.
Net ssprsosey-Oss Speaker Makss .
wild Sounding Statement About slavery
&c.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. AT the
National Colored Conference, held here
last week, the assertion Was made BY
different speakers that lin all the South
ern States the colored citizen had no
hope or promise Of political existence
outside Of North Carolina ~what
South Carolina is doing,n they said.
will be repeated in every Southern
State IS the result Of continued Dem
ocratic supremacy. The one single
State in the Democratic South, when
the colOred voter 10 not in immediate
peril Of political extinction is North
Carolina" ain that State" said one
OF the speakers, "fusion has saved the
race from political slavery, and per-
petual Acknowledgement, aud the COL
ored man who follows the Leadership
Of any man or party in opposition to
that party 10
AN RNEMY TO HIS RACE"
Senator Butler was warmly COM
mended by one delegate who said that,
in his opinion, he commanded the con-
fidence of the colored people in the
State.
A North Carolina delegate, intel
llgent, well-infOrmed, and prominent
in cOlored political circles, said:
The colOred people neither expect
nor wish control in the Southern
States.
They
REALIZE THEIR UNFIrNEss
and perfectly appreciate the fact that
disastrous race conflicts would be the
inevitable result. We 20 even fur
Their, and do not hesitate to say that
II absolutely Republican domination
in the South were possible, it would be
DISASTROUS, IN THE END, TO OUR
RACE.
The fear of Republican control, the
logical result of of fair elections in
Mississippi and South Carolina is the
Democratic excuse for disfranchisin4
the colored man, and branding him q
political outlaw. The political revolu-
ton in North Carolina two years ago
saved the cOlored man from q fate
WORSE THAN BEGGERY AND DEATH.
We may thank God for our deliverance,
and if by any mistake we now throw
away what has been SO OPPORTUNITY
secured to our race we shall desere all
that may follow our folly and madness.
Ii Democrats secure control in the
State, Constitutional convention will
be called, and what is now going on in
Columbia
WILL BE REPEATED IN RALEIGH,
Wholesale ballot-bOx robbery has been
made more difficult by the new election
law, and for the first time since recon-
struction days the colored vote is an
important factor in State elections,
That is excuse enough for our disfran-
chisement. l regard with terror the
possibility of Democratic Legisla-
ture.
1t is all fine talk about fair elections
and straight Republican nomina-
tions, but the cOlored leaders are not
SO ignorant as to be deluded by it.
Northern Republican sympathy is a
pleasant reflection, but 1t counts for
nothing
AGAINST THE BRUTAL EDICT
OF Democratic Constitutional State
Convention elected and delegated to
disfranchise the colOred citizen. We
WANT JUSTICE; NOT SUPREMACY;
we want fair show in the struggle
for honorable and intelligent citizen
ship; not "negro domination" We
nave contempt only for the man or
party that raises the false cry of me
gro domination" as an excuse for one
degeneration and disfranchisement.
just across the District line in Mary
Land, the NEGRO domination" cry plays
no unimpOrtant part in the State cam
Paign. Timid white men are frightened
into voting
FOR CORRUPT PARTY BOSSES
on that account. And when one thinks
that it has been started by a man who
owes all that he is to the Republican
party, we shudder at the possible des-
tiny OF our race under a Democratic
administration of State and National
affairs. The Democratic party is one
common enemy and it behOOy Is every
colored citizen to act in the most effect
I've form OF opposition to it's suprem-
acy."
!: Impending Slavery.
One of the speakers, abiding to the
Constitutional Convention in South
Carolina, expressed the unsuitable be-
lief that the present policy of the
democratic party is to restore slavery.
AS an evidence of it, he said:
4 The convention has stricken out the
section in the article on the State
declaration of rights, which reads:
: The rights of citizens of the State to vote
snail not be denied or abridged on account
tude' - ga W
/. ut has also stricken out the section
reading:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servi-
tude, except as punishment for crime. =
shall exist in this State
"BOth of these sections are found in
the constitution of the United States.
Striking them out of the State consti-
tuition may be opening the way again
Tor return to slavery"
The apprehension may be ground.
less but the cOlOred leaders are deeplv
stirred over this matter. Booker Il
Washlngton's exposition speech at At
ianta, was Inspired, they say, by the
belief that complete Acknowledgement
OF the race is inevitable. Suffrage
will be so qualified that the colored
vote will be entirely eliminated as a
political factor. Once DISTINGUISHED
and 0utlawed the race, he apprehends.
will deteriorate, lose all interest in cit
rzenship and
BECOME MENACE
rather than an element of Southern
Industrial progress as evidenced at the
Atlanta ExpsitlOn. Hence his urgent
no " II SnA %