The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-18

cart or implement and without food ard
with few clothes, discussing grave
constitutional questions and concern
ing himself about who got elect
ed. The problem before you is not the
ballot box, but the meal tub; not the
State house, but the smoke house"
The speaker exhorted his hearers to
more virtuous, sober and economical
life, pointing out in kindness but direct
ness the errors that needed amending.
He advocated the establishment by the
Fair association of farm and shop,
where practical labor of field, forge and
work bench could be learned. and com
mended the establishment of such farm
to the generous and philanthropic. He
was willing and desired to see the negro
race advance.
Remember, that my race has nothing
to lose by the elevation of your race, by
the natural processes, and by that |
mean as all other races have arisen, by the
slow process of development, by toll and
labor, ladder at a time, under great
trial, and often much failure. The place
of the white man is secured. 1t is at
the head of the marching column.
There it will remain. Yours is not the
only race inferior to mine. The Red man,
the African, the Maylay, the Monaghan,
the jewellers in the Islands, all acknowl-
edge the Caucasian superiority. No
race can be lifted by law to a higher
plane. That is the work of evolution.
The Afro American race must be
evolved out of itself. The Anglo Saxon
race once sat naked in German forests
eating herb and root and wild beast.
In the cycle of time, by force of evolu-
ton, that race has evolved the present
masters of the world. Your race will
be what it makes itself. Are your men
honest, faithful, indus rious and econom
ical; your women virtu0us and home
loving, then there should be no fea2 for
the future 2"
"Do not delude yourselves, my colored
fellow citizens, with the thought that
your presence here is essential, nee
essary to our white progress and de-
yelopment. Friendly and amicable as
is the relation between the two races,
cloven be the tongue and palsied
the arm that would break that peace.
/ assert that the black man is in no
wise necessary to the existence, enter
prise, business or comfort of the white
man in the South. | go further and
declare that the presence of the black
man has in the past and does now retard
the social aud agricultural development
of the Southern people. His presence
has kept white men out Of our fields
and white women out of our domestic
service. / thank God that spirit is
passing away. Southern white men and
women are daily learning that all labor
is honorable. The faster this is learned
the more rapidly they dispense with
colored help and the colored race is
thereby forced to rely upon itself"
''No one objects to the colored man re-
naming here. This balmy air is suited
to his habits of dress and prodigal ma
ture here layishes its fruits on him. 1t
is with him to go or to stay. If he goes
it will be to inhospitable lands. If he
remains it must be with the assurance
well founded that all special privileges
for his race are gone, and that he is to
work out his maternal salvation, as he
does his religious salvation with fear and
trembling"
Mr.. Winston's whole address was re-
ceived with quiet and earnest attention,
and should produce much good. The
portion referring to Douglass marrying
a white woman moved his audience to
indignation.
at had been his boast that he was
negro. He had declared his belief that
the negro race was destined, as race,
to be a great factor in our civilization.
He had declared its descent from ancient
Egypt, and its giving to Greece and
Rome their civilization and to the world
shepherding and farming. Surely, the
man whom you worshipped as your Moses,
would remain true to his race, identity
and allegiance. But he turned his back
on his race aud sought TO perpetuate
himself in a white image. The Jew
brands as traitor to his race and God,
the Hebrew who marries the Gentle.
Seven millions of negroes should coz
denim an alliance, the result Of which is
to wipe out the race"
The fair is creditable, the exhibits good,
the crowd orderly The officers are
polite and of the better class. Fl. r.
Nichols is President and N G. Hare is
Secretary, both re- utable and progress
siye colored men. Many white people
are In attendance Ex-Congressman
Oheatham speaks to morrow.