Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-05-09
Patrick and TeanOh.

| Mf. JO1n L. 1dUrlCk, OIL UnlS
State, is secretary Of the South
ern State immigration Society
and has been visiting Boston.
He was interviewed by the
Standard, the new daily. It fills
two and half columns Of fine
type. Referring to the recent
visit of New England legislators,
he said they visited ten large
cotton factories AS to the ne
gro Teamoh, of the committee,
Mr.. Patrick denies the prevail
ing report of his treatment, and
says:
'"The members of the commit
tee, both Republicans and Demo
Gratis, treated the colored man
with the greatest courtesy. He
was in no way ignored or set
aside by any member of the
committee, and if he had been
I would have known it. He rode
in the Pullman car with them
and other passengers. He had
just as good berth and just as
good treatment as the white men.
You people up here don't know
anything to use slang express
sion. You seem to think negro
man is not allowed to ride in a
tirst-class car in the South. The
facts are they can ride where
ever they choose.
They go in the frst-c class cars
if they want to pay for first-class
tickets. They sleep in the sleep
ers if they want to contribute to
Mr.. Pulman's wealth. The only
distinction that is made is this:
Socially, the negroes are not in
vited to the homes Of the whites
and asked to eat with them at
their tables. The negro man is
| not allowed by law or otherwise
! to claim the heart and hand of a
White mans daughter. Neither
is a white mans son allowed to
wed the daughter of a negro
man. The negro is allowed every
business and political right that
a white person is allowed, and in
saying this it is unprejudiced
testimony from one who was
born and brought up in the heart
of the South, among a large
slave holding population, by
parents who taught him that
they believed it was religiously
wrong for one man to own
another. While I was taught
this it was not in a rebellious or
mean way"
His parents did not obtain
their views from the Holy Bible,
but probably from some descen-
dants in New England, whose
forefather imported and sold ne
groes for money. The Bible
recognizes slavery. He says the
negro member was warned as to
what he might expect. He says
he told Teamoh that they will
be more than glad to have you
with chem and to gain informa-
ton from both white and col
ored [ think you will have the
advantage over any other mem
| ger of the committee. You will
in no way lower yourself by
taking this course, for I shall
place you with colored people
that are your equals, intellec-
tually and educationally, men
who have nice homes and pleas
ant surroundings; men of inf1u-
\ ence and means. said that when
the white delegates held meet
ing or visited factories he could
be present: that he would have
!; | just as nice carriages for himself
and the colored men with him in
which to visit factories with the
committees. as any of the white
men," He accepted the situa.
, tiou and seemed content. Bul
: | the fact remains that the negro
, generally is better treated in the
, South than in the North, and the
leading papers know it and some
of them say so plainly. The best
J friends of the negroes have been
and still are in the South. They
have more liberty and equality
; in labor here than in iron bound
Boston. There is no socia
) equality in either section, but in
J the North there are white womer
who have a desire to be wives oi
negro men, ard some white
faced degraded men who jprefe1
to marry negroes. ~ Vilnsingto,
| Messenger.