Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-05-21
When Russell Didn't want
NEGRO Votes,

much on the line U IHdICdCou,
[ would also be compelled to tell
the truth on our w party IN the
South. For instance | would rise
to remark that, while as a rule the
South does not treat its colored
people with the ~liberality and JUS
tice which they receive in the
North, there is yet defence for
the deep and dire determination of
the Southern white man to never
submit to negro rule. THE NEGROES
OF THE SOUTH ARE LARGELY SAY
AGES. We with Northern aid and
sanction kidnapped them, enslaved
them and by most monstrous
wrong degraded them so that
THEY ARE NO MORE FIT TO GOVERN
THAN ARE THEIR BRETHREN IN
AFRICAN swAMPs OR SO MANY MON
GOLIANS DUMPED DOWN FROM PA
GAN SEA-
"Permit me also to say that it
would be wise for our State ticket
to withdraw in favor of the Pro-
hibition party. In 1881 our vote
was thrown to save the grog shops.
You saved them; but just what
the party gained by it has been so
difficult to discover that the best
thinkers among our leaders who
Joined in that coalition, now ad-
nit their mistake and regret that
the party vote was not given to
the temperance people. Suppose
we try it now and go into strike at
drunkenness and Democracy."-
From a letter written by Daniel
L. Russell to J. G. L. Harris,
Secretary Republican State Elk
ecutive Committee declining the
Republican nomination for Su-
preme Court Justice and published
in the Raleigh Signal July 10,
1888.
"The negro stencil is as great as
that of the rankest brand of
guano. Raleigh Signal, July
21, 1898, edited by J. G. L. Harris,
Russell's manager.
WHAT THREE LEADING NEGROES
SAY OF RUSSELL.
Il am no politician" said Dr.
Scruggs. ''but [ desire to regis
ter my eternal and everlasting
protest against the effort that
was made here last night to ar
ray the black man against the
white man. It is wrong. 1t is
wrong; it is unwise. it is unjust,
it is dangerous and damnable, "
Numbered the speaker. and the
crowd went wild. Hold your
political meetings if you wish
to-" he continued, -'be Ropubli.
cans, if you desire to. as [ am,
but for your sake, and for my
sake, for your children's sake,
for your country's sake, and fol
Gods sake keep down such in
fammatory political haranges as
! was delivered in this hall byRus
sell last night. The white man and
, the negro lives here in the
Southland together, it is our
country, our homes are here, GU
Interests aud our firesides are a
| stake. We have nc wars with oul
white friends. We don't want any
? and it is our duty to spurn any
{ man who attempts to arouse tn
prejudices of our race agains'
: 1.-The other. I condemn such viii
differences. despise them, an
any man or men that utters them
and if l was a God, I would for
ever damn the man who utter
+ them"
o E. A. johnson, the colore
q lawyer declared that no un
: bought. self respecting negr
could support him for Governor
DR.. Shepherd, of Durham
S spoke of Russell as the meanes
S Judge that ever sat or the benc
r in North Carolina and declare
: that no self-respectiug negr
1t would vote for him.
Rev. R. III. w. Leak was tn
J next and last speaker. He score
e Russell and said that Russell ha
declared that the negroes al way
followed the rascals, but Russo
was one rascal, they would new
h follow. He paid his respects
aJ @. Logan Harris, and produ'
!, ed the copy of the Signal
which Harris had said that tt
~ negroes smelled worse TT an tt
If rankest brand of guano e
h tracts from report OF meetir
is held oy Republicans in Metrop
no Titan Hall, April Both, 1896.