The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-30

or permitted, for the public good-AS
TO ALL OF WHICH THERE WAS NO
EVIDENCE, AND HENCE EXPRESS
NO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES that this
Is the fact, / apprehend that the right
OF these defendants to precisely the
same accommodations and the same
treatment as other persons will not be
questioned. The pretension that any
person or class may be prevented from
resorting to public place whose doors
are open to all but them, and denied to
them only on account of color, or race
will not be tolerated by any court
honestly and sincerely DESTROYS of up
holding the Constitution and the laws
according to their true intent and
meaning. 1t may be that the manager
Of the theatre has the right to separate
different classes of persons whose close
association is not agreeable to each
other, always remembering that he
must not discriminate against any, but
that the accommodations given, the
comfort, THE STYLE, convenience and
all considerations for which the par
ties pay their money shall be the same
as to all, or so nearly so as to furnish
no substantial cause of complaint by
any, This opens a wide field of argu-
ment into which | have time to enter"
But he had time to enter into a
construction of the Civil Rights
Act, uncalled for and gratui-
tous, and as to which he as
sumes everything, admitting there
was no evidence on the point covered
by him and therefore speaking from
the very overflow of his venom.
II was during these days that he was
secretly renominated for the Judge
ship. He stood against Judge McKoy,
but the people were spared. Here was
a hero indeed, hero after the fact
apart from the paniOnship of souls
thac were heroic in the sense of those
of Garrison. and Curtin, Whittier and
Phillips. Here was one trying to get
plush seats and 'style" in the opera
houses for negroes. Had he ever sooth-
ed the bleeding back of a slave with
balm? Had he ever felt a warm tear
nestle ab0nt his check for the slave
mother who was wrenched on the
block from the man of her brood and
of her bosom? Where were his balm
and tears then? Had he never seen
these things? His neighbors had heard
the stories of Scourge and knout from
the slaves of the plantation of his youth
and childhood. Oh, no: it was in De-
tOber getting on toward election for
another term ON the bench, and he,
perforce, must go out of his way now
TO tell how opera-house seats for ne
groes should be upholstered, and the
style" in which they should be enter
tanned. His yaseline came only with
votes not with the agony of the cry of
the voteless slave.
I want to show that this love" of
this man for the negro was mock
love, and / shall attempt the show
ing.
a GREENBACK CONGRESSMAN.
Flung out now into the whitening
simmer of his peoples scorn let's
follow the journey of the mans soul.
| shall not dwell at all on his stand
for Congress when he was elected as
a green-backer. 1t matters not that he
is now villifying free silver, as on a
parity with free riot, and pouring out
filthy epithets throughout the State
now about the hatred of the white peo-
pie to the negro. OF course, he was
a green-backer, when he Thought an
Office was in sight. He was the mem
Der from North Carolina of the Con-
gressional Campaign Committee in
1879 of the Greenback party. And
now he goes talking of gold Is he
answering his arguments of other
days?
But take him when he had
been abandoned utterly and in
a spirit of bitterness refused
the nomination for Supreme court
in 1888. j. C. l.. Harris, of
Raleigh, was then chairman of the
Republican State committee, and it
was in his letter to Harris declining
the nomination from which 1 quote:
These Southern men," he writes,
with national sentiments Che had ma
tionaP sentiments, now after he had
been kicked out of the army, and the
slaves had been set free, but not before)
are geographically misplaced. Pearce
and Buchanan were Northern men
with Southern principles. Their con-
dition was pitiful. Ours is worse. We
are Southern men with Northern prin-
ciples. But they and their comrades
who, living in the North, stood for the
South, well earned the mead of praise
which belongs to those who sacrifice
themselves for the sake of their CON
NlCtIOilS. DO we VINO speak IOT ma
tional sovereignty and human rights
on Southern soil and brave bravo Sol
der Dan!) the obloquy which results,
may at least claim the respect which
is due to candor, courage and sincerity
NEGROES LARGELY SAVAGES.
Fourth. While / should say much
on the line above indicated, l would
also be compelled to tell the truth on
our own party in the South Chat is if
he went North to speak.) For instance,
/ would rise to remark that while as a
rule the South does not treat it's colored
people with the liberality and justice
they receive in the North, there is vet
defence for the deep and dire determi-
nation of the Southern white man to
never submit to negro rule. The ne
groes of the South are largely sayages.
We, with Northern aid and sanction
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 Mongolians dump
ed down in pagan ASIA
Having thus delivered himself touch