The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-13
ANSWER TO CAUCASIAN lNQUlRltS-NtW
ISSUE "NEGGER TRADERS"

News and Observer, ana TO the hlahiic0'
satisfaction of its own editor, inquiries
of us what kind of white mans party
l+bo News and Observer wants in North
Carolina?
We thought we had made this PLAIN
enough in our former issues, in that, W.
announced the News and Observer as
being in favor of such a white man
marty as dominated the politics of North
Carolina from 1876 to 1S94-a period of
eighteen years, and up to the time when
IN. B." (talismanic initials of The
Caucasian's editor in chief, which some
people think stands for Mere Bluff },
by desertion of that party, and by asso-
citation with negro trading Republicans
obtained the reward of his desertlon by
seat in the United States Senate
That is to say: The News and Observer
fayors such a white mans party as
composed the Democratic party OF
Samson county when the white Demo-
cratic yeomanry of that county and SEN
atorial district honored the chief editor
of The Caucasian, as a regularly noml-
mated Democrat, with a seat in the Sen
ate of North Carolina
Perhaps we could better define the
kind of white mans party we favor by
telling our esteemed contemporary the
kind of white mans party which the
News and Observer does NOT favor.
In passing. we might remark, that we
have no quarrel with The Caucasian for
its editorial a few weeks ago Gliding
somewhat the News and Observer for
space in denouncing the lease of the
North Carolina railroad to the Southern.
and the persons engaged in securing it,
whom The Caucasian is pleased to term
Railroad Overseers." The use of the
word ''oyerseers" is unfortunate for
The Caucasian. 81 thank thee for that
word" Yes "'overseers, such as were
employed by the owner of slaves before
the war to work his slaves under the
''overseer's" lash. Let the Caucasian
possess its soul with patience on that
subject now a little while and give the
courts and the lawyers a chance to mir
themselves upon it, 1t is now in !he
courts and nothing can be done by legis-
lation or otherwise to settle it outside
of the courts. We have made oGr own
position known on this subject long ago,
and have never shifted our ground upon
it, nor recanted.
But "overseers" suggests what we in
tended to write concerning the kind of
white mans party which the News and
Observer does NOT favor. In slavery
times there was a class of men whose
chief end almost sole business in life
was to buy and sell negro slaves. They
were called "Nigger Traders" The &C.
cupation of these men was held in abso-
lutte terror by the negro slaves them
selves, and those who followed that oc-
cupation were on account Of their heart
less brutality of it, regarded with con-
tempt by those who owned no slaves
themselves, and even by most of the
kind-hearted slave owners, these "Nig-
ger Traders were despised. Since slav-
cry has been abolished and the former
slave elevated to citizenship by force of
the law, another class of men, some
white and others black, have succeeded
to the occupation, or profession il you
please, of the ante-bellum "Nigger
Traders" and by whatever political
name or party they may be known, they
carry with them the chief characteris-
tics of the old time "Nigger Traders"
For while they may not now under the
law actually bargain and sell the poor
negro's flesh and blood, they do by bar
gain and sale, exchange or barter,
whichever you may choose to call it, for
their own political advancement and per-
sonal benefit, trade away the negro vote.
In word, they are Political Niger
Traders" And the News and Observer
boldly asserts, without fear Of contra
ldiction, and submits the political record
as conclusive proof of it's assertion, that
the political leaders of the Republican
party, and of the Peoples party too, with
here and there few honorable excep-
tons in North Carolina, have by politi-
cal trading, cooperation and fusion for
the spoils of office only, thrown political
principles to the winds and formed a
party organization Of political "Nigger
/ Traders Will any intelligent man in
North Carolina deny this?
The white and black "Nigger Trad
= ers" of the Republican party, with one
e hundred thousand negro voters as theil
S chief stock in trade, by bargain anc
e sale between them and the Populis
Y leaders, Butler, Aver, Wilson u Co.
1 DoyaI makes the food Dure,