The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-09-30

death to South American mongrelism.
And here turning to the colored
people presently l would say, and in the
fear Of God do say, that if you colored
people would be wise, you would to-
day serve notice on your leaders and
teachers here in Vance county without
respect to color, and tell them to serve
notice gu your leaders in Raleigh aud
all over the State, without respect to
color. that if such discraceful doings as
were verpetrated at kittreil the other
day are not stopped instanter and the
issues are forced upon US when the blood
begins to flow, the first victims Of
righteous indignation will be the lead
ers, white and colored, who with power
to control the colored vote at the ballot
box, will be held responsible for tiend-
ish bestiality in the thicket. For if
these leaders can control III one place
a, they do, they can control and must
| control in both.
One other thought, aud ii burning
thought it is, is that when the strife is
fairly afoot aud blood begins to flow,
from racial distempers and racial an
| tagonsms, the first victims among the
white people will be those who from
| their daily pursuits as tlllers of the soil
are in closer physical contact with the
colored people than others. Hence it
| is with that element of the white race
| a dangerous undertaking TO play with
! fire. for they must see that there is but
one safety to both races and that is a
I lad %1,o al
| line.
Both races are here in such numbers
that neither can be displaced, and the
only safety to either race is the recoS
milton of the fact that The best element
Of both races Influenced by racial
pride and the God-implanted instincts
of safety. alike abhOr any and all SEM
dances or forms of social equality. To
our colored friends therefore we would
say. be wise, and teach your people to
be both prudent and law abiding, for
if they will insist upon sowing the
wind, they must prepare for the whrl-
wind This is no threat. 1t is the
admonitiOn and the warning of one
who has formed an intelligent view as
derived from the philosophy Of history.
Our Northern brethren, whatever
may have been their mistakes in the
past, when the storm is on, which
may God avert, cannot afford to jeopar-
die the social life, the purity of their
homes, the integrity Of their social in
situations by being mere lockers on at
a distance, for if our social institutions
are swept away, if the horrors of mis-
cegination, if the befouling leprosy
of mongrelism should sweep over the
country from the Susquehana to the
Rio Grande, neither will they escape
from whose chimneys the smoke arises
along the Hudson, the Mohawk, the
kennebec, the Androscoggin, or the
upper waters of the Mississippi, for
the whole of our Caucasian civilization,
from the Lakes to the Gulf and from
Ocean to Ocean will be befouled and
contaminated by mongrelism.
Meantime the duty next to US and
to be Immediately performed is to look
the situation fairly and squarely in the
face aud in calm, quiet, masterful
manner, perform all the functions OF
our Caucasian blood which under the
Anglo-Saxon regime has lit up the
world with the purest forms of civil
and religious liberty that the race has
ever known.