The Washington bee., 1897-06-05

~, WIltlnS 10 the NdlelSn News, and
Observer has this to say relative to
social equality among the whites in
Ki.trell, N. c. Among other things he
says;
Although the railroad waiting room
at this place set apart for negroes is
the larger, more convenient and more
comfortable of the two, the negroes of
the kittrell Institute are making per-
SiStent and determined efforts to in
wade the one set apart for white peo-
pie. Before the waiting rooms, now
Just opened, were finished, John R.
Hawkins, the secretary, ex-principal
and moving spirit of the institute,
wrote to Captain Whisnant, the super
intendent of this division of the Sea-
board Air Line, urging that one room
be set apart for ladies and one room
for gentlemen. This was, of course,
tantamount to urging that the white
ladies OF this vicinity should be forced
to occupy the same waiting room and
be crowded and iostled by the negro
girls from the institute, as they have
repeatedly been treated on the streets
OF the town, white ladies even while
giving half the sidewalk having on
several occasions been knocked into
the gutter. Captain Whisnant, very
properly, refused to depart from the
custom Of the road and force an indig-
nifty on the white people of Klttrell.
Nevertheless, last week the institute
negroes invaded the white waiting
room in force, and that, too, before
the colored waiting room was filled,
although the session having just closed
good many of the pupils were at the
station to take the cars. Great annoy
ance was caused to the Rev. Mr.. Aver
lit and his wife, who happened to be
IN the white waiting room. 1t was only
after great eXertion that the railroad
agent succeeded in getting the negroes
out. Threats were made by the negroes
that they will yet have the waiting
room or kill.
Now as to this negro, John r.
/ Hawkins, WHO has evidently fomented
the whole trouble. He is the same
man who some years back from the
huStingS at this place melted the ne
groeS to strive for social equality or
worse by reciting how at the north,
where his race had their rights, he had
escorted white ladies about and so on
ad naSeum. Seven years or more have
passed since then and Hawkins fear
ing the loss of the COntrl buttons of
the white people of his school, has
long been more guarded and covert
in his methods, but that speech still
survives as an agent of evil in the
minds of the negroes.
This Institution racaIy6c CnrSi1ara hi ln
aid from the white people ofthe south.
Now, call upon every white man,
south or north, opposed to social
equality, to refuse support or Counten-
anCe to a seminary of such pernlclouS
principles. If they do not refuse, then
let the decent people of the country
repudiate them.
Efforts will doubtless be made to
qloze over this matter and 10 olSPrOVe
fhe inculcation of any such principles.
I give the facts as they are. NAT
Hawkins social equality speech, his
letter urging Captain WhlSnant to
abolish all race distinction at this
nIace. the rude jostlings that LADIES
pfthe town have received at the hands
of the institute girls, the refusal OF the
institute negroes-Hawkins and others
in authority being present-to vacate
the white waiting room, are the out
come of the spirit and anlmus OF the
school are evident.
And now a word as to the great I'M
portance of the battle which the south
has fought, is still fighting, and must
ever fight against social equality. With
out aid or sympathy from the white
race at large we are fighting its most
important battle-a battle for the purity
of the race for our branch Of 1t flrst,
for all of it in the end.
The determination of the southern
whites to resist every move, be II ever
SO slight, towards social equality, is
the result of one ofthe most wholesome
instincts that nature has emplanted IN
the human heart. 1t is an instinct work
ing good and only coed, to both sexes.
Ii is the first step that counts. Inc
thin edge of the wedge always enters
first but the head and whole bulk
always follows.
Social equality could have but one
end-an end very far OF using the span
of individual life as mete-wand, but
all too near in the lifetime OF a race.
That end would be miscegenation,
amalgamatlon, a union of races-the
of the southern Anglo-Sax-
on into a mongrel breed, more inert,
more depraved than the mongrei denl-
zens of Central or South American. |
saw more inert, more depraved, be-
cause on no hybrid has nature set as
emphatic a seal of protest as upon the
muiatto. Immediate physical and
moral deterioration IS the almost lne-
vitable result.
This is and must ever remain vital, !
a paramount question with us. The /
northerner can better afford to t1out it.
There are comparatively few, negroes
with him. No flood of pollution beats
and chafes at its barriers eager to en- |
gulf his posterity. The danger while !
a threat to the whole nation is vastly !
more remote to him than to us.
Follow white men of North Carolina |
and of the south! is it not high time
hat we had an understanding with .
this son of Ham in our midst-thiS
alien who celebrat 5 the Anniversary
Of Appomattox, who rejOiCes over our .
sorrows and sorrows over our reJolc- |
ng? We are two to his one. His |
DESTINY is in our hands. He can edu-
cate his children only by our largess. |
His yery franchise he holds only by |
Dur suffranCe. !
He must be made to understand .
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