The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-08

n,oment believe that compelling, or even
allowing the races to occupy any rooli'
onortment or accommodations IN common
will. AS he states, promote peace ana
harmony" On the contrary, know ol
nothing on earth half as we'll calculated
to destroy all peace, harmony ana gooa
will twisting between the white man anu
the black man.
THE THREAT TO KILL.
As to the threat to KILL to which al
lrdad II was made by negro man pres
ont who lives near and lis in close affllla-
tion with the students. | have substantial
od Il Inv the certificate which l hold OF as
truthful a citizen as the village contains.
Of course no one apprehended any killing
ar attached any weight to the utterance
other than as straw showing the set OF
this "peace and harmony" wind.
uawkins's disclaimer of social equality
motives are simply in line with the dis
claimer of every one accused OF crime OF
opprobrious deed since time began. And
the deeper the guilt the more vehement
has always been the denial
amend the certificate of Mr.. Jerome
w. Oyerton. a man of intelligence. accu-
rate memory and veracity as to Hawk
mss noted social equality speech.
HAWKINSS INFLAMMATORY
SPEECH.
''Kittrell n. O., June q, 1891,
"I heard J. r. Hawkins's notorious
social equality speech of some years ago,
alluded to by Mr.. Blackwell. considered
it the most infammatory speech that l
ever heard The general tenor of speech
could not. to my mind, be better calcu-
lated to incite the negro to strive for So
cial equality than that speech was.
JEROME w. OVERFLOW
AS but few white people could con-
tain themselves to remain to hear much of
the speech and most of those have left the
place in the Intervening years, not many
of our present citizens have personal cog
nizance of it. But the memory and effect
of it is as distinct here today as it was
the moment of utterance.
JOSTLING WHITE LADIES
AS to the jostling of white ladies on
the streets of Kittrell, Hawkins could
have had information by asking of any
white person in the vicinity during the
past week. have it from the lips of three
white ladies, among the most prominent
in the vicinity, that while giving a due
portion of the sidewalk they have been
roughly and wilfully jostled, one lady
three times, by female day students pass
ing through the village on their way
home from the Institute. One of the Ia
dies states that she was violently forced
from the sidewalk into the gutter. These
outrages in their full enormity were not
known to even the men bearing the
closest relations to the ladies .aggrleved
until the waiting room outrage forced
them to the front.
The ladies aware of the existing irrita-
ton on account of the jostling or virtual
running over of white children by the stu
dents. fearing that strife and possibly
bloodshed would result. bore their wrongs
in silence. forbearing to appeal to their
natural protector.
| have it from the lips of a white gen
tleman of the village that while walking
with a lady he had male student board
ing at the institute to violently attempt to
force himself between the lady and the
fence. For any one to thrust himself be-
tween lady and the wall has ever been
held a mortal insult. and much blood has
in the past flown on account of it. These
outrages date from two weeks to year
or more back.
Now, no one believes that Hawkins or
any one in authority at the institute di-
rectly instigated any of the above out
RACES. But they are the natural and in
evitable results of his whole line of pol
icy. beginning at the social equality
speech of seven years ago, and closing
with the waiting room.
AN IMMINENT PERIL.
A word as to the strict maintenance of
race distinction. The wisest and most dis
passionate men living realize that the fu-
lture of the Southern Anglo-Saxon is thick
haSat with difficulties and DerilS from this