Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-08-25
A NEGRO DEFAMER OF THE
WHITE WOMEN OF NORTH
CAROLINA.
Wilmington Messenger.

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editing The Raleigh Standard,
Holden's old paper, and then the
organ Of the rascals who were just
beginning their plan to rob the
people and SOW the dragons teeth
of anarchy and discord. This
northern scamp wrote an Infamous
editorial about North Carolina
women who we're Democrats, and
it got SO hot for him he was forced
to flee the state to save his bacon,
Those times were dlsgraceful
times. There is a negro paper
published in this city called The
Daily Record. We have never be-
fore referred to it. But in its is
sue on Thursday, the 18th, there
is an editorial that casts a great
slur upon the wives of poor white
men and is more Infamous posi-
bly, than that foul editorial of the
northern white scoundrel in 1869.
We copy a part OF what is said by
the negro paper of this negro city
and ask the white men-particu-
larly the white married men, and
especially the sons of white moth-
ers, what they think of such dirty
defamation, such a sweeping in
suit to alrrespectable white women
who are poor? The intent of the
teaching IS to justify the black
brutes who commit rape at the
expense of the character of every
white wife in the South whose
condition is poor as to this worlds
goods. But hear this vile de-
tractor and slanderer:
"Poor white men are careless
in the manner of protecting their
women. Especially on the farms.
They are careless of their con-
duct toward them, and our ex.
perience among poor white peos
pie in the country teaches US that
women of that race are not more
particular 10 the matter of clan
destine meetings with co1ored
men than are the white men with
colored women. Meetings Of this
kind go on for some time until
the woman's infatuation or the
mans boldness bring attention
to them, and the man is lynched
for rape. Every negro lynched is
called a, big, burly, black brute,
when, in fact, many of those who
have thus been dealt with hao
white men Tor their fathers, and
were not only not black ano
'burly,' but were sufficiently ats
tractive for white girls of culture
and refinement to fall IN love
with them, as is very we'll known
to ALL"
According to the Messenger OF
Sunday, the 21st, in which the
above extract was published, tina
infamous language appeared il
print in the negro paper of tha
city on the 185h-three days pre-
vious, and yet we have not heare
other than that the negro editor
is still living and plying his ven
omous vocation in that eommun
ity.
The ARGUS is not given to in:
cendiary language, but we know
whereof we speak when we say
that the black fend who pennet
those lines and published then
to the world could not do so il
Goldsboro and live till the inl
got dry; and we don't think W
do violence to the manner o
white men who constitute thi
community in saying this.
J, But this is another chapter il
the odious regime of Russell
Butlerism, Repuhlican-Populis
fusion in North Carolina.
; God knows it was bad enough
in SO: but that was when every
thing was turmoil and confusion
incident to the war and the re
cent freeing and enfranchisemen
of the negro. White men of tn
State, and ''to the manner born,
were not held responsible the.
in the eyes of the world for tn
fearful conditions that prevailed
but the white man in North Car
DINA to-day who in the face Q
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