Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-09-01
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Let Every White Man in North Carolina Read This
and Draw His Own Conclusions.
Not an Imaginary, But a Real DANGER.
Influx of Negroes From Other States May Reverse
Condition of Population and Make Negro
Majority in North Carolina.

Almost Immediately after the passage of the Reconstruction Acts,
under which the Southern States were re-admitted into the Union,
and by which civil and political rights we're conferred upon the
negro, there was a great influx of negroes into Washington City,
and the capital of the Union was fast becoming the negro's poiti-
cal heaven. Why? It was about this time that n act was passed
by congress which gave to the citizens of the District of Columbia
the power to elect al. the local officers of the City of Washington.
The people there had local self-government, and the negro was as
good as the white man. They focked to that city in great numbers
and had the influx gone O and the right of the people to elect the
local officers been continued the city would long ago have been IN
der the control of the negroes. AS it was, the city government
soon became SC corrupt and extravagant that Congress was forced
to repeal the act giving the people the right of local sefgovern-
ment. The principal officers of the city + now nominated and by
and with the advice and consent OF the Senate II appointed by the
President, and these appoint the minor officers. Since the present
system of government went into operation the negro has had but lit
tie showing in the way of ofice-holding, and the city is no longer
his political heaven.
What place is now to him what Washington once was? What
one State in all this Union now holds out to him the inducement to
enter her citizenship and seek her political honors? What State,
and what State alone, is represented L the Congress OF the United
States by a negro? What State, and what State alone, has regis
tration laws which make it easy for him to register, whether he is a
legal voter o not? What State, and what State alone, requires
nothing of him to entitle him to vote except his bare oath that he is
SO entitled? The answer to these inquiries is, North Caraina!
The negro is not a voter in the District of Columbin, as no cleo
tons are held there. South Carolina and other Southern States,
where the negroes in large numbers, have passed special laws
which make negro domination in those States practically impossible
But North Carolina, under Republican rule, not only does not seek
to provide against negro domination, but actually invites it. Laws
passed by Democratic Legislatures for the protection of the white
people in certain localities have been repealed by the Republican
party, and the policy OF turning over these communities to the ne
groes has been proclaimed to the world a $ the policy Of
cce hePuollcdh party VI NolIH doH"a II7Hce we see
in New Hanover county forty negro magistrates and numer-
GUS other negro officers. In Craven county we find twenty-six ne
gro magistrates and a host of other negro officials. All through the
east we find this policy adopted, and as a result many of the local
offices held by negroes. Gradually this policy is pushing its way
upon the State, and even Chathams negroes have been put on
committees for white schools. Much has been done in furtherance
of this policy since the Republicans came into power in January,
1897. That policy is now on trial, and a fierce political contest is
going o over the State. The Democratic party is attacking it with
all the power and force at it's command. The Republican party is
defending it with all the abandon and stubbornness that a hyena
defends it's young. This Republican policy is to be passed upon
in November by the people of North Carolina The negroes from
other States watch the conflict. If the people OF North Carolina
shall deliberately indorse this policy, can any one doubt the result?
is closed to them, will HE themselves away to North Carolina, as
they did in former days to Washington, where official life is open
to them and where the r Republican party offers them it's rewards?
Let it be proclaimed to the world, after this fierce conflict, that the
white people of North Carolina have Endorsed this Republican pol
icy and that this party is now firmly intrenched in power, and does
any one doubt, a and one doubt, that there will be a influx of
negroes in North Carolina from Virginia, South Carolina and other
Southern States that will soon give the negroes the majority in
many counties where they are now in the minority? In this way
county after county in which the whites now feel secure may soon
pass under negro control Can any one doubt that this is a real dan
ger if the Republican party is TO remain in control of the State? No
more can any one doubt that it is an imminent danger. Who shall
United States, when he returns as a conquering hero to his patron
and friend, Governor Russell, may not summons his race to join
him in making North Corolina the San Domingo of the Union.
Whatever one may think about these serious and weghty ques-
tions, it is certain that if the Republican party is overthrow and
it's policy be repudiated by the white people and the Democratic
party be restored to power, none of these dangers can befaI the
people of North Carolina. The Democratic party is a white mans
party, and it will establish and maintain a white mans government
over every foot of soil where it governs at all.