The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-06
COL WaddelI8 Speech.
The Bodest and Most Remarkable Speech in the Most
Wonderful Campaign in the States History.

naigm, anu the lhaltsFS III fSSus way ~
the usual kind. | would not he found oe~
cupying the smallest part of the nnhle
attention, hat would be entirely content
10 remain silent, ms have done for some
years. and quietly TO vote according TO
my convictions. Even as II is, my pres"
ence here in this capacity has certainly
moi been of my own seeking. The only
emharras sment | experience arises from
the consciousness that what | may say
viii be but the reflection of your own
thoughts and feelings, and must there
fore fall upon your ears like an oft-told
tale. To seriously argue to an intelligent
audience the soundness of the len Com
mandments MS a code of morals, could
hardly be more unnecessary not TO say
eomcal. than to discuss the rlghtfuness
and the experience of maintalng the alb
Solute supremacy of the white people
in any part of the territory of the United
States
The assertion of such supremacy does
not necessarily involve any hostility 10
the negroes. On the contrary. it is but
insisting on the plain truth that it is just
and right and absolutely best and wisest
for both races that the white people. who
made it the grandest country on the
globe. and who have done more for the
negro race than all the other peoples
that have ever lived upon the earth,
should alone govern it, as whole, ana
in all its parts. 1t is their country, and
they have right to rule it. and they GER
tainly will rule it. Every intelligent per-
son knows that it is not only very foolish,
but will be absolutely suicidal and ruin
Gus for the negroes to attempt TO resist
this ineyitaDle result. They have been
told so for thirty years by the best
friends they ever had, but they seem de-
termined TO disbelieve it, and to persist
in asserting a right to a large share in
the management of public affairs The
mass of them are ignorant and probably
believe that they will succeed in their
purpose. They have been played upon
and preyed upon by vicious leaders of
their own race and by mean white men
who make this agitation a source of
profit to themselves, until they have be-
come Il menace to society and clyillza-
ton.
/ heard the other day that the Elk
Reverend Private Secretary of Ills
Wickedness, the Governor of North
Carolina, who is doing oratorical chores
IOF lHut HfuSlIlouS DtISOll. III itUiA iuS w.
the assertion made by Democratic
speaker that this is a white man $
country, said it was mot white mans
country, but free mans country" and
INDUCED in some windy rhetoric on the
subject The Indian was and is q free
man. Is this his country? The negro
was a slave, and was brought here is
such, and after 200 years of slavery was
emancipated. Is this his country! For
1900 years the negro has had a whole
continent to himself, and it is in the
same condition now as it was at the be-
ginning except where white settlements
have been made. He has never, during
all these thirty centuries, exhibited any
capacity for lf-government, much less
for the government of white men. When
ever he has been civilized by white men,
and then left to himself, he has invaria-
bly, reverted TO a condition of savagery.
In Hayti and San Domingo, as late as
1865, after long tutelage by white
men, that portion of them who lived
away from the towns had actually re-
lapsed into cannibalism. If this South
ern country We're abandoned to them, in
less than Il hundred years they would do
the same thing, in spite of all the educa-
ton and civilization given to them by
the white people. In the light of history
and experience it would be crime
against society and defiance of the
decree Of the Almighty to entrust any
part Of the governing power of civilized
land to their hands. The sickly and
maudlin sentimentality that so long pre-
vailed in regard to them has been
squeezed out of the minds of those who
cherished it by the memorable pressure
hos ant liSt rs
are driven to confess that this is a white
mans country and that he will surely
rule it. -
They have at last fully indicated the
Southern people. They are now fierceiy
asserting that it will never do TO make
the Cubans and Porto Ricons and FIJI
ippinos citizens of the United States, be-
cause they are incapable of self-goyern-
ment. They are, as races, superior to the
negro, to be sure, but enough of a thing
satisfies the appetite. They have gone
further The Republican Governor of a
leading Abolition State-the State OF
Abraham Lincoln-in defiance of The
glorious amendments to the constitution
which made the negro citizen has de-
MED the rights of citizenship to Southern
negroes who went there, not TO dominate
or to vote, but even to work, because
they were willing to work for less wages
than the white men of that State. The
chalice has been commended to their own
lips-the chickens have come home to
roost, and the prospect is that the solu-
ton of the so-called negro problem will
not be left entirely to the Southern peo-
pie.
After cruel and constituencies cru
SADIE, continued for some years in a
yengeful spirit, to force the equality of
the races, the attempt was abandoned,
and now the almost unanimous belief.
even among those who instigated it, is
that the greatest crime that has ever
been perpetrated against modern civiliza-
ton was the investment of the negro
with the right Of suffrage. Everywhere,
except in North Carolina, this sentiment
has taken practical shape, and every
where except here the negro, as factor
in politics, is a CIPHER. 1t is profoundly
humiliating to be compelled to ac-
knowledge this exception, and it would
be still more profoundly humiliating tt
believe that any. argument is necessary
to persuade the white people of this
State that, if it so continues, disaster