The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-08-25
AN INFAMOUS ISLANDER.
A Negro Editor Defames the White
Women of North Carolina

SANDERS upon the people OF North
Carolina. but it has remained for
negro editor to be the author OF the
most villainous. defamatory lie and
SANDER ever brought upon the poor
white women of the State-a SANDER |
so base. so Internal in character that
it seems incredible that any sane
man who regards his statements or
values his life could have uttered 1t.
In Wilmington there is radical
sheet called the Daily Record pub
lished by negroes. In recent issue
was an editorial article Of which the
| following is an extract:
The morals of the poor white
| people are on par with their colored
| neighbors. Poor white men are care
less in the matter of protecting
their women, ESPECIALLY ON THE
FARMS They are careless OF their con
duet toward them. and OUR EXPERl-
ENCE AMONG POOR WHITE PEO-
PIE IN THE COUNTRY, TEACHES
Us THAT WOMEN OF THAT RACE
ARE NOT MORE PARTICULAR IN
| THE MATTER OF CLANDEST1NE
MEETINGS WITH COLORED MEN,
than are the white men with colored
women. MEETINGS OF THIS KIND
GO ON FOR SOME TIME UNTIL
THE WOMAN'S INFATUAT1ON or
the mans boldness, bring attention
to them, and the man is lynched for
rape Every negro lynched is called
big, burly, black brute, when in
fact, many of those who have thus
been dealt with had white men for
their fathers, and were not only
not black and .buriv,' but were
SUFFICIENTLY ATTRACTIVE FOR
WHITE GIRLS OF CULTURE AND
REFINEMENT TO FALL IN LOVE
WITH THEM. as is very we'll known
to ALL
Commenting on this Infamous
article of the Daily Record the Will
| mington Messenger says:
In the year of Grace 1S69-early in
the year-a rascal from The North,
name forgotten, was editing the Raj
eirh 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 dragon
a teeth of anarchy and discOrd. This
1 Northern scamp wrote an infamous
e editorial about North Carolina
l women who were Democrats. and it
/. got so hot for him he was forced to
I flee the State to save his bacon
e Those times were disgraceful times
There is negro paper published IN
this city called the Daily Record. We
have never before referred to it.
u But in its issue Of Thursday, the
8 18th, there is an editorial that cast
/. great slur upon the wives OF poo
4 white men, and is more infamou:
possibly than that foul editorial o
% the Northern white scOundrel IL
re 1869. We copy part OF what
d said by the negro paper of this negr'
J. city and ask the white men-particu
- larly the white married men, and es
~ peciallv the sons of white mothers
he what they think of such dirty def
he amation. such sweeping insult t
all respectable white women who ar
=. poor? The intent of the teaching i
- to Justify the black brutes who com
10 nit rape at the expense Of tn
~ character of every white wife in tn
South whose condition is poor as t
ID this worlds goods.
~ He charges that the virtue Of thi
~ class is of as low type as those
-. negro women who are represented a
., ready for ..clandestine meetings..
- | Nj ;-Eo Cd thic Ct Of n
= goes on to embrace ''girls Of cultu1
~ and refinement SO fallen as to bt
ho come lovers of negroes. He say
~ "this is very well known" The il
at fanny of the statement. 1t is
49, break the force of the reiterate
,n statement that negro rapists al
49, brutal and savage and deserve han!
- ing. by the plea that they al
w beguiled by poor white women ar
nj are fallen in love with by the your
nf ladies in the highest circles.
~ SANDER and lying can 60 farth'
" than that. it must be an ingenio1
devil who suggests it. 1t is tt
F. most Internal, slanderous, lyir
article that ever appeared in Nor
w. Carolina newspaper.
ice Copying the above in its issue
ng Tuesday the Raleigh Post says:
in H. L. Pike was the name of the i
las famous character referred to
rth editor of the Standard His artiC
OF was refinement itself contrasted wi
'ns the above, and he found it necessa
ich to be out of the State within twent
the four hours after the appearance
the his insult.
ced Can such an insult as the abON
ate not only charging the lowest degr
of debauchery on the wives of ''po
eat farmers" but boldly referring to
po- as the personal experience of t
en- writer, be perpetrated in Nor
ing Corolina without prompt resentmer
lie; Have white men in North Carroll
hat lost their manhood? Is the charact
the of the women of our State not
ur- dear TO us today as to our father
he'd and do we not know that our fath'
red trampled under their feet the pal
= that could bring into being su
monstrous offenders as the above?
More than twenty million free samp
10 OF DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve have b.
our distributed by the manufacturers. W
the better proof of their confidence in
to merits do you want? 1t cures piles, bui
ScaldS, sores. in the shortest space of til
icy. Phil Ii Thomas.
the -
pom No MATTER what your past pol
cry: cal affiliations have been If YOU
But in favor of the restoration of q
SAID Government in this State; if you
aid' lieye in the supremacy of the An
ent. Saxton race; if YOU believe in tn
OF who pay the taxes of North Carroll
IN controlling it; If you want WI
by mon 70 oo,trol wb;te soboo1s