The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-08-25
THE WHITE NAN FRIENDLY
TO NEGROES.


Messenger.
The white people OF North Carolina
have shown ever since the negro slaves
we're freed by war waged by the north |
for that purpose unwiseiy, that they |
had kind feelings for them. To prove
this they bore with their extreme follles
when so unwisely clothed with the
power of the elective franchise, and
gave them work and sympathy and
often help. Stripped Of their basis OF
credit, tens Of thousands of prosperous
and comparatively well-to-do men re-
duced to poverty or bankruptcy, with
debts hanging over them and farms Tor
the most part without possibility OF
cultivation, the true white men OF
North Carolina united IN agreeing to
be taxed to help to educate In the three
RS the negro children OF their former
and recent slaves, an act OF generosity
and friendship without solitary paral-
lei in the records of all history. Never
before did a vanquished and heroic
people, after long, exhausting war
when Al 900 of their brave men had
persisted as the War Records OF the
United States government show, take
upon themselves such great voluntary
burden. Up to the present the white
people (mostly democrats) have ex-
pended of their own earnings and ac'
cumulations, millions OF dollars to give
schooling to the children OF negro
voters fundamentally and with very
rare exception, unitedly voted with the
enemies Of their benefactors and friends,
and sought by vicious legislation to
heap injuries and expressions upon
them.
This is no fancy picture, but stern
unbending reality. The negro race IN
North Carolina In no particular have
ever shown that they had the slightest
appreciation of the favors so constantly
bestowed and with such free, un
stinted hand. The negroes who work
ed in towns and Oh farms voted on
every opportunity against the mer
who employed them. and have uni
formly acted as il they regarded witt
dislike ii not hostility the men from
whose hands they received their bread
This Is true and The election returns II
the state for thirty years will establish
this.
The white men-the true men o
their own noble race-are not hostile
to the negroes. If they had been tn
negroes would long ago have beel
forced to move out to get employment
The true white men have never Wlshe'
any harm for a moment to the negroes
3 They have pitied and wondered. The
have borne with them with exceeding
{ forbearance when very greatly trlet
3 They have not sought to abridge then
| in their lawful rights, Or to keep ther
: from enjoying life, liberty and the pul
Y suit of happiness. They haye wishe
: them prosperity and hearty Goo
: speed.
} But this being true, they have NJ
f been in favor of negro government to
Y white men with white hearts and whit
/ souls. They have never been Statistic
It with the success of the hetrayers OF tt
l. white race who for the lowest persona
o -e4G-l.- s.>aA- h..re-dihgentl sought ,
n put the black men in Office ana Uv,
j. the whites. There is not decen
l. honorable, upright, worthy white ma
y In all North Carolina who is SO falle
II in his manhood as to be willing to
5, overruled and mastered by the negl
Y race. It makes all his manllness
e character and love of liberty and sci
It respect rise up IN indignant opposite
3, at the very thought. If anythlr
e kindles the war spirit within him it
n for the helots, ignorant and debased,
n be placed in authority by the villalno1
IS and detestable conniyance Of low-doN
% white ingrates who are at botto
rs no better than the black tools they II
J. for the degradation of their own RAJ
3 OF which they are so utterly unworth
l. 1t is the game Of mean whites
sr make the negroes rulers over viii
a. men-born free as Paul said to the r
II man-and with all Of the heroic qua
s. ties that slgnalize and uplift the gre
n nations of the original Aryan stoc
e. This putting Sambo and Sankv al
Re Pompey in Office Is just what the viii
te men will not have, will not long su
IN mt to. This is plain talk and 1t
&c true talk. North Carolina will so'
n or late be Disseminated and negro bo
}? ism and negro rule will be thing
y, the past. But while this Is the det'
of mination of the white race III tt
k State, they do not wish any harm
lis evil to befall the negroes, especial
n the we'll behaved and Industrious.
H.