The Washington bee., 1898-10-29
DRAWING THE COLOR LINE.

40 oOeShs Ah otiS ouo tHC juuiOi
editor Is rattliug around in thu
editorial chair. Mr.. Wilkins halls
from Ohio; but this young Cassiu us
we are informed, comes from Lou.
isiana- No doubt his parents were
shareholders bafore the war. He
has oftines witnessed the beating,
whipping and manning of negroes.
He has seen them sold upon the
auction block. He has seen
them chained together by the
hundreds and marched away
at the crack Of the bull-whip
of the overseer. He probably owes
his education to the unrequited
toll of black men and women. He
probably had a "black mamma"
Therefore We were not in the least
surprised when he fired off his
editorial on the situation in North
Carolina in which he sides with
the democrats in drawing the color
line and their wicked and barefaced
endeavor to deprive the colored
citizen of that State of thier right
of suffrage.
This young man has trained in
that school of philosophy which
teaches that "might makes right"
He is eminently fitted for the
scenes of blood and carnage which
he encourages in North Carolina
and nothing would please him bet,
ter than the news that hundreds
of colored men, women and chill
dren had been slain on election
day and that the pious, (?)
noble, % christian (?) democracy
had thereby secured the complete
control Of the political machinery
of the State.
Think of it! Right here at the
capityl of the nation, under the
shadow of the goddess of liberty, at
the closing of the 10Th century, in
the face of our grand achievements
in the war with Spain-a war in
which white and black men fought
side by side for the lag-there
lives man, dignified by the title
of editor, who boldly advocates the
perpetratiou of the crime Of trea-
son. This young man has evident
| ly forgotten his history. 1t Was
just such inf1ammatory utterances
as these which helped to bring on
the late civil war; and the over
turning of the constitution in the
States of Mississippi and South
Carolina and the avowed attempt
to do the same thing in North Car
olina is but history repeating itself.
There is an American conscience
1t is strong at the North. 1t needs
only to be awaked, to see its duty
and to acG. The numerous MUIR
ders of colored men at the South
is but the carrying out of deep
laid plan to gain in peace what
what was lost in war. 1t will be
the duty of all lovers of liberty
and justice to inaugurate a cam
palgn throughout the North, after
the November election, the pur.
pose Of which will be to arouse the
masses and point out to them the
depth to which the South is going
in order to reduce the late bond
men to a condition worse than
slavery.
That the democrats of North
Carolina will carry out their threat
to murder colored voters no one
doubts. There is no use to mince
words when dealing with the negro
hating southerner. He hates and
despises the black man or woman
who knows their rights and
attempts to exercise them.
Our advice to the colored voter
of the State is to 60 to polls and
vote at all hazards on the 9Th of
November. If they are driven
away from the voting places and
the governor proves powerless to |
protect them it will be a matter for
Congress to settle Then tba fol |