The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-09
DANcYs ADVANCED OPINIONS


Some DAYS ago it was published IN all
the napers that John c. Dancy, the negro
Customs Collector in Wilmington. had
been elected yice-president ct negro
association which declared in favor OF
agitating to repeal all laws in the States
forbidding the intermarriage between the
races. Dancy denied that he favored
such intermarriage.
The denial of Dancy does not Change
the fact that among the office-holdins
and efice-seeking class of negroes there
is Il determination to break down all
barriers between the races when the
negro through the Republican party IS
more firmly intrenched in power.
Outside Of the expressions at the
Negro League; the example of FREQ
Douglas which the politician among the
negroes never denounced; the utterances
Of negro leaders in unguarded moments;
and the occasional intermarriage between
the races 10 the North and the denuncia-
ton of laws insthe South forbidding such
marriages aside from These evidences,
there is one close at hand which the
negro Daney cannot deny
Dancy, who is member of the State
Republican Executive Committee and a
leader in arranging fusion, is also editor
Of the A. M. e. Zion Church Quarterly,
which is designed to represent the
character, Religious thought, development
and general progress of the colored race
in America.'l Ia his salrtatory Editor
Dancf .wrotess -
II shall endeavor to secure contri-
buttons from the best thinkers and
writer's of the race, and Of other
races, who think along lines in con-
sonance with the advanced and pro-
gressive opinion of the age and times
in which we live"
As the most striking contribution in
Dgney's number is. an article on Race
Assimilation by Rev. Solomon Porter
Hood, which may be said to be lin con-
sonance with the advanced and progress
siYe opinion Of the age and times in
which we live In preceding number
a negro preacher Rev. Lynch. by name,
had written an article in which he
reached the conclusion that 1.-THE negro
race will remain distinct" and IAN in
creasing number of intermarriages viii
not take place, so that the races will be
one 1t is to combat that proposition
that Rev. Hos,d writes his article, under
taking to prove that lin spite Of the
white mans repugnance. or the negro's
self-respect" race assimilation is the So
luton Of the negro problem. The follow
ing extracts from the contribution in
Dancy's Quarterly show what is in the
nina of those negroes who like jim
Young, Dancy and Abe Middleton have
been given great power in shaping public
affairs in North Carolina:
..Who can tell the wonderful harmoni
zing influences that are taking place by
the effort OF MIXED SCHOOLS
ALONE. We well remember how but
few years ago, cold winrcd mornings
when in the city Of New York, as 4
school-boy, we were compelled to pass
through at least three white school wards
to get to the "colored school" but it is
not necessary now and sometimes late FOL
school waiting to take the car we have
been compelled to wait for the ''col0red
car" on the Eighth avenue line. This
was but few years ago, but behold tbs
change.
Hundreds Of white men said they
would die before they would walk up to
the polls and vote with negroes, bul
they do and live. Scores Of white congre
cations have listened with satisfaction
to negro preachers who few years az,
would have scarcely been tolerated in thu
gallery.
1T is NO STRANGE THING Fol
A COLORED GENTLEMAN TIC
DINE AND BE ENTERTAINED IN
THE BEST WHITE FAMILIES.
''Colofed students go to Yale and Har
ward. Princeton and the University oi
Pennsylvania and If they stand well II
their studies. or athletic sports or both
become the favorites of their classes
sometimes visit the families of their fel
low students, and at all the alumni din
ners and class suppers take their places
as anyone else, and these are social re
Iations. Now if these wonderful change
have and are taking place on both sides
and the two races are daily drawn int,
closer contact under favorable circum
stances, WHY SHOULD IT BE ANY