Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-05
SATURDAY EVENING. NOV. 5, 1898
Ir1sa lasting infamy for the Ameri-

the high Office of President should De
in sympathy with an effort to subject
Southern State to negro rule. Yet
such is the disgraceful fact in respect OF
North Carolina to-day. Is there msn
to be found anywhere, even in the
White House, so prejudiced, false and
base as to assert that this Union could
ever have been formed, or success in the
Revolution accomplished, if the South
ern States in 1776 had been told by the
North that they would be subjected TO
negro suffrage, negro office holding and
negro supremacy 1t is undeniable
that but for the aid and cooperation OF
the Southern States, end especially OF
Virginia, the whole business OF revolu-
ton would have failed, New England
and the North are indebted to George
Washington and Virginia for their in
dependence and freedom, for the Con-
stitution which they trample on, and
for the Union which they value not for
sentiment, but for selfish greed. Their
ingratitude is without example in his
tory. Let US compare briefly the treat
ment of the negro North and South.
The Yankees and the British brought the
negro from Africa to the South and
sold him to the planters for big money.
They fattened on the slave trade. They
kept some ofthe negroes for themselves,
set them free when they found their
labor as slaves had become Improbable.
But while they have had for nearly 8
century hundreds of thousands of ne
groes among them, many of them edu-
Gated at the North, they have never 81
lowed any of them to become magis'
trates, judges, legislators and governors
over themselves They have never
elected any of them to Congress. They
organized no charities in their behalf.
But they began a crusade against
slavery il the South and desolated the
land in order to free the blacks. They
forced negro emancipation, negro SUI
frags and negro Office holding upon the
South. They used the army in order
to install combination of negroes end
carpet baggers in power all over the
South at the very time that they re-
fused their own negroes promotion and
Office at home. The Southern people,
on the other hand, converted the Afri-
can savage into civilized being, re.
pressed his barbarism and elevated him
to condition of comfort and well be-
ing previously unknown by him. The
race IN slavery became orderly and
freer from violent crimes than even the
New England whites, who bewailed
their condition. Since emancipation
Southerners have refused to submit to
negro rule. They will not tolerate ne.
gro magistrates, constables, judges or
legislators. They demand q white
mans government. But here they
stop. The negro at the South is not
only allowed to work but he is encour-
aged TO work. There is no trade or
employment in the South into which he
may not freely enter. In every branch
of useful industry he has the best
wishes of the Southern white man.
How is it at the North? There negro
suffrage cannot confer political power
on the race. There are too few of
them. True, their vote helps the re-
publicans to Office in the North, but
the white republicans give them moth
ing in return. They give them no
offices. But this, though illogical. would
be small injury to the negroes, if the
latter were allo wed fair chance at the
North in the struggle for bread. This
the negro does pot get. He is allowed
to be barber, waiter, cook, house
servant, bootblack, a porter, perhaps
stevedore, and pick up odd jobs here
and there, but he cannot, at the North,
follow the trades and haudicrafts which
with industry so often conduct to com.
petence. The doors of the trades
unions are shut against him, by reason
of his color and race, sternly, cruelty,
relentlessly. The Northern white man
does not propose to have the negro
compete with him in the labor market.
Of this, we had striking example
the other day at Verden, Ills, where a
number of negroes had been imported
from Alabama in order to work in a
coal mine. The white men fired on
them, killed number and drove them
out. The republican Governor of Hi.
nois says if negroes are brought in by
Northern coal companies to work in
their mines, he will meet them at the
border with Calling guns. He will put
them to death without mercy. Yet
these very negroes had been EMPLOYED
IN Southern coal mines. No one
South barred the door to their
honest labor. Which is the kinder
treatment of the two? Answer, Pres
ident McKinleyl Why are you and
your organs silent about this Illinois
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