The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-06

seeing some of their color i'll office, pro-
duces an immediate and marked change
in their bearing towards the white peo~
pie, and develops an insolent and ag-
gressive spirit which continually in
creases until. as at the present time,
they organize and arm themselves and
speak defiantly of their determination
to retain such offices as they now have,
and get more i'll the future-then negro
office holding ought at once, and forever
be brought to an end, and when it is
brought to an end there will also be
an end to the office-holding of their
white allies, and decent government will
be restored. You may devise ten thou
sand remedies and think they will be
effective, but | tell you, after considering
this subject for years, that there is but
one--it includes all others-and that is
to make it impossible for Il negro ever to
hold office in this State. They. and
they alone, have made the issue From
the day when they were transformed
into American citizens to this hour, I'M
like any other portion of the American
people, they have in all matters of public
concern acted, not as individuals, or
even as citizens of a locality, but solely.
and persistently, and unitedly, as Il race.
| They drew the color line from the be-
ginning, and have stood on it steadfast-
| ly to this hour. | believe it was Provi-
| Dental, and thank God for it, because it
will permanently settle the relations be-
| tween the races, which could not have
been settled If they had acted differently.
j hope and pray it may be settled
| peacefully, but it must be settled, for we
are now menaced not only with a con-
| tinuation of the negro domination under
which we live, but with the influx of
numberless thousands of negroes from
the other States who already regard
Eastern North Carolina as a negro para
disc, to which they will flock in case
this election goes in their favor.
Oh no, there is no hanger Of negro
domination-none whatever-it is Il
Democratic liza cruel SANDER upon he
virtuous, honorable. nigh t)ne1 and
benefcent local government I'm lcr which
we are now sweetly and calmly scposing
Have you not all observed in recent
events reported in the press Of the coun-
| try the extraordinary manifasta'i3l of
this race feeling among the negroes, cx-
tending as it does even to the negro sol
diers in the regular army Of the onitcl
States? Those soldiers are the only ones
in the army who have defed the civil
authorities, and rescued from them mem
bers of their race who had been Arrest
ed for violating the law, and they have
carried this conduct so far that, ac-
cording to a telegram published Il few
days ago, they actually used their guns
upon a military provost guard who had
arrested one of their number. 1t is
thus that these people show their appre-
citation of the privileges of American
citizenship bestowed upon them by the
government in an hour of madness and
folly. They seem to have become intox-
icated with the idea that they are really
possessed of special and peculiar rights
as a race, and are exempt from the re-
straints by which other people are bound.
1t is really pity to see them thus invit-
/ ing the destruction of all that has been
so generously bestowed upon them, but
| it will come as surely as the night after
the day unless they change their ways.
| believe that among the extraordinary
phenomena of this age one which will
| largely attract the attention of the flu
| ture historian will be the astound-