The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-09-19
A Voice from North Carolina.

A Voice from North Carolina.
A lady of North Carolina sends us a
very interesting letter. She says she
doesn't write as we'll as she could wish
to, but she writes we'll enough to de-
pict with some power the situation in
that state under negro and populist rule.
For reasons that are obvious she asks
us to suppress her name and postot1ice
address; and, for reaOns of our own,
we shall present synopsis and para
phrase OF her letter.
The lady is widow, with nine chill
dren. four of whom are able to help
her to some extent in the management
OF a small farm which is in a country
region inhabited mainly by negroes,
among whom are few populists, includ-
ing a pOpulist magistrate. Her expert
ence among these cOalitionists may be
imagined when she declares that it is
the duty of the women Of Georgia,
especially the wives and daughters OF
the farmers, to use all the Hfluence they
possess to defeat any and all such Goa
litiOns of the white men responsible for
such movements. She says IF they
are not negro lovers now they will be;
they will do anything and everything
for the sake of Office
The Indictment is a trenchant one,
and yet it is true as to North Carolina.
Why may not it turn out to be true
in Georgia: Remarkng upon the ar
tcles which We have recently printed
on the condition of affairs in North Car
DINA, our lady correspondent says that
the half has not been told. She inti-
mates indeed that our informants must
have covered up a good many hideous
facts in order not to give the state a
bad name abroad. As to this, We are
perfectly willing to take our correspon-
dents word Tor it. A woman is Il
keener observer than a man, and she is
more sensitive to her surroundings.
could you but come and live here
awhile" says our correspondent, you
would discover for yourself that the
half has not been told
She has been compelled to submit to
all sorts of ndenities and insults at
the hands of the white cOalitiOnists and
their negro coadjutors. and when, in
one instance, sh" would nave gone 10
the courts fof fedfeS5, her lawyer pain
ly told her that it would be impossible
to obtain justice so long as the popu-
lists and negroes nave control OF the ma
cbinery. The upshot Of it is that she
is going 10 dispose OF her property, II
she can, even at a sacrifice, and move
with her children away from the state.
Her daughter could help her by teach
Ing III the public schools, but she says
she viii go without such help rather
than that the young woman should sub
nit to an examination before such men
as those who make up the school board.
She declares, with Increasing empha-
sis that if the women OF Georgia knew
what was in store for them under such
rule, they would work night and day
against those who propose to repeat here
the experiment of corruption and dcgra-
dation which North Carolina is today
the victim of We are also of the opin-
ion that the wives and daughters Of the
farmers and tenant farmers should warn
their husbands and brothers and sons
against utilization with or support of
those men who are trying to fastcn on
them the unhappy results Of negro
coalition. The element known as poor
whites" in North Carolina are having
a terrible experience with the coalition
ana partnership which they have fast
entd upon themselves; and their wives
and their daughters have had occasion
to fne tne hour when the coalition sue
If there is any such element in GeOr-