The age-herald., 1898-11-06

a long line of horsemen, thousand strong has marched in battle order; every man well mounted. his horses bridle bedeckeo with streaming red, his horses tail tieo III red. every horseman wearing flaming req shirt. a rifle swung over his shoulder and a revolver resting in his belt. There IS fiag-bearer and banner. The banner is white, and inscribed upon it in red letters are these two words only, White Suprema- cy." Great crowds of the true lovers or North Carolina have gathered in the to"hs and along the roads of the country 10 see the procession pass-grim men, who kno" their rights, God-given, and, knowing oare maintain. Ladies and children wave their sun-bonnets and smile with the light or the rescued on their countenances; hal1-sro"n boys yell in frantic envy of places oenieo them in the ranks of the army of redemp tion; grizzled veterans weep in the overno" of pride that posterity is equal to the eX- ample the fathers set before it.
 On Tuesday next general election occurs in the state of North Carolina. Not silver nor gold or tariff, or "expansion.' is heard of as an issue. The united white men of the eastern towns and the eastern coun- ties have given notice to Governor Russell, republican, and to the scalawag ofhce-seek- CTS and the negro voters that negroes shall not vote at that election. "No negro sui frage is the law of eastern North Caro- lima. Every white farmer wears a red shirt and comes to parade. They have little cannon they call "Zeb Vance at the rem dezvous in one county. They fire it at ev- .ln xxy.fh five miles hear the explosion The county band of red shirts march, thousand strong, through the cotton plantations ana the turpentine orchards where the negroes work.
 Negroes shall not vote for any office, from constable to congressman-educated negroes or the other sort. That is the "higher law in all eastern North Carolina today, and the shades of MT. Seward, the inventor of it, and MT. Abraham Lincoln, the defender of 1t, will have to confront the legacy left to the country in it.
 I've have put our foot down upon the black race and upon their white leaders. with blacker hearts, and we will die to the last man, if needs be, with our foot still upon the black race and their diabolieai white leaders,
 That is the brief speech and the whole argument of the united white men and women of eastern North Carolina upon the eve of Tuesdays election. In all North Carolina AS per cent of the office-holders of all kinds, federal and local, are negroes; but that monstrous fact falls far short of describing the domination 5of the negro over the eastern part of the state. The republican party nominee for congress in the First congressional district is negro; the republican party nominee for solicitor in the Second judicial district is a negro; the collector of customs at. the port of Wilmington, where, nearly all the ocean commerce enters and departs, is negro; the register of deeds of Craven county, one of the richest and most re- fined, socially, in the state, is a negro; the county coroner is a negro, and one of the county commissioners is a negro. There are forty negro constables in the single county of New Hanover; there are twenty seven negro magistrates in Craven county, and there are in all eastern North Carolina some 300 negro magistrates and many scores of negro deputy sheriffs.
 The United States government has given most of the postoffices in that section of the state to negroes. James H. Young, colonel commanding the Third North Car. olina Volunteers. U. s. A., is negro. This same negro was state fertilizer inspector, with large salary, and was a director of the State White Blind asylum. Two ne- groes are now candidates for the legislature in Halifax county, three in Edgecomb, and in every county in that part of the state the republican party has put forth negro candidates for the legislature. There are hundreds of school committeeman who are negroes.
 Turning to the municipal governments in the same community, it appears that there are fourteen negro policemen in Whining ton. In the town of Greenvile the board of aldermen numbers six, four of whom are negroes.
 Government under the present conditions has become farcical in the extreme in east ern North Carolina. Richmond is the great cotton plantation county, and the races there are about equally divided. Laurn- burg is in that county. It is prohibition town, yet every Sunday afternoon and evening crowds of negroes of all ages and both sexes meet on the principal streets and make life intolerable to decent people by their drunken orgies. At Wilmington and in all the towns the behavior of the young black bucks Is so revolting that la dies on the streets are in constant danger. It is quite the thing for one of these bucks to walk up to white lady unattended. and proffer his arm to escort her home. The negro officers will arrest none of their own race, and the scalawag officers are even less inclined to check the arrogance of the bucks. Negro officers are incompe- tent, impudent and turbulent. The land is overrun with negro tramps, who abandon full wages on the plantations, where labor is in demand. The land is full of negro criminals unwhipt of justice, and property of any description is unsafe at all times White men are afraid to leave their wives, and children at home. In the towns droyes of indolent rowdy negroes swarm the