The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-09-01
LET EVERY WHITE MAN READ.
Real Danger of Influx of Negroes
From Other States.

LET EVERY WHITE MAN READ.
Real Danger of Influx of Negroes
From Other States.
Almost Immediately after the pas
sage of the Reconstruction Acts,
under which the Southern States
were re-admitted into the Union, and
by which civil and political rights
were conferred upon the negro, there
was a great influx of negroes into
Washington City, and the capital Of
the Union was fast becoming the |
negro's political heaven Why? 1t |
was about this time that an act was
passed by Congress which gave to |
the citizens of the District of
Columbia the power to elect all the
local officers of the City of Washing
ton. The people there had local
self government, and the negro was
as good as the white man. They
focked to that cityin great numbers,
and had the influx gone on and the
right of the people to elect the local
officers been continued the city
would long ago have been under the
control of the negroes. AS it was,
the city government soon became SO
corrupt and extravaganza that Con-
gress was forced to repeal the act
giving the people the right OF local
self-government. The principal
officers of the city are now nomi-
| mated and by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate are ap-
pointed by the President, and these
appoint the minor officers. Since
| the present system of government
went into operation the negro has
had but little showing in the way of
officeholding, and the city is no
longer his political heaven.
| What place is now to him what
Washington once was? What one
State in all this Union now holds out
to him the inducement to enter her
citizenship and seek her political
honors? What State, and what
State alone, Is represented in the
Congress of the United States by q
negro? What State, and what State
alone, has registration laws which
make it easy for him to register
whether he is a legal voter or notIi
What State, and what State alone
requires nothing of him to entitl'
him ovote except his bare oath thai
he is SO entitled? The answer tt
these inquiries is, North Carolina.
The negro is not voter in tn,
District of Columbia, as no elections
are held there. South Carolina ant
other Southern States, where thu
negroes are in large numbers, hav,
passed special laws which max,
negro domination in those State
practically impossible. But Nortl
Carolina. under.. Republican rule, no
only does not seek to provide agains
negro domination, but actually in
vites it. Laws passed by Democrats
Legislatures for the protection of tn
white people in certain localitie
) have been repealed by the Republi
can party, and the policy of turning
over these communities to tn
negroes has been proclaimed to tn
; world as the policy of the Republican
party of North Carolina. Hence W
see in New Hanover county fort,
negro magistrates and numerou
: other negro officers. In Cravel
county we find twenty six negr,
magistrates and a host of othe
, negro officials. All through the cas-
we find this policy adopted, and as
result many of the local offices he'll
by negroes. Gradually this policy i
pushing it's way upon the State, an
even Chatham's negroes have bee
put on committees for white schools
: Much has been dOle in furtherance c
! this policy since the Republican
came into power in January, 1897
That policy is now on trial, and
fierce political contest is going O
over the State. The Democrat
party is attacking it with all tn
: power and force at it's command
The Republican party is defending
with all the abandon and stubborn
ness that a hyena defends It's young
, This Republican policy is to b
l passed upon in November by til
people of North Carolina. TIL
negroes from other States watch til
conflict. If the people of North Care
lima shall deliberately endorse TIL
I policy, can any one doubt the result
Is it not manifest that negroes froI
!, other States, where official life
closed to them. will HE themselve
@ away to North Carolina, as they di
, in former days to Washington, whel
official lite is open to them and whel
the Republican party offers them II
u rewards? Let it be proclaimed t
the world, after this fierce conf1ic
that the white people of North Caro-
r lima have endorsed this Republica
policy and that this party is no
( firmly intrenched in power and doc
: any one doubt, can any one doub
{ that there will be an influx of negrot
into North Carolina from Virgini,
/. South Carolina and other Souther
J. States that will soon give the negro,
the majority in many counties whel
: they are now In the minority?
this way county after county
4 which the whites now feel secure ma
= soon pass under negro control. Ca
any one doubt that this is a rel
danger if the Republican party is t
remain in control of the State? n
more can any one doubt that it Is a
imminent danger. Who shall sa
q that Colonel James I'll. Young, tt
;. only negro colonel in the Unite
States, when he returns as conque
ing hero to his patron and frien,
Governor Russell, may not summon
y his race to join him in making Mort
Carolina a San Domingo.
10 Whatever one may think abOJ
r these serious and weighty question
n il is certain that if the Republica
Q party is overthrow and it's polio
n be repudiated by the white peop
q and the Democratic party be restore
# | to power, none OF these dangers ca
q befall the people of n nth Carolini