The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-11-22
OLD SOUTHER\ER DEFENDS
WHITES.

To the Editor of the Journal: What
is the cause of the bloody race wars
which break out at intervals III the
South:
Some say it is political differences be
tween the races. 1t is not so. The mig
ger has no idea of politics in the South.
The Niger who votes has but one idea
in doing so. He wants to down the
white folks. Low down politicians have
for years been telling the younger gen
GRAFTON that they must vote against the
whites. This is also the reason why
most Southerners are Democrats. They
are Democrats in self-defence. I'm sure
if the Republican party had not given
the niggers the right to vote the South
would have been Republican. The
Younger generation of niggers regard the
white man as his mortal enemy, and the
politicians keep alive this feeling.
The young generation Of Southern
men are better abolitionists than YOU
Northerncrs. They ~disapprove intensely
slavery. My son said the other evening
at the dinner table: Its too bad the
South ever had slavCry.' Now. my son
has no use for 4 niger. He's always
d~iScharging our old porter and I'm al
ways taking him back. | love that old
IllSStI. nttiuSt lt hllONS It Is uOI llt
equal of Il white man.
A big. strong policeman is a mortal
terror to Il niger. Not because the
policeman represents the law. but be
cause he is armed and strong. If Il
niger is bigger than a policeman and
gets him at a disadvantage he takes til,
most remarkable delight in assaulting
and beating him. To the niger the
policeman does not represent any idea
of the law, but only an enemy to be
feared because he is big and armed with
Il gun. Down South. as soon as Il Niger
gets smart he goes to Boston. He
doesn't evince any more love for work.
The new generation hasn't any love of
home. He will not live in the country
if he can get to town. and | venture to
say that in town there are scores of idle
nig@ers for one who works.
Look at that niger editor whose print
ing office was burned by enraged white
men the other day. lie was an educa-
ted niger. He used his newspaper to
villify the character Of Southern adies
in an emotional and abusive effort to
protest against lynching. Now, what
would YOU folks in st. Louis do if some
niger insulted your ladies III a vile pub
LEGATION like that? Would YOU be salts
fled with breaking up his newspaper
and cunning him out Of town? Well.
that editor is 4 SO-cllled "cducated' mig
ger. Our best interests III the South
would be bettercd if we could get rid
Of the niggers. The people of the South
will never admit them to social equality.
and the niegers will never get along I'M
til they find that out and agree to live
pcaccably among themselves.
You must know that the Southern peo-
pie no longer believe in slavery. They
do not war upon the niggers so long as
they behave themselves. But the mo-
ment the niger tries to vote us down, to
speak insultingly of our women or to
push himself into social equality with
us that moment the trouble must begin.
There is only one salvation for the Mig
GER in the South. When he has sense
enough to see it he will get along. It
IS that the people of the South will
with him. Right now the older people
of the South and the older niggcrs are
at peace. They love one another. The
young men of the South are a~bolitioniSts;
they hate the very memory Of slavery,
but between them and the young Mig
gers there is and always will be a wide
chasm. The young niggers dislike all
white folks. and at the polls they sinp-
ly fight to down the whites. with the
idea that in this way they may gain
something of equality which we will
never give them. Yours truly.
POLK MILLER.