The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-06-22

ern state: Is there one in Ohio, the
home of the President? Notice if you
please no negroes appointed in States
where the Republicans expect cleo
toral votes. They are appointed in
Democratic States and the District of
Columbia to secure delegates to the
national convention. New York has
$4,000 negro votes. AS goes this
vote SO goes the State Cleveland
wanted it and appointed Trotter. a
colored man, as recorder of deeds for
the District of Colum bia, and Mckinley
will get it with Cheatham, of this
State.
HOW TO PROTECT THE NEGRO.
Certain counties in North Carolina
are controlled by negroes, while the
intelligence and property belong to
the whites. Bad feeling will always
exist and the colored man will be the
sufferer. l am not willing for him to
control. 1t is bad advertisement
for county or State offering homes
to intelligent and thrifty settlers,
humiliating to the whites and un-
fortunate for all. The white mans
pride and passions are constantly
appealed to, and deadly feeling long
pent up at last finds escape in bloody
conflict. Who gets hurt? Not
white Republican but the negro. The
Federal government rightly proposes
that we shall settle the race question
as State question, and if 10000 col
ored men or all of them are killed in
riots that is simply the negro's mis-
fortune. No Federal question being
involved the United States takes no
cognizance. 1 would protect him by
taking him out of politics, and every
friend he has in the State should vote
for the amendment.
THE NFGRO's REAL FRIENDS.
| The intelligent colored leaders in
the South, like Bishop Turner, ad-
monish their people to make friends
with the white people. The Southern
white man is better friend than the
Northern white man. The Civil war
was fought not for humanity's sake,
but for commercial supremacy. Presi-
dent Lincoln disclaimed any inten-
ton of disturbing slavery even in
1861. All slave or all free was the
cry. Free labor could not compete
with slave labor and the struggle
was to the death between the two. 1t
was not sentimental war. Free
labor triumphed, and the North soon
showed that it preferred white free
labor to black free labor. Now at
Virden and Pana, Illinois, short
time ago men armed by the State
with Winchesters, backed by Re-
publican Governor, shot men down
whose only offense was black skins
and the desire to exchange the muscle
Of black free men for the money of
white free men. Thirty-tive years
ago the same men were bathing our
Southland with our blood and their
own to free these victims of their
wanton butchery. Are these the
boasted friends of the negro? How
many negroes from the Northern
States have sat in Congress? Any in
the cabinet? Any in foreign diplo-
matte service save Hayti and Liberia
where only negro will go? 1t is
time that the colored man was wax
ing up to the fact that the Southern
people are his friends.
THE NEGRO AND EDUCATION.
He will never have social equality,
and this is the one thing he doesn't
want. Any white man who puts
himself on this plane at once loses
his self-respect and the respect Of the
negro He wants only such white
friends as command the respect of
the best white folks in the COM
munity. So much crime is commit
ted by the colored people that doubt
is expressed of ever correcting their
evil propensities. There are those
who deny that education improves
them, but this position is disproved
by the facts easily ascertained by
visiting our jails and penitentlaries.
Out of thousands serving sentences
you will seldom find an educated
negro. Whenever one is found he
has been convicted of an offence such
as forgery or embezzlement of lodge
or church funds. No educated negro
has ever committed rape in the South
so far as | am informed. TO stop
this awful crime and Safeguard our
women were we'll worth all the money
necessary to educate them. Court
costs are enormous. Jails and pen
itentiaries and expensive. Every
school house makes these less. The
class that the amendment reaches
contains the criminals, the ignorant
and the vicious. The class not affect
ed contains the educated, the preach
ers, teachers, the thrifty property
holders, really valuable citizens. like
Rev. S. F. Wentz. Fred Chambers, OF
this city-men who enjoy the friend
ship and respect of the best white
people there. 1t is notorious that
the class that the amendment reaches
do not appreciate the privilege they
enjoy in voting. l have seen them
bought almost in open market in this
city. The educated of my acquaint-
ance are self-respecting and place a
high value on the boon of voting
, Some of them are Democrats. Our
r administration will never turn ovel
l the destinies of the educated proper
r ty-holding classes to the illiterate
: non-property holding classes in the
5 Philippines. Porto Rico and Cuba.
: Yet this was what was done by the
: victorious North with the conquered
South. The whites were disfran
! ohised in the Southern States prac.
t tically, and the negroes enfranchised
e President Mckinley indicates righ
y here that he would have opposed the
: fifteen the amendment had he beer
( then where he is now But the Anglo
t Saxon has yet to meet a problem toe
+ hard for him to solve. We know the
= course politics has run since emanci
Y patton.
. THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
e We do not know the effect tn
d adoption of the amendment will have
e on parties-we only have our ideas
T and should perform our duty as w
e see it regardless of effect and con
# sequences to ourselves. | presum
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