The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-05-26
Declares That North Has no Right
10 Dictate to South.
SAYS LYNCHlNGS WILL GO ON.
fhe Barlow Philosopher Declares That We
Must Settle the Question Scores Some
of the News.

L ALL ICl UhpIy oOmo mOutuO hSO
l wrote to our yankee friends that II
they Were gentlemen they would apollo
gIzc for al. they done to us during that
d, ylllsh letter on the line and that was
tr,m " Lntive born federal soldier who
SAID he was friendly and that if |
would write out Al apology and send
1t t. him he would sign it. He seemed
to be properly %repeutant. And now
comes 10 this editor Of The New York
Herald down here to Investigate our
iyhcbing business and to philosophers
upon 1t, and he says the north made a
mistake In giving tho negro the right
Of suffrage, but be doefent apologize.
He was one Of the prime leaders in the
whole busiues5 aud speaks Of it as a
mistake. 1t WIS no mistake. 1t was
malicious Ignorance, and why dOesent
he say So? Ii has taken him aud his
folks thlity years to find out they
k..aw hut little about us and nothing
about the negro. Senator IDgalls has
got more sense and more candor. He
came down to Texas ten years ago to
investigate and went home and wrote O
letter In which he said the negro wes
not tit tor the ballot aud that the north
had made an egregrions blunder IN
giving 1t to him. He didn't apologies.
but he came pretty Eear it.
Now, II mistake doesent involve
any moral tu-pitude, but q malicious
blunder does. The time has passed
for any more trucking. The stage of
desperation IS upon the South and po-
htlcal humility to the North has pass
ed. We have never felt that humility,
but our politicians nave preached it
and tried to get something from the
public CRIB by pretending we were
humble when we we're not.
The truth is that tho North is re-
sponslble for every outrage aud every
lynching at the South, Here Is the
Atlanta Age, negro paper that ia
published by w. A. Pledger, that cop
les every article from the
New York papers about the Sam Hose
business, and Piedger whites to The
New York Sun tina he is shocked at
Governor Gamblers ut%terances and be
says the good negroes ut the So0th are
opposed to these outrayes on our wo-
men. The paper is pregnant with
comment on the I%ynchlng. | reckon
that is all right. for the liberty of the
press must not be restricted. Bat
nevertheless these u]tterances from
Pledger's paper go through the edu.
Gated negro element aud settles it,
convictions and thereby some
more outrages aud some more lynch.
ings. New York niggers come out in
thei: papers aud advise tho shotgun
and the torch in retaliation. aud those
things are copied IN the nigger papers
at the South.
But here is the comfort: Uncle San
Is still helping me in my garden ant
doesent know aud doesent care sry
thing about ell this business. he say,
be was born q slave and for thirt,
years has been q freeman and has I'll
ways found that il y colored man don,
his duty the white man done his
UucIe oan mas u large FAMILY n1t
through these Republican influence
they have been corrupted and demon
slized and he has \ lot of grandchil
dren who don't know their own fathe
and the old man is grieved.
j was Illuminating about all this an,
how these negroes have all been foole,
about Grant and Li.coln being tL.ei
friends aad were fighting to FREQ them
when there Is not u word of truth il
1t. Neither of them cared a contiueu
tai dime for the negro aud both O
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W successes than anything else. Blu
l have bad great regard for Lincoln