The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-11

State offering homes to intelligent ara
thrifty settlers, humiliatng to the whites
and unfortunate for all. The white
mans pride and passions are constant
~ appealed to, and deadly feeling I)lS
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 coIored men or
all of them are killed in riots that IS
simply the Negroes misfortune. No Fed
e1tal question being involved the Unitel
States takes no cogniDance. | would
protect him by taking him out of politics.
and every friend he has in the State
should vote for the amendment
THE NEGRO'S REAL FRIEND.
The intelligent colored leaders in the
South, like Bishop Turner, admonish
their people TO make friends with the
white people. The Southern white man
lis better friend than the Northern
white man. The civil war was fought
not for humanity's sake, but for com.
mercial supremacy. President Lincoln
disclaimed any intention of disturbing
slavery even in 1861. All slave or all free
was the cry. Free labor could not com
pete with slave labor and the struggle
was to the death between the two. Ut
was not il sentimental war. Free labor
triumphed, and the North soon
showed that it preferred white free la
Dor to black free labor. Now at Nerdin
and pana Illinois. a short time ago men
armed by the State with Winchesters,
backed by Il Republican Governor,
shot men down whose only offence was
black skins and the desire to exchange
the muscle of black free men for the
money of white free men. Thirty-five
years ago the same men were blthng
our Southland with our blood and their
own to free these victims of their
wanton butchery. Are these the boastcd
friends of the negro? How many ne.
groes from the Northern States have
sat in Congress? Amy in the cabinet?
Amy in foreign diplomatic service save
Hayti and Liberia where only Il negro
will go? II is time that the colored
man was waking up to the fact that the
Southern people are his friends.
THE NEGRO AND EDUCATION.
He will never have social equality,
want. ANY white man who puts him So
ON this plane at once loses his self re
spect and the respect of the negro He
wants only such white friends as conn
mand the respect of the best white
folks in the community. SO much crime
is committed by the colored people thai
doubt is expressed of ever correcting
Their evil propensities. There are those
1ot nJl irnn
them, but this position is disproved by
the facts easily ascertained by visiting
our jails and penitentiaries. Out of
thousands serving sentences you will
seldom find an educated negro. When
ever one is found he has been convicted
of an offence such as forgery or embez-
element of lodge or church funds. No
educated negro has ever committed
rape in the South so far as | ann in
formed 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 penitentiaries are expensive. Every
school house makes these less. The
class that the amendment reaches con-
tains the criminals the Ignorant and
the vici us. The class not affected con-
tains the educated, the preachers,
teachers the thrifty property holders,
really valuable citizens, like Rev. s. f.
Wentz, Fred Chambers, of this city
men who enjoy the friendship and re-
speGt of the best white people here. 1t
is notorious that the class that the
amendment reaches do not appreciate
the privilege they enjoy in voting. /
have seen them bought almost in open
market in this city. The educated of
my acquaintance are Self-reSpectlng
and place a high value ON the boon of
voting. Some of them are Democrats.
Our administration will never turn over
the destinies of the educated property
holding classes to the illiterate, NON
property holding classes in the Philip
pines, Porto Rico and Cuba. Yet this
was what was done by the victorious
North with the conquered South. The
whites were disfranchised i'll the South
ern States practically, and the negroes
enfranchised. President Mckinley in
dicates right here that he would have
opposed the fifteenth amendment had
he been then where he is now. But the
Anglo-SaXon has yet to meet problem
too hard for him to solve. We know the
course politics has rum since emancipa-.
ton.
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS.
We do not know the effect the adop-
ton of the amendment will have on
parties-we only have our ideas, and
should perform our duty, as we see 1t,
to ourselves. / presume the policy,
regardless of effect and consequences of
the Republican party will be in opposi-
ton to the amendment. i regret that
we have come to the parting of the
ways. / would make the Republican
party strong. and SO decent that it