The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-31
COLONIZATION OF THE
NEGRO RACE. NO. 5.
THE ONLY RATIONAL aoPx YoR THE

rHE ONLY RATIONAL HOPx YoR The /
Social. snd Industrial Reaova- |
ton ef North Caroliaa- Asd Of the South. |
win he Found In the Gradual DepsrtA- |
ton and Settlement Of the Afro-A m~rf- |
cans. Upon some Portion Of the Pebble |
Domain, Outside the Limits Of the Uai- |
ted states. where They shall be Free to
trot.ctor~.e.
Editor CAUCASIAN
Returning from the excursion
which, in your last issue, l was
tenn pted to make into the domain
OF current politics, l resume and
not without due apology-the dis
cussion OF Negro Colonization at
the point where had left it. And il
the gentle reader has given me his
be must have learned
that Franklin believed that the
General Government had power TO
COLOMBO these Negroes-that JEFF
erson contended that it ought to
be done-that Clay insisted that it
must be done-that Lincoln, with
the tender of compensated emanci-
patton, begged that it might be
done-and that Grant showed how
cheaply, and how easily, it could
be done. They, one and all, lamen-
ted the Importation OF the Negro
into this continent, and, still more,
the increasing danger OF his con-
tinuance here. Such were their
views under every possible aspect
Of the subject. And now, fortified
with their opinions, l feel that /
m ay safely venture to particularize,
and will attempt to show, in this
paper, how the presence otthe Ne
gro has affected our Political Con-
dition. And upon this point the
the testimony, from every side, is
abundant and concurrent.
For the Democratic party, on the
one side, has proclaimed from the
beginning, and still proclaims, that
the introduction Of the ignorant
negro voter-we are left to infer,
that the educated negro voter, such
as White. and Young, and Dancy
and Manly, is some thing different
altogether, and a thing to be de-
sired-has utterly corrupted the
body polite, in all Of it's joints, and
in all of it's members. That it has
brought about the disintegration
to some extent, of both of the old
political parties. and more particu
larly of one of them, which Of it's
elf was the greatest calamity, thai
could have befallen this universe
That it has begotten the thing
called Fusion-and in one instance
with the very party that com
} plains-and that this has produced
! diffusion, and that TRANSMISSION
and all together confusion con
| founded. And pointing to the pres
ent Coalition Government Of thi
State, it has stigmatized it as tn
sum total of human villianies. l
has spared no member of it, from
Governor Russell down to j. M. Al
len, but has accused them, one ant
all, of incompetency, imbecility
indirection, and dishonesty, and o
evey other iniquity that is set dow
in the Catalogue of Crimes. AM
what is more it has tried, and i
still trying, to prove its accuse
tions. For the Smelling Commit
tees of it's Legislature have dug
and are still digging, into all tn
Departments, with a zeal and indus
try which, could wish, might hav
been rewarded with greater success
For, so far as I am informed, the
have not succeeded, up to the pres
emit time. in unearthing any thin
! which had even the appearance {
5 peculation, unless it should be
few paltry pilferings in the shap
of "$4.OO per DIME, and expense
for inspecting Carpets OFTEN laid
The intelligent reader must pc
ceive, that it would not help M
: in the least, to deny or to extern
: ate any of these accusations, an
t that 1 ought to understand the sui
r ject that I am discussing far to
;, we'll in all of it's bearings, to do
q thing like that. For it would onl
s strengthen the argument am m;
2 king, if it could be made to appes
y that the accusations were all tru
: If, therefore, for the sake of my a
= gument, l should admit tina
!. they are true, still, even the
!. only one-half of the whole trut
r would have been told. For it r
b m sins to enquire.
Q What effect has contact, with tt
Il omnipresent'Negro, had upon tt
f Democratic party itself?
d I hope that shall be able to a.
y proach this inquiry in spirit
J. becoming Difference and timidit
= For I must not forget, that I'll
j. Democratic party of North Carol
d ma claims to represent the Supren
b acy, of all that is brightest an
=. best, in political life, and tn
"whatsoever things are true, al
whatsoever things are honest, ar
y whatsoever things are just, al
i whatsoever things are pure. al
q whatsoever things are lovely, al
i whatsoever things are of good +
) port" fPhil. 4:8,) belong to it /
o right of prescription, and that it
" only engaged, at present, in tt
e laudable attempt to make the
g permanent. It, therefore, becom
b question, of the most curious in
}. port, to consider again and again.
s What has been the effect, of tt
6 presence of the irrepressible Negr
, upon such a party as thisi
It Let us see: In 1875 this par1
o called a Constitutional Conventio
= and having secured control of it
and just how that was done it is t,
l. late, now to enquire-it conferrt
q absolute Manhood Suffrage upe
Il the Negro, and confirmed it wi,
e an oath, thereby making il, n
y merely a statutory privilege. but
q constitutional right; and yet I
: sooner had it done this, than it pr
It ceeded, without loss of time,