The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-01-19
Sen. HOAR'S BIG SPEECH.
Arp Says He Would Like to Have
Heard II.
SENATOR FROM GOOD STOCK.
Bill Says Northern Men are Rapidly Learn
ing That They Made . Mistake About
the Negro-Changing their Minds.

Hear make that great speech In the
United States Senate. That Hoar fam
lily is no common stock. They have q
long line Of Concord ancestors, some
OF whom were distinguished before the
war. They are OF Pur
itau stock, aud always firm and fearless
in defense Of their religious faith aud
political principles. The picture Of
the senator as he was making his last
and greatest speech shows his solidity
OF character. His forehead is massive,
his lips heavy and compressed, his
lower jaw and chin broad AMI billig-
ereut His love for his party was
founded in its hostility to slavery aud
the South, but his reverence for the
constitution and all its traditions is
stronger than party. He was an old
line whig and an abolitionist per sc
though there is no record that he ex-
erted his influence to keep his people
from covert indulgence in the African
slave trade. He is q great-grandsOn
of Roger Sherman, and 80 are William
M. Evarts and John and Tecumseh
Sherman.
His elder brother, Ebenezer, was
Grants attorney general for year or
two, and was distinguished in many
high positions, having been o Judge OF
the supreme court and member of the
joint high commission that framed the
treaty Of Washington in 1871. The old
ancestor, Samuel Hoar, was an officer
in the war Of the revolution. His son,
Samuel, was q prominent lawyer and q
h,rr .,al tho frat holf nj
this century. / remember when he was
sent by the legislature OF Massachu-
sets to the State Of South Carolina tC
test the constitutionality Of the law OF
that State that forbade free colored
persons from coming into it. 1t took
bold man with streak OF fanaticism in
his nature to do that, but Samuel Hoar
dared to do it, and on his arrival in
Charleston in 1874 was promptly eX.
PEELED from that city, and then from
the State. He left with prudent alac.
rity, and it raised an awful rumpus all
over New England. and they Threatened
secede and fight, but John Tyler was to
President, and they could do nothing
but talk and preach and threaten and
keep up the African slave trade. We
college boys wanted to fight, too, and
dared Yale and Harvard to come down
to the line 1t was newspaper war,
and soon blew over, but it cemented
and enlarged the abolition party all
over the North, and finally brought on
the war that caused the death of half O
million men and put q million names
OH the pension roll. What COM
mentary of fanaticism! Grover Cleve-
land hit it hard when he said, 'The
preachers are for expansion and coloni-
cation and possession of the Philip
pines that they may convert the ma
tives to Christianity aud save their
souls. OF course we will have to kill q
few hundred thousand first, and whBt
Is to become of their dead souls the
preachers do not tell us. but l suppose
they can arrange that.
And now, after thirty-fve years oil
vain experiment aud the wasting OF
millions Of money, the north confesses
it's mistake. and is taking the back
track. South Carolina, Mississippi and
Louisiana have virtually eliminated the
negro from politics and retired hin to
the fields of industry where God and
nature assigned him, and that ablest Of
all republican magazines, The Re
view of Reviews, in commenting upon
it says: sit is the opinion of a large
majority of the wisest friends OF the
negroes that the franchise of voting il
political elections is more harmful than
useful to them, and they can we'll afford
to allow white men to do the voting anC
hold the offices, if colored men are &C
corded justice in the courts and have
fair and equal opportunities to Obtain
education and acquire property. 1t il
wholly harmful to colored men to bt
appointed postmasters in white com
munities. Mr.. Mckinley has made
mistakes in that directionf
That is good honest talk and is tn,
say repentance because it is the RICH
word, for it means to think again-th
| sober, second thought We old tim
southerners who were born and rsiset
in close communion with the negr,
have known it all the time that h.
wasn't fit to vote and that it degrade,
the white man to buy his vote, and tina
was the reason why we had such 10,
grade of lawmakers and Office holders
No gentleman who respects himsel
will buy a negro's vote and as he can
be elected without it he will not offe
for Office. This is the general ru1e an,
there are few exceptions. 1t applies t
State. county and municipal polltic
and even to congressional elections.
have known a candidate for mayor i
nv town to contract with leade
among the negroes for fifty votes at S
head and he got them, and was elect
ed, though the white vote would hav
defeated him. Our best people ar
utterly tired of being dominated b
this rurchasable element and have en-
dured it about as long as we can. TIL
truth is apparent that we Will neve
have an honest, decent, respectable lee
islature until the negro vote is eliminat
ed. for it is a self-evident truth that
man who will buy auother's vote cal
himself be bought. But woulden tbas
this exclusion upon race or color.
would put it fair and square upon con
duct and intelligence, and if it cnt O
many OF the whits race, let it Gu
There are good many who ought
be cnt. / have more respect for Ga
sett aud Joe Brown and Uncle Sa
and Hayes Miner and Preacher Bri
and few other colored men in O,
town than for many white men I cou
name, and 1 had rather trust my life
my property in their hands. The
ought to be q commission in eve
county to purge the polls. We h,
! one before the war to purge the iu
box and no disreputable man was
, lowed to serve on the grand iur
Then. why not purge the ballot DO
1t would have good effect upon {
rising generation, both white al
: black.
But do think that our grand Q
} sister State of North Carolina will
J to an unsafe and unfair extreme if tn
) give the negro for a school fund
, more than their taxes amount to.
l rather no more than that proporti
, OF the public school fund. It seems
. me that every child between sie
! and sixteen should have q chance
learn to read and write, and if I
! parent can't pay for it the State shou
But would have q commission an,
school box for that, too, and if I
parent wouldent work his childr
shouldn't come in. Nothing distul
my tranquility like having to pay