The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-04
Who Introduced the Nagrancy Bill Yes
ferday Discussed.

terday Discussed.
"He winds up by saying, if 1 can sue
ceed in getting the Democrats TO defer
rhc constitutional amendments and the
inn crow cars. that he and the race will
call me great.
Mr. Speaker. this editor is genera
officer of A. NJ. Il. Zion Convention of
America, and this paper is known by
aame as the Star of Zion, and is said
20 mould character and shape sentiment
for one million human souls.
II. To charge vote with the Demo
Gratis all the time is false
-. To charge / have betrayed any
trust, is meanly and cowardly without
foundation. and the editor will be given
ten days TO retract.
80 TO charge. because a colored Re
publican votes for n Democrat of the
highest character and at heart good, and
n his soul the nobility of God resides
md to say for this act is a betrayal
trust to his race, is to say Senator
Vance's action was betrayal of =
trust to his race when he took his pen
in hand Ga friend of the eolored raee) and
recommend to the Legislature the pas
sage of Il law giving to the colored race
State normal schools: is to say also tina
every white man of former Legislatures
and of this present Legislature betray
his trust to his race when he votes a
tax ON the property of his race (the
white people, to educate the colored
race.
Il learn that this same j. W. Smith
ID. d.. is candidate for bishop in the
next General Conference of the 4. NJ.
r. Zion Convention, His libelous and
slanderous article may give him lots of
trouble yet. because there is Il place for
Ill such birds.
81 believe, beginning with The Speak
ar, and each Ilemher of this General
Assembly. would say in thair dying
declaration that tile gentleman from
Craven has been one Jealous and anXi
GUS TO do some thing for his. race; in
IN intelligent. diplomatic. statesman
ike manner. believing as he does, there
S nothing that succeeds like success
s"This editor undertakes to put the
Legislature of North Carolina before the
world in Il false light He also under
takes to divide the two races, stirs up
bad feeling between the races, which
sometimes lead mp to blood shed.
'.IIe claims that the Democrats (the
white people, of North Carolina are
such low class of people until if col
ored Republican should give a good
white man complimentary vote that
he. has committed the objectionable sin
f.Mr. Speaker, | suppose the represen
tatives of the great lberty-loving people
of Mecklcnburg county viii notify the
citizens committee that Charlotte home
a man whose room is more desired than
his presence. NoN populi, yox die, the
voice of the people is the voice of God
as express in eplurihus unum one hun
bred and twenty representatives and fifty
Senators, yet we are one and insepara
bic, known as the General Assembly of
North Carolina.
therefore, reflection in the way 0
a libelous and slanderous publication
against one member of this General AS
sembly, is an indirect reflection, libelou
and slanderous publication against the
entirety.
Mr.. Speaker, | will state in conclusion
that this editor receives pay by way of a
tax Of fifty cent per head of the poorer
class of his race-the blind, the aged
and decrepit to run and conduct n stric
religious paper: but yet he publishes and
gives heraee, in my opinion, a political
| dirty. unreliable Sheet