The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-09-28

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FULL. regular action Of the bowels.
they do not gripe or pain. do lot
irritate or infigme the internal organs.
but have a positive tonic effect. &c
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he earn an honest living? Does he
live in obedience to the laws OF the
landf Does he p rform his civic du-
tiesi and will he fight for his coun-
tryi which last, l consider the tru-
est test of all, since there is no
stronger proof which a man can
give of his love Of country, than his |
to die for it. But the |
Amendment asks none Of
these questions, and an Education
al Qualification answers none OF
them. And this 1 say not in depre-
citation OF education. 1t has its val
ue. and is it's own reward. But it
does not OF itself, make citizen
either good or bad. 1t only makes
the good citizen a more efficient
one, and the bad citizen a more
dangerous one. This is illustrated
by the fact that seventy-fve per
cent. of Negroes wearing striped
clothes come, it Is said. from the
educated class. And this is the
class, which the Amendment pre-
fers above the more faithful old
illiterates, who served us as slaves,
but must now give place to the Lit
er4ry Negro. And, equally among
Whites, the educational standard
proves too short, when applied to
the defaultlng fiduciary, the alb
sconding bank-of1icer, and the pro-
fessional Shys er.
But let us suppose, that it was
all otherwise, and that the possess
sion of ga little learning" was the
sure and enduring foundation for
human rights: What, in that case,
ought l to say of the selfshness of
the men of one generstion-the
charter-members under this amen
ded COnStitutiOn-whO are seeking
to exempt themselves from condi-
tions, which they are mean enough
! to impose upon Othersi For to my
mind the many-sided turpitude, of
this Suffrage Amendment is shown,
at it's worst, on its treatment of Lit
tie Children. And by Little Chill
dren l mean, not only the blue-eyed
sucking OF less than one year old,
and his f1axen-haired brother OF
thirteen, but all the boy-babies
that are still in the wombs of their
mothers. Those that are yet to be
born, are to be treated very much
in the same way as Herod treated
the Innocents of his time-and if
/ were one of them would prefer
not to be born until after the tyr.
any, which is sought to be set ul
in North Carolina, has been over.
thrown-while those who, are now
running about in short clothes, are
to be made to pass through the
fires to MolOch! For all of these
little ones will then be placed, as
our fOreign-bOrn citizens now are
upon level with full-bleOded Ne
grOeS, OR A LITTLE BELOW. FO
!. whereas this Amendment does de
clare, that the iiliterate white mar
shall be placed above the illiterat,
negro, for the present, and unit
: 1903, still FOREVER AFTER THA-
{ TIME it declares, that the EDUCATED
NEGRO shall be placed above the IL
LITERATE WHITE man, who is de
: barred the suffrage after that date
and this is done in the name o
VIII lite S up r-e-m-a-c y. Til
authors of this Amendment, star
5 out with the very pretty theory
g that there is in the blood of tn
: Caucasian something that is in
D trinsically good, and so mucl
: thicker than water, as to make
: White man a~little better than
Negro. And they say. that tier
t is a quality in it which is tran:
n Missile, and which they call He
: redity. But they soon abando
: this theory. For after 1908 thi
:? quality ceases to be transmissibl'
4: and the Heredity is lost. Thence
d forth, by this Political Bill of Al
tainder, the blood becomes tainte
r the children are bastardized-an
e bar sinister is set opposite thel
: names
el And shall these "hungry, leal
J. and lankjawed" Spoilsmen, VIII
e are seeking through it's Gener;
= Assem- bly, to dominate the State
% this Observation-Disclosures +,
e the Democratic party, and fit rel
s. resentative Of that Mob of Patriot
= who, in Raleigh last winter, file
b all Capitol Square, and overfiowe
y into Fayetteville street-shal the
II be suffered to rivet upon the pc,
n pie of North Carolina their ow
l. scheme of Disfranchisement, wit
Is all which that implies for then
e and for usi And are the Peep
Il themselves ready to tamely knee
" like bastinadoed elephant, to r
B. ceive such paltry ridersi for or
re will not believe it. For when,
of should like to know, have they ev,
ID before given proof of such servility
re Was it when, at Bethel they wei
'e among the first to unfurl the bal
1t ner of the free, or when, at App
y mattox, they were among the La
IF to fur1 it again I? or was it durin
p those intervening years when,
e. tattered uniforms but with brigl
A. muskets, they were foremost in VI
is holding that banner, from Mana
h sas to Petersburg, and by way
y Fredericksburg, and Chancellor
e vile, and Gettey sburg, and Col
c. Harborf When, repeat, have the
0, given proof OF such sarvilityf W.
ar it when, little more than a We,
e, ago, the sons of these same men,
n answer to a call to arms, mustere
y, under the restored banner of IL
Of Union with no other rivalry-ar
q, OF this l speak with pei sonal know
T. edge-than, which one of their reg
s. menls should be chosen to plar
st the flag Of the nation upon Nor