The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-24
COLONIZATION OF TIL
NEGRO RACE. NO. 4.
THE ONLY RATIONAL HOPE FOX THE

THE ONLY RATIONAL HOPE FOX THE
Political, Social, and Iodustrial Renova-
ton Of North Carolina. aud Of the soath.
viii he Found in tho Gradual Deporta-
tIon and Settlement of the Afro-Amert-
can,. Upon Some Portion Of The Public
Domain, Outside tho Limits of the Uni
ted States, Where They Shall bs Free to
Govern Themselves, Under the National
tr0te ctorate.
Editor CAUCASIAN
At the close Of a communication
in your last issue, / promised to
give your readers, in this, a faith
full narration of the action of the
Democratic party of North Carroll
ma, in respect to Negro Colonization,
and of it's very recent and emphat-
ic condemnation Of it, so far as the
same is known to the public, or to
myself.
To do this, 1 need only revert, to
events that are fresh in the memo
ry of men still living, and of date
not older than May 20 1895. l refer
now to Series of Resolutions, for
mulated by myself and embodying
Jefferson's plan OF colonization, thai
were fully discussed in a meeting
of the Democratic State Executive
Committee, held in the Hall of the
House of Representatives on the
night Of that day. The day itself
was not i1l-chosen for the consider
alton of such a subject, it being the
occasion of unwilling our superb
Monument to the Con. ederate Dead.
l should stGte that those Resolu-
tiOns, mad been laid before the Com
mittee on the 9th of April preced-
ing, but in order to give time for
their fuller consideration, they
were postponed, on my own motion,
to the meeting that was to follow
and that in the mean time, type
written copies of them were mailed
by me to more than forty members
of that Committee, together with a
personal letter to each of them,
cal uootly soliciting his support,
And in what, farther, shall say
OF the reception that was given, and
of the fate that befell those Reso-
buttons, l shall violate no conf
dence, since the greatest publicity
was given them at the time, mas
much as the doors of the Commit
tee, on that particular night, were
thrown open, to any one, who could
show a certificate of belonging to
the motleye est political party, that
, was ever mustered under a single
banner.
| 1t would require pen far ADLER
than mine, to do full justice to the
personnel, of so notable an assemb-
lage as that of May Goth 1895. Suf-
flee it to say, that it abounded in
men, of mark and likelihood, who
were fully commissioned to speak
with authority. First of all, the ed
: itors of the leading organs-the Sir
| Oracles Of the party-were there,
with the exception Of r. M. Fur
man, who was unavoidably absent,
but who has since grown to be
I somewhat of a Nestor of the Fourth
Estate, but whose eye has not
grown dim, nor his editorial force
abated, but whose good gray head
was then, as now, arrayed in that
B immortal "youth" in which I re-
3 member it for now, well-nigh, on to
: thirty years, But to supply the
E omission the graceful, and elastic,
and versatile Josephus Daniels was
there-I would that these two co.
I labOrerS were not rivals, but
i friends-and moving with that
4 alertness, and "devil may care sori
of free-and-easy air." that so much
become him. And there too was
{ the more ponderous j. P. Cald.
= well, Of an aspect greatly different
G from that of others, and sitting ra.
Their apart from them, and brood.
ing in his disgruntlement, as
could not help feeling, over his own
= wrongs and revenges, in such wise
n as to suggest line of Byron's des.
v cription of the Eve of Waterloo
l. Within a windowed niche of that higf
hall,
IS Sat Brunswick's fated Chieftain,
IS And last, but by no means leas,
among these, was E. J. Hale, the
brilliant editor of the Fayetteville
r Observer, who always aggressive
b and prepared for action, alone, O
all whom 1 have named or shal
} name, gave to my Resolutions hi
e warmest support but took no part il
}, the debate, since he is rarely know,
r to shine as an orator, except befor,
Press Associations And there too
= was the very pink of Newspape1
u correspondents, in the person of F
-" A. Odds, whom the envious, only
10 have some times compared to Gait
or to Eli Perkins, but whose Aries
creations have usually turned GU
10 to be, only too true,
/ And the lawyers of the party
t. were there-not in such overwhel
IS ming preponderance as we fine
ts them in the present Legislature
% which obstinately refuses to tax,
u itself out OF the public view, bu
continues to menace the publ,
peace, and to abuse the public pa
n tience-they also were there in yer,
great force. For it would be sin
u gular thing indeed, il the Sons O
D. God, or the sons Of men, should as
k semble, anywhere in Heaven or up
1T on earth, and the Devil, and tn,
). Lawyer, did not obtrude, their we'll
known physiognomies. Distin
l. guished among these was ]. H
is Pou deep, wary, and inscrutable
n Equally distinguished was the &C
y. complished E. G. Smith, who fel
! in his own heart, as l verify be
- lieye, that something ought to b,
n done. to rescue our people from tn,
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