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

their NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and
Baiiss1s they call them with full
power and discretion, TO arrest aud
imprison, and TO do this, not In or
der. that timid Democrats may safe
Is approach the baliot-box but, I'm
order, that force may cover fraod.
II l. incredible, that these puzzle
headed, and drnderheaded, and
authenticated Blunderers should
not understand the nature OF the
conflict which they are provoking.
+ or have they sach short memo
ries as to have forgotten, that only
ten years ago, thAy raised prodi-
gious ciamor over the threa 'ened
attempt OF the General Govern
ment TO interfere forcibiy In our
elections! and that Congress Is The
judge OF its constitutional powers
and duties, without waiting the de-
cision OF any COURT And are they
not now counting such interior
ence with no other object, or result,
than that Federal soldiers should
appear at the polls in numbers
equal to that Of their own Bonn
bailiffsf
Ny own opinion If. that The au
thors of this Suffrage ams d. msn'
have no adequate conception az
what they were doing. and have
done,-st least for themselves, They
have yet To learn what it j. II tam
per W III the rights Of men, whose
fathers were free, who are fxre IN. N
selves, and VINO have not gotten their
consent To disinherit their own Ell H..
dren. Suddenly lifted into power
by Red. Shirt-Revolusion. which
thsy helped to create, these fom.nt-
ers If strife have SO broken their
pie d ges, and abused their trus', as 10
provoke Counter Revolution, which
they WILL be powerless to resist. For
they little know what it is to eucoun
ter the rage of a people, when thor
ougbly aroused, and iehting f,r
their liberties. This they Will soon
be called upon to do, and they will
find it something diff erent, from per.
verting the law and the facts. and
badgering witnesses in an ordinary
Court House. For it is they them.
selves, who are about to be arraigned
before the Grand AssiZa of the PEG.
pie of North Carolina. l have some
times spoken of them as quadrupeds
And l now use like igure, when !
say, that those, whom they have de-
ceived and betrayed, are making
ready to hunt these wolves in-sheep's
clothing to their hiding-plaees- that
they mean to pull them ont of tbeil
holes-and, after carefully removing
their borrowed integuments, they
will proceed to strip their own brin
died hides from them, in the broat
light of day!
/ r. jectlng, then, this Suffrag'
Amendment, as being the latest Mon
strosity in legislation, and consign
ing its authors to that public ant
condign punishment. which the.
have so richly earned, let me ask
; Is there nothing more which the Peo
. pie S Party ought to dot Its duty i
plain. For We understandable W
can be said to understand anythin,
; this whole Negro Problem, in al
: of its relations, political, social, ant
, industrial. Aud we know it's Who'll
, history. We know, that our connec
> ton with this negro race, from it
, very inception. was a thing "sha
pen in inquiry and conceived i
: SIM" and that it does not help u
r in the least, to be told, that we ha
the seif-seeking and St lf-righ;eou
, New Highlander, as g. PARTNER in tn
= busiLess-let US rather hope, tina
| the future holds in il, for him, also a
r equal retributiou. We know wb
y were the first to Africauize this Stat,
and who they are that are doing q
: they can to Africanize it sll!-the
!. are those who first brought him herr
+ and their l,neal de sceb dents, who a,
q still trying to keep him here.
t proof Of this, could easily name .h
,. man, in the city of Wilmlr gton,, VII
q with several hundreds of them upo
: his pay-roll-usually denominate
h savages, and rapists, but whom b.
a like others, preferrs d to An equ'
a number of white la borers-was see
o in the Massacre Of Nov. 10, 1S9
:. with q Winchester on his shoulde
= and joining in the s+nseless howl
n Negro Dominatiop!' Aud We, wi
Is are now seeking TO fad some door
D exit for this redundant negro pop
A. lstion, must expect, in 1900, to e
I counter the same howl, from ii
d Unconstitutional hypocrites. B
d let US not be dismayed. For we kuo
If what power liberated, and enfra
n are powerless to disturb their cons
70 tutional rights. Aad, even if =
Al had the power. We ought to kBO'
: that any partial disfranchiseme
Of of them, could only have the effe
D. Of converting the remainder into
is purehasable contingent, and as su,
ID holding the casting vote between p
d litical parties, and thereby CONVEX
" ing what is corruption now. into p
8. luton then. And knowing all th
n We ought to know, that Separate
h offers the only remedy that Is with
n our reach. And that this, and II
le only, will open a safety valve for t
j. pent-up evils which ale corsumil
e. US. Remembering, therefore, ''ht
10 beautiful upon the mountains, are t
7 feet of him who bringeth good
ar dings, who pnbiisheth peace, let t
- Peoples Party submit the followi
re- Resolutions-b ing substantial
n he same as those which were r+js
o. ted by the Democratic State Exec
st tive Committee, in its meeting
% May 20 1895 and make the IN hens
in forth, vial portion Of the part,
If creed
D. u) We believe, that the SEPARATE
s. of the Races, gradual as 1t must be,a
of yet ultimate and complete, furnisl
the only solution of this Racial Pro
lem, which, after 'convulsing the n
~ tion for nearly hundred years, a