The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-14

| the South and come North or go else
| where, where they can be men.
There is no use living in the South
! and crying peace, peace, when there
| is no peace l believe in law and or
der, but when the law does not pro-
tect you, you should fight and die, If
| need be. You should demand an eye
| for an eye and a tooth for tooth
| The negro will never command respect
until he shall strike blow that will
! win for himself the respect of the
| world, for even God has no respect
| for coward. The negro should be
| brave and follow his leaders, whether
! they lead to Calvary or to a scaffold
| in West Virginia There is coming
| great crisis for the negro and the
first gun was fired at Montgomery,
! Ala, when it was proposed that the
! Fifteenth Amendment to the Constl-
tuition should be repealed. But there
can be no setting of the negro problem
with the negro out of 1T, 1t matters
| not how many conferences of white
men are held.
There are now 10000, 900 of us,
| with 100000 fighting men, and in
| some great crisis in this country these
100000 negroes will get at the
| threats of the white men who have
| wronged and outraged their citizen
! ship"
| Mr.. Fortune, let me put question 10
you: Of these tons of blood split to put
the Fifteenth Amendment into the Con-
! stituton, how much did you spill?
VIII you come South and organize the
army you speak Of?
Cntith tn 10
| in the fight, can't you see the harm you
!, do the race by the utterance of your
!, inaamed and bitter speech in Brooklyn
to the colored race and niggers of the
South?
! You speak CT an eye for an eye and
+, tooth for tooth, why not you come
+, South and explain these drunken and
crazy remarks?
| Since you have so much peace, law and
/ order North, why is it, for nearly three
hundred years not one colored person
nor one niger has ever warmed seat
i in the United States Congress?
| How do you harmonize this? From the
South at one time six niggers and one
| colored person warmed seven seats in
Congress.
| You advise the eolored race and niggers
| to fight the white people and die. Why
don't you come down and set an example
| by dying in the fight?
| Since God has no respect for coward,
can you not see he has none for you, FOR
the reason you are a coward of the hrst
water. You send word hundreds OF miles
away from you for weak, helpless peo-
pie to shoot down the white people ana
get themselves into serious trouble ana
you go scot free Why don't you come
and do that fighting and get the respect
of the world?
You say "there are ten millions of us
and two millions fighting men,"
Is this true? Is not this true, about
eight millions constitutes the colored
/ race?
| Summering up your complaint against
the Southern white man, you charged that
he has outraged the citizenship of the
| colored race and the niggers OF the
South Here is sample.
! From the Second district of North
Carolina four different niggers have held
seats in the United States Congress
continuous for four years each.
| Will you, Mr.. T. Thomas Fortune, name
district in any Northern State where
so much freedom as this exists?
| You will admit all the freedom you
want existed in the Second Congressional
district of North Carolina.
| Do YOU want to know the history of
all this freedom
At the present time there are three
niger postmasters or deputies now in
iail for stealing or being short in their
accounts Out of ten appointees as post
master. l am told eight stole and were
jailed within two years.
am told there is not a single solitary
district in the United States where the
percentage in any one district runs so
high.
daughters, more sons. have been dis
graced by their husbands and fathers be-
ing Jailed then in any district known on
earth.
Bondsmen have been forced to mort
gage their homestead out from under
their wives and children to make the
shortage good. The money l am out my
self as bondsman for postmasters in the
Second district would burn to ashes
wet dog.
1t is noticed that the niger press will
praise this kind of public men, making
no difference what these men are guilty
Of.
If they be men who have no character
to compel them to pay an honest debt
then the Niger press take pride in
recommending them to the President as
being the best niggers in the race.
why not be honest and give truthful
and wholesome advice to the colored
people and niggers in the South. if you
want to NEEDLE with their affairs?
Why not advise thus: 1t is God S
plan that every man have a home; 1t is
the devils that no man have home.
1t is Gods plan that every man live IN
peace with his neighbor; but the devil S
that strife and contention be kept up.
Why not advise them to be good clti-
zcns, be honest upright, reliable, for re-
spcct begins at home; be industrious, be
saving, lay up in sun shine for rainy
dav hold their word as sacred as their
lives, being more willing to depart with
their lives rather than their moral or
honor.
! say. Mr.. speaker, let it be settled once
and forever that in that race where we
find the richest cultivated brainy head,
the most sublime honest and best heart,
pair of willing hands let our officers