The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-01
WHITE MEN MUST RULE
The History of the African Race Shows
It's Unfitness For Ruling.
HAYTI lNAUcURATED CARNIVAL OF BLOOD
If the Tiger Cannot be Domesticated He Must
Lose His Claws. Woe to the Sable
MameIuke That Opposes the
Cause of White Man."
Cause of White Man."
Especial to News and Observer.)

Como. N. c., July 3O-Hertford can
justly boast of bearing the banner Of toll
Grafton and moderation. Our people are
not apt to rush to extremes. They are
quiet, peaceable and law abiding. 1t takes
hurricane to sweep them from their
mornings. Like their forefathers, they
are deliberate before action, but like an
avalanche they are swift to execute. l
can only speak locally, / have been
many years a resident of Hartford. /
have seen them in hours of trial-in time
of peace-in time of war, and have ever
observed them to be lenient, conservative,
firm and true; but l am free to confess
than / never saw them so deeply moved
as now. The clash Of the civil strife
had no effect upon their nerves. Amid
shot and shell they stormed heights and
swept over battle plains. They reasoned
slowly to their conviction Of duty, and
they were willing to and did die for them.
Our people bear no hatred towards the
negro race. They recognize the race as
a fulcrum of power, past and present,
in the development OF our material pros
perity. They feel grateful to these peo-
pie; they are attached to them by ties
of lasting remembrance. Those of us.
who have known them longest appreciate
them most. We neither want nor desire
any better, more efficient, more faithful
laborers. We neither intend to rob them
of any personal rights, nor would we
submit to any law tending in that direc-
ton. Knowing the race, we know their
natures, their great capacity in subor-
dinate position, and their utter incapacity
for government. We claim the heri-
tage of government was bought at a
fearful price with our ancestral blood, and
that we have demonstrated our power to
keep and defind it. All Europe once was
sunk in barbarism and in ignorance, save
Greece and Rome. They came in contact
with Roman armies and saw the light of
Grecian glory. They were conquered by
the one and enlightened by the other.
Rome planted her standard on African
SOIL advanced their standard, lifted high
the beacon light of science and art
Along the Niles proud water was settled
q Semitic not a negro race. No re-
public, no well established government
sprung the presence OF Rome. Even along
the shores of the Inland Sea, not even
a vestige of decent government remains.
Toutaint Louverture by wholesale mid
night slaughter, by midnight burnings,
exterminated the French in 1892, and pro-
claimed Hayti republic. Go, read the
futility of the attempt in her ruined sugar
and coffee plantations, in her deselation
desolate The negroes inaugurated car
nival of blood and anarchy, and their
republic of hundred years is a stencil
and O scorn among the nations OF the
earth. We are not willing to intrust the
safety of our State to such impotent hand
to a people Of such instincts. We have
said in our hearts, that we will rid our
selves of possibility of such pande-
monium. For three decades we have APP
pealed to them for help to assist in good
government, and they have answered
with derisive laughter. We have heavily
taxed land and personality to elevate
them by education, still they shake in
our faces the fist of welded phalanx-
we have accorded them the privileges of
our public carriages, and in return they
have insulted our women by their defiant
obtrusion. This state of affairs must
change or anarchy and ruin, civil and po-
litical, will surely follow. If the tiger
cannot be domesticated, he must be
caged-the poisonous fangs of mad
socialism must be drawn. Hartford will
do her full duty in this great upheaval
to right wrong-to law sure and deep
the perpetuity Of our blood bought SUI
periority, and still no harm, but lasting
good will result to the inferior race. Hard
1y corporal's guard of white men here
will vote against the amendment. Let
it be said, that good majority Of these
are good and loyal but only misled and
misguided
On the 14th of July, Mr.. Lloyd Law
renee, candidate for the Legislature; Mr..
Vernon Cowper, son of Senator G.. V.
Cowper. and Mr.. John E. Vann, of Winton,
addressed our people at Como. Our peo-
pie are not given to loud applause, or
violent demonstration. 1t was an assem-
bly, of quiet, respectful, responsible men.
Even many of our wives and daughters
graced the occasion by their presence. No
barbecue, no pig roasting, no toddy inhi-
bition, but convention of some four
hundred barons at Runymede to demand
their rights and to secure them. They
paid attention to the speakers and
profted by their attention. 1 am stating
facts, not writing fiction. The few waver-
ing were established, the doubters had
their doubts removed and even the few.
who had said, they would vote against
the measure, quietly and openly went
and enrolled themselves under the flag of
White Supremacy. No. Republican white
in our township, Democrat and Populist.
as neighbors and friends, sat side by side,
listening to the logic, the burning words,
the touching appeals of the speakers and
at the close eyes looked love to eyes
and hands were Joined with vow regis
tered to be true to our glorious race, it's
instincts and it's privileges. No word OF
bitterness-no gesture of hate, no i'm
proper illusions, no low slang were in
dulged IN. Oil was poured upon the wa
ter. Water was poured upon the fire. The
last volcanic throb is over; the hatchet
is buried, and like the Swiss of old
against Charles, the Bold, the cry rings
loud and clear, Farewell peace and well
come war;" until from the mountains te
the sea white mans government shall