The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-08
DESIGNATING THE NAME OF
VANCE.

Marion Butler, a fair sample OF the
Black-and-Tan element-a motley pro-
duct of political miscegenation-say OF
the negro question:" We've got to
settle it, And how did he and Prltcn-
ard "settle it, in 1895 and 1897? BY con-
niving at the appointments of hundreds OF
negroes TO offices in the counties OF the
State, by introducing such carnival
OF corruption in Wilmington that white
men dared not leave the city over night
on the most important business, for fear
of the most terrible results To- their homes
in their absence.
In speaking of the infamous acts in-
mediately after the war, when negroes
were allowed to vote and the leading
white people of the State were disfran
chised, Senator Vance said: These ig-
norant negroes were differed by Il train
t-d corps of expert thieves and scoundre'-
who showed them how To plumber the
helpless whites" But in 1895 and 1897
they vert n bowshOt further alll gave
the ignorant negroes hundreds of offices.
And it is the same set of scoundroIS to-
day that was such Il curse to the State
in others the legitimate-or should we
say the natural offspring of renegades
carr et-baggers and Kirxites.
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The readiness of these people to allude
to Vance as their friend of sacred MEM
ory,' and TO declare that if he were alive
he would be at heart a Black-and- Tan
and stop the awful Democrats from get
ting the negro cut of politics, can be
accounted for only as another example
of the devil quoting Scripture and using
holy water This seems to be especially
popular in the Western part of the State,
where Pearson and Patton and the Ashe-
Vile Register evidently rest under the
belief that the white men Of the m0un-
tains can be fooled by this vain attempt
to conjure with the name of the man
who declared that Democracy is inn
mortal" They forget that they are tax
ing an unfair advantage of 4 man who
cannot defend himself; that they are
grossly violating a rule Of decent society
in desecrating the adage, De mortuis
Eli sed bonum!
But Vance. though dead yet speaketh.
His wonderful wealth of words seems to
have exhausted itself in the vain attempt
TO describe these ha1pies. Hear HIM:
'Carpet-baggers 49,. came to officer
the negroes and to teach loyalty to the
whites The rest We're diSaffected WHITE
natives mostly without property TO be
taxed or sympathy with their race or
regard for the misfortunes of their coun-
try" Could(a better pen-picture be given
of the editors of the Asheville Register
and the Asleville Gazette than is con
tanned in this first sentence:
ITO plumber the helpless whites Inn
mediately after the war the whites, cast
down and almost destroyed, were help
less" The great mistake that these coz
ruptionists are making today is in sup
posing that the whites are still help
less or may be made 50. This is n
very grave mistake, as they should have
found out in 1898 and will find out in 1900
in still more emphatic form. The white
people Of North Carolina will never be
dominated by negro rule again; and they
will never be dominated by those who are
willing TO see the three RS of negro
rule, ruin, and rape, provided they can
fatten on the corruption. Let there be
no misunderstanding about this fact. IN
ccndiary speeches i'll Congress will not
alter the fact. Warm approval by &
Congressman and n Senator. Of a Islander
,lpon the white women of North Carolina.
will not alter it. And the declaration o.
Butlcr-this after-dinner warrior-that
the white men of the State must be
whipped out of the State" will not alter
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