The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-27

over 900 conventions to be held this year
in these United States. 1t looks ike
public affairs, political, religious, agri-
cultural and financial are in a very I'M
settled condition. There is the Philip |
nine war. the Porto Rico tangle, the Gu
BAN postal steal the negro problem le-
male suffrage and women's hats in the
churches There is the prohibition ques-
ton, the Presbyterian creed. the germ
theory, the strikes among the laborers'
the trust monopclies and who are to be
the running mates for Bryan ana NC
Kinley Then there are side shows OF
many kinds. but nothing gets settled
When our old cook got sick and my wlIe
asked her if she knew where we could
get another she said, Nome, | don't.
cocks is gittin pOw'ful scace. Better git
a settled oman if you can tina one
desc young, unsettled niggers amt no
count sense freedom cum Looks like
there is nothing settled nowadays, Meth,
err labor, nor cooks, nor women, nor
men, nor theories, nor great public ques-
lions. Well one thing has bean settled
at last and that is 1.-The Barbara Freitchie
myth" The Boston Transcript of last
Wednesday has three columns on the
subject and gives up and says this is
finality. 1t publishes a letter from Cen
eral Henry Kyd Douglass, of StonewalI
Iackson's staff which dsproves the
whole ridiculous story and ciqses " say
ing, 1--WE men of the South set no limit
to the poetic laudation of a woman. be
she cid or young, nor are we disposed
TO hold an admirer strictly responsible
for the accuracy of his language, bur
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande the
Of Thr;c a.
wall Jackson, is sacred. Lift up your
monuments to your own heroes and hero
ines and you will hear no word of pro-
test from us, but do not cast your chip
pings and spawls on the grave of Stone
wall Jackson" But that is only one
thing settled. One SANDER nailed and it
has taken thirty years to do that. We
thought that Ben Hill had nailed the
Andersonville SANDER in his great speech
against Blaine, but that hobs up every
little while and has to be nailed again.
know a lady and she is lady in man.
ners and morals, who really believes that
the Federal prisoners at Andersonville
were made to drink melted lead when
they begged for water. She VAS toll that
thirty-five years ago and can't set
over it.
We can't do anything with those PEG
pie They fought us from prejudice and
have since been spending millions OF
money en- the negro from prejudice. Ey
cry black scoundrel who has 1caa lynChed
down South was the victim of their false
teachings and will continue to be-thank
the good Lord for His merces. Ten
years ago I wrote my first philippe
against the brutes and advocated SUM
mary vengeance and | stand by It and
rejoice whenever a iynching occurs Cor
an outrage upon defenselesS women. u
there is anything worse than lynchi1S
I'm for that. Let the North howl if .hev
want to, the procession will proceed ell
the same The farce at Montgomery set
tied nothing. The negro is here 10 stay
and he has got to behave himself as a
good citizen or take the consequences
The South needs him and if his presence
keeps away the horde of foreigners that
Europe is anxious to get rid of, it is
blessing. What is the matter with the
negro? / don't know of race conflict
in this region except in the large cities,
which are a pestilence to good morals
Truth and the industry of the race is i'm
proving in the rural districts, where the
white race is in the majority. few
month ago there was q call from Missis-
sippi for negro labor and about a hun
dred went from this neighborhood and
very soon they were missed and our far
mers began to make fuss about it,
but there was no Pegleg Williams con-
cerned in it and nobody to get mad
with One of my neighbors who had
often declared that he wished they were
all out CT the country got mad about
this sudden exodus, and said he couldn't
hire a man TO break up his garden. We
are hard to please and lay too much
blame on the negro. read about young
preacher who just spread himself abus-
ing the other denominations and he was
tcld that it wouldn't do for the members
were all mixed up by marriages and he
was giving great offense. What shall
/ do?" he asked. 81 am obliged to abuse
somebody or the people wont come out to
hear me- His friend replied, We'll
then you had better pitch into the Jews
They have got no friends and are not
kin to anybody but themselves Just
so, we blame the negro with the Gins
and corrupt methods of the politician
the politician who buys his vote with
money or whiskey. The smart man who
buys is worse than the ignorant negro
who sells his vote. When Stephen A.
Douglass ran against Lincoln for Con-
gress he tried to degrade him in public
speech by saying that the first time he
ever saw his opponent he was keeping
a saloon in a one horse-town Yes -
replied Lincoln, Il remember that. l was
Cn one side of the counter and you were
On the other. / was selling and you
were drinking" That is about the paral-
lei between the politician and the negro.
| do not feel satisfied with the sweeping
exclusion of the present white primary
law / know dozen negroes in this town
who are morally, intellgently and indus
trially qualified to vote and l know two
dozen white men who are not 1t seems
to me we might have a commission to
select deserving negroes and place their
names on the registration list. This
would stimulate others to good behavior.
1t would have tendency to elevate good
negroes, whereas the present law cuts
off all hope and all ambition. But
wouldent give one of them public of
flee and no friend of the South would
make him a postmaster or census ia.
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