The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-09
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L speak only OF what Is known almost
of all men.
Neither is it to me a pleasant task. 1T
is most disagreeable to every honorable
man i'm the South to listen from year to
year to accusations against our Southern
people of frauds lin the elections.
Nor lis it any relief to know that equal
or more dangerous frauds are practiced
on white men in the Northern States.
If Southern white men have falsified
election returns, they have the stronger.
if not the better reason that they are
acting upon the same law of Self-defenSe
that insulted and outraged human ma
ture resorts to for the protection OF
homes and families women and children.
from Il race that sets at defiance all NOR
nj restraints upon their brutal desires
and fills the country with horrors that
defy description and Il retallatory ven
geance that infuriateS its infictors Wlth
a spirit of uncomfortable rage. lhls
generation and those who preceded them
and were born in the nineteenth century
were not responsible for the origin of this
evil in America. 1t came here with the
importation of negro slaves, who were In
Africa the slaves of their own kindred.
TO E.MANCIPATE THE WHITES.
1t will be greatly modified when the
white race are emancipated from the
low standard of political equality with
the negro race. 1t will end only when we
in obedience to u high obligation OF ma
tional duty, have provided home Tor
the negro race that rs suited 10 their
traits. abundant in productions for their
comfortable existence, and encouraging
To their growth and full development--a
.clN.n n lnnfl slIsn
not OF brass, as they are here: n nauoimi
home in which there lis full opportunity
for. their growth in body, mind. and spirit
TO the full stature of which they are capa
bic and in the full enjoyment of religious
and political liberty.
owe them nothing but good will.
but can not include in that debt the
sacred sacrifice of the honor of the
white race or the destruction of its pres
tige and harl-earned institutions of
government. either to fiatter their van
itv or forward those with power who
have cursed this country with their en-
forced presence. of those who employ
that race for the oppression of my native
Southland | was Il soldier of the Con-
fedcracy. and. while l have always re-
GREETED the necessity that rut me under
arms in open hostility To the flag of our
common country. 4 feel. as every Con-
federate soldier feels, that it is pecu-
liar honor that we were the only white
mon ever called upon. as soldiers. to de
fend the Write race against fanatlcal
attack of so-called reformers and the
deliberate organization of ambitious poll
tcians. who forced us into war by their
cruel design to put the negro slaves on
political and social footing Of equality
with Us.
FRUITS OF FANATICISM.
So long as men are held responsible for
the natural consequences of their acts
We must feel that the events that led 10
that war anticipated, and that the conse-
ouences that resulted from it We're intend
cd to humiliate the Southern people to
a social and political level with the ne
gro race.
That feeling is now operating on the
people of the later generation in Great
ing resentment that seems TO increase.
as il is constantly being more clearly
developed. that the repose of the country
is impossible while the present condition
continues.
There are some propositions that are
nrdeniable, which prove that perfect
accord between the former warning Sec
tons of the Union can never be attain
ed so long as the negroes are forced
upon the white people of the Southern
States as full and equal participants in
the ballot hex.
1t was the presence of the negro in the
| United States that caused the civil war.
| If he had never been brought here there
would have been no cause for that ter
rible conflict.
! 1T is his voting power. in the control
of white men. tlpat caused the fourteenth
| and fifteenth amendments of the Con
| stitution and the acts of reconstruction,
which sunk the States affected by them
| TO lower condition IN the rights of self
| government than thar of the Territorial
| governments. 1t was the presence of the
negro that called the army into the con-
| troll of State governments and placed
| the legislatures and the courts under
military guard
The negro voter and the alleged civil
rights Of that race led to the effort to
impeach a President of the United
States and caused the perilous contest
| over the election of another President
and Vice President.
| Many contests for seats in the House
| OF Representatives ana three contests
| in the Senate have been based upon al
legged frauds that deprived negroes of
| their right to vote.
Many good and honorable white men
| have been sent to the penitentiares for
| alleged interfercnces with negro votes
and voters. In all the Southern States.
| and in a large number Of counties and
municipalities negro voting has caused
ttmult and violence, and over the en-
| tire South the depression of values ana
the interruption of industries for this
/ cause has cost the people heavy losses.
| Unrest, heated resentments. and per-
sonal violence have disturbed the PEG.
| pie and have caused tlam TO distrust the
Government and sometimes 10 resist us
authority. Judges and other state OFFS
GERS have been fined and locked III. in
prisons for alleged violations of laws
enacted for the special benefit of h" lic-
gro race.
NATURE AGAINST EQUALITY.
The catalogue of such events would be
long and dark if il could BE- wfl--en 50
as to include ;hcm all All MS Las
| been done Ia force the negro lnro politi-
cal and social equality with tie white
man. and il has resulted in utter failure
| RI lift that race iYtto This rtIticinl re-