El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-02
"Red Shirts In North Carolina.
From the Richmond Times.

From the Richmond Times.
The reports Of the situation in North
Carolina are apt to % islead those who
are not familiar with the true state Of
the case. Ga It's face it appears to be
nothing but the result of q bitter and
uureasona able race hatred. To the out
slider, the salient points are Red-Shirts:
Iiucendiary speeches.; transpArenctes
with crude notices, and every indica-
ton of the exercise of intense preju-
dice. E.
The situation was briefly as follows:
The middle Of abe road populists, the
repu blicans and the negroes combined.
TO elect joint ticket. The result of
this election was to place illiterate
and Incompetent negroes in the major
| i.y of the minor Offices in the eastern
part of North Carolina. The white
citizens then found themselves brought
into daily contact with negro justices
of the peace, negro policemen, negro
clerks of the court, negro sher1tfs and
deputy sher ifs; and the remainder Of
the offices were filed almost universa
p by white men of utterly Inferior
character.
Now, the result of this situation was
a practical denial of justice and pro-
lection to the property owning part of
the population. Houses were openly |
the negroes were melted to la wlessness |
and the ad ministration of justice Was |
denied by the negro officials. The
state was overrun by negro tramps,
who hearing of the paradise that there
existed came from Georgia and South
Car DINA in horoes. The negro work
men who had for long time lived in
cases quiet aud docile, but they were
inciteo by their women and their
preachers to lawlessness. which the
au thorities were either unable or un-
willing to repress, and North Carolins,
30 far as the eastern section in concer
ped, was advancing with terrific ra-
pidity to that degree of civilization
which has made Hayti so justly
famous.
To state this proposition is enough
20 show the ssity for seeking by
every possible means to avoid it, and
hat the necessity was both apparent
and real is shown by the fact that men
n all walks and stations of life. preach
srs. bankers, lawyers and mer-
chants, doctors and railroad men, driv-
IN by the common need of protecting
heir homes and their civilization,
banded together to disfranchiee that
part OF the population which had
hown itself so unfit to govern. We
Know of more than one prominent
,ltlZen connected with large Industries,
v no had made up his mind definitely
% abandon North Carolina as an unin-
sbitAble part of the world If negro
domination were to continue. That
uch men have found it possible to re-
q aiu there cannot be regarded by any
air minded paper or person as d cub
ect of grief.
The situation at present is one that o
3 based fundamentally upon desire to t
'lace the administration OF justice and q
he protection of property In North
carolina in the hands of those who are
ole and willing to administer that
rust. 1t has not for It's objac the sole
esire to disfranchise the negro becsu .
e is negro. 1t does not desire tt de-
rive him of his rights as
uman being, and as an
american by adoption, to own
to be educated, to be protect
d, and to be allowed to vote 1.-THE shows
himself fitted. 1t does an shat the
mite men Who own property end who
o appreciate these institutions, which
hey have inherited from generations
I stardy ancestors, do not intend to
llow themselves to be driven from
heir state by an invasion of foreign
ace. which is none the less an invs-
ion because 1t is under the guile and
orm of law.