The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-18
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day to protest against it. Such a dem
onstration as this gives me faith in the
people OF North Carolina, faith some
what akin to that / have in the Great
Being above"
mo worse crime than this you have
just had here is complained of in the
Declaration of independence. What is
the difference in putting your hand in the
ballot-box and taking out the ballots cast
or putting in those never cast and in
saying who shall or who shall not cast
them? l tell you this is an awful thing
that they have undertaken. 1t is hard
to realize the audacity of such an at
tempt to distort and stifle the will of the
people. Nothing but madness, nothing
but the knowledge on the part of those
who tried it that they were beaten, that
their cause was lost, and lost forever, can
account for it," tremendous applause.)
Senator Ransom then spoke of the pro-
gress this country has made in the last
century and asked: How was it done?
1t was done through a free government
made free by the ballotbox. Each man
voted his will and now in this closing
year of the Nineteenth century shall this
system be broken down by Federal Off
Gals and revenue officers, who tell us
who shall vote and who shall not?
"Who discovered this country, re-
claimed it from the forest and the savage,
then from a tyrannical ruler? Who since
then has built it and cemented it with
their blood? Was it not the white man,
your forefathers? And these men come
here and say their descendants shall not
rule. Who built this city and made it
that which you behold today? The white
man, but they rise up here and declare
by their meddlesome interference that
the white man cannot rule II. will not
call their names. (Applause.) l will not
even call them men. (Renewed applause
They are midnight eonspicator3,
black allies of the negro, seeking to con-
troll the election that they may perpet
uate negro rule. Wilt they succeed?
(Voices: mo, no." ''We1l show them. y
And how do they propose to rule? BY
a union Of 125,000 negroes and $4,000 white
men? And how would they rule? Not
by force but by cunning, by fraud ii possi-
bic; If not, then, by corrupt II.
did your forefathers follow Washing
ton and Jackson for this? Did you and l,
my old soldier friend, follow Lee and
Jackson for this? (Voices: NO" and
"We'n not have it.")
"You are right and | thank God that
August End will end it," Great applause.)
Senator Ransom then gave the reasons
why the negro was unfit to rule, telling
of his mental inferiority to the white
race, showing his degraded moral cond-
tion and his physical inability to progress
when left alone. Then he reviewed Rad
ical rule in North Carolina, comparing
it with the conduct of public affairs I'M
der the Democrats.
Coming to the question of the constitu-
tonalty of the amendment, he said:
They say it is unconstitutional, but they
don't believe it. If they did they would
not be arresting registrars to prevent it's
adoption"
Touching the Fifteenth Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States, he
said: There never was more cruel
wrong committed against n people. 1t
was a war measure put upon us and it
can no more live than can the foulest
abortion survive through life. 1t is
doomed. 1t is gone already in Louisiana,
in Arkansas, in Mississippi, in Alabama,
in South Carolina; in sixty days it VIII
be gone in Virginia and en- ugust End it
will end in North Carolina"
General Ransom declared that the
amendment would not be declared uncon-
stitutiona and gave among his reasons
the following: "The Northern people are
with us on this negro question. They
have learned a lesson or two recently;
there is hundred millions of Northern
capital invested in the South. Do you
suppose they are willing to leave it in
the hands of negroes? They want it en-
trusted to white people. No matter where
men live the time has come When they
will stand together when it comes to
question of the white race against the
black race.
when Worth Bagley poured out his
blood in the Spanish War for the flag,
when Shipp died fighting in the jungles
of Santiago, when I.emly was shot down
on Chinese soil, 1 tell you all sectional
feelings died. We are one again and
neither the bloody shirt nor the negro
question can divide us. The amendment
is constitutional and will stand and it's
opponents know it,
The speaker closed with a most elo
quent and touching appeal to all white
men and women to rally to the support
of the White Supremacy flag and give
its enemies such rebuke as they had
never known. 1t was a great sreec,
one that will be long remembered in this
section and will do much good here
After General Ransom had finished
short speech was made by Hon. John S.
Henderson, who is now canvassing For
syth county.
FRED L. MERRITT.