The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-22
NEGRO INsOLENCE,

A convention Of negroes has just been
held in Washington City, to protest
against the amendment to our constitt-
tion and against lynchinG. They APP
pointed a committee, which delberated
over the matter and reported to the con-
yention. among other things the follow
ing. which we copy from the Washing
ton Post:
We arc willing that our genealogy he
compared with that of those white peo-
pie whose ancestors were brought over
from the prisons of England by ship
loads and made slaves for period, aftcS
which they were permitted to become
citizens on equal footing with their Tor
mer masters, from 1910 to 1925. in the
Carolilhas and Virginia We only ask
for the same generous treatment. since
we have become free citizens. that was
bestowed upon this class. WHO NOW
COMPRISE THE GOVERNING
ELEMENT OF THE SOUTH"
The resolution was adoTtcd. and a
committee was appointed TO see Presi-
dent Mckinley.
1t really looks as if the negroes haH
lost their senses The negro Congress
man White. too big TO sit with his own
people at the TarbOro circus stallled in
among white folks, and afterwards left
the circus in high dudgeon because told
TO go and sit with his own race. This
same negro. with another like him. de-
manded to eat with white folks in i
restaurant, and threatened suit in court
when told TO go 70 a negro restaurant.
The Republicans have taught the negro
10 demand equality with the whites
Sumner introduced into Congress and
passed a Civil Rights Bill. making ne
grOeS and white folks eat together.
Thad Stevens thought negroes were
better than Southern whites. No won
der the negroes have lost their senses.
The negro Manly insulted white women
and said they welcomed the embraces of
negro men; that negro White boldly pro
claimed in Congress that negro hruics
raped white ladies because white men.
used negro wepchcs. When negro lead
ers like Manly and White utter SUCH
insults, iustifying the violence of negro
brutes, we may expect poor ignorant
negro animals to rush blindly into crime
of all sorts crime that even gorilla or
baboon never commits. 1t is natural
for such crimes 10 drive the white rro-
pie TO frenzy of Indignation and nat
uralTy lynchings follow.
And now the negro White. after JUS
tifying negro rapings and thus making
lynchngS certainty if not Il necessity,
threatens to introduce n bill to punish
AS TREASON the lynching of "a negro
brute rapist.
No wonder the United States Congress
after only three years experience dis
franchiscd the negro in the District of
Columbia.
The negro had better pause. If the
mean negro continues to be brute. ana
the negro leader continues to be an
insOlent fool. the time will soon come
when the patience of the white race will
lie exhausted. Let the negro beware.
He can put ut stake not merely his p0liti
cal existence. but even his physical eXis-
tence. He must put down and repudi0te
his brutes and his insolent fool leaders,
or soon he will make il impossible for
the white men to endure him at all.
And the white fools and rascals VINO
encourage these things-what shall he
done with them? If Day of Iudgmen;
shall come they will he the first to pay
the penalty.