The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-03-23

mittee is doing his work with marked
spirit, intelligence, resource and deter
mination. His hands should be up
held by every true man who Is genu-
inely a white man with a white mans
self-respect, pride of race and princi-
pies. 1t is to be hoped this class in all
parties will rally to the amendment
and carry it by a great majority. Let
the unhealthy, disturbing contest as
to race supremacy cease. 1t Is not
written in the book Of fate that the
white race shall ever be dominated,
bossed by an inferior race, whether
red, yellow or black.
In the United States senate in 1890.
the eloquent, able. faithful Zebulon B.
Vance, in a speech Of rare impressive
ness and force, said this:
1T has often been asserted that a
superior and an inferior race which
will not amalgamate cannot live to-
gether under the same government
with equal rights and laws. This may
or may not be true. 1t Is natural to
suppose. If they cannot agree. that the
stronger will have its way and domi-
nate the weaker; but there is one
proposition, Mr.. President, of which,
you may rest assured, there is no kind
Of doubt: the stronger will never sub
NIT to the domination Of the weaker.
This may as we'll be set down as res
adjudicata.
II know not whether l should give
credence to the oft-repeated allegation
that they (the negroes) are forever
feeling the effect of their ancestors,
curse, but this / do know, that they
have been in close contact with every
IT.
knowledge; with the oldest Egyptian,
the Assyro-Babylonian, the Grecian,
the Roman, and the modern: in each
of them we read of his presence and in
every instance he was slave.
Let this be borne in mind in the
present contest and let all white men
consider it, that the negro very great
ly surpasses in voters the white repub-
licans, almost four to one. So the one
fourth if it should give a solid vote
(Which will not be done we rejoice to
believe) against the amendment, will
give purely, only that 1t may get the
offices and put the democratic whites
in the negro counties again under ne
gro rule. 1t can mean nothing less.
Think of a white republican conspiring
with four negroes to put four or five
other whites under the baleful rule of
negroes henceforth. There is a great
difference in the negro counties be-
tween the strength of the white radi-
Gals and democratic true whites. The
disparity in some counties is tremen-
dous. And yet handful or so of self
seeking white deserters from their
race and caring nothing for the wei
fare of the state or any section of it,
unite with the largely preponderating
negro vote, and thus bring the entire
white population under the blight and
disgrace of negro control and bossery.
Look at New Hanover, Craven, Beau
fort and other counties and see to
what insults and humiliation and plum
~derings they were subjected
1t is said that in Craven county there
are 1000 black voters and not to exceed
90 white radicals. Read the history
of that gangs doings in the past and
weep over the cruelties and infamies.
The white man who deliberately de-
sires and seeks 90 put the white pub
lie schools under the control of igno-
ladies to submit to the visitatiors of
visits from supariors of the dark skins,
is too mean for recognition and richly
deserves the bastinado. 1t is stated as
a fact that Halifax, Northampton,
Warren, and no doubt some other coun-
ties have as great a disprOportion of
black and white radical voters as is to
be found in Craven and New Hanover.
There are scores of counties that have
been carried nearly all the time for
thirty od years by the combination of
minority whites with the illiterate, ig-
norant, incompetent, unprincipled ne
gro vote. Is this thing to continue?
Is this most serious and repulsive con-
dition to be forced back again upon
the heavily afflicted negro counties by
the most unpatriotic, wicked, selfish,
degrading combination that is forming
against the amendment under the foul
leadership of imported Jeter Pritchard
and slippery Marion Butler? What
would have been the conditions in New
Hanover and Craven and other coun-
ties if in the last election-that of 1893
the combine had swept the state?
Every man with sense above an oyster
must know that the vile. unbearable
conditions would be upon us this hour
and would have been so for nearly
year and half. 1t was the white mans
rebellion against negro outrages and
bossings that threw the accursed yoke
off and brought deliverance to the op-
pressed and outraged, and made glad
the state and brought in the wave OF
peace and hope and conHentment and
order and prosperity. Let the peace
and order be preserved. Let the Anglo
Saxon civilization be protected and en-
forced from sea TO mountain. Take no
step backward. Advance the banner OF
reform and good government and a
high civilization. If the amendment is
defeated one-third of North Carolina
will be remanded to negro rule, and