The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-01-04

| '' "h' VIII Iolldiu Unless we uy
from under the American flag to O
land over which the American eaple
spreads not it's wings in majesty and
power.
THE NORTH DOES NOT WANT US.
Why, oven the great State of Hi.
nols, that furnished our emancipator,
through its present Governor, (Tan-
ner,) tells us we must not come
Have you forgotten that not two
years ago he forbade negro laborers
entering IN The State of Illinois to
labor in the mines? He called us
aliens and said if we persisted in
coming there to work, not to vote; to
| labor in the mines-the lowest of
labor--to earn bread by the sweat of
our brow; if we persisted in coming
there to labor and to work he would
meet us on the border with Gatling
guns and shoot us to death.
Yes, friends, he was 80 reported in
the daily papers and I have mover
seen it contradicted. Nevertheless
he is one Of our Republican Cover
nors.
In every Republican convention up
to the time Garfield WAS nominated
something was said il the platform
favorable to the negro. But since
then our great national Republican
conventions have not had men in
them who we're loya! enough to us to
place in the platform one word of
hope and cheer for the negroes, who
had been faithful to them at all times
and on all occasions.
NEGLECTED. EVEN BY M'KINLEY.
The nation has just succeeded in
e!ecting Republican President,
William Mckinley, and he has writ
ten long message to Congress.
| know negro preacher who goes
frantic every time he sees the word
negro printed with little n, but on
the night after President McKinley's
recent message was printed I heard
negro lady exclaim: II would have
been thankful to President Mckinley
if he had been able to remember the
negro with little n."
The truth is, fellow citizens, he
did not remember to write us with
any kind of an n in his message.
The truth is, the national Repub-
lican party, through it's officers, have
served notice on us that they have
grown tired serving us, and that
they do not intend to interfere with
us or assist us.
When President Mckinley made
his Southern tour he SAID IN Georgia
that "every Confederate grave was a
monument to American patriotism"
Fellow citizens, let me quote Presl-
dent Mckinley again: Every Con
federate grave is a monument to
American patriotism" oyou doubt
it? If you are Republicans, which /
know you are, you do not dare doubt
it, for our Republican President, who
is the official mouth piece of the
Republican party, said so and the
party at the last election, endorsed
it by reelecting him; hence it is true
DO NOT BE BLIND TO FACTS!
1t is useless to live if you Intend
to live in blindness. Every utterance
OF Importance falling from the lips
OF Northern Republicans, with very
few exceptions. tends to show that
the Republican party is getting in
doubt on the subject of who, was
right or who was wrong during the
last war.
What is patriotp What Is pa
triotismP Can the graves of men
who were guilty Of doing wrong be
monuments to patriotismf No, fell
low citizens, we must accept William
Mckinley as authority on this sub
ject.
One Of the sore subjects with us
negroes Of Beaufort County Is the
matter of our partial and temporary
Acknowledgement, and we blame the
white people of South Carolina for
it. In part they are blamable, but
only in a very small part. They
have accomplished the act with,
through and by the permission of tho