The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-30
ANOTHER YELP FROM BOSTON

Rev. W. H. Scott, q negro preacher in
Massachusetts, and others who have
long distance love for negroes, managed
to induce the Governor of Massachusetts,
to hold up the requisition for the negro
Rogers, who Is soon to be tried in Dur
ham for arson. But their duty was so
plain that the attorney general and the
governor were at last forced to honor the
requisition. Rev. Scott is out in a card
addressed to the negro voters in the
Boston Traveller, berating those officials
from which we take the following:
You will be called upon in about
three weeks to cast your ballot for
State officers, members of the Legisla
ture and Congress. We have been bound
by party lines and have not been dis
posed to break from them. The party
which we have helped keep in power for
thirty years has come to the conclusion
that it cannot carry us further; that
the negro is the Jonah on the ship so in
order that TIE G. o. P. may land her
cargo he must be thrown overheard. 1
party is a soulless organization which is
not seeking to help humanity. That
party will do anything to get votes. If
this be true, which l will assume for
arguments sake, then a party has a
right to unload any burden which may
be Objectionable to its progress, l. e., if
we judge from the present condition of
the average leader. OF course we can
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ers as Abraham Lincoln, U. s. Grant,
Charles Sumner, Joshua R. Riddlings,
owen Lovejoy and John P. Hale. These
men were for human rights. l confess
the condition of the negro in this coun
try is an anomaly Neither party wants
him, and if he looks only at the present
of all men he is the most miserable.
But this condition Is not permanent. 1t
is only the excitement of the moment.
1t is not possible that 10000. 900 loyal
citizens can be treated so always. God
is on the side of right.
1.-THE Acknowledgement of the negro in
the South has been met with entire
satisfaction by the G. O.. P.
1.-The removing of the negro from office
by the G. o. p. to make room for the
whites is an evidence of this fact.
1.-THE increase of commercial expan-
sion and militarism has destroyed the
love of human rights in this country.
Neither party cares for the poor man.
Fellow citizens, Massachusetts has de-
generated from the height she once oc-
cupied in the days of strong governors
and attorneys generals, such as Caleb
Strong Gore George S. Boutwell,, N. p,
Banks, John A. Andrew, Bullock CASTOR
and B. F. Butler. There was a time
when Massachusetts sent her attorney
general to South Carolina to bring back
kidnapped negroes; now she helps kid
nap them and send them to North Caro-
lima. Indeed, candidate for Congress
writes to one of his constituents and
tells him he has no time to bother with
the negro question.
What does the negro question mean?
1t means that a weak people are now
appealing to a strong one for an equal
chance in the race of life yet this states
man has no time to bother with them.
"Supposing man were running for
Congress in a district where the balance
of power were held by the French, Ger
mans, Hebrews, Irish or Italians, and he
were to write such a letter to one of
them, do you think they would vote for
him? What will the negro do in the
same situation? The Hebrews of New
York have declared that they will not
vote for Coler for governor, because he
went out of his way to insulc them
1.-The time has come for negroes not
to vote for parties, but for men.
mo sensible person would stay on
board a sinking ship.
Therefore we will not support Hon.
Herbert Parker for attorney general.
1--WE will not support him because he
has shown a desire to please the au-
thorities of North Carolina against the
protests of the citizens of Massachusetts,
His decision in the Rogers case was the
most dangerous ever delivered since the
one of Judge fancy, March 4, 1857.
1.-The attorney generals decision meant
this: Our wives, daughters, mothers,
sisters, husbands, sons, fathers and
brothers must be sent back South to
satisfy the brutal instincts of a South
ern mob"