The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-13
The Leopard's Spots.
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~ Us no longer question or bad
government. 1t is a question of impos-
aiblc government. We lag behind the
ages dragging the decaying corpse to
which we are chained.
The hour has struck when we must
rise in orr might, break the chains IL at
hind Us to this corruption. strike down
the Negro as ruling power and re-
stcrc TO our children their birthright,
which we received, a priceless legacy
rom cur fathers!
81 believe in Gods call to our race to
90 His work in history. What other
aces failed to do, you wrought in this
continental wilderness, fighting pesti-
Lace. hunger, cold, wild beasts, and
savage hordes, until out of it all mas
gown the mightiest nation of the earth.
rs the Negro worthy to rule over
you?
ASK history. The African has held
orc-forrth of this globe for 5000 years.
liz has never taken one step in prog
res OF rescued one jungle from the spe
az tho adder, except as the slave of a
superior race.
n Iayti and San Domingo he rose
in rcrNile instruction and butchered
fifty thousand white men, women and
children hundred years ago. He has
rI,'d these beautiful islands since. Did
he make progress with the example of
hr.an civilization before him for two
hz- ired years? No. But yesterday We
- died reports of the discovery of
Car lhalism in Hayii.
81 lie has had one hundred years of
trial In the Northern States of this
C:icn with every facility of culture and
prog ess, and he has not produced one
man who has added feathers weight
To tie progress of humanity. In an
hodr OF madness the dominion of the
tea areat States of the South We're
given him without struggle. satur-
MALTA IF infamy followed
shall we return to this3 You must
answef. The corruption of his presence
in cur body polite is beyond the power
of reckoning.
$50 tong as the Negro is factor in
our Political life, so long will violence
and corruption stain our history. We
can no. afford longer to play with vio-
lence We must remove the cause.
''SuffI age in America has touched the
lowest iide-mud of degradation. If our
cities aud our Southern civilization are
to the sanity of the founders of this
Republic.
"All government is an evil, the best
government by the best and noblest
ncn- But a government of the wealth.
virtue and intelligence of the COM
munity. by the debased and the crimi-
nal is relapse to elemental barbarism
to which no race of freemen can sub
nit.
I'VE grant the Negro the right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness if
he can be happy without exercising
kingship over the Anglo Saxon race, or
dragging us down to his level But if
he cannot find happiness except in lord
ing it over superior race, let him look
for another world in which to rule.
There is not room for both of us on this
continent"
Again and again CASTOR raised his
hand to still the mad tumult of applause
his WORDS evoked.
Il am not talking of a vague theory
of constructive dominion he continued,
when / refer to the Negro Supremacy
under which our civilization is being de-
graded. 1 use words in their plain mean
ing. Negro Supremacy means the rule
of a party in which negroes predom-
nate and that means a Negro oligarchy
II call your attention to one typical
county of over forty thus dgraded the
county of Craven, whose quaint old city
was once capital of this commonwealth.
What are the facts? The negro office
holders of Craven county include
Congressman, a member of the Legsla-
ture, a register of deeds. the city attor-
ney, The coroner, two deputy sheriffs.
two county commissioners a member of
the school board, three road overseers,
four constables, twenty-seven 1nagis-
trates, three city aldermen and four
policemen. There are sixty-two negro
officials in this county of $4,000 inhabi-
tants, and their member of the Legisla-
ture is convicted felon. The white
~ people represent ninety-five per cent. of
the wealth and intelligence of the COM
munity, and pay ninety-five per cent.
of it's taxes and are voiceless in its
government.
would county in Massachusetts,
submit to such infamy? No, ten thou
sand times, no! There is not a county
in the North from Maine to California
that would submit to it twenty -four
hours.
1--WE will take from an improbable
servant the ballot he has abused. TO
him that hath shall be given. and from
him that hath not shall be taken away
even that which he hath. 1t is the law
of nature. 1t is the law of God.
This is white mans government
conceived by white men, and maintain
ed by white men through every year
of it's history-and by the God of our
Fathers it shall be ruled by white men
until the Archangel shall call the end
of time,
"From the eighth day of November
We will not submit to negro dominion
another day, another hour another mo-
mept. Back of every ballot is a bayonet,
ano the red blood of the man who holds
it. Let towards hear. and remember
this. Man has never yet voted away his
right to a revolution
Citizen kings, l call you to the con-
seriousness of your kingsship!"
CASTOR closed and turned toward his
seat, while the crowd hung GREATNESS