The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24

and should therefore be discouraged;
when impracticablc to prevent their eX-
istence altogether, we believe that they
should be tolerated and they should be
placed under the strictest supervision
and regulation, to prevent imposition and
abuse. We believe that no institution
should be tolerated which the government
is unable to regulate and control, and
that the possible existence, in this land,
of power greater than the government,
is the doctrine of anarchy itself"
Much of Mr.. Bragg's speech was devo-
ted TO the negro question.
1.-THE Southern people entertain not the
slightest animosity against the negro,
he said, "they are the best friends he
ever had.
His condition in the South today, is
far better, his opportunities for moral
and material improvement are far great
er than in any other country upon the
earth; and none of the rights guaranteed
to him under the fourteenth amendment
as it is understood when adopted, are
either denied or begrudged to him there.
But while all this is true, still in the
South, just as every where else in the
world, white men are unalterably re-
solved that come what.may, no black, red
or yellow man shall ever rule over
them, or their children, so long as time
shall roll This is the decree of ma
ture, which no human statute can reverse.
AS we'll try to set up crows to rule in a
nest of eagles, or jqckals to make law
for lions There is but one way to make
laws to govern white men, and that is
to first kill all the white men,"
Speaking about the fifteenth amend
ment, Mr.. Braxton said:
utterly impoverished as We are, We
sDent tens of millions upon the education
of the negro, and to which they practi-
cally contributed nothing, and from
which they graduated only to officer vast
army of blacks arrayed solidly and per-
sistently against the very men who Were
educating them,
''No sooner had the fifteenth amend
! ment been proclaimed, than the negroes
banded themselves together in solid,
impenetrable mass and through the in
stinets of their races voluntarily submit
ted themselves to a political bondage,
as complete as that from which, without
any effort of their own, they had re-
, Gently been liberated.
when God in His wrath, saw fit to
Danish us into the wilderness with the
fifteenth amendment, He still, in His
mercy left d difficult, narrow, but safe
path, by which we might. after much
striving and tribulation once more achieve
salvation and regain the promised land.
Mr. Chairman, the Southern people have
struck the trail. They have reached Mt.
Pisgah and arc now, with rejoicing and
gratitude to God, gazing once more into
= the happy land of Canaan.
"Onc by one, the Southern States re-
linquished the principle of free manhood
suffrage so dear to them (but which they,
like the citizens of Washington, gladly
exchanged for the immunity from negro
domination1 have awaited themselves OF
the expedients which they have found
and declared to be permissible under the
fifteenth amendment, and placed such
restrictions upon suffrage, irrespective OF
race or color, that the vast sea of igno-
rant, venal and vicious negroes is now
safely and perpetually shut out"
Ir. VanAaminge, dean of Columbia
College. replying to the toast of co
lumbia University of the South, said that
| from time prior to the Revolution, when
! it was Kings College, Columbia Uni
versity had had with the South, relations
, of mutual good will and advantage ant
/ closed by wishing long life and success:
/ to the Southern Society.