Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-11-05
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Ills Naive state.
The dining of Booker Washington,
the Alabama negro, by President
Roosevelt outraged the sentiments of
the white people of the South beyond
any racial incident in all history in
this country; but it has remained for
a North Carolina man-and a man,
too, hailing from Goldsboro, God
save the mark,) though not born
here, thank God, to out-Roosevelt
Roosevelt, not only in his adulation
OF Booker Washington, but in giving
utterance to views and sentiments on
the negro and the racial issues that
cause the white people of this State
to stand aghast, as if coming sudden
ly upon a vicious, deadly reptile
ready to strike, where they were
wont to gather flowers and drink
from pure fountains of refreshing
water.
Prof. John S. Bassett, of the Chair
of History in the faculty of Trinity
College, Durham, N. c., the great
Methodist College of the State, has
published an article in the "South
Atlantic Quarterly" of which he is
the editor, in which, under the head
ing, "Stirring Up the Fires of Race
Antipathy," he gives utterance to
views and sentiments about the ne
gro that no rightly balanced white
man, with pride of ancestry and hope
for posterity OF his own race could
possibly cherish. The article in cues
ton covers four columns of, Sun
days Raleigh News & Observer, and
is so outrageous in expression. of ra-
cial view and gratuitous SANDER up
on the white manhood of the State
and the South at large, that we
doubt if we would give it place in the
columns of the ARGUS, even if we
had the space to spare; but the gist
of it may be OWNED from this one
sentence: Now Washington Book
et) is a great and good man, a Chris
tian Statesman, and take him all in
ali the GREATEST MAN, save LEE,
BORN IN TIL SOUTH IN A HUN
DRED YEARS.'
Shades of the great white man
hood of the -South-heroes of the six
ties and of Reconstruction times
Ri.
Statesmen of the past and present
and hopes Of the future, defend us
from the too much teaching, or
learning, Or what, that has produced
this man Bassett, who from the
chair of history in a great Southern
college gives %utterance, through his
quarterly publication, to the world at
large that not only is a negro as good
as a white man, but that no white
man has been born in the South in
a Hundred years, with the possible
exception of General Robert E. Lee,
to equal Booker Washington.
Think of it! We cannot contain
ourselves! We cannot have pate nee
"a virtue that we have spent a life
time in cultivating-in the face of
such reprehensible, damnable rot as
this.
And yet this man Bassett halls
from Goldsboro, where he spent his
boyhood-the Sol OF good parents,
who rest in beautiful Willow Dale
Cemetery of this city. And a blessing
it IS that they did not live to see the
day when their son became a traitor
to the traditions of his people and a
burning shame and disgrace to the
Anglo-Saxon blood OF that good
Christian mother who rocked his
cradle in infancy, and a burning
shame and disgrace to his father, a
man of the highest character and in
tegrity and racial pride.
Trinity College is a great institu-
ton, and, as is we'll known, the
ARGUS is and has always been a
friend to Trinity; and, as a friend of
that college, we do not hesitate TO
say hat its Trustees should meet at
once and expel from the faculty this
man Bassett; for no self-respecting
white man would allow his son to
remain at Trinity with Bassett in
the faculty, and unless he is removed
Trinity College viii pass with him
into obilVlou.
& Rad Breath