The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-10-13

since We suggested that tho preparation
OF assaults by colored men upon white
women might fairly Be descr bed As The
new negro crlme, and tia the cause III
the phenomenon seemed 70 require luNes
t~i-ltlon. the question has received . good
deal d discussion in al sections o. h
country That the premise = sound there
seems to be an agreement OF 0pIn on. Tbs
only person disposed to dispute is
eoundnc.s has asserted that ne has found
two examples Of the crime under The
slavery regime during the Two or more
centuries that preceded tie civil Var
Even If conclusive proofs 81 the authen
ttcitv III the two instances alleged had
been produced. which j. not the ct-e. it
IS plain enough that they would not have
sufnced to impugn our averment that the
crime was practically unknown III slavery
times, either at the South or at the
North. We now purpose to make another
. ayerment. as TO which. also. Ne challenge
contradiction. Not only was the partIcu-
lar crime. of which we are speaking, prac-
+ ticalIy unknown in the South under the
slavery regime. but it continued to be
/ unknown there until about twenty years
after the negroes were omancipatcl. o.
until 4 generation had grown UP which
lacked the respect for white women which
had been ingrained in the blacks Of the
/ preceding generation. We desire to sub
nit a third assertion. namely, that the
crime which We call new did not exist in
the Northern States either, until very Ie-
Gently. although for many generations the
negro there had borne something like the
same numerical proportion to the whites
that lie bears now. We would make still
further additions TO our original premise.
What we have termed the new negro
crime seems to be confined to the United
States. At al events. we seldom, if ever,
hear Of it in the British West indies
except, Of course. during the ~frightful up
rising Of the blacks against the whites in
Haiti-or in the Spanish or Portuguese
speaking countries Of Control or South
America. If it be true. as we allege. that
the crime is practically unknown in the
other American countries just named, the
query will at once suggest itself, Does the
crime there fail to exist because in those
countries intermarriage between whites
and blacks, or, in a word, amalgarlatIon,
is allowed by law?
So much for our premises. If the truth
of all of them be conceded; If it be ac-
knowledged that the crime which we are
discussing is, not only modern, but also
local, in the sense Of being confined to
the United States, it obviously follows
that it must be the outcome of conditions
peculiar to our own country, and to con
ditions, moreover, affecting the present,
but no previous generation Of negroes IN
the United States. What are those pc
cuiiar conditions? We have been able to
discover only a single cause for the
phenomena. The cause may be thus
stated: The whole system of reconstpuc-
ton devised by T~haddeus Stevens (who
carried out his principles in private life)
and by other leaders Of the Radicals. who
dominated Congress under the Johnson
administration-the system embodied iai
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments Of the Federal Constitution, ana ri