The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-31

black mans child. The white and the
black child do not go to school under
the same roof in the South, but where
ever you see there white school house,
| somewhere nearby you will find a negro
| school house. nearly, If not quite, as
good; and all over the land there are
colored church buildings, to the con
struction Of which white men and women
have literally contributed. In the court
house Justice is administered to him and
the white man with an impartial band.
In an active practice OF over twenty five
years l nave appeared for hundreds of
| them against white men, and have wit
messed the trial of many hundred more
cases between them and white men, and
/ do not now recall a case in which he
has not had fair and impartial treatment
from both judge and jury.
In the midst of all thus clamor for new
conditions and opportunities for the negro,
all these experimentation and explolta-
tions of methods and devices to make
him a white man in character ard capa-
bilities, / am here to make an appeal IN
behalf of the negro and his traditional
forty acres and a mule. He has got the
mule-he did not get him from the Freed
mans Bureau either, nor any other gov
crnmental or eleemosynary institution
but by hard and honest toll. Many of
them have got the forty acres also More
of them will get it, Don't, l besecch you,
seperate him from them by filing
his mind with unattainable ideas and
delusive hopes. His condition may
not vet awhile be well enough to
be altogether let alone. but he is surely
advancing to that condition, doing the
work his hands know so well how to do
and which his is contcnted and happy IN
doing; meanwhile growing and strength
ching, not by artificial, but by natural pro
cesses in the fundamental attributes OF
better and higher citizenship.
Take him from the farm, carry him
TO the great city, place him in the fac
tory, organize him into labor unions, and
his individuality, which is at best small
and weak. VII be destroyed his identity
will become merged in COM
nrn mass, aud his stIong
tribal propensties brought with
him from the jungles of Africa viii IN
dcrmine and supplant many Of the virtues
which are now his best and most valuable
asset-virtues not hereditary and inher-
ent, but which have been imblbed by
close and sympathetic contact with the
white. man on the farmland it will be a
marvel if his last state is not worse than
his first if, in attempting to avoid the
enormously supposed Schylla of his pres
ent position he is not stranded upon the
certain Charybdis of the other.
Fellow Tar Heels, / bring you glad
message. / come to tell you that the
state of your nativity is no longer a
good state to leave, but has become a
good State to come to and is good
State to stay in She is increasing her
factories, multiplying her farms, growing
in wealth and all the elements of material
prosperity. Better still, she is educating
her people to greater power of initiative
and accomplishment, of intellectual and
seG,ceps;ye and prespecUive-laying the
foundations deep and broad Of a great
ness that will ever thrill the hearts Of all
her children, whether at home or scatter
ed abroad, with fullness of both joy and
pride at the mention Of her name Though
the fortunes of life have separated you
from her, these annual festivities and the
blush of pleasure and pride which suf-
fuses your cheeks when you hear good
tidings from the old home attests the
fact that though far away from the land
Of your birth, you love it still and love
it dearly.