The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08

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in 1886, and monometalism owed its victor;
10 the almost solid vote Of the foreign
/ population in the Northwest.
! Dr.. Bassett's article, warp and woof,
! was an Indictment OF the whole people OF
the South in their attitude toward the
negro. 1t declared that the negro ques-
tion in politics was introduced to give OF
fees to politicians. Its treatment Of out
RACES and l~ynchings was an insult to the
South. 1t said, writing Of the relation
between the white and negro population.
that there was 10 place for caste in the
South, and closed by saying that there
could be no solution of the race conflict
as long as one race insisted upon tht
inferiority OF the other. If the southern
people in their attitude toward the negro
have been actuated by the motives attrib-
uted to them by Dr.. Bassett, then they
are a base and ignoble people. Il
Southern leaders, ever since the ballot
was given to the negro, have dragged IN
the race question-as charged by DR.. Ba6-
sett-for nothing but the ignoble purpose
to get offices, then they ought to be
execrated instead of honored. Instead OF
being worthy of monuments, Vance aud
Hampton and George and other men, who
saved the South from the horrors OF negro
rule, ought to be dishonored in death.
There wasn't a sentence IN DR.. Bassett'S
- -. Lo~;o-;pr ~ md +bot woe not
incendiary and dangerous.
Nobody wishes to deny to DR.. Bassett
attempt to prove that Senator Simmons,
Rev. DR.. Ivey, Rev. John n. Cole, Rev.
F. A. Bishop, Col. John f. Bruton, Rev.
A. P. Tyer and Rev. n. NJ. Jurney, and
the one hundred thousand Methodists who
stand with them, wish to stifle free speech
will not deceive any body. They are as
devoted to freedom of speech as those
trustees who voted to encourage license
misnamed liberty.
If DR.. Bassett had written an article
denying the doctrine of the trinity, the
VI - ~ A'-'
There are very good, very learned, very
able Unitarians who do not believe in
the divinity Of Jesus Christ, but II a
Methodist College they would have 10
place. To retain them would be to deny
the theology taught by Methodism. Trim
ity College was established by the Meth
odist church, primarily to train teachers
and preachers. It grew into a Methodist
in life. It's mission is to educate North
Carolina BOYS for life in North Carolina.
Of course it is glad to educate young
men from other States and to train boys
who may go elsewhere to make their
homes, but unless it educates North Caro-
lima boys to work in North Carolina its
mission will not be fulfilled. What ought
a North Carolina college to teacn a
North Carolina boy? Should he be taught
that his father and his people are a
race of men guilty of the basest crimes
toward a weaker race, when he knows
hi the contrary is true? Should he be
taught that the negro race has produced
a man greater than every man born IN the
South with one exception? Should he be
taught that the negro race is not inferior
to the white race? Should he be taught
that 'the negro will win equality?'
Should he be taught that the Southern
idea is false and wrong and that the
New England idea is right?
DR.. Bassetts teaching logically leads
to the very evils that the South has ever
stood against and must ever oppose. His
doctrine is destructive of the very clsa
civilization. If he is right, the supremacy
of the white race Will soon be overthrown.
His spirit IL alien; his words incendiary.
Freedom of speech is important and
must be preserved, but there is one thing
dearer to the Southern people, to-wit:
the preservation of it's civilization, and
the purity Of the white blood, the SUI
premacy of Angio-SaXon ideals and white
government. DR.. Bassett's teachings I'M
dermine the very mud-sills OF our civili-
cation, the safety and purity of our
homes, and dishonor the noble names
linked with Southern history. His article
shows that he is not only in sentiment
alien to the policies essential to the pre-
servation Of Southern civilization, but
that he is hostile to the spirit that domi-
mates the South today and must always
dominate it if the white race is to pre-
serve its purity and its power.
If a man sets fire to your house, are
you to excuse him under the plea that
he always was careless of fire? If a man
in an institution of learning in North
Carolina, where conditions demand the
continuation of the present policy as to
the races hat has become the fixed policy
of the South, deliberately writes an ar
ticle that would undermine the pillows
of Southern civilization, can it be safely
condoned?
Dr.. Bassett's offense is as serious as if
he had written an article attacking the