The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28

become happier; and instead OF being an
tagonists, they can make ii mutually adj
yantageous to live together, as when
they were master and slave. But. it
cannot be done while Northern speakers
continue TO make saints of men like John
Brown for no other reason than that
they hate the white people OF the South.
But we are thankful the number of
such speakers is becoming less as the
years go by.
/ cannot sec any reasons for, much
less any signs of, conflict between the
races; nor do l believe there will ever
be any change of that relation the two
races now sustain to each other; there.
fore. / take no stock in the Bassett
theory; but, / do believe that, as the
years 90 by and the white race continues
to march onward and upward, it will
use all the resources, which wealth, edl1.
cation and enlightened Christian phil.
anthropy can furnish, to lift that other
racL into higher and better life. The
negro is with us, and, to bring about
the best results, towit: the continued
ascension of the white race, toward that
pure condition from which Adam fell
and the continued uplifting of the ne
full sympathy with that which is pure
and good, we have need Of an exalted
type of patriotism, spiritualized Chris
tian patience and a large supply of com
mon sense; but we have no need of ex,
| tremlsts, who say on the enc hand that
the negro is badly treated, and on the
other hand that the negro is already
ahead. Such expressions are as unwise
! sast hnx ara \,
ing to solve the race question they only
serve to defeat what wiser and better
men would do.
The extremist in the body polite. i
about as great a trouble to it as was the
egg to Pat after he had swallowed It
wnolc. Mike" said Pat. ''Oim in 9
devil NV a fix. Eff OF doin't kare still
OH break that egg and the shell will
cut me stoomake; if Oh do kape still the
egg'H hatch and therell be Shanghai
rooster Growing inside o. me-"
To prevent thu breaking or the hatch.
ing of that extremist egg, a good sized
dose of Common Sense timely admins
tered, will so aid digestion that he body
polite viii soon be rid of it; so that
II last, in spite of the exertmists, com
men sense and Christian patience will
solve the race question.
Samuel Whitaker, Esq, who in these
days would be called the Hon. Samu 81
Whitaker, served in the Legislature, with
the exception Of three years, from 1926
to 1870, being elected nine times to the
House OF Commons and five times to the
Senate. He was the writer's uncle, and
tie grandfather OF Hon. F. A. Whitaker
one of the members of the House OF
representatives. from Wake county in
the last Legislature.
Uncle SAM as he was Familiarity
called by the people, as well as by his
neLhews, was a man of small stature,
but robust as politician and a business
man. He was all the time moving 1t
was said of him that when he shaved he
walked his long piazza and gave orders
to this one and to that one. without
breaking a lick of the razor. And when
he would mount his horse and start to
Raleigh, though the horse trotted he
would go in gallop by springing up
and down in the stirrups The conse-
quence was his pants would be above his
knees by the time he came gaIloping
into the city on his trotting horse. He
was SO in the habit of riding horse back
that he always kept on his spurs. When
he came TO the city he would keep them
on, and even during a days sitting of