The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-30

colored men who do know that when
you entered politics you let the wrong
kind of men lead you. You let the
designing men lead you. You went TO
the polls, a great many of you before
YOU had your eyes opened, ana you
voted blindly. You would come to me
and get me to help you make con-
tracts, rent your land, and advise you
i'm everything until it came to politics
and then l didn't know the best thing
for you. You voted against us, ana
yet notwithstanding that fact, l Will
ask you in justice didn't we stand by
you? Where are your insane TO-DAY
that you cannot take care of? Cared
for by the tax payers of North Caro-
lima. Where are your deaf and dumb
and blind, helpless, poor and needy!
Cared for by the tax payers of North
Carolina. Where are your boys ana
girls that have been sent to great
many schools and to this college! VINO
were they supported by but by the
men and women. the white men and
women of North Carolina who own the
property of this country? If we took
care of you and protected you in those
DAYS when you were not our friends
won't we still do more for you today
when we feel that you are our
friends?
eff these Northern folks will let
us alone ana let the IulellSSlll, oOu-
fearing Christian white and colored
people work this thing out, without
any interference, we will have bet
ter State here in North Carolina and
throughout the length and breadth OF
the South. I-tell you, my friends, we
are not going to do you any wrong,
for the man who will Cypress the
humblest servant of the living God,
and do him injustice has got to an
Tn OH
and we are not going to do it,
But as l said Justice must be done
by you, and we will do justice. The
South is the country you need. You
go up North, and you die by the nun
dredS of conSumption; too cool Tor
Southern people to live. OF those peo-
pie up there, their manners and their
customs l want to tell you this. |
noticed a little expression in one of
the speeches here this morning. The
South is the place for a negro.
tell you they exclude you there great
deal more than we do. They exclude
you up there because you want TO
work, and we excluded you down here
because you won't work. We want
you to work. They say, No, you can't
be a blacksmith up here. You will
be an opponent of ours. We are not
going to allow you And the trade
unions and everything turn you out.
Down here we say, Go to the cotton
field, tobacco fields factories and
schools Of you are qualified) and
make something of yourselves, and
when you try we are going to put
our hands under you and help you,
and when you do not try we are not
going to do it.
"As Governor of North Carolina /
want to say this to you: That there
will not be the humblest coIored wo-
man or colored man that does not re-
ceive at my hands the same justice and
the same consideration that the high
est and richest white man can receive
in North Carolina.
Let me say this to you because l
am trying to teach a lesson to you
that will be of some benefit to you.
You have your convictions When
you hold your meetings, denounce
Iynching as the great crime of all evils.
There is not one of you that will de-
nounce it any stronger than l will.
There is not single humblest white
man or Colored man who is not en-
titled to be tried according to the laws
of our land, and | would bring every
power in my possession, all the mill
tary forces to save him from the foul
clutches of a mob that he might have
fair trial in the courts of justice.
mot only that, If l saw man in the
clutches of a mob, if he were the
humblest or most brutal man, l would
stand there before that mob, and
with my prayers and eloquence that
God has given me, and strong arm, |
would stand there and try to keeN
them back. But my colored friends.
when | say these things, let me en-
join another thing on you, as we'll as
on my race, that when we denounce
lynching, let us go a step further. let
us denounce the heinous crimes that
nine times out of ten cause lynchinG
to occur; for | tell you when these
crimes occur, all the power of the
Governor, all the power of the mill
tary companies, all the power of hu-
mainly cannot stop the mob. It is
coming. Let us stop the lynching by
teaching the white and colored people
that the crime must be stopped, and
the other being repealed there will be
no mob"