The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-09-07
BARNES FOR SENATE.

Croatans Resent D. P. Shaw's
Statement CHASING Them as
Negroes and Will Support K.
M. Barnes.
To The Editor of The Robesonian.
Hurrah for Mr.. K. M. Barnes,
of GAINESVILLE, for Senator to
represent Robson county in the
next General Assembly.
We, the Croatan voters of
Lumberton township, are expect
ing to cast our vote for Mr..
Barnes and hope that he will be
victorious at the primaries
throughout the county and be al
most unanimously sustained by
the good Democratic voters, both
white and Indian, throughout
the county. We haven't any
thing against Mr.. D. P. Shaw
except a statement he made
against us at the trial of George
Deal in the presence of the coun-
ty board of education, ourselves
and some negroes who were
standing near by. After plead
ing so hard to prove George Deal
and his family entirely clear of
negro blood, so as to admit them
into the Croatan Indian schools
of Robson, and when he sue
ceeded in so doing, according to
the evidence they had at that
time, Mr.. Shaw then took his
hat and said when he started
out, George is a good old Mig
ger" These words sank deep
into our hearts, while we realized
that the law excluded from our
schools any who were of the
negro blood, ! black, to the 4th
generation. However, our friend,
Col. N. A. Mclean, who ap-
peared in our defense, immediate
ly took him up by saying some
thing like this: rs that the way
you do? Prove him to be clear
of negro blood and admit him
into the Croatan school and Their
turn right around and call him a
niger? If you say he is a ne.
gro | will have this case recon.
sidered and put you on your oath
and make you sware he is a ne
gro."
Mr.. Shaw again aroused oul
animosity when he replied to the
colonel, well that's what We
call them all" The colonel said
you may call them so, but We
do not. "
We don't think that Capt
John Smith considered Pocahon
tas negro when he was bount
before PoWhatan and placed up
on a rock and the club of the ex
ecutioner was raised and Poca
hontas, Powatan's favorit,
daughter, threw herself upol
Smiths neck and begged for hi
life. Her father yielded, an,
Smith was set free. We don
believe that Mr.. John Rolfe, at
forwards Secretary and Recorder
General of Virginia, considere
this same Indian girl, Pocahon
, tas, a negro when he requisite
her hand in marriage. She die
leaving a son, from whom ar
descended many eminent FAM
lies of Virginia. And lastly
we would not think that White
colony considered the Indian
negroes when they began to in
termingIe with them in marriag
and bring forth a race known a
Croatan Indians.
Now we don't see where W
can clearly support Mr.. SHAY
= after styling us as such. Tn
l Indians came from the ten tribe
of Israel, crossed Behring Strai-
came through Canada and settle
: in what is now the United State:
Whites calony came from Ems
land and were English; there
fore, we consider ourselves {
pure as any race, although "
n are willing to acknowledge tn;
S other blood has crept in amor
S US as it has in all races and tn;
was what we were endeavou
e ing to fight at that time, and e
t pect to so continue right on
t. the uttermost.
r We hear now, since Mr.. Sha
5e announced himself a candida
st for the Senate and has distribu
ed so many letters among t
7. good Democratic Croatans, sol
10 iting their support, that he stat
le that he is very sorry indeed tn
ID he made this statement and tt
D. if he could recall it he would r
i'll say so again for a thousand d
is lars.
The other townships may
" as they think best, but we {
40 pect to go for K. M. Barnes.
Yours,
J. R. Sampson,
III C., L, Locklear.