The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-03-08
RIIST OF RANSOM IN STATE
CAPITOL
continued from Page SIX

af the hIDjI3 PIE Stob' 'N
"a see the proof Of this assertion. LOON
81 the atlas of all the States n peo-
,.,as nnon the earth, run your eys
hack along down the long VlstaS VI
All the generations that nave Soho
hnfora MS. consider thu Assyrian, the
R~abyiOnian, the Greek, II i'oiian'
The English. the French, the Ge'fiiah'
and All the people who are known ~
history: consider well all the natloils
~ tha earth and all the races OF
ren and tell me if you find clVliiza-
ZION art. science. enlightened govern
mont. happy society, law, order, pro
press or true humanity among any put
the white race. The PerSlans We're
white. the Greeks were white, the no
mans were white, their conqueroIe
we're white. the Rritons. the SaNons'
4be Nornans, II Swiss, tine Germans,
the Russians, the Franks. the NoItA-
men cf Europe were all white. De
Y~nosthenes. Cicero. Alexander, Caesar.
Columbus, Bacon, Shakespeare. Na,
fsolecn. Washington Fulton, ana
Morse: the great scholars, the great
captains. the great poets, the srta
orators, the painters, the sculptofs' inc
inventors TO whom we are 1ndeDteu
for steam and the telegraph; the great
patriots. the great philosophers, the
great characters of the Bible, the cRl-
dren of Israel, and also the
ors OF the earth. the philosophers, the
Denefactors. the masters OF law. the
masters Of medicine, h constructors
Of human languages, the anne or
good government, in every age ana
period of human life have belonged
TO the white race
with these lights before US was it
the prejudice of race the hatred,
The unquencIled resentment against
the negro that inspired us? No, sir;
hut we could not eradicate our con-
yictions. we could not faisify history,
we could not surrender all that was
high and noble and bic to the
mad idea Of negro supremacy IN n
South. The descendants Of Locke,
Milton, and Hampden; the co~untryn,en
of Washington, Webster, and Story;
the proud sons of fathers and mothers
who had cherished and preserved lib
efty and law and honor with their lives
and with every sacrifice for hundreds
years could not surrender all the
heritages and the memories and the
lessons of their own race, and loo
10 the dark land Of the sun for their
rulers and ~exemplars. They saw Eu-
the country Of white men, ra-
aiant with civilization and learning
beauty. They saw America, his
home III the New World, bright with
progress, and Christian glory;
and they could but see Africa in its
and arid night, unbroken IN sue
cessiVe barbarism and ignorance, and
ali the rays Of civilization for five
9 battling around it's
coasts ana not able to penetrate it's
dense and deathly deserts a mile from
shore. Could we hesitate, Dug
to have hesitated about our duty? |
w resolved to be just, to be kind,
TO be una to the black man, to
respect his equal rights before the
to give him every opportunity for
and advancement: but
never, never to give up to him the
inheritances of our race. the |
owe Of civil and religious liberty. the |
administration Of justice, the lights
It knowledge, the virtues Of our faith
ars, and all the inest;mable blessings
y a Christian civilization. Far from
mourning your censure for this. we
ire entitled to your commentator. In |
1our mistaken policy OF reconstruction |
struck down the white race and
gou exalted the black. In your
TO the Constitution there
sfe no DETERMINATIONS against the
man, but there were and are
exclusions, impediments, disabii- |
ties on the white nan You disquaI-
lied from holding office. and voting
90, during the progress OF reconstruct
ion every mar in the South who hav-
ne ever held any public office of trust |
md honor had aided the rebellion.
This disabling clause included all the
trusted, able men of the
who had administered her gov
It left the government Of
hat country in the hands Of the in
embarrassed as they
must be with the difficult clement Of
suffrage, misled by designing
corrupt men. See what immense
power you placed in the hands Of four
of blacks in the Southern
Is there any precedent or par
lllel to it in the annals OF human gov
eminent? It is the frst. the only time
n the history OF the human family
.ha slaves have been made the po-
litlcal rulers of their former masters.
when you put the chains and
letters of our disabling clause upon
the white men of the South and ex-
GUIDED them from participation in the
government and invested the black
with all the rights and powers
and privileges Of the citizen unim-
paired. did you not commit an act
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