The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-09-17
New Bern Editor
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should be dlsbarred-and forced to
serve as legal attorney to a flock of
honyaks in Siberia-Tt's an unfortu-
nate declaration and likely to breed
plenty of trouble.
Running With White Women
fright now George Eubanks is rum
ming around with a white woman
from over the Pamlico Inches
always had special liking for white
women-and by the way we'd like to
inform Judge Sinclair that the same
George Eubanks he has declared en-
titled to the privileges of white
man was run out of New Bern and
kept out for year-because he was
messing with a white woman-and
his rotten anonymous letters he fire.
quently wrote got him in plenty of
trouble in Superior Court and cost
Eubanks plenty-for the Judges
edification ! am sending him by this
mail a whole of lot of Eubank's
history.
Down here, like every other
Southern community. we've gotta
bunch of yellow Negroes-why not
gather up few friendly affidavits
declaring them part Iroauois, APP
aches, Seminoles, or anything, pre-
sent the petition to Judge Sinclair
and have the whole flock of them
declared white-that's Just as reas-
enable as this arrogant Negro Eu-
banks being declared white we
want to improve the white race
we'll say-like Eubanks claims -
that these Negroes are descended
from Indian Drincesses, etc. so forth,
or versus vice-that gives this bunch
of yellow niggers better standing
than white folks-royal ,blood -
then Just let them honor us by mar
rying our or our neighbors' daugh-
ters-sure-that thought makes you
hot as hell don't it?
but Judge Sinclair's ruling has
turned George Eubanks-a yellow
nigger-loose to do the same thing in
this community as ! have suggested
and mebbe, the town and county
amt hot about it
tits unfortunate Eubanks Daddy
was white and mother a Negress-
but it's doggone sight more unfor-
tunate that he cant keep his place
and his ce-that-because of his
wealth--can always manage to dig
up some lawyer sorry enough to keep
insisting that Eubanks is "a white
man-and those folks who signed his
affidavits-they sure have got some
thing to answer for some time -
they say they know Eubanks' grand
mother was an Indian-I'd like to
ask them how they know that =
were they living here when--as is
claimed-that her father, Mohawk
Indian chief was killed in a hattie
with the English at Lawson's creek
you're doggone right they don't
know it-thev hadda sign those affi-
davits on hearsay-and Eubanks sup
piled the hearsay.
Judge. Sinclair must reconsider
what he has done-he can call it
poor judgment-call it a mistake
say he was imposed on-which | sim
cerely believe-but Eubanks' judge
nent which Judge Sinclair has sign
ed, has insulted the dignity and ira
dition of every white man and wom-
an of this state-and the Negroes
are lust as hot about it as the
whites.
81 could write bitter, flaming
phrases about the viciousness of this
Mohawk Indian stuff-public senti-
ment is relentless, implacable - all
Eastern Carolina now knows that
this Mohawk Indian declaration has
now made Negro George Eubanks a
descendant of the Mohawks - and
an Indian of the third generation,
inclusive, is tantamount in the eyes
of the law to being white = and
George Eubanks is wealthy and can
afford to pay to be made white.
"Reckon I'd better give a bit of
Kitty Leach's local history-Just be-
fore the war between the states AL
Ian Eubanks owned in the neighbor-
hood of rs slaves-he lived in a big
house on Broad street and back of
that house were a coupla Negro
houses where his house servants
lived-Allan Eubanks owned Kitty
Leach, who was black and kinky
haired, and Kitty's daughter Lucinda
Stanly Allen Eubanks bought
Kitty Leach and Lucinda - Kitty
Leach's name was Kitty Nelson, and
she is buried here under that name.
Lucinda Stanley was a yellow col
ored woman, and among the old
timers was always known and lived
as a Negress.
The story was told me not long
ago by the fine little old lady who
was adopted into The Eubanks fami-
ly along about Civil War times, when
she was three years of age. Kitty
Nelson and Lucinda Stanley, were
her nurses. She said that Lucinda
had often told her that George Eu-
banks father was well-known Kin
ston man. When Allen Eubanks died
he left his fortune to the mulatto,
Lucinda. While Lucinda lived
George Eubanks made no claims to
being white man-thought at times
he had made himself particularly of
fensive to white folks by his insist
ont and arrogant contacts here and
in other places.
1T is because of George Eubanks
well-known history. because of his
insistence that he's white. and in the
face of his well-known black geneol-
'ogy on his maternal side. that has
made the Mohawk so particularly of