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%: . . distinctly assert, I am not a pro-Slavery fanatic; on .. · ' .. 'the contrary I am convinced the Institution fmrn

its inception was a terrible handicap to the Whites in the Southern Colonies; and historic records clearly reveal the fact that a majority of the early settlers strongly opposed the importation of Africans, but the British Government, and. English slavers, aided by the ardent efforts of the New England Ship­masters, responsible before God for this Curse of Color;-though thanks _' to print, Publicity and what I shall call prevarication (though a harsher term

_, more fit) the real Slave Trader, or his descAndants .· r- who escaped the legitimate indictment, posed as . . • '

;·. philanthropic Abolitionists, whilst those whose

:, ' / forbears sincerely opposed to. the system, pilloried

· .. ... in 1861-as cruel task-masters,- who daily drove ·-::':':~ · ·their ha1f-starved serfs to the cotton patch 8Rd the ;~·~·; •.• ·. rice-field by the "Driver's" lash.

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a fine horse . worth $500, and every decade prices going ~igher, and was charged by some envious poor neighbor with · starving and maltreating his rtag, no sensible or fair-minded person would . give for a moment credence to such misfit mendacity. Slave~holders even if brutal, seldom fools; and it is also certain every ''Slave Trader" was fully _aware that the vaJue of his "Chattel" depended· altogether on his GOOD' PHYSICAL CONDITION. Starvation, the lash, even too hatd labor would soon reduce the value of a stout "field hand" from $1000 to $500 or less; and I am sure, tho' Southerners are not.quite as penurr· ous as New England Puritans usually, and are far less devoted to the DoUar ( their DE-ity),-it is quite sure it would be difficult to discover one in a thou-

' 8and who . wilfully bent on effectually reducing

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. ?ffic~al records, pr?ve beyond ·any possibility of:. relutatiOn, that _ wlnlst the Slave . Trade existed hard!~ ~ny of these _were Southerners, but at lea~~-.: five-s1xtbs of the~ British or New England Ne~r0:.~--:: Dea~ers. In. Colomal days the Yankees profited:··:· largely .by the .slave Trade; nor did they, on th~: · ·. whole, ~ndulge m any even philanthropic pretences w?en ~t was gradually realized, that in the · chmate, and with an ever increasing· addition · · Anglo-Saxons and Gerrnans, that White Labor fa cheaper .than Black. · •· Abolition," could only begin am?ng "Chri:tians"-when Christ's crude Ethics:'.' .. ,,, .. ,,,.,. rev:1sed and 1mprovedby the Elect of Exeter Hall < and Plymouth Rock. · ·

On the contrary, the "Abolition'' of Exeter Hair ~ of Boston and its bigots, in 19th century, wa~

. ~ome~hing even the Saints of Salem· had neve{ 1magmed. or dreamed of;-the burning of WitchP.s

. was clearly sanctioned .by the Old Testament(~~ w t>re many other HOLY atrocities,) and no · · ·.·. of that a~e. nay, hardly even the sinners . >: .. ,, .... ,. .. ,. , hllve dared to doubt, still less deny, that tlf~ · was truly the Word of God, e~ery word rns;pil~ed;·;;-/; How then could any honest ·and sincere fail to accept SLAVERY, even the White Bondman .. the White, as anything but an institutio~ of Divl·· Origin. In' the Gospels, at a · time when "cb.att slawTy" common in all lands, as well as in tiQe, not only had Jesus, despite his denunc1'., lU\JIIliS:

of so· ma·ny wrongs, never condemned it, but indAP.rt<1~ had open1y approved oflt in language

. to misunderstand. Saint Paul was equally on·r"' .... '

spoken, and- from a sense of duty·-returns a ... "uu

away Slave to his Mas'ter; yet in that· ag~. master possessed the legal right to · p~nish-· .·.·:l 1u

m,er~ly by the lash- hut by death. · ··· . · . . . . ' . :

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At the time when New England was selling its "Black Slaves" to Virginia; this evidently not ·from philanthropic motives, but a very profitable business transaction; the African physically not adapted to a cold climate, and. besides every year saw n,;w white settlers coming in, many of them, tQo. really SERFS. that is "indentured servants." It proved far better to hir:e these, and sell the negro·down South, where every decade he brought a higher price. The "indentured servant" could be held for comparitively few years, therefore the master need

. not keep him in good condition, could over-work and under~feed him. and then get rid of cost of his support, but ·viith the black slave, as owned for life, the longer he remained in good· health, the inore valuable as even only a-"chattel." "Ch~t­tel Slavery" was a beneficent institution as ··com-· pared with that temporary servitude called "inden .....

· .tured servants"; and added to these were White Criminals; tho' just because their · term . of service often longer, probably better treated than the "in­dentured". Many of these ·'convicts" really only poor debtors, as in that v.ery Idiotic A~e when a creditor could'nt get his "pound"-he could prison the " p_erson", 'and incarcerate . him; he was then equ.ally sure of revenge but of'·no repayment. Im­prisonment for Debt was one of the lunacies of that age; but there are lots of · lusty onas still surviving. It would however be altogether untrue, and unjust, : to charge these New England slave-holders with being inconsistent, . hypocrites or sinners,-becaus~ tho' "Christians," }hey were not "Abolitionists", but essentially ''pro-slaver-y Whites." Just because THEY ··

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fectly good conscience, the "pounds" and profibi: they got out of the Virginia planters and SI Traders down South. · .

But though it would be unjust and unfaif condemn the EARLY SLAVE HoLDERs of the North·. shipping their. "chattels" further South ~heli . ·

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cheaper than Black, the case is very different. wi the "Abolition Party" of the 19th "century. In the last century, any one .who opposed :::>l~tveirv~~

as being an Institution opposed to orthodo:x; .... ~ .... .,~~~: ian principles, I am both LEGALLY. and justified in charging this "Abolitionist" with "'"u·"" a SANCTIMONIOUS .HYPOCRITE; that is iC claims to · believe in even only the Gospels." Accepting the Old Testament also,

.· Christ sureiy did, would make my position c··vr::n

more impregnable.

Now it is well and widely known a. large ty of those opposed to .Slavery up North, in 1 century, PRETENDED to be devout Christians: an(L course all of the preacb~rs if not so-· the . ~r.,.,,,.,., sinners. In that day, say 1840 to 60, as now, churches welt filled, the parsons well paid (at.'"""''"

. far better than many of their congregation,) and ' day in the United States the most prosperous.· · the most powerful of all the "Unions," tho' by: • means a "LABOR Ul)ion'' (a. safe way to dodge~·

plane or plough is to get into the pulpit) is ~ua.L·'

the "CLERGY.'' .... From the eelf-same pulpits, both in Great u;;:i-';

ain, and America, that preached Salvation not "of the Jews"-, as Jesus distinctly litated,_.· -nn·

•;of.the Cross," Slavery· was unctiously denouncf~£HH1 being inconsistent' ~th our "Christian Ci tion," and yet these blatant hyf!ocrites, in th~ san1~

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·.· •. bte~th, still exalting Christ as the Son of God, and . ~~~~§;·;:>···:::.:the Gospels as the "Word of God." appro\•ed them­

;.:'· ·selves Doctors of Divinity and Deceit. In their . ..... ··. methods they were identical with the PRO-AFRICAN

·• Whites of to-day, Thimble.figgers, who with their ;,~~;:~·;;~, · ";.~:~:: .. ·:white and black balls, or ballots,. trap aud trick you

·:·: into the conviction the Black is hidden under one

< ctip when it is under th'e other. Indeed these con­=. ' .•. scienceless Tdcksters are more brazenly · mendac­

~"-~;i:.:'.,·:~'=·:·~.:=.:)=. ious than even that; the RULES of the game made. so · · . UNRULY, they reserve to themselve", despite your

iS /;\:::;:: \ eyes, the right to claim that White is Black, and· . \>: ·. Black is WhHe or . any .other t olor. So very b in d. or ... ·

dull witted. are thousands of even Sou~herne.rs; they ·.have permitted this, by no means c!ever, jugglery,

to· go on f0r now over half a cen~ury, without even· ··.· .. ~::·a perfunctory prote~ f

;.:,:·:·:·, ··> .Yetif, let us say, YOU, my more or less i·ntelli­. >•·• .gent reader, owned a "mars.n-tacky," or pony ofthe

0.:. Pine-lands, and ·some Trader offered you in ex-0~>::.;.::r,::•. ,< :. ·change a "Horse,'' but delivered only a "M\lle," the~e

·· · · isn't even a tl"ial"'justice's court .(tho' some of these : . have adopted the motto that Justice is "Just Us;'')

:;','·F:<.~;:· .:·~ ~: : that would hold you to your agreement. ·;~, · ~ :· :', .. Y at these · precisely the methods adopted by

> nearly all No~·therners . to-day, in 'dis.cussi~g what . > : they shrewdly, and persistently, with a carefully

~%~~1i.K,~~.=:, ·,:·::· ... concealed purpose, insist on calling, the . ''NEGRO ..•. ·. Problem;" though it is not by any means truly the .. long-contested suit of "White versus Black;'' ~bui: for : ... the· orit:Hnal pure-blooded Afric.an. kinky-haired, ·;' ·'fla.t-nosed •. a complexion of the "double smut," they ·• • have substituted a Hybrid, or· if they prefer the

term.- a ·~Colored Gen tleman," in whose veins Oft~n more white than black blood, ·and who, in· .

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whole, has really a better right to calf White Man,. than a ·Black Man. Yet he, too; · tinctly not an "Aryan," but it would be · untruth-to pretend that be could be resentative Negro.' '

Booker Washington, it is true, always one, tho' really a mulatto, a Half-breed; DuBois, with even less right and reason,

·himself a Negro; but assuming that they educated, and .also as intelligent as the White, both knew they were misrepresenting :. or to put a hard fact less gently, they were L and this knowingly, and with a very evident · pose; that of misleading the credulous, and ing and confu.sing the whole ·'Problem'': . has any way some very perplexing only becomes really INSoLuBLE-when facts arct " pressed, and falsification and falsehoods substi ed.

It ·is true the modest Mulatto .. and the Hybrid, have long since taken their ~enP--f•n~•···

far more intelligent, far shrewder, and scrupulous Ya nkee; whose "New science" is a sort of "Cash Register;'' nothing . wrong if only it PAYS. Defeat deserves n,m,nn'"'

but Success is always sanctified. Even measures all things by profits. and pay, sions. I c.onfess, their ''Gospel," too, sustains this contention,

What I not only boldly assert, but can Strate clea1ly, even apodeicticalJy,-iS, that. DO

both sincere and intellisen t. could with a science deny, that the crossing of two distinct stocks, even if both fully being far superior to the Negro, for instance· - and "Gentile,'' should intermarry (and in

ts this ··Yellow Man" surpasses evea ; yet the Half Breed between these.

~ither fully or fairly accepted as a Type" of either "Race." He could

nor Asiatic; and if BDTfi-that blood, and all such are "Mongrels."

call them "f ARIAHS":-out-castes. · true . of the cross between two Races, ,which essentially a low· type, cross'ing

· · Aryan with distinctly inferior A fr.ican, . s·: surely result in a lower type, as by mix­

.. with wine-you weallen the last. Prohi­howevei. might insjst this is improving Prof. Merriam of Springfield, Mas~o., in­

would give us the "Super Man;" his own color, I can ·fairly ass urrie.

still more the OO'niRoON, in color. · y also in intelligence, often very ciosely

to the White type; and their women apart,-more beautiful,

adds another very_ strong reason fe>r · honest white man's onjection to

;" as after all. though the Aryan approaches the "Super Man,"- he is

AN ANGEl .. cross -breeding, that is amulgamation,

equal truth and, force-leaves b Jt.h Black. without the poss<bili ty of any truly ve Type of one or the other surviving, ated, extinct:- what is this, simply

· but · RACE SUICIDE?

the Blacks ardently and always, ready this opportunity,;' and their antipathy

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to their own race so great, they oft, to end, risk even a "Lynching." Yet this,

·. ural desire for LOSS OF C"'STE-only proves;· feriority. That the lower should desire . · ·· h i. her, after all not so discreditable: but. find the man on the Sunlit down thro' the slime into the slums, . be but a Dirty Degenerate cur.

That the Hybrid (the higher his tYPe inevitable, and excusable) ·should strive ously for SOC:IAL EQUALITY, is not hensibie, but would be astonishing if he so, as that would lead most assuredlY-not ; •·· .. interbreeding, but to intermarriages; and· became frequeut, the hybrid type · suggest the BRAND of Bastardy, but become of Honor.

Even PoLITICAl. EQUAUTY, in any where "manhood suffrage," if the i outnumbered the superior, there can-be n.o the higher, more likely even all offices roan to president, would be held . by Yellows. with here a nd there a few wags, and "Carpet-baggers,'' This would White subordinate, and if so, gradually

Even among the most radical .n.•,v•,u••u•.•mn~. -very few consistently ignored the Emerson, Thoreau, Higginson, Parker, Garretson, and many others, were plices of John Brown, that is they SIN. but Jacked the courage to face the u""'Joe.o::v'a did. ·Yet as far as 1 c::~n discover none Culttvated Cowards, at least iii tbeirown. encouraged interbreedin!(·. Casuists and can play their tricks, and assert that Race means ~s little as it does in n.u<>eo.:-uu

and Nature gives them the LIE.

where one might suppose com· iie:r·'con:LP·~ Lea matters, prefer their ·

Prof. DuBois proudly proclaims is a facl,) that "His Family"

gene(ations only _inter-~arried · .. ·_.color; yet he very Illconsistently

'for dodginll the "Touch of the Tar

.eaenll<>~." who surely were not coNVERTED but CONQUERED, and not by but by.CANNONS ofthe Army,

clearlY .. that Victory, doubly ;n,•vrraJnv corrupts. On the other

to degrade, as it loweL'S a people's • pride, and with it often ~isappears

,..,,,_,,,.~"'ce, which is not merely empty this virtue ~hivalrous in­

.. ·· ·high sense of honor seldom long more common pottery gets broken

llii.uuuu.5 accorded to the spoils of war, the sanctified chalices, and the

•· · .. Old Faith, become dull and dis figured,

I have seen scores of men, who with Blacks, have Truckled, yet ·

should have predicted . their later hadn't ended in a duel, you

denounced as a defamer. It is of all the old standards, has so insidiously, the man who is

·and lowered, even if .not-· realizes how far he has fallen; and

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feet at tl1e s tar t, but has be~n descending very slowly ste p by step, even inch by inch.

I can see this clearly, cannot shut my eyes toit, but this ts doubtless because .for neariy forty years I have been a n out-land~r. onlyrevisiting my natal soH, the Black Belt, a t comparatively long intervals, a nd in that way I get a better chance to foe us the facts correctly. Probably if I too had never got away .from the vitiating environment, would ha' e remained in what some might choose to call ' 'b! i~s­ful ignorance;" -hut the blind man is walking straight to an unescapable BLACK Prcc;plce, hi~h enough to smash both color and consd ence ot.t of . \ him, Nor is be going to escape destruclwn, even · if he is ~ot foolishly closing his eyes, but controlled by his environment and ·ha.ndic ap'd by habit.

· I am quite justified in enrollin ~ in this I .; g hruther·hood of either blind Men or Block-heads, e rery employer of Colored Labor at the South, whether a plowman or a plutocr:,t, whether the wife of a peddlar or of a planter. Each in his OL' her degree, now more, now less, piling up · the :ijacial Debt, the· Colored Curse, that sooner or later, no "Providence" could save us from; unl~ss PRovmENCE, New England;-and the "Yankee" now ,'---after more than fifty years of what he calls a "Froud Peace," tho' he keeps us (of the Sunny South) still in his "Pillory,''-. efficient, · still less cordial help -is never likely to come from that quarter-UNLESS:-

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white women raped, and white ch ildren slaughtered, then I· am sure, there are no purec·bltJoded Aryans (unless a few degenerate renegades ) in the Old Free States, who would not march South in wra th­ful legions, and both the brainless ·Black, and the haught y Hybrid, would be swept away from this Continent like chaff beiore a prairie-lire. . Blood· will tell; Race will Rule !

But as long ss this Race question remains politi­cal only, as iong as the Colored Contingent, kept out of all higher offices, there will be an alliance­for profir- b.etween the Whites up North, a nd the "Li ly Whites" down South. But my Republican Friendf ( mean· wh0 vose as "Lily Whites" in the South) - , h{;w can you, wh~n readi ,lg speeches of Northern Rc·pu';lic:l.ns in ·Congress, or the most in· fluentia! of · their newspapers, imagine they are going to sarrifice Sambo as long as ony pos~ibility -, Of PAP and PLUNDER? They have been PLEDGED IN

H•1NOR. since at any rate 1864 to give the Blacks "PoLITICAL Equality;" - .imd only an a ctual bloody struggle between the races could FORCE then.l to forieit that PROMISE.

N ow I hope even my fellow ''Hayseeds" iu Hende rson county (l am nocn ltlired or coupon­c.: u t ti ng "Citizen" , God forbid! ), will no t sup­pose l.Jecause lam oppo~ed to T HEI R.va:l'iety of VIGE , I am a very dt~ l'oted and dogmatic P olic tit:ia u. It is true 1 am growing old , and m y vhiou no t rnliubl c, l.Ju~ I CtLU ful ly nndur;;tanll a :'tiight" m ore t han I can s ee ;-aud any nwn in the SouJ.h who s upports the H istoric Repu bli­can Party , is iuevi t;,bl y tnldng plt_rt wi~h the

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. '~ootORED PEOPLE"-AGAINST HIS OWN RAOE. Th<:we i~n't a Negro, nor a Yello~,.. man ·. ··_\: in your section. 'that doesen't grin ·whei1ever a • Harding goes in, und a W ilson goes ont. Whnt astoJ1ishes me, is that men of my own· color~ . . nppiuently, too, .no t exactly- idiots, -fair to see:·.··.:.:-::·:· ... ·this . 'fhe very back bque of their party woulc( . :-:-<}{·· bt·eak if . the D urkies all dead : 01' C\'en i f all ' : ::_~<r V.O'l'Jm. . . ··: ·:.;:;..

It is trne, these Northern Republiearis don;t ·• ·-.-~·;V: care a D. ·( J mean no t Damn of course-just ·. . \: "Donghnn 'ts"} for the Hottentot or the Hybrid, .· .. · ... ', bn t. ns he so eno:rmom;ly outnumbers the whites .. . in the Sou.th, gi\'Cn the ballot, he can out-vote · : :·:_:. him hopelessly. The s nlfrag~ once fully granted, . :~:,_ even the ''Lily .\:.Vhitcs," unless they turn to ·. :: "Yellow Lilies,'~ will be left a long way 'in_.the . · ';,_ lmch. Shre:wd Republicans North will never .. ·. sacriilce, sny fire 1nillion black Voters, for 8\'Cu ' ... a mWion "Lily Whit,:t .ballots. The or1ly pow. ., crful R epublican Plement. South are Lhe Ne- . · ·:_-gro~s. OncfJ giv~u. the the 'franchise the· "-Lily ·· Whites' ~ only .~he .vvhite 'rail of the Blaclf Dog;· · ·· u.nd the Dog wugs the 'l'ail. ·,<·::

As far as political pr inciples a re.concern t:>d, tbel'e ·isn't l;he pic!{ of a penny ~Jetw'e.cn the two · >. }Jarties, except- "otfice-holdi1.1g''. \VHll , yes, · .. ·~::·::,.

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there 1s jllst one othe!' little -prej udice perhaps -·;·:~;. , I have against th e"Not· t.hern Republicans": sta- :; :-.- -~· tis tics. income to.xes. and even more ''Eleetiol.1 · · · :! - ,~:~ .. :· . . . . . . . . :· .~. ; .. : ·~

Oontril.n1.tions" prevent my proudly_ pretenaing ·. ; j;:~i.'. thn t _my pat·ty, t·ho' Democrats up :North repte- ·. '- · sent the Uppe t· Cl::tss. the Plutocrats. · Down· · ........ . South. the· class possessiJig the most brains ns · . :. -.)

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well a.s the :most bank bills a.re undoubtedly' the ·Democrats: the very reverse is true in the Old Free S ta.tes. ...

But perhaps I haven't got much "brains" my-self, as iny ins.tinct is always to sympathize ·wi th the under-dog, with the ploughman a ­gainst the plutoCI·at, · a.nd once (ba t I was young then) I did fight,-very imprud ently too,-:-on the weaker side, and so badJy walloped, the badges I have worn ever since, have been "Patched Breeche~". I n a.ll my long ana ne ve1· lnct·ati\·e life, -1 have nt:ver once rnn for ~)flice (ne rer ev en . . . had a chance to run away from it, as no donbt · l'en lty ln·.illil:tnt men of tOil do.) -1 WOllld far

. 1·ather hav-e a goofl Pudding than the Presiden~ cy ( nn less of course nllowod to swari)-and I §hould 1n·efer tuday even to vote for ·n -Republi· can Angel, than a Democratic Ass (I have nev­er even . heard of the first, but sus118Ct 1 have seen some of the !!!ecmicl ;-'\vns his JHLm~ Bryan <)r not?) ;-but just as long a s the D emocracy fights under the White Man'~ banner I shall fight ~o my las~ t;mtton on tha.t :.ide; and a!ilong as the refil I~nlers of the Republi~ans, and t h e

· · ' 'controlling stock;' :of that Part.y, i n hands of those, fo rever cursing and kicking the vY.hites of my own section, and complimenting (even arm~

ing B lacks for a future Wa.t' as bes t they can -by cd t1ca tion and training) and cnshiilg. Cuffee's checks,-! shall oppose the RepublicRn Party, in ·the same \\o'ay if I ·could, and for the same 1·eason I should a burglar who would break in­to ·my Bacheller's Boudoir at "Oloverpat.ch;" and at least one did that twice. · I~ writing this perhaps very in-efficieut' anti­Afdcan Philippic, (which I hope may induce

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some one ll!ore influen tial and eompet.ent to couli11ue the camp;tign) , bdore my ol'tfn too sangu ine, pe rhaps even sensib le '·Fellow Low­lauciPr ; " ~Jill•; r,v me, not as a m o11st.er bot a misfit figllting phnntoms, let m~~ ask them to r ead jus t two :studi<~s of t his R :l('e P wblem; I reg ret. to say not wri tten by Southe rners (these prdf!r tend e r fic t.ions to tough facts, ) lmt both by N.ortherncrs, one a Kew Yorker .and t h e nther from ( it' s u m iracle) actua lly New En ~­Jand , once t he very headquarters of the Angels o f Abulit.ion. ·

One of t hese books is, "The Ui;ing TidP of Color" by Prof. Loth~·ov f:ltoddurd; ·-·a veJ'Y aUe pr"senration of a · Probiem that eon<\t•rns not only the South, but tl' c North , nnd all and .Pv­PI'Y A1·yan from New Englaud to Nt>w Ztaland, from Bohemia to BuNws Ain~s. The (Jth,"r, of·· much earlie r dat!:'; by ?\Jr. M~tdi~on Grant, whu with great mora l cour!lge (fanat ies a1·c alw"y~ foo ls, and therefore all doubly dnng t rous, tho' It·s~ so as foes tha n fri ends ) bo ld!)• prodainH~cl the.fucL thut i n fight ing against the ~~~SExTTAL­J,~· REPUBLICAN doctrine of Hace l<Jqual il.y, {he Whites of the SouLh, nine-ten ths of Lhem D em­ucrat.s, were r eally bravely battl ing fu r the su l­YaLiou of the 0 1<1 Free States.

The truth of tue matte.r i~ : tlH~ only ess~ntial d i ffe1:cnce ·bet ween . the Re p.ll blica11 l'u rty of the North, 1111d the Den:o(m,·tic I> arty of the South, ignoring of coars e the liick-poekcL~--'-peHsi i.)l]­

ers-and pla<le hunters, is fundamentally , not nny w ell · defi ned antagonism in prfnciplt>s,­other Lhan those''-t.hat nre altogether and radi­cally RACIAL. If the Republican Party to­morrow, I mean of course the "Lords" not the

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''.Lilies,". shuuld repudiate nil Uwir Darldedog­ma~ nnd Colored Cotutmmdments, about .that · •··]DQUALITY" J<~s ns f!l'eached bu t nevor prMi.­ticed : und the D emoemts slwuld reeant and ,..wear a llegiance to the Afr ican, · I should straigh Lwny , aud w ith good conscien ce, joiJ/_ the PMty that over fif ty years ago !:acl for i ts An­gel-s Abolitionists (not omitting J oh n Brown.) nud for God-' 'Fatht•r Abra.ham,"of Kentucl;y. If I could disGnver in t he Sout h today s uch

able champions of the ·Ri ghts of my own Race as t.hose named a.uove (and t httt we :;ho u ld fnmil­ial'ly p robnbly eall "Ynnkees")-I s hoald never h nvc ·pu t·. pPn to paper, bLt t Etnck to the J'Uts whctP a l'll,t'ie belongs, as I t:enli\r.e my "st.y lus" lacks. "o.ty le'', and my pockets even shPli<JWer than my paW; that d<:'ubly significant nt this · period when papee so gilt-edged, only million " aire~ catl alTorclel'E>n \'isiting cu.nls. I am1:10t one of the "R!P.ct" ; n e\'(:1' even one of th e "E·Jeet­~~d", dimin.u r.iYe as even that distipction is. A J:'c~d ig1·ee Promoter, who mistook me 110 doubt · for another fellow, ;;poke feelingly once of my " D ist in g uished Fnmi!y"; I had to explain wi l.h thnL "bltish of conscience innocence", which is one Qf my very few 1;ea lly vo l oable posses~-.

ions,. that .I belonged . t.o a . s trictly ' 'Extin­gnished Family"; b ut just I.Jecnuse. rol.Jbed of my Riches,. I cling more closely to the one blessing left me:-my "RACE."

In writing this article, let me say, I do so be ­. cause my awn '' fello.w Suffer ers'' in the South seem so convinced that there is N? ''Suffering";

16 there is l'enlly xo "Negro Proble m", in eveu the Black Be lt the W hites are cheerfully recognized ns a Superior Race, a•1d there never will be made uny effort by en•n th-e Huughty Hybrid t~ s up­plant then). The more we elevate our Infe riors tho better educated they are, the inorc they ap~ pt·oach in appearance, manners and ·intell igence

· to the Aryan, the Jess disposed will be these · ·~nloretl Gentlemen" to claim ever y righ t and pl'ivilege we p ossess. If we do not grant him the fran chise, he surely is wise enough to r ecog­nize that r elieves him fr·om immense respons i­bilit ies, saves him even from m aldng those ab­surd blunders t.hnt we ourselves ofter-1 d o · if we dr.n y hfm th(i '<•parlor" we leave to ld~ .t.he " putch", which is far more proiitable ; a~d if IHI can't ue a polit-iciun we generously grunt him that fal' higher ~a iling the preacher; if h (:J cnn'~. hope to I.Jccome P reside nt,, Le can atlaiu to (;he dignity of ,Professor ; a posit ion where there is now and then no lack of ability, whilst any Amiable Ac11ident , can make au ' ·J~xeou tiv;l''

I think the nbove pictures l.he I'nradisc now putentt:ll in the Old South, as seen by those san­guine Suut-lt<erlll'l.'S, who cousider t ime and lrou­blc -..va.s tcd to worry over what may happeu ·only Tomorrow. Let us feast a~d be m e1·r y today, and leave it to Providence to anange the fu­ture, and U1e fuueral. We nrc good or.thodox Ol1ristians, and we put our trust in the ''Sav'ior" w~o held up to us a;; an exan1p!e the " Lilies 0 ;

t he I<'ield , that toil not no~ <lo they spin" : \I e pl'opose to . tak e things . easily, and livi us the " L ilies" do.

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rt is pe J·haps fol·tunate for ns, that wha teve r intliclment we may !.>ring against our " Bosses"­t he "Yaukct>s", we have to recognize the fact , t-hat they arc not on ly energetic nnd shrewd, but arnong them n much larger propor tion of men of le>~·rning anti culture, than with us. · Not ouly nrc all t.he well known Publ,i ~hing Houses there , un t nearly nil th e best wr·itcl·s, and nu thors; in fact we h1.we rractic:ally none. H ow earne~tly · do I wish that I could turn ove1· all my MS. to 01ie .of t hese famous Li tera ti , and get him to llUbstitute his name for mine. Eve n among my own people thousands would accept his

"vie,\·, as con e<:t ; where mine probauly ignored.

Such being my disabilities ns the~ Defender of n Cause I hold d esen-ing of both S words and Sncrifices, a Plowman !.ISll r ping the ".!H11' ple'; of 11. Professor, if uot the perfec tion of n Prench·­er, as all my efforts to ar·gue out the c11se may !'ai l; i n closing I shall cite some occurrances · thnt at least the most captions cri t ic wonld· llave to confe~s susceptible of PROOL? or· or DISPROOF ; a:,:. I s hall ci t-e facts quit-e we ll l;no,,·n in Henderson ~ouuty, N orth Cnroliua, as r ecc1it·ly us March 1920; · ·nnd it must not be fo1·gotte n , this county uverwhelm.Jy R epublic:in. What a!'tOI!is hes 111e is tl111t m en not fools, :;ome of them even too sharp ( an~ those ofte n cnt thcii· own liugers, ) fnil to see tha t the R epubli­cans North arc using them 118 a cat's-paw ; once the colored peo!)lC of the South nll · gi,•en the fra nchise , with !I mere hnudfnll of "Lily Whites" nnd · sev• ral million Nigger vo tes thv.t

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can be made use of to incren~e ~ormou~ly their own power, it mm;t be manil'tlf.lt- the renlleud­er~. w ill far prE>fer to hnve planted iu. their. pre­set·ves , a million ~lack Tulips rnther thau a seore ·or the mos t l.>l'illiaut "Whi t•l Lilies" ; and how fas t then these last will fade in to futil ity. I f then these SoU·l'HERN Republi cans renudn loyal to their pn~sent politi.cal nffiliations, onl y one of tw o cour:;es vossil.Ji y open to them:­to go North , nnd anne x the Yankee, or it t.hcy rcm:.1in South to a ffiliate aminhly, and evE'n atfectiouate ly, wHh the P.!ac:ks, a s 1 hes<> last will huvo Henrly nil the higher nnd best paying of­fices in tlwit· gi f t . . Or do these wit.less W hi tes intagin<:,-!L . shrewd, ~elfi s h , ur:scrupulons "Tt·ade Union" of Northern P oliticians, nre go­ing to KtoK 0 1JT ungt·a te fully some millions of devoted ·Darldes (who a r e born of that brand ) , to gratify a rew hungry wl1 ih~ hunte rs of soft snnps?

But t o "return to my mntLon ~" !\8 the lJreuch say: You ;oee, we fpJlows wh t? oow only Tramps, like to slip in (t s t age whi :;per.now aud the11, . that woulcl l end our " H nyseeds" at.' home t o

think we hud r e,dly once becu-top kn ut·--: · TOURISTS: mldic ted to fat· r.ravel and fine tastes.

I t wns no t lo ng ago, tl~nt an olrl "Com-fed". (was really thnt fo r three y~ar~) who prefers hi s summers o:::- ll'E, and his winters SOFT-BOIL­

FJD, doubtless thro' lack of dollars, iis eveJL doughnuts were dear (buker!l claiming even the •·hole, now costing twice ns mucb) :.....found he

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. son when blizzarcls a re in bloom. ,RY merest ac­:!ident., as he no longer goes to school (~ho' prob­nbly ought to,) he dis<:overed that the P r in<·i­IJal of a not d istan t High 'School for Whites

only , was essentially a MissionaL"y of :'lliscogin­ina t ion , that is, t ry ing to CONVER'r, or was i t not PERVERT?- his young pupils to the belief, that whnt we sor ely needed in the Sout.h WHB l~A.OE

EQUALITY ; indeed he was · m tlll if c·s t ly T EAeHING I'l', making, what might be foil'ly t ermed RACE SUICIDE, part of his curr icu­lum . And asmning t.h is a · ' corrstuumation de­voutly to be d esired, " su r es t plan, and snfes t is to get hold of the very young ,·as the Church of Rome shrewdly discove red ages ago. The m ind of the child is likP wax, it is pla~tic, it. is­easy to stamp on it :my l:ignres, fictio11 1:1 or

· f t.tcts; bnt IC't these r em11in say for 20 years, often for even a dozen or Jess, _this mentality, now mature , bas become as adamant; it cnn ne \·er be changed, as a rule, except by ·bre ttk­ing ot· burning it . (The,y say some · churc hP.s prefer the lattPr met hod .) Petl'ifaction now complete. I .uckily I live in alesR reiigious age.

Our Old White Man , wos not considering this matter f1:om a political s tandpoin t at all, whether Ropnblican or Demo<:rat , h e sincerely believed eYery decent whi t e man or woman in IIeode.r son County , would a s bi tterly re~en t

this Prof. McA-Dam's eft'or t8 to Corrupt thfl Kids as he did ; wi t-hou t- any d esire to 11Iay the

H ero, and nevPr drfaming he. was. risk ing mai•­tyrdom, our rather r·usty and rustic Champion of the Hupremncy of his own race, ins pired by indignation perb aps rather tlutn intelleet,

_managed to prime his pistol, that is a some·whnt savage " SQUIB" ( thP.Sc;! it i;; customary to load, not wit.h PLATI'l'UDES but PEPPER,) and ex­p loded i t, so to say, right nodPr the nose of t-his pr~-African Professor; that is, his .Protes t was in print, and made public . J nst for con ven­ience,. 11t1d to save "type" ( judging by cost, mu st now ~til be " precious metal") I shall cnU ou•· believer in W hite dominance, say, •·u. G."

--and the School Bonrd , and ellitor H olloi•-hell of the Democratic WEAKLY, lot us say '·:MeAd­smites.'' Our pro-Africn·n "Pl'ofessor, ·110 t a Y nnkee, but Nor th Caroli niun, I think of'·Stl.· !em City"; and his devotion to the uarki~, quite justifies the assumption that his auc~str.v. in some d egree affilia t.ed wi th the Color he so highly approves of.

The School Board promptly denomiced '·U. G./' in tE"rms more scurrilous than compli­meutat·y, ( hagging Snint· Teodor, the 'l'ough's 'rhunder,) as an "Undesirable Ci t izen." Per­haps for tunately for his fiuances, old ''U. G." had never been a "citizt>n ''; in fact as his very

· shnbl.Jy old Hut taxP<l a t Hotel-rates!or years, he lud long r ealizecl , if rough rustinity cnme so high, m unicipal · magnificence in .a metropolis of even only 3700 souls (or should I not say,

. 7400 soles; anyhow more exnct) "'ould strip him

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so lJnrc, he would not h ave a rag left to PATeU

his Clover-patch with. At o"er 20 years of age cabins begin to crumble.

Cur cha mpion of "\Vhitc Supremacy natu rally,-· :tlmost nece>~sarily, r eplied to this defiant docu­ment by the Devotees of tJ,e Dark ie, bu t the

-''News," t he Democratic. WEAKLY re fused t o print ~nd publish it even at FULL ADVER.Till­

ING R _\TES. This may ha\·e been from a real cha1·itable feeling on the part of the l!"::dit or ; who perhap!1 knew his "rntes" would ruin the old man. At any ra te, tho' m ost cert.ain ly not openly defended by 11 single one of his own Race, in faet made to feel , on t he whole, that h is opposition to " Race E qualit.y" in that com­munity would ne\·er get him in to Congress, practically tabood as at least a meddler and muddler, single hanlled, the Old Man managed t o open fire on the enemy, with his little ''But­t ery", but as i t was only landed with "brui ns", in a w orld where "bank-bills'' al one win,-it must be conft>ssed, the pro··.urlcan Party tri­u mphed: as is clearly proved by the fact., that wh en Prof. McAdam, "Jaure)-crowned" iind lnuded, retired. f1·om the arena, another and higher . i~stitotion of War and Wisdom, near

· by , the Carolina Milit ar y and Naval College, welcomed him wHh open arms as one of their Faculty .

rr there isn't a. "moral"' to this tale, surely ther e is m uch meaning to it; and if in the WFIT1'E BELT of the South, public opinion ulrend-

Y b ecoming S: little DlSCOLORli:D, if ever in t.Jie BLACK l~el t, every Sambo and every Sukey . a rmed witb t he ballot, is it possiblr fo:r any intelligen t person , of any color, not to know what t he inevitable END will be'?

If my "fellow cit.i zens~~_, or pel;lutps m or e truly m y "fellow sufferers" in the late lnmcnt~ ed "Confederacy'' , bel ieve there is more j okh1g than justice in my profession of Fa ith, my Re­ligion' of Haec , th ey an•. painfully misLal<e11 , 111id in due time will h avo to pay the penalty, as all procrastinators ai1d Policy-holdcts do.

That Vl'l riety of ''race suicide'', Saint 'l'eodor . the Tough used to rnnt and rave about, was a far more excellent arraugcment than Provi­d t:nce often ind ulges in,--in cleNl a "blessing in disgnille" . There is n. very d efinite limit ~o I. and, but not to labprers and loafers; indeed t his is so ve i'Y sure, it is equally certain (}Ven Land-lords some day will be left -in the Jnrcb, unless. they can encourage thnp milita1·y spirit \\' hich will surely lead to S\lch wars as that of

· W-illiam the. Worst. R y such Butch H ies elbow­room. is usuaiJy left, for !;b e Lords of Lucre, as t heir . t racks never lead to the '"Trenches."

The CRIME, however , that Nature,- or God if you pr efer, never has forgiven is ~roNGREL­T7.ATi oN; and its inevitable punishment, n ot in tht' n ext world, but right in this, is t he anni­hilation of a ny people, the destruct-ion of any Nati.on, that daretS to enco 11ra~e it. That

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p P.ople perishes, that Nation . fil)ds its Neme_sis in oblivion, and tl1e- age- long records of 'the Past reveal but t h eir r uins: what is t-h is ex· tinction b\lt

RACE SUICIDE!

!DEV.ERON HUGEB, of "Cloverpatch,P

He11dersonville, N. G., June 1921.