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 UNIVERSITY OF 
 NORTH CAROLINA 
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 THE COLLECTION OF 
 NORTH CAROLINIANA 
 
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A sheet called “ The White M an,” 
 has been issued and circulated bv ene- 
 mies of the Amendment, in which an 
 attempt is made to show that the negro 
 is at least the equal of the white man. 
 We do not propose to discuss whether 
 a negro is as good as a white man. No 
 true white man will discuss this ques¬ 
 tion with the negro or his white allies. 
 The white man who asserts by word or 
 action that the negro is the equal of the 
 white man is beneath the contempt of 
 his race. 
 
 We give on this sheet some of the 
 insults to white men and white women 
 and threats of lawlessness and violence 
 made by the negro and his white allies. 
 
 JUDGE ADAMS’ 
 
 POLITICAL SPEECH IN CHARGE TO GRAND 
 JURY OF COLUMBUS COUNTY. 
 
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 (Columbus News.) 
 
 His Honor Judge Spencer B. Adams ar¬ 
 rived on the morning train from the South. 
 His Honor’s charge to the jury, we will do 
 him the justice to say, was the best (be¬ 
 ing the only) political speech we ever heard 
 delivered from the bench. We have been 
 reporting court proceedings here for about 
 six years and in that time a number of 
 judges have been here whose political af~ 
 filiafci ons differed from ours, but we have 
 had no occasion to refer to any of them 
 in uncomplimentary terms. We regret the 
 necessity of doing so now. 
 
 He reached the climax of his charge 
 when lie came to discuss fornication and 
 adultery. He said that “ nine times out 
 of ten, if you will chase down the fellows 
 who are going about trying to stir up race 
 prejudice you will find them sleeping with 
 a negro woman.” When we consider that 
 numbers of as good people a& rhere are in 
 the State are “ going about stirring up 
 race prejudice,” as he would doubtless 
 call it, his statement becomes a mdst 
 sweeping Villifieatioh, and one which can- 
 lot be properly characterized in temperate 
 language. 
 
 And he said this with a kind of a “ re¬ 
 member the Maine ” expression on his 
 
 countenance which seemed to indicate his 
 regret that there was not, a law by which 
 Democratic speakers and papers could be 
 stopped from telling the people of the foot¬ 
 hold which negro supremacy had obtained 
 under the present administration. 
 
 And this was not all. Proceeding to the 
 question of rape, he argued to the jury 
 that it was a lesser offense than seduction, 
 because the only difference was, lie said, 
 that one was committed by force and the 
 .other by fraud. It required some courage 
 for the former. He illustrated his posi¬ 
 tion by saying he had rather his purse be 
 stolen by' a highwayman than by deception. 
 We may not be surprised that assaults 
 upon white women by brutes—the lowest 
 crimes in the eyes of the law as well ns of 
 men, to which it is possible to descend— 
 are so alarmingly on the increase, when a 
 judge on the bench attempts to minimize 
 its hemousness and argues to a grand jury 
 that it is less a crime than one for which 
 the most extreme penalty is a term in the 
 penitential'v. 
 
 THE NEGBO MANLY 
 
 WHA T HE SAID . 
 
 “ We suggest that the white guard their 
 women more closely, as Mrs. Felton says: 
 thus giving no opportunity for the human 
 fiend, be lie white or black. You leave 
 your goods our, of doors and then complain 
 because they are taken away. Poor white 
 men are careless in the manner of protect¬ 
 ing their women, especially on farms. They 
 are careless of their conduct toward them, 
 and our experience among poor white 
 people in the country teaches us that.the 
 women of that race are not any more par¬ 
 ticular in the manner of clandestine meet¬ 
 ings with colored men t han are the white 
 men with colored women. Meetings of 
 this kind go on for some time, until I.he 
 woman’s infal nation or the man's boldness 
 brings attention to them and the man is 
 lynched for rape. Every negro lynched is 
 called a big, burly, black brute,” when 
 in fact many of those who have 'ms been 
 dealt with had white men for their .fathers, 
 and were not only “ black ” and *' burly ” 
 but were sufficiently attractive for white 
 girls of culture and refinement to fall in 
 love witvi them,os is vveil known to ail. — 
 
 Fegro Manly in Ins paper, The Record. 
 
 Are you surprised that the white men of 
 Wilmington drove him from their city'/ 
 
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 THE N.EG110 AND HIS WHITE ALIA ES. 
 
 “ NEGSOES WILL GET AT THE 
 THROATS OP THE 
 WHITE MEN.” 
 
 The latest outbreak comes from a 
 negro editor, T, Thomas Fortune, and one 
 \y. O. Murphy, presumably a negro also. 
 These two negroes were the chiei orators 
 at a negro meeting held in Brooklyn last 
 Sunday to celebrate the one hundredth 
 anniversary of the birth of John Brown. 
 
 The meeting was held under the auspices 
 of the Society of the- Sons of North Carolina, 
 which is composed of colored men who 
 have gone from this State to live in New 
 York. 
 
 Here are a few extracts from Fortune's 
 speech on the halcyon occasion, as reported 
 by the New York Sunt 
 
 “ It cost tons of blood to put the fifteenth 
 amendment into the Constitution, and it 
 will cost tens of tons to put it out. You 
 must organize and keep your powder dry 
 in order to demand an eye for an eye and 
 a tooth for a tooth in the great crisis which 
 will soon be upon the negro, in which much 
 blood may be spilled. The first gun of the 
 fight was fire.d at tire Montgomery confer¬ 
 ence. 
 
 * & a a it a -s 
 
 “If the negro wants his rights in tire 
 South, he must fight for them, or lie must 
 leave the South. I have formerly opposed. 
 Bishop Turner in his appeal, to the negroes 
 to leave the South, but I shall myself start 
 a crusade to have all the negroes to leave 
 the South and come North, or go else¬ 
 where, where they can be men. 
 
 “There is nowise living in the South and 
 crying peace, peace, when there is no peace. 
 I believe in law and order, but when the 
 law does not protect you, you should fight 
 and die, if need be. You should demand 
 an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. 
 The negro will never command respect un¬ 
 til he shall strike a blow that will , win for 
 himself the respect of the world, for even 
 God has no respect for a coward. The ne¬ 
 gro should be brave and follow his leaders, 
 whether they lead to Calvary or to a scaf¬ 
 fold in West Virginia. There is coming a 
 great crisis for the negro, and the first gun 
 was fired at Montgomery, Ala., when it 
 was proposed that the fifteenth amend¬ 
 ment to the Constitution should be re¬ 
 pealed, But there can be no settling of 
 the negro problem with the negro out of 
 it, it matters not how many conferences of 
 white men are held. 
 
 “There-is now 10,000,000 oi us, with 
 2,000,000 fighting men, and in some great 
 crisis in this country these 2,000,009 ne¬ 
 groes will get at the throats of the white 
 men who have wronged and outraged their 
 citizenship.” 
 
 The Washington Post, commenting upon 
 this remarkable meeting, has this to say 
 of Fortune and his pestiferous drivel : 
 
 He is well educated, a good and forcible 
 writer, and, under ordinary circumstances, 
 a very sensible and well-meaning person. 
 We wonder whether he realizes that, in 
 this frantic outburst, lie has illustrated the 
 most pessimistic estimate of the negro 
 character—the proposition, for example, 
 that no amount of scholastic training or 
 contact with Caucasian civilization will 
 e ver eradicate ihe savage instincts of his 
 race. 
 
 In recent speech in Brooklyn, N. Y., a 
 negro, YV. O. Murphy, in referring to the 
 campaign in this State, uses the following 
 incendiary language: 
 
 “The negro has always been a peaceful 
 mail and has only fought when the issue 
 was forced upon him. The trouble is that 
 the negro was born in poverty and has not 
 been able to secure.the arms to resist the 
 invasion of his home and his rights, but 
 the negro should study, so as to learn how 
 to manufacture dynamite, so that when he 
 is attacked he can resist bis oppressors, as 
 the Russians and Germans ha've done.” 
 
 Such utterances should be a warning to 
 the white people of North Carolina. Such 
 harangues to ignorant and excitable crowds 
 will bear fruit. And that fruit can be but 
 a reenactment of the Wilmington riot. 
 The army of invasion suggested will not 
 be raised, dynamite may riot be used, but 
 the negro will become more and more in¬ 
 solvent, as a citizen and dangerous as a 
 member of society, and the ultimate 
 result will be hloodslied on both sides un¬ 
 less something is done to check his grow¬ 
 ing insosence, born of llie idea that he is 
 the equal in every respect of the white 
 man. 
 
 ADAMS AS A NEGRO LEADER 
 
 THE WOULD BE GOVERNOR S PAST RECORD 
 A MIGHTY MOTLEY ONE. 
 
 As to how the Republican nominee for 
 Governor stands on the relations of the 
 white man and the ra-gro, the Caswell 
 Democrat, published at Adams' home, 
 gives some facts which te!l n disgusting 
 story. Here is the record of 'he man: 
 
 Judge Adams said in a ■■ pencil in 1890 
 when he was candidate for clerk, that 
 white men of Caswell were so mean, un¬ 
 scrupulous and dirty that vultures had 
 gotten the scent and ceased to soar, and 
 the man in the moon puked on every 
 gleaming star that shone upon the be- 
 foulded bed.- of rotten degrading white 
 men of Caswell. Again in 1894. when he 
 and his nigger luck were in all their glory, 
 he went to the polls and exclaimed as fol¬ 
 lows: ‘ AU you white people come and see 
 me vote for negroes.’ And Ibis he did, and 
 at that election a negro was elected to the 
 Legislature to represent this good old 
 county. 
 
 To which Webster's Weekly, a near 
 neighbor to Adams, adds the following: 
 
 “There can be no question as to Judge* 
 Adams' attitude toward the negroes while 
 lie lived in Caswell. lie was their recog¬ 
 nized leader, taught, drilled and organized 
 them, so that they were able to elect one 
 of their own race to represent t he proud 
 counties of Graves and Yancey in their 
 Legislature. He wax'M fat by teaching 
 the negroes that their neighbors were their 
 political enemies. He taught there that 
 the white people, who furnished them work 
 and provided them schools, could not be 
 trusted in political matters.” 
 
ADAMS DEGRADED HIMSELF. 
 
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 MADE ANOTHER SPEECH LIKE HIS CHARGE 
 TO THE GRAND JURY IN COLUMBUS. 
 
 [ Cha t ha in I U?eord.} 
 
 The main feature of this black and tan 
 "Republican County 0 uvention was the 
 ‘speechof ex-Judge Spencer B. Adams, and 
 i : seems almost incredible that a man, 
 who had ever been elected a judge even 
 by Fusionists, could have so far degraded 
 himself by making a speech so full of false¬ 
 hoods and misrepresentations. ' Among 
 other false statements made by him was 
 the deliberate assertion that the Demo¬ 
 cratic party in North Carolina would not 
 allow a white man, who did not own land, 
 to vote for Senators until after the war, 
 and that then the Republican party gave 
 them that right ? 
 
 J udge Adams either did or did not know 
 this statement to be false. If lie did not 
 know it to be false, then he ought never 
 to make another speech, for any man so 
 ignorant as that should never attempt to 
 teach other people. And if lie did know 
 it to be false, he ought to be too ashamed to 
 show his face again in public! 
 
 The fact is (as every intelligent man 
 knows), that the Democratic party was 
 ' he advocate of “free suffrage” and in 
 1854 carried this State on that issue, elect¬ 
 ing David S. Reid Governor over his Whig 
 opponent, Gov. Charles Manly. 
 
 Judge Adams thought it necessary to 
 state that he is no office-seeker, and “wants 
 no office.” But he did not state (as is the 
 truth) that he has been holding office 
 nearly ever since he was old enough and 
 is now holding an office that pays more in 
 proportion to the work required than any 
 office in this State! 
 
 INCENDIARY ADVICE TO 
 NEGROES. 
 
 The Washington Bee (Afro-American) 
 fears that when the negroes of North Car¬ 
 olina go to the polls to vote upon the pro¬ 
 posed amendment, “the whites will com¬ 
 bine, and by force of arms and their bloody 
 and dastardly methods prevent negroes 
 from voting.” and it gives the North Car¬ 
 olina negroes the following counsel: 
 
 “Force is to be detested when exercised 
 in a contest where conscience, patriotism, 
 and eloquence should, be the. controlling 
 forces. Yet the sense of manly indepen¬ 
 dence and self-preservation dictates that, 
 brute force be met by. a like force when 
 other forces become useless. God forbid 
 that the tragic scenes about Wilmington 
 be re-enacted this year, but should such 
 be attempted, manliness, justice and self- 
 respect demand that the negroes shall 
 defend their helpless sisters, wives and 
 daughters against unholy slaughter by 
 gangs of bloodthirsty and heartless brutes. 
 
 “We trust that the thinking class of 
 whites in North Carolina will not be led 
 into schemes of gross injustice and crime 
 
 by unprincipled and designing demagogs 
 and grasping politicians. 
 
 “Above all, it is the duty of all intelli¬ 
 gent and manly colored people to watch 
 and be prepared for the worst and not fall 
 with their backs toward t lie enemy.” 
 
 From such advice as this grows riot and 
 bloodshed. Men who give such advice are 
 the negroes’ worst enemy. 
 
 One thing is certain: This State is going 
 to be ruled by its white citizenship and 
 those who set themselves up to give advice 
 to the negro would do well to recognize 
 that fact. 
 
 PRITCHARD’S ASHEVILLE 
 
 ORGAN 
 
 IMITATES THE NEGRO MANLY, AND TRA¬ 
 DUCES WHITE MEN IN SAYING 
 
 [Asheville Register (Republican)]. 
 
 “ But why does ‘trie desire to eliminate 
 ignorance extend only to the negro? If 
 ignorance is a constant menace to the State, 
 certainly it ought to be wholly eradicated 
 and not stop at the least offensive part. 
 The ignorance which disturbs the peace in 
 this State is found among the whites in the 
 Democratic party, and not among the ne¬ 
 groes. If the negro is unfit for the ballot 
 by reason of his lack of learning, certainly 
 the white man who is equally as ignorant 
 ‘is also unfit for the ballot. No amount 1 
 sophistry can destroy the force of this ar¬ 
 gument.” 
 
 SENATOR BUTLER 
 
 IN HIS SPEECH AT ROCKY MOUNT. N. C.. 
 OCTOBER 15, 1899. 
 
 “If colored men commit outrages the 
 Democrats pretend to be terribly shocked 
 in public, but when they get behind a wall 
 they laugh until they grow fat, and if the 
 outrages are not frequent enough they hire 
 worthless negroes to commit them.” 
 
 The men who certified that Butler made 
 this statement in his Rocky Mount speech 
 are: 
 
 Rev. B. S. McKenzie, Dr. F. J Thorpe, 
 ,T. R. Daughtry, R IF Ricks, F. M. 
 Draughan, Isaac Levy, Rev. A. D. Betts. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM CAUCASIAN. 
 
 SENATOR BUTLER IN CAUCASIAN , SEPTEM¬ 
 BER 30, 1897. 
 
 “The awful crime of rape, the condem¬ 
 nation of which should be prompted by 
 sincere motives and honest purposes is 
 used in a hypocritical manner 
 for base partisan ends, and all the time 
 they are condemning the nature of the 
 crime. they are secretly longing for more- 
 rapes, that they may belter play upon the 
 prejudices of the people.’’ 
 
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 the negro and his white allies. 
 
 LINNET AND WHITE. 
 
 REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN LfNNEY, WHEN 
 ASKED A QUESTION IN CONGRESS, 
 YIELDS THE FLOOR TO NEGRO 
 ' CONGRESSMAN GEO. H. 
 
 WHITE, WHO SAID: 
 
 “ I have investigated the facts in regard, 
 to these lynchings for the last two and a 
 half years, and X say that ’ess than seven* 
 ty-five per cent, of the lynchings which 
 have ocoured in the United States were 
 chargeable to the cause stated: and if there 
 were, not outrages and assaults committed, 
 not upon white women by black men, but 
 by white men upon black women, these 
 lynchings would be lews than they are 
 now.’* 
 
 White is the type of the negro officehold¬ 
 ers elevated by the Re-pop-li-e.ans. Is it 
 any wonder that the white people are de¬ 
 termined to end negro officeholding in 
 North Carolina? 
 
 CHAIRMAN HOLTON 
 
 WANTS FEDERAL AID. 
 
 [Washington (D. C.» Correspondent of Atlanta 
 
 Journal.^]' 
 
 “ Republican State Chairman A. E. Hol¬ 
 ton, of North Carolina, is in the city to d is¬ 
 cuss with the administration officials the 
 proposed franchise amendment in that 
 .State. 
 
 “ This is the iivest local State issue in * 
 the United States to-day, and party lead¬ 
 ers on both sides are taking a keen interest 
 in the fight. Chairman Holton will talk 
 the matter over with Senator Hanna and 
 President McKinley to-day, and will inti¬ 
 mate, it is said, that Federal troops will 
 be necessary when the vote is taken. He 
 will also urge prominent •Republicans to 
 go to North Carolina anu take part in the 
 campaign. 
 
 “ The chairman is charging fraud, intim¬ 
 idation, desperation, lawlessness and uiany 
 other things against the Democrats in gen¬ 
 eral and Chairman Simmons in particular, 
 and declares that riot and bloodshed will 
 inevitably result, as the negroes are de¬ 
 termined to fight for and demand their 
 rights.” 
 
 GEORGE h. white, 
 
 IN His SPEECH BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN 
 CONVENTION OF 1898, SAID : 
 
 “lam not the only negro who holds 
 office. There are others. There are plenty 
 more l-ony made to order to hold offices. We 
 don’t hold as many as we will. 
 
 The Democrats talk about the color line 
 an the negro holding office. I INVITE 
 TILE ISSUE.’’ 
 
 These were the words of Geo. XI. White, 
 Republican member of Congress from the 
 Second District, the only negro member of. 
 Congress in the United States. He was 
 addressing the 1898 Republican Conven¬ 
 tion in Raleigh, and he was cheered to the 
 echo by the delegates to that convention. 
 He was the lion of the occasion, ami. his 
 speech was LtXE speech of the convention. 
 
 NEGROES BAY 
 
 WHITES OF THE CARO UN AS DESCENDED 
 FROM SLAVES AND FELONS. 
 
 A convention of negroes has just been 
 held in Washington City to protest against 
 the amendment to our Constitution and 
 against lynching. They appointed a com¬ 
 mittee, which deliberated over the matter 
 and reported to the convention, among 
 other things the following, which we copied 
 from the Washington Post: 
 
 “ We are willing that our genealogy be 
 compared with that of those white people 
 whose ancestors were brought over from 
 the prisons of England by shiploads and 
 made slaves for a period, after which they 
 were permitted to become citizens on 
 equal footing with their former masters, 
 from 1010 to 1625 in the Carolinas and Vir¬ 
 ginia. We only ask for the same generous 
 treatment, since we have become free cit¬ 
 izens, that was bestowed upon this class, 
 WHO NOW COMPRISE THE GOVERN¬ 
 ING ELEMENT OF THE SOUTH.” 
 
 SPENCER BLACKBURN. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM HIS SPEECH AT NEWTON. 
 
 “ Goebel was shot down at the steps of 
 the capital because he was the arch perpe¬ 
 trator of this hellish scheme. It was no 
 more than might have been expected.”' 
 Then drawing himsei f up to his full height, 
 he shouted: “North Carolina Democrats 
 may take warning fr* n the fate of William 
 Goebel.” 
 
 The Goebel referred to by Blackburn in 
 the above harangue was the Democratic 
 Governor-elect of Kentucky, who was 
 foully murdered by i he followers of Gov. 
 
 Taylor, the Republican usurper of the of¬ 
 fice to which Goeb -1 had been elected, 
 because lie dared to contest before the 
 Legislature in the vay provided by law 
 the right of this usurper to the office of 
 Governor. 
 
 Blackburn is very close to Republican 
 Chairman Holton. Holton is United States 
 District Attorney of the AVestern District 
 and Blackburn is his assistant in i his office. 
 He is a protege, of Senator Rritchard, and 
 the above threat was delivered from the 
 same platform from which Pritchard had 
 just spoken 
 
 SENATOR BUTLER 
 
 IN HIS SPEECH BEFORE THE POPULIST EX¬ 
 ECUTIVE COMMITTEE AT ITS LATE 
 MEETING SAID: 
 
 “ We have got to fight and we had as well 
 make up our minds to do it. 
 
 “ The Republicans are in this fight to the 
 death. Let, us join hands with them and help 
 them whip this gang out of the State. Let us 
 announce to the world that North.Carolina 
 will no longer be rul'd by anarchists, red- 
 shirts and a little gang of toadies—men 
 who have betrayed everybody and every¬ 
 thing. 
 
 “ i he Republican® are willing for us to 
 take the lead, go ahead and hold a conven¬ 
 tion uid name a ticket. They will help us 
 elect it.” 
 
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