Dear Editor,
There is a great
question before the people of North Carolina this year. It is the question of
permanent white supremacy or permanent negro equality. The men who are trying
to save the negro from eternal and just obscurity are telling the white men of
North Carolina who are unable to read and write that they are in danger of
being disfranchised.
Now, there is not a
sound-minded man in the state ho if he will be stop a moment and reason that
will believe the silly arguments put up by these so-called leaders.
Mr. Editor, I am a
republican, but when it comes to a direct question of whites vs. negroes, I can
not, in justice to the Anglo Saxon blood that flows in my veins, array myself
on the side of the African. I am for white supremacy "first, last, and all
the time."
As a republican, I
consider that the republican leaders in the state have made a serious mistake
in placing themselves as a hindrance in the pathway of progress, for it is a
self-evident fact that the Old North State can never ben anything of which to
be proud so long as we have negroes in the halls of Congress and in our State
Legislature.
White republicans
who do not believe in negro equality have but one course to pursue, and that is
to repudiate the leaders of the party in the state and vote for the amendment. If I have not
made myself plain enough, I will write still further on the subject.
Very truly, Thomas
P. Smith, Silverstone, May 7
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