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The Lexington Dispatch. A t" Wednesday, February 4,1903. Incendiary Harangue. ? k . A Negro Raves and Rants About the * . . Supposed Rights of Coons. A special to the News and Courier from Washin&ton, over date of Jan/ uary 27th^ says: Because a meeting over which he presided was characterized by some incindiary speeches, Cyrus Adams, a negro, who is assist--a. :~i~- 4k a frfloonwtf io Vior\rr I Ub tCgiOtCl Ul luc ucaouij) >a jua.iug^ his part in the affair scrutinized by officials above bim. The meeting was - V ' under tbe auepicies of the Afro-American Council, of which Pledger, of Georgia, is president, which has recenfcly resolved itself into an office trust to relieve the , President of the .. burden of awarding federal offices to t^e negroes. Tbe reports furnished the press made no mention of the most sensational feature of this gathering. It was a mass meeting at one of tbe colored churches, with a long list of : . I t speakers, among teem Jjincoin jonnson, of Atlanta. The star of the occasion was a negro Hays, an attorney -at Richmond, who has figured in the efforts to test the disfranchisement laws of Virginia. His speech was full of fight and fire. Incidentally he quoted the Atlanta Constitution as "having threatened the negroes with ku klux if the growth of federal appointments in the Sonth continues." I make the prediction," he declared, "that when the Southern people start to ku kluxing this time they will not have %s their ejects of oppression the same timid people they ku kluxed in the sixties." In the course of his speech Hayes is reported to have dek clared that the negro has now reachP ed the limit of his indurance, and he advocated the sword and torch as a means for the negro to maintain his manhood. His remarks were received with high enthusiasm. He referred to the fact that during the years which have elapsed since the war sectional feelings between the North and South have died out to such an extent that Virginia now proposes to plaoe a monument to Lee in Statury Hall in the national capital, but that all this period has not been sufficient for the negro to advance one inch beyond the place he held when liberated from slavery. "There is nothing in Virginia for the negro," he said, "but degradation, unless the negroes make a firm stand, contend for their rights and, if necessary, die for them." "I am not anarchist," he added, uand I don't mean to go out and kill anybody b-;n UUU IAJ 1CU OUUi^UUUJ CiOO Alii JUU. Tbis veiled sally provoked loud applause and laughter. "You opened this meeting tonight by singing "My Croutry, *Tis of Thee," but I wonder how negroes can sing that song. For myself I am a man without a country. The time has come when the negro must fight; not theoretically, not intellectually, but fight with his hand. The disfranchisement of the children of Israel in Egypt has been followed letter by letter by the disfranchisement in the South. Negroes are leaving the State of Virginia because of the treatment they are receiving. What we want to do is to start something and keep up until the white people stop something. We don't intend to be oppressed any longer; we don't intend to be crushed. I am afraid we are anarchistic, and I give the warning that if this oppression in the South continues the negro must resort to the sword and the torch, and that the Southland will become a land of "blood and desolation. ' UI want to make the assertion right here that we are not going to be disfranchised in Virginia. It is written in the heavens and engraved UDon the stars that the Virginia negro does not intend to submit to this disfranchisement. We are told "to let the negro obtain education and wealth if he would gain the political . equality which he desires." I say there never was a bigger lie uttered. The more the negro advances the more will political rights be denied him. It is not the common negro in the south who is cut off the registration lists; it is the ditch digger; it is the educated negro, the doctor, g,. lawyer and preacher, who are deprived unlawfully of political rights and manhood by the iniquitous constitution of Virginia, which cost half a million dollars to frame. And I Want to say that by the time we get through punching holes in the constitution it will cost the state of Viaginia half a million more." Hays then turned his attention to the movement led by Brooker Washington. "It is claimed that the negro industrial schools are the proper lines of effort for the race. .Talk about education and wealth and say that they make votes for the negro! It's a lie." He is reputed to have declared in ' - J C0I1C1UBIUIJ: * n.uu juoo uuc TTVivt about the question of the absorption of the races. No two people having the same religion and speaking the same tongue living together have ever been kept apart. This is well known and it is one of the reasons why the dominant race is crushing out the strenght of the negro in the south." The fact that there should have been this outbreak right in the midst of the agitation of the southern question because of President Koosevelt's action in the Indianola case and making certain appointments has led tc its being pointed out as the natural outcome of this agitation. Administration politicians are confessedly greatly worried over the ditterent developments in the recent discusion of the southern question. Leading negroes deprecate what they term the Hays outbreak. R. M. L. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ) r ss Lucas County j Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of.F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, CooDty and State aforesaid and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cored by the use of Hall's Catarrh Core. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. ( wit 1 A. W. Gleason, 1 f Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Care is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mncons surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Even Later. He had been talking and talking and talking and talking until the poor girl was so tired and sleepy she Irnnn nliafhati if. TXTO O f Vi 1 Q TX7 out I or last week or come next Sunday, and the clock on the mantel was holding up it's hands either in pity or in protest. Finally it occurred to the young man that an evening call had its limits, at least in a latitude where the nights were not six months long. "Bless me," he exclaimed, starting up suddenly, "it certainly must be time I was going home." "Oh," she said in a dazed kind of way, "it must be a good deal later tbao that. Caution! This is not a gentle word?but when you think how liable you are not to purchase the only remedy universally known and a remedy that has had the largest sale of any medicine in the world since 1868 for cure and treatment of Consumption and Throat and Lung troubles without losing its great popularity all these years, you will be thankful we called - - i i . i ? l _ *n i your ftiwniiQo w Pvsvfivv b vrerraao. Syrup. There are so many ordinary cough remedies made by druggists and others that are cheap and good for light colds perhaps, but for severe Coughs, Bronchitis, Croup?and especially for Consumption, where there is difficult expectoration and coughing the nights and mornings, there is nothing like German Syrup. The 25 cents size has just been introduced this year. Regular size 75 cents. At all druggists. One enemy may do more damage than a hundred friends can repair. WMHWMWyM?DWB??1f?? i rWhich? I m A lean and potash-hungry soil, I y wasted seed, wasted labor and idle M I gins?A MORTGAGE. Or, plenty of j| Potash) in the fertilizer, many bales and a E | I busy gin?A BANK ACCOUNT. I Til3 Legislature. The General Assembly has at last settled down to business and new bills are being introduced and others are passing through their various stages with a swiftness that indicates the purpose of the members to make the best use of the time embraced within the Constitutional forty days as possible. During the past week much preliminary work has been gotten out of the way leaving the field open for the interrupted transaction of needed legislation. C A. Wood. Esq, of Marion, has been elected Associated Justice of the Supreme Court to succeed Hod. T J. Pope, recently promoted Chief Justice, and Wm. Elliot, Jr., of Columbia, Code Commissioner, in place of W. H. Townsend, who resigned to accept the position of Assistant Attorney General. The Senate passed the biennial sescion and other bills, but a question a9 to the legality of the proceedings was raised by Senator Brown it was decided to undo what had been done and start over anew. We are proud of our delegation, each one of# whom is one or the | other of the most important committees of the Senate and House. It is rather early in the session to ? ii* .j give anytmng line an intelligent synopsis of the proceedings as each member has some pet sbeme to introduce which, by way of a salve to lacerated feelings, some interest must be given it by some member before delivering the knock out blow by striking out the enacting words. As soon as all this skirmishing is over and the Legislature is confronted with actual work, then we may reasonably look for hot times and soul stirring and "water bringing" debates. [Just as the compositor had put the above in type this Friday afternoon, the daily papers just received says the Senate had rescinded its former action and declared the business of Wednesday to be legal, so the biennial sessions and child labor bills go to the House without further delay.] Both Houses have been holding day and night sessions and the probability is that no time will be wasted hereafter in disposing of business. * m # For Over Sixty Years. 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The examinations of the Collegiate department of the Palmetto Collegiate Ioslitute for the mid term have been held, the papers graded and the results declared. Those who make an average of 90 per cent, or more on all studies are given honors for scholarship?, and those who attend every day during the entire term are entitled to honors for attendance. HONOR ROLL FOR SCHOLARSHIPS. Seventh Grade?Varley WiDgard, Frank Lown, Ernestine Graichen. Eighth Grade?Josie Smoak, Edna Birr, Chalmers Wessioger. XT. ? I. U "P T> f iliuiu UIOUC iiUUU HONOR ROLL FOR ATTENDANCE Seventh Grade?Fred Crout, Lee Riwl, Frank Lown, Sam Mathiae. Eighth Grade?Estelle HarmaD, Kate Shull, Bertha Kleckley, Chalmers Wessinger, Josie Smoak. Ninth Grade?Lola HarmaD, Lily Smoak, Bessie Corley. ENROLLED STUDENTS Primary Department?Misses Mary Wingard and Mary Henry, teachers, 102 pupils. Intermediate Department?James H. Hope, teacher, 51 pupils. Collegiate Department?0. D. Seay teacher, 51 pupils. Music Department?Mrs. E. B. Roof, teacher, 17 pupils. Entire enrollment for the term; 221; living in and about Lexington, 179; comiDg from home daily, 13; boarding from Monday till Friday, 22; boarding entire time, 7; total day and boarding students, 42 It is shown from these figures that the enrollment has been almost doubled in less than six years, as then it was 125 and dow 221. Perhaps no other school in the State can boast of such success. Students are enrolling every week, and every few days news of others coming is receeived.*As the schools in the county close many students not satisfied with the short session at home ? come to the Institute until June. Boys and girls can never get an education by attending school three or four months in the year. Parents, send them loDger if you have to board them out. It will pay you in the end. Just now is a good time to send to the Institute as new classes are beiDg formed. Tendency of the Times. 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