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Title: The life and speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Connor, R. D. W. (Robert Digges Wimberly), 1878-1950 Poe, Clarence Hamilton, 1881-
Subjects: Aycock, Charles B. (Charles Brantley), 1859-1912
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & Co.
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to some extent restricted suffrage to those who owned land in order to escape from the unbearable burden of negro rule in the eastern counties. Is there any Republican, is there any Populist, who will deny that this provision was put in the statute as a safeguard against the evil of negro sufrage; will any of them pretend that any such pro-vision would ever have been made if only white men could vote? They thereby confess, and they have put this confession in the form of a statute and written it in the law books of North Carolina forever, that the negro, where he predominates in numbers, cannot be trusted to govern. They themselves have declared his unfitness and published his incapacity. Again, in 1897, there came into the Executive chair in North Carolina a man, who in a public speech had declared that he was not a friend to the white man nor a friend of the negro, but a friend of man. With his advent to power the negro naturally forgot the days when he was regarded as a savage and with expectant
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AYCOCK AS HE APPEARED WHILE GOVERNOR He was then much stouter than in his later years, weighing nearly 200 pounds. He was about five feet eleven inches high. OF CHARLES B. AYCOCK 215 joy listened to the inaugural address which was to usher in that new and glorious day of political equality, but before that address closed we hear this friend of man warning the Legislature not to turn the cities of the State over to the ignorant and property less ele-ments, and thereby this friend of man declared that fond as he was of universal mankind he realized that the negro is incapable of governing the cities in which he dominates, for surely it will not be contended by anybody that Governor Russell had other reference than to the negroes when he spoke of the ignorant and propertyless elements. And the Legislature of 1897, violent as it was, determined as it showed itself to be to break all ties with the past and to repeal all Demo-cratic legislation followed the advice of the Governor to the extent of providing

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