Cleveland, a reputable white woman,
I r ii 1 .j . . 1 - . 1 lf
fall ! With the j ashamed to say, who understands ful
countrv almost I lv the vile reproach involved in the
charge to which he thus gives the sanc
tion of his name. No man better than
this same Dockery understands the
odium and infamy involved in the
statement for which he has thus . be-
come snonsor ana to which he thus
Colonel Dockery understands fully the
force of the vile calumny he is circu
lating, for in his own antipathy to ne
groes he went so far when in the Leg
islature as to favor driving every free
negro from the State, or forcing him
to become
a slave
No
negro,
he
thought, was fit for anything but sla-
very.
What, then, shall we say about it?
For one, we say he ought to be dis
owned by every white man, woman
and .child in North Carolina, and,
like Stanton and the writers and other
signers of the horrible Legislative Ad-
dress,
consigned to
everlasting
m-
famv. With such men he has made
his bed, and upon it he must lie.
