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WHY HONOR WAS SHOWN GUIL-i FORD CHRISTMAS.The following is from a recent issue of the News and Observer:“A peculiar mark of respect was paid to a Cumberland County colored man last week by the white people of Fayetteville. The colored man was Guilford Christmas, whose life of devotion in the service of his former master, Col. Wharton J. Green, gave him a warm place in the hearts of the family of Colonel 1Green. When he died white people sent flowers to go on his |grave and a number of the leading white citizens acted as pallbearers. During the war he acted as body-servant at the front to Colonel Green.” jWhat the Observer says of the early life of Christmas may all be very true, but that is not why the Observer saw flt to commend him so highly and to also commend the white citizens of Fayetteville who acted as pall-bearers at his funeral.Guilford Christmas was a Democrat. He had held office under Democratic rule, and being a Democrat covers a multitude of sins in j the News and Observer’s eye. If the writer is not mistaken, it was Guil-ford Christmas whom a Democratic I Legislature appointed as door-keeper in preference to a white ex-Con-federate soldier who was an applicant for the position.If some white Republicans had served as pall-bearers at the funeraf of a colored politician the News and Observer would paramount it in the next campaign.
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The Caucasian
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Thu, Dec 14, 1911
Page 4
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Shannon S.
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