ers of colored schools?--A. I think there is.

Q. Will you explain it?--A. I cannot explain it, except by the
prejudices between the races.

Q. You mean, white persons teaching a colored school lose social
status?--A. Yes, sir.

Q. Now, a white lady who comes from the North and teaches a
colored school, to what extent is she tabooed?--A. I don't think
she would have any acquaintances in white society.

Q. Would she be any quicker invited into white society than a
colored woman?--A. Just about the same.

This fact contains within itself a volume of testimony. It shows
that the Negro is still regarded as a sort of social and
political pariah, whom no white person may teach without
incurring social ostracism and being degraded to the level of the
social outcast he or she would elevate in the scale of being. Is
it surprising that the Negro is dissatisfied with his condition
and desires to emigrate to some country where his children may
hope for better things?

The most serious complaints, however, which are made against the
treatment of colored citizens of North Carolina is that justice
is not fairly administered in the courts as between themselves
and the whites. On this point the evidence of Mr. R. C. Badger
reveals a condition of things to which no people can long submit.
Here is his illustration of the manner in which justice is
usually meted out as between the Negroes and the whites:

Q. How about the discrimination in the courts as between the
whites and blacks?--A. That is principally in matters of larceny.
In such cases the presumption is reversed as to the Negro. A
white man can't be convicted without the fullest proof, and with
the Negroes, in matters between themselves, such as assault and
battery, they get as fair a trial as the whites. At the January
term of our court Judge Avery presided. A white man and a colored
woman were indicted for an affray. The woman was in her husband's
barn getting out corn; they were going to move, and the white man
came down there and said, "You seem to have a good time laughing
here this morning," and she said, yes, she had a right to laugh.
He said, "You are getting that corn out, and you would have made
more if you had stuck to your husband." She seemed to be a sort
of termagant, and