{"id":1097,"date":"2014-03-17T01:11:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T06:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2014-03-17T01:11:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T06:11:19","slug":"white-to-leave-congress-1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/white-to-leave-congress-1900\/","title":{"rendered":"White to Leave Congress (1900)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, Aug. 26 &#8212; The only colored man in Congress, Representative <strong>George Henry WHITE,<\/strong> of North Carolina, has announced that he will not stand for re-election, and says he will move to some Northern State. \u00a0&#8220;I have three reasons for this determination,&#8221; said WHITE. &#8220;In the first, my wife&#8217;s health has been wrecked on account of the political attacks made on me, and I am sure the excitement of another campaign for re-election would kill her. Second, I am satisfied I could not secure a certificate if I were elected, and third, I must devote myself to some employment that pays me money. \u00a0I have not sufficient means to carry on a political fight that can only prove expensive.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 September 1900. \u00a0Available online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitalnc.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, Aug. 26 &#8212; The only colored man in Congress, Representative George Henry WHITE, of North Carolina, has announced that he will not stand for re-election, and says he will move to some Northern State. \u00a0&#8220;I have three reasons for this determination,&#8221; said WHITE. &#8220;In the first, my wife&#8217;s health has been wrecked on account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1025],"tags":[1079],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-roanoke-beacon","tag-white-george-henry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-hH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}