The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-10

IF sharp white men can live out of
politics, then sharp negroes can, and
we are certain that the negro has more
capital in the south than the white
republicans. Why waste your capital.
o just give it away. Before going
into politics / would advise that you
study carefully the circumstances as
you would any other kind Of business.
AS times goes on we will enlarge on
the negro in politics."
Hill is game. His spirit is aroused.
for freedom. He serves, therefore, due
notice on the gang. It is liberty or
death now. He asks a question and
Russell e. Co. may answer early and
without winking out of the dexter eye
at the fellow around the corner:
1.-The democratic party does not claim
to be anything else but a white mans
party. Now if the republican party is
not a negro's party, lei where in
thunder is the negro's party? We must
a one"
Yes, by all means. 1t is the right
of the negro voters to start at once
a negro party and they should do it.
Compel the white rascals who have
been riding into Office by and through
the negroes for three decades to trot
behind and hold the brides and STIR
rups as the blacks mount and dis
mount. Hill talks right out in meet
Ing" and he puts no semblance of
wool in his mouth. Read farther:
1.-THE republican party cannot elect a
president without the negro vote. We
hold the balance Of power in half a
dozen northern states. We call upon
our northern friends to stand by us
and we will AVE recognition or sink
the ship. The die is cast. The first
ship has been fired. Keep up the fight.
We wait no longer"
That sends a succession Of shivers
| over Russell's spinal column as he
thinks of what he has said so bitterly
| of 1.-The savages," and Butler, the acct
| dental, sees at once the fateful hand
writing appearing On the wall over his
desk-"Found at last. Grip you sack
| and git"
Once more let the new, brave leader
| of the negro party in North Carolina
be heard from for his horn gives out a
clear note of defiance to all:
"To the white republicans of the
south we say you have reckoned with.
out you host. Already there is a gil
| gantic scheme on foot to put up a ne
gro candidate for president in 1900. A
better plan would be that since the
white bosses assume to draw the color
line after election, suppose we draw il
| before election and pass the word down
that from the primaries up we elect nc
white Ia as delegate to any nve
ton; hat we nominate no white mar
for office, ETC."
The fellows who have gulled ant
controlled the negroes for thirty year:
hear their fate read out in quite I'm.
mistakable terms. You must all go tt
the rear or get out. If you stay in yol
shall nOt have a crumb from the bread
basket or a grain from the public crib
For once in your lives you must eithe,
earn an honest living Or die the dealt
of a ~starvelling. What? Hill tells then
all that there is to be no more mid
night deal and half-made bargains"
We mount the prophetic a and pre-
dict a result. Attend. We foretell tina
the cute, sharp, experienced whit
wire-pullers and machine manipulation
will pull the wool completely over tn
negroes eyes and fool them worse thai
ever before by we'll laid plans and cur
ming devices and alluring promises
Watch and wait. Hill will be one O
the victims. If we prove a falls
prophet we will dismount and confes
blunder and short-sightedness.