The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-04
LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT.

The defeat Of the bill giving Governor
Russell the appointing Of one alder
man for each ward in Wilmington was
a triumph for local Enforcement
over imperial power. 1t was a victory
for the people against absolutism.
While the governor would nave select
ed his henchmen he would probably
have looked to the interest of the peo-
pie who own the property and pay The
aXe When that negro firebrand, Jim
Young, said that people (meaning the
whites) were no longer scared by the
cry Of negro rule, he showed just how
little sense he has. If he thinks the
A~nglo-SaxonS will quietly sit down to
be robbed and cursed by the rule of
his incapable race he shows he is in
capable of understanding the situation.
In no land In no age nave the Aryan
race ever failed to be dominant 1t
will be so in North Carolina Anglo
Saxon liberty n supremacy will be
maintained if to achieve it the Young
crowd have to be di~sfranchised. A
writer in the goldbug North American
Review, Of New York, evidently in
sympathy with the negroes, recently
gives warning after this way:
The world should have been given
clearly to understand that the white
people of the south, as we'll as their
brothers Of the north or the east or
west, always intended to rule, and ii
there were just cause now to believe
that the negro would still vote unitedly,
and thus menace the south with negro
domination, it is safe to assert that
these states would remain a SOLID
South to the end Of time. History
clearly demonstrates this truth, that SO
long as AnglO-Saxon blood feeds Anglo
Covfn; haQrtC SO long WITH AnSlO-
Saxon intellect II Anglo-SaXon Will
dominate inferior races
So insolent and overbearing Samboa
may as we'll make up their minds that
Africa will not rule any state OF Anglo
Saxon civilization. By combining for
a time it'll depraved and corrupt
whites they may achieve a temporary
power. but as sure as the tides run II
will be of short duration. II n Whlte
men of any state shall find mat 10
maintain liberty and independence no
negroes shall be employed in any ser
vice it will be done. If the temper as
expressed by that fellow Young is the
temper of his race the whites will mo-
be Ions found without a sol1d compl-
nation. The determination Of every
man with a white face who has not
a black heart is that North Carollna
must and shall be controlled by men
Of the white race. No negro RUE can
long survive the will Of the men of the
An~glo-Saxon race. Misrule and oh''Ses
are sure to invite a powerful ana
sweeping reaction.
The fight over Newbern was more
disgraceful than thai as to Whining
ton The attempt to deprive the peo-
ple of the right Of election n to strip
electors Of local self-gOvernment is
positively revolutionary and strikes at
the very roots of liberty. Wilmington
two years ago was put under a sys-
tenn that denied the people the rlgnt
| to choose their own public II
was a great outrage and was enough
to have provoked resistance. An hun
bred wears ago it would AVE precipi-
| tated a conflict. It was sought to put
| Newhern under the control OF the ne
| groes who pay 81 Of tax to the sSS paid
by the whites. Hancock, who was
| coaching the infamous measure, seeing
| it's defeat ahead, suddenly tried to save
| himself and the bill by giving the cleo
ton of mayor and six aldermen to the
| people, not giving any autocratic pow
! er whatever Of appointment to the will
| ing governor. If depriving he people
! of their rights as electors in municipal
| affairs is one of the evidences Of Gov
| ernOr RusSellS purpose to govern III
| wisdom and Righteousness, what VIII
| be the condition and the extent Of the
| evil when he takes the bit and resolves
| to give the democrats a taste OF MS
scorpion lash"
The present legislature has no doubt
many republicans who are unwilling to
| enter upon a general career or extremes
| and mischeivous measures. There are
men in the combination who are utter
ly Incapable, reckless, Vengeful, ready
| for any measure that will increase their
power temporarily and open up new
ways to the ~pie-counter.
Young Sutton blabbed it out that the
high handed plan of giving supreme
power to the governor to choose for the
people the public servants instead OF
| allowing them to vote according to the
practice of all free people and the prin-
ed and adopted as the only plan that
| could prevent-what? ruin to the city?
nay, that could prevent the white
tax-payers-the education, intelligence
and property of the city from CONTROL
ing and managing the municipal at
airs. TIC turn down the white people
the governor and his set were willing
to ~disfranchise the white property own
ers and taxpayers and hand over a
city Of %, 900 people to be dominated
bossed, taxed and plucked by ignorance
and vice. There was never anything
more positively undemocratic, unre-
publican, antagonistic to the funda-
mental principles of a free government.
Home rule, local self-government Is
fundamental and is the basis Of every
structure Of liberty eve- reared by q
free and enlightened people. The idea
Of any man, republican or populist, dem
ocrat or Independent, daring to subvert
government by clothing a governor
with supreme pOwer-like that OF the
Tsar, with personal government power
is a wicked and despicable political
monstrosity and should never be allow.
ed to enter the assembly Of any but
slaves and political prostitutes.