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

gun at FalSOn IN sampson county. IL
Is edited and owned by S. M. Hill, "a
colored man and brother" who writes
with force and boldness, and is well ad-
4dicted to the pen. He is a man of good
<sarts. has read politics and thought Of
politics and is loaded. He begins with
a declaration of independence that
amounts to this: he is opposed to being
Ted about by the nose by a ring fixed
there by the white bosses and peren-
niaI office holders and being left out
IN the cold after the pie counter has
been won. He is for the blacks con-
trolling the radical party in North Car
,s,Iina, and to that end he is for nomi-
mating men Of his own race every time.
The p~aIe-faced pie-eaters must take a
back seat while the noble army OF
black statesmen come to the front
ready to serve their country and DO
any amount Of pie-eating. Hill makes
no pretention to modesty, in his claims
for the blacks. He is for giving them
full control in North Carolina in all
state and other offices, and proposes
that no other color shall represent
North Carolina in the senate and house
at Washington. We suppose he also
favors electing a negro president and
vice president and Of course filling the
cabinet portfolios by brothers in
black" All foreign appointments also
must fall to the share Of the black and
fan's strictly, and this republic must be
S--oo~%o r,,o NY on6 in tho intprQSf
of the hitherto neglected but highly
rueritOrious black statesmen who
abound with the thickness Of blackber-
ries in a favorable season. This is to
be another Hayti, only on a %grander
scale-a mighty Black Republic. In hoe
signo. Hill is full of confidence in him
self and his people, and he is in dead
earnest" in proposing to relegate to the
shades of a very much private life the
heroes of the teat and the successes of
the pie counter 1t will awaken in the
white cOntingent-only 10000 strong
feelings of deep emotion and make the
eyes of Russell and Butler glisten with
more than phosphorescent brilliancy.
But let us hear from Hill a little, that
the pronunciamento he issues may not
be misunderstood or misrepresented.
We gave, from him two or three days
ago a good sample of his purposes and
plans in dealing with the rapacious
white allies >who only live to get and to
ttevour. Hill is wearied at their greed
mess and insincerity and also incapac-
Ny-
AS to the late legislature, hear him:
~How any republican can %truthfully
endorse that gang we can't see. AS for
us we shall not try. Barring the
election of Pritchard for senator there
was nothing done worth the name
They practically abolished the public
school tax, raised taxes. though elected
as refOrmers, passed an act to fine
and imprison all who were too poor
to- pay their taxes by the first court in
the county after the first Monday in
September, did a lot of other fool things
and adjourned to meet again no more
forever I hope"
Well done. 1t is the truth "boiled
o. down."
1.-The Herald is to be republican in
politics, but we draw the line on the
bosses as now constituted. We will be
a strong negro advocate and our repub-
sicanism will be measured according to
the way republicanism suits the best
interest of the negro. The latter day
re"publicaniSm which says 1T won't do
TO put the negro in this Office or that
office is not the kline for us, and we will
never submit to that kind till sparks
cease to fly upwards and Comanches
respect treaties"
If we understand the pronunciamento
ne favors the franchise without quail
fication for all men q years old or over
and that all votes shall be counted. He
says:
The Herald will advocate that any
American citizen old enough has as
much right to be president Of these
United States as William Mckinley.
We are all equal in the constitution,
the organic law of the land. The fell
I0w who believes in waiting and hat
II won't do to put a negro in this Of
Elce or that will get no sympathy from
Us We pew you out as utterly unfit
for digestion"
There it is quite flat-footed. There is
no installing the meaning. The way
Earring men even may make no mistake
here. A genuine son of Africa is as
good as Mckinley or any other repub-
XIcan-even nice Mark Hanna of soulful
E1emory-and he has a right to be NOM
mated and elected president if he can
get the votes. OF course he has, and
mis- white-faced friends whom he has
been supporting so servilely and syco-
phantically for three decades should
swap favors. Turn about is fair play
Sambo is in the saddle now and it is
no holiday tournament either. He is
after the plums and he f1xings. Hear
Hill, for he writes entertainingly and
:. cheerfully and so much to the salts
faction of the pale-faced bosses who
nave hoodwinked and bamboozled
Sambo to their hearts content and the
-dIing Of their capacious pockets: