The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-20
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New York, Omaha, and various other
Places are holding angry conferences
and calling On the federal government
to protect them from the consequences
of their own offensive stupidity. IL may
of the Of certain southern
negro and northern white organs which
represent the intelligent opinion of
both races in both sections. Let US
tai first The Mobile Weekly Press,
speaking for one side OF the contro-
versy:
The negroes OF the north, far away
from the mass OF the rae need To stop,
halt, hin Their mass-meetings in
the north. denouncing the entire whites
Of the south as murderers. ~lynchers.
etc, and speaking OF white women
with negro blood in their veins Is cal
culated to make trouble for US, and
no end of 1t. For every one white ne
gro hater who believes in lynching and
& oppression in general, We have
fifty who never lose an opportunity TO
help the negro to come up to the white
mans civilization. These speech-mak-
ers woul never think OF coming down
here and telling these white people
these things; they would not send a
dollar here to help educate and elevate
the race; they would not come down
here if the occasion required it and
shoulder a gun for US; they would not
lodge an oppressed negro from the
south in their house for a week, and
in fact, they are not calculated to do US
any good whatever, but cause no end
Of trouble
These gatherings north and whole
sale denunciationS are read by the
Uhltn nannla Uhn ra frian6lu RI ne
and never by the negro hater. These
friends are getting cold toward us and
instead of these meetings doing US
good, they are making our best friends
among the whites cold, Indifferent, and
surely causing bad blood to exist. Just
as there are successful colored men in
business in Mobile there are thousands
all over the south, and with barely an
exception all of us are more or less
stimulated and helped to success by
the white men. In our undertaking
business many and many a dollar has
been put in u hands by white men
who could have put them in the hands
of our white competitors, and there is
hardly an instance where a cOlored
man now enjoying success could not
be w to the wall if the white race
so decided. These people may think
all right by their proceedings, but they
are accomplishing no good, and as a
man who has stood a thousand chances
for his life in defense of the rights of
the race, to their none, we say stop it,"
Here is the opinion Of a southern ne
gro organ, prompted by knowledge of
the real relations between the races at
the south and protesting against the
mischievous n wicked Vaccinations
of a few northern negro demagogues
who agitate merely to increase their
own Importance and who would not
risk a cent for any good and useful
purpose in the interest Of their own
race.
The Mobile Press speaks for the
masses of the southern blacks. 1t tells
the truth as to the white mans friend
ship for the worthy and Industrious Of
the race and points out-as Booker
Washington and Kelly Miller have
done-the methods by which the ne
| gro car make himself respected and
recognized in the social scheme.
Now comes a white from
the great northwest-The Iowa State
Register, the republican organ of that
commonwealth-which takes up the
question from a different point of view.
The Register discusses the negro at
titude at he south, and referring to
the article by the North Carolina ne
gro editor, which seems to have pre-
cipitated the trouble, says:
1.-THE degraded and vicious scoundrel
who wrote that editorial should have
died at the end Of a rope, no matter
whether he was white or black. but
the brute who wrote it is now posing
as a martyr, Notwithstanding his own
low and degraded mind is responsible
J for the murder of some eight or ten
innocent negroes! There should be NJ
difference in races in regard to the
punishment of crime, nor in the pas
age of resolutions. The Scoundrel
who wrote: The women Of that race
(the white race) are not any more par
ticular in the manner of clandestine
meetings with colored men than are the
white men with colored women knew
that he was writing a falsehood for
which he houid be compelled to suffer
a violent death. That statement is
false as to white women and black
men and as to black women and white
men. n no man, white or black
SHOULD be permitted to live in any com
munity where he has published such
degraded and vicious statements as t.
white or black women. Every intelli,
gent person knows that both white ant
black men are vastly more degraded
and vicious than white n black wo
men. The negroes who hold public
meetings to pass resolutions know tina
that statement is true. and they shoulC
be sufficiently fair and just to denounc'
Editor Manly's vile and false screed il
the same resolutions in which the.
condemn the murders caused by tina
editorial.
Nothing can be gained by denounc
ing the vicious and degraded men o
another ace and attempting to shiel'
the chief criminal because he is of tn
same race Of the people holding tn
public meetings. The Wilmington edi
tor is the chief crimina in the murder
at that place, for he was the autho
of the editorial which caused the de
J struction of his printing office and plan
M the consequent murder of som
eight or ten innocent negroes. Ye
that cowardly ~scoundrel and falsifie
, escaped punishment, and not one wor
is said against his base action in an
resolutions adopted, notwithstandin
| the fact that n man, white or black
who prints lei statements as to whit
or black women should be compelled
suffer violent death"
| We are giving a great deal Of spac
to his subject, but the importanc
thereof justifies us. The question
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