The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-09
WILMINGTON. n. C.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1898.
FINE SAMPLES.

1t is to be hoped that every white
man in Wilmington and wherever the
Messenger circulates, will read the let
ter of Mr.. John P. Kerr that appeared
in the Asheville Citizen and was copied
into the Messenger of yesterday. 1t Is
a revelation of thorough incompetency,
of abuse of privilege, of waste, delay
and robbery of mails. Mr.. B. H. Bum,
ex-member of the house from that dis
trict, was postmaster, and a negro sup
planted him under dictation Of the
Tennessee ad%venturer, Senator Pritch-
ard, and the Big Ike Of the "deestrict'
who postures and assimilates as George
White, "a brother in" gingercake.
Since Sambo got in everything has
gone wrong, as Mr.. Micawber would
say (see Dickins) ito the demnatio1
bow-wows." Read the account Of ig-
%norance, stupidity and sauce and then
wonder how the Rocky Mount people
can so long live with Hargett, such is
the negro postmaster's name, when
their business is injured and their
checks, etc., are thrown into "the trash
pile" If White were as white as his
name he would have Sambo removed
Gin a jiffy," and he would not be per-
mitted "to stand upon the order of his
going" This is a great outrage upon
a f%ourishing, progressive community.
OF course no one expects any thing
good of Mckinley, Pritchard, White
and the gang They are the enemies
of the white people of North Carolina
leach and singular"
The other sample number two of
robbing the mails occurred at Weldon.
A negro p%ostoffice official was put or
trial and bound over heavily. In Halifax
county there are, as we have seen
stated, some seven negro postmasters,
perhaps eight, and the outcome of the
oppression is made visible in the sable
thief at Weldon. His lame is J. M.
l'ittman, and he is no doubt II OF
! Imptious Whites selections for office.
In Greene county a thief who had
3een convicted and who had lost citi-
zenship, was made a juryman by the
black radical board of commissioners,
and that toe to the huge disgust and
censure of the entire white people.
This felon was placed in the jury box
to try cause between the white citizens
of an old county in North Carolina, at
this end Of the boastful, progressive,
inventive nineteenth century. This
particular invention" of the enemy to
make jurors out of d~isfranchised
thieves is a new trick in political de.
bauchery. The Snow Hill Standard is
very properly indignant, and says:
"And this Is no common occurrence
in North Carolina during these days
when felons are imported for their
votes and paid in the dearest right be-
longing to the free and honest citizen.
Away fellow citizens with the party
WHOSE DOWtI IL JuS lcoulI VI ChC III
lawful vote of convicted thieves and
robbers.
ELECT that ticket which relies upon
the support of the free n honest men
for preference.
Support hat party which keeps
purged the jury lists and allows no
convict a voice in selecting our officers
or in the administration Of Justice
Really the black radical machine is
more awry and creaking than 1t was
in the wholesale thieving, plundering
days of carpet-haggery. 1t does not
steal so much but it is meaner and
blaaker.
Here is another example Of how con-
yiction and punishment may be avoid
ed when Sambo falls into the meshes
Of the law and for the old familiar,
every night game of now you see it
and o you don't see 1t. A negro
broke into a white mans home and
stole. He was arrested and tried by
a combine justice. The negro, how
ever was permitted Ito hit the grit.
He was found guilty and 1.-The cost was
s~mothered,' says the Rockingham
Rocket, "65 cents for the court and the
deputy, @. w. Too close to the cleo
ton to convict n~egroes-'twon't do"
NEWS FROM THE PEOPLE.