The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-11-25
opposite, do as their negro friend John
son so well and clearly advises.

49, u
Messenger headed Recent Occurren-
ces" in this city, it being an "Histori- |
cal Review" we read with positive de- |
light. We aad written so much our |
selves, and had read so much by re- |
cent correspondents, several Of them
good writer's and finely educated, that
we thought we had a surfeit Of writing
bearing on the causes and events that
marked the late startling and success |
full "Revolution'-for such it really
was, but we found further pleasure
and satisfaction awaiting us. We
place the very admirable paper Of IT
D. NJ" first among all we have read.
1t is exceedingly well wrought from
first to last. and the Historical Re
view" is mastery, and not without
dramatic point and effect. We ave not
outside of the great authors seen a bet
ter worked out paper Of the kind. It
is clear, it is terse, it is compact of
thought, it is vigorous, it is effective,
it is dramatic unfolding. It should be
preserved.
The third article we would invite
readers to consider is the one in Sun
days Messenger from the Baltimore
Sun, headed, John Browns Spirit"
1t is a capitally written article and is
both truthful and wise. The Suns
able correspondent, Professor Lee, Of
Johns Hopkins University, did excel
lent work While in our city of which
the Messenger freely availed itself, and
which was generally read and duly ap-
preciated by our citizens. The editorial
referred to is suggestive and of caus-
tic severity, but not more than the sub
ject called for. It's comments upon the
repulsive savagery and unmitigated
vituperation Of certain persons and
newspapers in the North were very
timely and relishable. The attitude of
the negroes in YankeedoOdledom all
| around is unfortunate and unWise,
and deserves censure from all who
wish we'll to the Southern negroes.
| The Sun finds in the New York negro
meeting the very same hostility and
| savagery and ugly spirit that were dis
played in Wilmington when it was
| sought to injure, "to humiliate and to
rush" the white people. The Sun
very judiciously remarks:
THE false teachings of the past
thirty years has done infinitely
more moral harm to the negro
than all the generations of sla-
very through which he passed. Slavery
found him a savage, and in multitudes
of cases made him a Christian.
The political education which he has
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since emancipation has confused his
brain, perverted his heart and cor
rupted his manners, and instead of
really progressing, there is danger, UNI
der the baneful influence Of the morbid
and unprincipled guidance to which he
has been exposed, that he may revert
to the original type from which slavery
rescued him..
AS long as he suffers himself
to be abused by bad counsel and kept
in a false attitude toward the Southern
White people, just 50 long will he con-
tinue to retrograde in character and re-
spectability. He has seen the effect of
thirty years of fanatical political ed
ucation. Let him turn away from the
schOo of hate. defiance and distrust in
which he has been trained and try
thirty ytars of good will toward and
cO-operation with the white people of
the South. If he does, he will rise to
a higher statue and a higher degree
of prosperity than ever before
That is excellent advice, we'll meant
and we'll put. What a blessing awaits
the negroes in the South if they would
unitedly heed the advice given in that
extract, The negro would rise in the
| scale of humanity and. intelligence.
But for over three decades he has
been in a worse bondage than his race
ever knew in the South prior to the
| war. The Sun sees the injury done him
by bad tutelage and dangerous leading
by wicked. designing white men, and it
declares that cit is impossible to find in
the English language words sufficient
ly strong to properly describe the white
| hypocrites and political criminals who
| have misled him in the past and are
| still endeavoring to fire his heart
| against the south"
The negro does not live who can find
! the white man of intelligence and virtue
and who remained faithful TO his own
race. who has ever deceived him by
falsehoods or betrayed him with prom
Uses or given him a stOneIwhen he prom
ised him bread. Would that they would
learn wisdom by experience n tread
always in the path of peace and safe
ty. 1t would be far better every way
for them and make glad many a home,
while rejecting blessings upon the su-
perior. dominating white race. The
Sur concludes with this, and the Mes
senger indorses it:
1T is time that the better classes in
the North put the stamp of their en-
phatic disapproval upon these emissa-
ries of evil and wickedness. They can
not afford even to appear to endorse
creatures who, like very drabs, fall to