The semi-weekly messenger., 1898-10-11
AN ANOMALOUS CONDITION AND
RESULTS.

One of the greatest of political curl
s1sities and even anomalous is the
course of that part of the white race
who affiliate so readily, so heartily with
the black race. They have become not
only brotherly but have let the bars
separating the two races low down,
and it is hard to tell whether Sambo
IS more gracious to Pale Face or the
Pale Face is more gracious to Sambo.
1t is very loving business, and if not
q case of love at first sight, it is one
of long wOOing and mighty protes-
tations and promises growing out of
the necessities of the time. Pale Face
wants office and he can not get it un-
and cooperate and juggle with hm.
But the amalgamation is as curious
as complete. Cast your eye back to
1855, or later, and see how these very
--r'hite men bore themselves. They
~ ore not then different from the White
: N now. They felt kindly for the
Z groes. They liked to employ them
ID to help them. But they stood
s..oOf in so far as social equality and
commingling of races generally. They
would have resented it as an insult if
they have been charged to their faces
with a willingness to eXalt the negro
= race above the whites, and to give
them control in North Carolina. They
would have spurned with intense in
dignation the very suggestion that un-
der any circumstances they could ever
be led to cooperate with the blacks
TO the undoing of the state and the
practical humiliation and aff1iction of
their own race. They would have de-
nounced a. man as liar and slanderer
who would have dared to intimate that
the time was coming when they would
brutal rule of savages''-Russell's
own favorites-and subjected the wO-
men and children of the great white
race to insult and injury, to defama-
don and hostility of the blacks. But
the democratic hand book puts it pre-
cisely correct when it says:
THE white people who have aided
IN bringing about these things were
once much opposed to negro rule. But
they have become familiar to it, and
apparently do not object to it. And
the longer they are familiar to 1t, the
less they will object to it. They do
not seem to object even now to negro
school committeeman having supervi-
sion of white schools; in many cases
there being two negroes to one white
man over the schools where the sons
and daughters of white men are taught.
We do not see how any white man can
approve of that. But by degrees the
white men who have aided the repub-
ficans in bringing all this to pass, have
{; become habituated to it.
And in some counties We observe, as
III Richmond, there are negro over
seers of the public roads. The white
men of those down-trodden communi-
ties being obliged to go out and work
the public roads under negro overseers.
We cannot express our abhorrence
Of all these things. Will the white
men give it their countenance?'
That is very bad surely. But the
strange thing is that the whites who
thus afflict and humiliate their race
think that they can do this without
losing cast and without injury to
themselves. A few may get to the
pie-counter, but the masses will never
get one sniff of the government bacon
and greens. They will have to suffer
with the true, manly whites who stand
Tor their race first, last, and all the
time, above all other questions. You
cannot lower the standing of North
Carolina; you cannot cripple her re-
sources; you can not degrade her peo-
gle; you cannot bring in a flood of