Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-11-05
THE TIMES AND NORTH CAROLINA.

heNo UrCOmo oioSucecO. We AofC
noted the attitude OF the Richmond.
Va TINES until that attitude has be-
come nauseating. positively, q stencil
in the nostrils of every right thinking
person.
1t started out months ago with radi-
cal criticism Of the attitude OF its
moss-bsck- contemporary, the Rich
mond. Va, DIsPAroH. which journal
has always consistently shown its an
tipathy to the colored brother.
But the TINES INDUCED in extend
ed platitudes on ethics, and rhetorical
essays upon the majesty OF the law.
1t told of the Negroes right to vote,
that the people of the United States
had made him citizen and that the
South must accept the mandate of the
sovereigns CT this country.
Well. the TrNEs must have changed
editors although it has not changed
owners. 1t stands sworn support
the Constitution OF the Unitei States.
Article XIV, Section lss reads:
"All persons born or naturalized 10
the United States, and subject Co the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens Of the
United States and Of the State where
in they reside. No State shall make
or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities OF the
citizens OF The United States nor shall
any State deprive any person OF life,
liberty, or property, without due pro-
cess of law nor deny 60 any person
within its Jurisdiction the equal pro-
lection OF the laws"
Article XIV, Section 1st reads:
"rhe right of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be denied or
Ebridged by the United States, or by
any State, on account of race, color, or
previous condition Of servitude."
We would remark here that murder
is akin to treason and treason is pul-
ishable with death.
And yet the Richmond, Va, TIwKs
openly advocates MURDER. In it's is.
sue of Nov. LIST. under the caption ..
The Crisis in North CaroliHa." it says:
''Tne specials which we have printed
from our staff correspondent st Viii.
miDgton, n. 9 reveal 8 most deplora-
BILE and a most alarming state of affairs
and the surprise to US is that the
whites have for so long time endured
it."
And again:
I'm a wealthy city where the whites
own practically all the property the
management of their fiscal affairs has
been put in the hsnds OF Negroes, or
men elected to office by Negro vote,
and that sort OF thing cannot endure
for long in any Southern community.
II the white men OF Wilmington are
not able TO meet the emergency, they
can have help from every State in the
South at nom ent's notice."
Gould an7 thing be more blood thirs-
ty? Here is an Invitation to the worst
elements in the south to disregard not
emily the Federal Constitution and the
Constitution Of the state of North Car
olins, but to ignore their own laws and
pour q revolutionary army in tina
state.
And yet Article w. Section 4th OF
the Constitution Of the United States
reads
THE United States shall guarantee
to every state in this Union a republic
can form of governments, and shall pro .
tect each nf them against Invasion
and on application OF the Legislature,
or of the Executive when the Lsgisla.
ture cannot be convened) against do
nestle violence"
Is it possible that the 'red-shirted"
editor of the TINES had not read that
constitutional guaranteed And yet
with hyPocritical tears II his eyes, he
has the aadaeity to say
Readers OF The Times viii bear US
out in the statement that this psper
las always stood for law and order
We do not believe in mob law. We do
not believe in lynching. We do not
there are emergencies every now and
then whi:h the existing law may not
meet, and then necessity is law"
How disgusting 1t is not a ques-
ton OF what you have been, nor what
you have said, it is what you are to-
day.
1t reminds Us of the bank cashier,
who. when he found that the instltu-
ton with which he was connected had
enjoyed year Of unparalleled pros
perity dropped down on his knees and
with hands uplifted prayed :"Oh, Lord
my God, you know have not had the
opportunity to see so much, and steal
so much money before and il you will
be so kind aud merciful rs to enable
me TO get over the line into Canada
with it, I'll promise you that I'll never
come back here to this country to be
similsrly tempted again."
The murderer kills his victim be-
csuse necessity is law" The robber
robs the lonely traveller, because ''ne.
cessity is law" The thief snatche:
the pocket. book, because necessity il
law" but the nations of the world
enacted laws to punish criminals be-
cause it was decided that necessity wa
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