The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-13

The Rev. Henry Frank On the strife in
the souta-Says ID &. Fomcna-d by
Northern Influences and will I.nd i'm
exodus Of whites or Revolutions
(New York Press Dec. 3D.

Exodus of whites OF Revolution
CNew York Press Dec. 3D.
Speaking on the ace riots in the
south. the Rev. Henry Frank. in the
Metropolitan Independent Church. In
Berkeley Lyceum, said yesterday:
THE recent race war In the south
is q grim foreshadowing Of the stupen-
dous crisis through which our nation.
sometime must pass. The manner in
which negroes ave been manipulated
by selfish seekers after gain and polit-
!cal advancement since they were first
introduced among Virginia planters in
1920 have supplied the most scandaliZ-
ing chapters in American history.
Perhaps he most poetic injustice
ever imposed upon any peopl was the
forced bestowal Of the duties and priv
ileges OF citizenship upon the negro.
long before he was fitted by training
and experience to assume such pre-
negatives. 1t is wholly wrong to as
sert that such privileges were foisted
upon him out OF the promptings OF a
sincere desire to benefit and advance
his race. This, indeed. may have been
the primary motive OF the early aboli-
tionists. but IL manifestly was not th..
purpose or end in view Of the narrow
DoilllCldHS VIII, III tie HOuT Vi utCtSsl-
ty. forced this condition upon the ne
gro to enhance the votes OF the domi-
nam party and maintain partisan SUI
premacy in national legislation.
The social and civic result we are
now witnessing is what was then fore
told by all far-seeing studets Of So
GEOLOGY, namely, a race war which
never can cease till the ends OF civic
Justice are secured
NORTHERN :NFLUENCES BLAM-
ED.
There is one fact which, 1t. should
be understood in the north. Is estab-
Hshed beyond dispute; There cannot
be a government in the south admins
tered by white n black races COM
bined, SO long as the black end OF such
government is manipulated by political
wire-pullers who constitute a menacing
cabal in the north.
The only possibility OF a white and
black government existing i'm a state OF
peace in the south lies in a mutual and
pacific union OF the two races on terms
acceptable to the consenting parties. II
the southern races are left alone and
not interfered with by northern politi-
cal marplots, they will in due time
settle their differences and reach a
peaceful agreement. But SO long as
northern influences undertake to force
a condition upon the white people of
the south which is offensive n obnox-
ious to them, SO long will there con-
tinue to exist there a state of insur-
rectlon bordering on revolution.
The southerner knows the black
race as we of the north can never hope
to- i am convinced that IL we were.
In our own section, subjected to the inn
positions and outrages of the black
race as are our southern Kin. wa wouli
take the situation in our own hands
in N fort fx1 --I
satisfaction, whatever might. be the
EITHER REVOLUTION Or Exc
DUS.
IF, however, the black politicians of
the south continue to receive the back
ing or the government and Of the ar
my in the north in sitting in Judgment
on their white superiors and usurping
the reins Of the local governments,
there can ultimately come but one of
two results-eIther a revolutionary up--
rising. bent on the total determination
or the black races, which Will prove To
De the bloodiest war of the ages. or the
white race as a body will move out OF
the entire south.
Then We shall have not only a solid
south To contend with, but a solid
ETHIOPIA. In the vary heart Of our ma
ton, with the natural strain between
the two races intensified by the juxta-
position or their geograp nical relations.
would this be a desirable RESULT
DO We want to transplant the repabl.cx
OF Hayti n Saa Domingo to the con-
mes or the American union, and allot
them. a distinct section of our nation
over which thAy shall have supreme.
control =? Unless such a political issue
IL desirable We hould enjoin northern
politicians TO keep their hands of the
rasiaI conflicts In the south.
EDITOR MANLY ATTACKED.
NO possible apoaogy can he made for
the moral and physical ouaPages upon
the womanhood Of the south by the,
savage negro. II Editor Manly ever dia
! print the statement In his paper which
ne Is said TO have published. extenu-
ating and apparently 1ustifying the
ravishment Of southern womanhood by
me eiemen OF his race. then
l. do nox hesitate to say that think no
should have been runo ut OF the south.
as well as out of every respectable
community into which his unwary feet
may carry him.
The north will not for an instant
, wink as such moral infamles. No po-
ntical wrong viii Justify the moral
OF Innocent women and
chifuren In u land or In any other.
The politicians who undertake to paIii-
| fire. -
Whatever political party seeks N
force Objectionable members of The
black race upon the white people OF
the south u be held responsible for
the criminal outrages which it's dement,
I'd wards may perpetrate. The ~.nyolv-
ed social question II far higher than
n political question possibly can be.
1t Is to this question that me inte,li-
gence OF the north must be directed TIM
IL shall be aroused to warn of OIL
ticians from the danger ground which
at the present tucture they seem 70 DO