The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-12
WILMINGTON. n. c,
WESTERN CAROLINA MUST HELP
THE WRONGED EAST.

server copied in yesterdays Messen-
ger has a suggestion about which we
have thought, and concerning which
we recently held a conversation with
n of the most active and intelligent
campaign workers in New Hanover
county. The Observer kindly and
sympathetically said this:
eff we North Carolinians are indeed
brethren, bound together by a common
tie, it is our duty to forget theoreti-
cal politics and unite not only for the
rescue of communities like Whining
ton from a condition approaching an
archy, but to avert from ourselves
possible such as these COM
munities are doomed for at least a
time to endure. We must carry the
Legislature his year, in order to give
to the people of these eastern commu-
mites and counties local governments
under which they a live, and not
only so, but to insure that we Of the
west are not ourselves reduced to their
condition"
That emphasizes the truth. The
white men of populous Western Caro-
lima must come up to the help, the re-
lief of the eastern section of a common
state. We are all North Carolinians,
and the west canno rightly and hui
namely and periodically remain indif-
ferent to the deplorable state of affairs
in all the eastern portion. The other
day thirty-five magistrates in Craven
county met and twenty-seven were ne
groes. We have not seen the precise
figures but repeat as we recall what
was told us. The figures appeared in
the Raleigh News-Observer. Think
of the condition Of a county or a COM
munity in which three-fourths or one
half or one-fourth of the magistrates
are negroes. Such a condition is
enough to prompt every white family
to move out at once and find civiliza-
eight negro postmasters handling the
private mails of the white people. The
prosperous town Of Scotland Neck,
+ tuate in one of the finest and most
attractive sections of North Carolina,
and this writer has visited ffty-one
counties, is afflicted with a negro post
master put in by Mckinley through
the saucy and inflated negro White
with the wrong name. Then burly
blacks are visitors to white public
schools to look after their interests.
1t is surprising that they made more
than one visit. Wilmington is COM
pletely in the hands of the enemy and
under negro bossing. Russell, who
lives here, is the very worst enemy
Wilmington ever had. No carpet
Dagger, with his gripsack and a box
OF paper collars, who dominated here
for awhile was ever so hateful to the
white people of the town or ever such
an enemy of it's peace and safety and
prosperity.
So the warning words of the OBJ
server are most timely. Let us say
here hat democratic success, even
with thorough township organization,
if it should come, will to a very great
extent depend upon the western
whites. 1t is difficult to reach the
white voters in all the western coun-
ties and to make them understand
exactly the condition of eastern Caro-
lima. If they could have the facts as
they exist, accompanied with a true
account of the dangers and ~annOyances
to which the whites in the east are
hourly, daily subjected, their sympa-
thies and interest would be at once
awakened and they would come to the
help of the wronged and outraged peo-
pie. They would vote and vote right
to drive from power the vindictive
and corrupt gang of demagogues and
-teat-suckers who are offending virtue
and intelligence, and seeking to blast
the state at large. Public speakers in
the west, as we'll as a wakeful and
sympathetic public press in that Sec
ton, should keep the actual facts be-
fore the voters, and exhort the white
men to lend aid to their race in the
east who are threatened with African
domination and ~"savagery,' to quote
the fat and furious governor, who
hates the true people among whom he
was reared, and who is heartily hated
in turn. What a character he and his
~clacquers are making for themselves
They are placing on their tombs in
scriptions of infamy which no words
of false eulogy car ever obliterate.
For
mot all hat heralds rake from
coffin'd clay,
Nor fiorid prose, nor honied lies of