The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-11-25
WILMINGTON. \. G.
NORTHERN ENEMIES OF WHITES
AND THE NEGROES.

We remind our readers Of a fact,
that wherever you find a republican
paper in the north you will find a paper
always disregardful of truth concern
ing the south and unjust to the genuine
white folks These are the delectapie
sheets that favor a Strong Government
"a centralized p%aternal poWer-and
are ready on any occasion to advocate
Force bills for the control of elections
in the south in behalf of What?-of
their own party. They are swift to
iump upon the south for any lynching
of q negro for rape Of pure and true
white woman, but take great pains not
to say a word in censure Of the brute
hat wronged her so terribly. They
are so unfair, so bitter, 50 iniquitous
hat the most devilish Of crimes is
merely the temporary outcome Of pas
sion, needing no special severity of
judgment even, much less Of PUNISH
ment. while the hanging of the incar-
nate devil is a great crime against the
hypocritical north and civilization and
humanity. And yet the south Will con-
iinue to hang for rape upon respectable
white women and helpless children and
the north may Ego to Jericho so far as
the south cares. This way the people
of character and sense know that the
north is swift to retaliate for crime and
outrage as the south is swift to retail
late, and that New England states and
other states have a more barbaric cruel
and vengeful history han the south
has.
When a great shooting rOW-a match
of unskiIl-comes off in any northern
city or town or mine, the northern
press touches it with gingerly forbear-
.ance and avoids it often as if a pestlt-
4erous charnel house. But let a COLI
sion occur in the sOuth-let a few
men be killed in a shooting match,
and the entire press will send up most
Ditiful, lugubiOus bowls, II reams OF
paper will be written up about south
ern barbarism, cruelties, murders anu
80 on. Reading them you might con-
clude, if not otherwise informed as 10
the real character of the and
sentimentalists, that the utteranceS
came from the real saint of the earth,
the men who always acted up fully 10
4he golden rule of GOd-'TO do unto
others as they would be done by.
But so far from practicing habitually
such. a high virtue they see but the
one side of the shield in all thlhss-
are suffering from moral obllqulty
that prevents them from seeing the
right and the true-and being Jaun-
diced eyed all things look to them IN
the south of the yellow tinge.
TO read northern newspapers of the
republican sort when any thing con-
nected with the south is involved IS d
disgusting, repellant task. Ihe IN
tense liars, the fragrant a~ntaSohlshl'
the crying injustice, the arrant de-
.~ception are enough to make one 1eel as
,o,,r friend expressed til amt a care
ing. the older | grow the more L nate
EN-" They certainly have a most per
tinacious, ugly, venomous way Oh HAN
ing themselves hateful. SO Tar as we
have read not one republican paper III
any northern state or IN any poluel
southern state has beeen Intelligent,
fair, truthful as to the late events III
this city. They have either wholly
misapprehended facts and written d.
fools. or have with malignity and NAL
ice nrepense written falsely and SIAN
,aerouslv. They show that their rela-
tionship with truth is extremely re-
mote. We doubt if the lying gang
nave ever had any intimate assoclatroh
with truth. 1t is very hard TO oeal
with chronic slanderers ana lnoreu
liars. 1t is useless to correct tnelr
misstatements and deliberate taiSlly-
ing They are the habitual enemies
of the south and millions of the White
,oan in the great south are sorrowful
that in the great war Providence was
not on the side of the smail army
and not on the side of the big guns
and the 5000. 900 of northern men IN
army and navy. We believe in view OF
svants since 1865, that it would nave
aean far better for both races II the re-
suits of the war had been dlffereht
,,a vet we would not mutiny against
.bo decree of Heaven. God relgns IN
Righteousness and we must all aploe
nv His judgments. He deals with ma
Sions in time, and it has taken nun
.dreds of years sometimes to work OUT
His ends. A faithful study OF the Is
realities in Egypt and after clearly re-
yeals this. SO it may be that the Sc
we're discipline of the southern whites
&C IN purify and make them a nobler,
greater people. And it may be that
God will yet cause the descendants OF
Ham to be taken to the land of their
ancestors, or that they will all migrate
and find homes in the north among the
people who at long are so ao-
,dicted to sentimental morallzlnsS con-
corning them and profess to nave real
deep-seated love and sympathy lof
- 4hoir souls warming to serve and