The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-11-25
THE WORK OF SISYPHUS.

and expose the statements OF u
can spape concerning conditions
in North Carolina and particularly in
Wilmington. Some appear absolutely
blind to all the facts. If they read the
did not understand them or believa
them. We have before US two
Kentucky neWspapers-a border state
classed as southern, but it fur
nished more soldiers for the Yankee
armies than it gave to the south to
help it fight nearly four times their
number. The Commercial is the
largest circulated paper in Kentucky,
and it is republican and ~anti-southern.
1t calls the killing here assassination
and arson" and yet the s%landerer
must know that the fight was precfpi-
tated by the blacks. 1t is evidently
after the true republican kind, very
anxious for the huge Paternal Despot-
ism to take the matter in hand and
override and trample upon the limita-
tiOns of the constitution and the re
served rights of the states.It appears
~ HIN that III Ills SOOuIy Sldle, Lld
has always been in it's entire history
far more conservative and law-abiding
than Kentucky, there is no govern
ment existing. Until within a few
days ago there was really mo gov
eminent existing" in Wilmington
worthy of the name and all but the
liars know it. The Commercial be-
lleVeS in the negro governing the
whites wherever they are in majority.
Else it would not write as it does. 1t
evidently is much worried and pro-
foundry sOrroWful over the negro de-
~privatiOn of the ballot in South Caro-
lima, Mississippi and Alabama. If it
means anything it means that the ne
groes ought to control these three i'm
portant states. 1t perhaps never heard
of their attempts from 1866 to 1876 in
the south, and what a "mess of it,
they made, piling up largely over $780,
900, 900 of debt from which the state re
ceived scarcely any benefit.
This fine organ of negro rule and
~demagogue footing a that North
Carolina has preferred the reign of
terror" Wait and see. In this city
that was forced to deal with insurgent
negroes sharply, killing a few, when
they were threatening and warning
upon the whites, the s%erenest order
now prevails and a government of true
white men is in power. The white rae
here almost to a man rose VI as a
mob but in the true spirit of revolu-
ton, and in forty eight hours got rid
of anarchy and all it means, set aside
the merest semblance and sham of q
negro government under which all was
disorder and danger, and established
a city government we'll based upon
right and justice, and the orderly and
prompt enforcement of law has been
conducted ever since.
There is no anarchy or whites killing
of negroes this way. There will be
no further trouble between the two
races here unless caused by the ne
groes themselves. All is quiet and
peace reigns supreme.
We may not doubt from our under
standing of Kentuckinians and their
exceeding prOneness to violence, that if
just what has occurred in Wilmington
for the last two years had occurred in
Louisville or Lexington that the streets
would lave been crimsoned with ne
gro blood and the last one would have
been driven out forever.
The Commercial is hardly up in con-
stitutional law or reconstruction law,
but We would inform it that for eigh-
teen months the white people have
been living under a purely usurped
black radical 6 government-that
in May 1897, the usual recurring cleo
ton for city officials was not held, and
the old officials by the combine legis-
lature were continued in power. Louis
Vile, if thus treated, would not have
waited events for eighteen months, but
would have been in furious revolution
in forty eight hours, and made it par
ticularly warm for the friends of the
Commercial.
1t is very much alarmed over the
prospect of an educational qualification
or something else existing in the south,
and then it says there will be no gov
whatever, but merely anar-
chy, we suppose, or something else.
And all this because the whites do not
quietly agree to be ruled over by the
negroes. 1t has visions of the awful
before its half closed eyes and says:
When this Establishing an educa-
tional qualification has been lone the
states of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisi-
ana, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennes-
see, Kentucky and North Carolina
will present TO the American people the
aspect of a part of a republic where a
republican form of government does
not exist
Something much better will exist
than "a republican negro government
a government of the White Race, based
on Anglo-Saxon civilization and the
wisdom of the great ~forefathers in
Enoland and the United States.