The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-23
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THE WHITE MAN FRIENDLY TO
NEGROES.

The white people OF North Carolina
have shown ever since b negro
slaves were freed by wal waged by
the north for that purpose unwisely,
that they had kind feelings for them.
To prove this they bore with their ex-
IRENE follies when SO unwisely cloth
ed with the power of the elective fran
chise, and gave them work and SYM
pathy and often help. Stripped of
their basis Of credit, tens of thousands
of prosperous and comparatively we'll
TODD men reduced to poverty or bank
ruptcy, with debts hanging over them
possibility of cultivation, the true
white men of North Carolina united in
agreeing to be taxed to help to edu-
cate il the three RS the negro child
rem Of their former and recent slaves,
an act of generosity and friendship
without a solitary parallel in the re-
cords of all history. Never before did
a vanquished and heroic people, after
a long, exhausting war when Al 1000 of
their brave men had persisted as the
War Records Of the United States gov
eminent show, take upon themselves
such a great voluntary burden. Up
to the present the white people (most-
ly democrats) have expended Of their
own earnings and accumulations, mil
lions of dollars to give schooling to
the children of negro voters h in
variably and with a very rare excep-
ton, unitedly voted with the enemies
of their benefactors and friends, and
sought by vicious legislation to heap
injuries and expressions upon them.
This is no fancy picture, but stern,
u%nbending reality. The negro race in
North Carolina in no particular have
ever shown that they had the slightest
appreciation of the favors SO constant
1y bestowed and with such a free, un-
Stinted hand. The negroes who
worked in towns and on farms voted
on every opportunity against the men
who employed them, and have uniform
ly acted as if they regarded with dis
like if not hostility the men from
whose hands they received their bread.
This is true and the election returns
in the state for thirty years will es-
tablish this.
The white men-the true men OF
their own noble race-are o hostile
to the negroes. If they had been the
negroes would long ago have beer
rnent. The true white men have
never wished any harm for a moment
to the negroes. They have pitied anC
wondered. They have borne with
TT EN- with exceeding forbearance wher
very greatly tried. They have not
sought to abridge them in their lawful
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi.
ness. They have wished them pros.
perity n a hearty God-speed.
But this being true, they have not
been in favor of negro government fol
white men with white hearts anC
white souls. They ave never beer
satisfied with the success of the be
trayers of the white race who for the
lowest personal, selfish ends have di-
1igently sought to put the black men
in office and over the whites. There
is not a decent, honorable, upright
worthy white man in all North Caro-
DINA who is so fallen in his manhood
as to be willing to be overruled and
mastered by the negro race. 1t makes
all his manliness of character and love
OF liberty and self-respect rise up in
indignant opposition at the very
war spirit within him it is for the he
lots, ignorant and debased, to be
placed in authority by the villainous
and detestable ~connivance of low
down white ingrates who are at bottom
no better than the black tools they
use for the degradation of their own
race of which they are so utterly un-
worthy.
1t is the game of mean whites tC
make the negroes rulers over white
men-born free a Paul said to the
Roman-and with all of the heroic
qualities that signalize and uplift the
great nations of the original Aryar
stock. This putting Sambo and Sanky
and Pompey in office is just what the
white men will not have, will not Ions
submit to. This is plain talk and it is
true talk. North Carolina will soon OIL
late be disenthalled and negro bossisn
and negro rule will be a thing of the