Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-17

Comments of Northern Newspaper
on Wilmington ~. ca Annfr.


on Wilmington IN. CD AMIR.
The Minneapolis Times says: OF course,
Republican papers In the Northern States
will condemn the violence of the white
people Of North Carolina. But how long
would the white people Of Minnesota sub
NIT to the degrading and ruinous condi-
lions that have prevailed in North Caro-
lima for several years? Think of ma
Jority of our State Legislature made up
OF negroes, three fourths OF whom could
neither read nor write and completely
under the control of a few selfish and
degraded white demagogues. knowledge
OF our colored citizens here gives US no
idea OF the besotted and vicious character
of the average negro politician i'm North
Carolina. If IL were possible 10 have such
a state of things brought home TO US. so
that the iron might enter deeply into our
own souls, the object-lessOn would be
worth all IT would cost. and might cure
us of the virtuous habit Of preaching to
our southern brethren.
The Chicago News says: II is rather
too bad that the grand lessons I'm self
government, which are now being incul-
Gated i'm Wilmington, y. c., Will be most
ly lost upon our prospective new fellow
citizens, who cannot read English. and
are not served regularly with American
news. The moral 20 be drawn from these
lessons is that the pround Anglo-Saxon Of
n certain southern training will always
maintain self-government. when that con-
sists I'm making somebody else do as he
wishes. The leading citizens o, Whining
ton, we read ministers of me Gospel
among them. have wiped out the great
wrong of "A newspaper conducted in the
interests OF the negroes.
The Chicago Journal says: The white
man, with a Winchester rife I'm his hands
and hate and murder In his thoughts. IS a
deplorable figure. but he has been Ia
famed TO his murderous intent by an or
ganized assault on the strongest and
deepest instincts Of his race 1t would III
become the people OF Illinois, where
threatened inroads " southern negro
labor were resisted with the rifle, to con-
denim the whites Of Wilmington without
taking some of these things into conside-
ra don.
The Chicago Record says: One must
sympathize with the desire of the white
citizens of North Carolina not to be ruled |
by the ignorant and the propertyless ele-
ment Of the State The intelligent and
the powerful ought to, and will. rule in
every community, and nothing can stand
In the way of their exercising dominant
thing should. So far, therefore, as the
revolt OF the white citizens of North |
Carolina against negro rule is a revolt !
against ignorant rule, the white men are |
deserving Of sympathy. But the fifteenth |
to the Federal Constitution, |
in providing that "the right Of citizens |
Of the United States to vote shall not |
be denied or abridged by the United |
States or by any State on account Of race. |
H.
raised no barrier against deprving the |
ignorant of political power In so far as
the negroes of North Carolina, or any |
other State, are ignorant. it is well |
enough that they should not be allowed |
10 vote. But the reason for denying
them the right of suffrage should be /
their ignorance and not their color More
over, the restriction should apply 10 all
ignorant voters alike, be they black or
white.
The indianapolis Journal says: Taking
he Democratic version of the troubles at
n. c., there does not appear
o be any justification for the extreme
measures which the Democrats haze
adopted. Thus far few general specidca-
ions nave been made 10 sustain airy
,harge sufficiently serious TO resort 20
evolutionary methods. The chief COM
)laint seems TO have been that the ne
;roes held many OF the Offices. II these
nen have behaved badly while i'm office.
Increasing taxes and resorting to corrupt !
Methods, the charges have been very
'ague. That negroes have offices that
white men desire. and which white men
elieve they have a right TO, seems 10 be
he chief cause for oYerturnng a local
government cOnstitutionally established.
The Boston Transcript says: After read
1g how 1.-THE best citizens Of Whining |
on, y. c., wrecked a newspaper office ]
illed nine negroes, and deposed the law I
ully elected city Government the Won
er is what atrocity is left FOR the ingenu-
-y of the worst citizens to accomplish
he leader in this work of blood and fire
: the same man who has stumped the
tate for white supremacy" urging ms
carers to resort TO violence to prevent |
ne cOlOred man from voting. Thursdays |
iolence is the logical result ~ his teach
lgs, and demonstrates what IS UNDER
TODD as white supremacy by he eX-
'eme reactionary Democrats Of that sec
on.
The Boston Journal says: Tho city q
Wilmington, y. c., seems 10 have "eve't-
10 the worst conditions Of 'he ku-KlGv |
eriOd in The South, with this difference,
lat the Ku-KluX usually all their bloody
ork at night and with 50 rs attempt at {
sguise, while i'm Wilmington the so-,a all /,
best citizens" riot openly AMI by day.
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