The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-11-22

Sill Marching on as II Evidenced BY
the ISLANDERS Of the south by Harriet
Beeeher stowe. the Indignation
Meeting In New York n Few Nights
ago and Other FanaaieaI Proceeding
Of Hafers of the Soatn


The Baltimore Sun of yesterday says.
| editorially:
No better justification OF the white
revolution at Wilmington. y. C, could
be furnished from a hostile quarter
than was afforded by the spirit which
characterized the colored mass meet
ing held in New York Thursday night,
and reported in the newspapers OF yes
! terday. TO protest against so-called
Southern outrages." The attitude of
the negro as illustrated at a meeting
supposed TO be representative of the
best colored elements. is demonstrated
TO be that Of bitter hostility toward
Southern white people and OF savage
desire to humiliate and crush them. 1t
vas the same spirit as that displayed
when the negroes were in the ascend
ency at Wilmington, and which led
them to heap insults and contumely
upon the white victims of their mis-
| government. 1t was the spirit which
rendered the lat at Wilmington
in~tolerable and made evolution a ne
cessity. While it ma be conceded
that their attitude is mainly attributa-
bic TO the political adventurers and ia
natices who have infamed their minds
and played upon their passions, it is
clear hat ii is an attitude which not
only justified, but demanded heroic
measures such as were adopted at Will
mington, and which will render it ne
cessary to maintain a firm and upon
them until they have reached a far
higher condition of civilization than
they have yet attained. The false
teaching of the past thirty years has
done infinitely more moral harm to the
negro than all the generations Of sla-
very through which he passed. Slavery
found him a savage and in multitudes
of cases made him a Christian and in
many instances gave him the the re-
finement and good form which were
developed even in dependents by the
high social standards of the old South.
The political education which he has
received from New England sources
since emancipation has confused his
brain, perverted his heart and COR
rupted his and instead of
really progressing. there is danger, UNI
der the baneful influence of the morbid
and unprincipled guidance to which he
has been exposed, that he may revert
10 the original type from which slavery
rescued him, except that his enaiS-
sance of barbarism in him will be ac-
companied with the vices of civiliza-
ton and the eve for mischief which
CIV IllLdllOH OUTLETS upon tlOS6 WIN are
in it, but not OF it.
If the negro is to avoid this danger
and develop into a higher manhood and
citizenship, he must free himself from
the evil influences and teachings under
which he has been degenerating since
the war. AS long as he suffers himself
to be abused by bad counsel and kept
in a false attitude toward the Southern
white people, just so long will he con-
tinue to retrOgrade in character and re-
Spectability. He has seen the effect of
thirty years of fanatical political ed
ucation. Let him turn away from the
school of hate, defiance and distrust in
which he has been trained and try
thirty ytars of good will toward and
cooperation with the white people of
the South. If he does. he will rise to
a higher statue and a higher degree
of prosperity than ever before. His
home and abiding place is in the South
and he should recognize the fact that
his interests are bound up in the pros
| perity and progress of that section and
are dependent upon the relation in
which he stands to the dominant
classes there.
While the negro is to be regarded
more with pity than with anger, be-
cause the victim of a perniciOus system
of political philosophy and pretended
philanthropy, it is impossible to find in
the English language words sufficient
ly strong to properly describe the white
hypOcrites and political criminals who
have misled him in the past and are
still en~deavOring to fire his heart
against the South. Such WantOn, mali
| cious and un~speakably abominabIe as
pensions against Southern women as
were uttered at the New York meeting
by one Mrs. Elizabeth p. Grannis could
spring only from a heart as black with
hate as the foul and shameful SLAM
ders which she uttered. The New York
| Sun describes her remarks as imprint
able. An extract from her address. as
given in yesterdays dispatches, was as
follows:
Il am only here tonight to represent
WomanhOOd,". said Mrs. Grannis. we
all know that the white women and
white girls of the South are full of COL
ored blood. I stand here for colored
women and colored girls the same as I
do for white women"
AT this a wild uproar ensued. The
cOlOred men and women jumped up in
the aisles to cheer. Many laughed and
| gave vent to hysterical EXPLANATIONS.
| Others their seats and waved
their hats.
The pure and true women of the
South can afford to treat this libeler
with the contempt with which they
would regard the rawlings of a foul
minded maniac, but her utterances IL
lustrate the spirit Of sectional hate to-
ward the South which still prevails in
some quarters of the North and which
apostles of humanity like Mrs. Grannis
are continually endeavorting to fan
into a general flame. They stop at no
SANDER, no lie, no villification. no mat
ter how gross and detestable, if it
gives them the opportunity to spit out
their Malignant venom against the
South. They are the petty and vulgar
political descendants of that wholesale
libeler, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe,
who had more imagination and just as
little regard for truth as her imitators
of the present day. The wrong and in
jury which Uncle Toms Cabin in
flicted upon the country are incalcula-
BILE. That wrong and injury still live.
and. like John Browns spirit. seem to
be marching on for still further evil.
AS is pointed out in the recently issued
United States history Of Susan Pendle-
ton Lee. Mrs. Stowe had never been
South nor seen slavery and slave-own-
ers as they really were. but she was a
violent abOlitionist. and she wrote for