The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07

Few people read newspapers thor
oughly. They overlook Oh forget i'm
portant sentences Or qualifying words,
and often mistake the meaning and In
tent of an article. In a long editorial
life we W. observed this scores of
times. A worthy, leading populist COM
planned to US recently that The Mes
senger kept standing in large. black
type daily an article on The Poor
White People," in which is given what
the negro editor-the fellow who edits
the Daily Rattlesnake in this Niger
ridden city-said in such a vile. sIan-
derous way of the poor white peo-
pie" Our friend said that no contra
diction Of this gross, insulting SANDER
had appeared in The Messenger. Many
times The Messenger placed upon this
libellous and scoundrelly accusation
the brand Of infamy and SANDER. The
object in keeping the oul imputation
and insult standing in The Messenger
is that all decent white men may
Remember" it before. at and after
the election, and act accordingly. No
true, genuine white man can possibly
accept the negro's calumny and re-
proach as we'll based, as having any
truth as to the good character. the
virtue and decency of the wives and
daughters of poor white men," The
attempt to malign, to s%candalize and
degrade the females is wholesale, and
every man of character must spurn
and d%enounce the negro accuser as a
malignant liar and defamer.
If the friend will turn to The Mes
senger of the 23rd of August, he will
find two editorials excriating the
black slanderer. We are surprised that
he could have overlooked them. We
copy the m in the first column un-
der the head of "a Base Slanderer..
The title shows that he was not tell
ing the truth-was a "~slanderer." The
article reads:
"The article Work in The Raleigh
Standard of early in the year 1869, ac-
cOrding to u reelection, was a more
reputable production than the villain
GUS editorial in the niger organ here
Of last Thursdays issue. If it does
not make every decent mans blood
boil, then the manhood is gone, and
with it Anglo-Saxon loyalty to the
pure and noble white women of our
n The meanness and depravity of
the scoundrelly production are hard
j to fathom. 1t was the inspiration of
| ~depravity and staggering boldness
gone to seed. We hope the white rlen
will read again and again hat brutal
attack, worthy every way of one of
| Russell's dear 'savages,' n swear
upon the altar of their country to wipe
out negro rule for all time in this no
BILE old commonwealth. Strike for
your country; strike for the protection
of your homes against prowling incar-
nate devils; strike for your personal
freedom and the love Of your state,
its prosperity gone, it's honor outrag-
ed, its peace disturbed; stliA. for
your affairs and your sires, God and
i your native and"
In the same issue, third column,
there is an editorial with this head
ing: "a Negro Defamer Of the White
Women in North Carolina" How
could our friend Jail to see and re-
member it? We o a few sentences:
I'VE copy a part of what is said by
the negro paper of this negro city and
ask the white men-particuIarly the
white married men, and especially the
sons of White mothers, what they
think of such dirty defamation, such
a sweeping insult to all respectable
white women who are poor? The in
tent of the teaching is to justify the
black brutes who commit rape at the
expense of the character Of every
white wife in the south whose con-
dition is Door as to this worlds goods.
But heal this vile detractor and SLAM
derer. + = If SANDER and lying can
go farther than that, it must be an in
genious devil who suggests it. It is true
most Internal, slanderous, lying arti-
Gle that ever appeared in a North
Carolina newspaper"