The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-25
The Messenger.
a PLOT TO TURN NORTH CARROLL
Ma INTO A NEGRO STATE
FOREVER

ST -
Il looks foolish but there is some
ing in the recently formed plot to
thoroughly negroize the state Of North
Carolina, one of the original thirteen.
at first glance it may seem sensational
and plan on the part Of the blacks to
COLOMBO our state, overrun it with ne
groes by the hundreds of thousands
until they have the numbers that will
enable them to outvote the whites if
all united, and thus obtain complete
control. 1t may strike the i~ncredulous
man that this is impossible, but he is
mistaken. To accomplish the end
sought is made possible, even possible,
by the course of the white radicals, and
by the conduct of the democrats them
selves. The blacks cannot overwhelm
the state unless they can find work
find places and lands. The property
owners can prevent the threatened
catastrophe. Negro preachers are pro-
badly at the bottom of the movement.
One negro bishop calls eastern North
Carolina "the paradise of the negro"
It is believed that at this time the
leading blacks, perhaps encouraged by
u~nprincipled and unpatriOtic whites,
are moving to the end indicated. This
is their main solution of what is re-
garded as the vexed race problem
TO get control of the state, and force
the whites to flee for life and at any
sacrifice. 1t is said that there is really
free talk as to this plan among the
Sambos, and they are "solidly united
to capture the state" Above all things
unless it be miscegenation, they want
a commonwealth of their own-a Hayti
among the old states. Owing to the
way the white radicals and their allies,
the populists, have heretofore acted, and
the manner of action of a part of the
populists now, it is come to pass that
the Niger is practically boss of the
situation and on top Of the political
fence. This encourages the blacks to
scheme for a large immigration of
blacks into this state. They see divi-
sions and ordinations among the
whites and this gives them hope and
comfort. They are encouraged to
push on their plans, and they dominate
o with a good prospect of being in
much greater force two years hence,
They feel sure of much spoils if they
and their white allies can capture the
state in the near election.
1t is useless to talk of the great ca
lamnity that would overtake the state
i fthe White Men are defeated. Negro
rule will become fixed in so far as the
observation-disclosures gang of con
spirators can make it. The eXpatria-
ton of the whites will begin, the Afri-
cans will pour in as the locusts over
ran Egypt in the time Of Moses, the
, commonwealth will be dispoiled, pluck
ed, ruined, and with a million or a mil
lion and a half blacks, a home in
South Africa would be for the white
man what the negro bishop said North
Carolina was for the blacks-a para
, disc, as compared with what their ma
tive North Carolina would be. Proba-
bly, the negro plot is not so much to
drive out the whites, as it is to domi-
nate and play the role of master. But
an exodus on the part of the whites
would become a necessity.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Con-
: stitution, who had been making a
study of conditions in North Carolina,
filled columns with his observations.
He wrote this several weeks ago., and
conditions are not better now than
then:
THE black race, united, solid, ag-
gressive, is marching as one man
against the divided white with the
avowed purpose of ov~er-throwing what
slight vestige of their power remains
and setting up for themselves a sover-
eign negro state.
Then they will repeal the laws
against inter-arriage between the races
and mixed schools, and all other laws
which, in any manner shape or form,
provide for separate accommodations
for W ties and blacks.
Their aim is to ~colonize and negro
ize North Carolina and to so firmly es-
tablish themselves in possession that
the black race will flock here from
other southern states.
TN {hotr n1or c,,oann1c Month rornli
i, ma is to be the refuge Of their people
in America. Their brethren from all
the southern states will be invited to
come here, cast their lot among their
fellows and together to work out their
destiny in whatsoever degree of pros
perity and advancement they may be
able to achieve for themselves.
This is no fairy story, no invention
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