The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-06
NORTHERN COMMENTS VENTIA.
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so long as d JOURNALIST mas access 10
he must read, and some
times, comment. If he reads he will
be sure to find much that is objec-
tionable and no little that will offend
him. At this time a great many news
papers all around the circle have had
no little to say concerning Whining
ton, it's people, and recent occurrences.
While many secular (mostly republi-
CAM newspapers in the north have
been severe and even abusive, others
have been more moderate and just. |
The blindest, most infatuated, unwise
expressions and discussions have ap-
peared in so-called religious expo
nents. The Messenger has given a
sample or SO of their vinegarish talk.
We desire to reproduce a few other
samples of what has been said in mis-
apprehension or downright SANDER OF
the white people of Wilmington. The
N. Y. Observer is an old, able, infu-
entail Presbyterian organ. 1t ignor-
antly says Of u city: Yet the condi-
ton there marks a return to anarchy
and barbarism. The moral force Of
civilization has broken down just when
it ought to ave been strongest" To
this the we'll conducted and faithful
North Carolina Presbyterian replied:
THE anarchy and barbarism are not
denied. Anarchy is the legitimate re-
suit of giving the responsibilities of
civilization to barbarism." That is
wall MT and mnotS tho critic Tho
Chicago Interior, another Presbyterian
organ Of wide circulation and much
ability, says of the Revolutions: The
suppression of the right of suffrage by
murder is so GtrociOusly Inconsistent
with a republican form Of government
that the two can not cOeXist." The In
terror does not understand the situa-
The Interior SHOULD understand that if
the infamous article of Manly had not
appeared, and the negroes had not neg
lected or refused to meet the White
committee, and the negroes had not
begun the war upOn the whites by
shooting down in the streets three
white men using Winchesters there
would have been no blood shed and
nothing for the fanatics to have prated
about and she'd crocodile tears in such
profusion. The North Carolina Pres
byterian says that the statement is
to the suppression of the right OF suf-
frage by murder is inconsistent with
it's own news columns, which say that
the riots occurred after the election.
The Interior does not believe that the
Cubans and Filipinos are as yet capa-
BILE of self-government. Does it really
think hat the negroes are?" AS if tc
crush it's own captious criticism and
smother it's own indignation, this Inte-
rior expounder Of law and justice and
right, says this:
"Anglo-Saxon expansion is primari-
ly the effect OF virtue. So long as that
is the ~actuating force, the race Will
be irrepressible and invincible."
To which our Presbyterian brother
at Charlotte adds: 1T was in Whining
ton" The Presbyterian Banner hardly
c~omprehends the facts or it would
nave hardly ventured upon it's line OF
remark. It thinks or says that the
ilCSlOS VIII oltCllplCo " NotS Z
dispersed by Winchesters, all of which
is without foundation. The election oc-
Cured on Tuesday without collisions
or shootings Of any kind. On Thursday
the negroes began shooting at white
men and some of the shooters caught
some balls in return. The Banner
should get the facts or it may be &C
cused of deliberately classifying. The
New York Independents one-sided
view has been already presented in
these columns. 1t simply lies from be-
ginning to end. Think Of any paper
not edited by lunatics or niggers in
Ashantee writing this perhaps a week
after the revolution here, when it de-
liberately misrepresents the conditions
before the election here and lies about
what subsequently happened. For in
stance, it says:
1.-The state and the city of Whining
ton seem to have been quite as well
governed as before. The sole offence
was the success of the republicans at
the polls, that they were in the MAORI
ty and elected their officers
This, mark you, is in Endorsement of
the late Wright negro government
here. 1t goes on to say that the dem
ocrats did not have votes enough to
carry the election. they armed them-
selves, went about the country threat
ening voters with death if they came
to the polls, etc" And yet the
negroes who desired to vote and were
properly registered went TO the polls
and voted as in other years, and for
the black radical candidates. There is
no rhyme or reason" in lying whole
sale. This old abolition slanderer az
cuses all of the newspaper correspond
ents who came to Wilmington of falsi-
flying. This ancient Pistol" went Off
too much for its own good. Those
slandered correspondents have more
character, we do not doubt. THAI the
slanderer who indicted that foul accu-
sation. We drop the Independent with
the remark that Rev. A. J. Mckelway.