The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-23
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getting up to the pie-counter. The
example Of his white allies teaches him
that a desire for Office is very natural,
and to get grub and grab and filings
and feet in the trough is the first duty
Of a radical and chief end and aim of
all politics. Talk Of principles is
simply deceptive-a mere subtifuge or
instrument with which to cover real
purposes. 1t is simply the way to an
end-a deceptive way to a most foul
and vicious end. But the white men
do blame and bitterly denounce the
dirty, trading white fellows who COM
bine to use the negroes for the injury
and oppression Of the true whites.
The white men know that the negroes
have neither the education, experience,
ability nor moral qualities to fit them
for governing either themselves or a
higher race. That is a conviction
deep-down in their very souls and all
observation and experience confirm
their belief and judgment This is
indeed a white mans heritage-the
country of white men who first con-
| quered and settled it. The new demo-
cratic Hand Book we'll and calmly
{ puts it in this wise:
"They must govern it not only be-
cause they are white men, but be-
cause they can do it better than the
| negro. The negro has, whenever
| tried, demonstrated his unfitness and
inability to rule. It is better for the
| negro, as we'll as for the white man,
| that the white man should make and
| administer the laws. It is a mercy to
| the negro himself to say him from
his own ruin. 1t has been in the past,
and is today, the special mission of
the democratic party to rescue the
white people of the east from the
curse of negro domination"
In North Carolina at this time in
some sections negro officials are thick
and demonstrative. There are num-
erous negro ofice-holders in many
counties in the east. Senator Pritch-
ard and black and tan White, the rep
resentative from the "black district"
are busy in putting in negro postmas-
ters in the negro-ridden section of the
state. In the west, where the whites
are far more numerous and negroes
are in a great minority, and white rad
icals are in force there are no oambos
put in the post offices to have charge
of the mails of the whites. That is
very mean in Pritchard. The white
RAIDS in the west would below and paw
and make it noisy for the Tennessean.
In Wilmington people here know
how it is. Negro officials abound. They
are in the post office, in the custom
house, in the city government, in per-
haps every department, ON the police,
in health department and SO on. Our
people know what all this means, and
particularly under such a miserable
sham-such a gross burlesque-such a
d~isordefIy travistie of a city govern
ment with whites at the head as we
are cursed with.
The Newbern people-the white peo-
pie of Craven-are greatly subordi-
mated and worried and angered over
the condition. Of 81 magistrates q
are negroes, so it is stated.
Governor Jarvis lately wrote of the
condition at Greenville, his home, in
the fine county of Pitt. named after
the great English state snlan, the elder
by that name, afterwards Lord Chat
ham. The Hand Book says, and we
suppose the following is from Govern
or Jarvis's clear, calm pen:
"It is useless for your leaders to tell
the people of Greenvi,le that there is
no danger of negro domination, for it
is there already. You had just as We'll
tell the American soldier who has been
pierced through and through by Span
ish bullets that there is no danger in
war, as to tell the people of Greenville
that there is no danger of negro DOM
ination. They had just as we'll tell the
fever stricken patient who lies parch-
ed with thirst and dying with the
black vomit that there is no danger of
yellow fever. They see it, know it,
and feel it every day of their lives, and
have done so sincve May, 1897.
In Scotland Neck, and the old his
toric county of Halifax, the white men
Lave peer made by the present negro
fostering radical administration at
Washington, with that little dema-
gogue and force bill south hater pos
ing as president, to know what it is
to have negroes in Office. Eight negro
postmasters in one of the great coun-