The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-14
Ilessenger.
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AMALGAMATION WITH WHITES

-AMALGAMATION WITH
IF has been apparent to careful oo-
-,rvers of the signs Of the times as well
n. readers Of negro publications.
.,eeebes. writings, etc., that there Is an
.Jexnent among the negroes whose in
hope and purpose are TO
hiring about amalgamation OF the races,
repeal all laws against intermarriage
resveen whites and blacks, and thus
and enlarge m~ecigenation all
Iover the land. Old Fred Douglass, an
old scamp who abused Horace Greeley
I'm 1872. in a speech at Raleigh we heard
and commented upon in b Sentlnei'
and stated he was the best friend ne
had ever had, set the pace in the LIS
frict of Columbia when he married. d
white woman, a disgrace to her race.
There have been recent opinions gwen
by the blacks as to their plan OF unit
ing b races and filling the land with a
rrongrel, hybrid crowd, and thus rapid
Nv place this country in a condition as
ynzv and barbaric as Africa whence un-
fortunately the negroes were stolen ana
deported.
We sometimes glance at the negro
Quarterly edited by John Z. Dancy'
f,e Sambo of the custom house in this
,rty- owing to the negrophilism OF NC
Kinley and his inbred hostility TO the
ssuthern whites. We failed to exa-
mine his last number, but it has some
.eSifving reading for white men VINO
are white men and not ASHAMED Oh
.sheir race and skin.
We learn that Rev. s. P. Hood con-
tributes a paper, Endorsed by editor
TSancy. in charge of our custom house
and il is refreshing. The said Hooo
regards amalgamation Of the races the
true solution of the race question.
The white folks, on the other hand
are fast coming to the conclusion tha'
the surest solution is to return Sampe
fo Africa with all Of his belongings
One negro bishop has also written u
that effect. In the north the solutlol
In the estimation Of many IS to ols'
franchise the negro. We have on ou1
fable an article in one of the foremos
northern monthly reviews IN VINCE
This opinion is asserted. We may CIV
some thing of it another day. 1t i
Main to all men Of observation ane
sense that the negro franchise ha'
proved a curse to the country n tn
deadest of failures. So many baboon'
would vote as intelligently, wisely, pa
triotically and safely as a majority o
the blacks who now vote.
But to the quarterly and its views
Dancy has influence with man!
darkies. He is a Sir Oracle. he 1
with Hood in the plan Of race assim
nation." Perhaps they would like t
follow old Douglass's ugly example
Hood has much to show how rapldl!
the great negro is becoming negroized
We give first what he says OF mlxe'
schools in the northern states:
s.Who can tell the wonderful har
monizing influences that are takln
place by the effort OF MlAEl
SCHOOLS ALONE. We we'll remeH
her how but a few years ago, cold VIII
ter mornings, when in the city OF Ne'
York, as a school boy, we were com
pelled to pass through at least thre
white school wards to get to the co
ored school," but it is not necessar
now, and sometimes late for scnoe
waiting to take the car we nave pee
compelled to wait for the "colore
car" on the Eighth avenue line. I'M
was but a few years ago, but benol
the change.
Hundreds Of white men said the
would die before they would walk u
To the polls and vote with negroes, OF
they do and live. Scores of white COZ
gregations nave listened with satisfat
ton to negro preachers who a fe'
years ago would have scarcely bee
tolerated in the gallery.
CIT is NO STRANGE THING FO
a COLORED GENTLEMAN TO DIN
AND BE ENTERTAINED IN tn
BEST WHITE FAMILIES.
"Colored students go to Yale an
Harvard, Princeton and the -Un1verslt
of Pennsylvania, and If they stand we
In their studies, or athletic sports c
both, become the favorites OF the
classes. sometimes visit the familie
of their fellow students, and at all tn
alumni dinners and class suppers tax
their places as anyone else, and thes
are social relations. Now II thes
wonderful changes have and are takin
place on both sides, n the two race
ar daily drawn into closer contact III
der favorable circumstances, VIII
SHOULD 1T BE ANY LACK OF SELL
RESPECT IN A NEGRO TO MARI
a PERSON OF THE WHITE RACl
if that person is his equal? or an
on the part of the other,
the negro is worthy? and if now thel
are found white ladies sufficiently trt
to their own hearts to BRAVE TIL
SOCIAL OSTRACISM OF THEIR OW