The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-11-29
STATE PRESS

The people OF Wilmington did vel;
to stop the negro paper that had SLAM
dered white women and run the editor
out of the state. In no other southern
state could he have stayed as long as
be did. They were also right in driving
Gizard French. the white in~stigator Of
much OF the negro insolence out OF the
state. The killing of several negroes
IS TO be deplored. But there would
have been no blUodshed IL the negroes
had not fired the first shot. The course
OF the people OF Wilmington Is APP
proved all over the south.-Newton
Enterprise.
There is glory in such a victory be-
yond the power OF Imagination TO con-
ceive. There is a feeling of gladnesS
in the realization OF ii inefible. Our
state rose with the giant strength and
hurled her oppressor from her. aston
ish@d. c~onfounded. defeated. The dem
ocrats went into the contest with nu
other weapon than truth. justice. hon
esty and love OF COUNTRY, and won the
victory which is without a parallel.
one OF which every son OF North Car
DINA nay be truly proud. one which
crowns our old state with immortal
honor. and sends a thrill OF JOY In eve
~ honest heart-Madison Observer.
The main lesson To be learned from
AlAt NA-AoE w ia AbA. DF-
tween the whites and blacks. is tina
~low-down. office-seeking white men.
are responsible for every bit Of IL.
When left alone. and not led on by de-
signing white s~calawags. the negro is
not impudent and riotous. The Will
mington people did right to get rid OF
those white s~coundrels, in order that
peace and quietness might be regained.
Another lesson Is that white men, no
where. are ever going TO submit to ne
gro domination and insolence. The
northern apers may ran as much as
they please O il, but never. no
never. will the southern white man
submit 10 such degradation and inso-
lence.-Warrenton Record.
The following is taken from "Our
Country" a primary text book Of the
history Of this country, used in many
Of the schools Of this state: I'm New
York there was a deep a~ntipathy To the
negroes, which showed itself on two
occasions in a craze OF excitement not
unlike the witchcraft frenzy OF Massa-
chusetts. The blacks were accused OF
plotting To burn New York. Before the
panic was over thirteen Of the unfOrtu-
nate creatures We're burned. at the
stake, eighteen We're hanged and sew
enteen transported in accordance with
the judgment of the court" This did
HOls take pace lllIlu YOU, dIilplS libSt
degenerateS who live south Of Mason
and Dixon line. 1t happened in New
York city, where the Mail and Express
is published, in hat city where the
people of Wilmington were SO literally
and harshly denounced for the recent
unfortunate occurrences J~onesboro
Progress.
The Progressive Farmer says the
majority recently recorded in the state
was mot a reputation of the state ad-
ministration." In the name of fusion
what was it then? The farmer goes
on to say hat many believe Russell is
the best governor since Vance" Edi-
tor Ramsey has evidently been CONVEX
sing with the inmates of the peniten-
tiary, most of whom are the devoted
friends of the wall-eyed governor
Charlotte News.
AS a matter of fact, it does not ap-
| pear to us at this moment a question
of vital consequence whether a proper
suffrage amendment be secured by a
legislative bill offered to the people for
ratification or by the act of a cOnStitu-
tional convention. What is to be fear
ed is that some who are SO quick to
oppose a constitutional convention are
really opposed to what the contsitu-
tional convention would be expected to
do, viz: amend the constitution in re-
Spect to the suffrage. 1t is plain that
nothing short of this will satisfy the
democratic masses. The suggestion
hat the fourteenth amendment to the
federal constitution be repealed covers,
Of course: the only complete remedy
for the evils which the VillainOuS act
of tampering with the fundamental law
has produced.-Fayetteville Observer.
What are northern friends going to
do about it? Human II is the
same the world over, but to narrow the
proposition, there is nothing between
the white people of the north and the
south except an imaginary line. We
are of the same blood, sprung from a
common stock, and while environment
in this as in all matters causes a diff
ferent view Of things, it is a safe prop
OsitiOn hat if the negro were in the
north instead of the south, or if the
northern people were in the south and
| the southern people in the north, we
would see exactly the same race dis
tinctiOnS that are observable now and
the southern would perhaps be rally
ing at the nOrtherners and as helpless
as they are now to suggest any method
of putting intelligence and ignorance
on the same level or of evading the
fiat by which God spoke a difference
between the Caucasian and African
races.-CharlOtte Observer.
Volcanic Eurptfons