The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-11-22
DEAD TO RISE NO MORE

awe. JuSts W hscs SaEc w
that Follows that Only Whites Can
Give
The New -Ork Herald of Sunday
contained t. following letter from
Raleigh on ne situation in Whining
ton, furnished by it's special CORE
spondent, Mr.. Henry S. Brown, who
is in the city viewing the field:
Raleigh, n. c., Sunday-Only a hasty
view of the existing shotgun situation
in North Carolina and South Carolina
is necessary TO bring about the convic-
ton that the fowling piece is a great
er success than was John &. Calhoun.
The folwing piece has triumphed
where John G. Calhoun failed.
Notification is now a fact as a re-
suit of the stirring and melancholy
vents Of the week just ended. Hence
forth the constitution of the United
States, so far as the Fifteenh Amend
men is concerned, will be a dead letter
in the CarOlinas. HencefOrth there Will
be no free suffrage for the black vOt-
or. He may be permitted to vote, 1T is
true, but not in considerable force I'M
less he consents to vote a white mans
ticket. If he votes the white mans
ticket, all we'll and good. If he votes
not at all, 50 much the better. If he
votes as to endanger white suDrem-
acy, then once more the shotgun.
That is the plain, blunt truth, and
notification is not hereafter to be set
aside. This is especially true in North
SaroIina. AS to South Carolina that
can be gone into more fully in a sub
sequent dispatch. The difference be-
tween North Carolina and South Caro-
lima appears to be that there was some
pro~vOcation for the use Of the shotgun
at Wilmington while at Greenwood
therge was none.
ABUSES IN WILMINGTON.
In Wilmington the blacks out-num-
bered the whites almost two to one,
and held the city government with the
assistance Of a white republican clique,
of which Governor Russell was one.
There were many outrageous abuses.
so high did the feeling run against the
blacks, and so many threats were
made that the republican ticket was
Withdrawn on the eve of election, 50
that the democrats had a W~alkOVer.
The successful democrats insisted
that the republican officials, who were
to hold over until January should re-
sign; that Manly, the negro editor of
The Record, the republican paper,
should leave town, and that most of
the leaders of the party in power
S0Ould 20 lHlO exile. AL, u COul DC,
at the point Of the shotgun. The white
mans party leaders say that the cause
of the outbreak and the attack on
Manly's printing office was an article
Manly had printed rejecting on white
women. They might well get a better
excuse-the insulting of women in the
streets, for instance, because Manly's
editorial. which was highly indecent
and insulting, was printed away back
in August.
Be that as it may. the city officials
failed to resign. Manly's printing Of
flee was destroyed, and the whites say
the blacks fired the first shot. No one
hesitated to say that the white rioters
went to extremes. No one will saw
that practically the entire white popu-
IatiOn was not fully prepared in ad-
vance for just such an Old-time killing.
SET UP IT'S OWN GOVERNMENT.
Not content with burning he print
ing office, numbering more negroes
than the coroner will ever be able to
account for, exiting Bunting, the JUS
tice of the peace and United States
commissioner, Chief of Police Melton
and Policeman Gilbert, the white
mans party set up a city government
of it's own, which has since been sus-
tanned by five companies of militia,
two Gatlings and a Hotchkiss rapid
firer-ordered out possibly in a peni-
tential way by the governor, who had
built up this blyack OliSarchy on the
Cape Fear and had sent n WhlrlW1nd
to be d
The flight Of the negro editor, the
United States commissioner, the chief
of police and a part of the police force
reads very much line THE Outcasts Of
Poker Flat" the only difference being
hat there was no blood shed in Poker
Fla when the revolution took place.
Ip,+ H. ,r,,1 - +Iirn n hnI1t If iC thar
not a single newspaper in the state has
condemned the murderOuS mob rule in
Wilmington: No a single white man,
democrat, republican or populist, has
raised his voice against it. A most con-
spicuOus republican federal officer
whom | saw today, not only declined to
go on record as c~Ondemning the ac-
ton of the mob, but intimated that it
might be a blessing in disguise.
Now. what does this mean? Does it
mean that the heart of North Carolina
has grown callous? Does it mean that
the shotgun has intimidated free
speech as we'll as free COlOred vote?
FAILURE OF BLACK DOMINATION
SO far as l have been able to ascer-
tain after a days diligent inquiry at
this, the state capital, it means Meth
er of these things. 1t means that black
domination has been tried in the city
of Wilmington. has run its course and
ended in utter failure and in bl~OOdshed.
Every man with whom I have talked
has sandWitched into his conversation
some such remark as this: You men
in the north do not understand the
situation here. If the negroes were to
get in power, n stay in power, every
white man who did not act with them
would have to leave the state. Human
life would not be safe. our women
would not be safe. and property could
not be held. This is What came TO pass
in Wilmington
The white business men paid the
taxes. while the cOlored men and white
carpet baggers ran the government.
Negro domination is something North
Carolina will not stand, and today
democrats, republicans and pOpulistS,
reading the lesson of Wilmington, are
taking the cue and are looking toward
organizing their parties on a basis of
not permitting the cOlored men to vote
at all. | fancy the republicans wOul
be less inclined to take this view were
the administration in Washington to