The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-28
BLACK RADICALISM WAXING DIES.
TERATE.

1t is amazing that men who spend
their lives in politics and holding office
have no sense. A child knows better
than some of the so-called leaders OF
the black radical gang in North Car
DINA. The leaders feel that the sands
are slipping from under their feet, and
they have reached the last ditch. They
realize fully hat their very bad cause
is lost, that their last trick game has
been played, that their last dodge at
deception has completely failed, that
"the jig is up" and soon the lights
will be out. Vicious Dan and slippery
Mary Ann, and senile old OF. Dockery,
and weeping Jeremiah Jeter Pritchard
all grown desperate at the outlook have
taken to the last resort of tyrants
and oppressors-to call for armed
soldiers to intimidate and overrun
white citizens in time of peace.
They do not await the wal of the
blacks upon the whites, killing and
outraging white women and Staying
white children, but taking time by the
forelock, by Misrepresentation and
SANDER Of what the whites purpose and
desire, they below for help from the
Centralized Despotism at Washington,
or tell the president to have his army
ready to march upon North Carolina
at a moments notice.
But the niger party is in one way
counting without it's host. Mckinley
may hasten his bayonets and seek as
General Candy did to carry the cleo
ton by bayonets and bullets, but 1868
and 1898 are not the same years, and
| what was done thirty years ago by
| force will fail in 1898, and it deserves
/ to fail.
The state that sent 1926, 900 white sol
| diers to the great war to deliver battle
for human rights and second indie
/ Notwithstanding 1880 more SOL
diers than the highest white vote ever
was-is not the state to be terrorized
thirty-three years after peace by fed
eral soldiers or the accursed agents Of
tyranny. Proclamations and secret
meetings and t~elegraphing and send
ing lying missives to federal head
quarters will not put out the fires of pa
triotism now burning in this greatly
| outraged out blessed old North Caro-
lima, nor will they deter White Men
from voting as they will or from put
ting the stamp of infamy upon all
treacherous whites. The black radical
gang are indeed in desperate straits
and are driven to great extremities.
But the hand writing is on the wall of
their trembling palace of cards, and
they are literally found wanting.
The gang may have the cunning Of
the arch-enemy, but their machina-
tons will fail and their deviltry will
that they are actuated by considera-
tons of justice, out the plea is as false
as old satan's plea, and it is ball-faced
p%retense from beginning to end. There
is no justice, no honor, no goodness,
no necessity in it at all:
$50 spake the Fiend, and with Neces-
sity,
The Tyrant's plea, excused his devil
ish deeds"
1t is a sure sign of weakness in the
case of black radicalism when the
most artful leaders seek to recover
lost ground by such foolish acts. A
writer of antiquity said that che who
strikes terror in others, is himself in
continual fear" When the plotters
scheme in such blackness. and with
soaring insolence'' seek to intimidate
and drive the white man they are
themselves about scared to DEATH"