The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-28
SLANDERING NORTH CAROLINA
WHITES

for a senator it was a confession of in
tellectual barrenness and government
al incapacity. Pritchard is no big
man. ii so, in what does it consist?
Show any thing from his mental grist
mill that is pure -four or good corn
meal. 1t is sour politics or bad
seconds or poor morals or something
else-or the threadbare seconds often
threshed out. He has more ability,
however, we would suppose, han he
has a perception of right, an under
standing Of facts,a sense of justice,a ten
der regard for truth, and a willingness
to be fair towards the race Of which
he forms an unimportant part.
The Messenger does not desire TO be
unjust even to a Tennessee adv%enturer.
Pritchard is doing the state great harm
by disappearing actual facts and
conditions. Mr.. w. H. C~hadbourn,
Dir. F. w. Foster, both northern men
and republicans, and many democratic
correspondents of newspapers who
have visited Wilmington and other
towns in eastern Carolina, and the
business men of this city and the
Chamber of Commerce have all set
forth the real conditions here, and they
are MOI as Pritchard represents in his
speeches or to the president. If he cor
rectly advises Mckinley, and puts him
in possession of precise facts, he con-
tradicts what he tells upon the stump.
We have no doubt that he has grossly
and deliberately, and with party pur-
poses, deceived the president by
slandering the real White People of
North Carolina.
He freely condemns and ~denounces
what he calls the "incendiary and in
f1ammatory speeches which have been
made by democratic speakers" but he
is silent as the grave as to the Internal
harangues of both white and black
radical speakers and the detestab1e,
bitter, insulting writings of the negro
press, o only offending the men of
the White Race, but offering the most
base i~nsinuations and making the most
sweeping attacks upon the white wo-
men of the state. Pritchard has no
condemnation for these cruel, malig-
nant. debauched assaults-these reck-
less, incendiary appeals, from his own
bad set, but they are it may all be
supposed delightful music to his soul
and sweet morsels under his SANDER
GUS tongue. >
No such attempts to fire the wicked
nature of the negroes have been made
in this state since the dark, damning
days of Candy bayonets, and accursed
reconstruction. No such wicked, cruel,
base, devilish talk has been heard on
the stump in North Carolina as has
been during the present campaign
from the threats and black hearts Of
barbarians and traitors of the white
race. Killing the whites has been the
theme of inspiration, hanging or burn
ing negroes who voted with the whites
has smitten the air and yet no white
radical has opened his lips in censure.
You would suppose from Jeter Pritch-
ards way Of putting it hat the white
men of the state were melting their
fellows to a war, when in fact nothing
but the marvellous forbearance and
inbred conservatism of the white men
have prevented a war of races weeks
ago in Wilmington.
The insults that have been offered to
white people-white ladies often-by ne
groes, in this city, count by the dozens.
White men to avoid collision and
cause for a race fight have shut their
eyes and stopped their mouths. With
I'm a week or so we saw an elderly man
of character walk in the street while
two haw-buck niggers swept across
each occupying a walk of fiat stones.
There was plenty of room for all.
But these things are as COMMON as bad
odors in Wilmington.
I. The game of Pritchard and the
~slanderers of the whites is to manu-
facture false sentiment growing
out Of false representations. The
truth hurts. The White Race will not
longer wear the yoke now CALLING them
to the quick. They will assert their
manhood and regain their rights, and
that means now and forever a White
Mans government for North Carolina.
! When Pritchard artfully conceals the
truth and seeks to shift the blame and
cause of the intense feeling in eastern
counties Upon the whites, he is engaged
In a very dirty trick. but it is not new.