The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-30
The @esseh5m.
PAST AND PRESENT.

In England for two years after the
wal began between the south and the
north, President Lincoln was usually
referred to, SO says Professor Tyler, |
of Cornell University, as the vulgar
tyrant' and "the brutal despot." At
ter his death he vas spoken of more
kindly and was even praised. The
English understood the precise ends
of the war, and Tyler says some one
even conceived the "damnatory cpl
gram, The North is fighting for en-
pire; the south for independence
The niger was in the wood pile. BY
the way a leading London paper, as
we saw yesterday, writes it that way.
The north fought for control and hui
initiation of the south, and it showed
it by putting ignorance, superstition
and vice in the saddle, fully empower
ed with the right to vote, while
putting many of the ablest and best
equipped men in the south out Of the
pdIC do FOLCI III ~ Lib oOS
ton and men who are too blind to
even see the facts under the white
light Of truth, says that the English
sympathized with the south through
ignorance. OF course. Gladstone,
Professor Long and the other friends
to the south were ignorant and knew
-~k x-l@A ALor I;J To +L1y nod hnnr
only enlightened after the manner in
the north, they would have bounded
on the fierce dogs of war, and urged
the application of all manner of hell
. ish vandalism, after the manne of
old Sherman, Sheridan and other
plunderers and d~estroyers, and found
satisfaction in putting chains upon a
brave, heroic race fighting for second
independence. We believe that the.
war, waged since Alva invaded the
Netherlands was the north's war upon
the south. It was too conducted with
a savagery only worthy of barbarians.
The young men of today ought to read
up as to the manner with which the
bOastful, vengeful north conducted it.
But it took over 100000 men to put
down 900 900, and four years were
needed to accomplish it.
1t is noticeable that almost every
northern newspaper and it's magazine
writer's in referring to Mr.. G~ladstone's
death showed they had not forgiven
the Grand Old Man for his sympathies
with the south. The course of the
north in giving the ballot to the freed
slaves, who knew her as much about
government matters as they knew of
Hebrew or Dutch, was an act of blum
Gering stupidity the outcome of deep
m~allevolence and a wish to put the
twelve southern states under the prac-
teal control of the Africans. They
knew or believed that enough white
traitors who would sell u for office,
could be found to Identify themselves
with the nOrth's plans and to use the
stupid blacks for the undoing Of the
whites. 1t was an inexcusable, des-
perate, malicious deed of infamy and
wrong.
And touuy nIvnInley is showing his
approval of the infamy by appointing
to offices in the south Sambo and his
tribe. The venom of the marplots
flows in the veins of the little dema- |
gogues of the day. There are but few
of the negro race in the south, after
thirty-three years of freedom, who are
qualified to vote intelligently, who
have any knowledge of the far reach |
ing consequences Of their course, who
have any independence of opinion or
any judgment. They vote as the ne
groes voted in 1867, blindly and unit
eddy, drawing a race line-a deep black
1ine-between themselves and the vir- |
tue, intelligence and interests of the
true and faithful whites. They vote
to destroy, to uphold the rascalities
of unworthy whites and are never so
happy as when ~antagonizing the men
who give them work and feed their
families.