The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-09

Morganton Herald: John Campbell
has returned from Wichita, Tex,
whittier he went by direction OF the
governor to bring back TO this state
Thomas II. Ballew. Of Yancey county.
who is charged with killing his wife
last May.
Negro government Of white schools
is a failure. The aext legislature will
change it, for that legislature viii be
democratic. Even State Superintend-
emit Mebane, a republican, acknowl-
edges thai it is a failure and hurtful
to the interests of the school. For
these reasons he advises tina it b.
changed.-Raleigh News and Observer.
We referred, last Saturday, to the en-
dorsement by the coIored ministerial
union. of Wilmington, of The Record,
h colored paper Of that city. which
had uttered the atrocious sentiments
concerning the white women of the
state, which have SO shockci and ar
gered the public, and remarked that it
Is important to know whether this en-
dorsement did or did not %anteGate the
issue Of the paper which contained the
outrageous editorial-adding that if the
resolutions were adopted after the ap-
pearance OF the editorial in question
the members of the union placed
themselves in the same category with
the writer of the offensive article. The
Wilmington papers of Sunday clear the
matter UP. The offensive editorial ap-
peared on the 18th: The Messenger cop
led it in it's issue of the 21st and COM
mented on it scathingly: the ministe-
rial union met and adopted its resolu-
ton on the oath; on the 18th it again
met and adopted a lot of fine language
about righteousness, amity, noble wo-
manhood, reputation of u~tterances
which assail virtue, n all that but
no condemnation of the vile declara-
tions which brought about the pres
ent situation" but SO far from It a
distinct resolution, in the face of that
situation" that leach minister s.
endeavor to sustain the paper by
swelling it's subscription list and ur-
ging prompt payment" Why? Be
cause they desired to see it live" 3 3
They do not d%enounce it, condemn it.
chide it, but smypathize with it and
call upon each other to help sustain il.
1t is enough, and it is shameful
enough, in educated, not to say Chris
tan men. OF them better things might
ave been expected.-Charlotte Obser-
Yer.
For thirty-three consecutive years,
the patient, %fOrbearing, lOng-suffering
white people Of the southern states
have endured the evil consequences of
the negro's misconduct, and have not
attached any blame to him, recognizing
h fact that he was taught from the
beginning by those who had him in
charge hat his former master was
seeking to reenslave him and to take
from him his freedom; and under the
dictatiOn of his self-constituted man
anger and their spOils-hunting descend
ants, he has eschewed all political af-
filiation with patriotic white men, and
his course has been one of ruin.-More-
head Pilot.
Nobody" said Colonel Dockery in
his speech at Huntersville Monday,
need fear | am going back on silver.
l pledged my dying father never to go
back on silver, the poor mans money"
There was never perhaps in all his
tory a more dramatic incident than
that to which the colonel refers. The
minds eye can picture General AL
fred M. Dockery on his dying bed, call
ing his son Oliver to his bedside and
causing him to hold up his right hand
and swear eternal allegiance to the
lISc COllIdSc VI olINcl anu SOlu d. IuC
immemorial ratio of 16 to 1. There
nay be certain frivolous and skepti-
cal persons disposed to regard this bed
side story as apOcyphal, a Pigment of
the %colonel's brain; but for our part
we would like it understood that we
believe every word of it.-Charlotte Oh
server.
The state must be redeemed; it must
be lifted out its present position in the
slough of reputation and SANDER and
placed again upOn a plane of decency
and honor and good government. The
good of the state demands it, and we
must meet the demand. God speed
the day when the Old North State-our
state-can again hold up her head
among her sister states, her honor in
the keeping of men, good and true; her
laws, equitable and just, administered
by intelligent, learned and sober
judges and her Offices, from our gov
ernor down, in the hands of decent,
capable, honest, upright men-white
men, with white skin, white hearts and
white hands; men who respect them
selves, regard their %neighbor, love
their state and recognize the existence
of a Supreme Being. Such men we
have, such men must carry the demo-
cratic standards, and victory must be
ours. Speed the day of victory!-States
vile Landmark.