The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-11-04

state had been paralyZed by the blight
of negro domination.
In another city a white majority had
been Disseminated against in favor of
a black minority, and the white man,
who bore all the burden and expense
of government. had been given only
one-half the representation of the ig-
norant and non-taxpaying negro
White women, of pure Anglo-Saxon
blood had been arrested upon ground
less charges, by negro constables, and
arraigned and tried and sentenced by
negro Magistrates.
Finally as a result Of the insolence
and a-ggressiveness which his sudden
elevation to power had engender-
ed in the negro, a representative
and leader of that race, dared
openly and publicly to assaiI the vir-
tue Of our pure white womanhood.
Suddenly the venality, the corruption
in office, the extravaganza. the pecula-
ton of funds, and the miserable scam
dals that had disgraced the state pass
ed out Of the public mind, and in a
whirl Of indignation, which burst forth
like the lava from a pent up volcano,
there was thrust to the front the all
absorbing and paramount question Of
White Supremacy.
Frantically the fusion leaders sought
to stay the storm Of Indignation, which
swept like a tornado wind over the
sta. e.
II their desperation the fusionists
had r~ecOurse to their old device of de-
mia. Of evasion, of subterfuge. They
said it was the "old negro racket
they said there was no truth in it; they
said there might be a negro officer here
and there, but they held only minor
offices, and insignificant places. That
the east had no cause of grievance;
that it was all a baseless clamor and
cutlery for political effect.
Then came the evidence. disclosing
the actual condition of affairs which
astOnished and shocked the consciences
and moral sensibi1ities of the people.
Negro congressman, negro solicitors,
negro reVenu officers, negro collectors
Of customs, negroes in charge of white
institutions, negroes in charge of white
schools. negroes holding inQuests over
the white dead, negroes controlling the
finances of great cities, negroes in con-
troll of the sanitary departments, negro
police in the cities, negro cOnstables ar
resting white women and white men,
negro magistrates trying white ONE
and white men, white convicts chained
to negro ~cOnvicts and forced to social
equality with them, until the proofs
rose up and stood forth like PeliOn on
OSsa piled"
Before this overwhelming array of
evidence the weak ana puny wall OIL
defense set up by the a~polOgists of the
negro rule, crumbled away, and then
came the collapse. They had
seen the handwriting on the wall.
Everywhere they read in the face of
the brave and chivalrous white men,
Of the state, a cool, calm, infiexible
resolution and determination that
these things must stop, that hereafter
white men should make and admins
fer the laws That negro Sunrpm1cV
should forever end in North Carolina.
Men of less determination, and less
desperation, than the leaders of fusion
in North Carolina, would have quiet
ly submitted to his ineXOrable decree
of the white race, but they did not.
One recourse was left to them. With
a strange fatality they seized upon it.
If white men would not quietly sub
nit to negro domination, then they
determined to force them to submit
The arm of the Federal government
| was invoked for this Armed
troops were asked to be sent here to
force the white people of the state,
at the point of the bayonet to submit
to the of the conditions
which to the ~AnglO-SaXOn are worse
tina death. But where his honor and
his conscience are concerned the An
glo-SaXOn fears not the power of NOR
tai man. LOude and still louder,
! CNey proclaim lnclE uolid1ce. closer
! and still closer, from Currituck to
Cherokee. from Wilmington to Ashe-
Vile, from MOrehead to grand old
Mecklenburg, the sympathy of blood,
brought the white people together, I'M
til party lines and past party affilia-
tons, were wiped out, and men grown
old in the service of the republican
| party, men who had been strongly
rooted in the faith of the pOpulist par
! w from n nn6 of tho Ctotn TO tho
other, gave their adherance to the
| aus Of White Supremacy. and pledg-
ed their faith to their brethren of the
! east, despite Federal bayOnets and eX-
| ecutive prOclamatiOns, to redeem that
fair section of the state from the
reign and domination of the negro.
! And now, right on the eve of the cleo
( ton, after three months of frantic de-
NAL, that there was negro domination
in the east, these desperate men, at
last aroused to a realization that they
| can no longer deceive and humbug the
! people, and hat their fate is settled,
begin a process Of taking down the
J Wretched creatures, whom they had
sought in some counties to elect to Of
flee over the white people of the east,
and with humble apologies, Thereby
admitting all the charges of negro
domination that the democrats have
made,) asked the white people whom
they had sought to put in subsection
to the black man, to forget the wrongs
they have done, and compromise the
issue with thine, by agreeing to sup
port a mongrel ticket. But there are
some things which white men who are
white men do not compromise, as this
whole array of Offce-holderS are be-
ginnig to discover. Driven from every
position of defense, disappointed in
their hope of intimidating and coerc-
ing the people into submitting to their
schemes of negro domination, the des-
perate men, who are now at the head
of affairs in North Carolina, and who
are running the fusion campaign, have
still one reliance left. Their last hope
is a large corruption fund, which they
have extorted from Mark Hanna, the
financial agent of the monopolists of
the United States, under assurances
which they nave given him, hat if
they could carry the state this year, it
will be easier TO carry the state for