The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-20
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
NEW CROP OF NORTHERN SIAN
DERERS

No better justification of the white
revolution ut Wilmington, n c.. could be
furnished from a hostile quarter than
was afforded by the spirit which charac-
teriZed the colored mass-meeting held in
New York Thursday night, and reported
in the newspapers of yesterday, to pro-
test against So-called Southern out
RACES" The attitude of the negro as
illustrated at a meeting supposed to be
representative of the best colored ele-
ments, is demonstrated to be that of bit
ter hostility toward Southern white peo-
pie and of savage desire to humiliate
and crush them. 1t was the same spirit
as that displayed when the negroes were
i'll the ascendency at Wilmington, and
which led them to heap insults and con.
tumely upon the white victims of their
misgovernment. 1t was the spirit which
rendered the situation at Wilmington in
tolerable and made revolution a necess .ty
While it may be conceded that their at
titude is mainly attributable to the po-
litical Adventures and fanatics who have
inhamed their minds and played upon
their passions, it is clear that
it is an attitude which not only
justified but demanded heroic measures
such as were adopted ut Wilmington
and which will render it necessary to
maintain a firm hand upon them until
they have reached far higher condition
of civilization than they have yet at.
tanned. The false teaching of the past
thirty years has done infinitely more
moral harm to the negro than all the
generations of slavery through which
he passed. Slavery found him savage
and in multitudes of cases made him
Christian and i'll many instances gave
him the refinement and good form which
were developed even in dependents by the
high social standards of the old South.
The political education which Ae has re.
ceiyed from New England sources since
emancipation has confused his brain.
perverted his heart and corrupted his
manners, and instead of really progress
ing, there is danger, under the banefu
influence of the morbid and unprincipled
guidance to which he has been exposed,
that he may revert to the original type
from which slavery rescued him, except
that this renaissance of barbarism in him
will be accomplished with the vices of
civilization and the power for mischief
which civilization confers upon those whit
are in it but not of it.
If the negro is to avoid this danger and
develop into higher manhood and clti-
zenship. he must free himself from the
evil influences and teachings under which
he has been degenerating since the wal
As long as he suffers himself to be abused
by bad counsel and kept in false att
tude toward the Southern white people.
just so long will he continue to retro
grade in character and responsibility
He has seen the effect of thirty years OF
financial political education. Let him
turn away from the school of hate def
ancc and distrust in which he has been
trained and try thirty years of good
will toward and cooperation with the
white people of the South. If he does
he will rise to higher stature and
higher degree of prosperity than ever be
fore. His home and abiding PLACE is i
the South. and he should recognize the
fact that his interests are bound up III
the prosperity and progress of that sec
ton and are dependent upon the relation
in which he stands to the dominant
classes there.
While the negro is to be regarded
more with pity than with anger, because
the victim of pernicious system OF
political philosophy and pretended philan'
thropy, it is impossible to find i'll the
English language words sufficiently
strange to properly describe the white
hypocrites and political criminals wht
have mislead him in the past and are
still endeavoring to fire his heart agalns
the South. Such wanton, malicious ant
unspeakably abominable asperslon'
against Southern women as were ut
tered at the New York meeting by one
Mrs. Elizabeth Il. Grannis could sprins
only from a heart as black with hate
as the foul and shameful SANDERS which
she uttered The New York Sun de
scribes her remarks as unprintable. al
extract from her address, as given III
yesterdays dispatches, was as follows:
L am only here tonight to repre-
sent womanho0d.' said Mrs. Grannis.
we all know that the white women
and white girls of the South are full
of coored blood. | stand here for
colored women and colored girls the
same as | do for white women
"At this Il wild uproar ensued.
The colored men and women jumped
up in the ases to cheer. Many
laughed and gave vent to hysterical
ordinations Others mounted their
seats and waved their hats.
The pure and true women of the
South can afford to treat this llbeler with
the contempt with which they would
regard the rawlings of n foul-minded
maniac, but her utterances illustrate the
spirit of sectional hate toward the South
which still prevails in some quarters of
the North and which apostles of human
ity like Mrs. Grannis are continually en-
deavoring to fan into a general flame.
They stop at no SANDER, no lie, no Will
fication. no matter how gross and detes
table, if it gives them the opportunity
to spit out their malignant venom
against the South. They are the petty
and vulgar political descendants of THAI
wholesale libeler. Mrs. Harriet Beeeher
Stowe. who had more imagination and
lust as little regard for truth as her imi
tators of the present day. The wrong
and injury which "Uncle Toms Cabin
inflicted upon the country are incalcula-
bic. That wrong and injury still live,
and, like John Brown s~spirit, seem to be
marching on for still further evil As
is pointed out in the recently issued
United States history of Susan Pendle-
ton, Lee, Mrs Stowe had never beer
South nor seen slavery and Slaye-OWner>