Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-11-17
IT WAS REVOLUTION.
THE CHANGE AT WINNINGS
TON NOT WORK OF A MOB.
The People Exercised Their Su-
preme Right of Self Peserva-
tiOn Against Insufferable
Conditions
Imp osed By Obnoxious Rulers Under the
Guise of the Understandable Editor
ial From q Northern Paper.
Brooklyn Citizen.


ed ownership of the Philippines,
with its possible consequences, the
tutelage of almost unknown, het-
erogenous mongrel, Malay races
and possible complications with
European powers, are not the
gravost subjects the people of this
country will have to face in the
lear future. There is an element
of danger in our institutions as
they are now framed, little
thought of by the people of the
northern sections, but of the deep
est, ever-present import to the
people of the south, which must
be met in time not far distant, and
which may well excite %apprehen-
sion in the minds of statesmen and
common people alike. Occasion
ally this d~eep~seated evil appears
on the surface in the form of
some bloody collision like that at
Wilmington yesterday, suggest
ing the direct possibilities and
bringing forcibly to consciousness
the mistakes of our statesmen and
of the people of nearly a genera
ton ago.
Yesterday in the loyal and high
ly cultured city of Wilmington,
North Carolina, a bloody illustra-
ton of the evils of negro domina~
ton in the south were illustrated.
An armed collision over the con-
troll of the municipal government
resulted in the killing of nine ne
groes, the wounding of three
whites, the revolutionary wrest-
ing of the city Offices from the col
cred men, and their assumption by
the whites. 1t is easily for the
Imagination to see these occurrences
spread all over the south wherever
the colored man is dominant, and
one-half of the country practically
in civil war, and the most cruel
and ruthless species of i%nternicine
strife-a war between races. How
this more than possible evil loom
ing up in the near future can be
avoided is the gravest problem be-
fore the country to-day.
1t requires no argument to
prove that a white man will not
consent to be ruled by a negro.
Right or wrong has nothing to dc
with the question at all. The fact
exists. So deeply seated is the
the a~ntagonistic feeling of preju.
dice, if such it may be called, that
it becomes a part of the mental
and moral constitution of the
white race of this country. The
most uncompromising of the older
time abolitionists of the land were
really no exception. Their hearts
bled and their sympathies were
excited over the wrongs inflicted
by the sum of all villainies. But
none of them was ever found sc
far advanced as to invite a future
in which all of the civil Offices Of
a locality should be filled by black
men. Under the conditions exist
ing in the south, where the ne
groes, as at Wilmington, are II
the majority, just the conditions
of affairs exists. The negroes act
as a body. They do not vote as
ciCizens but as negroes. 1heil
only party is the black party. Il
is all very well to say that that i,
their right under the constitution
and the laws. They may be ad
mitted. Constitutions and laws
are not always right. They AL
often uncomfortable. When that is 81
and no other redress is possibl,
men appeal to another right
as sacred as any other hu
man right, the right of rev.
olution. If they fail they
take the consequences, KNOWN;
before hand what they would be
If they succeed they are not rebel
or revolutionlsts, but the princi
pies they establish by force becom'
thereby constitutional rights ant
are such before the act of formu
lation.
The people of the south will
not submit to be governed b,
negroes. Before they will yielt