The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-09
Uhl IIlrssrn9er.
ONE MORE HEARING FROM NEGRO
PREACHERS.

fJ4C IA u $1,000
unon the characters Of southern white
women. In fact he brought an indict-
ment against their virtue, their chasti-
Nv Il is we'll he talks that way where
there are other s~coundrels in sympathy
with the traducer. He also urges the
organizing of 100000 negroes 10 invade
the south, and predicts a race war.
This is the sort Of beast who would
proyoke the races 70 war. II CaI.us
will come with the 100000 h and MS
gang will be welcomed with bloody
hands to hospitable graves But why
should such clerical puppies be noticed
Rev. John a. BTockett, Is a pastor u
a Methodist church a. Atlanta and an
instructor in the theological. depart
ment Of the Morris Brown college IL
that city. lie writes 10 the Atlanta
Constitution and says Of the TapIst
Hose:
Mr.. Editor, | wish that your read
ers II the dominant race might kno"
how vast is the regret and how unut-
terahIe is the sorrow which fills the
mind Of the thoughtful and sober
minded people Of our race, that such
q crime has been committed; yet, are
we, as a race, responsible!
How much more sensibl t and decent
is hat tone, as well as Christian, u
the bowling wolf in Sleeps clothing
at Syracuse.
The north scores the south for us
barbarisn, it's want Uf civilization, Its
cruelties, it's general baseness. Its lg-
norance, it's crimes. And yet there are
more crimes among the whites IN Mas
~sachusetts thar among the whites IN
North Carolina. The United States
census shows hat. The plous frauds
'up there" are asking-Whether any
civilization will remain in the south:
The south is sorely afflicted, and by
reason Of rapes, crimes and outrages.
But the mob riots and s~laughterlng IN
the north equal any thing OF the klpd
that has ever marked the south. Inc
best brief reply to the insulting in
quiry of the supercilious slanderers
in YankeedoodIedOm is the following
we clip from an editorial in the Hous-
ton CTexas) Post:
1T might be pertinent 10 ask whether
New England remained civilized after
the burning Of the WitChes-pOOr VIC
TINS not of a sudden madness, but OF a
coldblOOded cruelty and an absence OF
the common instincts Of humanity! IL
might be asked whether CIVILIZATION re-
manned in New York after the draft
riots, referred to the other day by the
New York Journal, when a negro VINO
had committed nc crime was pursued
through the streets OF New York, SIM
ply because he was a negro, by an IN
rfuriated mob Of men and women, was
caught, hanged to a lamp post and nor
ribly mutilated and left hanging with
an infamous placard' upon the
vcorpse?"
1T is clear and patent enough that all
the savagerv and deviltry do not belong
exclusively to the south. The great
north has its full share and should be
silent, and reform its manners and
morals.
A negro preacher in the north, Rev.
II G.. 9. Atwood, writes to the New
York Journal, from which we copy,
that shows in most striking contrast TO
the utterance of the negro tire-eater
quoted from at the start-the scoundrel
who abuses the pure white women In
The south. Atwood writes:
II protest with millions of laW-abld-
ing colored people, against the aWtul
crime of %assaulting women II the
murder of men and women by these
fiends called negroes, who brand the
whole race with the stigma OF their
hellish deeds. .
80 long as a woman is thus treated
and there is a husband, father, son or
brother, the criminal will be lynched.
No law can stop it and no section pre-
vent it. The only remedy is TO stop
the evil
His remedy is the only one, the one
the Messenger has urged an hundred
times. He is so persuaded that the
black devils who roam and rape
should be eXtinguished that he
says that If the remedy suggested by
Mrs. FELTON, would put a stop 10 the
terrible dual barbarism, and if ten
thousand of such brutes instead Of one
could be found, and one general lynch
ing would wipe out the crime, | would
say do it." There are some thousands
of evil disposed, bad white men and
negroes in the south who could be vel
spared. Our "civilization' would bt
very greatly elevated by their depar
y ture. If hanged we'll or if they would
f~:leave their country for their country:
gotod.'
AtW@qod is superintendent of the mis-
sion for GVba of The African NJ. E
church. Rev.\ H. B. Park is secretar
of the home ana \foreign mission boar
of the same CHURCH. Writing of tn
Georgia crime he gives this:
AN extraordinary N~efort on the PAL