The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-14
CONSERVATIVE NEW ENGLAND

| patiently considering the sore and
| complex race problem-rapes and
lynchings-and how to best solve it for
sion of disorders, and for the security
Of both races, fanatical fools are seek
ing to put shavings soaked in kerosene
oil upon the flames, and thereby to
| start a greater confiagration. We are
gratified whenever we see a sensible,
conservative view taken of h sub
ject by northern newspapers. Some Of
the wiser organs show discreeteness
and discrimination. The Boston
Herald, which circulates more widely
lately a calm view Of "lynching." 1t
remembers the wise old saying, Put
| yourself in his place" 1t seeks to aid
the south in settling the very disturb
ing question. Dur excellent contempo-
rary at Richmond, Va, the Dis
| patch, considering what the Herald is
pleased to say with much of candor
n intelligent insight, says this as to
How the north is to aid the South in
ellulHS lyICLluSS, dnu 1t Is d pTdCCl-
cal and judicious suggestions:
well, one way the north can aid the
south is by setting it's face against and
r~eprobating northern demonstrations
of sympathy with the victims of lynch
ings, which demonstrations are NOR
ally tantamount,' if that phrase can be
used, to condoning the damnable crime,
which in most instances causes the
southern people to take the law into
their w hands.
I'm justice to the Herald, it must be
said that it blinks no palliation of that
crime. But we tell it very plainly,
| that SO long as it and other northern
| papers exploit the outbursts of those
who give a public hySterical exhibit
ton of horror every time a negro fiend
! pays the penalty of criminal assault,
or attempted criminal assault, all dis
| Chalmers of itself and it's contemporary
les Of sympathy amount to very little.
| The practical Way for the north to aid
the south in this matter is to hold pub
lie meetings to denOunce the crime
which results in lynching, and thus en-
courage the better class Of negroes to
| denOunce it also"
The Messenger a dozen times has
complained of the unwise, unjust, ini-
Quitous course pursued in the north
| SIC III 90 ~ yllCIllISS. AlIIlOSl III
variably the whites who resent the in
fernal outrages perpetrated upon wives
and daughters and their little girls by
black brutes with speedy death, are
literally cursed out all through the
north, while scarcely a word of censure
the awful crimes. That course is
cruel, is incendiary, and only maddens
those who suffer from the cruelties of
beasts who roam and devour.
The Herald has the good sense and
sincerity to say this of any race an
tagonism that may exist in the SOUTH:
IF the question is to be converted
into n Of race war, the colored peo-
pie are not altogether to blame for it;
neither, We are bound in candOr to say,
are the whites at the south a4one in
fault. The whites of the north, who
went among them in carpet-bag days,
and did SO much ito create race an
tipathies, must bear a heavy portion
Of this ~culpability, and those since i n
both sections who have kept the negro
question open that they might make
the colored man their tool in politics
are not exempt"
Before the great war there were
no rapes of white women by negroes.
But for h madness and criminai folly
of the north in giving the franchise to
the freshly liberated negroes who mad
no qualifications whatever for civic du-
ties and responsibilities; and out Tor
the advent of the carpet-bag plumber
ers, who came las a wolf on the fold,' y
sowing wide the dragons teeth of dis
cord, and holding out false hopes and
deceptive pIUGEises to. the negroes, there
would not haze been one rape perpetual
ed where there lave been one hundred.
The Dispatch is right in saying tina,
the fact is that virtually ali the re-
gro has suffered at the hands of moos,
or by reason of race a~ntagonism, is due
to the villainouS seeds sown by the car
pet-baggeas and the scallawags, AND
which have been sedulously Watered
and made to bring forth continuously
their eva fruit by uhe republican par
Cy, both north and SOUTH
We believe in making tho aIaaticr