The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22
A NEW YORK m EVAN
GELIZING. NEGROF>.

line New 1Ork OUTLOOK IS one Vi Tie
large weeklies in the north thar look
through a glass darkly when their eyes
are directed towards the south. In 4
recent article or the Negro Advance
ment" it shows the usual inability TO
grasp the situation, but makes some
admissions that show that even the
cock+slre Outlook has a vision" 1t
is in fact an admission, a confession
Of error and blindness on the part Of
the all-wise north. The article is a
mixture or ignorance and intelligence,
OF business and ~perpicacity that so
often mark the organs Of thought" in
Yankeedoodledom when touching the
south at any point. For instance il
says that during the war when the
whole civilized world expected TO see
them rise up in insurrection onaccUunt
Of the supposed brutalities of which
. they had been the victims in servitude,"
the negroes remained at home quiet
and we'll behaved. The Charlotte Pres
byterian Standards comment fits pre-
eisely:
las the whole civilized world wa
disappointed it would be an easy solu-
ton to confess that the brutalitieS did
not exist. The southern soldiers trust
ed the negro and was not ungrateful
for his fidelity. Blu the master had
laid the foundation for both confidence
and fidelity by kindness to the slave
The effort to produce such bad re-
suits was made. Even the greatly v
praised Abraham Lincoln, shocked
Seward and other extreme northern
politicians by the brutality of his
Proclamation" as to freeing the slaves.
so he openly declared that the real
solution was to cause the negroes to
slay all the women, children and old
men in the south. That was beyond
doubt the most deliberate, devilish,
cruel deed W. done by an American.
. Lincoln deserves to be held in eternal
hatred by every true man and woman
[, in the south. His act was deliberate
and absolutely satanic. Since the war
ended other acts have been perpetrat-
ed the intent Of which was to array the
liberated negroes against the whites a.
through the south. The Outlook CEN
sures the southern whites for not ed
, ucating and Outstanding the freed
negroes after war had ceased. The
Standard says:
Speaking for the Presbyterian
church, it could not 'inaugurate' work
already successfully begun. And i
could not help the robbery of its negro
members by the northern church nor
the prejudice which was instilled into
the negrO's mind in reconstruction
days so as to prevent the religious in
struction that he had formerly receiv-
; ed. 1t committed the religious welfare
~ +ho ar,>a in+~ +hn II odd 80 .r,>-a
who had emancipated them Yes, IL
was forced"
Those marplots and incerdiaries in
the north arouse all Of the bitterness
in the negro's heart against the south
and thirty years after indulge in SLAM
der and censure OF the whites because
they could not do the impossible. The
north sows the cookie and tares and
then "cusses out" the south for not
having a rich harvest Of wheat. But
farther. Al this late day the knowing
Outlook has learned something fresh
1t has made the discovery that the
criminal reports show that the negroes
have. unhappily, o made the same
progress in morals which they have
made in text books" Just so, OF
course, Upon this the Standard com
ments in this pointed way:
1T is worth a little abuse OF the
southern people 10 hear that admission
| from a publication whose editor was
! the successor Of Henry Ward Beecher.
Then follows the admission of the
claim which the southern people have
bee makig for themselves all along
They possess the confdeDce and es-
TEEN OF the negroes and rhey can labor
among them much moreI conveniently
than those Of other sections If that
position had been ta3en thirty-five
years ago, what a worldfof harm would
have been prevented.'Y
By the end OF the dext century it is
TO be hoped that the north will have
made SONS other discoveries as to the
south The time may come sooner
when IL viii despise its own bad work
I'M roCmStrTfctfcm times