The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-05

La to prevent. II women would
practice with the rife and pistol they
might protect themselves and children
against the vile intruders that lie In
wait He is quoted as saying. and the
suggestion is good and timely for iso-
lated homes:
"All such homes as you name shall
be made miniature ~arSenals, at least TO
the extent of one good Winchester and
one good pistol. An occasional negro
lying dead in the back yard, shot By a
brave woman in defense of her honor,
will do more to stop this awful crime
than all the lynching that may occur
in a year"
We see that Mr.. S. NJ. Inman, of
Georgia, advances an idea that is pro-
badly sound. He says:
81 believe 95 per cent of the white
men and negro men Of the south are as
respectful toward women as any peo-
ple on earth, but the other 5 per cent
of white and negro scoundrels, tramps
and brutes are responsible for all the
trouble. How to reach these is the
problem
It is clearly in the interest of the en-
tire So per cent to hold and work to-
gether in determination and with one
purpose to extirpate if possible the 5
per cent and thus rid the south of the
disturbing incarnate devils, or if not to
extirpate to suppress them with guns
and men behind them. The negroes
heretofore have done nothing to intim-
idate rapists and murderers. They
have been silent or Indifferent to the
repetition of the darkest of crimes, the
one that stirs the white mans soul
down to it's profoundest depths, and
compels him to action and to a fixed,
| resolved purpose to kill, and some even
| go so far, as to burn In the commun-
ity where the awful crime was COM
mitted by the beastly black devil it was
we'll known to his race what had been
done. Governor Gambler says:
The negroes of that community lost
the best opportunity they will ever
I, have to elevate themselves in the esti-
nation of their white neighbors. The
diabolical nature of the double crime
was we'll known to every one Of them;
the perpetrator was well known, and
; they owed it t. their race to exhaust
! every means Of bringing Holt tc justice.
This course would have done more to
| elevate them in the estimation Of good
people and to protect their race against
| the mob than all the rewards and pro-
! CARNATIONS of all the governors for the
next fifty years. But they lost the op-
portunity, and it is a d%eplorable fact
that while scores of intelligent negroes.
, leaders of their race, in the remotest
, way, alluded to neither the burning OF
Palmetto, which provoked the lynch
ing, nor to the diabolical crime OF
Holt"
The negro bishop, H. M. Turner, lives
in Georgia we think. Preaching to the
negroes at Athens on 30th ult, he re-
affirmed his old opinion that the ne
! groes must all go to Africa. He is well
| esteemed in Georgia by both races. In
his sermon he urged the negroes one
| and all, "to conduct themselves Alright
! and to teach their children to observe
! law and religion. He said the news
papers Of Georgia had done the negro
preachers a great injustice by saying
. they were not preaching to their con-
! gregations against the crimes of muir
/ der, rap. and arson. He said the min
listers did preach against. such crimes
How is it in North Carolina? Have
any such sermons been preached to ne
gro congregations? The chief point OF
the colored bishops discourse was that
che would rather his people were again
in slavery, with the protection it af-
forded, than in their present condition.
; He said the negro was brought here.
and given civilization in order that he
might go to Africa and civilize those
, people. 1t was his opinion that the
great question would never be settled
until the negro obeyed Gods manifest
will and returned to Africa"