The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31
WILMINGTON. n. C.
FRIDAY, MARCH 81, 1898.
THE REAL Feelings OF WHITES
FOR NEGROES

Bishop Turner of the colored Metho- |
dists. is represented as being very de-
spondent of his race. He says that the
old friends of his people-those reared
among them prior to the RI |
nearly all passed away, and those now
living have not the same feelings for
or sympathy with the negroes that the
first class had. There is left a consid-
cradle per centage of whites who were
b n prior to 1860, and those are GER
tainly friendly to the negroes and nave
shown it all along. 1t is manifest by
acts that a large proportion of the
white who were born after 1860, are by
no means unkindly disposed toward
<'the colored man and brother" They
are not only their patrons and friends,
but are standing by them in the matter
of asylums and education. A large
majority of the whites in the recent
North Carolina Legislature were born
since 1855, and yet they voted down any
proposition that looked to withdrawing
school helf from the negroes and learn
ing them to provide for the education
of their own race.
There are a great many excellent,
quiet, orderly colored people in all
towns and communities-people who
have good records and whose characters
would be sustained by the best white
citizens. They have not acted wisely
O prudently or gratefully in always
~antagonizing at the polls the real in
terests of their best friends, their
whites employers and neighbors. The
whites have overlooked much and for
bore long. At last, patience exhausted,
and ruined threatened, n injuries al
ready received, the whites last year re-
solved to be free, and that henceforth
in North Carolina it should be white
supremacy and a white mans govern
-rnant. 1t was then that the patrons
and the true friends of the negroes
took up the white mans burden"
The trouble is that in the north the
real conditions are not understood, and
the true feelings of the white are not
known. In fact the good feeling of the
whites for the negro race still exists,
but that does not mean that there shall
te negro rule by the ballot, or a reign
of laWlessness. The past record of the
south as to the negroes is not one to
be ashamed of. The whole trouble
that was precipitated upon the south
came from Intermediates, from the Off
cious north, from hostile influence and
bad laws. The outside forces have
done more thar all else to fasten trouble
upon the south and divide the races.
Northern men living in the south since
1865, have often proved themselves dis
turbers of the peace, and enemies to
the best interests of the whites. Much
wrong has been done by this aggressive
and ignorant intermeddling. A we'll
thoughtout paper in Self-Culture, an
able monthly published at Akron, Ohio,
by Mr.. H. M. Aver, of Olar, South Car
DINA, presents views we'll worth con-
Slu6rlnS. buL we nave IOOut W Dut OAS
point. He --r:tes:
"Mr. Smith touches a pregnant spring
when he refers to the distrust and fear
which is begotten in a superior race
from forced association with an inferior
n and the mad excuses that flow
when the foul stream of adherence is
opened. We need not look to the his
tory of the Sepoy rebellion for instances
of horror. Unfortunately, nearly every
state in the union has afforded EXAM
pies enough to teach the lesson which
wo Id impress or our readers. I'm
der the old condition of things there
ives love and a certain confidence be-
tween the two races in this country,
protection on the one side and fidelity
on the other, authority and respect,
the watchful care of the owner and he
willing service of the slave. Ante
bellum times afford few examples Of
trouble and strife, and the few that are
to be found may be said to have been
the result, without the exception, of out
side agitation"
The whites naturally and of course
have no kind feelings for the vicious,
lawless element that steal and rob and
burn and murder and commit assaults
upon women and children. Such
curses, such Pariahs only need the
sternest punishment and the quick adj
ministration of the law.
FACTS AS TO COLLEGE MEN In