The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08
SOUTH AFRICAN aoEs


Like Condauous Produce Like ascsalsa
the world over The DEGRADED
siaeks Of Rhode~ia
(From the New Orleans Picayune.)
People who only know by report the
condition of affairs IN countries where
the negroes greatly outnumber the
whites gave little or no consideration
to the subject and fail entirely to rca-
lie the situation under such circum-
stances.
In all such countries, be IL In Ameri-
ca, Africa or elsewhere, the whites
must either maintain their supremacy
by force and superior moral power or
they are driven our or brought under
subsection to the blacks. This Is the
case in the British dominfons of Cape
Colony. Rhodesia and elsewhere.
For ON time past a number of
Hottencots. from Africa. hav been On
exhibition n Eara's Court, London.
These blacks are described as degraded
and immoral N the extreme. and they
are shockingly open IN the expositions
OF their depravity. and yet these crea-
lures a attractsd great attention
from many white women OF the higher
classes. Mr.. III. Lucius pcarse. who
has lived in Rhodesia, South Africa, In
n long letter to the London Mail. under
date of August 18th. deplores the at
tention bestowed by the whites on the
negro savages. In he curse of his OBJ
| servations he said:
Residence for some time in n part
| Of Rhodesia, where one finds constant
opportunities to study the Matabele IN
many moods, has convinced me that
any familiarity Of white women with
natives OF this tribe cannot be o en-
phatically denounced.
I'VE who have made close acquaint-
nee with the natives OF South Africa
in their own country, and learned by
experience on what small things the
supremacy over black races sometimes
depends. cannot help feeling strong
disgust and horror at the way in which
these people are treated by the crowds
women more especially-who visit
the kraal at Earl's Court.
1T must be remembered thai in the
European colonies in Rhodesia and
many other parts of South Africa there
is not one, but thousands. OF natives
whose hostility Is only suppressed or
held in check by a dread OF the white
man, based on a belief in his moral SUI
%periority, which they accept az proof
OF a physical power behind him"
This brief extract shows the condi-
tons which exist in the British colo
MES in South Africa, and they are not
different from those that obtain In
many parts Of the southern states
where the negroes outnumber the
whites five to one. as at Darien. Ga,
where there have been very recently
most serious race disturbances. The
people in the northern states who
speak and write with such fury and
hate at the determination Of the south
ern people, under such circumstances
as have been mentioned, to protect their
women at any cost, are doubtless en-
tirely ignorant Of the actual facts in
most of such cases: otherwise their vio-
lent language is the expression of de-
liberate prejudice and malignity.
But nc matter what the northern peo-
pie may speak or write In denuncia-
ton of the southern whites, they will
continue to protect themselves and
families by every means in their power
from the assaults of human bestiality.
1t is proper to mention In regard TO
the Hottentot show in London, that the
authorities ave closed ii.