The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03

people, i~noffensive and unlettered, have
been allowing John Newell and others
like him to enter their house and talk
politics and social matters until the
way was opened for a scandal like this.
North Carolina has On her statute books
a law prohibiting the intermarriage of
the white and negro race"
He mentions that the fanatical fool
Tom Fortune, the negro editor of the
New York Age. lately introduced a res
olution in a negro conference in h
north demanding the repeal of all avs
prohibiting intermarriage between the
whites and negroes Here is the ami
mus Of the rascals Of the Fortune and
Manly type. They long to bring about
amalgamation among the W. races.
They do wish or aim to elevate the
white race, but to draw it down to the
level of their own Let the white men
remember too that s~candalous, defama-
tory, villainous article by the scoundrel
Manly. That he got away alive is a
tribute to the ~forbearance and mercy
of the indignant whites. But the day
- SeSA liz - pooSo(u ANo"-
Swift and angry punishment would fol-
low now sue an article. Do not open
the doors wide for a great importation
of negroes from the other southern
states. Rather than that favor any
amount Of deportation. But adopt the
amendment and you will cure this and
other threatened evils.
Co. III: iii
gro question. If the negro vote is elm
mated or greatly educed, then with
the defeat OF the amendment North
Carolina will be between two states
Virginia on the north and South Cor
DINA on the south-both of which an
tagonize and control the negro vote,
and thus thousands from either state
will flock into u own state that opens
wide the doc to negro interlopers who
are eager to resume voting in the old
way, under the control of mean whites,
and anxious to help govern the white
ourden-bearers. Can any one but a
stark fool or an unmitigated rascal de-
sire such an ending, such a result?
We recently cut from an exchange a
Well considered editorial in the Murphy
Democrat upon the effects of the
amendment. If defeated, it says, the
result must be this:
THE resul will undoubtedly be that
the state will be the mecca, the Edo
RADIO of every ambitious, inSolent negro
in the United States, for the negro loves
to vote. Denied hat privilege in every
other southern state he will turn his
| ctanc tnuyorl fhiC state on1 onnnIi1xv
Over-running eastern Carolina, will
settle even in the mountains in large
numbers. Encouraged and led on by
ofice-holders and office seekers he will
be impudent and assertive and it will
inaugurate a reign of riot, terror and
bloodshed that has been equalled.
Whoever may be at fault for this, the
negro will be the greatest sufferer.
This, the western part of North Car
DINA, which has not been troubled with
the negroes to any extent Except per-
haps in Asheville) will have her dose
of the distasteful mess, unless We, by
our votes, ratify the amendment in
August. The picture is a dark one, yet
not overdrawn."
South Virginia, Tennessee and South
Carolina a easily swell the numbers
Of negroes in western Carolina. We
car see no possible reason for believing
that a great immigration of negroes
into North Carolina shall not follow the
defeat of the amendment. They will
come as the locust come and will cover
the land-will help to devour the sub
stance from Currituck to Cherokee,
from the ocean to the northern border.
GOV. RUSSELL on TIE AMEND
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