The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15
A NEGROES LIBEL ON THE SOUTH
vile Denunciation of the white People
or Augusta, Ga . by yegro Paper In
Washington City-The Editor . Close
Ally OF Hanna-Marked Houors Con-
ferred Upon Him b. Republicans

Ally OF Hanna-Marked Houors Com
ferred Upon Him by Republicans
Especial to Atlanta Journal June sth.)
Washington. June s-w. Calvin
Chase. the most notorsour negro law
yer editor and politician in the east.
the first lieutenant TO National Chair
man Hanna. \ delegate TO the nation
al republican convention and the car
OF the contingency in the dis
trict. Is up in arms AZ the white people
~ Augusta. Ga. because on last Sat
urday they denounced In mass meet
ing an editorial IN Chase's paper. The
Washington Bee. referring TO the re-
cent l~ynching in that city as he act
OF towards. brutes." etc. II will be
recalled that one OF the o promi-
nent young white men in Augusta was
murdered without provocation by
William Wilson. a negro. who was
subsequently iynched. Another negro
with a woman companion had entered
a street car and occupied the seat on
which this young white man vas sit
ting. The negro escort sat on the
lap OF the white man. and when re-
proven. NlASon, VINO was one seat IN
front. and apparently a strange to
all. turned. and with an epithet. shot
the young white man down. IL arous-
ed great race excitement that has not
yet subsidized. Chase. the Washington
editor. published the following refer
ence to the tragedy:
The lynching OF William Wilson. a
a popular young mechanic. in Angus
to. Ga, a few days ago Is another one
OF those damnable sins for which the
south must be held responsible Mr..
Wilson died unfolding the virtue OF
Miss Beatrice Jones. one OF Georgia's
most refined and highly respected
young ladies. The white wretch who
offered the insult fell at the hands OF
this young martyr. and the unpleasant
thought that such a brilliant career
a to be sacrificed for one portray
ing the worst type of criminality Is
not only unfortunate. but sad 10 the
extreme"
II was the republication OF this arti-
Gle in the Augusta negro paper that
caused the excitement Saturday. and
the local editor was made TO retract-
Chase. evidently expecting trouble.
secured a copy OF Sundays Augusta
Chronicle carrying the entire story.
Today, in an editorial that viii appear
in his paper about s O'Clock this after
noon, he will reiterate his scathing at
tack and further denounce he whites
OF the Georgia city in a manner that
many lead to more trouble. l have
secured from The bee office an ad-
vance proof of that editorial. He re-
counts in his way the circumstances
of the murder and lynching. and among
other things, says: 1T ppear from
that rebe, sheet. The Augusta (Ga.)
Chronicle, that the distinguished Rev.
w. J. White, editor OF The Georgia
Baptist, was about to be aynched by
yrh q = fS knnu-n q q tho frat blood nf
the town because he reproduced an ed
itorial that appeared In The Bee some
few weeks g extoling the patriotism
of the young negro who shot and
killed a white rufian who had insuited
him and his lady escort.
IF The Augusta Daily Chronicle Is
telling the truth. the editor is no
doubt as bad as the mob that was
about to lynch Rev. Mr.. White. The
people of Augusta, the home OF the
| distinguished register OF the treasury.
who always speaks web Of the white
| people of Augusta. are a a set.
The mob actually compelled Rev.
White 10 sign a letter declaring that
he did not know anything about the
article from The Bee that appeared In
his paper. If the editor OF The Bee
was in Augusta, Ga, he would make
those Georgia hay seeds eat crow n
would teach the editor OF the Augusta
Chronicle a lesson that he would not
soon forget. There was one brave ne
gro present. but the white mob soon
hustled him off with a broke head"
He refers to a young negro on the
outskirts of the Saturdays mass meet
ing who made some insulting remark
and was promptly arrested.
Continuing, Chase says in reiterat-
ing his former article:
These southern racke jacks never
had a lecture read to them before by
a negro editor. The editor Of The Bee
would say the same thing in Georgia
that he would say in this city. Some
one must teach these rebels OF the
south that the tim has come Tor them
to cease killing negroes and insulting
their women"
The editorial concludes as follows:
The negro who hot and killed this
white man did ii in sek-defense. 1t
was the mo brutal and cowardly
killing of a negro that has ever occur
red in the south. This mob OF Angus
ia, Ga, Is now endeavoring to hide
its own villainy and show to the people
Of the north hat the innocent negro
was to blame. The negro has nothing
to fear" -
1t is a fac that one special train that
will carry delegates and republican
politicians from Washington to PhAa-
delphia on the 18th of June will be
named in honor of the author OF this
editorial. It Is announced in local pa
pears that the train Will be gayly dec
GRATED with streamers In the national
colors, bearing the inscription wv Cal
vim Chase Special"