The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-20
a POUSING SPEECH AND SOME
DEDUCTIONS.

flashed, il eXcOriated, 1t stlrreu' u
thrilled. it made white men
more perpendicular, more determined 10
win or know the reason why. Iney
were like the brave British were d
great many years ago as to one OF their
faithful countrymen and heroes:
"And must Trelawney die, and must
reIawn die?
Then thirty thousand Cornishmen Will
know the eason why
There are more than 15O,O 900 white men
in North Carolina who will inquire into
the great matter of good government
and free Anglo-Saxons. Mr.. Glenn's
speech is very animated reading. IL
.stirs nightly the soul and strikes with
a bold resounding force the very heart
strings. There is much temptation to
follow him in his vigorous rgumenta-
ton and most satisfactory and pointed
illustrations. But ull who did not hear
it must read the outline report in n
Messenger of yesterday. What could
be more direct, terse, forceful thai this
simple statement of the issue:
ut meant civil life or civil death; 1T
meant sunshine or shadow; 1t meant
Joy or gloom; il meant building up or
tearing down. That issue was who Is
to control, the AnglO-Saxon or the ne
gro2"
Then how emphatic, positive and
true that statement:
There never has been a time e
the party in power was put there by the
negroes but what there was EVIL, dark
ness, ~bloodshed, corruption, disaster.
2. There never was a time when white
men were in power but what there was
peace, good will, good government, a
building up of this great and good
state"
And he proved his case. NO man OF
gumption or ~veracity will e or
gainsay.
The black radical gang builded no
schools, taught no schools, had no pu-
pills. The collected from a prostrate,
poverty-smitten people $500. 900 for an
asylum and not one brick was layed.
They were tried as to duty, and being
they were found wanting The dem
ocrats dropped dOwn the taxes when
they got into power from the high and
robber-like mark of Sc to the sensible,
just sum of 21-four times less. They
sowed and reaped their crops and
gathered into barns, and then gave
each year increasing hundreds of thou
sands of ollar to ducat the little
nigs' and the white children. Last
year it fell but little short of one mil
lion dollars. and the promise is to do
yet more liberal and needed things
for popular education by increasing the
school revenue. Make it next S1.25O,OOO
and then under Gods blessing strike
for still higher and nobler work among
the children of the lear old state.
But how did the fusion gang behave
itself as to taxation when they so I'm
fortunately got into power by promises,
plots and combinations? They took a
leap in the dark and put up the taxes
at once to more than double that levied
by the democrats. They found it q
and made it with an kangaroo leap 46.
Let us urn from the speech to con-
slider for a few minutes the common
schools under black radical rule. 1t
closed the university of North Carroll
ma, that highest expression of the
manhood of the state in education. II
closed all the public schools. Not a lit
tie blackamoor got knowledge Of a let
ter in the alphabet. The poor white
children starved as to edcation. The
record of the black radical party for
ten years was unseemly, most wretch
ed, most shameful. for it blasted and
purloined. No civilized country in a
fh@RuSa nd wars hos We p,oda Sfroh m
exhibit of i~ncapacity, ~rapacity. audac-
ity and general recklessness and I'M
doing. Take education, without con-
sidering the other abuses. wrongs and
populations. For the fiscal year ending
S0th September. 1869. it spent (stole)
$167 ,15S, of the common school educa-
tional fund. No a dollar went to the
children of either race. The legislators
black radicals-divided this entire
sum among their roguish selves. The
next year showed a considerable income
ostensibly for the schools. In W years
OF sS1O,5sS.19 raised for education but
SSS,sSl-S6, were used for that purpose
tnat would hav beer served. The
democratic party exhibited a very diff
ferent spirit, and showed itself indeed
the friend OF education and OF ignorant
negro children. 1t steadily increased
the educational fund. 1t established
schools also in many places. 1t proyid-
ed better teachers and gave longer
school terms. 1t set about in great
earnestness for the betterment of North
Carolina and to widely extend educa-
tional results. AS was set forth two
years ago it established a normal school
at the university for the white teach
ers, and the state normal school at
Fayetteville for the colored teachers.
These were followed by others at diff
ferent points in the state for each race,
nd these, in turn. were followed by
eachers' Institute in most or all the
Gounties of the state. These efforts at