The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-20

1AAe 49, @l@ 800
tons blessing and beneitting the
blind, the dumb, the deaf, insane, and
even the LCor drunkard. What else"
See the Western North Carolina rail-
o and the ANAL Of the east the
joining OF the pluck OF the west with
h push OF the east All this
more they did making North Carolina
the greatest and truest and best state
south of the Mason and Dixon line.
(cheers.)
But dissatisfaction arose. There
people who wanted to reform the par
" and weren't able to see that the best
way TO do il was on the inside.
The Third Party sprang int be-
ing. Its watchword soon got to be
anything to beat the d-n demo
Gratis? Designing politicians got in
their work and promised TO fill pauper
basket with free silver and a dozen
more impossible things. The negroes
were put on top. What was the re-
suit? In 1894 the tax went up from q
to 46 cents. Even the "non-partisan"
supreme court Of North Carolina de-
clared this was unconstitutional. Then
a board of capitalization was formed
and this meant accusing the honest
people of the state of having committed
perjury. An inheritance tax was pass
ed; the people were taxed e living
and were afraid to die for fear they
"Oulu bc IdACu "hC dNoa. " NOoAA
have stood all that. We had dealt with
corruption before, but under the chang
ed conditions, the negro forgot his
place. He no longer divided the street
with the white man, he no longer said
Marse Bob or 'Marse John TO the
white man, but called him Tom, Dick
or Harry. Things went from bad to
, worse until like a clash of thunder
from the clear sky the editorial of the
negro Manly came forth. The wording
of this was too vile to be repeated in
the presence of the pure women pres
ent, but it's substance conld be given.
1t meant that pure white women were
longing for the day to come when they
would take to their bosoms TO love,
honor and obey as their husbands the
miserable black man that walks our
streets. 1t meant that A~nglo-SaXon
men had forgotten themselves and
wanted to take as their wives dirty
and filthy and degraded wenches. Are
you surprised that Wilmington people
did what they did? l am not. 1 take
off my hat to them and 1 call their act
the ~grandest ever committed in North
Carolina. tremendous cheering.)
That miserable low-down foxy cur,
Marion Butler, says that Waddell and
his associates were -aSSaSSinS. l say
that Waddells name and that of those
who stood with him will last n shine
forth in the history of the state when
that of Butler will have been buried in
infamy n disgrace.
The speaker then his eX-.
perienceS in visiting New hanover and
Craven counties in 1898 and seeing how
thoroughly those were under
negro domination. Next he described
a visit to Raleigh and the terrible in
! cident of Jim Young's being appointed
inspector for the institution for the
blind. In words that glowed with anger
and passion he told of Young's examin-
ing The little garments that were to be
worn by the little white children of the
institution, and in almost a frenzy of
feeling drew the horrifying picture Of
Young removing the cover from the
sleeping form of a child, saying Il,
Jim Young must see how this little
girl is dressed for the night" Ought
. sue things to be? No, no., no. Outside
the building on a marble slab were
wrought the letters of the mann OF
| Jim Young. L want to tell you that the
first thing the legislature of 1899 did
| was to set an architect to work chiSel-
ing out the name of Jim Young.
! Referring to the legislature brought
the speaker into an argument in be-
half of the constitutional amendment.
! The amendment, he said, was the fruit
of hours, days and weeks of labor. De-
cisions of all the courts were gone over.
Opinions in this and other states were
asked. The legislators had done the
| best they could and the question was
now submitted to the people. Pass it
and peace, good will, and good gov
eminent will reign. Vote it down,
| blood will run in your streets n death
will walk abroad in the land; riot,
corruption, shame and disgrace will
result. Stop, stop, stop before you cast
a ballot against the amendment!
Those who are against the amend
/ ment were then cited. Pritchard, whose
motive is money; Butler, who only got
his law license last September, and
wouldn't know a constitutional pro-
| vision if he met it in the road. In ad-
, dition to these, the census enumer4-
tors, the deputy collectors, the "nosers,
ouger and gaugerS," and the federal
offceholderS.
It was next c~onclusively shown that
there was no infringement upon the
Fifteenth amendment to be found in
the constitutional amendment. The ar
gument of the populists that the legis-
lature can't instruct the supreme court
was discussed, and in answer it was
stated that the amendment was so
framed that the supreme court could
not interfere with tiff they did the
last mothers son would be impeached
by the legislature of 1901. All the old
~threadbare arguments against the
amendment were taken up n by n
and the sophiStry n Stiffness OF them
pitilessly expressed.
The natural inferiority Of the negro
race was brought out in the most
striking way. From Ham down to the
present day it was shown that the
negro was meant to be a servant and
not a master. History showed that
while only one sixteenth of the total
population was Anglo-Saxon, this
small proportion owned one-fourth of
all the land, one-third of all the money
and one-half Of all the money in the
universe. Anglo-Saxons furnished all
the great lawyers, doctors, ~theologians,
and scientists. What had the poor ig-
norant negro accomplished?
An urgent plea for speedy registra-
ton was made. Your wife and children,
the speaker said, demanded this. He
begged white men to go tomorrow and
register.
The speech closed with a magnif-I
cent appeal to white men to do their
duty on the first Thursday in August.
Old men, middle-aged men, and young
men were entreated to do their duty,
in August n the women Of the land
were urged to pray. With the men