The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-27

nal Islander but for b backing he got
from negro preachers and mean politi-
cal whites. After the vile article ap-
negro fellows by the hundred, gather
ed at Manly's office to shield and de-
fend him. It was only the wonderful
.~forbearance Of the whites of this city
that prevented an explosion that night
which would have been I'VE more Sc
rious than the short. sharp conflict on
10th November following. The negro
preachers were in full sympathy and
over their w signatures Endorsed the
course of Manly. They were If possible
equally criminal.
The editor Of the C1arkton Express,
an unusually well edited weekly. said
in an issue of his paper some time last
month this which is startling:
1--WE say the mine was prematurely
set off. We write adviSedly. The
leaders Of the fusion party had made
UP their minds deliberately, those who
could see beyond their greed, that the
settlement Of this race question would
would be contaminated by amalgama-
ton. The writer of his asserts that he
was himself told as much by more than
one Of them. Jas A. Fore, Of VIII
mington, and others, heard the same
theary advanced by leading fuSionists.
Yes, my countrymen, these men had
deliberately conspired for paltry office
to sell the virtue of their womanhOod
and purity Of their race, to the negro,
and thus substitute a mongrel progeny
by grating the negro on the Anglo
SaXon Manly was but the impI e
babbler that gave their case away.
What the negro politicians and the ne
gro preachers had been working for
and praying for seemed just in reach,
but the tantalizing apple sprang back
at h too ready reach of the eager
hand"
Manly had the v~iciousness and the
debauchery and the devilishness in
sufficient combination to make him
the willing exponent of amalgamation,
lust, and general destruction. Hence
his article was Infamous and insulting
of the bes womanhood beyond express
sion.
We reproduce the villainous, scanda-
lou article that appeared in the Re
ord. Reading and knowing how Man
Iy was backed up by the negroes of
Wilmington and the band of negro
preachers, it is really very surprising
that the press and fixtures were not de-
stroyed at the time, and that the shoot
ing did not begin at once. Here is
what the fo~ul-mouthed negro scullion
said in his dirty little Record:
I'VE suggest that the whites guard
their women more closely, as Mrs Eel
ton says, thus giving no opportunity
for the human fiend, be he white OF
black. You leave our goods out OF
, doors and then complain becauSe they
are taken away. Poo white men are
careless in the matter of protecting
their women especially on farms. They
are careless of their conduct TOWARD
them, and our experience among poor
white people in the country teaches us
that the women of that ace are nat
any more particular in meeting witt
colored men han are the white mer
with colored women. Meetings of this
kind go or for some time, until the wo.
mans infatuation or the mans bold
ness bring attention to them, and thu
man is lynched for rape. Every negrt
Iynched is called a big, burly, blacl
BRUTE when in fact many of those whI
have thus been dealt with had white
men for their fathers, and were no
only not black n 'burly,' but wer'
sufficiently attractive for white girl
of culture and refinement to fall in Low,
with them, as is we'll known by ALL"
We must scorn the white man-fath
er, son, brother-who can read tina
stab at the characters of the whit
women of North Carolina, and no
swear vengeance upon the whole trib
that will defend it. Look to the amend
ment. 1t will blot out forever tn
reign of the hybrid gang and tn
George Whites and Abe Middleton
and the gang that were run out of Wi
mington.