The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-12
INVITATION TO A BLOODY BAN.
QUIET.

before hat foolish fellow who writes
his own name T. Thomas Fortune. and
who edits a bloody negro sheet in New
York called The Age" h fellow
repeated a part of his former speech
we recently on DID john
Brown, the Kansas murderer and cut
throat. He is a public ncendlary
n spends his time now in trying TO
egg on the negroes in the south to
deeds of sanguinary wal and reprisals,
None but an unmitigated fool and
scoundrel would speak as he does
striving to incite a race war In the
south. If one comes this rabid and
evil minded scoundrel will be sure to
take his political remains far from
the madding crowds ignoble strife"
This fellow will seek his fortunes
where there is no Strengthening. We
make an extract from his Infamous
talk which New York papers publish,
perhaps with satisfaction The very
worst thing his race can do is to heed
the sayings of such a fanatical dema-
gogue. Here are some extracts:
1T cost tons of blood to put the fiji
teenth amendment into the constltu-
ton, and it will cost tens of tons TO
put it out. You must organize ana
keep your powder dry in order to de-
mand an eys for an eye and a tooth
for a tooth in the great crisis which
will soon be upon the negro, in which
much blood may be spilled.
The negro can't win by compromising.
There should be no compromise with a
man who proposes to deprive you OF
@-1 4A- ~ No ann nrn-
mise in a life and death struggle, and
the negro is now engaged in the great
est struggle of his life, and he must
demand his rights and fight against
any outrage upon his person or upon
his citizenship. There is no use
d. living in the south and crying peace,
peace, when there is no peace. L De-
Iieye in law and order; but when the
law does not protect you o should
fight and die, if need be. You should
demand an eye for an eye and a tooth
for a tooth. But there can be no set
thing of the negro problem with the
negro out of it, it matters not how
many conferences of white men are
held. There are now 10000, 900 of us
with 1000, 900 fighting men, and in
some great crisis in this country these
1000. 900 negroes will get at the threats
of the white men who have
and outraged their citizenship"
The Messenger has no ldea that the
negroes in North Carolina or in any
southern state either thinks of or
plans to carry out such q bloody pro-
gramme as the fellow seeks to pur-
suade them to adopt. The white peo-
pie as a class, are not now enemies of
the negroes, and have never been their
enemies. The last half century gives
the direct lie to any such in~sinuation
or declaration. But if this bird of evil
can only have his own vindictive feel
ings gratified there will be a rash,
fruitless war, from wanton anger
waged." War lis hell" and two can
play at it.
Rev DR.. John w. Stage, of Char
lotte, in his able address delivered in
New Bedford, Mass, and commented
upon by the Messenger, discussing the
race problem in the south, said this:
II wish to say the proposed methods
of dealing with the franchise in the
south will in no way be m &c
the negro; his very best interest viii
be conserved thereby; and we who
know the conditions, tell you, in the
fear of o and man, that we believe
a few years of trial will convince the
negro of the good of the measure, AND
convince the world of the righteous.
ness of the act"
Thirty odd years Of trial as a voter
has shown beyond all possible doub
hat ignorant negroes are not quail
fed to vote, and will be qualified
so long as they are ignorant. They
have thus far learned nothing what
ever in the school Of civics. As voters
they are the deadest of failures.
The republicans committed a most
grievous mistake and inflicted a mos
unoerable curse upon h whites wher
they clothed the ignorant, unIettered
stolid negroes with the mighty power
of the ballot. Out of it nave come
great calamities, unnumbered evils
DR.. Stage told his New .Englanders
this truth:
Whether we will or not, the race
question in this country has assumed
such proportions that 1t will not down.
1t would be very embarrassing to the