The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-21
The Messenger.
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the Borough of Queens, New York
state. She went to the courts Her
case has gone through the several
courts, until the Court Of Appeals Of
New York state has finally decided that
under the consolidation school law Of
1894 "a school board may maintain
separate schools for the education Of
.colored children, and may exclude them
from other schools. provided il has
made The same PROVISIONS for their Cd
ucaticn as were made tor others, so far
as the nature, extent and character OF
the education and facilities fer obtain
ing it are concerned"
The Court of Appeals holds further
that IL is general sch10I facilities and
Accommodations they are required to
furnish, not equal social opfortuni-
ties" and this decision says the AL
bary Argus, which is practically un-
animous, sets at rest a question which
has ;ong been agitatei-"
This is particularly interesting at
this tine, and especially in connection
with the mob demonstration Wcdnes-
day light in the great city OF New York
against negroes. We belle re it was The
Charleston News and Courier that
made the following comment, but we
failed TO note the name on the clipping:
The decision means. In other words,
that colored persons shall not he pre-
fer. &C on account Of color.
I'VE should not be surprised. a. the
rate of progress made by our white
Iorthtrn friends, if the day shall spe-
Oily come when there shall lee lesis,a-
ton in the old abolition states reQuir-
ing the railraod companies to run sep
-arare cars for the accommodation of the
two raceS."
The south is not hostile to the ne
eroes. 1t will not have social equality
and it will not countenance rapes or
rows. 1t regrets such scenes as that
which occurred some weeks ago in New
Orleans, but much that is
has been said of that outbreak, and
northern papers have delighted to mis-
represent and stigmatize The whites.
A southern man, Mr.. John H.. Kirby,
sent a communication to the Boston
Herald relative to New Orleans and
the treatment of negroes in south,
that contained good ADVICE for north
ern people and their newspapers. We
copy this from it:
The Herald should know that south
ern people deplore such scenes as were
enacted at NV Orlans. 1t was precipi-
tated by colored d~esperados shooting
down in cool blood certain police Off
GERS while in the discharge of their du-
ties and in the blood he'd that follow
ed the whites suffered much more Sc
verely than the blacks. If the people
of the north would kindly attend to
their own local affairs and leave the
race question to be settled by the
southern people white and black who
face to a with 1t. and have every
incentive of home, family, and ope
ty, and peace to assist them in its fair
and just consideration. il would he set
tied, and settled in that broad liber-
ality and philanthropy which ever
~characterizes American action"
In the swift vengeance that over
takes some diabolical criminals he
tells the Herald that in nearly every
instance the men who act in this way
honestly believe that 1t is the only
method by which life. family and pro-
perry may be protected. There is no
elimination of assaults by negro brutes
upon helpless white women and chill
dren. This being 50 It is useles to ex-
pect lynchings to end. Mr.. Kirby puts
the case clearly as to he very meddle-
some people in the north ut their con-
:stant desire. to take a hand in race
troubles and in the adjustment of the
negro problem He says:
"But just as long as great journals
like the Herald, good meaning, bit
misguided old gentleman and dena-
gogic politicians of the north, persist
in encouraging the susceptible and ig-
norant negro to stay his white neigh
Dor or outrage his family, upon the
theory that his white neighbor Is his
enemy, Just that long will accounts OF
mob violence in the oath bring the
blush of shame to the cneeks of good
citizens all over the country
There is one able, influential news
paper published along way from the
Hub of the Universe" as the enlight-
ened of Boston imagine their city to be,
who is far wiser and better Informed
than such newspapers as the Herald.
Transcript, and others of that city.
The Portland (Oregon) Oregoian mas
eyes to see and it uses them with good
effect. They see the truth. 1t has had
two recent editorials upon the cleo
ton in North Carolina. 1t is a pity
that eastern papers do not show the
p~respicacity and w of the right and
the true as does this far away news
paper on the Pacific slope. We make
some interesting and intelligent ex-
tracts that speak we'll for the insight
and candor of that editor:
In a few a it will have covered
the entire south the fear Of negro domi-
nation will have disappeared. the race
issue will have departed from politics,
negroes of education and property
will vote freely everywhere, just as
they do today, and men will begin to
divide on rational grounds, negroes as
Well as whites.