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

personal motives and for motives &C
|tuated by a proper regard for the poll
Ical good"
The game started early by Butler
and Holton to make a bloody war
upon the white men Of North Carolina
lis bringing forth the very fruits that
such sowing promised. The appeals
have been made openly to negroes t o
commit deeds of extreme violence upon
the whites The results are sue as to
awaken and arouse the white men
Throughout the state. They win be
calm, watchful, ready. and will visit
proper punishment in return II the
wicked. depraved leaders do not cease
their dangerous, firery advice and in
iammatory appeals. The Messenger
i'm several issues essayed to reproduce
from its exchanges no little confirma-
tory and convincing evidence OF a set
purpose OF the reckless devils roaming
at large, bowling and exhorting for vio-
Hence against the whites, to precipitate
Ia war Of races. II is a great wonder
that the Infatuated demagogues have
succeeded better in their efforts TO
bring on a contest Of bloodshed be-
tween the races. Nothing but the
lcalmness, good sense and forbearance
of the white men have been able
TO avoid a most distressful series of
encounters. The News Observer de-
votes an entire page to the evolution
of the fusion campaign and gives am
pie multiplying proof, setting forth the
development of disorder under the ad-
vice of incendiary Butler down to the
gives the following and it is important
enough as a reminder to be here re-
produced:
Such seed, sown with no sparing
lhand, is soil rich unto lawlessness and
naturally productive of violence, could
but bring forth a bounteous harvest.
ALREADY We have begun to reap the
fruits of it, and the end is not yet.
The negroes have taken up the cry
Iof blood.
Registrars have been arrested, reg
I~istrars have been assaulted.
Threats of burning and killing have
been boldly made.
"Rapes and murders have become
more frequent.
These are the results to be expected
from the advice to negroes to 'whiE
white men out of the state and tC
fswing registrars to the nearest limb OIL
lido anything else they may please with
Ithem.'"
Perhaps the first of the harvest was
the following in a paper called The
Sun, edited by a negro at Faison, Dup
Hin county, In an iSSTro % rlu in lima
it said:
Professor Dudley says we should
prepare to surrender our politica
rights. We shall not do anything Of
the kind. IF WE DIE TRYING TC
MAINTAIN THEM, WE SHALL DC
1T WITH OUR FACES TO THE FOE
WITH AS DEAR COST TO HIM, THE
lENEMY. AS POSSIBLE"
Very much of what is given ha:
heretofore appeared in the Messengel
in different connections. All the re.
cords showing ~premeditated plots anc
violence but furnish the strongest pos.
Isfble proof hat the negro as a elias:
is wholly unfit for II = .ctive fran.
Ichise. The evidence is .lulative set.
ting forth that he is a brawler, incen.
diary a rapist, a murderer, a lawles:
brute too often, and an ignorant as:
incapable of ruling himself, wholly un.
hit for the ballot, and, therefore, with.
out any qualifications to be a governor
and ruler of a state and the white in
Ihabitants thereof. Fortunately there
is a better, much more respectable
lclass of the colored folks who do MOI
ANSWER in any wise to the above de.
I%scriptiOn and classification.
In Franklin, Nash and Montgomer,
counties armed negroes have appeared
on the scene.