The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-03
.he Messengm.
THE DAY OF REDEMPTION DRAW
ETH NIGH.

black ra0lCal ec0nStTucIOn lHifcs 0o'-
900 of the most intelligent and best IN
formed white citizens Of North Car
DINA were ruthlessly disfranchised, cut
off completely from the ballot This
sent low and gladness to every SCALA
wag deserter and every carpet-bag adj
adventurer in this state. The negroes
were made so happy because "Marse
Jim, and Marse Sam. n Marse John,
bIes de Lord, can't vote, and we does
and NOSE than nee on de casion."
Those were great times for ignorance
and rascality and the dirty whites and
the stupid negroes, "jined hands" and
danced all night to banjo and song. 1t
was a dark dolorous. dreadful night
time for the honest people with white
skins.
Thirty d years of trial and discour-
agement and despair, and robberies and
spoliation have at last driven the white
men to determine come what may to
forever cure the curse Of negro rule
in North Carolina. Papers of ability
and learning, like the New York Even
lUS fOSI, nave UOI TIE ldllllcS[ diidCI
standing of the real situation in the
south of the destructive conditions in
the years in which the whites had to
pass under the yoke Of negrodom and
worship the Moloch of the rule of de-
pravity immortality, robberies, insults
and populations galore"
The time of deliverance draweth
nigh. Let Thanksgiving and praise be
rendered from honest, sincere and pious
hearts to the mighty God of Nations
for the victory that shall come to safe
rule and honest government one more
in the blessed land we love. The
mighty incubus of barbaric voting n
wholesale robberies of the honest toll
ers is to be soon lifted. AS. Mr.. Rob
ert d. Gilmer, the able lawyer who is
general said once in discussing the suf-
frage amendment, e. suffrage was
born out of the abyssis of
and the fiat citizen is a perfect fail
ure." That is happily named, for the
e voter not only came out of chaos
but he was made a voter by black re-
publican fiat" a sin huge enough to
damn a decent party, much less such
a rotten, vile, prosecuting party as that
Of Mckinley and gang. Mr.. Gilmer IS
right exactly in another statement
tina 1.-The Anglo-Saxon won the right
to vote by sacrifice 1t was through
hundreds of years of oppression and
proStration, of penury n promise,
of practice and patriotism. of splendid
heroism and a resolved will to nave the
rights of freemen under a constitution
al government that the Anglo-Saxon at
last reached the high plain of citizen
ship, with rights and liberties guar
anteed.
The descendants in this once Land
of the free and home of the brave
have been through many years of Sc
yerest trial and conservation, n at
last, after a long, painful, sad night
when ignorance and vice reigned SUI
preme in the land of their fathers, they
behold the beautiful light in the east
p~resaging a glorious dawn and a risen
sun.
Mr.. Gilmer published last year a pa
per of length in h Raleigh News
Observer. 1t was as we'll written as
to style as any of h very many n
tributions to the amendment discussion
that have been sent out in the last
voters that have been so long time on
tria The said with f~elecitous touch:
'sThey are organized to the extent of
being blindly subject to bad leadership.
They are ignorant, mercenary, and un-
patriotic. They are hostile to the COM
mercial interests which furnish them
s~ustenance; to the civil order which
protects them, and to the processes
which alone are capable of transform
ing them into safe and valuable citi-
zens. They came into civil existence
under am act as arbitrary as 1t was I'M
constitutional. For more than thirty
years they have been under the blind
ing domination and ~debauching fnfiu-
ence of a political party whose
at the outset, so far as the south was
concerned. were possessed of but two
things: a carpet bag, and an aspiration
for political power at all hazards and
for revenue only.
This element is not the product OF
North Carolina Institutions. 1t was
born out of the abysses Of a great revo-
luton. 1t derived its existence as a
civic and political force from an act OF
supreme violence to the property inter-
ests Of our state, and to the constitu-
ton Of the United States. President
Lincoln when he signed the Emancipa-
ion Proclamation called members OF
his council to witness that the act was
Unconstitutional, but he claimed with
that grim wisdom Tor which he was 50
justly celebrated that the only right
thing to do under the stress OF circum-
stances was the Unconstitutional thing"
After the cruel and reckless Lincoln,
50 o~ver-praised for his big heart and
humanity, had told Seward n Stan
ton that the time had come to liberate
the negroes that they might kill all the
old white men and women and child
ran, his merciess, foul soul was ready
for any thing. and hence his procla-
nation and what followed. Mr.. Gill
mer discusses the fiat citizen" with