The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-28

ways existing in the south favorao ole
to emancipation would have 50 grown
as To make IL an accomplished fact
h south under better laws. reIieye1
OF h pillagine of predatory neighbors,
and left to work out it's own destf.-
under h gu:iance of the truly grea,
men who framed the constitution ao.l
other statesmen. and freed from n,
accursed Chinese wall robber protec-
tive arrangement, would probably by
this time be far more populous. pro-
ductive and wealthy than il now is
The wish Of the Sun is the father of its
evil thought. and the dry rot" sug-
gestion is quite worthy OF a snarlin.
prophet of evil and an ~implacable enc
my.
So absurd is the Sur that so bro
nounced a gold paper as the Rich
mond Times is takes 1t in hand and in
a cool. self-poised way well refutes the
SUM-, whose animus is SO apparent. We
must reproduce from the Times a few
Of its points. its replication:
IF the southern people regard them.
III d., DOllIlcal
n social sympathy from the grear
body of the American people" HEAVIER
knows there is abundant reason for il
The n is that in view of all that
has happened to the south since lSS,
there SHOULD be so little of the sectional
feeling left. that the south should be
SO tremendously a part n parcel OF
the union. 1t is unkind and unfair to
the south to say that her people inten-
tionally 'irritate the rest Of the world
with the race question" The fact men.
toned by the Sun. hat never in his
tory has the sudden Acknowledgement OF
SO many millions of slaves beer ac-
companied with SO little disturbance
of a social and industrial SYSTEM is
the highest tribute that could be paid
to the amiability with which the whites
have treated the negroes, n to say
that the negro population even in the
civil al remained ~peaceable and or
| derly,' is an evidence of the friendship
| that existed between the white families
of the south and the family slaves"
1t meets wei! ether points, but we
can ONLY give a passage here and there
Fo- instance. old bit true:
Fer years after the ballot was put
in the hands of the negro chaos reign.
ed in the southern states. The paSroes
were massed together on one side, led
by designing white men, and in many
instances gained possession of the gov
eminent. They spent money with a
free hand and piled up debt, and the
whole government system was worse
than a farce"
Every observant student of the polit-
ical situation knows we'll that for thir.
ty years the embers of strife have beer
KEPT alive by the windy demagogues
in the north. and their truculent, bitter
organs that only ground out the harsh
discordant music of strife and anarchy
OF present conditions the Times con.
cludes with this. which is strictly true,
The blacks and the whites are get,
ting along we'll together and race clash
es are rare. But the improvement die
not begin until the southern whites
took matters into their own hands anC
practically set at naught the fifteenth
amendment. The south is doing hel
best to remove this Irritating ques.
ton from her politics. and she will sue
, ICED if the northern people and the
northern press will let her alone. The
south is not the source of the ''irrita'
ton of which the Sun complains