The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-01
ROOSEvELT's SEEDS PRODUCING
SOON.

Cookies. III virginia a HcSIO SHoAi iAIo4A
of a republican county committee Is re-
5oicing officially and particularly over
the equality Of the races, that the ne
gro is as good as a white man-thatl
Booker, the negro. is a great, as Illus
trious, as noble, as wise and honest
and honorable as George Washington,
the first president, and commander-in-
chief of the American armies in the
graf seven years war for first indie
pendence. This is the right meaning OF
Sidney Miller's political harangue IN
Amelia county, a. we interpret it. He
said:
"I thank God that the United States
now has for a president a man who
recognizes no difference W al
white nan and a black man. God made
US all equal
That is the first fruits gathered from
Roosevelt's sowing. 1t shows the ami
mus, points the way If what Miller
said is believed by him, it shows how
credulous and ignorant he is, but posi-
bly, not more so than the sower in the
White house Of dragons teeth, which
according to Cadmusian tradition,
brought forth only armed men,"
There is no truth, Biblical or other, for
MiIIer's cause for rejoicing. Men of
learning-great historians. eminent men
OF science and others-after studying
the records, historic and scientific,
know that the African az far back as
the records go. have never been able to
rise above their obscure conditions,
have never advanced in the slightest
degree in civilization. in education, in
government when left to themselves
uninfuenced by the higher races. That
is simply both an historic and racial
fact. The Messenger more than once
has given facts bearing On this ques-
ton OF negro failure to advance as other
nations have advanced. God did not
make all men equal. The Bible is clear
at his point. The negro has always
been inferior to the white race in all
countries, in all ages, under all condi-
tons. He has advanced more in the
United States than elsewhere in al
world, because OF the example and in
fuence of white civilization, and the
domestic, "old plantation" training I'M
der which he was brought and discip-
lined. Many admirable specimens OF
obedience, kindness, manliness, fidelity
y and intelligence have been seen in the
thousands of homes in this southland
prior to the invasion of the Vandals
and the alluring promises and corrupt
ing influences of the "carpet-baggers,"
and their kindred in the north.
1t has taken nearly 1900 years or in
dustrial, educational, religious, govern
mental. and civic training to bring the
Anglo-SaXon and the Aryan Offshoots
N,generally, up to the grade of wisdom,
honesty. humanity and power to gov
ern justly, wisely, benevolently, and
safely. 1t will take Booker Washing
toms crowd thousands of years to
reach the standard Of Cicero and Peri
cles and Alfred the Great, and Burke
and Gladstone, and Washington a.
jefferson and Lee and S~tonewall Jack
son and Jefferson Davis
So it is bosh, popyCock, for a negro
disciple of Roosevelt to be blowing over
any imagined or real equality" be-
tween such specimens as himself and
the great and wise men that Virginia
from it's prolific womb has given to I
s~outhland-the noblest type of man.
hood, the grandest specimens ever seen
in nobility of soul, in greatness Of
achievement, in wisdom and great COM
mon sense, and In absolute devot
the best and purest principles. Roose-
Welt has turned loose a tribe of sabla
prophets and wind-blowers who will
stir up the savages," as Governor
Russell called them. and cause no lit
OF race trouble. When that Sapient
Sambo of Amelia attempts to car
into practice his mistaught views he
will find the Anglo-SaXon his superior
i'll ability and in a solution of the
R~ooseveltan problem of race equality.
The very sensible Richmond Dispatch
says of this latter-day prophet by the
same name as the false prophet in New
York state Of some sixty-five or sew
enty years ago:
1T shows what fool notions Mr.. Roos-
evelt has put into the heads OF the ne
groes by inviting Booker washington
to dine with him. Instead OF helplns
the negroes by his course, the president
has set many of them wild with vain
expectations and the result will be tn
their relations with the southern
whites will become badly strained. The
PROPOSITION that God made the blacks
equal with the whites is one that can
not be maintained, but what wonder is
il that the negroes should believe it
when the president goes out of his way
to invite Booker Washington to dine
with himself and family.
We do not believe that there is a man
of character. intelligence and informa-
ton who believes that he negro race
is the equal of the white race in his
great section or Of the people of Great
Britain, France and Germany. The
New York Times shows its stupidity
and dislike OF b noblest race on -
continent by declaring that Booker
washington is a greater man than any
living southron. Absurdity can go no
farther. The opacity of he mind tina