The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-09-10
CLEANING AND COMMENT.

Some recent signs. The white tramp
in Nebraska who attempted an assault
was strung up twice and then released
and told to get" He did not succeed
in his attempt or he might have been
strung up not to come down. At Zanes-
Vile, Ohio, Rev. Samuel G.. Belts, an
Evangelist from Yale, Michigan, was set
upon by a mob of 300 and robbed. He
was rescued by the police with great
difficulty and put in Jail. The offense
WAS he was "too radical" in his denun-
lciation Of intenperance. When the
lsouth 'mobs'' it is for something more
important than a temperance talk. The
other day (2Sth Aug.,) a negro assaulted
and killed Mary Henderson, aged 40, a
white m A body of men sought
the entire county for his capture, and
it was thought he would burned"
Iif caught. How very like human ma
lture is all about. Lemston county, Ala
lbama, givec motive that negro settlers
ARE not desired on the government lands
There. A negro invasion was expected
land they were warned not to come.
lCg "a NAL -
healthy place for "~coons," and that the
dogs in hat section had not for years
lallowed a coon to stop in that neigh
Iborhood.
1t is late in the day but it is too
late to mend, for northern men who
Served as governors in the south in re-
construction times to come forward
I-..L -z...1-. n - fhA uraaf
plumbers of the north in forcing ignor-
liant negro suffrage upon the white men
who had fought the north so grandly.
$50 bravely, So unflinchingly. Governor
ID H. Chamberlain, the last republican
Igovernor of South Carolina, and an ex-
i~ceptionably able man, now lives in
Massachusetts,. He lately published a
book in which he admits hat Il negro
suffrage matter was a tremendous blum
der. Another New Englander is Gov.
lAdelbert Anes, who was the last repub
Ilican governor of Mississippi. He now
Expresses his conviction, born Of
Thorough experience, that it is impossi-
BILE for two races as far apart as the
IAnglo-Saxon and the negro to remain
on terms Of political equality. Mr..
James came to Mississippi with an en-
ltirely different view. But the fools in
the north who now know any thing
worth knowing as to the south and who
go it as blind in 1901, as the able men
went it blind in 1S65-69, are still for" ne
gro suffrage anG are pounding the south
for trying to rid itself of it. Fools and
lmadmen.
The state statistican of Indiana fur
lnishes the total divorces granted in
that state for the ear ending 30th
June, 1901. They were 3,0S9, or 13 per
cent. Of The marriages. OF these 1867
were granted to wives. Of these 792
Ewere for abandonment, and COL for cruel
treatment. Are the men beasts? 1t is
noticeable that the International Law
Association which recently met gave up
one session to a discussion of the di-
Ivorce laws of civilized nations, reached
the conclusion that there was no hope
of reaching anything like uniformity in
these laws. The trouble with the coun-
TRY, the legislature and the courts is
that the Bible is a closed book and
Goods law is TO longer respected.
The Pittsburg Post, a leading paper
lin western Pennsylvania stated that in
THAT section there was not much differ
lence of opinion as the non-desirability
of imported negro labor. 1t held that
lit was bad for both races, and admitted
there is prejudice against Them" and
life is not desirable there for them. II
talked right out and we reproduce a
part:
They are Objectionable because they
Introduce an alien element Of a low
lgrade OF intelligence, skill, and moral
lily. Conflicts with the whites anc
lamong themselves become quite com
lmon; the peace communities is disturb
led and there are scenes OF lawlessness
riots, and often murder. The negro
Icolonies set up about Pittsburg have
been hot-beds Of crime, dissipation, ane
Irioting attended with numerous Kill
Iings."