The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-24
Wessenger.
at the Postoffce at
ton. n. c., as SeCond-Class
Matter April Is, 1879.
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the south or its representative men is
of no force or consequence 1t does not
mean to be fair or friendly. Its animus
ia evil and continually evil. Its latest
achievement is to depreciate the south
@ru men in the federal congress. The
soIe New Orleans Times-Democrat
takes the trouble to examine the con-
Iention of the Sun that shineo only for
The north and the radical party. Since
Il took off its democratic disguise 1t has
been more rampant, more ~truculent
than before. We do not see the SUM-.
out extracts now and then from it. The
Times-Democrat saws:
The criticism recently made by the
Sew York Sun that among representa-
ives from the south in the national
legislature there is today no man who
takes high rank either in the United
States senate or in the mouse OF rep
scsentativcs suggests two questions OF
large importance to Americans Of the
southern states
81. Whether or not his judgment of
she New York Sun is correct; and
y. If il be correct. what is the reason
.ghy the standard of craftsmanship, or
f political leadership. in the south has
1f III III ihC idoI NCSdut
Il accepts the statement that the
s-nuth's representation in the congress
is below what it was between from 1900
20 1890. If so it is no more thai has
happened in other countries. In the
time of Burke. Fox and many others in
the British parliament in ability it
was far ahead Of the present par
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deliberative bodies in all lands.
ages and in church and state.
But we are now merely concerned with
the statement that there is no man in
the senate or in the house who takes
high rank" if from the south. That is
10 more true than when Justice Brewer
said that Booker Washington was the
peer of George Washington or when
Eome other crank aid that this negro
was superior to any man in the south
today. 1t is evident that s~ectionalism is
not dead and that conspicuous extrem-
lists like to parade themselves. The
Charlotte Observer anticipates us by
by making the following temperate and
correct reply:
III oDoCNcI DcllcNSS Ildl SGIldlOIS
Morgan and Pettus, Of Alabama, and
Vest. of Missouri. are In the same class
with the great southerners here
enumerated. But we recall no other
southern man at Washington who is.
* is to be said, however, that there is
ar unusually large infusion of new
blood from the south in the national
legislative halls-men who are yet to
win their spurs"
There are other southern senator's who
will compare we'll with the average
senators when Calhoun and Webster
and Clay and Badger and Toombs and
Bepton were In the great and august
Body. When you go north and scan the
acct of senators YOU find no Webster
Choate or Seward or Buchanan or
Corwin or Sherman n others. What
really great man has the north now in
the senator It is the time of dema-
gogues and plunderers. In the house is
II any better? Where are the really
vcr~ able northern men who will COM
pare with the greatest representatives.
Of the past from that section? Not one
can be found. we believe. So if there is
= decay, a great falling away in the dis
-tiBguished abilities of the men of the
south it is no better with the north.
Whatever the cause OF the decline it is
not peculiar or extraordinary. It will
apply to all sections Of this and and to
all other lands. 1t IS SC in literature,
in oratory. in the highest walks of life.