The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-23


The wounds negroes.carrying bullets
received from republican marksmen-
ship in virden and Pana- did not and
a republican form OF government In
Illinois When they returned to Ala
bama and found bread and work they
did find such a government
1.-The negroes who were recently held
back from Melrose by shotguns did not
FIND "a republican form Of government"
Even the effort of the governor Of the
state to enlist the preachers of Mel
rose on h side OF humanity failed.
The order was: The negro must go,'
THE negroes who have been driven
mitteeS did not find "a republican form
of government" until they had crossed
the river into Kentucky.
. 1.-The negroes who were hanged by
the mob in Washington Courthouse
and who were chased out of Akron did
not find a republican form OF govern
ment' in Ohio.
Now for the other side. Every negro
driven out Of the north has found in
the south "a republican form Of govern
ment' strong enough to gain for him
the unrestricted right to carr an honest
living"
The negroes are not a so blind and
stupid as the Sun and such papers and
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northern papers make much of the
severe and prompt punishment in the
south of negro rapists and murderers
of whites. But they have scarcely a
word in behalf of the pure. defenceIess
white ladies and children Who are so
devilishly assaulted. and even some
times murdered. Their sympathies ex-
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awful1y punished brutes. Every man
of sense and cando in the north knows
hat if the rapes n murders by mean
negroes-"bad negroes" to quote the
foolish negro incendiary before referred
to in the Messenger-were as common
in that section as in the south that the
white men "up there" would deal with
the cruel offenders in the same sharp,
quick way that is pursued in the south
Even the decent Springfield CMass.)
Republican, in it's comment upon the
negro burnings in the south, has grace
and sense Of truth enough to say:
1.-The North has been silenced, so far
as the south is concerned, by recent ne
gro burnings Of it's own-in Colorado,
in Kansas, n in Indiana. The Ala
bama and Georgia affairs of last week
brought out a display of no greater
savage fury or eagerness to secur from
the garments and charred flesh and
bones of the victim souvenirs of the oc-
casion than did the Terre Haute burn
ing in Indiana only a few months back.
The two sections stand on a level in
this matter, and neither is now in a po-
sition to taunt the other. And so a
boosted Christian civilization is evident
ly to submit in silence to these repeated
revelations of itself as d CHASTITY mock
cry
Few people in the south approve of
burning but they waste no tears and
sanctimonious roans over the brutes
that perish for rape. It is noticeable
tina a week or so & a number of ne
gro leaders met in Philadelphia, and
not a word was uttered or a complaint
made against rapings of white women
and children or the numbering of white
farmers and wives in the south, but
lynchings came in for the main talk
of the Solomons gathered. They will
take steps to bring the matter before
congress-. and ask for federal action.
If 200, 900 soldiers were stationed in the
south. and the persons and lives of the
women and girls were not made safe
from brutal outrages, the lynchings
would continue with nabat prompt
ness and violence. The north would
better concern itself with it's own
mobs, killings, violence, expressions,
etc, and leave the south out of the
count.