The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-30
PLAYING THE OLD GAME OF
FALSEHOOD.

Some of the northern democratic pa
pers deal with the south as meanly and
maliciously as any radical organ of
the old robber tariff family. The
Brooklyn On. " Eagle is of this type.
1t is unfair ond slanderous. 1t tries
to make the south guilty of the crime
OF burning and murder because some
negro brutes nave been killed in a few
separated places under very great
~provOcation. The north with equal
propriety n truth may be held UP
to the worlds gaze and condemnation
because in several states negroes have
been lynched M in two or three
states one or more have been burned.
The south has quite u, 600, 900 of whites.
OF these not 5000 have ever partici-
pated in burning rapists n murder
ers. AS the Charleston News and Cou-
rier correctly brands he Eagle, 1t is
lying for detestable ends. 1t correct
~ mentions that there are southern
states in which burning has never
case up there.% MaIignants and liars
VIII ply lLelE lTdue OL IdlSe accuSd-
ton and deliberate SANDER.
There is a paper in that section called
the Troy Press. 1t is in great sorrow
and says the south may have to
atone for its ~lynchings and tears"
That is perhaps a threat of bloody war.
If the north again invades the south
we hope the Press fellows and the
Eagle gang will come with their torches
and turpentine. AS the eloquent Tom
Corwin, of OHIO, said in his wonderful
speech against h Mexican war, the
south will meet them with 'hospitable
hands to bloody graves" 1t was
something like that. The north can be
very busily employed for some years
in cleaning up it's yards and sweeping
before its doors.
There is a more decent and fair news
paper in Indiana. 1t is the old demo-
cratic Sentinel. 1t says that the north
would never have borne half what the
south has suffered, in the way of prov
Ocation- Here is a view from it hat
should be copied by the ink-slingers
in h frantic east and middle section.
1t says:
"Iu fact n sections seem to be
trading views upon the lynch question.
In the south there is a growing spirit
of tolerance, moderation and control.
An executive with political aspirations
can afford to take a determined stand
for the maintenance of the laws with
gu endaagering his future prospects.
In Georgia the southern people under
the most severe provocatiOn controlled
their passions and permitted the law
to take It's course on two recent occa-
Sions. The mos respected citizens
no longer participate in these lawless
affairs. The north, on the other hand
a sevidenced in Illinois and Indiana,
has become more intolerant, less self
controlled. Hence these lynch parties
should not be made he occasion for
sectional agitation. They are irfam-
Gus. true, and should be stopped"
1t looks from recent event that the
swift destruction of treacherous devils
has failed to end the business. But it
ended the particular villains who came
to a speedy end Recently the outbreak
~ of crime has been more marked than
for a long time If the negro race did
but know it they are very much inter-
ested in having rapings by the low
fellows Of their race to cease. If it
continues very serious trouble may
occur.