The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-03-25

many OF these laws. but the settled
condition of trade"
Representative CLAYTON. of Alabama,
In less pacific. He is for fighting the
devil it seems with fire. He talks very
plainly and vigorously:
This act of the republicans is a dec
laratiOn OF hostiiities. 1t is an effort 10
revive the era Of s~ectionalism and sec
tional hatred which thousands OF good
people have hoped was past ] favor
resistance in the extreme. refusal OF
unanimous consent. a CONSTITUTIONAL
vote on the approval OF the journal. and
a constitutional vote on all questions
before the house: also insistence that
a quorum shall ALWAYS be present.
For the purpose OF affecting a few
votes in Indiana. Ohio. and a few osher
states the republican leaders are will
ing TO handy this subject into the arena
Of national legislation. 1t can serve no
good end. The white men of the south
are made Of the same kind of stuff as
the white men of the north. We shall
resist this declaration of hostilities just
as strenuously as northern men would
resist an encroachment in their own af-
fairs"
While ii is for the supreme court TO
decide as TO the constitutional amend
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to allay fears or passions, and TO settle
whether the whites shall control or the
worst and most ignorant elements. 1t
will be sure to bring alterations. arouse
bitterness. intensity prejudices, and
may even give the death knell to the
education of the negroes by white tax
alton. The Post editorially says that
I'VE fail to see, however, where it will
promote the ends of justice or-to con-
slider only it's most sordid side-even
help the party in whose supposed inter-
est it has been conceived. Mr.. Crum-
packer says that on a question Of rep
~resentation. according to the mandate
of the constitution. the country north.
south. east. and west will be OF one
mind We quite agree with him. The
question is one of method and proceed
ure. Congress already has at its dis
posal all needed machinery for testing
the qualifications of it's own members
nary machinery which at best can ac-
complish no better results?"
The south suffered long, but was
marvellously kind to the negroes. The
north would not I'VE borne a 1.-THE OF
what the south bore with such long
suffering and long tried patience and
forebearance. The Post shows uncom-
mon sense and wisdom in its considera-
ton of Crumpacker and his bill of dis
turbance and strife. 1t says, for in
stance:
There are northern as we'll as south
ern states in which the franchise IS
limited by law. Louisiana, Alabama,
and Mississippi are no more anxious TO
exclude from the ballot box ignorance,
vice. and responsibility than Massa-
chusetts. Rhode Island. Pennsylvania
and New Jersey are. They have all en-
acted laws for the preservation against
vice. corruption, and ignorance. Why
assume that these laws are all right at
the north and all wrong at the SOUTH"
The south will bear itself with calm
ness. with resolution. and at the right
time and in it's own way will act. 1t
will not go into extremes of any kind
until it sees it is a general revival Of
the Did bitterness, the old hatred, the
old prosecuting spirit of the ugly past.
The north would not stand negro con-
troll for a day. They would revolt and
shoot and hang and drive out up
there" and snap their fingers at all pro-
tesas.