The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-07
aKPUBLICANs BROUGHT ANARCH-
lists AND FOSTER THEM.

and lucidity and a owe Of truth. It Is
simply crowded with data, statistics,
and arguments which show how the
south was dealt with unfairly from
washington's administration to the
great war and inc But our purpose
rs to consider through him another
uuestion-who is responsible for the
prevalence of anarchism in the north!
1t does not as yet exist to any wide ex-
gent in the south and most
When an ignorant spiteful fellow
writes to show that h increase OF
crime in North Carolina is owing to the
democratic party. he is too far gone
from facts. evidences and truth to make
1T worthy of replication When the war
ended. the south being PROSTATE, the
negroes were at once brought under the
nalign tutelage Of carpet-baggers, and
CHE republicans in the congress went to
work with exceeding vigor to degrade
ana wound the leading whites in the
=oath and to enthrone the negro. He
was mislead by all sorts of lies. beguil-
ed by the widest promises, taught to
hat his former owners and best
friends, and then it was the seeds Of
vice, Of crime, OF brutality were sown
broadcast that have sprung up with
such a baleful crop in the last few
years. The negroes today in commit
ting awful crimes are but obedient,
pliant pupils practicing the lessons
learned il the first six or eight years
following their liberation and enfran-
chisement.
We are reminded of this by the fact
Ehat republican speakers and newspa-
per men are trying to make it appear
that the democratic party-the one
party of the people and the sole hope
OF the preservation OF constitutional
freedom in this land-is alone RESPONSE
BILE for the existing OF anarchists in
this land of the free" OF course, like
the above charges and all others of kin
'dred inspiration and impulse, it is a
bold lie made out of the whole cloth.
Now Mr.. Grady is the very man to
expose the lie and make short work OF
the absurd and malicious accusation.
III there had never been a republican
party there would never have been any
sectional war. II there mad been no
republicans there would have beer no
Abe Lincoln with his deception as to
n firing on Sumter Chat really
caused the war; and the unconstitu-
tional, reckless proclamation as to the
negroes. If there had been no republi-
can party there would have been never
heard OF in these lands of a violation
of the rights of the independent SOW
erign states,' and no yIndictive Force
bills and no huge expenditures until
they amount to over $50, 000, 900 a month";,
and no foreign wal of conquest and all
the ills and curses that follow in their
train.
But let as turn to Mr.. Grady's recent
article that appeared in that good DEM
ocratic weekly, the Clinton Democrat.
He goes to work with his usual patti
-ence and effectiveness to prove that the
republican party alone is responsible
for the presence Of anarchists and as |
sassins in this country. Until the re- |
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rushing in foreign men to fill northern
to light the small southern
rorce, as compared with their huge,
tremendous army of nearly five times
the size, no anarchists and assassins
came and no presidents ever fell
before the pistol. Lincoln, Garfield and
were all republicans and were
murdered most foully since 1866. or just
as the war was ending.
Mr.. Grady mentions a very interest
ing and suggestive fact which we give:
After the war between the northern
and southern states had been going on
about thirteen months. n the armies
of the north had been defeated in every
one of the ten or more important bat
ties thus far fought exclusively by land
forces, including Manassas. Bethel.
Springfield, Lexington, Carthage, Bel
mont, Shiloh and Williamsburg. al
Though the Confederates were
bered in every engagement and in
ct them two to one, the Washington
authorities were brought to realize thar
- successful prosecution OF the war de-
manded more troops than the northern
states seemed willing to furnish
Hence, as public sentiment in the north
was not yet prepared to acknowledge
that the emancipation of the slaves in
side the Confederate lines was "a neces-
sary war measure" as MIR. Lincoln de-
-clared il to be in the message OF
January 1. 1868. and foreign countries
offered the most eligible recruiting
ground, a systematic plan was devised
TO induce the discontented people OF
foreign countries to emigrate to the
States and Territories of the north"
He next shows from the United States
government records what was done to
attract foreigners and to supply the
numbers needed in their armies to de-
feat the south. that v had more
than 6O0.O 900 men. according to Adjutant
General Cooper, and not more than
ze0,0 900 according to any other sensible
estimate ever made. Six things were
done as given by Mr.. Grady. We only
summarize as VIZ have not the space
For what he says: