The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
4 Northern Man With southerA
Pr~ejudices.

The esteemed Boston Herald has in
,,o1ved itself in a, controversy with a
gentleman Of Worcester. Mass WHO
is named NJ. Sagendorph. In a news
article which recently appeared IN lhe
columns of the Herald a Catalogue
was made of honors that hau oeen
conferred o colored persons a'
Cambridge. 1t was shown that 1lteei
or sixteen positions of n anu
trust are filled by negroes in that cilS'
and if was added hat a woman, d.
most purely African is principal VI
a school, IN which there are Indns
white pupils and a NUMBER OIL w.
assistant teachers. And these things
we're all set down in a tone OF more
or less ill-concealed glee and self-con-
EJACULATION by the Herald. Ihere-
| upon Mr.. ~Sagendorph took up lne
| word and expressed various ana SUI
| dry views, which will be accepted WIN
applause hereabouts. lie says alI0ns
other things: .o
Tt is the one Of your article that
| offends those that oppose being taught
bv negroes and dominated by thelh.
| You this startling and nu~
| initiating fact as if it was a cohul-
| ton to be proud OF, ana l potuiy 20
| sert it is one to be ashamed OF, WIN
| out anv disrespect to intelligent ana
uasnect HE colored people. You chal-
| Ienge the south to match the COIL
munitv. In a matter Of pride, morals
| and intelligence any southern cLLy
( with corresponding condltlo!ls - te
equal Of Cambridge, and is far De-
yond it in the department OF It's PEG
nle and the ~gallantry and valor OF Us
mon The superiOrity of the northern
people is an assumption that is reaol-
ly overthrown aGer a residence OF
thirty days in the south WHICH any
northerner will m
IT is true that there is a difference IN
the north and south, and, according
TO the great consensus Of opinion, 1t
is Just this: There are more greedy,
ill hogs in the north than In the
south! Say ten to n is ABOUT the
nroportion. A white southern gentle
man shows cultured women a finer
courtesy than white ladies get in TINS
section. The southern people are ma
ligned by the north.
Whereupon the Herald becomes SUI.
p~erciliously sarcastic and oplnes that
it is amusing to hear one of the name
of Sagendorph .refer to a lady whose
| ancestors presumably have been II
this country much longer than his own
as belonging to an allen race -tne
said lady beng, Of course, the Cam,
bridge school ma'am, who is Amos
n11reIv African" The Herald also re
Dukes Mr.. Sagendorph for being. e
northern man with southern preJu
: dices;'' and then, losing its tempe,
r somewhat, it proceeds to express tns
! opinion Cor "to guess in purest Bos
tonesel-that the negro school teach
j., er is his superior sin character, eou
cation, culture and good
It is highly probable, however, ina
a vast majority of the people OF "char
acter. education, culture and goo
s will hold with MI. Sagen
+ dorph that this condition (the con
dition at Cambridge should be a mat
ter of shame to the white race an
cause any self-respectlng Caucasla1
8 who has a scintilla of race PRIDE [
n blush. g Placing the affair
of the municipality partly in tn
e hands sf negroes can only De we've
- as a confession of inferiorIty or {
incapaclty, if the theory is corret
that the best and most intelligent al
- called upon to fill such places. +:
pecially is this theory maintained
regard to teachers and acted upon, bl
ST if the intelligent whites wish to ha
their children educated by an ALE
and inferior race one has q right
9 protest."
Il. On the whole we are rather incline
Y to the view of Mr.. S~agenCorph e
at pressed by the Herald-he is "a mort
a ern man with southern re1uulces
News and Observer.