The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-01-30

of Federal appointments in the south
continues. 1 make the prediction that
when the southern people start to ku-
Ikluxing this time they will not have
las the objects of their oppression the
same timid people they Kukluxed IN
the sixties.
Negroes are leaving the state Of
Virginia because of the treatment they
lare receiving. What we want to do IS
Ito start something and keep it up until
the white people stop something. We
don't intend to be oppressed any long
Ter. We don't intend to be rushed. l
lam afraid we are anarchistic, that VT
I7re anarchists, and | give the warn
Iing that if this oppression in the south
continues the negro must resort to the
Sword and torch, and that the south
Hand will become a land of blood and
l7esolation.
Il want to make the assertion right
here that we are not going TO De dis
ranchised in Virginia. 1t is written in
the heavens and engraved upon the
stars that the Virginia negro does not
Intend to submit to Acknowledgement.
We are told, Let the negro obtain
Education and wealth if he would gain
the political equality which he DESIRES
| say that never was a bigger lie ut
TERED. The more the negro advances
the more will political rights be de-
MED him. 1t is not the common negro
in the south who is cut off the regis
~tration lists. 1t is not the ditch dig
ger. 1t is the educated negro. the
doctor and lawyer n preacher who
lare deprived unlawfully of political
lights and manhood by the Ubiquitous
Constitution Of Virginia, which cost a
half a million dollars to frame. And
want to say that by the time we gel
Through punching holes in the consti-
Tuition it will cost the state Of Vir-
tginia half a million more.
ct is claimed that the negro indus-
trial schools are the proper lines of
Affort for the race. Talk about educa-
zion and wealth, and say that they
make votes for the negro. It's a lie.
mo. they are destroying votes. Every
NEGRO who puts on a clean collar and
Itries to be 4 man is destroying a vote.
believe zoe will take care of US. And
lust one word about the question or
he absorption of the races" The
speaker added significantly:
n two people. having the same re-
lligion and speaking the same tongue,
living together. have ever been kept
apart. This is we'll known, and it is
IDne of the reasons why the dominant
race is crushing out the strength of
The negro in he south"
Other speakers were Rev. George
Lice. Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, J. w.
THOMPSON. of New York, treasurer of
ILtlt ANdltoIldk AlIo-EAIitCl q oOolANl
ICyrus Field Adams, secretary; II. L.
johnson, Of Atlanta, Ga: Bishop Wal
tiers. of this city. and Joh c. Dancey
recorder OF deeds. They spoke in a less
fiery vein than Hayes.
A writer signing the name Of Rev
flames L. White in a letter to the V
hing Star says the mass-meetlng a
Lincoln Memorial Church did not rep
resent all the colored citizens. He
continues: "HOt-headed men and rad
Iical speeches do the race no good.
feel that it is my duty to make q few
comments upon the meeting. On
lspeaker. If he is rightly quoted In tn
morning papers, made the impression
THAT all the white people OF the soutl
lare against the colored people. | den.
THAT statement. I have lived in tn
lsouth nearly 80 years, and I feel SAT
lin saying that some Of the best ele
Iment of the south are true friends o
the negro race. l have heard men sa.
lin the south on different occasion
THAT before certain colored men shOul'
he imposed upon. or any of their right
Iinfringed upon, the parties would hav
Ito walk over their dead bodies. 1t i
true that there are laWless elements i
1.-THE south, as there are in all other sec
ltions of this country, n where Their
lis such a large number of colored PEG
pie they impose generally upon them
but I repeat that it is unfair to charg
the best element of the white people o
the south, Virginia, or any other state
with being against the colored people
| believe these Indignation mass-meet
Iings and wild speeches that are mad
lin colored churches have caused NOR
; friction between the races than any
ithinC aIca