The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-03-25
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
CURRENT

The differentiai rate war now being
waged on grain shipments by the
eastern trunk lines would seem TO be
the skirmish preliminary to a general
freight wal which viii terminate with
gulf and Atlantic railway termin
OF the southern states in possession of
their W in the way OF logical bust
ness. So long as this section had no
trunk lines from the great west to
its ports il was to be expected that
New York would enjoy a shipping
monopoly by reason OF its transcon-
tinental railroad connections. All this
Is changed now and It is apparent
enough hat the nations o'ergreedy
metropolis and her railroad hackers are
making a losing fight against mani
fest destiny.-Atlanta Constitution.
Vague assaults upon the personal
character of Hon. William Randolph
Hearst by newspapers. democratic and
republican. arouse disturbing thoughts
in the minds of the discreet as to the
sort Of campaign We shall have this
fall, IL he is named. 1t is certain that
virulent attacks will be made upon
him. Is it likely that Hon. william
Randolph Hearst. with a corps OF train
ed reporters in Washington and New
York for the last ten years, is not I'M
familiar with the mornings and outgo.
ings Of the nan the republicans will
name. or that, with a dozen papers in
which to blazen them, he will remain
philanthropically and Samaritanly quiz
essent under the furious assaults of the
republican press upon his perso
character. Whether or not Mr.. HearSt's
house is made Of glass. we do not know.
But we do know that he is equipped
with a number of particularly efficient
catapults and the republican press
might discreetly look to the record an :
n domicile of their own man before
going too far in the stone-throwing
business.-Virginian-Pilot.
Altogether the most ominous feature
Of the lynching at Springfield, Ohio. is
the disclosure Of deep-seated race pre-
JUDGE and hatred which characterized
it. Lynching is hideous enough. even
in it's simplest aspects, but when the
killing of the ~ostensible offender is at
tended by an outburst Of murderous
animosity against the entire negro
colony it attains the proportions of ar
all-pervading calamity. No matter
how completely we may condemn and
abhor the lawless destruction of a hu.
man life. it is still possible to imag n
the infuriation provoked by some. par.
ticularly fendish crime. But when this
appalling outburst of mob violence il
followed by a demonstration Of genera
n comprehensive passion for mas,
sacre. n stands aghast at the horror
and the barbarity of the spectacle
These fright ul phenomena nearly al
ways attend a lynching at the north
They never do at the south. In Ala.
bama or Mississippi. Arkansas or Cor
DINA they catch the culprit, or TIL
supposed culprit. and put him to deatf
often under circumstances of un'
speakable horror. But there the mat,
ter ends. Nc carnival Of butchery en-
! sues. No outbreak of race hatred ant
persecution is provoked. The crimina
is executed. and that is all. In Ohio
] Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Delaware
and other northern states the lynchin:
is merely the spark that leads to tn
explosion. In almost every instanc
the mob whets its appetite for slaugh
ter and devastation on the initial sac
rifice. 1t is only too plain that tn
lyncherS seek the determination OF tn
negroes, and use h Enching as a pre-
text. The question is not that Of pun
ishing some individual offender, how
ever cruelty. but Of killing every mem
Der Of the race within reach.-Wash
ington Post.
We print today from the Hon.. Gam
aliel Bradford, Of Boston. an "appea
| to the people of the. south from on
whose memory goes back to the earl,
war" Mr.. Bradford fear
the military, and yet. he would pac
at the head of our government a presi
dent whose whole life has been devote,
to the study and practice of the art o
war. We have no doubt whatever a
to the military genius of General Miles
and of his devotion to the welfare O
his country, but we have urged an
shall continue to urge his ineligib.lt
because of the indelible stain place
upon his character by his unsoldierl
and brutal treatment of Jefferson Da
Wis, the great representative, Of n
southern people and their Lost Caus
when he was a prisoner Of war at For
tress Monroe. Mr.. Bradford urges I
his letter that General Miles was sim
ply carrying out the orders of his su
periors and that he should not be hel
responsible for his treatment Of MI
Davis, but the facts as we know ther
do not sustain this view. In a pape
read before the Atlanta Camp of Con
federate veterans in March, 1899. an
recently printed in The News and Cou
rier. Mr.. T.. K. Oglesby, secretary t
Alexander H. Stephens, says: 9TH
evidence shows that the deed done b
General Miles . was done vol
UNFAIRLY and deliberately, on his ow
responsibility solely. He knew befor
he did 1t, and while he was doing i
hat it was a deed that would pas
into history never to be obliterata
from its pages. 1t was most probab
that he was actuated largely by a ds
sire to go into history as the man WI
a Jefferson Davis put in irons. III
desire has been achieved, he has so gor
into history. and will so live there fc
all time to come" We can hardly III
derstand Mr.. Bradford's statemer
that Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Clay wrot
letters thanking Colonel Miles f,
courtesies received. and particularly
view of the fact hat Mrs. Davis he
self has told about the efforts made b
Miles to humiliate her in every possib