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THE SEMI-T7EEKLY EIESSENGEH: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1898. V MM 02 ftfiatered at the Postoffice at Wilmington, N. C. as second class man matter. TERMS OF SUBSCttinmN. THE DAILT MES3BNGER, by mail. rear, f7.H: six months, 13.50; three 4Uontha, 11.75; ne month, GO cents. THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER two 8 page papers), by mail, one yar, G.C0; six months, 60 cents, in advance. WILJIIXGTOX. N. C. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1898. iii:li;ioi n kditokials for SUNDAY So far from believing that Christian Oenominationallsm i3 a curse, we think it Is apparent that It has proved a tdessing. not unmixed, but still a bless ing. We hold that the Gospel car ha3 Vnoved with more celerity and into xnore distant fields because of the many differing bodies in the one Church of Christ, than would have ieen possible if they had not existed. TThey have afforded an earnest, gen erous and In late years a genuine iChristian rivalry in esaying to do :jood, to save souls and to preach the jglorious Gospel of the Son of God. There used to be far too much of bit terness, of antagonism, of unchristian assumption and ferocious dogmatism among the different brandies. But 2now the deep seated asperities have fo a great extent disappeared, .ar.d xnen of the sects who love Jesus and 3?lory in the hope of eternal salvation tire more gentle and tolerant and wise, tand do not damn with vigor and heap malediction upon the heads of other iChristian bodies preaching the very fcarne Gospel, seeking to save sinners through and by the same precious Blood of the Lamb, striving to extend fine bounds of the Kingdom of Right eousness and to glorify the same ador able and merciful Heavenly Father. JWhile it may be a matter for regret, t not for surprise, that all believers n the Lord Jesus Christ, cannot see truth always in the same light, and interpret the Word precisely from the fcjame standing point and with the teame governing laws of exigesis, see ing eye to eye, but this fact does not tnilitate against the fact that the di visions in the army of the Lord have fciot prevented exhibitions of high consecration, noble self-sacrifices Hii vninr intensp zeal, loftv as pirations and purposes and grand suc cess. The Bible, so far as we know, Uoes not promise that in the earthly pil grimage the sincere followers of the JCrucified and Risen Lord shall all see txlike, think alike, or act alike, or K-hat they shall have the same views land convictions as to Church govern tment and the best way of operating ifor the salvation of the world. But the Bible does promise that beyond khis sad vale of tears, in the upper and Ibetter Kingdom, where the saints are Sndeed perfected, exalted, saved, that .fchen all shall see face to face Twhen "the Lord shall bring again SSion." Can any one be sure that it would be better for the human race if all the denominations were brought into loving fellowship and into the unity of the faith, each body aban doning all opinions and convictions that divided, all flocking together in stead of leaving all the church organi zations to work on their own honest lines, but in fellowship and love for the others, and striving to surpass each other in good works, in sincere Christian emulation, saving souls and glorifying God? Save all the souls possible, strive to magnify your calling, twork "in the unity of the Spirit," if not jm the same order and polity, and thus tehow to the world the softening, jpurifying.liberalizing, sanctifying pow Hor of the religion of the Lord Jesus fchrist. The Christian brings forth tthe fruits of peace, holiness and con secration. That is a poor, beggarly, unsatisfying and insufficient life that firings forth less than these. The fruit 43Z the Spirit are holiness, prayer, Jfaith, self-denial, separation from the tworld, a life of consecration and ser tyice and praise. Harmony is what is iwanted among Christian believers in jthe great work of soul-saving, and not fine same garments and shibboleths Sind polities. Agree to disagree in-love, (and hold your religious opinions in genuine Christian charity and forbear U3ce. In soul-saving there ought to &e real and sincere Christian unity. The Christian graces are the out come of soul regeneration. Without the new birth by the power of the bly Ghost the ''fruits" will not bs feeen. What are they as described by St. Taul in his letter to the Galatians 1Cv:22, 23, 25.) "But the fruit of the Bpirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meek tiess, temperance; against such there t& no law." 2Vfen must be honest with themselves, liavlng positive convictions, having a fclear understanding of fundamentals fn religion, knowing well the difference between right and wrong, able to pene fcrate sophisms and not to mistake an Immoral principle for the moral, loving- the truth and ready for sacrifice. En intelligent, studious, sincere mind fSlU be always broadening and learn ing. When Mr. Gladstone was charg ed with inconsistencies in his public career he laughed at it, and said he fcad been learning ever since he had entered political life. Positive convic ons are worth a great deal, but do lot shut out light or be afraid of the truth. Be a truth-seeker always.. Do not sacrifice sincere fundamental con victions for expediency; Do not let the currents of modern opinion and speculation sweep you away from safe moorings and well followed belief. Be honest, be just, be sincere. Do not be afraid of censure when you see the light as you have not before seen it. Hold on to positive convictions until honestly satisfied from Investigation, that you are holding to what is not true and well based. Know what you believe, and why you believe it. Have a firm grasp of genuine religious prin ciples the truth of God as revealed. Understand their value, their necessi ty, their incomparable excellence. But be in love and charity with all Who differ from you and cannot think as you think. Do not think you know it all, but believe that others may know quite as much as you know. THE FLUETFOOTED KLAN'DEHEII. The New York Journal, one of the "yellow" tribe, prints a letter signed "Canadian," and all about Wilming ton. It is a budget of lies and mis statements, a scandalous assault upon the white people of our city. Mun chausen himself could not outlie this scapegoat who sent off his slanderous tirade just as he was departing for Toronto, Canada. He is a very nim ble fellow with ""the pen, selecting points for comment, and so twisting and varnishing them as to put them be yond recognition. Sam Weller said that certain piemen could make "weal pie" so dexterously out of "kit tens" that "even the pieman himself could not tell the difference." This cunning, lying Canadian so perverts facts and hides truth you can hardly recognize in it the original "kittens.1 We have hardly ever before seen as much falsehood crammed into the space occupied. He is artistic in his management of details and so tricks out his lies as to give them the shape and habiliments of truth. His false hoods well adorn the sheet for which they were furnished. It is to be hoped that North Carolinians will "remem ber" the Journal, and do as we long ago did not allow it to come again in to their homes. Here are some choice excerpts from this mendacious publication. We copy that our readers may see . what their enemies are saying and how often they have enemies and slanderers in their midst. Read and remember: "But could you have seen them on Thursday you would have thought them the bloodhounds of hell turned loose. There was no riot; simply the strong slaying the weak and helpless. The negroes had no firearms of any kind. The papers here The Messenger is edited by a red shirt and The Star by a rough rider, as they style themselves, are one sided. I would not stay in this hole for all I am worth. I am ashamed to be iden tified with lawless people. They say they are prepared to attack the Union. I believe they are preparing to rebel against it. The negroes who were banished without any cause what ever fxll are good negroes, dealing con stantly with the whites. The north ern men who were in public offices were made to leave. I was forced to join what they called the white men's union. The ne groes here are industrious, and for the most part have comfortable homes. Pverybody will leave this town and state who can do so. All the well-to-do negroes will be afraid to stay, and rich whites will leave and give this place to the rabble. The town is in sack cloth and ashes. As South Caro lina rebelled in 1861 they are urging re bellion now. If John D. Bel lamy is seated in congress there will be war between the north and south." In all this we are reminded of what Prince Hal said of Jack Fatstaff's tav ern bill, "But one half-penny worth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack." What the greasy knight said himself is applicable also "Lord, lord, how this world is given to lying." Like Fatstaff the sneaking Canadian is no exception. He did not have honor and manhood enough to stay out of the "White Men's Union," and just as he was' fleeing from "this hole," as he calls our city, he dips his pen in an ink horn filled with venom and lies and then skipped. He left the city for the city's good. Erupit, evasit. The cor respondents of the northern newspa pers have written truth that offsets all the lies of this enemy. A RARE NEGRO SCHI In Brooklyn, N. Y., there is a negro Baptist preacher named Leonard Brown. He is ridden by a plan, and he develops1 it. It is how to protect the negroes in the south so innocent, so well behaved, so self-sacrificing, so in dustrious, and put a complete curb upon the hostile whites, who pay no taxes, do no good to the negroes, give them no labor to perform, do not help to feed their families and are bad cit izens generally. The fierce and blood thirsty, sable parson is of the same tribe as the negro preachers here who stood by Manly and would continue to do so at "the peril of their lives." The long-range Brooklyn negro Is a bad adviser for he wants his race in the south to enter upon a general work of killing and he tells them to begin work with "gun, knife, pistol and dyna mite." How long does the fool think this bloody game can be played with out extermination to the negroes? There are nearly two white men to one negro man in North Carolina. In a fortnight If the whites were the bloody devils this foolish darkey thinks the last negro In the state would disap pear unless some would hide away in swamps and pocosons. Such gabble as the Brooklyn fool Indulges is not worth noticing, but we note it that our in terested readers in the race question, and they count by the thousands, may see what negroes beyond the state are seeking to bring to pass a war of ex termination of one race or the other Brown gives his plan as follows: "My plan is to make every one of the ten million negroes in this coun-1 try pay a dollar toward a fund for I our protection. If necessary, we could go acrosi the -water and set some Fe nians to come and blow up all our per secutors with dynamite." That Is trom a fellow pretending to be an ambassador for Jehovah and a preacher "of peace and good will" on earth. He will raise that $10,000,000 In a jiffy. Suppose he shoulder his gun and come down to start his bloody fight in person. Is not this fellow's vile plan a fine object lesson of the elevation of the negro and the bless ings of education? A very little learn ing has made this simpleton a fire brand. The able Baltimore Sun treats the proposition, or plan of the clerical Brooklyn ass something jocosely. It says: "A fund of ten million dollars con fided to the hands of a eommlttee com posed of colored gentlemen like some of those who have recently been re quested to withdraw from Wilmington, X. C, would prove a magnificent in vestmentfor the committee. The idea is a splendid one. and its suggestion by a colored minister proves that all the financial ability of the country is not confined to Wall street or to the white race. Even if the Rev. Leonard J. Brown had to let other representa tive colored clergymen into his scheme on the ground floor, there would still be very handsome dividends for every body, except the Fenians and the op pressed colored brother at the south. If a clerical syndicate were formed, consisting of one prominent colored minister in one hundred cities and communities throughout the country, and ten million dollars were collected, there would be an even hundred thou sand dollars for each member of the syndicate, or, deducting ten thousand dollars for 'expenses from each hun dred thousand collected, ninety thou sand dollars apiece. This would not be a bad way for the syndicate of 'solv ing' the race problem." In other places in the north there are white fanatics raving over the out rages perpetrated upon "the colored man and brother," but they fail alto gether to apply the rod of correction to that class of negroes who prepare for a war against the whites and raise a row after making violent threats. Out in Indiana they are so very warm in sympathy and their voice is so loud for war they talk of forming a "junta" after the Cuban idea, whatever that is. It is to be hoped that the northern press can withdraw its guns for a while that are now firing such fusil lades at the south and turn them with fierceness upon the Illinois outrages. There is a fine object lesson in that great state as to the harmony of races and the behavior of the negroes when well armed. Whether in the north or in the south, in peace or war, at home or in Cuba or elsewhere the negro well armed is a terror and an outlaw and is as ready to kick up a row and kill at short or long range as he is to rob a hen roost or a watermelon patch. He is belligerent by nature and especially when "he feels his keep." ITndolug the Work of a Cenlury (Springfield Republican.) Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, at tributes the recent outbreaks against the colored race partly, at least, to the recent lowering of national ideals re specting popular rights. "There has been," he says, "a great revolution in sentiment at the north on this subject, as is shown by the annexation of Haw aii without any pretense of consulting the wishes or protecting the interests of the colored races there, as well as by the attitude of Governor Tanner, of Illinois, in refusing to protect the imported negro miners at Virden and Pana." And why should not Governor Tanner's revolutionary course, for which he richly deserves prosecution as a seditious person be classed also as an effect of this impairment of po litical ideals? Let no one undertake to belittle the point. The whole recent attitude of the nation, as represented at Washing ton, has been one of increasingly con temptuous disregard of the old prin ciple that government derives its just power from the consent of the govern ed, and that the humblest of God's creatures possesses inalienable rights of liberty. Hawaii has been annexed in supreme indifference respecting the wishes of the vast majority of its in habitants, and Porto Rico is to be add ed on without so much as consulting the desires of even a single class of its population; while the government of the United States at this moment stands ready to force American sover eignty upon the Filippinos at the can non's mouth if necessary. lUeKluley Itivitel to Montg o mcry Montgomery, Ala., November- 19. The Alabama senate today passed a joint resolution inviting President Mc Kinley "in the name of the general assembly and the people of Alabama ' to extend his visit to Montgomery and to be present in Montgomery on the 15th of December as the state's guest or at such other time as may suit his pleasure and convenience. Poor and Weak Catarrh and Bronchial Trouble Had no Appetite Now Better in Every Way-A Delicate Child. 44 Some time since I took a sudden cold and could not get rid of it. Being subject to catarrh and bronchial trouble I coughed terribly. I lost my appetite and grew poor and weak and I did not feel like work. I began taking Hood's Sarsapa rilla. In a short time the cough disap peared, I slept well, had a good appetite and I wa3 better in every way. Last spring I was not feeling well, I had no ap petite and no strength. I resorted to Hood's Sarsaparilla and soon felt more like work. My little nephew was a deli cate child end had a humor which trou bled him so he could net rest at night. He has taken a few bottles of Hood's Sar saparilla and now he ha3 a good appetite and is able to sleep." Mis3 Abbie J. Feeisiax, South Buxbuxy, Mass. 5 Sarsa S parilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1. Hnn'l'! P i 1 1 are the best after-dinner uuuu a i iii2 piu, an iigestioo. 55c Hood john nnowrs spirit Still TIarrblns on as ! ErldmreA by tbe Slanders of the Sou tb by Harriet Bee be r Mow, the Indignation Tleetins In w Vorlt a Few 'lbta Soand Other Fanatical Proceed lns of Haters of the Sontn The Baltimore Sun of yesterday says, editorially: No better justification of the white revolution at Wilmington, N. C, could be furnished from a hostile quarter than was afforded by the spirit which characterized the colored mass meet ing held In New York Thursday night, and reported in the newspapers of yes terday, to protest against so-called "Southern outrages." The attitude of the negro as Illustrated at a meeting supposed to be representative of the best colored elements, is demonstrated to be that of bitter hostility toward Southern white people and of savage desire to humiliate and crush them. It was the same spirit as that displayed when the negroes were in the ascend ency at Wilmington, and which led them to heap insults and contumely upon the white victims of their mis government. It was the spirit which rendered the situation at Wilmington intolerable and made revolution a ne cessity. While it may be conceded that their attitude is mainly attributa ble to the political adventurers and fa natices who have inflamed their minds and played upon their passions, it is clear that it is an attitude which not only justified, but demanded heroic measures such as were adopted at Wil mington, and which will render it ne cessary to maintain a firm hand upon them until they have reached a far higher condition of civilization than they have yet attained. The false teaching of the past thirty years has done infinitely more moral harm to the negro than all the generations of sla very through which he passed. Slavery found him a savage, and in multitudes of cases made him a Christian and in many instances gave him the the re finement and good form which were developed even in dependents by the high social standards of the old South. The political education which he has received from New England sources since emancipation has confused his brain, perverted his heart and cor rupted his manners, and instead of really progressing, there is danger, un der the baneful influence of the morbid and unprincipled guidance to which h? has been exposed, that he may revert to the original type from which slavery rescued him, except that this renais sance of barbarism in him will be ac companied with the vices of civiliza tion and the power for mischief which civilization confers upon those who are in it, but not of it. If the negro is to avoid this danger and develop into a higher manhood and citizenship, he must free himself from the evil influences and teachings under which he has been degenerating since the war. As long as he suffers himself to be abused by bad counsel and kept in a false attitude toward the Southern white people, just so long will he con tinue to retrograde in character and re spectability, lie has seen the effect of thirty years of fanatical political ed ucation. Let him turn away from the school of hate, defiance and distrust in which he has been trained and try thirty ytars of good will toward and co-operation with the white people of the South. If he does, he will rise to a higher statue and a higher degree of prosperity than ever before. His home and abiding place is in the South and he should recognize the fact that his interests are bound up in the pros perity and progress of that section and are dependent upon the relation in which he stands to the dominant classes there. While the negro is to be regarded more with pity than with anger, be cause the victim of a pernicious system of political philosophy and pretended philanthropy, it is impossible to find in the English language words sufficient ly strong to properly describe the white hypocrites and political criminals who have misled him in the past and are still endeavoring to fire his heart against the South. Such wanton, mali cious and unspeakably abominable as persions against Southern women as were uttered at the Xew York meeting by one Mrs. Elizabeth Ti. Grannis could spring only from a heart as black with hate as the foul and shameful slan ders which she uttered. The Xew York Sun describes her remarks as unprint able. An extract from her address, as given in yesterday's disrjatches, was as follows: "I am only here tonight to represent womanhood,", said Mrs. Grannis. "We all know that the white women and white girls of the South are full of col ored blood. I stand here for colored women and colored girls the same as I do for white women." At this a wild uproar ensued. The colored men and women jumped up in the aisles to cheer. Many laughed and gave vent to hysterical exclamations. Others mounted their seats and waved their hats. The pure and true women of the South can afford to treat this libeler with the contempt with which they would regard the ravings of a foul minded maniac, but her utterances il lustrate the spirit of sectional hate to ward the South which still prevails in some quarters of the North and which apostles of humanity like Mrs. Grannis are continually endeavorting to fan into a general flame. They stop at no slander, no lie. no villification. no rriat ter how gross and detestable, if it gives them the opportunity to spit out their malignant venom against the South. They are the petty and vulgar political descendants of that wholesale libeler, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who had more imagination and just as little regard for truth as her imitators of the present day. The wrong and in jury which "I'ncle Tom's Cabin" in flicted upon the country are incalcula ble. That wrong and injury still live, and. like John Brown's spirit, seem to be marching on for still further evil. As is pointed out in the recently issued United States history of Susan Pendle ton Lee. "Mrs. Stowe had never been South nor seen slavery and slave-owners as they really were. but. she was a violent abolitionist, and she wrote fo anti-slavery newspapers a storj- found ed upon isolated cases of cruelty anl crime picked up from other papers. In vain the South denied the slanders eiven broadcast to the world". "t'Ucfe Tom" was republished In England: it was translated into the European lan guages, and Its caricatures of Southern life were multiplied a thousand fold by abolition energy and fanaticism. When Mrs. Stowe was pressed to give her au thority for the account she gave of the Kentucky and Louisiana planters, she published 'A Key,' which showed among the millions of slave-holders and their negroes h.w few were the in stances of wickedness such as she gare to the world as the habitual daily life of the broad Soth." Haters of the South, who have learned their rnora!? from Mr?. Stow Oh! The IFt) lt-n VUJl irJlillUlllliilcClLlLiiiiii Its Tortures Known to Thousands. The achaand pains of Rheuma tism become a constant com panion to all who are victims of this disabling disease, ine peo ple generally are not acquainted with the cause of the disease, though thousands know its tor tures. Everybody should know that Rheumatism is a peculiar acid con dition of the blood, upon which all liniments in the wor)d can havo 3 effect whatever. The best blood remedy is needed one which is able to go to the very Feat of the disease and force it out. Swift's Sp-cific (S. S. S.) is the right remedy for Rheumatism, because it is the only blood remedy free from mercury, potash and other minerals which intensify the dis-' ease, causing stiffness of the joints and aching of the bones. S. S. S. neutralizes the acid condition of the blood, and forces out every trace of the disease. It reaches even the worst cases where the doctors have made cripples with their prescriptions of potash and mercury. JOHN GILPIN'S WIF 31 The Best Bed Made. The, Perfection Mat tress Don't Pack. Try One. SECOND ANO MARKET STREETS. and John Brown, and who deliberately slander the Southern people and seek to array the negroes against them, ar2 enemies of the colored race and dan gerous to the peace and prosperity of the whole country. They are directly responsible for rate outrages, murders and collisions of the South, and the blood shed under these circumstances will cry to heaven against them. It is time that the better classes in the North put the stamp of their emphatic disapproval upon these emissaries of evil and wickedness. They cannot af ford even to appear to endorse crea tures who, like very drabs, fall to curs ing a whole section and spew out upon it the slime of their own degraded na tures. I am lunorout ofllie rliargr Mr. Editor: For the first time in my life I ask space in your paper; in fact I have al ways avoided to speak of myself in any manner through a newspaper; but in this case I feel it my duty to set my self straight before the public. I think it was on the 6th of September last my district conference convened at Lake Waccamaw, N. C, and con tinued in session three days. We had a very pleasant and lovely meeting. During the sesion a gentleman come in and said that he wanted the confer ence to indorse an article that had ap peared in The Wilmington Record, de fending the colored race and especially the colored ladies. Well, I said: "I suppose the conference will indorse that" Well at that time I had no knowledge of the contents of the Manly article, for I had never seen it; neither had anybody told me what it was. I had not the least idea that there was anything in it to create hard feelings between any race or sect, for I havo never been a subscriber to The Wil mington Record, neither a reader, only some times while in Wilmington, when I would find a copy at some one's house I would run over a few of the locals. Tbe day the man first brought in the matter (Manly article) it was not en dorsed. On the third night of the-conference it was very rainy and I, with Mr. W. H. Eason and others, were very late getting to church and a-visit-tng brother haur opened the confjtrence, and business was going on. So, on filtering the church I saw t&U they were just closing a discussion about something. I asfced the brother in the chair whxt they were on a-d he said on endorsing that article. I did not ask for another reading ot die endorse ment, fori did not think fc was a mat ter of much note anyway. So I dU not hrjj a word of K neither did I have ajiy knowledge ot what they iad saicL I speak truthfully before my God when I say I don't believe one fourth of that conferonco knew what they wvre endorsing. I had never seen the original article and I don't believe they had, that is three fourths of them. They thcught they were endorsing some grand words that had been Epcfken ic defense of tbe colored race and especially he fair ex. I knew no i bettr fcr about two weeks, when I Pafl.o n n tvo-n (TM-yftic firm t "My wife waa for ycxi a iufferer from Rheumatism, And treated constantly, but could obtain no relief. The doctors said tho disease wa JlAblt to strike- the heart aV any time. In which event death would be inevitable. Every kind of treatment recom mended for Rheumatism was given, inrludinsrwidelv advertised blood rem edies, bat none did anr sood. She crew worse all the while an. d was re duced to a mere shadow of 2a "it former self. . . . It was at this critical peri od that 8. 8. 8. wa tnea; this medicine emed to reach the dis ease promptly, and she began to im prove. f One do ten bottles effected a t$ ifi eomnlote cure, ai ld she hashad no tone h of Rheumatism sinA 3 4,D. R. John-post, 'Backshcar, Ga." V Every one afflicted with Rheu- matism should tako Swift's Spe-- cific, the only remedy which can reach their trouble. S. S. S. will cure the most aggravated case of Rheumatism, Catarrh, Cancer, Contagious Blood Poison, Scrof ula, Eczema or any other blood disease. It is guaranteed Purely Vegetable Books mailed free by . Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Ga. HAD A FRUGAL, MIND. AS MANY HOUSEWIVES HAVE NOWADAYS, BUT THEY DO LOVE TO DECOItATD THEIR HOMES WITH HANDSOME FURNITURE, AND THEY CAN DO IT, WHEN WE ARE OFFERING SUCH RICH AND ELEGANT DIN NING ROOM, PARLOR AND RED RROOM SUITES AT PRICES THAT WILL ENABLE THE MOST ECO NOMICAL TO BRIGHTEN UP THEIR HOMES WITH FURNITURE THAT WAS SOLD FOR DOUBLE TUB PRICE A SHORT TIME AGO. met the lion. J. C. Daney near tho market on Front street in Wilmington and was telling him what a grand timo we had at conference. He said: "Vs, but what in the world did you fallows endorse that Manly article for?" I said; "why, how is it? Some naid it was right." He said it had no business in the conference, at all "nhaino shame!" Well, then I was struck; for 1 had not seen the- article up to that time. So I went to Mr. Byrd and tried to g-t a paper with it in it, but he could not find one. So on my way from Wil mington to Fayetteville, N. C, on tho Cane Fear and Yadkin Valh-y railroad, September 20th, I bought a Wilming ton Messenger from the news man and it had the Manl' article in it and that was the first time in my life that I saw it. I soon found out after reading it that it was a matter that I liad nothing to do with and I was sorry that my conference had disgraced itself, mess ing with such a thing; and on my re turn to Wilmington I and Rev. I). A. Kelly went to The Messenger office to see the editor. I did not s the editor, but I saw a gentleman who said ho was one of the proprietors ot tho paper. I told him my name and business and asked him if he would allow an article to appear through his paper to set my self straight before the public. Ho kindly consented to do so and it was, my aim to write at once; but at that time the campaign was hot and I thought that any words that T could say would be considered a political scheme and I was on tho go all tho while, so I did not wriu. but let it take its course till now;. Mr. editor, I write this note from, no fear of punishment or Buffering... but from an honest heart, to let tho" reading public know how I stand onj the matter. Hoping it will give gen eral satisfaction. tbuX I knew- nothings of it. Yours. 1). T. MITCIIKLL. Presidfig elder o tho Wilmington dir- trictfc A. M. E. Zlon church. Scooped wllUtbr Preacher It a hard to khx. aJad of th? yvjc- prl.ing newspapers oS. today. Hi o(U- ciaVi and fuwtionries often try in d. it, tyul they rarely ever uccec and: usaally have cauw afterward to. wi tlw-y hadnt tried. Judg CandWr. r I2e Atlanta Circuit, tried It wh:a sentenced the negro. Harnyjon, as hunff in Atlanta on Y-dn-U The Juigi gav Imperative i Jern i.'.C the execution be as private. u ble. and txpressly orderoJ, that no newspaper reporters be aJp'iitttot. Ah the result of the Judge. cranfctnfSH. tho hanging was sen by niy th sher iff, a preacher, a doctor id sir ba!iff. Now. what did one of this AUinU dai Ua do but make a leprier of the pr-acher und print tbu kext morning A fait report of the rUluwa scene frfrn an eye-witneps. And in the middl'- 0f its four-column story vt the har,gj,1?r which was quitf: as sensational jn jtjj details as a trumd and harde.j r(.. porter could hve made it, w? a pict ure of the tva cher-reporter manding with his bievf undr his arm and a -egular pfarse-God benign expression on his totfrtDance.--Aibany 0a Herald.