Newspaper Page Text
I THE WlLMINGTlXN MESSENGER. TUESDAY, Dl' -J , '4 JACKSON ft BELL COUP ANY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. -- - ---- r -v xrrsvreri rn? hv malL. ' m MESSNGE2t by mail. f year, I7.M; 'J months, .; thre etnthJ, one month. SO cents. . rrt otrTTwrrrav"r .v MESSENGER ' tfw I P PPrsj. cy we yc, ; tlfif; six months, 60 cents, in aavance. fllLfnlNGTQH fi. C. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1901. DUTY OP CHIUSTIAS TO SEUHUW. " "",'" " While hundreds of pens are discuss- lug the negro problem, an effort in the congress is on foot to punish the white race In the south for trying to undo the Infamy and wrongs perpetrated by the north in giving the franchise to a million of blacks who were utterly un fitted for its use because of ignorance, want of training, race Incapacity, for government and moral Qualities, there 13 one question that does not receive the attention it should receive It Is a most important question and is basic to all genuine and permanent advance ment on the part of the negro race. It is their religious discipline and moral training. You may fill their heads with the three It's and. technical education but if their moral nature remains as it has remained since their freedom by th result of war, they will be no better oil in a century in character and use fulness as citizens than they were the day Lincoln violated the constitution and issued his proclamation freeing ' them. The white race in the south under th very trying circumstances and the severe ordeal to which they were sub jected, have done greater things, more municificent - and magnificent acts in behalf of an illiterate race than was ever thought of or attempted in all his- " torlc records extant. But the kindness the forebearance. the sympathy, the money contributed for the education of the minds of the young negroes did not and do not exhaust all that must b done, do not now meet all the obliga tions that rest upon the superior, the dominant race the race that has con quered and builded and civilized the poples of the globe through the elaps trg centuries. A puissant, regnant-ma-tesful race must endeavor to ele vate an inferior race with which it comes in contact- Some times the whites have carried Into new lands their vices, and the lower races have been demoralized and seriously lowered by the contact. Out in Alaska the Esquimau and other tribes have been much injured by the introduction of white men's vices, carticularly their -drinks. The whites must ao more towards rlmrartlng moral teachings and bring" "ing to bear more of true Christian ex ample and influence uron the negroes It is necessary to have them taught the pliiin, pure, comforting. ' elevating -spiritual truths of God's Word. The lower class must be looked after more : faithf ully. earnestly, constantly, and the religious people are the ones to do this. "What are the white churches do ing for the negro race surrounding them? How much money is raised and expended annually in having sacred truths of God preached to them? The Gospel of Christ is the Gospel of love, of benevolnce, of self-sacrifice, of peace If it is preached wisely, earnestly, reg ularly to the negro race by educated, trained ministers well equipped for its faithful and efficient proclamation, much good must folia w. It will show the negroes that their white neighbors and the professing followers of the Liord are in earnest in promoting their present and eternal interests. There are great opportunities offered for do ing good, for enlarging the benevolence -ji the white race, for extending the be nignant offerings of the Gospel of Hope and Promise and for bringing more of the African race into the safe foid of the Christian faith and living. The- able Presbyterian Standard in lis issue of the 27th ultimo, put this as a fact, and all must admit that there is much of truth in it. 'And while industrial antagonisms are beginning to spring up even In southern cities, between the two races, yet the great part of the manual labor of the south is done by negroes. And surelv no man can read the book vf tinman history and fail to see that this fact is without parallel, that two such widelv different races should live side Iy slue in peace. .When we recall that there are eight millions of negroes in the south, the sporadic instances of race conflict are few enough. Surely it is by the blessing of God that a con quered people at the mercy of their former slaves, oppressed for years by their conquerors who had given the slaves their freedom, should have c emerged from their defeat, and with the aid of these former slaves . have builded the new south, and that the children of former master and former . slave should he dwelling together, wfth no possibility of Intermingling, with no constraint now of external force, yet in safety and peace. The failure of the! white people to recognize now, at this I bS3rMa'& SSaSSFSUM i ingratitude to God. God has given us '. the means and the opportunity for their I It is not probable that there will ever be a deportation of the negro race te Africa . or elsewhere. It is altogether probable that the mojor part of the aegroes now in the southland will re main and that in 1910, the number will iiave increased. We believe that the lest labor possible for the south is ne gro labor improved, elevated, better taught, more really Cnristlanized, and, therefore, more 'upright honest, truth ful, virtuous and reliable. . Improve the -tiero race that, is a stern unyielding duty of the whites, and the appeal will i not down, for' the responsibilities will last. The Standard Is correct in this: "They are not going to leave the southern states in any very great num bers for the northern slates for the very simple reason that they are really wanted here and are not wanted there, , that it is easier for them to make a liv- mg here than there, and that a southern climate is best adapted to their natures. anj nere and fcere tQ stay and here in increasing numbers every year. so that it Is easv to calculate on some 16,000.000 of them in the southern states in another generation. Here is God's lemfedy or all moral evil, and it brings . wjth it elevation on all lines, the Gos- pel or Jesus unnst. 11 is ine gospet oi peace. Can any believe that when the white man and the black man are both true followers of Jesus Christ there will i be any clashing of Interests? And now - ... i.H H our oppuriumiy. t It is very certain that the churches . need tQ open their eyeg and beholding . in onnortunftles and recoenlzlng the ) lmperatiVe responsibilities and demands upon them, to march up grandly and unitedlv to the common work of up lifting the negro race at their doors. Delay is unwise. Neglect Is not to be tolerated- Talking will not answer. It i3 prompt, earnest work that is demand ed. The Standard earnestly puts it: "We have been theorizing about the necroes long enough. In the mean time they are perishing for the gospel. Just as really as their brethren of Af rica. Let us do something for the ne zro. He Is the servant in our homes, he is the 'dweller in the next street, he Is the tenant on our farms: And God never yet, In all histor. let a people go unpunished for the sin of ingrati tude, involving the denial of an obliga tion." Awake! Arise! "Say well, is good: Do well. 13 better; Do well, is spirit: Say well, is letter." UNFAVORABLE'. AXD FAVORABLE ESTIMATES OF BYROX. If we had the leisure and the space we would be glad to discuss Byron's genius and art with care and elabora tion. To treat of him in the least satis factorily you must have ten or twelve pages in a magazine. So great a poet can not be reasonably considered in less space. It was mentioned in last Sun day's MessengSr that some contempor ary critics assailed and discredited him, and that in the last quarter of a cen tury it has been quite the vogue to play havoc with his reputation both as a man and a poet. The way has been to say all manner of vile things about him personally and then to damn him as an Inferior poet. It is surprising to us when so capable a critic and so excel lent a writer as Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke writes "I have lived too long with Byron. The sun has extinguished the flre-fly." And that is said of a poet who has received the praise and admi ration of as great men of genius as hav lived in the nineteenth century. A "fire-fly" indeed! His works show more positive and higher genius than can be fountl in all of the writings of the six foremost verse writers in New England, What are they? This Is the deprecia tion of one who fully appreciates Ten nyson and has written a very delight ful volume upon him .nd who aspires to be a writer of poetry himself. An other northern critic of excellent parts Is Professor "Woodberry.of the Univer sity of New York, we believe. He is one of the best American critics, and is ordinarily just and penetrating. But he underates Byron as he showed in his paper on the poet's birthday centen nial In 1SSS. He admits that he was a poet, but says men now pass him by. He adds that no one can love him. That must refer to the man and not to his greatest and noblest and sweetest po ems. But what may hare been partly true in 1SSS, is not true in 1901. We mentioned the two splendid editions of his works appearing in his native Eng land now. Then there are dozens of small editions of his works issued by various book publishers. Many critics, he it also mentioned, have lately prais ed him as his great and singular merits so richly deserve. Among them the fine critic of The New York Tribune quoted from in last Sunday's article. There is indeed something of a Byron re vival. He was verily a great genius and no dispraise can alter that fact Byron lived a bad, unhappy life, and so have other poets of fame. Poetry is not to be sanely appraised according to the moral standing of the writer. Goethe and a dozen other poets of renown did not live saintly or fairly .moral lives, and yet the world reads their works and accepts them as genuine. Wood berry is constrained to say that Byron wrote poems "that confer Immortality." His best poetry and there is much of this class abounds in passages of ex ceeding beauty and splendor as well as of imperishable substance. There are many passages of rare power, of noble ploquence. of genuine pathos, of ex quisite beauty and lustre. t When Byron died in Greece in 1S24, the greatest creative genius of Great Britain in the last century. Sir Walter Scott, said in a brief article he publish ed that "it seemed almost as if the sun in heaven tad been extingj'shed." But, presto, change. Van Dyke has discover ed that it was but a "fire-fly." Lord Macaulay, the great historian, critic, es- sayist, builder of admirable speeches, and a writer of poetry of excellence, but of the h.Sher order, said that Byron ' tfae most celebrated man in Eu- rope." and that too while Goethe, rnd Coleridge and Wordsworth, were living. He said also that "a man of Byron's eminence would not come again." Has that been set aside as yet? He even thought Byron "a greater man than Milton vast and widely varied." But he was "a fire-fly" and now "men pass him by," quoth the two (northern critics men like Stendhal, Sainte-Beuve (France's greatest critic, as all literary men know,) Castelar, the eloquent and unrivalled Spanish orator of twenty years ago all these and others (includ ing as we have said, Germany greatest genlus. Goether) have paid . him tho highest tributes. v ' - :, ' But if you would read a paper of much lensrth and rare force, and see Byron treated by one particularly able and accomplished and who understood Byron and appreciatel his grand and Impressive genius, turn to Talne's two volumes his great work, the "History of English Literature," translated and first published In 1872. It is by one of the chiefest and most admira bly endowed writers of the last century, ' who has written at least two works of consummate excel lence and unsurpassed Interest Taine, devotes no less than forty-one of the large pages of his most unique and magnificent critical work to Lord Byron. It is twenty-nine years since we read the volumes, but we recall with unrepressed pleasure Impressions they made, and even to now the fasci nation lingers "like the scent of the roses." Taine opens by characterizing Bvron as "the greatest and most Eng lish of artists." and says "he is so great and so English that from him alone w shall learn more truths of his country and of his age than from all the rest together. His ideas were banned during his life: it has been attempted to depre ciate his genius since his death: To this day (1870) English critics are unjust to him. "It is les . so now in spite of Swin burne and some followers in under-valuing like Saintsbury and others. Aime discusses him at much length his style, his pictures of sad and extreme emo tions, his inferiority and superiority to Goethe', his dramatic gifts, his pictures of sensuous beauty and happiness, his naturalness and variety of style, and so on. He calls him "this unhappy great man." We turn now for a few moments to a distinguished, loving English critic of great independence and who is much read. W. E. Henley, himself a poet. He reads and Judges for himself, and is in different to the clamor of the pack who pursue the dead poet. In 1890, or about that time, Mr. Henley published a short paper on Byron. From it we take this: "He is the most romantic figure in the literature of the century, (nineteenth), and his romance is of that splendid arid daring cast which the people of Britain 'an aristocracy materialized and null, a middle class purblind and hideous, a lower class crude and brutal' prefers to regard with suspicion and disfavor." He goes on to show how Byron offended his public but we lack space to quote. Farther on he writes: "Meanwhile, however, the genius and the personality of Byron had come to be vital influences all the world over, and his voice had been recognized as the most human and the least insular raised on English ground since Shakespeare's. In Russla, he had created Pushkin and Lermon toff: in Germany he had awakened Heine. Inspired Schuman. and been sa- luted as an equal by the poet of 'Faust! himself He turns to Spain, Italy and France and shows "how he inspired and influenced the most Important writers' And yet naught but a little "fire-fly." Again Mr. Henley writes: "Byron was not Interested in words" (as Is the prevailing feature now among present day writers), and phrases but In the greater truths of destiny and emotion. His empire was over the imagination and the passions." One more view. Matthew Arnold holds a most unique place in British criticism. None of the numerous writers has a more pronounc ed recognition as to the first rank. What did Arnold say. and he has been dead but a decade or so: He said in Byron there is a "splendid and imper ishable excellence which covers ail his offences and outweights all his defects; the excellence of sinceritv and strength." He said "that when the year 1900 is turned, and the nation comes to recount her poetic glories in the century which had just ended, the first names with her will be, "Wordsworth and By ron. We do not share in that view. We would WTite Byro'n and Tennyson. We have only space to say now that expur gated edit-'on of Byron should be made a royal octavo of "selections" as have been made in the case of Wordsworth and Matthew Arnold. Some of Byron's verse should" be avoided. One-third of "Don Juan" should not be read. It is unfit and unclean. And yet that poem Is probably the greatest triumph of his superlative genius. Some other dav weeks hence perhaps we may write'on some of his best writings. LESSONS DRAWS FROM AX OLD STATESMAN. We are not one of the admirers of the' lite Nathaniel Macon as North Caro lina's greatest man. We hold that Gas ton, Badger, Benton. Pettigrew, Vance and perhaps others were ahead of him. But Macon was a citizen to venerate, to admire, to honor, for he was a genu ine man. a careful, conservative hon est, sterling North Carolinian, brave in war and wise in peace. He is- a great credit to this his native state. We took time recently to run over a paper we saw in the Raleigh Post from the pen of Mr. Clarence Poe, a Fayetteville young man we guess. It is over two and a half columns in length and is in structive as well as entertaining. We learned some things we'had not known and in the reading reviewed some things we had forgotten. Mr. Macon was born In Warren county, but at the time of his birth In 17S8, it was a part of Granville county. His father was a Virginian, his mother a North Caro linian. He was partly educated at Nas sau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, and left to enter the army to fight for the south. He returned to Princeton, left a second time, to become a soldier. -He was a "high private" and refused pay for his services. He was "at the fall of Fort Moultrie, the surrender of Charleston, the defeat at Camden, and then took. part in Greene's famous re treat. ' ' : "He was ettll with Greene on that re.- HALF. OUR ILLS ARE CATARRHAL If r J AT U R Catarrhal Diseases are Most Prevalent in Winter. IS THERE NO WAY OF ESCAPE FROM THEM? Pe-ru-na Never Fails to Cure Catarrh Wherever Located. There are some tiling which are as pare as fate, and can be relied on to occur to at least one-half of the human family unless means are taken to prevent. First, the climate of winter is sure to bring colds. Second, colds not promptly cured are pure to cause catarrh. Third, catarrh improperly treated is rare to make life short and miserable. Catarrh spare9 no organ or function of the body. It is capable of destroying sight, taste," Smell, hearing, digestion, secretion, assimilation and excretion. It pervades every part of the human body, head, throat, stomach, bowels, bronchial tubes, lungs, liver, kidneys, bladdei and other pelvic organs. That Fernna cures catarrh wherever located is attested by the following tes timonials cent entirely unsolicited to Dr. Hartman by grateful men and wo men who have been cured by Peruna : Catarrh' of The Head. Mr. D. R. Ramsey writes in a recent letter from Fine Bluff, Ark., the fol lowing: " My son, Leon Ramsey, four years of age, BuHered with catarrh of the head for eighteen or twenty months. He took one bottle of your Peruna and could hear as good as evcr."--D. R. RAMSEY. Catarrh of The Nose. Mr. Herman Ehlke, 952 Orchard street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes : " I am entirely cured of my catarrh of the nose by your Peruna. My case was a severe one." Herman Ehlke. Catarrh of The Throat. B. II. Runyan, Salesville, O., writes : I suffered with, catarrh of the throat for five, years. I was induced to try Peruna. I have used five bottles and am perfectly well." B. H. Runyan. Catarrh of The Ear. Mr. Archie Godin, 188 Beech street, Fitchborg, Mass., writes : ; Peruna has. cured me of catarrh f the middle ear. I feci better than I have for several years." Archie Godin. treat and In camp on the Yadkin, Feb ruary. 1781, when he received from the Governor of North Carolina a sum mons to attend a meeting of the genj eral assembly In which his country jnen had without his knowledge elec ted him to represent them." He de clined but finally yielded under the persuasion of General Greene. He was but 23 then. He opposed the adoption of the federal constitution in 1787 in sisting "that it gave too much power to the central government." He was right in this, and the adoption of the twelve amendments later conclusively attest this. He was elected to the second con gress In 1791. In 1807, he was elected speaker of the house. "In 1800 he pos itively declined to serve longer as speaker but nevertheless received forty-five of the 113.. votes cast. In the house of representatives he served, being constantly re-elected, till 1815, when he was, without solicitation, transferred to the senate, "There he remained thirteen years, always a leading member and acting president of the senate after the death of Senator Gaillard (February, 1826,) till May, 182S. Then, though re-elected president pro tern., he declined the of fice, knowing that within a few months he would complete his seventieth year, at which age he had previously decided to retire from public life." He seryed the- congress for 37 years. He married Mi3S Hannah Plummer. of Warren. He ,had two daughters, nls wife living but a few years alter car riage. "After 182S he took no part in po litical affairs until 1S35, when he pre sided over the state constitutional con ventiori Serving as elector for the Van Rurten ticket in 1836 was his last pub lic act. Death came June 29, 1837." He was 79 years of age and not 83 as some times stated. Mr. Poe says of him that "honesty, independence, faith in the ability or the people to settle properly all political questions, and opposition to all unnecessary (and perhaps some necessary) appropriations, were his strong points, politically. He was a democrat In the broadest and deepest sense of that word." He was unwaver ing In his devotion to what he held to be true democracy a. government of the people and by the people and for the people," to use the stolen saying of Lincoln, filched from an old New Eng land reader in the thirties. Mr. Poe writes: "Macon wished to keens all political power directly in the hands of the peo ple. More than once he- complained of the constantly increasing power of the executive department of the gov ernment. He would accept no oQce "not the gift of the people or of their immediate representatives in the legis lature." Twice he refused a position in Jefferson's cabinet but the Insig nificant office, justice of the peace to which the people of his county directly called him, was not too small for him to accept." , Mr. Macon, was faithful to his eon- victions, of unswerving hones ty,, de I llSf knocks All Forms of IRE- 'M? A TEN STROKE tfetarrh of The Lungs. Mrs. Emilie KLrckhoff, Ada, Minn., writes: " "Through a violent cold contracted last winter, I became afflicted with ca tarrh of the nose, which in a short time affected my lungs. I took Peruna which cured me thoroughly. I now feel better than I have for forty years." Mrs. Emilie Kirckhoff. Catarrh of The Bladder. Mr. John Smith, Sll S. Third street, Atchison, Kan., writes : "I was troubled with catarrh of the urethra and bladder for two years. At the time I wrote to you I was under the care of my home doctor, and had been for four months. I followed your directions but two months, and can say Peruna cured me of that trouble. "John Smith. Catarrh of The Bowel. Mr. Henry Entxion, South Bend, Ind writes: " The doctor said I had catarrh of the bowels and I took his medicine, but with no relief. I was getting worse all the time. "Before I Lad taken a half bottle of Peruna I felt like a new mn." Henry Entzion. spising demagogy, and never cringing before public opinion if he thought it unsound and Injurious. We quote: "Though all the people should de clare a measure proper I would still have my own opinion,' he said. If he favored popular measures he would vote for them; if he did not favor pop ular measures, the people should select some one else to represent them. It has been said that 'in the nearly forty years of his congressional service no other ten members gave as many neg ative votes." How out of place he would be if now a member of the federal congress. He would be in harmony with neither party, and not near enough to take what passes now for democracy to be In touch with its exponents. He said that the best man for the place was the man who would tax the people least. A wi3e saying, and should be axiomatic. He waged unrelenting, fierce war on "pensions," the bane of this country, and one of the greatest sources of cor ruption and oppression. "As he had re fused pay for his service In the rev olution, he now refused all pension i. money. The people who stayed at ! "v- iujinsncu ruyj-ujeH ana supported the old and disabled were, he said, as much entitled to ptnsions as those who served in the army." He gave no vote rfor a pension. He was against a large military force. Unsaid: "When people are prepared for war J they are sure to fight. I do not wish ; to carry this imitation of Englan f too i.ir. 10 support ner army and navy, her people are kept poor. Our people pay enough taxes. The navy is intended for conquest and we have enough terri tory. I am for standing solely on American ground and on no other." What a mirerable "old fogy they would call this patriotic Btatesman now. What! Opposed to hih taxes, rob beries of the pecple. a great army, a big navy, huge fraudulent pensions! Whar a fossil! He is a thousand years be hinH the times. Mr. Macon regarded, and said in 1737, that slavery "was a curse and he wished there were no ne groes in this country." He always stuck clci to this view, lie was then "building wiser than he knew." If there had; been noe the greatest war of 2,000 years would not hare happened. There would not be now any disturbing element, and no diabolism in the con gress aimed at the southern whites. He thought emancipation howevex was impracticable. "He worked hbx farm when not in the congress. He worked in the field at the bead of bl slaves until age rendered him unable to do so. co when at home. He had all the pion eer's love for the forest and said that "no man should be able to hear his nearest neighbor's dog bark.1 One more great trait remains to be mentioned. He never got an office for a relative, r Xo nepotism stained his pure hands. He was In politics 57 years i remember. He lived in comfort and was wise in his day and generation. We ne'er ctvaU look upon bis like again. WNA FOR PERUNA. Catarrh of The Kidneys. Peter J. linger, nawley, Pa., writer "I think that I am perfectly cured of catarrh of tho kidneys by Peruna, as I have no trouble of any kind." Potor J. linger. Catarrh of The Ftomach. A. W. Graves, of Hammond, Ind, writing to Dr. Hartman, says: " I am well cf catarrh of the stomach after suffering two years. I have ttk ci five bottles of Pen'.na and one of Manalln and I feel like a new man now." A. T, Graves. PelTlo Catarrh. Miss Ratio Lochman, Lafayette, Ind, writes: "I had pelvic catarrh, pain in the abdomen, back, had stomach treahie and headache caused by c&tarrh. I fol lowed your directions ; took Peruna and Manalln according to directions, and how hapnv I feel that-! am relieved of vuch a distressing ailment." MJm Katie Lochman. A book ou the euro of la grippe and catarrh in all etageg and phaie cent free to any address by The Penaa Mcdiciae Con Columbus, Ohio. While all wisdom did not die with him. a brave, noble, kindly, sound states man was laid away In that rock-cover-od grave near his residence, which tabs writer had once the privilege of ben4a ins. We have essayed to use Mr.. Foe's paper so as to present a remarkable model to youth and manhood .While Pliny said that "no man Is at all tintes wise," yet a wise man may be able to discern correctly passing events and to look beyond and see those things hid den to most eyes, and yet may come to pass. "Coming events cast their shadows before," said Thomas Camp bell, we believe it was. An English writer of our time has said that "the intellect of the wise is like glass: it ad mits the light of Heaven and reflects it." CRXKRAL. TOON IMI'IIO Vl.XCi. . II in PhynlrianM may He will Ilec4Tr Many Applicant for AdmUilta t Agricultural College (ireat Delay nl Charleston Kxpualtlon. Messenger Bureau. Raleigh. N. C. December 15. The joint legislative cornmt.? T.i.fch is nraking the annual extm.natlon of the ofilces of the state treasurer ana au ditor finished its work m the former office this morning. The news from the bedside of the su perintendent of public instructs was very encouraging today. His, uhyel cian said -he would recover. The space at the Agricultural and Me chanical college here is so cramped, owing to the recent fire, that for the present no new students rom oihtr states can be received. There ar over fifty applications for admission of ad vanced students. It is probable that buildings near the college, or In IU1 elifh. will be rented, and th& students occupy them. At one time tt was the plan to) use tents, but this is abnloi ed. The United States district court hre will end its term tomorrow. There have been many convictions. J. W. Grady of Mt. Olive, a white man who took letters belonging to a negro f the same name and stole their contents gets, thirteen months In the penitentiary at Nashville, while George McKay, a whit man who stole the letters of R. P. Bald win, a soldier in the Philippines, geU a 7-year sentence and Is fined $500. D. H. Milton, of Reldsville. Is the new chief clerk In the office of the irumr ance commissioner, succeeding II. M. Philips. Secretary T. K. Bruner. wh is in stalling the exhibit of the state amu.ul tural department at the Charlestoa ex position, writes commissioner Tattcr son: "February will be th cajliest moment visitors will be repaid fo com ing. He is imp-essei ty the proverbial slowness of the Charlestonlana,. which: Is particualrly striking to such a huUer as he. Pur Co ws Milk made sterile and guarded against coa tamination. from beginning to baby's bottle. la the perfection of substitute feeding for infants. - Borden's Eajrle Brand Condensed Milk has stodd first among Infant foods for more thaa fert- years. w r Z