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SATURDAY, JULY 29,1882.
COALITION NOMINATIONS.
Congressional Ticket.
ton CONGRESS —STATE-AT-LARGE:
OLIVER H. DOCKERY,
of Richmond.
MS CONGRESS—THIRD DISTRICT!
WILLIAM P. CANADAY,
of New Hanover.
Judicial District.
VOR JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT.
GEORGE N. FOLK,
of Caldwell.
For Judges of the Superior Court:
FIRST DISTRICT!
CHARLES C. POOLE,
of Pasquotank.
SECOND DISTRICT!
JOHN A. MOORE,
of Halifax.
THIRD DISTRICT:
FRANK H. DARBY,
of New Hanover.
FOURTH DISTRICT!
WILLIAM A. GUTHRIE,
of Cumberland.
SIXTH DISTRICT!
•.LEWIS F. CHURCHILL,
of Rutherford.
For Solicitors:
SECOND DISTRICT!
JOHN H. COLLINS,
of Halifax.
We have this week taken to more
clipping and less writing.
Every colored man doing busi
ness in Mecklenburg County ought
to advertise in the Messenger.
TnE Democratic Congressional
Convention meets in Wadesboro on
the 23d of August. When will the
Republicans meet ?
We think Cannady will have an
easy walk-over in November. All
they need in the old Third is good
local nominations, and Green will
not ripen this year.
In speaking oi colored men in
office in our last and previous issues,
we had more special reference to
Federal positions in the West, and
elective positions in the East.
The Convention to nominate a
Candidate in the Second District
turned out worse than we expected.
They did not only nominate a white
man, but both a white man and a
colored man. Let them both run
and elect a Democrat.
From the Wilmington Post’s re
port ot the Wilson Convention, we
learn that Col. Wassom moved to
nominate O’Hara by acclamation,
but Gen. Estes, who was President
of the Convention, declared Hubbs
nominated, and adjourned the Con-
Ventlon without vote. It is sup
posed that Hubbs and O’Hara will
run. If so, we fear it will elect a
Democrat, just as Kitchen was a
few years ago.
In speaking of entertainments in
3. T. Williams article last week, it
Should have been by the I. O. G. T.i
and not I. O. G. S. The Good Tem
plars of Fayetteville have one of
the oldest and strongest lodges in
the State, and do not waft to be
mistaken for the Good Samaritans.
This correction is made in deference
to the G. C. Scurlock, whom we be
lieve has worked harder, more per
sistently, and done more good fbt
temperance than any young man in
the State.
Our paper.
We do not feel it necessary td offer
any apology to our readers, but our
brother editors having noticed the
incompleteness of our editorial col
umns, can Only lay it to our inability
to do better. But when we inform
them that when we sent out the
first issue of the Messenger, we had
not a name upon our list; that even
up. to this, the sixth number, we
have not had the assistance of a line
of editorial, or even a local or per
sonal, and that we have a fair and
encouraging list, gotten up by our
self—we offer it as an excuse for
our short-comings in the past. As
the campaign opens upon us we
shall expect assistance in our edito
rial department.
We are much encouraged and glad
to see that we are in accord with the
papers published by colored men
throughout the country. We do not
draw the color-line, but, on the other
hand, we fight to break it down.
White Republicans have had the
line drawn all the while. The Dem
ocrats are now raising the cry, and
we are forced, in self-defence, to try
to beat it down in our own party.
All we want is an equal showing
with other men. Wo find the same
independent spirit is general with
our people. Our subscription is in
creasing rapidly. Subscribe, adver
tise with us, and all will be well.
EDUCATION.
We have a short article in this
issue npon the above subject from
Miss Williams, of Fayetteville. She
says it is an old subject. We say if
it is old it will be ever new also.
There is one plain, simple fact,
unless we educate our children, our
race .will never be more than hew
ers of wood and drawers of water.
Our race will continue to make
cheap shoes and build railroads with
out compensation, but merely to pay
the State for injury done some of its
better citizens. Unless we educate
our children in letters and in morals
our race will continue in dissipation
and disgrace, and we will continue
to have thousands unable to own
their fathers.
Our schools are progressing finely
in most localities. What we need
now is moral education. Let the
lovers of the Negro race turn their
attention more specially in this
direction. It is not only education,
or book-training and wealth that has
held up the Saxon race, but the
jealousy cf their morals. They have
watched and guarded their morals
more carefully than their money and
lands. It is the morals of a person
that commands respect for him.
Who cares for or respects the pret
tiest, the richest and most intelligent
woman if she has no morales?
Upon the other hand; who is it that
does not respect a lady, be she ever
so poor and homely ? “A good name
is rather to be chosen than great
riches.” Watch your morals with
a jealous eye. Send your children
to Sabbath school; -take them to
church with you, let them sit with
you and take them back home with
you.
We believe it was the old man
Solomon who said : “ Spare not the
rod and spoil the child.” Certainly
he knew better than we. Wo be
lieve in the use of the rod, but let It
always be used properly.
Petty thefts always leads to great
ones, but we believe there is no one
thing that will sooner make a con
firmed rogue than for a child to
know that its thefts >re known and
excused by its parents. Let parents
set examples, moral, Christian ex
amples, such as will please them
and the world to see their children
follow. Bind them strictly to truth*
fulness, and strive to impress them
with the great sin of lying, and the
terrible results that follow.
The responsibilities of a parent,
are much greater than those of a
President of the United States.
The Judge of oarth bolds each re
sponsible for the Bill performance of
his duty.
We intend to talk more freely
Upon this subject in the future.
Educate the children in the best
schools. Teach them to be truthful,
honest, obedient and respectful, and
they will become rich and powerful
in the land. But do not foil in your
teaching, to teach them their duty
to their God.
Education In the Soulh.
The anti-Bourbon element of the
South are taking the right course
in regard to education. They are
everywhere declaring in favor of a
thorough and systematic education
of the masses without regard to col
or. And it is worthy of note, too,
that in Virginia and elsewhere,
where liberalism has triumphed,
these ideas and principles have been
carried into execution, insofar as
the means at hand and available
would permit.
In most instances, however, the
Southern States claim not to be
able yet to maintain liberal systems
of education, such as we have in the
North, and there is a very general
demand for goverifcnental aid.
While it is doubtless true that these
States have not yet done all they
are able to do, or what they ought
to do, yet there is some force in
their claim for the aid of the feder
al government in establishing and
supporting free public schools.
The South, while rich in soil and
natural resources, is yet poor by
reason of the fact that her resour
ces are not yet developed ; her soil
is not cultivated as it should be,
and her social and business systems
have not yet been thoroughly ad
justed to the exigencies and needs
of the regime. It will require time
to do this. Immigration and capi
tal are also wanted. Until matters
are so adjusted that there shall be a
full and hearty support of popular
education by ihe States themselves,
the general government should take
such steps as will secure to the chil
dren of the late slave States an op
portunity to acquire a common
school education. To do less than
this, is to neglect a plain and im
perative duty. There are measures
before Congress now to secure this
result, and the members of that
body could do nothing more to their
credit than to take them up and
make laws of them.
In the meantime the colored vo
ters of the South should join hearti
ly with every movement that is
calculated to further the interests
of general education, regardless of
the question as to who are the orig
inators of them. They are poor,
and whereever education is restrict
ed it is the children of the poor who
suffer. They can do much by their
votes' to promote the cause of edu
cation. —Indianapolis Leader.
Eduoate Your Children.
If we would have our children
compare with white children, we
must educate them. Add when we
say educate them, we mean give
them a thorough education. Many
of our people think whenever their
children learn to read and write,
then they are educated. But this
is a grand mistake. And maNy of
our people, just as soon as their
children learn how to read and
write, take them from school and
put them to work. This is another
mistake. Your children should not
be hewers of wood and drawers of
water beoause you are. But pre
pare them for the higher vocations
in life. Educate them that they
may become doctors, lawyers,
teachers, preachers, editors, and ma
ny other positions that education
will qualify them to fill. The fu
ture that your children will live in
will not be like the past, or even as
the present. Many of the obsta
cles that are now in the way will
be removed, and the prospects will
be brighter. Education will bring
about a recognition that ignorance
will forever keep away. Intelli
gence among the generation that
shall soon take our places in life
will make their life more easy than
were ours. And we should not ex
pect our children to have the bitter
times that many of us have experi
enced. Now, if the parents do their
duty by the children, they will re
flect honor upon the race, and the
progress of our despised race will be
equal to any people on the face of
the globe.— Ex.
Tupping* ~
A colored man who stole a piece
of copper at Lexington, was senten
ced to three years in the penitentia
ry. A white man who stole eigh
teen head of cattle, was found guil
ty by the same jury and sentenced
to one year in the penitentiary. —
Knighis of Wise Men.
Capt. L. M. Pleasants, the newly
confirmed Collector of Internal Rev
enue for the Savannah, Ga. district
arrived in our town last »week to
look after his official interests. Capt.
Pleasants iB a genial man and gives
evidence of executive ability of a
high order. We are certain that
he will enter upon his duties with
every assurance of making a record
of which every colored man should
ieel cause to be proud.— Ex.
We have received a bulky letter
from Mr. Maurice Baumann of
Rhode Island complaining that we
did him an injury in referring to
him as a lawyer who “is or intends
to practice in the courts of Provi
dence.” Wc did not intend to re
bect upon the legal standing of Mr.
Baumann in our allusion to him.
We are pleased to learn that he has
a healthy practice, and we sincerely
sympathize with him in all the
drawbacks which have weighted
him down in his efforts to succeed.
We do not intend at any time to be
unjust, and are always ready to
correct any error of fact or state
ment into which we may fall.—
N. Y. Globe.
The outlook for the negro just
now is most promising, view it as
we may, he is a powerful element
and an indispensable factor in this
nation. Gradually, aye rapidly
concessions are being made to him
in his civil as well as political rights.
His intelligence and achievements
are battering down that impregna
ble barrier, prejudice, to an alarm
ing extent. But yesterday we
chanced to drop into a colored phy
sician’s office, there were waiting
treatment at his hands seven whites
and three colored persons, while
one white person was being treated
at the time. This is but one in
stance where intelligence and mer
it have broken down the color line
and similar demonstrations are be
ing made throughout the Union.
Review.
A Democrat
The Elizabeth, New Jersey Her
ald’s pen picture of a Democrat*:
This is a Democrat. How stupid
he looks. He does not belie his
looks. He is the stupidest thing
ever set on end. What makes him
a Democrat? Unfortunate man,
he was born so. Is he is a religious
man ? Yes, my child; he worships
St. Andrew Jackson and the De
mocracy. Has he any views ? Yes
my son ; he gets them from a jug.
He calls them constitutional law.
Must we always have Democrats ?
Yes, my boy ; for they make the
organized ignorance of the land,
and ignorance is immortal. What
becomes of a Democrat when he
dies ? The Lord, if he can find his
soul with his powerful microscope |
puts it in a deep hoop-pole region
where the owls fly about at all
hours and the rivers run whiskey,
and then the Democrat votes the
ticket, the whole ticket and nothing
but the ticket forever and ever.
Amen.
AraM Patka’s Activity Increasing.
London, July ST.—A telegram dated
Alexandria, one o’clock this afternoon,
states that the menacing activity with
in AraM Pasha’s lines is increasing.
Hear gjfltrertigetrmitß.
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NOTICE.
THE Executive Council have decid
ed to postpone the meeting of the
Grand Lodge until sometime in No
vember, at which time all Lodges and
Deputies of Lodges extinct will be
duly notified. Place of meeting, Wil
mington, N. C.
We hope to have a full turnout, as
preparation will be made to make the
occasion a grand one.
GEO. C. SCURLOCK. G. W. C. T.
• Jno. C. Dancy, G. Secretary.
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