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CHARLOTTE MESSENGER. Published every Saturday at Charlotte, N. C. By W. C. Smith. Subscription Rates.— Always in advance. One Year $1 SO 3 months SO 8 months 1 00 2 months 3S> 0 months 7S Single Copy. 5 Notify us at once of all failures of this paper to reach you on time. All money must be sent by registered letter, money order, or postal note to W. C. SMITH, Charlotte, N. C. Short correspondence of subjects of in terest to the public is solicited but persons must not 1)0 disappointed if they fail to sec their articles in our columns. We arc not responsible for the views of correspondents. Anonymous communications go to the waste basket. WHAT IS NEGRO EQUALITY 1 The Negro is not very much dis turbed over the question of '‘equali ty” just now, but he would like to have some of the white men who arc now discussing the question, to tell us what they mean by “Negro equality?” We hold that cultured intellect, good morals and property represent the worth of a man. Do our white friends mean that the Negro has not the capacity to equal the white man ? No white man with common sense will dare say any such thing. The Weekly Star of Wilmington devoted nearly two columns to the subject last week, and the little even ing Hornet of this city attempted to say a word upon the subject and went just far enough to show that the edi tor is just about as well posted on the subject as a Zulu chief is upon Eng lish literature and American customs. We do not know who the editor of the Hornet is, but if we are to estimate the worth of the two races by a com parison of his editorial on “Negro Equality” to the writing of the average Negro editor, we would de cide at once that the white race is fast retrograding. Now, if the white man retains his high standard and the Negro should, in the judgment of the whiteman, at tain the same standard, how in the name of common sense is that going to injure the white man ? Would it not be better for all—ridding the country of a worthless (?) population ? There are some born white fools who will never be sensible men. If com parisons are necessary at all, the best of one should be compared to the best of the other, and when we speak of a people, their opportunities should be taken into consideration. Rev. Dr. Price, Hon. John M. Langston, and Hon. Frederick Douglass, represent the worth and the capability of the Negro in three Southern States. They are the equals of any of America’s greatest and best white men in intel lect and morals, and have a purse suf ficient to back them up financially.—- It would be no less silly in us to point to these men as fair representatives of our race, and to John Saussaman and others of that class as representatives of the white race, than the actions of our white frinnds who compare their best to our worst. The Hornet is truly correct when it says “there are many things for our race to do.” If he is not a blind man and a deaf man, he secs clearly the advances the Negro is making on the white man. Not to the injury of the white man, but for the good of all. A few years ago the white man owned everything in the South, and even the Negro was himself the property of the white man. A few years ago the Ne gro not allowed to learn to read. To-day there are thousands of school houses and school teachers for the Negro throughout the South, and il literacy among the Negroes has di minished 50 per cent, more than among the whites. The white man is not only divested of his slave property, but thousands of acres of his lands and millions of dollars of other prop erty is now distributed among the Negroes themselves. If many of our good friends don’t go to work and put their dependence in something better than ideal race superiority, they will not only find themselves inferior to Negroes in all that is considered by man, but they will find themselves and families dependent upon Negroes for bread. The Hornet says: “If the white man will properly deport himself, the Negro will hold off—he will not feel that be is the equal, because, in want of education, culture, and business integrity, ho discovers a distance too great to overcome.” Beeautr, in want of education, culture and business in tegrity. Now, Mr. Hornet, as you very properly estimate each by his “education, culture and business in tegrity,” what have you to say for the white man that has neither, and wherein is he different from the Negro that has neither ? And then by your own manner of estimate are you not compelled to admit that the Negro of “education, culture and business in tegrity,” is the superior of the illite rate white man ? The Negro’s position has been a ser vile one, but that condition is fast changing, and the white man is taking the Negro’s old place as fast as he voluntarily yields. The Negro is fast becoming masters of trades and pro fessions, and “lords of the soil.” There are thousands of Negroes in North Carolina far superior in “edu cation, culture and business integri ty,” to any one connected with the Hornet. Then if there is a “level ing,” and the Negro has not t’neabili ty, why then, according to the Hornet the white man has never reached his “proper standard.” The Negro’s say ings are not troubling the white man half so much as his doings trouble a certain class that see so many Negroes outstripping them in the race of life. TO THE PREACHERS. We have on our subscription book the names of very nearly one hundred preachers who receive and road this paper regularly ; hence we take the liberty to remind them of the impor tance of keeping before their hearers the necessity of practicing economy. The Lord has blessed us with abun dant harvests, and every poor colored person ought to bo the more industri ous and economical and let the bene fits of these blessings be seen in after days. Our preachers have a hard time generally, but it comes principally from the reason that our people are too poor to pay them. Then is it not clear that whenever the people get in better circumstances the preachers will be better paid, better eared for, &c? It is a duty the preachers owe themselves, their fellowman and their God, to improve the condition of man. The best way to do that is to make them more industrious, frugal, moral and intellectual, all of which helps in making better Christians. As has been oft asserted, the civili zation as well as the salvation of the Negro is with the teachers and preach ers. Their influence is powerful with the people, and a good minister al ways tries o throw his influence in a proper way. It is not our duty to lay out the preacher’s duty, but we will always do all in our power as journalist, to ameliorate the condition of a long op pressed people. The Muss esc Kit is and has been free to give honor and praise to our worthy public servants. That we will continue to do, and as an evidence of our sincerity, wc offer special rates to preachers of a regular charge. Wc do not do this because we think they are unable to pay, but as an annual contribution of 50 cents to every preacher that subscribes or renews after this. Dr. Talmr.gc’s ser mons are worth more than a dollar to every preacher that will take the trouble to read them. Notices and reports of meetings will be published free of charge. No pref erence will be shown Baptists, Pres byterians, Methodists or Episcopalians. Our columns are open to all. Short letters on the progress and needs of our people are specially solicited from preachers and teachers. Salisbury Sclntl a.'ons. It has been some time since “Salis bury Scintillations” have spaikled in your entertainin'.' columns, and I J x ' thought I would wann up a little on one of the many things that tend to i pull down and make the Negro poorer, as a mass. lam more and more im pressed with the niter fo'ly of wast ing time and money on the many ex cursions which are almost daily run ning in this State and others. I have naught to say about the wbiio people running or going on excursions. But the majority of our people arc wage workers, making from 2. r > cents iosl .25 per day, and that spent wisely bare ly affords them a decent living. There | was an excursion run from this place !to Statesville recently. It cost the | contracting parties $175 00 to run it. j It was run in the interest of one of < our churches. Let us see how it and the excursionists were benefitted. The church came out $3.00 in debt to the Railroad Company. Can’t any sane person sec that we are enriching Rail road corporations and impoverishing ourselves? The excursionists were not benefitted .by an equivalent for their time and money, nor made any wiser or better. The poor laborers of Salisbury are $175.00 poorer in cash, besides losing two day’s work, and the corporations that much richer. Be sides, eight young men of Statesville and one of this town are in the chain gang to serve a term of six months for fighting. So much for a church or Sunday-school excursion. Now, in all probability, 'there are mothers, sisters, or others, depending on these young men for daily bread. Any one can see the suffering excursions pro duce. Our ministers form the larger portion of our intelligent men, and for them to take the lead in this in ducement to crime and poverty is a shame upon this enlightened age. — The Church, societies and selfish indi viduals lead the thoughtless mass to spend $4.00 that they may obtain SI.OO, besides opening the avenue of sin. Ought we not teach them les sons of economy and advise them to sacrifice as much pleasure as possible, and invest their hard earnings in real estate, and thus secure them homes and make a few steps in the road to ward independence. Five dollars per month invested in a building and loan association will, in a few years, pay for a nice home. Would it not be far better for the ministers and men of in fluence to persuade and convince their congregations and the people general ly that it is their sacred duty to sup port their ministers and beautify their churches by free will offerings instead of resorting to these methods which do, many times, more harm than good ? This no intelligent person will deny. Let the press of the country denounce this foul way of securing money for churches, societies, and selfish indi viduals, and by so doing many homes that are now depressed with gloom and desolation will feel the bright and refreshing sunlight of prosperity and happiness. Yours for the welfare of the race. Occasionally. Speech of Mr. Reid Parker Before the Farmer’s Convention at Atlanta. Atlanta Constitution. One of the most original and prac tical speeches delivered during the session of the Farmers Convention here was an off-hand address by Mr. Reid Parker, of North Carolina. He said: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: I hold that the people in the main do the best they know how for themselves. AVhen we see a man buy fertilizers, wc conclude that he knows no better. [Applause.] And if wc find that a poor farmer lias gone to town and mortgaged his mule and himself for a spurious article of com mercial fertilizers, we conclude at once that lie thinks it is best for him. He does not know any better. [Ap plause.] If we see a man that plants all cotton, and is plowing four mules, and with poor harness, and with sore shouldered mules, and with dull im plements and poor land, we know at a glatica that that man does not know any better. [Renewed applause.] It i munis there. The girls are skimpy- j headed and ugly. The boys are ugly; j the old woman was cross; the old man J had a sore tooth, and all was sad and lonely. Now, cannot some hope and j help shine out from the dark cloud into these places? You have them everywhere, thousands of them. Now, if we can reach this man, stir him up, open his eyes, get him to thinking, reading, and talking with men and among men, it will wake that man up. How arc you going to do it? The only way is to hold agri cultural and farming institutions in every State in the South, and pick out your best home talent, and get these scientific men from your agricultural departments, and go out there and spend three or four days teaching, 1 just like the teacher teaches in the Southern schools. We had an institute over in Ran dolph last week. There is a man upon this floor that read a paper there that | thrilled them through. It was worth : tons upon tons, and it stirred* them up. I insist that every county in these Southern States ought to have an in stitution like that. The states ought to help. In North Carolina it does not cost one copper. If the states and agricultural departments will help,you will sec them bloom and blossom like a rose all over the lund.” [Great applause. ■ ■ The Vermillion iron mine ip Minne sota, ‘2,000 acres, has boon purchased by a Chicago syndicate, headed by Murshall Field. About Home Markets. Atlanta (''institution. Some of the arguments of the free traders are as preposterous as their, theory is impracticable. The Consti tution has been urging that the great 1 need of the southern farmer is home ; markets, so that they may be able, by diversifying their crops, by raising fruits,vegetables and other garden pro duce, by producing milk, butter, chickens, eggs, to pocket the money they receive for their cotton, or to make money even if they raise no cot ton. Commenting on something the Con stitution has said on this all-important question, the Courier-Journal makes this queer argument; “The home market plea is a delu sion; the home market is ours anvhow. England cannot send greens to Mem phis. Countries flourish and cities grow when all classes are prosperous. Today the fanning class is kept down by a tariff which restricts the farmer’s market. The tariff does not fix the price of cotton; that is fixed in Liver pool. The tariff increases the cost of raising cotton, corn and wheat, it taxes everything that is used in the cultiva tion of the crop; everything used in building fences, barns and houses; everything used in making wagons and carts.” The home market plea a delusion! The home market ours anyhow! This is the sort of foolish talk that General Miles, a practical and successful farm er,protested against in his eloquent re marks before the Farmers’ Interstate convention. The home market is ours anyhow! This is as much as to say that the farmers who live near the in dustrial centers would have home markets if the policy of protection had never built up these industrial centers. “England cannot send greens to Mem phis.” This is true, indeed, nor can the Southern farmer send greens to Memphis who has no Memphis to scud it to. “The home market is ours anyhow,” but there are thousands —yea, tens of thousands of farmers in the South who are compelled to depend on cotton as the money crops. Some of these are prosperous, because they have the business sense —wc may say the com mon sense to raise their supplies at home, but the majority of them are gradually growing poorer every year. It is easy enough for the small pol itician and the whipper-snapper editor to rise up and tell this despairing class that it is the tariff that is keep ing them poor; but sensible men know better. Farmers who are saga cious enough to raise their own sup plies, which is the very essence of protection, ave not only getting along very well, but are making money. Farmers who have home markets not only raise their own supplies, but something to sell, and in this way they are enabled to save money. “We have our own home markets, anyhow;” but if the industries of Atlanta, large and small, had not built, the city up, the farmers around here would bate to sell their greens in Memphis, and they would make about as much at it as the farmers of England. The arguments of the Courier- Journal arc absurd, but they are no more absurd than the other arguments in favor of free trade. AYER'S PILLS. A large proportion of i!»o diseases which cause human suffering result from derange ment of the stomach, bowels, and liver. AY Eli's Cathartic Tills act directly upon these organs, and are especially designed to curt the diseases caused by their derange ment, including Constipation, Indiges tion, Dyspepsia, Headache, Dysentery, and a host of other ailments, for all of which they aro a safe, sure, prompt, and pleasant remedy. The extensive use of these Tills by eminent physicians in regular prac« ticc, shows unmistakably the estimation iL which they are held by tbo medical profes sion. These Tills aro compounded <>f vegetable substances only, and are absolutely free from calomel or any other injurious ingredient. A Sufferer from Headache writes : “Ayer’s Tills aro invaluable tome, and are my constant companion. 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Max ton, 5 20 Arrive Wilmington, 905 800 Raleigh, (K&A) 8 35 Trains Nos. 1. and 2 make close connection at Marton to and from Fayetteville, Greens boro and other points on <’. F. & Y. V'. By. At Wades boro with trains to and from Clieraw, Florence and Charleston. At Lincolnton to and from Hickory, Lenoir and points on C. a L. Narrow Gauge Ry. Trains Nos.and 4 make close connection at Hamlet with trains to and from Raleigh. Through sleeping cars between Wilming ton and Charlotte and Charlotte and Raleigh. Take train No. 1 for Statesville ami stations on the W. X. C. R. It. and points west. Take train No. 2 for Clieraw. Florence, Charleston Savannah and Florida, also for Fayetteville and C. F. a Y. V. stations. Train No. 2 connects at Wilminngton with W. a W. No. 14 and W. C. a A. No. 27. Take train No. 3 for Spartanburg, Green ville, Athens, Atlanta and all points south west; also for Asheville via Charlotte and Spartanburg. No. 3 connects at Wilmington with W. a W. R. K. No. 23. Train No. 4 connects at Wilmington with W. a W. No. 78. Local Freight Nos. 5 and 0 tri-weekly between Wilmington and Laurinburg. Local Freight Nos. 2 and 8 tri-weekly between Laurinburg and Charlotte. Local Freight Nos. 9 and 10 tri-weekly between Charlotte and Rutherfordton. Nos. , 5 0,7, 8. 9 and 10 will not take passengers. L. C. JONES, Superintendent. F. W. CLARK, General Passenger Agt. Cl APE FEAR AND ' YADKIN VALLEY RAILWAY COMPANY . Taking effect 5.15 a.m., Monday, Aug 22,1837 Trains Movincs North. Passenger Freight and an<l Mail. Passenger. Lv Bennctisville, 10:10 a m 5:00 a m Ar Maxton, 11:20 7:05 Lv Maxton, 11:30 7:30 Ar Fayetteville, 1:30 p m 11:15 Lv Fayetteville, 2:10 9:tO a m Ar Sanford, 4:05 1:40 pm Lv Sanford, 4:15 2:15 Ar Greensboro, 7:25 8:00 Lv Greensboro, 10:10 a m Ar Dalton 2:ispm Passenger and Mail—dinner at EayctieUlle. Trains Moving South. Lv Dalton, 5:45 pm Ar Greensboro, 5:45 Lv Greensboro, 7:45 a m 7:00 a m Ar Sanford, 12:55 pm l:i7pm LvSanfoni, 1:15 1:55 Ar Fayetteville, 3:20 ifcou Lv Fayetteville. 3:30 12:15 Ar Maxton, 5:15 3:45 Lv Maxton, 5:25 4:15 Ar Rennettsville 0:45 0:15 Passenger and Mail—dinner at Sanford. FACTORY BRANCH—FREIGHT AND AC< ’OMMODATION. Tka.ns Moi’ino North. Leave Mi 11 bo: o, 8:05 a.m. 5:45pm Arn ve < • rcensl >oio, 9:25 7:25 Trains Moving South. Leave Greensboro, i ni. Leave Factory June. Uoo 7:! >t.m Ar ivc Millho-o, 3:!5 8;io Freight and Am »mmodal ion train runs lx*t. Bennctisville and Fayetteville on Mondays, Wednesdaye and Frida;. . and hot. Fayette ville anil Beuncttsvilh* *• it Tuesdays, 'Thurs days and Saturdays Frcightond Accommodation train runs bet. Fayetteville and Greensboro Tuesdays,Thurs days and Saturdays, and between Greensboro and Fayetteville Mondays, Wednesdays ami Fridays. Passenger and mail train runs daily except Sundays. 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