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CHARLOTTE MESSENGER. Published every Saturday at Charlotte, X. C. By W. C. Smith. Subscription Kates.—Always in advance. 8 months 50 2 months 35 Single Copy. 5 One Year. $1 50 8 months 1 00 0 months T 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 tenest to the public is solicited but persons must not be disappointed if they fail to see their articles in our columns. We are not responsible for the views of correspondents. Anonymous communications go to the waste basket. WILL THE NEGRO VOTE? Some of our Northern friends have been discussing the propriety of di viding the colored vote with the democratic and republican parties. Mr. Fred. Douglass contends that colored man should continue to vote solidly with the republican party. — His reasons are many and forcible. There seems to be a more vital ques tion just now to be considered by our republican friends—and that is, will the colored man vote at all ? He can not be convinced that it is right for him to vote the democratic ticket, and has sacrificed everything—-even his life—in order to vote the republican ticket, but seeing that his vote is not to amount to anything after these sacrifices, he is caused to consider and ask himself, would it not show better judgment for him to stay away from the polls rather than make .-<> many sacrifices for nothing ? We must say that many of our north ern friends talk about us too much to know so little of us. They cannot tell us what is best for us to do. In many localities colored men are not allowed to vote ; in other localities their votes are thrown out and not counted. Now what should we do in these cases ? It has been published how colored men were prevented from voting in Norfolk, Va., very recently. ; That is one of the most common prac tices in North Carolina : challenging, hindering in every conceivable way, so as to prevent their voting. In is now a question, should and will the colored man vote under such circumstances ? Is it wise in him to persist in sacrificing friendship, time, and even life, when there is no hope of good resulting from it? The colored man is not much of an office holder, and when ho wishes to hold an office, we often find white republi cans uniting with democrats, or hiring other colored men to run, so as to de- j feat all colored aspirants. And if one is elected in defiance to the wishes of white republicans, if it is a bonded office, the moneyed men of the party refuse to go on his bond, and this last extreme is resorted to to cheat us out of our votes. And will the colored man still persist in voting ? Yes, he will vote. The masses will continue to vote, even though they know not what they vote for. In North Carolina, Virginia and Tennes see, the colored man votes, but in South Carolina and Georgia it is only parts of the State in which he votes. Let our good northern friends set aside the effects of the eight box sys tem in the Carolinas, and the preju dice of our own party leaders against worthy men on account of color, and let them advise us how to get our ballots in and counted, and we assure them the ballots will be of the right kind. The question with us is : How can we get our votes in and counted as we cast them ? We arc not con templating a change yet. The prin ciples of the republican party are good enough for us yet, even though some of the leaders are unworthy their places. As between republicans and demo cratic parties, there is only one choice for a colored man to make ; but in many other contests wchave, in which there is no politics, then the colored vote should be divided like other men, according to their interests. ENFORCING A HAD LAW. Elsewhere wc publish an article headed, "Excitement in Lexington.” The article is taken from the daily Chronicle , and is supposed to be true in every particular. This articlo shows that a white woman of respec table family was forced to commit murder. Forced by public sentiment, backed by the law of the State. The woman must have loved the man; hut the law says she cannot j marry him. The result is, she is I i ruined, the family disgraced, and the man flees the county for fear of lynch law. The expenses of the trial are : not worthy of consideration in con nection with these great evils. That is an unjust law that prohibits one from marrying the person of their choice The makers of this law say by their acts that it is better for this i disgrace and trouble to come to this family than for that woman to have married the father of her child. Hut notice another feature of this articlo: the names of the father and mother are published, and the father flees the county to save his life. — How many illegitimate children of colored mothers in this town and country whose fathers arc white men moving in the best social aud business circles ? If the law is just why not enforce it against such as these ? "I will visit the sins of the fathers unto the children of the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,” says God. Do the white men of the country believe this? Then what unbearable loads, of sin they are heaping up for their posterity. We believe God’s law to be just, and more sure of execution than the black laws of North Carolina. Wc have in mind another case of murder which occurred in South Carolina but a few months ago. A white man showed too much familiari ty with a colored man’s lover, the colored man objected and was shot dead. This occurred at a colored fes tival. We noticed too much famil iarity by a few white men at a colored festival in this city last week. The virtue of our women should not be bartered off for a few dollars. We could write a volume on what we saw at that festival last week, but those concerned may imagine what wc would say. Wc want no social mix ing of the races while there is a law ; against it. We want to see white: men exposed and punished as colored j men are. We want to see colored | women punished as white women are. ] It is unfair to the white women and ! the colored men. The white men de- j ceive and wrong the white women in | order to shield themselves. Men are , allowed to do as they please, and will j not execute a law against themselves ; j but as soon as one of their women j goes wrong in the same way, they either hang the colored man or put the woman in jail. If that be law, I is it fair and just to execute it against one and not the other? REPUBLICAN PAPERS. "We hear that Mr. V. C. Dockery will start a republican paper at Rock ingham, Richmond county. It will be a good one. It is rather a healthy sign to see so many republican papers shooting up in North Carolina It shows that there is a demand among the white people for local republican journals. The county government question, and the oppression by mag istrates and county commissioners have done the work for democracy in North Carolina. “The local demand for a mouth piece to talk against county ring rule and bossism shows how great is the ! change among white people. Recent | ly new papers have been started at | Boone and Troy. There are now 18 j I republican papers printed in this State, j las against 5 two years ago. This | ! speaks for itself.” —North Shite. Yes, there is a demand for local • republican papers in different parts of the State, but the North State seems , to fall in the same ditch that the Si')- \ nal fell in some time ago. Colored newspapers are not taken into consid eration when the time comes for them to receive aid from the State or National committee We don’t know the time in the last six years when there were less than five riJore.il papers in the State, and they are generally j republican. The North State aud the ; Signal don’t seem to count colored | j papers as republican papers, but they ! t will be counted as such, all the same, not so much by the new converts, but by the solid, black republicans of the | State. Wc have no objection to republi can papers springing up to advocate the principles of the party. There has been a demand among the colored i people for local republican journals for some time, and colored men have made sacrifices to supply the demand, and have had but little encouragement : from white republicans. Next year is ' the great political yoar, and money will be spent by the National and State committees to encourage repub lican papers. We rather suspect that j the springing up of so many white republican papers just now is more au indication of newspaper money ban ters than a change in the politics of' the white people. The colored editors of North Caro lina want to see the Repulican party succeed, because we arc republicans. We want to see no white man’s repub lican party, and we are going to be respected by the leaders, or we will "hands off ” Now, let us have re publican papers in every county, but let us not forget and neglect “the old for the new.” EXCITEMENT IN LEXINGTON. Sarah Warner Charged with Killing I Her (Colored) Child and is Lodged ill Jail. Special Telegram to the Chronicle. Lexington, N. C., Nov. 20.—Con siderable excitement was created here this morning'when it was learned that Sarah Warner, a young white woman, daughter of Lewis Warner, a respec table and well-to-do farmer, living some seven miles from Lexington, had been committed to jail here for the ! brutal nlurder of her own (colored) j child. It seems that Sarah Warner had given birth to a negro child, some two months or so ago, this so enraged her father and the family that he told tier repeatedly that the ehild could not remain there She, some two weeks ago, left home, taking the child with her. She remained away a day and night, they think, and then returned without the child. This naturally aroused suspicion and in quiries were made of her what she had done with the child. She replied that she had given it to its father, a colored man named Charlie Hanes, to take care of. This allayed suspicion to some extent for a time, but recent ly some one had seen the negro Hanes in Winston or Greensboro, he having left the county for fear of lynching, and he denied having the child in his posession. This caused renewed sen sation in the neighborhood and dili j gent search was instituted which re sulted in finding the mutilated re ! mains of the child some half a mile from Lewis Warner’s house in a thick et where it had been killed apd buried ,in the sand. The dogs had torn it up, but it was, I learned, fully identified j as the lost child. The above facts I get from Coroner j Hedrick, who, with magistrate Ilelms | tedler, last night investigated the j case and committed the woman to jail to await the action of the grand jury, i Court meets here December stli. i O I* It Premiums! Open to the World. 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Our rates are very low, and it will certainly pay you to advertise in the Messenger. We have a good circulation in the city and county, as well as ail the neighboring towns. < htr policy and polities are not di rected to suit the business men. but onr readers. If our polities were anything than what they are we would have no readers. Business men want to reach the public, they care not by what source. Advertise in the 3les senger. ts CAPE FEAR AM* YADKIN VALLEY It AI L IVA V CO MC .! A* J\ Taking effects.ls a.m. y Monday, Oct. 17,1887. Trains Moving Xortii. Passenger Freighi aiac’ and Mail. Passenger Lv BcnnettsviUe, 9:45 a m 2:15 f* n Ar Maxton. lira* 4:25 ; Lv Maxton, 11:30 5:20 Ar Fayetteville, I:3opm 8:30 Lv Fayetteville. 2tf© 8.-00 a in Ar Sanford. 4:05 12:00 m Lv Sanford. 4:15 1:05 Ar Greensboro, 7:25 6:50 Lv Greensboro. 10:10 a m iAr Pilot Mountain 2:45 pin ; Passenger and Mail—dinner at Fayetteville Trains Moving Somi. Lv Pilot Mountain 4A» pni Ar Greensboro, 8:15 i Lv Greensboro, 9:50 a in 6:00 a m , Ar Sanford. 12:55 pm 12:*iJm Ly Sanford, 1:15 1:30 p ni ' Ar Fayetteville. 3:20 68*0 Lv Fayetteville. 3:30 6:00 a m i Ar Max ton. 5:15 9:20 Lv Maxton. 5:25 1«*:03 | A r Bennettsville 7:00 12:45 pm Passenger ami Mail—dinner at Sanford. FACTORY BRANC H—FREIGIIT AND ACCOM MODATION. Trains Moving North. • Leave MHlboro. 8:05a. ni. 5:45pm , Arrive Greensboro. 9:35 7:25 Trains Moving South. Leave Greensboro. 2.0) p. m. Leave Factory June. 3:Ot» 7:15 pm Arrive Miilboro, 3:45 8:00 Freight and Accommodation train runs bet 1 BenitettsviUe and Fayetteville on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and bet. Fayette ville and iSennettsville on Tuesdays, Thurs ♦lays and Saturdays. Freight and Accommodation train runs bet. ! Fayetteville and Greensboro Tuesdays. Thur s, days and Saturdays, and between Greensboro and Fayetteville Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Passenger and mail train runs daily except Sundays. The north bound passenger and mail train j makes close connection at Maxton with Car olina Central to Charlotte and Wilmington. 1 Trains on Factory llranch run dailv except [ Sunday. ' W. E. KYLE. General Passenger Agent J- W, FRY. Gen*l Supt. QAROLIXA CENTRAL R. R. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Wilmington, N. C-, May 15, 18S7. WESTBOUND TRAINS. No. 1. No. 3. May 16. ISS7. Daily ex. Dally ex. Sunday. Sunday. Leave Raleigh (R A A), 7 00 IVM. Wilmington. 7 25 A.M. s 00 Maxton. 11 3.» Hamlet. 12 50 P.M. 2 33 A.M. Wades bon». 2 15 Charlotte. 4 32 6 55nrrive Uneolnton. G 17 Shelby, 7 40 Arrive Rutherfurdton. 9 10 EASTBOUND TRAINS. No. 2. No. 4. May 16, 1886. Daily ex. Daily ex. Sunday. • Sunday. Leave Rutherfonlton. 7 15 A.M. Shelbv, 8 46 Lincblnton, 10 07 Cliariotte, 12 02 P.M. 8 45 P.M. Wade* be.ro. 2 39 Hamlet. 3 36 1 55 A.M. Maxton. 5 3» Arrive Wilmington. 9 05 8 00 Raleigh. (ILVA) 6 35 Trains Nos. 1. and 2 moke dote coimeetiou at Martian to and from Fayetteville, Greens boro and other points on I*. F. a Y. V. Ry. At Wadesboro with trains to and from Cheraw, Florence and Charleston. At Lineolnton to and from Hickory, Lenoir and points oil C. a L. Narrow Gaugcßy. Trains Nos. 3. and 4 make close connection at Hamlet with trains to and from Raleigh. Through sleeping ears between Wilming ton and Charlotte and i ha riot te and Raleigh. Take train No. 1 for Ssatesville and stations on the W. N. C. R. R. and point* west. Take train No. 2 for Cheraw. Florence, Charleston -Savannah and Florida, also for Fayetteville anti C. F. a Y. V. station*. Train No. 2 connects at WHminiigtou wi*h W. a W. No. 14 and W. C. a A. No. 27. Take train No. 3 for Spartanburg. Green ville, Athens. Atlanta and all point* south west; also for Asheville via Cliariotte and Spartanburg. No. 3 connects at Wilmington with W. a W. R. R- No. 23. Train No. 4 connects at Wilmington with W. a W. 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