The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-09-30
CHARLES SUMMERS LEGACY.

Charles Summer has left to his coun-
try an Inheritance of brutishness and
blood. These are the fruits of the pois-
onous seed he sowed from the beginning
of his crazy political fife to the day of
: his death. No one ever entered Con-
gress with so much hatred, malice and
revenge as occupied and pervaded his
bosom. He had made imaginary enc
mics of all the people South and imagin-
ary enemies are more hated than real
ones. And previous to taking his seat
} in the Senate Chamber and. during va
cations of Congress ever afterwards,
like the tarantula he retired to his den
to double distill his poison to inject in
to the veins of those who had never
done him wrong but who were his
self created ideal enemies. These he
pursued with implaeable and relentless
revenge throughout life, and ON his
death bed left the odious and dfabohcal
civil rights bill as legacy to his friends
| that his malevolence might survive his
existence. He was not actuated by any
philantthropic feelings towards any race
and cared nothing for the blacks but
| as instruments through whom he might
Wreak his vengeance upon the whites.
And his social aud marital relations
showed that he was incapable of friend
ship or love. Had he lived to the pres
ent day he would no doubt have enjoy
ed the present condition of his country,
/ for il is the very effect and result he in
| tended to accomplish. For while max
| ing speech before his people urging
| the principles of his bill he uttered the
| diaboiical sentiment shat the South had
been kicked into one war, and could
| be forced into another. He was not
satisfied with the blood that had been
spilled, and the craelties and bafbarities
+ that hal been practiscd j. our civil war,
but esslonged TO see them repeated in a
more, atrociOus form: His life is nota-
ble example cf, the principle that cruelty
and cOwaIdice accompany Cne another.
Whether the friends to whom he left the
civil rights bill as a legacy inherit his
spirit remains to be seen in the future.
Some Of them no doubt do, but it is
hoped that majority OF them and lis
party will not follow the advice of this
bad man and wicked politician.
The assertion by some OF them that
the present unfortunate condition in the
South is attributable to the people of the
South is a gigantic falsehoOd. There
is no hostile feeling between the native
Southerner and the black race. The
hof
friendship, and their interest forbids any
thing like ennlity between them. But
caTpet-tag2ers and scalawags for politi-
cal aimg and e,ds are fiendish enough to
prompt and encourage the worst blacks
10 deods of brutality and bloodshed.
They are made to believe by these de
mons in human shape that Mr. Summers |
civil rig hts bill will not only put them
on perfect social equality with the
whites and give them and equal right |
TO property, but that they will be pro-
tectad in their lawlessness. #aT
Soittitc wi..te men want the friend |
ship of the black man, because the labor
of the latter is indispensable to them.
Without this labor the tobacco and cot |
ton fields, and the rice and sngar planta- |
tions will remdin5 ancultiyated, and be
turned into a dreary waste.
The Northern white men, who are fol- |
lowers of Charles Sumner and Henry
WaId Beeeher, that chaste saint, affect
TO believe that unnecessary violence is
Indicted on the blacks. This, as we have
before said, is gigantic falsehood Even
with the few blacks they have in the |
Northern States brutality has been COM
mitted by them, and they have there |
been summarily punished by lynch law
as in the South. because it is there and |
here believed sometimes necessary to re-
strain them. asa it@
I, Although many of the whites at the |
North. pretend to believe special laws
and troops are necessary to protect the |
blacks in such, Is by no means the fact.
For eve-y law and every act that is made /
and done for their protection only en-
boldens THEME to the commission of |
crime o.isi 95Ssa sTed aat re 81
Previous to the agitation of The civil |
rights bill, Charles Summers child, that |
he has left as HFlegacy to his friends, the |
blacks were doing very well, and were /
comparati tiyelY peaceabIe and quiet. Since
the agitation of this measure, they have |
become bold in the commission of crime |
the very effect its author foresaw it /
would cause. and which he desired to
crafty his hatred and malice towards the
South tssfsNas't Af'sA'A~
The stationing and sending troops to /
the South we fear win lhaveA like effect,
if it has any at all. The measure is a
vefyI foolish one peace cannot he pre-
served throughout the South by force
it must be done by law and moral influ-
ence. If the President will remove his
Northern arpet-baggers, over whom he
has control, and the people of the North
cease to encourage these adveDturers. to
remain amongus to incite the blacks to
lawlessness, we shall have peace; other
wise, we cannot We are glad to see
peaceable and industriousInen from the
North come among us, and such have
never had any cause TO complain of ts4eir
treatment; but the refuse population
that remained in the country after the
warlto obtain Office and spoils through
the blacks, are the real murderers and
bandits, and disgrace to any country.
If tbe'sending. troops to the South shall II
have the effect to produce greater lazi-
ness and lawleSsness among the blacks, II
the North, though not to the same de-
gree, will suffer as well as we. Cotton,
a t -. -Ff
waste and rot in our fields. and an inju-
rious effect viii be produced on the \,
trade and commerce of the country. 1t