The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-08-14
SKETCHES From THE SOUTH.
The Impressions of Buckeye Rambler
in Dixie.
Politics. Politicians, Incidents. Etc No 2.
BY W. S. S.

Atlanta, the capital of the State, is
the most flourish ng cityin it. 1t has
decidedly Northern aspect, the re-
suit of Northern enterprise and thrift.
1t is quite true that in all those cities
in the South where Northern capital
is prohibited, or for some reason does
not have an easy admittance, business
seems clogged and progress retarded.
Atlanta is fast city-fast in many
ways. The people make money fast,
do business fast, act fast, talk fast,
and, if we remember rightly, eat fast,
resent an insult fast, etc., etc., fast in
finitum. Here is located Atlanta Uni
versity, school founded and charter
ed under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Missionary Association, 1869, by
President E. A. Ware, Yale man, for
the education of colored youth es-
pecially, and for all others who wish
to avail themselves of the privilege.
The influence of this institution is re-
markable. 1t stands as beacon at
the head of port 1t now rivals all
the colleges in the State, and has a
higher standard for matriculation, a
better curriculum than the Georgia
University. Another there is, young
er. but progressive 1t is Clark Uni
versity. Side by side the two are adj
vancing, revolutionizing ignorance
and displacing darkness with light.
There is hope for Georgia at some dis
tant period.
Politics, the chief feature of the
day, are curiously mixed. Prejudice
to the negro is perched on every pole.
Negro inferiority, seemingly, is self
evident truth among nine tenths of
the re-eating Democracy. We shall
discuss these topics more at length
after a while, analyzing and dissect-
ing to the best of our ability. Col
quit, Gordon and Joe Brown form a
trio that has caused considerable bub-
bling among the Democrats They
are themselves Democrats, we'll in
structed in Democratic doctrines, and
the method Of maneuvering. Why
the opposition Well, as in physics,
so in ethics; there can be no effect
without cause. Colquitt does not
belong to Toombs' ring, which openly
avows that negroes are not human
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that roam about, as different from the
"white man as the OK differs from the
horse and mare" Governor ColQuitt
is little more humane, which is pro-
badly attributable to his ministerial
proclivities. He breaches to white
and colored at their respective church
es he addresses societies and compa-
nies, whether Odd Fellows or Masons,
military or ecclesiastical, white or
black, whenever convenient and he is
invited to do so. He is present at a
colored Sabbath school picnic quite as
often as he is at awhile one. Doubt
less he has some end in view, but this,
to many, seems secondary The rad
ical wing of the Democracy think
this is too much social equality; that
it looks too much like placing the
"bottom rail on the top" hence
the fight. General Gordon has af-
filiated with the Colquitt- Brown
faction for personal ends. He is the
same old General Gordon, as bitter,
as furious, as strong an advocate of the
shotgun, bulldozing and counting out
| policy as any man in his party; a de-
votee to the chain gang system 1t
is stated on good authority that it as
we'll understood between Gordon and
Brown that the former should resign
his position as Senator of the United
States, that he (Gordon) might be ap-
pointed as railroad attorney of the
Western and Atlantic r. r., of which
Joe Brown is president; with an an
nual income of several thousand dol.
lars, and that Governor Brown
himself should be General Gordon's
successor
This is doubtless true. The plot
was well made and the game well
played. If the Republicans had any
backbone whatever, if they were un-
tied on any one point, fought one an
other less, if they threw aside the
color line-black and white Repub-
licans-and scrambled for Office less
vehemently they would be able to
carry several congressional districts
and many counties in their local elec.
tions while the Democracy is so badly
split up and at the same time disjoint.
ed from internal commotion.
| Elk Governor Joe Brown, now Sen.
ator of the United States, is one of the
richest magnates in Georgia. His ap.
pointment as Gordon's successor was
violently opposed. The opposition
was so great that the end was feared
There is calm now; the situation has
been accepted for the present. Why
this opposition? Joe Brown, like his
confreres, is a Democrat and sure tC
promote the ends of his party, though
not so violently. You will remembe,
that just after reconstruction, from
that time up to about 1870 or 1871
Georgia, as all the rebellious States
was ruled by the Republican party
and men who claimed to be Republi
cans. Bullock, Blodgett, the Kimballs
ct al, were foremost men. Bullock