Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-11

quirements. He goes down in company
with fourteen white youths, and will
have society in his discouragement. 1t
is regretted that the .rules forbid the ex-
aminers to tell in what this rejected ap-
plicant for admissi N has failed. There
ought not to be any doubt that he was
treated with perfect fairness, but unfor-
tunately the public cannot forget the
Whitaker disgrace. IN 7. Tribune Of
Sept. 2, 1882.
The New York Tribune stands in the
front rank of American journalistic en-
terprise, and deservedly so, as it is ably
edited, and has an admirable corps of
foreign correspondents. Its articles al
ways repay perusal by their literary ex-
cellence and deep thought, but it is
crooked in It's politics, and unprincipled
in its assumed negrophilism, as
the extract heading this article illus
trates. Demagogues in popular govern
ments are injurious factors of society,
and, when endowed with talents, educa-
ton and the skillful application of their
powers, they become dangerous dis
organizers of the social elements and
treacherous political leaders. The senti-
ment quoted above fully sustains these
views by its subtle falsehood, covertly
insinuated, and treacherous stab at the
characters of an honorable, heightened
class of our fellow citizens-the officers
of the army-and its base assault
upon one of the first national acade.
mics Of the world. But both the army and
the military academy have stood more
serious attacks than this undermining eff
fort of the New York Tribune. The
fact that fourteen white youths were
rejected as well as the one negro ex-
cites no sympathy in the ZF5bane's
breast. 1t has no fellow feeling for the
sufferings Of white men, evidently. But
this is a white mans country, from
Maine to the Rio Grande, and
from the Revolutionary war to
this day the white man has
always regarded the negro as an infe-
rior. He recognizes in the difference
the hand of God, and assumes naturally
the superiority assigned to him by the
Creator.
The civil and political equality grant
ed to the negro by Congress can in no
manner bridge the wide gulf separating
the races, and this truth the Northern
States practically inculcate by ignoring
the negro in their civil assemblies, their
political preferments and their social
gatherings. Why, then, should North
ern born officers of the army
differ in these respects from their
home folk? The uniform has
in it no inherent power to destroy the
senses, or to nullify the knowledge that
nature and study have drawn from the
phenomena surrounding US; nor is it the
livery of political servitude to the dirty
carpet-baggers, whose existence depends
upon the agitatiOns to be produced by
forcing Southern negroes upon cult
waited Northern gentlemen. Such asso-
Citations are unpleasant, and while the
army and the academic staff would do
the negro no wrong, they no doubt do
enjoy relief from them.
So far the Tribune only INDUCES fling
at the cultivation and refinement of the
army and the military academy, but when
it goes on to insinuate foul play on the
part of the examiners of the negro to
prevent his admission into the institution,
il is guilty of conduct degrading to it.
self, unworthy of respectable American
journalism, and UNANIMOUSLY Hbelous
of honorable, heightened gentlemen.
By a wise regulation of delicate
prOpriety, the failures of candidates for
entrance into the United States Military
Academy has been uniformly withheld
from public notoriety as a matter with
which the public has nothing to do but
it is communicated to their immediate
friends as a matter of justice to the young
men and to the institution, and open to
the criticism of those concerned. The
applicants for admission are private
citizens until admitted, with whose
qualifications the public have no
business, and why should the I'M
fOrtunates who may be rejected be
mortified by having their inability to
spell or write correctly, or their ignO-
rance of arithmetic or geography para
ded to the people of the United States in
the columns of the New York TH75une2
And when to give color to its base insin-
uations, the Tribune descends from its
lowest deep to still lower deep" by its
artful suggestions that Whitaker was
foully dealt with by the academy au-
thorities, and that the negro Llvingston's
rejection was of the same infamous
it is guilty of attempting
falsehood as silly as it is base. Do
not the people of the United States
know that Whitaker had every Oppor-
tunity given him to clear himself of the
charges brought against him, and that
the wider the door for escape from his
deception was opened to him, the deeper
ne sank IN the mire of his own degrade
ton, and that his condemnation by the
courts trying him not the authorities of
the military academy was universally
even by those who would
have made political capital out of it if
they could have done so?
The Tribune has never been noted for
a moral sense in such matters as may be
perverted directly or in
directly to the injury of the South. and,
in whatever way, to keep alive the pas
81 OBS and prejudices engendered by the
civil war. But in this instance its malice
has overshot the mark and damaged its
purpose, as falsehoods like curses and
always come home to roost.
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Noting certain statements in Boston
PAPER that there has been a change ia
yorable to the Republican party in the
ohio campaign, the Cincinnati Enquirer
avs:
''There is no change, decided or other
wise, in the aspect of the Ohio cam