Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-01

| 4 recent special message of Leon Alb
/ bett, the Democratic Governor Of New
Jersey, is attracting good deal of atten-
| ton. The facts on which the message was
| based are as follows: The First Baptist
Church of Hackensack secured permits
sion from the Hackensack Cemetery Com
pany, which was Incorporated under the
laws of the State in 1862, to bury the body
of their deceased sexton in the cemetery.
Before the permission could be made
available it was withdrawn because the
body was that of a cOlOred man. In his
message Gov. Albeit said that ''the right
! Of the Cemetery Company to make rules
and regulations as to inteTment is linn
tied to making those that are reasonable
and lawful. The regulation that refuses
Christian burial to the body of deceased
citizen upon the ground of color is not, in
my judgment, a reasonable regulation.
The State should not attempt to control
individuals in their private and social re-
lations as long as they do not interfere
with the rights of others: but the Legis-
Iature should see that the civil and politi-
cal rights of all men, whether white or
black, are protected, and when in
fringed or violated that punish
ment should follow. 1t ought not
to be tolerated in this State, that cOrpo-
ration whose existence depends upon the
legislative will and whose property is eX-
empt from taxation because of its reli-
gious uses, should be permitted to make
distinction between the white man and
the black man."
This sort of talk from Democrat must
have been a surprise in New Jersey. 1t
is much more than any Republican Gov
ernOr of that State, and, perhaps, Of any
State, has said in the same direction. 1t
ought to satisfy the cOlOred people that
there is no disposition on the part of the
Democrats to deprive them of a single
civil or political right. 1t ought also to
convince them that Democrats are not
disposed to excite race issues or to favor
legislation calculated to deprive them of
any privilege or liberty to which they are
fairly entitled. Civil rights laws, such as
the Supreme Court lately declared uncOn-
stitutional, are not necessary to their well
fare or happiness, as some white and
colOred demagogues would lead them
to believe. Whatever may be the rights
of cemetery companies it is certain that
a Democratic Governor has shown pur- |
pose to see that cOlOred people, as race, |
have strict and impartial justice.
The great success OF the United States |
Department of Agriculture in making |
merchantable article of sugar from sor-
ghum at the low cost of one dollar per |
pound, has enthused some of the leading |
farmers of Middle Tennessee. At Frank
lin Saturday last $4,000 was subscribed
to form a stock company for the manufac-
ture of sorghum sugar. At Hillsborough,
in the same county, $4,000 sugar mill is
to be erected. Nashville will invest $780,
600 in similar concern. 1t is to be hoped
that the enterprises may prove successful,
but if such should be the case, the
eventual effect on the sugar planting in
terests of Louisiana viii be far more dam
aging than a Mexican treaty or horizon
tai reduction of the tariff.
The free thinkers want TO have COM
ventIon in Baltimore. They want every
body to think as they please, provided they
think 1ust like the free thinkers think.