Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Inter Ocean on Fresh Scent - x.
patriation of the Rebels.
LangstOn's Bad Boy aud His Terrible
Little Revolver.
"reminiscences of Army Paymasters-
How Greenbacks We're "Lost.v
special Correspondence OF The Gazette

Special Correspondence OF the Gazette
Washington, March THE Chjcao,
Inter Ocean would have the whites q
the South colonized and the South
thoroughly Africanized. Since thi,
was not one of the issues determined
by the war, the South is in no wis,
bound To submit cheerfully TO Tho
kindly process. Moreover, the con.
cession OF negro suffrage was an after.
thought and horrible afterbirtb
instituted to punish and humiliate
| Democrats, termed rebels, rather than
for the elevation of blacks. Union sol.
diers fought for no such result. Cum.
| berland Gap Morgan, and many like
! him, would not fight after Lincoln de-
clnred that negro liberation was a nee.
essary war measure. But it happened
that Il great multitude of exceedingly
Jealous patriots had set their hearts on
two grave purposes; the one, the con-
fscation of the whole property of the
South; the other, when the first
scheme was thwarted by Andrew
,Johnson's use of the pardoning power
involved the domination of the South
through the investiture Of the negroes
with perfect privileges of citizenship.
TO lose all these Southern estate S
was bad enough; TO lose all offices and
political power in fifteen states was
not to he tolerated. the negro, as a
voter was pitifully unsuccessful, and
wherever he governed, whether in
states or counties or towns, he or his
agents were reckless thieves or incapa-
BILE dots. In truth, intelligent, honest
white people abandon towns and coun-
ties in which negroes acquire suprem-
acy. Those whites that remain in ne
grOZed districts, becoming negro party
leaders and place-holders, are thor
oughly imbruted. An eminent illus
tration of the fact is seen in negro
governed county Of Mississippi. There
u white man, so called, was negro
trader, owning in lS59.60 slave mart.
Then he was a furious secessiOnist, and
later executed jeff Davis conscript
act, "robbing the cradle and the
grave" With the restoration of peace
he became devout Republican, and
organized black loyal leagues every
where. He became and remained a
negro, and has held the best Federal
state offices in his county and district
for eighteen years. If Southern whites
must he "colonized," in Gods name
don't send out with them TO their
Canaan those whites of the South who
affiliate politically and socially
with the blacks. They are
filthy in habits, diseased in morals,
corrupt in practices and shameless in
matchless depravity. II was this con-
cession of honorable Offices to native
ana imported vulgar fellows that de
stroyed every vestige OF that hostility
to secession Democracy which ami
mated, after peace came, the old Wings
and Douglass followers OF the South.
Every Northern Republican party
leader including Republican presi-
dents, having supple tool and knave
to reward for some foul task of parti-
sanship, sent the detestable wret IN,
not worthy or daring to hold office
in the North, into the South.
The average untrayeled Southern
county pumpkin. never having en-
counlered any Northern men save
these thievipg place-holders, holds
Northern people in absolute abhor-
renee. He deteats, of course. the
party constituted, as he believes, of
such scurvy fellows us We're these
satraps aud marshals and revenue col
lectors and postmasters. The North
Won no right, by victory in the inter-
state war, thus TO nislead the honest
simple yeomanry of the South, and it
won no right To do worse, as il did
when subjecting the South to negro
or worse, TO the domination of
men who now vote the negroes
rs does this eX-slave trader and seces-
sionist of whom | was telling.
When the exodus of Southern
whites moves slowly and sadly away,
as did the Choctaws from their homes
and graves of their fathers, there will |
be fewer tears shed il plying imperial
power will only set over US, as rulers |
and leaders, Southern people, and |
spare us the calamity of subsection to
the mastery of negro-chOsen thieves-a |
grief infinitely greater than defeat in |
war by overwhelming numbers.
After all, | am almost persuaded by |
Sherman and Hoar and the Washing |
ton Republican, and because of inter
race relations begotten of the bloody
shirt, that the Inter Ocean is one-half
wiser than 1t seems, and if not the
white, the negro race must go. The
newspaper would render
lhe co-eXistence OF negroes and whites
impossible, and then exile the whites
Tor its own folly and crimes. But 1
nave only adverted to this outburst of
Inter Oceanic passion to show how
falsely the Northern people are edu-
'ated and how thoroughly they are
made to misconceive every fact Incl
dent to the relations of races in the
south.
But whatever the North may think
d 1t, 1t is true that Southern whites,
4 there was no other patent recourse,
would prefer migration even to Libe-
ia TO subsection to negro mastery here
lr elsewhere, and in this aspect of facts
he Inter Oceans proposition will be
universally approved in the South as
he most just and generous it ever ut
cred.
LANGSToN.
The son of the quadri- colored minis
ier to Hayti is in danger of the hang
mans rope. He handles his little pis-
ol as deity as does his father his
Elongated tongue. But the courts of
Washington are political and partisan
',ourts, and unless justice may have a
mango of venue the CAV young muir
ierer iincurs little danger because of
ms double murder. However, we
ave only hurried statements OF the
acts as made by local reporters, and
ioung Langston's deeds NAV not be as