Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-08
The DOCTRINE of Hate.

1t is true, as Judge Thurman said in his
speech delivered at Toledo, Ohio, on last
| Tuesday night, that the doctrine of hate
which Senator Sherman is preaching in
| OHIO, and which the Cincinnati CONNER
cidL Gazette is scattering over the coun-
try, is dangerous doctrine.
The effect of Senator Sherman's speeches
aud the Commercial Gdzette'S articles,
is plainly apparent in different parts of
the country. The Cincinnati merchants
have found it necessary to state that they
have no sympathy with the course that
the Republican leaders in Ohio are pur-
suing with regard to the South. They
felt compelled 10 take this course because
they discovered that their large Southern
trade was gradually leaving them.
Cincinnati merchants need not expect
the patronage of the Southern merchants
If they encourage unjustifable and SLAM
derous attacks upon the Southern people.
There would be little ground for the
protests Of the South against such attacks
il there were ample foundation for
them, but no attempt is made to sustain
the charges which are so reckessly made.
Time and time again the Republican
stump speakers and the Republican or
gans in Ohio have been asked to furnish
some sort Of proof of their charges, but
they have deemed il wise not to take any
notice OF this very reasonable request
Judge Foraker did venture TO single out
this county as one Of the localities where
the negroes were deprived Of their right
30 ha 90 Will
the facts, however, he had nothing more
to say. He did not even admit that he
had done the people Of this locality
great wrong by making statements about
their political affairs that were without
foundation.
AS for the Commercial Gazette, 1t has
ceased to be regarded by fair-minded men
Of its own party as reliable journal
The letter written by its editor to Salmon
P. Chase, during the war, which was late
ly published, and in which Grant and
other Union Generals were criticised in
the harshest terms as being drunkards,
lunatics and fools, has shown the country
pretty clearly what sort OF a man Mr..
HalsteRd is. He is writing about the
South to-day pretty much in the same
style that he wrote about the Union Gen
erals. He doesn't want facts. He per
mits his feelings to control his pen. AS
he has been forced to confess that he was
q lunatio or a fool, or something worse,
when he wrote his Chase letter, so, it is
probable, he will be forced to confess, at
no very distant period, that he was mad
when trying to stir up a feeling of hate
towards the South.
If the bitter feeling which is being
aroused by the Republican politicians and
organs in Ohio could be confined to that
State the protests against this doctrine of
hate which. they are preaching would be
very few. The danger is, however, that If
the Republicans are successful in this
campaign in Ohio, and particularly if
Senator Sherman succeeds in having him
self returned to the Senate. the same tao
tics will be employed to carry the next
Presidential election that are now being
employed in Ohio. The sectional feeling
that the best men, North and South, have
done so much to allay will again, in that
event, be stirred into activity.
AsJudge Thurman said, there is no bet
ter evidence that the negroes at the South
are well treated-better treated, in fact,
than they would be at the NOrth-than
that they stay South. They are not seek
ing homes at the North. Even those who
have the means to make their homes
wherever they may please, remain in the
neighborhood of their Old homes. They
are wise enough to see that they are not
wanted at the North. and that if they
went there they would not fare as we'll as
they do where they are.