Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-14
Senator CoImitt.
Vron he Chica0o InIr- Ocean.

Senator ColPitt.
From the Chicago lasy- Ocean.
United States Senator T. Fl. Colquitt,
OF Georgia, now at the Grand Pacific, was
asked yesterday how the Outh regarded
the use of the shibooleth the "bloody
Shirt" which has been attributed to
Senator Sherman in the pending cam
paign in OHIO. An eloquent man even
in conversation, Senator Colquitt made
this loyal exposition of tie feelings of his
people:
"The South regards th continued re-
course to that argument with astonish-
ment and regret. Why, sir, l would he
willing to stake my lie upon the test that
in the South no more than in the large
cities of the North ami West is there an
interference with the exercise of the right
OF suffrage. We wauyou to understand
US. You see we m&e no accusations
against you in return The most that we
say is in the way of termination. Some
of the matters of this Ind may be repub-
llshed IN the South. that an answer may
be given them, The negro reads aud be
finds himself despite tie actual condition
OF affairs, represented a an outraged be-
ing. And so the impression goes that we
are violent people, md that the old
rebels are coming backto power with the
fell purpose to destroy and pull down.
! Why, sir, the truth is nat the rebel Is the
most conservative citizen in the nation,
and for the very reasn that in every way
he has so much at STAKE. He cannot af-
toTd to be visionary q adventurous.
"Friend, the pail ola great fear rests
upon the people of tie South; they live
under the shadow ofan apprehension OF
something to come. They try to be cheer
iul In their nome life and their social rela-
! tiOns, but none can zee a solution of that
! great race problem, the Ike Of which
never came up to BE- answered in the
worlds history before. When a man
! turns 40 he begins to think q his children.
/ In New England or out herein your W lest
/ ern states when a man faces the other
! world and lies down to die be has no dis
/ turbing thoughts about the lture of his
children and his property; bit when l 90,
| and my son shall have cOme5o the duties
! OF manhood, can l foresee tie conditions
OF life and society and proprty that en-
| viron him? No.
A city may be sometimes distinguished
| for its church-g0ing tendacies. Brook
! lyn, for instance, is callet the City Of
! Churches. When you approach a town
and see its many church Pires pointing
heavenward you measure hat towns re-
lgious life thereby, and say they are re-
ligiOUs people. And you would be right,
for tits standard that we accept, though
/ it be superficial. Come now to Atlanta.
In our city, in proportion to Its size,
there are held more church Sttings than
In any other city in the lald. Does 1t
| seen reasonable, then, Tat out of
us should come all manner OF violence
andmalice and infammatog speechW
NO, there is no one living that can tell
theoutcOme of the negro Question in the
nett twenty years. BY aualgamation it
cannot be solved. No gepeel white man
Ofany section will marrya negro, hOwey-
e. genteel she be. The fought to him is
Rpul- ive.'
II notice, sir, that tb Republicans in
Iowa make their fight Upon a platform
THAI denounces the paulerizatiOn of labor
in the South. and seek o determine their
/ state politics and poits by the a sitation
/ of an hypothesis with which their State
/ has nothing TO do. J think ] should
| talk more truth tlan demagogism
I did ! attempt to how that labor
/ is pauperized elsewhertthan. as charged
/ in the South, and if shO.ld retOrt | would
/ speak of elegant maniOns with their
/ dOmes and colOnnades their lakes and
| lawns, of splendid eqtpages with uni
T formed drivers and fOotnsn, and Of those
that ride in them, blinCng, as they 60,
with dust the miserable )oor that haunt
/ the way. Friend, labor not pauLerized
/ IN the South, for if il we some would,
| bv compensation, becOm enriched, but Of
the enriched there az none. Save
few who may be seking health and
salubrity OF climate yo do not see our
/ people in the South. I0a and Georgia
know one another bu geographically.
! We have no rich men here. il one has
/ $4,000 or 100000 weRll him rich In
! deed; up here your nh men must be
! milionaires and thenare poor at that.
/ But as for that feeling between the sec
lions, OF which we hse spoken, l am
| glad to believe that almositIes and re-
sentiments are dying Oh and they would
be dead but for the ptry ambition OF
J politicians who seek t0ieep them alive.
/ Ii was natural, il not easOnable, after
! the war that there shOul exist some feel
ing; but now how mucl nObler would 1t
be for the sections establish that
sympathy and mutu understanding,
which must come, by Orce OF char acter
and purpose rather tha to leave the ac-
cOmplshment to tiD-time with It's
! lapse Of days and years that will
| OF itself inevitably efet it without logic
at ALL"
Senator Colquitt SIS the year can be
| considered prOspeIds one ~ bis state,
and that the cottO crop Is above The
average. He has niyet given the silver
! question, IN It's pre9t form, close atleu-
ton. but be feels ptiared TO say mat the
people og,the Souftflyor silver, and that
he himself as a hnetalist shall oppose
any measures loOLrg to It's demOnstiZa-
! ton. He does notbsleve Senator Eusties
will be disposed ttuae his official position
in the Senate 70 alta IOnize the President
by Offering obstacles o the confirmation
| Of his apnointmhts, whatever Use he
NAV DO in his wailareupOn the admins
traiiOn. SenatOrColqIrt does not admin
that the President haspaid 100 mich az.
tendon 70 -Conederltes in his nppoinF
mengs. The senator approves 3L mis-
procedure since he President IS tie Presi-
dent 81 the United Staes. aud MT Of the
North or the South. Tie Senate Gems 70
aphold the President In TN prctiee OF
his civil service policy, Willingly srant-
ING II q difiult task ln vleY OF we
various interpretations PIT upon IL by
various influences bearing upln the ad-
miuistratiOn.
All FIXED.
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