Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-01
STANDARD MqINNVIILE TENNEssEEsATURDAY DEC 1888

ing cnt. Now if this Chicago editor
will just come South and hold us
while the job is being done, why then
it will be alright.
For several years after the war
there was great deal of bitterness
between the two races in the South,
and there relations were strained and
several times almost reached the
point of race war. The causes for this
condition was the influence of bad
men from the North, left in the South
by the Union army, who became
leaders of the negroes and diligently
taught them to hate and distrust their
white neighbors. The whites seeing
the negroes the plant tools of these
bad men became embittered. But of
late years kindly feeling has been
growing between the races. The ne
gro finding by experience that the
Southern white man, when put in
to power, guards his interests and re-
spects his rights even more than the
Northern man, are beginning to trust
their Southern white neighbor, and
to turn to them for council and help
in the various affairs of life. The
whites have growing feeling of
sympathy for the blacks in their new
relations as freemen, and are ready to
help them to make the very best out
out of those relations. The Southern
white man wants to see the negro
prosper. They recognize that the
blacks are free, and as citizens are to
live among us. The more they pros
per the more interest they have in
maintaining good government, and so
make better citizens. Now if the
change of administration is to break
up this kindly relations between the
races, then it will be a bitter day for
the negroes when the republican party
goes back into power. In all conflict
of races they must be the sufferers.
The whites have the numbers, intelli-
gence and the wealth, and will be
able to maintain themselves in any
emergency that may arise. If the re-
publican party were again to disfran-
chise the whites of the South, and
give the negroes supreme control OF
the government of the Southern
States, in a few years the whites
would again be in control and the
condition of the negro alone would be
worse. This Southland is our home,
and we intend to make it in govern.
ment as in other things the best fol
ourselves that we can. If the negroes
are left free to help us in this, then il
may be done to their benefit as well
as ours. If they are made to antago
nize us in this effort, then they will
suffer. The Southern people are in
the Union and intend to stay there
but in that Union they will maintain
every right that belongs to any other
citizen OF this great country. We be
lieve that Gen. Harrison is a Chris
tan man of too noble a nature to be
come the tool of such men as the edi
tors of the Chicago Tribune and New
York Tribune. TO them nothing
would give more joy than to hear tina
ten thousand negroes had been killed
in the South today. Their souls arr
too little for the idea of the prospect
ty of the whole country ever to find {
place in their minds. Such all ide;
crowded into their souls would burs
them all to pieces. 1t is pie the!
want, and few negroes, more or less
killed is nothing in their eyes, if i
only gives them a larger piece of pie
We write this in kindness to ant
sympathy with the negroes Of thi
country. We would mourn to Sc
them sacrificed to the greed 0
such men.
Every negro is much freer to vote a
he pleases than the white laborer c
the North, and his vote is as honest
ly counted as the votes in any North
ern State. These men know this. |
is not ignorance, but pure and simpl
greed for the loavcs and fishes Of gov
eminent that causes them to strive t
keep up this antagonism of the races
God have mercy upon their poor lii
tie souls.
Bates VS.. Evans.