The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-21

snail not vote for him, but | don't think
any fair and candid man who has sought to
ascertain the true sentiment of the south
| VIII deny that ClevelandS administration
n had very beneficent effect in national
lzing the x-confederates The Republican
party always treated them, so to speak, as
prisoners Of war-to be dealt with courte-
| ously, but not to be trusted No conspicu-
Gus southern confederate was ever given q
Place OF honor that indicated confidence.
he leaders of the south writhed under this
undeolared but unrelenting boycottiug.
II remember hearing a confederate gen.
eral OF considerable eminence say with fer
Nor that although he deprecated another
war, yet he would welcome it if the honor
OF the nation demanded, as it would give
the Southern soldiers the chance of wiping
out, once and forever every pretext for
placing bar against their aspirations to all
the honors The republic could confer. Only
second-class positions were open to them
now, he said, but if war should be de-
clared the old Confederate generals would
volunteer SO eagerly and so generally that
the north couldn't help amneStying them in
fact as well as in name. Putting Lamar in
the cabinet did much to please the southern
leaders-not so much that they like Lamar
as because 1t was accepted as an evidence
that home rule was now completely yielded
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the ambitious public men who had shared
the fortunes of the confederacy
IF Cleveland, in case he is reelected, or
still better, if Harrison, if he should be
elected, should remove the disabilities of
Jefferson Davis, it would have benign eff
feet, not only because Mr. Davis has vast
following of devoted sympathizers in his
misfortune, but because it is thought petty,
contemplate and irritating to isolate for
punishment one man, who committed no
offence of which Lamar and every other
southern leader were not equally guilty.
MIR. Davis is now the only man in the south
whose disabilities have not been removed.
He takes 10 part in politics, aud, therefore.
the continuation of his disabilities is only a
cause of irritation to his friends, without
the slightest compensating advantage.
Next TO crops, new industries, politics
and war memories, the most important
topic that presents itself to the tourist is
the relation of the two races. The people
white and black, are well dressed every
where. | did not see even one person who
looked like pauper. Everywhere, also,
saw and heard of one fact that must crafty
every friend of the republic. There is the
best of feeling existing between the two
races. With the dispersion of the class
stigmatized as carpet baggers, the blacks
have lost nearly all their reconstruction
interest in politics. They have found that
freedom meant wages for work, not a
free watermelon patch paradise, and
the natural influence of a race educated
in political devices, and knowing its own
purpose and how to achieve them, has at
last reasserted itself. The negroes,
noticed, had everywhere lost that eager
restless look of their eyes which were
especially noticeable everywhere during the
last days of reconstruction. They have
found that, although the year of jubiloo
hab come it wasn't what it was expected
to be- and they have settled down to make
the best of it. With the dispersion of their
old white northern leaders, the southern
whites have resumed their traditional posi-
ton toward the blacks-good will, kindly
feeling, but no liberation to negro rule in
politics nor to social equality. But the
reconstruction period was not without good
results. 1t has placed every thought of the
establishment of slavery or the disfran-
chisement of the freedmen away outside
even Of the dreams of the most hopeful
Bourbon.
both souths, the solid white and the
solid black, have accepted the situation in
good faith and surely much more quickly
than anyone familiar with the inherited
preiudices of both races could have hoped
for. The existing relations do infinite
credit to both races-both equally. One of
the greatest traits OF our own race Is the
promptness with which it adapts itself to its
surroundings adjusts itself to facts-and
this trait the white southerners have shown
that they possess in high degree.
1T was necessary that slavery should be
abolished for the white southerner to show
how much of a man he really was and is.
And he has shown himself thoroughbred.
The best result of the war was not the ter
ritorv we retained, nor the rank it gave us
among nations, but the people we held
within tho upiOn -