The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-16

the Times copy of my letter OF
regret addressed to him, am
told by Mr. Weldon if | insist
upon its publication with his (Wedon's
name in it and charging him with having
permitted me to accept, etc" that he
(Weldon) will be compelled TO record his
disclaimer with it. | only accept this
threat to be confronted by Mr.. Hartridge
with refusal TO admit the entire letter
unless Mr.. Weldon's name is expunged
from it.
As the question of how had been misled
relative to the responsibility for the closing
sentence of the local in the Times of the 9TH
inst, was a secondary consideration to the
more important concern of Immediately
righting the gentleman, to whom had been
permitted TO do such grave injustice, it
mattered not for the moment by whom or
how | had been misled, and | consented to
Mr.. Hartridge's erasure of the objected-to
clause, involving Mr.. Wedon's name, and
inserted 'by Others instead. The
requirement made of me by Mr.
Hartridge was both Nntenable and imperi-
Gus, but he was, for the time being, master
of the situation, and had no alternative
but to acquiesce in the embargo placed upon
my freedom of expression, though what |
asked could, by the gentlemen | sought to
vindicate, be demanded without the right to
be denied.
Thus successfully in this matter
wrong has begotten its natural off
spring and the press that should
pre-eminently be the conservator
of peace, the censor of morals, and the
palladium of our social and political liberties,
under indiscreet control, is made the vehicle
for fomenting race strife and the widest
passions Of race prejudice; by ignoring its
bounden duty, permitting fierce personal
antagonists to spring into being where all
was peace and harmony before, and when
it is sought through the same fundamentally
to allay the storm of passion, its lax cen
sorship has famed into life, unless
to be done according to its imperious pleas
ure, regardless of the prophecies cOntroll-
ing in such circumstances, its columns are
closed and simple wrong is intensified by
qualified refusal to permit it righted. Had
matters been allowed to shape them-
selves again rightly after the
first wrong was inflicted, Mr.. Wei
don would now be spared the mortitica-
ton of having his denunciation of another
recoil upon himself, or if he had had half the
aStuteness necessary for the position he oc-
cupies he wouldnever have permitted, in the
first instance, to escape his scrutiny and soil
his columns the infamous and devilish piece
of iniquity against which | have SO Yehe-
meutly protested.
The scattered graves that have been com
pared to large and regularly dedicated
and consecrated cemetery (and it would be
the same regardless Of the color of the occu-
pants) are situated at the most dangerous
point on the Tybee railroad, being in a
curve in a cut. Had the idea sug-
gested by the comparison melted
to fancied retaliatory action and
single life paid the penalty,
the man whose mind gave it birth, and the
confederate who warmed it into active life
in reportorial swaddling clothes, together
would carry the victims blood upon their
hands and before the world stand homicides
self-confeSsed. d. G.. PURSE.