The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-13

a hundred useful trades that are closed against
them here. In the south there are negro law
yers, teachers, editors, dentists. doctors, and
preachers multiplying with the increasing
ability or their race TO support them. In the
villages and towns they have their military
companies equipped from the armories of the
state, and their churches and societies built
and supported largely by their neighbors.
TESTIMONY OF THE COURTS.
What is the testimony of the courtss In
penal legislation we have steadily reduced
felonies to misdemeanors and have led the world
in mitigating punishment for crime, that
might save, as far as possible, this dependent
race from its own weakness. In our pententi-
ary record, 60 per cent. Of the prosecutors are
negroes, and in every court the negro criminal
strikes colored juror. that white men may
judge his case. In the north one negro In every
1S5 is in jail-in the south only one In 4s6. In
the north the percentage or negro prisoners is
SIX times as great as that OF the native whites
In the south only four times as great. If preju-
dice wrongs him in southern courts, the record
shows it to be deeper in the northern courts.
Now. Mr.. President, can IL be seriously main
tanned that we are terrorizing a people from
whose willing hands cpmes every year S1,O00.-
OOO,OOO OF farm Gro psf or have robbed a people
who. in twenty-five years, from unrewarded
slavery, have amassed in one state SO, 900 900
of property? or that we intend to oppress peo-
pie we are arming every dayg or drive, when We
are educating them to the utmost limit of
our abilityY or outlaw them when we work
side by side with themi or re-enslave them
have imprudently narrowed the limit OF felo-
MES and mitigated severity OF law!
Continuing, the speaker said:
When will the black cast a free ballot? When
ignorance, anywhere, is not dominated by intel
lect. Wnen the laborer, anywhere, casts his vote
unhndered by his boss. When the vote of the
poor, anywhere is not influenced by the power
of the rich. When the strong aud steadfast do
not everywhere control the suffrage Of the
weak and shiftless, then and not till then will
The ballot thA Ia Tha
white people of the, south are
banded, Mr.. President. not in prejudice against
the blacks, not IN sectional estrangement, not
in hope of political dominion-but in deep and
abiding necessity. The negro vote can never
control the south, and it would be well if parti-
sans at the north would understand this
If there is any human force that cannot be
withstood it is the power of the banded inteli-
gence and responsibility OF a free community
Against it numbers and corruption cannot pre-
vail. II is on this, sir, that we rely in the south
not the cowardly menace OF mask or shotgun,
but the peaceful majesty of intelligence and
responsibility.
You may pass force bills, but they will not
avail You may surrender your liberties to a
federal election law, you may submit. in fear Of
necessity that does not exist, that the very
form of this government may be changed, but
never SIR: will single state Of this union, north
or south, be delivered again TO the control Of an
ignorant and inferior race.
Mr.. Grady concluded as follows:
What do we ask of you? First patience:
second, confidence; third, sympathy; fourth
give us your sons as hostages. When you
plant your capital in millions, send your sons
that they may know how true
to swell the Anglo-Saxon current until it can
carry without danger this black infusion. Fifth,
loyalty to the republic; for there is sectional
ISM s IN loyalty as wei as essrangement. This
section, and yet holds the other in enduring
suspicion and arrangement. Give us the broad
and perfect loyalty that loves and trusts Geor
gia, alike with Massachusetts-thatk knows no
south, no north, no east no west, but endears
with equal and patriotic love every foot of
our. soil, every state Of our union.
CARNEGIE's SPEECH.
Andrew Carnegie was next introduced.
Prior to entering upon discussion of his
topic he paid a high compliment to Mr..
Cleveland as one whom history would de-
clare had tried to do his duty and
possessed the respect Of the entire
country, regardless Of party. He
said Mr.. Cleveland had demonstrated
ole answer to question of his own asking
what to do with ex-Presidents. He had
shown that one good thing to do with them
was to invite them to all the banquets and
in this connection the question occurred
TO him-Why not run them
again. To this there was a storm of ap-
plause, with cries of "Goodi" ''That's
sol" and renewed cheering. Mr.. Carnegie
then proceeded to brief exposition of the
wonderful progress made by this country
during the past thirty years in commerce,
manufacturing and mining, declaring that
in the last two industries she now leads the
world, while her credit is first among the
nations
Mr.. Carnegie was followed by Hon. w.
L. Putnam, late democratic candidate for
governor of Maine, who spoke briefly upon
1.-THE merchant marine and fisheries.n