The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-21
A Dangerous oemagoeue.

A Dangerous Oemagogue.
The Rev. Bryan, of Selma, Ala, who
edits a weekly journal in that city called g
Independent, is a dangerous sort Of man.
HE'S colored preacher, and his journal IS
supposed to be devoted to the Advancement
Of the welfare of the colo ed people. T e
articles which he is publishing, viewer,
are not calculated to promote the best inter
ests Of the pc pie Of his race. He is giving
them very bad advice, and putting ideas
into their heads that will make them rest
less and dissatisfied, and which will lead
them in the direction of trouble The Rev.
| Bryan, however, will take care TO keep
away from danger himself Men like him
make mischief and stir up strife, but they
keep at a safe distance from the scenes of
violence for which they are responsible.
Extracts from one Of the Rev Bryan's
articles were published in our dispatches
| yesterday. The article seems to have been
inspired by the letter of Mrs. Garfield of
| Topeka, Kan, whose husband was pre,i-
dent of the educational congress, which
met recently in Ma hville, Tenn. Mrs.
Garfield was at Nashville with her hus-
band and she wrote let or to her home
paper in which she expresssl the hope tn 1t
she might at some time see black heels
upon white necks The Litter was very
generally published aud commented upon
in the south. Mrs. Ca fl Id declared that
she bitterly regretted having written the
letter. There is no doubt that it has had a
bad effect upon the colored people, because
the tendency of it was to make EN- dissat-
isfied with their condition and to excite
among them bitter feeling against the
white people.
The Rev. BrYan's articles are doubtless
one Of the results of Mrs. Canfisld's
letter. They express pretty nearly tbs
same idea as the letter, and they contain
the same feeling Of hostility to the white
people Could Mrs. Garfield have foeresn
how mucl injury her letter would do the
colored people, it is pro able that she would
never have published it, if she is as much
of friend to them as she professe, to be-
The Rev. Bryan talks about race war,
aud asserts that if the colorel people were
the sole occupants of the south it would be
one of the grandest sections of untry on
the globe mn tWanFy9 years. If the Rev.
Bryan is man Of ordinary Intelligence he
does not believe what he says There isn't
fact inhistory, or a thing that has come
under bis observation, that just.fes
such an assertion. The condition of
Hayti is sufficient to convince any fair
minded colored man that the colored people
a'e not yet fitted for self-government.
Wherever they are left to themselves they
go backward, not forward Hayti is be-
coming a wilderness again, and the south
would become a wilderness if the
white people were to abandon it,
In those portions of the south
in which there are very few whites the
moral and intellectual condition of the
blacks is not as encouraging as it was
twenty years ago, and the signs of thrift
and prosperity are entirely wanting.
Within the last month thousa DIS of blacks
in Liberty county, il this state, have aban-
doned their work and their no mes to follow
a false Christ. Their proceedings in some
instances have been such as to Justify the
conclusion that they were going back to
barbsrism.
There isn't going to be any race war and
the south is not going to pass into the pos
session of the blacks. The two races will
get along together, and, that too, witaout
trouble, if the blacks are not led astr by
false teachers of their race. The blacks are
filing tho place il the social fabric in the
south FIR which thoy are fitted. If they
should have a moral and intellectual growth
VIII ch fitted them for another place there
would be nothing to prevent them from
occupying that place. They have now
every right and privilege for which they
can reasonably ask, a I'd they will continue
to be >atisfisd and to live in peace with the
whites if they do not listen to dangerous
demagogues like the Rev. B yam.