New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-28

must all authority be lodged and preserved
When a claim of this kind is the foundation
of almost every Southern speech and editorial
il is fair to regard events in the light 1t throws
unon them. Such an incident as that OF the
Christmas Day riot in Jessup, Ga, for instance
seems TO have an especial significance when 1t
occurs in a State whose representative men de-
clare that one portion OF its population possesses
virtues which are denied by nature to another
norton. and which render those upon whom
they are thus exclusively conferred exclusively
fit for the conduct OF affairs
Georgia was one of the original thirteen
States. Its people voted for George wash
incton. Excuses for lawlessness that may
avail in the Rocky Mountains can scarcely be
nleaded in Georgia. Without counting upon
a "spirit of intelligence and ORDER in any
sense unioue, it would seem as II the lnsutu-
tions of society ought to be as safe in Georgia
nc in Massachusetts, Certainly. if overthrown
At all acts of riot and shame should be per-
formed only by the miserable barbarians whom
nature has cursed, and not by the noble white
man whom she has so signally favored. Strange
though il be- however the Jessup rot eX-
messed in plain English, was negro mas
sacre. and the scoundrels involved In 1t num-
bered twenty whites to one black.
Some weeks ago town marshal in Jessup
found IL necessary while making an arrest to
kill negro. Why it is so often necessary 10
kill negro in order to complete an act OF
arrest in the South is grewsome mystery
On Christmas morning this same oifcer with
another and a party of armed white men
undertook to arrest a negro named Brewer
bullet from Brewers gun met the marshal
and killed him. The party OF whites there
upon opened fire upon Brewer and the group
Of negroes with him, and their fire was re-
turned. The negroes escaped into swamp
unframed. but Brewers rifle on the way Killed
two Of his pursuers. Within an hour 300
white men. burning with intelligence and full
of devotion to order, were securing the swamp
shooting at everything that looked bit sooty
in the distance, while another party OF white
men emallv imbued with " the spirit of order
and intelligence" were raiding the negro huts
in Jessup. shooting men and horsewhippmg
women industrously.
The Governor of Georgia, in this emergency,
displayed his intelligence and love OF order
strikingly. lie dispatched troop OF the
Georgia Hussars to the scene of the riot. by
the time they arrived a choice lot OF negroes
had been killed and whipped and another lot
thrown into jail. The gallant Hussars APP
parentIy perceiving that the destruction of
negroes was advancing sufficiently without
their aid. went into camp a mile or so from the
Jail. and bravely stopped there while another
party of intelligent and order-loving white
men knocked down the jal-doors and killed
the negroes they had shielded.
These are eloquent facts They bear with
marked force on the proposition that the white
race in the South is inherently and inevitably
superior to the coored race. They illustrate
with admirable cearness why the white men
of the South, by virtue of their moral and
mental superiority must rule, and they should
have a conspicuous place in the next speech
delivered by Bourbon orators to prove that the
Fifteenth Amendment was social crime.