The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-01-09


heroism Of my party friends In Vermont
thaE makes their hopeless march over the
hills high and inspiring pilgrimage,
he shrewdly measures the occasional ag4-
tator, balances his little account with
politics, touches up his mule and joys
down the furrow, letting the mad world
wag as it will!
The negro vote can never control in
the south, and it would be we'll II parti-
sans at the north would understand this.
have seen the white people of a state
set about by black hosts until their fate
seemed sealed. But, sir, some brave
man, handing tbem together, would rise,
as Elisha rose ID beleaguered Samaria,
and, touching their eyes with faith, bid
them leok abFsad to see the very air
filled with the chariots of Israel and the
horsemen thereof H there Is any hu-
man force that cannes be withstood, II IL
the power OF the banded intelligence and
responsibility Of a fres community.
Against it, numbers and corruption cam
not prevail It cannot be forbidden in
the law or divorced in force. 10 Is the
inalienabls light OF every free communi-
ty-the Just and righteous safeguard
against an ignorant or corrupt suffrage.
II Is on this, sir, that we rely In the south.
Not the cowardly menace of mask or
shotgun; but the peaceful majesty of in
teliigence and responsibility, massed and
unified for the protection of its homes
and the preservation Of it's liberty. That,
sir, is our reliance and our hope, and
against it all the powers of the earth shall
not prevail. 1t was just as certain that
Virginia would come back to the unchal.
lenged control Of her white race-that
before the moral and material power of
her people once more unified, opposition
would crumble until IT'S last desperate
leader was left alone vainly striving to
rally his disordered hests-as that night
should fade in the kindling glory of the
sun. You may pass force bills, but they
will not avail. You may surrender your
own liberties to federal election law, you
may submit, in fear Of necessity that
does not exist, that the very form of this
government may be changed-this old
state which holds 4n It's charter the boast
that 1T is free and independent COM
monwealth"-it may deliver It's election
machinery into the hands of the govern
ment it helped to create-but never, sir,
Will 3 single state of this union, north or
south, DO delivered again to the control
OF an ignorant and inferior race. We
wrested our state government from negro
supremacy when the federal drumbeat
rolled closer to the ballot-box and federal
bayonets hedged 1t deeper about than
will ever again be permitted in this free
government. But, sir, though the can
non of this republic Numbered in every
voting district of the south, we still
should find in the mercy of God the
means and the courage to prevent it's re-
establishment!
regret, sir, that my section, hindered
with this problem, stands in seeming es-
arrangement to the north. If, sir, any
man will point out to me q path down
which the white people of the south di-
vided, may walk in peace and honor, I
will take that path though took it alone
for at the end, and nowhere else, I fear,
is to be found the full prosperity OF my
section and the full restoration of this
union. But, sir, if the negro had not
been enfranchised, the south would have
been divided and the republic united.
His enfranchisement, against which I
enter no protest, holds the south united
and compact. What solution then can
we offer for the problem? Time alone
can disclose it TO US. We simply report
progress and ask yeur patience. If the
problem be solved at all-and I firmly
believe it will, though nowhere else has
1t been-it will be solved bv
the people most deeply bound
in interest, most deeply pledged
in honor to IT'S solution. Ihad rather see
my people render back this question
lightly solved than to see them gather all
the spols over which faction has con-
tended since Catalina conspired and
Cesar sought. Meantime we treat the
negro fairly, measuring to him Justice in
the fullness the strong should give to the
weak, and leading him in the steadfast
ways of citizenship that he may no long
er be the prey OF the unscrupulous and
the sport of the thoughtless. We open
to him every pursuit in which he can
prosper, and seek to broaden his training
and capacity. We seek to hold his con,
fdence and friendship, and to pin hirn to
the soil with ownership, that he NAV
catch in the FIRE Of his own hearthstone
that sense of responsibility the shiftless
can never know. And we gather him
into that alliance of intelligence and re-
sponsihility that, though it now runs
close to racial lines, welcomes the re-
sponsible and intelligent OF any race. Ry
this course, confirmed IN our judgment
and justified in the progress already
made, we hope to progress slowly but
surely to the end
The love we feel for that race YOU can
not measure nor comprehend. As 7
attest it here, the spirit of my old black
nanny from her home up there looks
down to bless, and through the tumult of
this night steals the sweet music of her
croenings as thirty years ago she held me
in her black arms and led me snliliag
lato sloep. This scene vapishes As
speak, and | catch s vision of an old
southern home, with its lofty pillars. and
Its white pigeons tiutterins down through
the golden air. | see women with stained
and anxious faces, and children alert vet
helpless. l see night come down with its
dangers and its apprehension. and in a
big homely room | feel on my tired head
the touch Of loving hands, now worn and
but fairer TO NE vet than tb.-
hands of mortal woman, and stronger vol
TO lead ne than the hands of mortal man
rs they lay mothers blessing There
while 1T her kuees-the truest altar
yet have fsund-I thank God that She Is
safe ID her sanctuary, because her slaves
ssntinsl III the silent cabin cy guard al
her chamber door, puts blacR nlan's
loyalty between her and danger.
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oattls--a soldier struck, stargering IA
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