The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1890-04-26
CONVENTION NOT NEEDED
,,rpICr ATTORNEY SLACK FALTERS
" NOT IN HIS OPPOSITION.
>.oro Preferred to the Ignorance and
Anarchistic Ideas Brought Through
Castle Garden.
.,., IN The Memphis Commercial.

lack, DlstrlcJ htIoIn ney oi 'ho AIN"
,"H nJicial District of Mississippi, was
n,eryiewed yesterday on the Coastitu-
onsl Convention question
Mr. Mr. Slack said he had no plans to
,agest. but he believed that the calling
Convention was grave and serious
81 "I am opposed to it," said he, "first,
ocause OF tho enormous cost that will
! att,ched to it. Second, because the
eonle were and are opposed to it. A
Moot of that fact, all counties where
q issue was. made for Representative
# wear those who opposed it were
ected.
tsThere is conflict between our
terests politically end our interests fl
ancially. Financially we want all the ne-
roes we csnget. He is the only laborer
lanted to t le Southern customs and for
ising cotton. He is the most doclle,
1, cheapest and most agreeable labtror'
4 nv Judgment the great danger which
Dnfronts us is the ignorance which comes
rongh Castle Garden. We do not fea
krica. If the Northern people will only
rs alone the blacks will make no
Ouble in this country. He is not an
harchist nor communist; 4 man un.
mbtious, easily satisfied and content,
he necro never originated anything not
Zen riot. 10 figures in the crimes OF
be country in petty misdemeanors main
The new edition Of them who hare
armed to write have committed . few
rseries. l am decidedly of the opinion
bat no measure that may be adopted by
bs Constitutional Convention can afford
nyrelief. Certainly noneconmensurste
tith the cost of the convention. Tie
act alone that the white people of the
tate were divided upon the calling of
bis convention was sufficient reason br
be to oppose 1t.
$50 long as we stand together, there
no danger; when We divide, no Con-
kitntionEcan save us. So far as the ne
10 taking possession of the country Is
oncerned, that is all sentiment; nothing
it. The negro never TOOK any country
anything. On the contrary, the white
ksn's ability to take is always equal to
IA desire, and he now has an eye or
frica. I believe in the survival OF the
ttest, aud that the white man is the
ttest and will survive any conflict.
s'The man who invented the cottor
In did more to
PERPEvUATE SLAVERY
han could any Constitution HI
bade it possible and profitable to b.asndl
billions of bales of cotton instea.s f
kw hundred. The man who invenS tn
btton picker will erect tombstone t.
he negro. Ia short, wh"' the negr'
bases to be needed, he will go. II,
hs proven great blessing 10 the Sout'
many respects, the least OF which can
ot be counted--that his presence ha
ept foreigners from coming into thl
ountry. This alone, in agreat measure
ompensates us for this presence. Besides
ye ought not to forget telat the negr
nade bread for us and protected our wo
hen during the war.
"In the last few years the negro hf
|ared little or nothing for politics, Il
kas induced to vote the Republics
ticket to protect his freedom as he wa
old by the carpet-baggers. Findin
hst under Mr.. Clevelands administrs
ion he was as equally free as when tt
Republicans had control Of the govern
nent, he has lost all interest in. loiic
"None of the plans sugg estedIln tn
numerous interviews in the jCommerci'
eem practicable or without objection
ne.
The, Federal Constitution stands
khe way of disfranchising negro becau
be is negro. Any other plan suggest<
bbridges the rights of more or less white
10 this I an. opposed, either on tt
rounds Of education oT1poverty. We ha
Today, in my judgment. one of the be
Constitutions in the Union. l unde
stand it is mainly a copy of the Coz
titution of 1882, but whether that
true or not, it is good Constitutic
CONSTITUTIONS GROW
Instead of being made, as some peop
think. The Constitution Of the Unit
Statess amounted to nothing until ait
Chief Justice Marshall gave force Al
effect to it and interpreted it TO t
people.
"Judge Campbell's plan will not do I
two reasons; first, because it will create
class prejudice, the poor against the
ca.led rich, and second, because it is l.
good idea to have any number OF p'
bic live in country who pay taxes, a
leny them the privilege Of selecting tn
leaders and making their own laws.
destroys one Of the main beauties OF {
government that each good citizen fe
Rn interest:in the execution Of all la
. take it for granted that disfranchi'
man would feel but little interest in
government of this kind. This pl
efectually solves the question if put II
execution, but in solving 1t, 1t raj
forty mole which would be more trout
some. I would not favor any plan u
would cut any old Confederate sold
put, If that same plan placed all
negroes in Africa.
"The safety Of people. however,
n the fact I think ofthere being sucl
ontrarity of opinions as to what sho
pe done, that the convention will ado
Vithout doing anything" j. s, +.
The Alliance jute bagging factory
'anton will soon be in active operatl