The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-10
SENATOR RuTLER's BILL
He Expresses some Views with Re
specs to Il.


which provides for an appropriation Of So
100000 70 assist these Of the blacks to mi
CRATE who wish t. do 50. 1 also talked with
other senator's with re spect to it. Senator
Butler said;
There are more negroes in South Caro-
lima and several other states than are re-
ouired. and their presence and conduct serve
10 irritate and excite 10 violence the worst
classes Of W lies. Il IS fruiJless to specu-
late on where 10 Law the blame. NJ reput-
able white man approves or excuses the
recent massacre Of blacks by white IN my
own state: but it may truthfuliy be pleaded
that blacks were the st agg essOrs,
and that the fair was spOraiic-just such
an Isolated crime as might occur IN any
community under like conditions. Il Is
every way to be condemned aud deplore
NV bill is intendel as a safety-valve. If
the negroes feel ID know that a way Is
opened by which they can escape If they
want to, the reputable and peaceful ones
will not want to. Some Others will, and
such can be spared. 1t Is said that there
are $50, 900 more b acks than whites in my
state. If this is an accurate estimate
think that 5000 o could be spared as
well as not Although a majority, they
have not posses Sion Of the government,
an apparent sole.ism in politics which
the people of the NORTH find much diff
Guilty in understanding the reason Of, unless
they come and i've among us. Yet l do
not find the ueople of New Yark stale elect
in their colOred fellOw-citiz rs 10 office.
The fact is, that wDere two ride horse, one
must ride behind, and when white man
and a black man encounters each other the
black man must ge out Of the way"
l called on Senator Platt of Connecticut,
and asked whaI he thought about it.
'Tne negroes are here,n he said, land l
have no doubt thew are here to stay. Their
expatriation is out of the question, and
their wholesale transD ration r long dis
tances is equally out of the question The
policy of giving them the right to vote is
not now Of profitable discussion. Tney
have the right guar nteed to the by con-
stitutional law The best way TO settle the
so called race troubles Of the south is, do
exact Justice to all, TO eafo. ce tae law, AID
to let passen ers sit in first-class cars who
buy and pay for irst-class tickets. No other
way occurs to me.h
| found writing in his committee room
Senator Jones of Arkansas, always good
man to interview, not gwen to conversa-
tional oratory, but a witty story-teller,
and always sufficiently urbane aud respon-
sive.
zone remedy" he said, "would be to dis
tribute the b acks throughout all the states
pro rata. This wouli turn about 125, 900
loose into Massachusetts, and 100000 into
population. This would able the folks of
the Puritan aud the Dutch commemorative
to get some glimpses of the situation In the
lsouth. But such remedy might be con-
sidered too cruel.
"a tremendous responsibility lies on the
soul of the christian church. 1t has sup
ported thousands of missionaries in China
Japan and the Pacific islands to convert the
heather. but it has left the colored heather
untaught. About the only preaching the
blacks of the south ever hear is that of
other blacks as ignorant and superstitious
as themselves. The blacks Of my district
listen to the weekly sermons of four hum
dred black preachers and to not
one white preacher, as far as | know.
These black preachers are grossly ig-
norant. And they hold and inculcate the
widest supers -IiOns, uuheard of at the
north-a sort of revision of the traits and
barbarian fears If their African ancestors
/ tell you the thing the church, both north
and south. ought TO do is to send mission
aries TO civilZe these pc pile"
''Would white missionaries sent from the
north be treated well by your folks,
senatorp
Certainly they would, unless they fra
ternized with the blacks and infiamed their
discomfort. To associate with our whites
they would have t. hold themselves above
the blacks, If they went and lived with the
DidckS, ana ate anu eieDb WIFI t0eIn, and
treated them as equals, they would be ostra-
cised by the whites-that is, they would be
left wholly to their choice"
"Wha' are the superstitions you allude to,
Senaeorp
"Well many of our blacks have a very
gross and degraded religion. Tney believe
in the hooIoo. They call it being 'tricked'
For Instance, | have with me black man
named King johnson, far superior to a ma.
Jority of his people in natural ability. He
is quite frank, honorable and manly
fellow. have frequently left him with CON
siderable responsibilities. When | returned
from Washington one year l asked the first
hand l met VIVA the news was.
40, nothing he said, nothing particu-
lar, 'cept King johnson hes kill d Cole
man. This Coleman was a well-known
black on an adjoining plaltatlo
Nonsense | answered, 1T can't be pos
sible.
eyes, deed, it is true, he insisted.
$50 / waited, and that afternoon | met
King. l looked him in the eye and sad ):
they say, King, that you've killed Cole
man. How is itp
"'Well, tell you, Mr.. Jones' how twas :,
he began. This is how it 'curred. was
took sick one da {, an got very sick, and
didn't know but would die. | was LAYING
asleep on TIE little be ca, you know. in
front of my cabin. and God come and stan,
right by me, and says ne; king, doan' We
know WHO'S hu tel you? It's Coleman hes
hurried you; he's tricked you. The thing
he done it 18th he took an went an buried
down de rosd.' An then he walked
down an showed me where Cole
man had buried his trick, and he
told me ef l would go and dig it up
and turn it end for end Coleman would
walk over it an uie So era wled of'a the
bainch an went down the road to where
GOD pinted with his finger, an gged in
that spot an found the tang that Coleman
he'd tricked me with An turned it over
enderways. That was Sunday night. An,
Coleman come al ne the e an he walked
over the spot. An he died, they say, Tues
day morning. An that's all know about
what happened to Coleman, Mr. Jones'
81 asked XII * what 1t looked like.
"'Jest amos5 lil~ little rote en- root
about ez big ez yer little finger. OF co'se
you believe 1T wuz rotten roo. No, sir, not
at ali! It wuz not a rotten 70 t. 1t WIZ
hard as iron, an | couldn't break it. 1t wuz
the thing Coleman tricked me with
Nov remember ulat this man KIM.
was really bright and high-minded man
one # the best of his class-and YOU can.
perhaps, imagil the current degradation.
VI had a colored girl. Maria, who was
sick for long time Nothing seemed to do
her any good She had a S sDicion she had
been trlcked but she cOuldn't Iocata If