The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-11

returning boards at the congressional and
presidential elections, accompanied u the
polls by federal soldiers. These supervisors
are 60 be appointed by republican judges,
and they are TO declare who ars elected TO
the offices, instead of the governors of the
several state. as now provided BY law,
These republican judges, supervisors. re-
turning boards and soldiers will count and
name the congress and President Of the
United states if this bill bee ONES the law.
Then the constitutional government of this
country will be dead, and there wall live in
its stead despOtism supported by soldiers,
with Reel or some one like him as the die
taUor. The Mexican government will be a
better one. We shall have a Cesar or a
Napoleon without their bravery or public
spirit.
This is no exaggerated danger. 1t
Is nigh unto US. II stands and
boasts and threatens right at the
door Of civil liberty AMI constitu-
tional rights this very hour. Shall a halt
be called! Can the threatened calamity be
stoppedi If so. who can do it, The people
Of the south cannot. While we ardently
desire to see constitutional union and lib
erty preserved, we are powerleSs in the
premises. The people of the north, the
east and the west must interpose
to save themselves and US. Unless they act
and do so promptly and with overwhelming
power, the days of the republic, the govern
ment OF our fathers, are numbered. There
is not the least necessity nor show of reason
for this wicked purpose upon the part Of
these republican leaders. The masses of
the people of all sections are peaceful and
prosperous. Among them there is little
sectional prejudice, and it is decreasing.
IL is fiendish cruelty to stir up anew sec
tional strife. You of the south want no
more of it. The whites and the blacks here
are at peace. Let us alone; schools for all
are progressing The laws are equal and
just to all. Why permit these men, who
know little and care less for any Of us,
white or black, TO make us the SUI jects of
their intermeddling, unconstitutional legis-
latlon, and the occasion of working the
ruin of the whole country2 One of the
cruelest consequences of all this will be the
blow to the negroes of the south.
They have progressed in a quarter
of century as no people have ever done
They are becoming advanced in education,
in religious intelligence; are inc easing
their property and are on better ter MS with
their white naigbbors than they have been
since they were freed. The neg o problem
is solving itself In way satisfactory to the
negroes and their southern white friends,
but not in a manner to suit these republican
haters of peace and prosperity at the south.
Harrison, Reed, Mckinley, Ingalls, and
their associates owe their prominence to
their malignity. They have rioted and
fattened on strife and discord
They gloat over raucor between southern
whites and negroes. The walls of those
hurt in such strife is music to their ears.
One million of southern negroes and whites
slain in a race conflict of their fomenting
would afford them infinite delight. They
are now counting on bringing about a
race conflict in the south to fire the northern
heart. If there is not enough good sense
intelligence and patriotism ia the east, west
and no. tn to stop them in their mad, devil
ish designs, is the country worth savingl
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