The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-02-13
EX-GOVERNOR CHAMBERLAIN IN
BOSTON.

Ex-Governor chamberlain last week
made speech in Boston before the
Reform Club, in which he seems to
have dealt plainly with two big ques-
tions, that of pensions and the negro,
and is reported to have been at times
applauded to the echo.
In regard to pensions he gave some
facts and figures to show that the pub
lie treasury was being raided to satisfy
the pension grabbers. We have nearly
as many pensioners as Germany sup
ports in her standing army. Last year
there were nearly 500,0s0 pensioners,
and during the same year SS9,000,OO0
were spent in this direction. He thinks
if the pension grabbers are not checked
it will take about s200,000,000 annually
to pay the pensioners. 1t is fearful to
contemplate.
Upon the other question discussed by
Mr.. Chamberlain, he speaks very plain
ly. He says he cannot see why the
race question should attract so much
attention just at this time. It is the
same question that it was in 1867 and
in 1876. He says that in sections ofthe
South where the negro is largely in the
majority he nowhere rules. The edu-
Gated, self-reliant, proud race is bound
to rule the one that has the opposite
characteristics, where the two races live
together. GA higher law than that en-
rolled on parchment" controls in this
matter. AS reason for this he showed
how the carpet bag governments in the
South during the days OF reconstruc-
ton had been complete failures. His
idea is that the negro is happier, more
prosperous, and better contented than
he has ever been since his freedom, and
that the best plan is to let him alone.
He felt that the great duty Of the North
in this matter was to let the negro
alone.
If a man vas murdered or butchered
in some of the States nothing was said
of it, but if a negro was killed in
Southern State by a white man there
goes up at once the cry of a race prob
lem.
In his own words the duty Of the
North in this matter is to let him
alone.
II know no duty more imperative
than toapply the gag ofpublic reproba-
ton and contempt to the mouths of
such ghoul-like demagogues as Chand-
ler and ingalls,. Can a patriotic
American conceive of a more unpatri-
otic and infamous course of conduct
infamous towards the negro as we'll as
the white man of the South-than,
without other than a cold-bloooded
partisan aim, to arouse the hatred of
both races towards each other, to set
the negro and white man at each others
throats, while they, in cowardly safety,
in New Hampshire and Kansas, look
on at the bloody results. And such men,
n
and Republican leaders When Presi-
dent Harrison calls for "bugle blast"
or Depew discourses solemnly Of our
duty to defend free ballot, let us be
brave enough and manly enough to tell
them that such thunder is a stage trick
which has had its day of success, and
that the real point of danger to free
ballot and to American institutions lies
in the means and methods which in
the last election carried New York for
Harrison.
"The negro is to-day working out his
own salvation where he is, without
your help. He is doing: infinitely bet
ter than when you tried to help him,
than when YOU tried to protect him by
bayonets. You left him in 1876, in
order to save the Presidency fer the
Republican party, to his fate He has
met that fate, and met it we'll You
have done all you can do for him. The
only effective protection he can have
under our system Of government is the
protection Of the stronger race with
which his lot is cast"
The speech was forcib!y and logical
J.; put and contained many solid
chunks of facts. Still we believe the
best thing for both races is a gradual
separation.
In concluding, Mr.. Chamberlain
made a plea to his Northern friends for
good fellowship in the matter, and
said:
But, as I have said, and as I permit
myself TO repeat, there is 70 cause of
alarm, except to party politicians, eX-
cept to your Hoars and Lodges. to
your Ingailses and ChandlerS. The
negro of the South is doing we'll. The
white man Of the South is doing well.
Close your ears to these siren voices
which sing the woes of the South.
There is great and constant need Of
good feeling, good fellowship between
North and South, between Massach-
uSetts and South Carolina; there is al
ways an open and wide field for private
munificence to aid in the great work