The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-27
CARS Arrangement Of Chandler.

Calls Arraignment Of Chandler.
Tho charge which Senator Call, of Flor
ida, made against Senator Chandler, of
| New Hampshire, in the Senate on Monday
caused the latter senator 10 VINCE 1t was
a charge TIL It no man would like 10 have
brought agai nst him, and Senator Chandler
took an carly opportunity to assert that it
was not true. What Senator Call said, as
it appeared In the Congressional Record,
was as follows:
The blood of Saunders Of the evidence
shall show his death was in any way con-
nected with the prosecutions in the United
| States COURT will rest on his (Chand-
| ler's) conscience. The shrieking ghosts
| of outraged and murdered women
and children, the victims of the
wild lusts and passions of race who
owe all that they know Of religion and
civilization to the southern white people,
and not to the senator from New HamD-
shire, will disturb his sleeping and his wax
ing hours. Like Banquo's ghost, it will hot
down, and the ocean will not wash his
blood-stained hands from the guilt of the
rape and murder of these tender white
women and children.
Is not this charge substantially truel
Those who are best acquainted with the
effect which speeches upon southern mat
tiers like those of Senators Ingalls, and
Chandler have upon the most ignorant of
southern blacks will say that it is. Was
not the Jesup tragedy and the Barnwell
lynching the direct outcome of utterances
of the Ingalls, and Chandler kind3 The
black desperate, Brewer, would never have
ventured to create a disturbance
in Jesup for the purpose of getting
chance to kill the assistant
marshal of that town if he had not been
encouraged TO 90 so by the assertions of
Ingalls,, Chandler and others that the blacks
are treated with injustice, which assertions
are reiterated by the republican press The
Barnwell lynchin & was, of course, an mex
cusable outrage, but what led to itl Three
prominent white men had been murdered
within a very short time by blacks, and
these black murlerers were influenced to
commit the crimes, there is reason to be-
lieve, by what they had heard some of the
northern republican leaders were saying
relative to the treatment of the blacks in
the SOUTH
The great majority of the blacks are not
capable of judging whether they are dealt
with justly or not--that is in matters that
do not affect them directly-and when they
are told what the republican leaders and the
republican newspapers are saying with re-
spect to them and their treatment they are
led to believe that they are being wronged
in some unknown way. Embittered by
such thoughts, they are ready TO commit
terrible crimes on a very slight provoca-
ton.
Under the administrations of Presidents
Arthur and Cleveland there were no dis
turbances in the south. The blacks had
no complaints to make. The relations of
the races were pleasant, and the progress of
the south was so great as to attract the
attention of the whole country. The
present administration is doing what it can
to bring about condition of disorder. 1t
is forcing upon an unwilling people black
officials. and it is encouraging
the courts Of justice to become
instruments of political vengeance. 1t is
aiming to keep the Republican party in
control Of the government, and it does not
care, apparently, Eow many horrible crimes
are committed nor how many lives are
sacrificed in its efforts to accomplish its
| purpose.
| The charge of Senator Call against Sena-
tor Chandler is a pretty strong one, but
there is nothing in it that he need feel he
| ought to withdraw. The truth of the
| charge is too apparent to be successfully
denied.