The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-24
FAITHFUL DuRrNa TIE WAR

masters throughout the war has made them
faithful to their friends since. Their allegiance
TO the party Of Lincoln and Grant is persistent
and answering. Their instincts were more in
IalhDle than reason. They have voted with their
friends.
DETERMINATION OF TIE SOUTH.
Mr.. ingalls, went on to speak of the de-
termination Of the south to eliminate the
negro as a factor from its political and
social history, and quoted evidence on that
point from democratic newspapers and
democratic politicians He sent to the
clerks desk and had read extracts from the
jackson, Miss. Clarion just before the
election, seventeen days ago, in which the
Interrogation, "Who cares, the Bolton boys
will be here Monday. There Will be fair
electionp was repeated a dozen times, the
only difference being that the names
OF the companies to be there were
changed. When the last interrogatory was
read Mr.. ingalls, said "They were all
there" amid much laughter.
A CORRESPONDENTS STATEMENT.
Mr.. ingalls, then read the statement of a
correspondent that the election at Jackson
was the most outrageous he had ever seen,
and that the town had been taken posses
sion of by toughs with Winchester rifles
and held throughout the day. In this extract
1t was said that Senator Georges son was
one of the rihemen. Resuming, MIR. ingalls,
said:
The periods for this condition of things have
been many, but they all rest upon the inferiority
OF the African race and upon fear of negro su-
premacy. l confess with humiliation to this
notification of the constitution; to this breach
of plighted faith.
CoNDoNED BY THE NORTH.
To this violation Of the natural rights Of man
the people OF the north have apparently con-
sented. Practically say it with shame and
remorse, the negroes have been abandoned to
their fate. There are undoubtedly some
thoughtful men in the south who apprehend
coming events, and would willingly relinquish
the right to representation. If the states could
be permitted to impose the race condition upon
suffrage, but this is impossible. 1t would shock
the sense of mankind. The gods cannot recall
their gifts.
A CRISIS COMING.
An educational qualification and other quail
f1cations would only postpone the crisis. II may
be postponed for generation or it may be pre-
cipitated at the next presidential election, but
warn those who are perpetrating these wrongs
upon suffrage that the north and west, and
northwest will not consent to have their insttu-
tions their industries their wealth and civiliza-
tions changed, modified or destroyed by a gov
ernment resting upon deliberate and habitual
suppression of the colored VOTE or any other
vote, by force or by fraud. Sooner or later
there will be an armed collision between the
races.
The south is standing upon volcano. The
south is sitting on a safety valve. They are
breeding innumerable John Browns and Nat
Turner's. Already, mutterings of discomfort
and of hostile organizations are heard. Use
of the torch and dagger is advised. | deplore
it, but as God is my judge, say that no other
people on the face of the earth have ever sub
mitted to the wrongs and injustice which have
been for twenty-five years put upon the colored
men Of the south without revolution and blood.
Applause from negroes in the gallery. The
conduct Of the colored people has been beyond
all ThAU no va hoy Nou
been loyal, they have been docile to their
masters and to the country. Timon of Athens
said: 1T is not enough to help the feeble, but
to support him after"
RULE OF THE BAYoNET.
Until 1877 the unstable fabric erected by the
architects of reconstruction was upheld by the
military authority of the United States, and
when this was withdrawn the incongruous edi-
flee toppled headong and vanished like the
baseleSs fabric Of vision"
Mr.. ingalls, went on TO warn the south of
the natural consequences of its course to-
ward the colored people, Despotism, be
said, makes Nihilists. Injustice is the great
mandatory OF dynamite. A man VINO is
a thief robs himself An adulterer pollutes
himself A murderer iuhicts a deeper
wound on himself than that which slavs
his victim.
DIXIE MANACLING ITSELF.
The south in imposing chains on the African
race, lays heavier manacles oa itself than those
with which it burdens the helpless slave, and
those who are denying to American citizens the
privilege of freedom should remember that
there is nothing so improbable as injustice,
and that God is sn unrelenting creditor, silent,
tardy and slow it may be, but inexorable and
relentless. Behind the wrong-doer stalks the
menacing specter Of vengeance, and Of retribu-
tion.
AN OUTRAGE AT ABERDEEN.
Mr.. ingalls, then went on to speak of an
outrage committed in Aberdeen, Miss, on
the day of jefferson Davis funeral, when
German timer, citizen of Indiana, acci-
dentally lin the course of his work. let fall
from the house roof a paper bearing an
effigy Of the Secretary of war vita the in-
scription, "Red Proctor. Traitor" For
this accident the timer had been brutally
whipped By one Mcdonald with a whale
bone coachwhip of the largest size, receiv-
ing at least 200 lashes, and being nearly
blinded and terribly lacerated.
Mcdonald, he said, had been ar
rested and taken before police
court, where he was fined $50. Citizens
Immediately subscribed twice the amount,
discharged the fine, paid for the broken
whip, bought a railroad ticket for the
victim. and sent him out OF town. He has
never, said Mr.. ingalls,, been heard from
since.
WOULD HAVE BEEN A CAsUs BELLI.
II, he continued, an outrage like that
had been inflicted on an American citizen
in England, in France, in Spain, anywhere
on the face of the earth, and j. there had
not been an instantaneous discvowal and
reparation, 100000 men in this country
would have sprung to arms to avenge the
outrage and wrong. [Applause.l "Arma-
ments that thunder-strike the walls OF rock
built cities, bidding nations quake and
monarchs tremble in their capitals would
have gone swiftly forming in the ranks OF
war" He was citizen of Indiana. The
outrage was inflicted in Mississippi, and the
perpetrators go "unwhipt of justice"
ROUGH ON THE MIssIssIPPIANs.
ST said that I was not in favor of the
AfricanIzation of this continent or any
part of it but if the methods Of the
Chalmers campaign and of the jackson
campaign, and of the proceedings at
Aberdeen are illustrations of the temper
and spirit, and purpose OF the people of
that state toward the government Of the
United States and its citizens, l would
thousand fold prefer that every rood OF
that state should be occupied by an African
rather than by those who at present in
habit it.n He went on TO say that race
antagonism applied only TO the colored man
in the south when he desired to vote the
renublican ticket. II the colored men there
were all democrats the race question would
be over.
FIVE SOLUTIONS.
Four solutions of the problem, he said,
"A orr,i ora fiOfa oxfarY1ina-