The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-27
WADE ATELLING SPEECH.
rrERsoN ADDRESSES TEE MAS
sAoHUsETrS REFORM CLUB.

n,,nIicaus-Using the Negro as a
pack Horse-Subservient to Mon
oad Monopoly-rhe Race Problem.
the South Can Work Out Its Own
Destiny.
posroN. Sept. notwithstanding the
;,olaueucy OF the weather tonight the
a,,bars of the Massachusetts Reform
C-lub turned out IN large numbers to greet
Ion Henry Watterson of the Louisville
I1,,,,.isr-. Journal, who was the guest Of the
IT ~ a banouet at the Hotel Bruins wick
SHORTLY after O'Clock the large dining
hau Of the Brunswick began TO assume
lively appearance, and large crowd was
a,, seated at the tables. The principal
adirsss of the evening was delivered by
a. Watterson, u synopsis of which fol-
lows:
Zen the integrity of the union and the
prosperity of the people. one OF these Is the
gSoSnel of force and the other Is the doctrine of
sS1pection The first is expected to hold the
ppountry whilst its fellow skins it; and to both
the REPUBLICAN party has committed itself.
LAT-rER-DAY REPUBLIcANIsM.
1tsb that il we're otherwise. l wish that
could see in the republcanlsn OF To-Day some
saction of the spirit which animated a Garri-
con and inspired Whittier, and brought forth
IN the authors of the anti-slavery movement
modern and a native race OF Paladlns Tor
4bonsand wears of song and story. l wish that
~ men who have succeeded Lincoln and
seward. C ase and Sumner, Fessendent Trum-
hun and Greeley, in command, possessed a little
ofthsr moderation ami patriotism When seek
rthacl encounter in their places another and
a difsrent set of leaders; am chilled by the
;NnsrabIe hostility of Sherman and Hoar;
ON amazed by Ghe vindictive and sensational
@'c az an ingalls, and a Chandler; | stand
o.hast before the shameless lntrepldlty or
C5nqv. and find all progress toward the light
and warmth of truth completely oiocSeo py tne
In NV despair am almost tempted to exclaim:
70, for Lodge in SOM. vast wilderness
Where rumor of oppression and deceit
Might never reach me more"
PM here again, saddest OF all when look for
INDEPENDENT thinking and the faithful discharge
NJ early promise, see the aspiring yonng man
If letters turned into the ambitious politician,
forgetting in the shelfsh aims OF to-day the dis
Interested beliefs of yesterday.
Tho Ground upon which these hot and cold
yospellers Of repression and pillage plant them
seiyes is an assault upon our national character
and Institutions.
HATRED TO THE SOUTH.
They saw that one half the country is not able
IN govern itself. and that the other half needs a
Chinese wall to save 1t from ruin They say
that the white people of an entire section of the
union are little better than savages who love
murder for murders sake, and that. next after
The duty of subjecting t.ese to federal
supervision the whole power OF the govern
rent must be bent to substa tiating the theory
that man may be enriched by
taxation. They declare that the south
is as disloyal as ever il waS-though a
generation has come upon the scene since the
fnsl gun was fired in the great conflict, and not
single Chief OF the secession movement sur
vives-and ign ring the promise which under
lay the enactment of the war tariff. that It was
an Imposition upon the people and should not
outsst the military necessities which called IL
into being, they tell us that its exactions
represent an original function OF gov
eminent, which must never be Surren
dered In short. entreuched behind the ram
parts of Mr. Reeds rules and Mr.. Quay DOODLE
they demand at all hazards, and In the exclusive
interest of the Republican party full poll and
an exact count of the negro vote in the south,
and the estaLl shment of Mr.. McKinleys new
found theory Of protection. as a fundamental
principle and fixed policy.
| dew ich of the assumptions on which
these several claims rely for their support. |
deny that the southern states are less able TO
manage their own affairs, less devoted to law
ami order, and less loyal TO the union than the
states Of New England. | deny that impost
taxes can create wealth, or benefit anybody ex-
cept those whom they directly exempt from
foreign competition. On the contrary, assert
that the southern people are just like the north
ern people, bone of their bone and flesh of their
flesh and, denouncing the theory Of protection
as deusiOn, maintain that the government
has no constitutional or just righ9 of taxation,
except TO raise the moneys needed for its own
support economically administered.
THE RACE PROBLEM.
The advocates of extreme measures for the
south make very strong and pausi lie case;
indeed, the chief defect about it is that, as was
the constitutional right of ownership in man, it
stoo good case. They set forth the fact that
The negro has the constitutional right to vote,
mat by one means and another this right is
denied him, and that it is the duty of the gov
eminent to protect all its citizens in all their
rights, II is SO easy to assert our rights; so
easy 70 tell our own side of the story There Is
not a black man in Boston who has not the same
Ilght that you and l have to come and
20 at Will; to occupy the best rooms at the
aotels; 70 SIT In the stage boxes of the theaters
70 hold the choicest pews in the churches But
what would happen if the blacks should flock
IN overwhelming numbers to the hotels the
tltaerS and the churches? And what would
the white people of Boston think what would
s sy 40, II hostile party, having chance ma
guHy IN congress, should pass law setting
a9 ~ ihe black mans constitutional right
vi ot; csLl equality, creating a system of ma
cuhery to enforce it, prescribing pains and
p7ualteS TO meet acts of violation, and appoint
a ans Supervisors, deputy marshals and con
i i,ao'Si packed by troops, to execute its provis
uns. let the average black man in Boston
measures about the distance from the average
u,agk man IN Alabama, which would be meas
1871 IarA II we could make a diagram by the intel
iecVua territory separating Frederick Douglas
I'm nm Nirs stoves ingenious young friend Miss
~ ny o. GAR and whilst he cuts no figure il
i ng equation of Boston, he is in an actual ma
''''' III many parts Of Alabama.
WANT TO USE THE NEGRO.
=, IN tnoSe regions the negro has no conception
p one meaning OF vote. If he can not i. it.
POSSESSES POSSESSES no value to him. Left to himself he
he o W laHe any interest In politics, pursuing
Endl nv ~. ven9r OF his way. a happy-go luck y
eT,iittio auu uocAe creature, for whose better
o1I4tl0n and happiness unusual measures have
cs m SSlopted by the whites, and not more from
nS sr, of prudence than from senti
mo NOS VI natural and neighborly good will II
, oil" Lhe southern states, if not
re I ai1 ne is greatly favored by
( knd soI regulating taxation and labor
no 70 'uooIS' and by the statutes relat-
rerio NJ crimes and punishments. During the
s slSs 81 reconstruction, with it's agtations
pco s sIg TO both races his progress was nil
rosrseS WI mlInurawal of external pressura his
nj no. nas oeen continuous and marked.
tbundar"t ary you with statistics. They are
ncraS Ia a ~ conclusive. But they are totally
g eyerv W y tne republican leaders, who, eIevat
a. no ' ersu. incident into a condition and magni-
W. enf Gd1ety accident TO the dimensions OF an
rfect iion'anu OF US an ideal state, q state of
INV w., existing nowhere in this, or
hey nroU Uener country. In default of il,
VI na pose pose 10 take the negro in hand again,
A orgeni uni a politician whether he will or not
ennS 80 ultn INTO secret lodges and armed
III boso 1oF ms ls the process only too familiar
rs nkritr icslohs where the negro is a numerical
y |Mir(i 10 SET over him partisan drum majors
VII reSnoanaSNo5e composed, for the most part,
@ bsne t NJ and rancorOus white men, over.
~ hac.I - oAcltsElent. instigated by real or