The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-29


The debate n the Senate on Monday, and
reported in our dispatches yesterday, re-
calls the congressional debates Of recon
struction DAYS. when the republicans were
continually seeking opportunities - attack
the south and u arouse sectional feeling.
1t is sincerely to bs no ed that feeling Of
bitterness, such as existed during that
period Of our history. is not 70 be aroused
again. The great mass Of the people, north
and south, want nothing but a frie IDLY
feeling between the two sections. aud that
is the kind Of feeling there will be if such
partisans as Senators Chandler aud Ing ais
can be induced TO regard things in the
south as they are, and not as their distorted
imaginatons picture them.
Senators Chandler and ingalls,, in their
efforts TO give prominence to the Aberdeen
Miss outrage, are making mountain out
Of a mole hill, and the action which the ad-
ministratioa has taken with regard to the
outrage is iuexcusable. II looks as if the
republican leaders were seeking sensations
Of a political charac 'er. with the hope of
strengthening their party in the north.
OF course the Aberdeen outrage is con-
demned by the southern people, and it de-
serves to be condemned. but at the same
time 1t must be admitted that outrages
equally as inexcusable are likely to be com
United in any northern state. IL ha; not
been very long since a great many China
men were shot to death in a western town
simply because of the feeling of hostility
against them. The Cinnamon were muir
dered in cold blood and their property
destroyed, but their murderers were not
punished.
The people of Aberdeen do not approve Of
the brutal whipping that was given Henry
J. Franz. The outrge was committed by
one man, who was drunk. He was not in
cited to commit it by citizens. He acted
on his own responsibility 1t may be that
the fine that was imposed upon him for his
act was paid by citizens of the town, but it
is reasonable to suppose they were his per
sonal friends who sought TO get him out Of
trouble. Their purpose doubtless was not
TO express approval of his conduct.
1t is unjust 10 hold a whole community
responsible for the act of one individual, or
of a number of individuals. If it were not
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country that would not be open to very
serious criticism almost every day. 1t may
be that the punishment inflicted upon the
man who committed the Aberdeen outrage
was not as great as it ought to have been.
1t certainly was not if the facts were as
reported, but are all the peo-
pie of Aberdeen to be regarded as
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police magistrate failed to inflict a penalty
upon the offender commensurate with his
offenseG As well might it be said that all the
people of Ohio were to BE- condemned be-
cause their authorities made little or no Of
fort to arrest and punish the White Caps
who, a few months ago, were whipping
and numbering the people of that state.
Senator Ingalls, declared that if Henry j.
Franz had been a citizen of Kansas, and the
Mississippi authorities would not avenge
the wrong that he suffered, and the gen
eral government was powerless to do SO,
the citizens of Kansas would have taken it
into their own hands to resent it and exact
reparation. A man who would make such
a statement on the floor of the Senate is not
worthy to have a seat in that body. Sen
ator ingalls, doubtless knows that citizens
of his own state suffer grievous wrongs at
the hands of other citizens of that state and
when the Kansas authorities fail to do
their duty there is no rising OF citizens to
resent the grieyous wrongs If they don't
right the wrongs committed at home it is
not probable that they would invade other
states to exact reparation for an outrage
upon one of their citizens.
Talk like that of Senators Chandler and
Ingalls, is not statesmanlike. 1t is talk tina
is suggested by a feeling of hate. 1t is
mischevious talk, and is productive of bad
results.