The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-03-22

nature Of an experiment, and q doubt
full one at that.
1t is true that faction in New York,
receiving it's animus and its ammunition
from Wall street, is striving to make it
appear that Senator Hill is unpopular
in the state which he has so lately re-
deemed from the clutches of republican,
ism. This faction, by sulking, or by
openly joining with the republicans
in the recent local elections, is trying
to create the impression that there has
been Il revolution in the state. These
things can have no effect on the demo
cratic party. What Hill has done and can
do shows for itself The democratic dele
CATION which will present his name to
the convention is composed of the most
distinguished men to be found in the
party, and their attitude win outweigh
all the chicanery OF the Wall street
faction.
Senator Hill did not wait for any south
ern invitation to denounce the force bill
Another Sectional Crusade.
Albion w. Tourgee unfolds in The
Chicago Inter-Ocean q new scheme
which is intended to operate against the
south.
Judge Torrgee devotes two columns to
his story Of the lynchings, including burn
ing at the stake, of negroes in the south
during the past two years, and complains
that the southerners never lynch a white
man for assaulting q black woman. lie
says:
If these barbarities increase as they have
done during the past few years-and they are
sure to do SO il not observation-disclosures shall
we not see In the near future? These which
horrfy today are but the ripening OF thu
seeds of brutality soWn by ku kluXism on
tie soil which slavery had prepared for its
quick termination. If these things grow in
frequency and horror, it is quite possible that
shall read of the excursion trains running
for such entertainments and the pulpit dis
cussing, as it did of old, the duty of cleansing
the land Of (colored) ungodncss by fire. We
are not very far from it now when q min
lister proclaims the necessity Of such acts
and asserts in the columns of a religious jour
nal that mo matter what the consequences
how terrible the means,s the white people
of the south are going to rule and govern the
South-laW or no law, constitution or no
stitution.'
But what remedy is suggested by this
aggressive s0uth-hater? One would nat
urally suppose that there was
no power capable OF entering
the southern states and taking
hold Of these alleged violations
Of law Judge Tourgee, however, is con
tident that there is q way to stop lynch
ing in the south. He urges his sympa-
thZers to join the National Citizens
Rights Association, and says that when
that society numbers half million mem
berS it viii have influence enough to
force the republican party to find way
to save negro criminals in the south from
the wild justice Of the mob.
This talk can mean only one thing
It means that an organized effort viii
be made to make the republican party
revive its force bill and other measures
that will have tendency to annoy the
south and interfere with her local mat
tiers. Now, lynch law is o bad thing, as
q rule, but it is a mistake to suppose
that negroes sometimes suffer under it
on account Of the color Of their skins
They are punished in this way because
the outrageous nature of their crimes
eXcites people almost to the pitch of mad
ness But Tourgee and his followers,
instead Of organizing q society to encour-
age ne tty and COCA citizenship among
tic Lacks. so that they would be in no
danger OF lynching, are eager to perse-
cute the southern whites who resort to
the only methods they can think OF in
their ungovernable wrath, when they
find the law poWerless to protect their
women!
Let the new sectional crusade come.
The south, despite her occasional lynch
ings, is more devoted to law and order
than any other section. She is able to
maintain her right of home rule under
the constitution, and no threat Of federal
force will lead her to yield to usurpation, |
or Surrender the powers which are justly |
her own.