The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-19
ANOTHER FOOLS ERRAND.
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Tourgee's sensational Prophecy.

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Tourgee's sensational Prophecy.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Alglon w. Tourgee is a peripatetic Bo-
hemian who suddenly gained considerable
reputation some years ago as the author of
political romance, entitled "a FOOLS Err
rand" 1t was q highly embellished de-
soription of life in the south during the re-
construction period when he was posing as
a carpet-bsg judge. Sectional feeling was
then running at a food tide, and his novel
studiedly pandered TO that sentiment The
result was q large sale of bis book, and since
then he has been at pretty much everything
by turns and nothing long, but still bobs up
once in while as a sensationalist.
His latest sensation IL an announcement
given to the Associated Press in which he
declares that unless the blacks of the south
shall be awarded just protection from
lynchers and other brutal oppressors of the
race, the next decade will witness the blood
lest revolution Of history by the uprising of
the blacks to visit retributive vengeance
upon the whites. Coming from Judge
Tourgee it attracts little attention beyond
recalling TO the readers of his new "Fools
Errand" that he is yet In existence and that
he is nothing II not sensational. Since the
first success OF his "Fools Errand" in shape
| of novel, he has been practicing the FOOLS
errand from year to year until his utter
ances have ceased to command respect either
M n or south.
There are now few lawless outrages COM
mitted against the blacks of the south ex-
cept in the lynching Of colored brutes who
criminally assault women. While all oon-
siderate persons condemn the resort to lynch
law, few individually condemn the sudden
and swift retribution that Is now generally
visited upon colored men for the offense res
ferred TO and the like lynching of negro
recently in New York state, just over the
border Of Pennsylvania, teaches that the
south is not alone in applying the swiftest
and most violent punishment for the pro-
lection Of women. A recent case In Geor-
gia also proves that the colored people of
the south feel just as do the whites as to the
remedy for criminal assaults upon women,
regardless of color. The punishment lately
inflicted in Georgia upon colored man for
crimipally assaulting colored woman, diff
fered only from the usual and swift punish.
meut imposed by the whites in the pro-
tracted torture the negroes themselves visi-
ted upon the criminal, leaving him to die a
lingering death This single incident tells
the whole story Of the attitude OF the blacks
OF the south.
Human nature is human nature regard
| less of the color of the skin or Of the climate
| in which people happen to live, and it is
creditable to human nature OF all classes
| and conditions that it can be aroused to its
fiercest offices in the defense OF the honor of
women, regardless Of race or color. Law
less as it is, aud indefensible as 1t is on gene
raj principles, the lynching will continue In
the south as long as the ofense is committed
| that has usually led TO lawless executions !;
| and in the north there will be few to demand
the enforcement of the law against those
who shall summariiy punish such criminals
| At no time since the close of the civil war
has the south been more serene and tran
gull than it is to-day. Some years ago the
race issue was vastly more threatening
than it is now, and each year brings the two
races into more harmonious relations.
Judge Tourgee's sensational prediction is
simply repetition of his Fools Errand"
and there Is not sane man OF any race
north or south who can attach any reason
able respect to his violent prophecies.