The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-07-06
ANOTHER FOOLS ERRAND.
Northern Paper on Carpet-Baccer Tour-
gees Sensational Prophecy.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Algion W. Tourgee is pathetic Bohe-
milan who suddenly gained considerable
reputation some years ago as the author
OF political romance, entitled "a FOOLS
Errand." 1t was highly embelIished
description of life in the South during
the reconstruction period when he was
posing as carpet Dagger Judge. Sec
tional feeling was then runningat food
tide, and his novel studiedly pandered
to that sentiment.lThe result was large
sale of his book, and since then he has
been at pretty much everything by turns
and nothing long, but still hobs up once
IN while as sensationalist.
HIS latest sensation is an announcement
given to the Associated Press in which
be declares that unless the blacks of the
South shall be awarded just protection
from lynchers and other brutal oppres-
sors lof the race, the next decade will
witness the bloodiest revolution of histo-
ry 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 if not sensati onal 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
utterances have ceased to command
respect either north or south.
There are now few lawless outrages COM
mitted against the blacks of the south
except in the lynching of colored brutes
who criminally assault women. While
all considerate persons condemn the re-
sort to lynch law few individually con
denim the sudden and swift retribution
that is now generally visited upon col
Ored men for the offense referred to: and
the like lynching of a 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 protec-
ton Of women.
A recent case in Georgia proves that
the colored people of the south feel just
as do the whites as to the remedy for
criminal assaults upon lwomen, regard
! nf "a 1o+
inflicted in Georgia upon a colored man
tor criminally assaulting a colored wo-
man, differed only from the usual and
swift punishment imposed by the W ties
in the protracted torture the negroes
themselves visited upon the criminal,
leaving him to die lingering death
This single incident tells the whole
story of the attitude of the blacks of the
south.
Human nature is human nature re-
gardless of the color Of the skin or OF
the climate in which people happen to
live, and it is creditable to human ma
ture of all classes and conditions that it
can be aroused to its fiercest offices in
| the defense of the honor of women, re-
gardless of race or color. Lawless as it
is, and indefensible as it is on general
principles, the lynching will continue in
the south as long as the offense is com
mitted 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 summa-
rily punish such criminals. Atno time
since the close of the civil war has the
south been so serene and tranquil than
it is today. Some years ago the race is
sue was vastly more threatening than it
is now, and each year brings the two
races into more harmonious relations
| Judge Tourgees sensational prediction
is simply repetition of the 'FooPs En-
rand" and there is not sane man of any
race north or south who can attach any
reasonable respect to his violent proph
| ecies.