The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1892-12-09

If, has sent this office a copy OF The
Dayton Iowa) Review, the editor
of which, J. G. Durrell, was among
the excursionists who lately visited
Port Gibson. The following quo.
tations will be Of interest rs show.
ing how western man, n Republi-
can moreover, looks on the race
question
We have been requested TO give
our views on the social and poIiti.
cal conditions of the south rs we
saw them.
The color line divides everything.
Schools, churches, corporations and
political parties have to deal with
all questions from this standpoint.
At Cairo we first discovered that
our train was made up of cars for
the separate accommodation OF
white and black. Neither one is
permitted TO intrude upon the 9TH
err. Each could ride comfortably
but not together. In worship the
colored brother has built and occu-
pies his own church. The schools
are separate, the blacks drawing
their portion of the school fund and
paying ii out for their own schools,
Taught by colored teachers Even
The hotels refused to allow the col
bred man TO sit at the white mans
lable. At Vicksburg our porter
went 10 the hotel where our party
got their breakfast and asked if he
could get a meal. He Is a quad
'oon and IL was not easily noticed
hat he had colorcd blood. The
andlord said, 'sof course, walk in, ("
md then giving the man a closer
he said, hsay, you will
rave 10 90 around to the back door,
Dur porter told me of this alterward
md said he had to 20 without his
breakfast. No one ol our party
would have objected 10 his eating
With us, but it would have cost the
dear in patronage If he
lad permitted it. The meal he
would have got in the kitchen
would have been as good as The one
n the dining room.
Politically the col0red man has
10 rights in the south. The people
here do not say that he has. We're
lie permitted his political rights all
Ither race distinctions would fall. |
n different places different plans
re pursued. In Mississippi, be-
ore the change in the constitution
hat DISTINGUISHES the most Of them
was notified 10 The most turbu-
ent of the colored voters that cleo
ion day was likely to be bad day
D be away from home, and the re-
ult was that very few but whites
rent 10 the polls.
AT PORT GIBSON
gentleman informed US that mt
'ort Gibson during the reconstruc-
ion times the negroes ran every
hing. They elected all officers Of
veiy grade and degree. ThJ white
lan was not In il. The negroes
ecame bold and insolent. The
entleman told us that his wife did
ot 90 on the streets for three weeks
DR. fear of them. The morning OF
he election two thousand voters
anne to town and surrounded the
oils; he said he stepped 10 his
oor and saw the surging mass of
lacks around them. A shot was
red in the midst of the crowd, and
he negroes looking around discov-
red a hundred white men armed
18th Winchesters across the street
18th a cannon in front Of them. A
reak was made and In few mo-
tents not coIored man could be
,und in town, and he added that
,me OF them did not return TO Port
Iibson for three years. No one
as hurt but il settled the question
| race supremacy in Port Gibson.
IN LOUISIANA.
The Louisiana plan Is different.
he whites have secured The pos
sssion of the election machinery
nd permit the negro 10 vote but
is ballot takes short cut 10 the
aste basket.
We visited q gentleman in New
rleans who was q brave soldier IN
le Union army, who commanded
brigade oil negro troops. Since
10 war he has mads his home
lere and identified himself with
10. republican j. Q. negro party.
[e has stood by them, suffering 80
al ostracism OH this account. and
.gaFdless OF consequences has done
10 utmost 10 help them. lie says
ley are as a whole corrupt, that 1t
Ikes money 10 secure q nomina-
or in their conventions. The gen.
eman m question has never held
: asked for an Office and IL in good
,ndition TO know the true state of
fairs.
We believe The intelligence OF the
ale should rule ii. 1t was a mis-
Ike little short Of q crime to en-
such vast numbers of ig-
orant people and give them the
over the intelligence of
le south. We also believe that