The morning call., 1893-07-16

l can only act according TO its instructions.
l think the people are generally IN favor
of the decision, and don't think that my
construction of the law has yet been dis
pused."
you are too young a man to have been
in the Confederate army. s., SAID 1; 49,, ,,d
when the war closed. Had l been old
enough would pro obably have been Con-
federate soldier. But that makes no dill
ference. am as good a Union nan as
there is in the United States. Many peo-
pie of the north have wrong idea OF the
South. As for sectonalsm, there Is more
Of it in the North than in the South. Henry
Grady's speech, which created such stir
over the whole country. was only the Ut
terance of the sentiments which had pre-
vailed in Georgia for years and whlcn
he had been hearing about him
every day. The fact that the North
was enthusiastic over it was sur
prise to the South. don't mean to dispar-
age Mr.. Grady or his eloQuence. but he
told no new story when he spoke OF the
fraternity, patriotism and non-sectional
feeling of the Southern people. Sectional
ism has long been dead in the South. The
people have a sentiment. 1t is true. Tor
their heroes in that conflict. They revere
their memory. Tney weep over their
graves They honor their brethren. But
they do not mourn the lost cause nor feel
antagonistic toward their country nor
their brethren of the North. We have as
good Union men in the South as you Will
find anywhere. and we love the United
States as much as any people in it,
How about the future of the South, MIR.
Secretary.
The South is great empire" was the
reply. 1T is flied with marvellous re-
sources. 1t has mineral and agricultural
wealth untold, and it has the muscle and
brains necessary to develop it, The South
will grow right along. Our young people
are workers-live. industrious and patri-
otic."
"How about the Northern man in the
South?"
''He is perfectly welcome, and he has all
the rights and liberties of any citizen. We
have lots of good Northern blood in At
lanta, and the people in whose veins 1T
flows are as much respected as our own"
How about the negroes?"
They are getting along very we'll. Many
of them are becoming educated and not
few are accumulating property. They are
better off now than they have been for
years. The first election of Grover Cleve-
land had more to do with the improvement
Of the negro than anything else. 1t showed
them that they need not fear Democratic
rule AS it is now. the better classes Of
them are with the Democratic party and
they vote generally with the whites.
Nearly all the bishops of the coored
churches In my State voted for Cleveland"
"How about social equality? Will the
two races ever come together"
No was the reply. "The blacks are
as proud as the whites, and are as anxious
to keep separate. We have no white teach
ers in the col0red schools in At
lanta. and the most OF our Metho-
dist churches will not employ white preach
ers. There is less mixing with the race
in the South than ever before. and it may
surprise you to hear that many of the pure
blacks look down with contempt upon the
mulattoes. VINO they despise as being the
products of the immortality of their ances-
tors"
How about the West, Mr.. Secretary?
Have you ever travelled much through it?"
NO" was the reply. | have never been
west of st. Louis. but intend to make
TIP throughout the West as soon as can.
want to visit some Of the Indian reserva-
tions among nther things, and l will, L
think, 60 to Yellowstone Park this fall
Next year Will proba bly, go to the Pacific
) opa, ard wan: to go :nto the Indian
Territory and make study of the Indians
and their institutions as they are athome."
FRANK G. CARPENTER.