The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-12-13
MANLY UTTERANCES
THE REV. DR.. MADISON c. Pc
TIERS
Apologies to the South for His Un=
charitable Thoughts Recent Travels
and Personal Observation Convince
Him That He Was in Error Concern
ing Certain Things in the Sonth.

The Rev. Madison &. Peters, of the
Bloomingdale church, Boulevard and
West Slxty-eighth street, in a prelude
to his sermon last evaning said:
Having recently spent a few weeks
in the South | feel it to be my duty
publicly to admit that | had, until
enlarged my information by personal
observation, an entirely erroneous idea
OF the South, and | take this means
publicly to apologize for those unchar-
liable thoughts. My lectures were on
American lines; and my pleas for
lntenser AmerCanism and more en-
thusiastic loyalty to American ideas,
as laid down by the founders OF our
Republic, met everywhere with the
heartlest response.
"lf the toCsin of war should be
sounded, foreign foe invade our
shores, or an lnsurrectionary body
arise in our midst, a million men,
heavily armed, would come from the
South and rally around the flag of the
Union
Why, the South is the only truly
American part of our nation to-day !,
Rebel? That word must hencetorth
not be spoken. T believe that the
South to-day grasps the hand Of the
North in a fellowship which has in it
no misgiving or deceit.
'' The public men of the South are
not, as with US, professional foreign
ers' who have made public office a
public steal. The Southern men in
public Office are patriotic and consci-
entlously American, and personally
the embodiment of integrity.
But, you say, they do not believe
iIf negro domination. Neither do we
in the North. Enfranch!sing all the
negroes Immediately after their eman-
clpatiOn was practically one of the
greatest mistakes ever made by any
free Government. In many counties
and States the colored voters are in
the majority, and a majority rule
would take the Government Negro
domination would mean white damna-
ton.
"The solid South is broken and
will break more and more if it is let
alone. But let the next Congress
agitate Force bill, and self-defense
will solidify the South again.
"a suffrage limited to an educa-
lional qualification is the only solution
OF the negro problem. But illiteracy
is not confined to the South. Our
Northern cities are thronged with for
eigners as inbecile in their ignorance
and degraded in their morals as were
| the rabble hordeS that wrecked the
republics Of antiquity. Universal suf-
frage is the menace to free institu-
tions "-Nrzv York Times, Dec. 3yA.
The Baltimore SIN refers to the
above as " \ Frank Avowal." and
says:
We commend to the detraCtors ot
the South in this country and abroad
the frank and manly avowal made by
the Rev. Madison {. Peters, of Bloom
ingdale church, New York, in the
prelude to his sermon Sunday night
which was quoted in yesterdays Sun.
Mr.. Peters has recently been lecturing
in the Southern States, and he has dis
covered that his previous impressions
of that section were wholly erroneous,
and he took Sunday night, the first
opportunity, of publicly "apologizing
for his uncharitable thoughts" Not
only are the Southern people intensely
patriotic, he says, but d" the South Is
the only truly American part of oul
nation to-day" He added that the
South g may yet have to be called on
to save the North from the reckless
immigration which is now weakening
and undermining the foundations OF
our social order" Politics in the
South he finds is on purer and higher
plane than in the North. "The pub,
lie men of the South are not, as with
US, professional foreigners who have
llldtlS puDtlS OlllNN q puCltN StCdi. ilS
Southern men in public office are
patriotic and devout, conscientiously
American and personally the embodi
nent of integrity. But you say they
do not believe in negro domination
Neither do we North. Enfranchising
all the negroes Immediately after theil
emancipation was practically one c
the greatest mistakes ever made b,
any tree government Until North
ern critics have studied the South il
the South, does not ordinary justice
suggest that at least adverse iudgmen
should be suspended? Let Northern
people who are incliped to think i'll o
the South go there and study Southern
problems in a spirit of fairness, sucl
as Mr.. Peters has shown. If they de-
SO, nine out of every ten of them vii
come back with the same change 0
: heaat and mind that he has expert
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