Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-15


tia and the Negro - A Serious
Problem Reasoning of a Jury.
w here the Anglo-Saxon is an
Exotic.
Special Correspondence Of the Register.
Atlanta November 12.-Atlanta has
many distinguished citizens In every
walk eff llfe and in the city and near
vicinity is a surprisingly large number
of men Who have been Of national note
at one time or another. In the Fifth
United states regiment a, Fort Nc
Fbers0n. for ms ance. is Major John S.
elem, whose title was long ago estab-
lished To- have been She youngest soldier
who served in the war for the Union
Tn The supply department at the same
pest is q gentleman who claims to be
le sole survivor Of the Custer massacre
and has his claim allowed by the COM
mui.y. but 1 shall not celebrate him
by name just yet, as. according to my
recollection. there was no survivor Of
,5c companies which wen, into action
with General Custer while nearly all
those with Major Reno survived. The
Captain Benteen who commanded one
o. those companies, and was The subjac.
of such q fierce controversy, lives some
four miles from town in honorable re-
-.rament General James Lougs,reet is
of len claimed as an Atlanta man, but
his home IS Il Gainesville, some forty
miles away. and I am sorry 10 add Jha9
the old luminosity against him has beeDi
someUho. revived by the criticism Of
General Lee i'm his book.
The state also has three independent
bat 3li0ns Of c3lorel infantry. Thus the
negroes have almost as large proper
JiCn of troops as the whites, and all
armed ry The STATE with The very fines.
weapons 0i the latCs, pattern. / Ques-
toned some Of .le c0,0red militia of At
l9r.1 and found -hsm redhOt for a fight
in favor c' Cuba, bur as 10 Venezuela
they are net interested, and indeed the
c0l1red people generally have none of
that hatred for ENGLAND which is so
common among ignorant whites. In
facts they know 2lmOs, nothing about
England while I'm some way they have
learned great deal about Cuba. Be
y0-l 1UGe ion they would fight valiant
lv .cs- any foreign foe. but in case of
@ r.ot by heir own race, of course they
coud net De trusted and would not De
called cut. Governor Atkinson talked
W--h gre0 freedom on these and other
m~rers of safe interest, and without
exactly saying so save me the impress
sion thai. he looked for a pretty long and
hard pull before 5he relations of the
two races were thoroughly adjusted.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE AGAIN.
Hon. ". L. Scruggs lis perhaps the
most quoted man i'm Atlanta just now,
and his service in Venezuela as United
States minister and his work on the
British 3ggressiOns are very much i'm
evidence. His talk is war-like. and all
Atlanta is with him. I doubt if there
is another city I'm the Union where
there lis so much rampant American
ism as there, and the slightest favor
able i'm q speech 10 Cuban iudepend-
pl0Use. I have my suspicious as 70 the
underlying causes Of the fierce senti-
meut here for the Monroe doctrine and
. Spanish-Americans. but it is we'll TO en-
courage patriotism without inQuirlng
too closely. Another highly honOred
citizen lis Ex-Governor NOrthen. now az
thc head of the immigration Society
for Georgia. and though Ex-Governor
and Senator Joseph Brown is dead the
citizen. point with pride to his queer
old family carriage as it rolls in every
day along Washington street. "Atlan-
taism" covers O multitude of sins here
The man who is for the city ~ be
against almost anything he pleases.
MILITARY MATTERS.
The most picturesque figure among
the men Of the past Is Colonel John
Mcintosh Kell, Adjutant General of the
State. He was executive officer of the
privateer Alabama and when he went
down under the heavy shots of the
Eearsarge ne jumped overheard with q
package containing her important pa
pers holding it by string In his teeth.
He reached the friendly British vessel
near by. and so got 20 England with the
documents He IS a native of Liberty.
Ca. and is 73 years old, a wonderfully
wen preserved and vigorous man. still
q fine specimen of manhood In an
hour mt his office at the State Capitol
learned that the Immediately available
troops of Georgia are 400 we'll armed
and wen drilled valunteer militia, 1900
white and 200 c0lored The names
and locations of the cOlOred companies
are significant. At Macon are the Lin
coin guards. the show company Of the
State. as i'm that county Bibb-are
rather the most tony and wealthy ne
grCcs.
ILLITERACY AND CRIME.
"Tae convict system" said he, lis
certainly not what we could wish, but
E. expires by limitation In 1899, and by
chat .ime we can do far better We hav3
O problem here which is unknown and
uc. understood in the North. In all the
prisons and gangs. safe city and coun-
or. there are nearly 1000, and nine
ten-hs of them colOrod, and yC- merely
moral Offense Pm the cOlOTed are ignored.
They have am the privileges OF a white
man and a few more. One is 10 change
wives without being imprisoned for IT,
I need not philOsoDh,Ze. as The case is
PLAIN NJ leas % this extent: The col
cred people have been pU. under the re-
Cuirments of high civilization before
they could develop up 10 f. They are
perfectly free agents and exposed to
p ---.1 r,4r,+o +forc 7r-If1o +f -;r, moral