The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-19
Bishop Turner's Advice.

Editor Morning News: Your article on
Bishop Turner's advice to the negroes
was to the point But a negro is not a
white man in reason, judgment, feelings
or natural instincts; no more than a negro
is Ike an Indian or a Chinese. in their
peculiar racial feelings. A theory is a
beautiful thing in Imagination. like build
ing railroads on paper and declaring large
dividends; but facts are stubborn things.
We know the negro, not the mongrel breed
oil mulattoes, tercerons, quadroons &C.
'oroons; but the negro, pure and simple.
we know the one talent given him bv
Goa ana how he is going to use IT. inst
IKE the one who received the one talent
III Matthew 2325. Just as the negroes ara
DONG in Africa to-day.
nate demagogue from the funernost
iecgSses OF my heart, who is forever an
4eaHhs TO race and natural distinctions
10 sectional lines. and many times to re-
. .s feelings. Why not be candid and
nuyilul with the negro, and give him to
ra' ana mat this government was
made Tor white men, by white men and
a-one in the interests of white mon Tba+
wy negro was slave brought to this
country by white men, for the use of
%%HIte men. But by the fortunes of war
uley We're set free by white men and
sven rights and privileges not for q mo-
meht thought of by the trainers If The
federal constitution.
nat they We're made citizens bv the
, voSotIet' mat fanaticism, bigotry, sec.
t5 Y''", ,, nav ana Jealousy gave them what
ts ~, ~" nave: That is history, and that
- ruin. Jefferson well Understand tha
erHelIty years ago. The bright and in
~ligeht mongrels are no index 10 The
real negro character. ~ 'i'0
Net them educate the negro as he sbouId
educated as to morals. imnrass unon
nt, niillu MS peculiar relationship IN the
ne people. The poor Indian was f,11I,,
SI i' truly educated by the white peonIe.
~ lhey dld 1t with swords and Guns In
10 t,i, LOT ms resistance only meant death
iD5 mn IS the negro any better than the
81 III mental make up? Are the ne
tbo Aillcd IN any respect better than
~ AHleIlcan Indian? Association does
nave It's effects, but not in such a oreet
natural character iii9'iiic's ana
Tho turner's advice is but sowing IN
MIN Wlhu' IN which not only the negro
H. H. reap the whirlwnd. but he himself
~ slanaing on very DANGEROUS ground
yor,, I put knew 1t, and he may find in a
,oo nttie while that the south will he
h. Hot TO hold him and those who MAJ,
h. '4ol enough to think like and advise
S,"hllam II. Seward said in the Irptted
ouss,io senate when talking on the slavery
tive .in, opposed as he was to the fuei-
tb,, save law; There was a higher law
beam t'ie constitution. He should have
tr,c, expelled instantly or made 10 re-
a,ore. mat utterance, but southern SEN
seet,a,, were raise to their oaths and their
opie,i,i Gov. Troup would not have sat
Va III ms seat had he been there
bpt ~. ui ire Is higher law in the south
ouioi. Shch law: a law which should he
No i Io,, ana ,u effective in Furnishing crime
hpr,h laW delay. no second. third ana
a d.. 'l'als' The courts are TO blame in
bain. iot lynch law. The truth Is too
corse 81, ,o' tne curse of new trials Is the
10 bo today, The supreme court seems
Who ~ Noah's ark for every LAWYER
ben b Ny ms case when fair trials have
Oh T,,,a' ana new trials demanded. Bish-
gerone, ,,'r : advice is bad, very bad, dan
q hir,,E., oad fatally bad, to the negro and
mcb Ell j he but knows e. A few more
sf ms ms from him and he will find him
ana Icing some superior court Judge
aean de Til' nnd that free speech does not
Vi law. r. NJ ..