The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04

different in education and refinement, alb
solutely dominating and controllig the
fairest sections on the face of the earth.
Evil Results of Negro Rule.
There is also a law of race, and no
where on the broad globe has ever the
Anglo-Saxon or the Scotch Irishman the
two great strains of southern life, ever
bowed his neck to an inferior race. What
does it mean? Although a young man.
I have seen a magnificent county, inhab-
tied by splendid white population, with
the most fertile fields the most beautiful
scenery, with magnificent old schools, the
very set of refinement and culture, and
every office in the county filled by ignor-
ant negroes. 1 have seen the judges on
the bench dispensing justice when the
judge could not read nor write and had to
make his mark to the court records.
have seen five schools commissioners in
district appointing the school teachers
when not a single man of them owned
a dollar of property and when not a sin
gle one of them knew his A B c. have
seen the assessors placing valuation on
land when none of them ever owned
cents worth of property, negro police
man enforcing the law, clerks making up
the sacred and solemn records when the
clerk himself could not sign his name to
The record and had to have it done l'y
other men. This continued for long years.
Justice was bought and sold as a farmer
buys a field. Taxation in three years was
increased tenfold Murder and riot were
every day occurrences, and the judge him
self before an argument was concluded was
taken off the bench, and gave his decision
to the highest bidder. Let me ask you
one thing: How long would the people
of New York city or Boston stand that
situation of affairs? Broadway would be
afiame in a week and riot would reign
rampant up Fifth avenue.
Negro Soldiers Control a state House
Let me give you some other plain facts,
In two years the negro government in
creased the state debt from $6,0OO,OC0 to
$25. eco 600, and l was there when negro
soldiers twice marched into the state house
and took the speaker away from his desk
and broke up the assembly and
turned the members out of doors
In four years they spent $780,
Oo0,O0O The taxable properties of the
state went down nearly two-thirds. In
ten years the negro rule of Louisiana
squandered $3.50 600 900, and not one single
public improvement was left to show for
il. In three years in the state of Missis-
( sippi taxes were raised fourteen-fold and
! the state debt in the same proportion.
! The whisky bill of one legislature was
$3.50 coo. The bar was opened to members
and their friends In a committee room
within the sound of the speakers gavel.
The public printing in less than eight
years amounted to $1,500,0O0, when it had
only amounted in all of seventy-five years
to $500 600. The Governors personal ex-
penses in his election amounted to nearly
S40O 900, and it was paid out of the public
funds
NSuroas CouTU DOminuta Con R-rPss
"Wll my brethren of the North con-
slider for one moment the effect of the
dominance of the negro in Southern poll
tics. Do you not see that the control by
the negroes of Southern affairs, as de-
manded by some fanatics will mean the
absolute dominance Of the national legis-
lature by the negro voter 1t will give to
them at least fifty votes in the House of
Representatives, and at least five or six
senator's. The balance of power will be
absolutely in the control of the negro vote.
He would entirely dominate the House
and the Senate of the present Congress.
Are you willing to pay the price? Would
he be a safe arbiter of the vast interests
of this nation? 1 think not.
Another point of interest to my North
ern friend. You are to-day regenerating
the South You are building thousands of
miles of railroads. You are pouring mill
iron
mines. You are erecting vast manufac-
tories. Public Improvement, the result of
millions Of Northern money, is showered
on every side. Within ten years in my
own state you have placed more than 500,
100000. Your sons are coming to live with
us, and are honored as our best citizens.
Are you willing to have all this vast in
terest at the beck and nod of a venal
legislature, or under the control of igno-
rant negroes?
Negro Government Always n Failure
AS civilizing and governmental power
the negro has been a total failure In all
countries and in all ages In Liberia,
Hayti, Africa and America he has left a
swath of hideous desolation behind him.
He has not had the training and will i'm
prove, say those who advocate giving hin,
the reins of power In the South; he win
improve, give him time and opportunity,
We grant that the propositions may be
true, but we do not intend that mis- expert
mental stages of training shall be made
upon the South If he is not vet edu-
Gated for government, let him wait until
he learns the art. The oiler or the fire.
man may become a good engineer, but un-
Ill he does we who ride on the train want
him to keep his hand away from the throt-
tie We VIII help the negro 10 become q
citizen but not ruler.
Negroes Not Allowed to Vote Freely
1T is folly, plain and unvarnished. for
the men OF the South to say TO the men OF
the North that the negro is allowed at all
times TO cast his ballot as he wishes. II Is
moi true. IL would be ruin to the South
and every Southern man well knows H.