The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-23

ings' and violence and mobs have been
opened up at the South through the bal
lot given to the negro and the politics
taught him TO pursue in the destruction
OF the white man Were a sin. whose sin
was IL? Not the sin of the south but the
sin of the North.
If the people In the South sheltered the
negro in his absolute poverty fed him
when he was hungry furnished him
means TO accumulate property and money
educated his children to prepare them for
usefulness in life. whose honor is 4. but
the honor of the men who have borne
FOR a generation, his burdens. while he
gave marked ingrattude in return through
his votes
What are we going to do about it?
The negro problem at the South will
not be settled in a day. Step by step. as
It marches into the future of the nation.
1t must be met by the conditions best
suited to the detail of its solution IL
will never be settled by abuse of the
south. and the North had as well under
stand that fact now as later. What is
needed now is, at least, liberation and
non-interference, if the South is TO be
come responsible for results.
Let me say in conclusion. that the re-
lauons between the races at the South are.
in no sense, alarmins Under God we
IN llEnleOHS
settlement for both races, if we are left
alone.
Negroes are employed upon our farms
an preference TO white people They are
used as coachmen, mechanics, and in all
the trades. They never suffer for hack OF
work, if they want a job. We provide for
them good schools. that are superintended
by the same boards as control the white
schools Their religious training is care
fully guarded by the churches in all The
| religious denominations. Confidence Is con.
stently strengthened. as the negroes arr
| beginning TO know the white people at tn,
south are their best friends
sam Holt is, by no means. a represen
| tatiVefof his race. II is only a very small
| per cent. of negroes that are malicious
| criminal and mean. The race should no
| suffer in reputation because of the baC
| character of few.
| The better part of the negroes. and thi
is by far the larger part. are beginning t,
| cooperate with the white people for bette
conditions.
Recognizing the tremendous demand
that await us in the future, we shall trus
| in God, do our best, and wait. The gospe
| of the living God is sufficient for all human
| Ills and human woes. The Gospels hes
analysis is: Faith, Hope and Charity.
The greatest Of these Is. charity
Many who Are Not Brutes.
Bishop Arnett of the A. NJ. f. Church
| reminded his audience that. while there /
one negro brute whose crime has been $
thrilllngly told, there are millions who ar
| not brutes. Many arc true Christian mef
| striving TO elevate their race.
The disagreement between the ex-Gov
ernor and himself he said,is in their view G
the principles of civil government, the or
posite IDEAS of civil liberty at PIymout
Rock and at jamestown. He contrasted IN
achievements of prominent white an
black men, and asked which has travele
the iarthest and achieved the most TIL
colored people in feeding and clothing thei
children while in school, do far more tina
the whites, who pay the teachers. Tn
blacks are doing pretty well after $50 year
of servitude. OF crime, he said.
The mass of the negroes repudiate a
they are ambitious to be men; they Sc
their duty and are disposed to be cordia
and harmonious with all who wis
them we'll"