The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04
GOV. CHANDLER ON RE-
CENT RACE TROUBLES
IN GEORGIA.
Negro Outlaws Encouraged
Incendiary Letters Sent
From the North Advising
Them to Arm Themselves
and Shoot the Whites.

lhe recent cambridge lynchlnSS,
expressed his views today as to
the cause.of the conflicts and the
remedy for them.
The Governor believes the
present cause OF the trouble is the
intermeddling with the relations
of the whites and blacks in the
South by 'fOols and fanatics, .
who know nothing about the sit
uation. He believes a restricted
suffrage will remedy the evil;
that the ballot should be given
to the intelligent negro, but not
to others of that race. AS to the
disposition to be made of the
large percentage of illiterate ne
groes the Governor makes no sug
gestion.
The Georgia Executive con.
traSted the treatment of negroes
by the white people of the South
before the war to that by the
"carpet, baggers" afterward. He
said:
"Before the ballot was thrust
into the hands of the negro-un-
prepared for it, utterly ignorant
of its sanctity and OF the respon.
sibilities of citizenShip-notwith
standing he was slave, he was
happy and well contented to oc.
cupy that subordinate place in 50.
ciety, to which his nature and his
condition assigned him.
CARPET-BAG DECENTRALIZATION.
"But after his emancipation
came his Acknowledgement, and
with his acknowledgements came a
horde of carpet-baggers, penni-
less Adventures without princi
pies Of patriotism, who took
charge Of him when his for
mer master and protector, with
whom he had lived for genera
tons on the most friendly and of.
ten even on ailectionate terms.
was decitizenized by the parti
san reconstruction laws.
"TheSe carpet baggers calling
themselves Republicans, but IL
ally only band of marauders
held together by the cohesive
power of public plumber Swarmed
all over the South like the locust,
in Egypt of old. They falsely
taught the negroes that the
Southern white men were solely
responsible for their enslavement
and were their worst and only en-
emieS. Therefore, they were told
it was their duty and their inter.
est to vote against them, oppose
everything they were in favor OF
and favor everything they were
opposed to-in a word to hate
them.
They taught the negro that
freedom meant immunity from
toll, that liberty meant license
and that they were the wards OF
the nation and would be protect
ed by the general government,
whose bayonets glistened in
every hamlet, whether they were
right or wrong.
"These evil teachings had but
little permanent effect upon the
grOwn-up negroes, but upon the
children, the generation which
has grown to manhood since that
time, the effect has been most
baneful. These were the prime
causes of the alienation of the
negroes.
"FANATICS AND FOOLS
ga more immediate cause is
the permanent intermeddling
with the relations of the races in
the South by fanatics and fools
who know nothing about the sit
uation. They call town meetings.
discuss imaginary wrongs of the
Southern negro which do not ex
list, and denOunce the Southern
white people for crimes they have
not committed; they publish in
the newspapers grossly exagger
ated accounts of such crimes as
are committed against the negro
in the South and omit any notice
OF the crime against the white
woman which provoked the retail
iation; they write incendiary let.
tiers to turbulent negroes all over
the South, advising them to
arm themselves with rifles, and
for every guilty rapist who pays
the penalty of his crime to shoot
down the first two white men they
meet.
thousands of such letters have
been written to Georgia in the
last three months. Bv such
methods they call into existence
the very state of things they pre-
tend to deplore, condition of
affairs that did not exist, and
would never have existed but for
them and their senseless, unjust
and incendiary conduct"
LAWLESSNESS BY A MINORITY.