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

- ,11asfiOn lntermarrlaSe at ttle
kv braaks the record of all history,
sy" o,iv one alternative left, and that
Der me negro must be dependent, in
s Ulrs al least. upon the white man,
,,nnot hope TO dominate him.
prohIem of Vast Import.
~.. -ratus OF the negro in American civil
IN is problem of vast deal more
W., man many are inclined TO believe.
rroblem is national and not sectional
lr If slavery, whatever that may
roen was the sin of the nation, and
no sin of the South. Whatever may
present title--the negro problem;
raca question; the white mans bur
tba South's shame, or the nations
IN il what you may, the thing Is
mn of peril and danger to the whole
F1fr wore asked to discuss the relations
E.. anyironments of Jonah, during the
he epent in the stomach of the great
think il would be quite in point to
VI how Jonah happened TO occupy that
r-,,al place for even 50 short time. II,
,.rsfort. 1 discuss for moment how the
ma ever happened in the South as
w.. hone | will not be considered out
Ts The scoDe of the duty assigned me to
- his present status as a freedman.
s.f,r as know, the first African slaves
al roon the soil of the South, were
s.o,,oht bv Dutch slave-trading ship and
,ar.Isj M jamestown, Va. do not be-
T.,a i, IS anywhere charged that the South
srouobr these negroes or that the South,
.,s,ia,lv. cared to receive them.
II M not know that any state preceded
,,,ss,cbusetts in building and fitting out
Chin for the purpose of traffic in human
1sioes as slaves. OF course, many Of the
- rsopIe in Massachusetts We're shock
81 at such horrors JUST as many of the
4 hest peopie in Georgia are shocked by the
hrutal things that occur an my state. Yet,
massachusetts, and Georgia, it seems, are
Md responsible for all The evil things
ibat happen within their borders.
TIA further localize this matter, my own
s,ste Georgia, became a slave state about
,be same lime as Pennsylvania and New
Jersey The colony settling New Jersey
n was so intense in getting their share Of
"A ba traffic that land bounty of seven
Fl r-fye acres was offered for every slave
"a Introduced there.
n slavery in the south.
Fl Whilst Georgia became a slave state
Fl eboul the same time as Pennsylvania and
II New Jersey this condition in the South
n was made possible because of The traffic
NJ in slaves by The states at the North, and
Il not nv anv original efforts made by Geor-
II ea or any sister state at the South.
Fl These statements would seem to indi-
"a Gale that the South was. not in at the be-
ginning. however mueh she may have
borne the curse of her sins. later on, as
n well as the sins of those who preceded her
in The iniquity.
If the story of Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe is 10 be credited, slavery at the
IA South was the abomlnation of iniquities.
IA This story has been accepted as the truth
throughout the civilized world and, be-
cause of it, the South has been vilifed,
malieued and abused, to the absolute for
n getfulness Of equal and greater sins found
II in the homes Of the very people who have
been SO piously holy in their pharasaic
assumption of personal purity.
"A If never a word had been written in de-
Il Tense Of slavery at the South the conduct
n Of the negroes during the entire four years
OF our civil war is enough TO belle all that
n has ever been spoken or written about the
villainy of the slave master and the in
II EQUITIES practiced upon the slaves at the
South.
The South has made one great mistake,
NJ attributable, l am sure, to poverty and
the bitterness engendered by reconstruc-
ton, in failing TO rear a monument to the
slaves of 1860 to 1865 for their unceasing
d devotion 10 our homes and the gallant pro-
lection they gave the women and children
Of the South all during the dark days of
our bloody civil strife If anything like
it has occurred in the history of nations,
l have never read it, All honor and graf
itude TO the Old-time negro, as we knew
him before and during the war.
No Defense of Slavery.
Fl II is not my purpose, here or anywhere.
10 defend human slavery. 1 myself owned
slaves. We at the South are glad, more
than we can tell, that we Nare rid of the
burden and the responsibility
Whilst we had strong attachments for
The negroes of those days, The bonds were
all finally broken, bitterness ensued, and
we became literally two people. Steadfast
H as they stood during the war, the pres
sure became too great, under reconstruc-
ton.
To the people of the South. war, as
sherman says, had been he'll. If there is
anything worse in the diabolism of cruelty,
reconstruction was that thing.
AIter the war, the negroes were prompt
" made citizens. They were enfranchised,
ana not only made equal with their FORM
or masters, but they were taught that lib
erty meant license and that the domination
\ OF The white man was the one thing for
mem TO strive for and attain. The peo-
PIE OF the South looked not only upon
abandonment by the negroes, but upon
absolute treachery among her own people.
MAny men who had been true to their
coors during the war, now, broken down
Dn fortune and without hope for the flu
lure believed they saw political elevation
lor themselves in The use of the negroa
vote Uniting themselves to the carpet
odssers and scalawags, who fiocked to
"e south Ike vultures over a dying car
ass they eat carrion together, as, in all
'"e shame of union leagues and midnight
lonucal marauding, they planned for the
urs'o antagonism towards the white
People that has proved the bane of the
rysro and the white man at the South.
mere began the separation between the
negroes and The white people al the South.
"r breach was widened by the presence
vi me military all over the South, not only
'ouraeins the schemes of division and
ro,nIhauon concocted in The union leagues,
D'1 Offering support and defense by such
aims as might be needed.
advantages Negroes Have.
Nesroes have access to all the trades and
on 'Ae professions as BARRIERS, mechanics,
n, sans masons, lawyers dentists etc.
NVN are not prevented by Ia bOr unions