The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-29
E0oL S AND FANATICS DO IT.
oo,-ruyOR BELIEVES TROUBLE
DUE TO THEIR MEDDLING.

ronaIer Thinks, Would Remedy
the Evil-Negroes COntented Be
,ore Their EmancipntiOn-Carpet-
,..,.,.ers Were Cnuse-A Few Ne
oroes Criminals and All southern
ers Not Lynchers.
,ranta. July 2S.-Gov Gambler, since
,ss series OF lynchings in Southwest Geor-
ri, occurred. has been asked by newspa-
,ers in various parts of the country to
otvs his opinions on the race question in
,pa sou.h and IN reply TO one of them
t4a Governor has fully and freely express
e3 his views as to the cause of the con-
N,t. and the remedy therefor.
The Governor believes the present day
o,rs. of The uprisings is the intermeddling
ustb the relations of the whites and blacks
IN tre south by fools and fanatics who
krov nothing about the situation" but
thinks The whole trouble dates from the
day Of emancipation.
GOV Gambler believes a restricted suff-
race viii remedy the evil; that the ballot
s6oull be gwen only TO the intelligent ne
e.o As 10 the disposition to be made of the
arse percentage Of ilHterate negroes, the
Goyetnor makes no suggestion.
The Governor begins his paper by re-
ferriug TO the emancipation, contrasting
the treatment of negroes by the white
reop.e of the South before the war TO that
Of the carpet-baggers Immediately after.
He says
He Was COntented.
Before the ballot was thrust into the
hands of the negro, unprepared for it and
utterly ignorant of its sanctity and of the
responsibilities of citizenship, notwith-
standing he was a slave, he was happy
and well contented to occupy that subor-
dnate place in society to which his ma
ture ana his condition assigned him.
But after his emancipation came his
enfranehisenient, and with his enfran-
chisemeut came a hoard of carpet-baggers
peruuess adventures, without principles
or patriotism. who took charge of him
when his former master and protector
with whom he had lived for generations
on the most friendly and often even on
afecuonate terms, was de-citizenized by
the partisan reconstruction laws.
These carpet-baggers, calling them
sves Republicans, but really only a band
of marduders held together by the cohe-
s.ye power of public plumber, swarmed all
over the South like the lOcusts in Egypt
of Ola and falsely taught the negroes that
the southern white rnun were solely re-
sponsib-e for their enslavement and were
their worst and only enemies, and that,
therefore, it was their duty and their in
n % fTe nd he nc
Y a"d oppose everything they were in IA
Nor OF ana favor everything they were op-
posed to-in a word. to hate them.
Ihey taught them that freedom meant
immunity from toll, that liberty meant
license, and that they were the wards of
tae nation and would be protected by the
general goyernmeut-wh hose bayonets glis-
tened .7 every hamiet-Whether they were
light or wrong.
These evl teachings had but little per
m"neut effect upon the grown negroes, but
upon the children, the generation which
mas grown to manhood since that time the
eHee has been most harmful. These were
te prime causes Of the alienation of the
negro.
IntermeddIe With Races.
more immediate cause is the per
petlal intermeddling with the relations
OF the races n the South by fanatics and
ton
They call town meetings and discuss
imaginary wrongs of the southern negro
"H'o do not exist aud denouuce the
southern White people for crimes they
nav not committed; they publish in the
newspapers grossly exaggerated account:
Vi such crimes as are committed agans
lAe nesro in the South and omit any no
wee OF the crime against the white wo
n DEONDkGA in
q "ri'e ineeudiary letters to turbulent ne
t'VeS a't over the South, advising them e
II cum me mselVes with Winchester rifles anC
s. ayr every guilty rapist who pays the pen
N Iof his crime, TO shoot down the frs
81 t"9 While men he meets.
thousands of such letters have beer
written to Georgia in the last thre'
months, by such methods they call int
Il '.''".e the very state of things the!
s. m mo- TO deplore, a condition of affair
r'.' nId moi exist and never would hav
q 1lS'rD hut for them and their senseless
'Sl ana incendiary conduct"
10y. 'audier says the Intermediates o
w. N''Jh 90 not represent respectabl
,-'.Io oil'I, and that the lawless and Grim
y ' ''sroes of the South constitute less
lie continues.
Hetter Negroes DepIore 1t.
A few abandoned, reckless. crimina
rl-'les are responsible for all the rape
, }Aehings that have occurred, an
d influence on those around them /
'aA'y bad and far-reaching
u1,N' li is true that rape the Grim
,r" nine times out of ten, is the cause
r.,, ','-. 4I'le or remote, of lynching, is a
4 erl" ''olored by the better class of ne
Io DIS by the better class of white mer
r. as because some negroes commI
s ln' whole race suffers, so, becaus
v-l., """e men lynch ravishers, all tn
q "I people Of the South are abused
q rhl. singular fact, too that tn
H., 'alaai fanatics who have most
4oont 'Apaches. Southern barba
81 Nh. '.o always stress the atrocity c
& '|0'hing. but I have never yet hear
~ ol them saying or doing anythin
f. lfase the crime which provoke
rot.''d ','d IN some cases instead Of de
q rt.' VIZ ms crime, they have aszaiIed In
n ro ''r of the victim Of the brute's ius
q a... enc uraging had negroes. but es
Il To-. lhe friends Of Southern woman
4 va.. ler ard con inua1y present caus
Fl Pm, contributes to race friction is co.
Il fp "'les. As Is admitted bv all candi