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

ton, when her state attorney says they
have had half a dozen lynchings in the
last few years, and the world knows how
the mob shot down negroes with the APP
prevail of the Governor, FOR no other rea-
son than that they had entered the state
in search of work In the presence of all
this, the pious press of Chicago points 20
Georgia and thanks God that they are not
as that publican.
Do you ask me how these lynchings can
be stopped al the South? answer prompt
ly-just as they can be stopped at the
North, and in no other way. Stop the
ouTages and the lynchngs will cease.
Continue the outrages, and the lynchings
will always follow, regardless of threats
by the law, whether in Georgia, Minneso-
ia, Illinois, Ohio, or other states.
Is it forgotten that the people of Mas
sachusetts, themselves, burned negro
woman at the stake. who had been sim
ply suspected, and not convicted. of pois-
oning a white man and his wife? We can't
tell what is going to happen, even in the
best regulated families.
Negro politics, in my Judgment, as taught
during reconstruction and continued to
the present day, seeking to dominate the
white people of the South, are responsible
for most of the blood that has been split
the outrages that have been perpetrated.
and the sorrows that have come to the
whites and negroes of the South. The
course of the Northern press. is response
bic for much of the remainder. The South
is white mans country, and it will never
be delivered over to negroes. whatever the
power and influence brought TO bear 10
force this fearful end.
In his recent charge to the jury, the
court sitting in Charleston, S. c., to try
certain citizens charged with lynohing a
negro in that state, Judge Brawley said:
IF it be true that this postmaster was an
incompetent negro, a stranger and resident
of another county the community that he
was appointed to serve had grave and
just grounds of complaint and those who
are responsible for his appointment can
not escape the condemnation of fair
minded men everywhere for the wrong done
to that community. Every lawful eff
fort of the people of Lake City TO redress
their grievance would have had the sym
pathy and support of all lovers of order
Appointments of Negroes.
How much did the appointment of ne-
gro postmaster, over the protest of the
people of HogansVille, a town within the
neighborhood of Sam Hollis residence.
and the closing of the mail cars, to force
white people to patronize the negro's post
office have to do with the awful tragedies
Judge Brawley answer.
Hon. Charles Bartlett, representing the
Macon district in the present Congress.
upon application, secured rural mail deliy-
cry for the county of Blbb. Mr.. Gaitree
the representative of the postoffice DEPART
ment, went to Macon, and together with
the Macon postmaster, investigated the
matter and located the routes. Mr.. Bart
lett was assured that such carriers would
ba rs.
pie. Quite a number Of good white peo-
pie made application, and on Mn Cal
trees recommendation, two were selected
Their bonds were sent to the postmaster
at Macon with instructions to have them
filled out, and the carriers TO commence
service May /. A day or two after. me
postmaster received a telegram from the
chief of the free mail delivery depart-
ment, asking him to hold up the bonds NJ
The persons appointed. Next day a tele-
gram came. stating the free delivery would
be established, provided The bonds of two
negroes, naming them, who had been ap-
pointed I'm the place OF the white men
We're filled out and returned. Mr. Bart
lett went to Washington and protested
that the farmers did not want negro car
rierS to deliver their mails, in the bsence
of all but The women of the families from
home. Two days later telegram an
DeHn
postponed. 1t must be negro or nothing
says the government TO the South.
When the government appoints a min
lister 10 Austria and the cablegram comes
-"persona non grata"-the name Is re-
called and another substituted al once
Why Austria and not the South? why
dominate the South with an appointee
who is persona non grata''-when Aus
tria can get what she wants? Why domi-
nate a section whose people, as a section
are more thoroughly American than any
other section of the continent; a section
more devoted 20 American Institutions
than any other section as such.s because
of its moree American citizenship: sec
ton that defends the American flag with
as loyal hearts a heroic daring. and as
patriotic devotion as ever characterized
a liberty-loving citizen of the nation? Lei
ihe North answer me. why2
Placing ResponsibfIiay.
Now. then. if the slave trade. the pro-
nofer OF slavery in America, was a sin
whose sin was it2 Noc the sin of the
South. but the sin Of England, the Dutch.
and New Eng and
If the couferring of citizenship and the
ballot upon four millions of people, alb
sciutely untaueht IN the Simplest ele-
meuts of government was a mistake.
whose m.etake was it2 Not the mistake
Of the South. but the mistake Of the
North
# the avenues TO division and hate and
blood and carnage. outrages and lynch