The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1899-05-25
OPPOSED TO MOB LAW.

there is an unwritten law not pecu-
liar TO Georgia or the South, but dom
mating conditions in every State, that
demands the quickest execution, in the
quickest way, Of the fend who robs a
virtuous woman of her honor to graft
~ his hellish diabolism Human ma
ture is the same throughout the civili-
zed world, and say what you may,
Massachusetts, will not be one whit be-
hind Georgia when you make Mrs
Grant, ord the wife Of farmer in your
state and Samuel Holt, brutal fiend
in human shape, neighbor near her
home.
Il repeat again mob law is terrible
You know its blood and slaughter in
your own State. Georgia can no more
suppress it than Massachusetts, or
New York. Until Massachusetts, New
York, Illinois, Pennsylvania or other
States can control the wild fury Of
mob. let US be done with denunciations
upon Georgia when she fails Georgia
and the South ask nothing but to be
given the same consideration as other
States and other sections
GOVERNMENTS RESPONSIBILITY.
"When the government appoints a
minister to Austria and the cablegram
comes persona non grata-'he name
is recalled and another substituted at
once. Why Austria and not the South
Why dominate the South with an APP
pointee who is persona non grata when
Austria can get what she wantsl Why
dominate a section whose people. as
section. are more thoroughly American
than any other section of the CONT
nent a section more devoted to Amer
lean institutions than any other section
as such, because Of its more American
citiz enship; a section that defends the
American flag with rs loyal hearts. as
heroic daring and as patriotic devo-
tion as ever characterized liberty
loving citizen of the nation: Let the
North answer me, why:
Now, then, IL the slave trade, the
promoter Of slavery in America was
sin, whose sin was it? Not the sin of
the South. but the sin Of England, the
n..ok ovd Nam EnoIard
If the comforting Of citizenship aud
the ballot upon four millions Of people,
absolutely untaught in the simplest ele-
ments Of government, was a mistake.
whose mistake was il? Not the mis-.
take of the South, bat the mistake Of
the North.
1T the avenues to division and hate
and blood and carnage, outrages and
lynchings and violence and mobs have
been opened up at the South through
the ballot given to the negro and the
politics taught him to pursue in the de-
struction Of the white man were sin,
whose sin was it? Not the sin Of the
South, but the sin Of the North.
eff 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 pre-
pare them for usefulness in life, whose
honor is it but for the honor of the men
who have borne for generation his
burdens while he gave marked ingrati-
tude in return through his votes.
WILL NOT BE SETTLED IN A DAY.
1.-The negro problem at the South will
not be settled in day. Step by step,
as it marches into the future Of the ma
ton. it 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 |
that fact now as later What |
is needed now is, at least, liberation |
and non interference, IL the South is to |
become responsible for results.
IL heard very admirable speech |
from very intelligent negro. before a
Southern Baptist convention, during its |
session at Birmingham, Ala. The ne.
gro preacher was discussing the race
problem, and when he reached this iea-
ture of his subject he remarked that |
many people seemed afraid the negro |
would at no distant day demand social
equality. He then said there need be |
no fear on this point, as he knew many
white men he would not allow to sleep
In his bed.
80 we are pretty we'll agreed on both
sides down South that social equality is
not desired by either race. and, in my
candid judgment, it will never obtain.
Social equality would beget amalgama-
ton, and amalgamation would result in
and miscegenation would
be an open violation Of the law Of God.
God made one a negro and the other
white man. 1t is the opinion OF the
people Of the South that He intended
Them so to remain.
"Miscegenation by law will never
take place in the South. That may be
as an established fact and set.
tied beyond question. Intermarriage
1T the South need not be argued mo-
ment. Unless the South breaks the
record of all history, there is only one
left, and that is that the ne
gro mnst be dependent, in measure at
east, upon the white man. as he can.
not hope to dominate him.
"a RIGHTEOUS SETTLEMENT"
The relations between the races at