Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-05-31
WHITE MANS VIEW ,

D. -" ""uieee NAY SSnO, IN
fremont Temple. Boston. before the
congregational Club. His subject
was The White Mans View Of the
helatlons of the Negro in the south"
After reviewing the history of sla
very and the relations of the negro
and white man before and since the
emancipation of the slaves, he referr-
ed to recent outrageS and lynchings
ia Georgia. lie said:
"Do You ask me how these lvnch
lngs can be stopped at the South? |
answer promptly-just as they can he
stopped at the North, and in no other
way. Stop the outrages and the
lynchings will cease. Continue the
outrages aud the lynchings will al
ways follow, regardless of threats by
the law, whether in Georgia. Mime.
sofa. Illinois, Ohio or other States.
Is 1t forgotten that the people of
Massachusetts themselves burned a
negro woman at the stake who had
been simply suspected and not con-
victed of poisoning a white man and
his wife? We can't tell what is 90.
ing to happen, even in the best regu
lated families.
"Let it be distinctly understood
that, personally, am absolutely op.
posed to mob law for any and all of
fenses. | shall not take your time
here to give you my reasons. Per
sonally and officially have done ey
erything known to me to suppress it
IN my State. But there is an un
written law, not peculiar to Georgia
or the South, but dominating condi
tlous IN every state, that demands
the quickest execution. in the quick
est way, of tienu who robs virtu-
Gus woman of her honor to gratify
his hellish diabolism. Human ma
ture is the same throughout the civ.
ilized world, and say what you may,
Massachusetts, will not be one whit
behind Georgia when YOU make Mrs
Crawford the wife of farmer In your
State and Samuel Holt, brutal iiend
in human shape, neighbor near her
home.
81 repeat again. mob law is terri.
BILE. You know its blood and slaugh-
ter in your own State. Georgia can
no more suppress it than Masschu-
setts or New York. Until Massa
chusetts, New York. Illinois. Penn
sylNania and 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.
"When the government appoints a
minister to Austria and the cable
gram comes-persOna non grata-the
name is recalled and another substi-
tuted at once. Why Austria aud not
the South. Why dominate the South
with an appointee who iSpersona non
grata when Austria can get what she
wants? Why dominate section
whose people, AS section, are more
thoroughly American than any other
section of the continent; section
more devoted TO American institu
tions than any other section rs such,
because of its more American citizen
ship; q section that defends the
American flag with as loyal hearts,
AS heroic, daring and patriotic devo
tion as ever characterized a liberty
citizen of the nation? Let the North
answer me, why?
"Now, then, if 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 Dutch and New England.
"If the comforting of citizenship
and the ballot upon four million. of
people, absolutely untaught in the
simplest elements of government, was
a mistake, whose mistake was it. Not
the mistake of the South, but the
mistake of the North.
"If the avenues to division and hate
and blood and carnage, ontrages and
lynchings and violence and mobs
have been opened up ut the South
through the ballot given to the negro
and the politics taught him to pur-
sue in the destruction of the white