The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-06-08
" WHITE MANS VIEW. 3"
EX-GOV. NORTHERNTALkSO ON THE
NEGRO PROBLEn.

| i-N-NON. NOk hERN IALkS ON THE
NEGRO PROBLEn.
me Eloquent Georgian Discusses the
Subject Before a Boston Audience
Abuse of the South Will Not Settle
1t or Abate Lynching-PIeads foI
federation and Non-Interference
and Declares the Relations Amic sbl.
Between the Races.
Ex-Governor w. j. Northern. OF
Georgia, made Il notable speech in
Boston on the evening of May 22nd.
He spoke in fremont Temple before
the congregational Club. and was
listened to by Il large audience. His
subject was The White Mans View
of the Relations Of the Negro in the
South"
A press dispatch says the people OF
| Boston showed deep interest in the
address which, through lack of time,
Gov. Northern was compelled to cur
tail, though he occupied more than
two hours.
1t was the general verdict that
| there has never before been heard in
Boston such an exhaustive statement
Of the attitude of the South on the
negro question.
While some of Gov. Mort state
mrnts did not meet the approval OF
the audience, his speech a, a whole
met with great favor.
This was shown by an expression
|
| from the floor, when the speaker was
about to close, by II person who
moved that the gentleman be per
mittcd to deliver the whole of his adj
dress if it takes all night
| The motion was greeted with ap-
| plause and eX-tio,rrnor Northern con
tinue,l for another half hour.
Gov. Northern spoke in part as fol
| lows:
Il am not here to apologize for the
South. The South has her ills, her
sins and her crimes. What section
has not? The South has had and will
have violent shocks to her civilian
| ton. What section has not? The
South has had her SORROWS God
| knows they have been grievous and
| Idi u ~ NC cHlu1tN.
| ..Whenever the South finds an ideal
| government without sin, Il people
perfect in law and perfect in its en-
| forcement, the South will do its re-
spectful obcisance and ask to be led
| into its broader civilization and its
better power. Till then, and not till
then, we shall stand abreast of all
| If hnv Il
| civilization as any, and challenging
those without sin to cast the first
stone at us.
$50 much | desire To say for the
white people of the South. For the
| negroes of that section | cannot
decline to say that, taken as a mass,
| | would not exchange them for any
| have seen in any other parts of the
| United States without tremendous
money boot in the exchange. | am
the friend of the negro in my State,
and they recognize in me one of their
strongest defenders. am not here
| to defame them. God forbid! | am
here to speak their worth, when they
deserve it, and to condemn them
| when their wickedneSs so demands.
| LEST | may be misunderstood,
desire to say, with emphasis, that
shall not speak to you in any sec
tional or partisan spirit. Let Us
| thank God that sectionalism is, OF
ought to be, dead.
| with grandson of Grant on the
staff of Lee; with Fighting doe
Wheeler. clad in the uniform of IN
American soldier. rallying the charge
under the floating folds Of the Ameri'
can flag: with brave young Ragley
giving his life blood to cement into
eternal brotherhood divided nation
with Brumby, carrying amid the
shouts of his applauding comrades
the flag of the Union first planted in
the Philippines; with Hobson, brave
and heroic, a spectacle for God and
for man, as he stood upon the bridge
of the Merrimac. the embodiment O
the South's loyalty to the Union
surely. surely. the South will now b.
heard without pre- judice and with
due consideration for what she may
say,
NEGRO MISTAUGIIT AFTER WAR.
after the war the negroes wer.
promptly made citizens. They were
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