The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-23
BoSTONIANS GIVEN FACTS.
EX-GOv. NORTHEN's DISCUSSION OF
A GREAT PROBLEM.

nuNc-Ihc LynchtnE QuesttOn, anu
the Case Brought Home-Lynchings
in uIinOIs-Arnett's Reply.
Boston, May 22.-The Congregational
Club held May festival in fremont Tenn
pie tonight and listened TO two eloquent
speeches on the Southern negro question
by former Gov Northen of Georgia, and
Bishop Arnett of Ohio.
Gov. Northen spoke in part as follows:
Mr.. Chairman: l cannot forbear to ex-
press to you my full appreciation of the
honor conveyed by the invitation 20 adj
dress so cultured an assemblage, on SO
| important a subject as the one you have
assigned me.
No people ever met more bravely so se-
| rious a condition as confronts the South
| or sought more righteousiy an equitable
| adjustment of a difficult problem than the
| people of the South have undertaken i'm
the negro problem.
May l add that I am still further em-
| barrassed by the fact as / understand
| 1t, that the story of the South told by
| Southern man or by a visitor, who sees
| the conditions as the people of the South
| know them to be, Is s&lways discredited,
| while any incendary~ violent state-
ments denunciatory of the South are. all
ways believed and trumpeted abroad with
| righteous Indignation and horrible dis
| gust.
| Take your own DR.. Nehemiah Adams.
man of high character and unquestion-
| ed veracity before he wrote South Side
| View Of Slavery" and whose name there-
| after became a by word and a stencil.
| While Ida Wells, a mulatto woman. can
| electrity two continents with incendary
| statements made from the lecture plat
| form. at so cents a night, grossly mis-
| representing the South.
| Hon. Miss Murray. maid of honor To
| the Queen was dismissed from the royal
| presence and the Queens court simply
| because she told the truth about the
| South, as she saw II.
The Christian World God save the
| markD, speaking of the treatment Of the
/ negroes at the South says: women and
| girls are whipped In a nude state. by men
in the presence OF men and boys OF
| course, there Is immortality. Children are
| born and grow up in the prisons. and
| know no other home. Some OF the states
| make regular thing or breeding peo-
pie, just as in the old slavery days. This
especially the case In Georgia, Florida
| and Texas"
Such statements are scattered over the
land, ana all the people in England who
| read these piOus remarks believe them
TO be true, and nothing | could saw ia
the contrary would weigh one feather
| dEhiHsN lnem.
win the day ever come when the South
can be heard without prejudice ana her
| people accorded fair audience befora
the world?
No Apology 10 Make.
] am not here to apologize for the soutb
The South has her ills, her sins and har
| crimes. What section has not? The Soutl,
| has had and VIII have violent sbocks to
her civilization. What section has not9
The South has had her sorrows. Goa
knows they have been grlevous and hard
| TO be endured
Whenever the South finds an ideal gov
ernment without sin; people perfect In
law and perfect in its enforcement. the.
South will do its respectful obeisance and
ask 10 be led into its broader civilization
and It's better power. Till then, and nos
'till then, we shall stand abreast of all
! other sections, claiming as broad civlH-
zation as any, and challenging those with
out sin to cast the first stone at US.
So much / desire to say for the white
people Of the South. For the negroes OF
| that section, cannot decline
| 10 say that, taken as a.
mass, / would not exchange them for
| any l have ever 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
/
tenders. ! am moi here to defame them.
| God forbid. I am here to speak theiu
| worth. when they deserve II, and to con-
denim them when their wickedness so de-
| mands.
l Lest / may not be understood, I desire
| to say, with emphasis, that 1 shall not
| speak to you IN any sectional or partisan
| spirit. Let us thank God that sectionaI-
| ism Is, or ought to be. dead
With grandson of Grant on the staff
| OF Lee; with Fighting Joe Wheeler clad
| in the uniform of an American soldier,
| rallying the charge under the floating
| folds Of the American flag; with brave
| young Bagley giving his life blood to ce-
| ment into eternal brotherhood a divided
| nation; with Brumby carrying amid the
shouts OF his applauding comrades the flag
| Of the Union first planted in the Philip
| pines; with Hobson, brave and heroic,
| spectacle for God and for men, as he stood
| upon the bridge Of the Merrimac, the em-
bodiment OF The South's loyalty TO the
| Union surely, surely the South VIII now
be heard without prejudice and with du6
| confederation for what she may say.
The White Mans view.
The subject I am to discuss, by your
| courtesy is 'aThe White Mans View OF the
| peiaHons OF the Negro at the South"
All history shows that two races, ap-
| nroaching in any degree equality In num-
hers cannot live together, unless inter-
| marriage takes place or the one Is de-
pendent and in some sense subject 70 tne
other
The Sabine women prepared the way for
the admission of the Sabnes TO Rome and
| gave the former place among the conscripe
| fathers. Alexander, having conquered
| Persia. married the Persian Roxana, and
| Tins lessened the social distance between
| The new provinces and the original em-
pire. Alaric, Clovis, Henry I OF England.
IN Italy. Gaul and among the Saxons, re-
spectively, resorted to che same policy OF
| intermarriage and for the same purpose.
! The long dissensions between the Nor
| mans and Saxons. under William, Duke
Of Normandy, and william Rugus, disap-
peared when the two races followed tho
| example of Henry
on the other hand Israel and Egypt, the
| Hebrew nation and the people conquered
| by them and others prove the impossibil-
ity Of two races living together without
| ..Ff ~. y.