The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-29
THE MEDDlERS TO BLAME
PUBLISH GROSSLY ENAGGERAT
ED ACCOUNTS OF LYNCHINGS.
BUT IGNORE TIE AWFUL PRONOcATlos
Carpet Baggers Began the Alienation Of Races.
Ircendary Letters TO Turbulent Ne
groes Widen The Breach. The
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Remedy for Crimes.

Remedy for Crimes.
Atlanta, Ga, July 2S.-Governor Cam
dler has, since the Bainbridge series of
lynchings occurred, been asked by news
papers in various parts of the country TO
give his opinions on the race question in
the South and i'll reply to one of them
the Governor has fully and freely eN
pressed his views as to the cause of the
conflicts and the remedy therefor. The
Governor believes the present-day cause
of the uprisings is the intermeddling
with the relations of the whites and
blacks in the South by fools an fanat-
ics' who know nothing about the situa-
ton, but think the whole trouble dates
from the day of emancipation. Govern
or Gambler believes a restricted suffrage
will remedy the evil; that the ballot be
given Only the intelligent negro. As to
the disposition to be made of the large
percentage of illiterate negroes the Gov
ernor makes no suggestion 1he Gov
ernor begins his paper by referring to
the emancipation, contrasting the treat
nent of negroes by the white people OF
the South before the war to that OF the
carpet baggers immediately after. lie
says:
Before the ballot was thrust into the
hands of the negro unprepared for it and
utterly ignorant of its sanctity, and of
the responsibilities of citizenship, not
withstandng he was a slave, he was
happy and we'll contented to occupy that
subordinate place in society, to which
his nature and his condition assigned
him.
But after his emancipation came his
enfranchisement and with his cnfran-
chisement came horde or carpet bag
gers, penniless adventures, without
principles or patriotism, who took charge
of him when his former master and pro-
tector with whom he had lived for gen
erations on the most friendly and often
affectienate terms, was de-citizenized by
the partisan Reconstruction laws.
"1hese carpet baggers calling them
selves Republicans, but really only a
band of marauders, held together by
the cohesive power of public plunder,
sWarned all over the South like the
locusts in Egypt of old, and falsely
taught the negroes that the Southern
white men were solely responsible for
their enslavement and were their worst
and only enemies and that therefore it
was their duty and their interest 10 vote
against them and their party, and oppose
everything they were in favor of and
favor everything they were opposed to-
in a word TO hate them.
Then they taught them that freedom
meant immunity from toll, that liberty
meant license and that they were uhe
wards of the nation and would be pro-
tected by the general Government, whose
bayonets glistened in every hamlet,
whether they were right or wrong.
These evil teachings had but little
permanent effect upon the grown up ne
groes, but upon the children. the gener-
alton which has grown to marhood since
that time. the effect has been most bane-
ful. These were the prime causes of the
alienation Of the negro.
A more immediate cause is the per-
petual intermeddIing with the relations
of the races in the South by fanatics
and fools who know nothing about the
situation.
J. hey call town meetings and discuss
imaginary wrongs Of the Southern me-
gro which do not exist and denounce the
Southern white people for crimes they
have not committed; they publish in the
newspapers grossly exaggerated accounts
OF such crimes as are committed against
the negro in the South and omit any
notice of the crime against the white
woman which provoked the retaliation:
they write incendiary letters to turbulent
negroes all over the South advising them
to arm themselves with Winchester
rifles, and for every guilty rapist who
pays the penalty for his crime to shoot
Gown the first two white men he meets.
thousands of such letters have been
written TO Georgia in the last three
months. BY such methods they call into
existence the very state Of things they
pretend to depore, condition of affairs
fhat did not exist and never would have
existed but for them and their senseless.
unjust and incendiafy conduct
Governor Gambler says the intcrmed-
dlers Of the North do not represent re-
spectacle minority ard that the lawless
ana criminal negroes of the South consti-
tute less. He continues:
\ few abandoned reckless. criminal
negroes are responsible for an the rapes
and lynchings that have occurred and
their influence on those around them Is
deplorably bad and far reaching.
Still it is true that rape. the crime
which nine times ont of ten is the cause
immediate or remote of lynching is as
much deplored by the better class og
negroes as by the better class Of white
men. But as because some negroes com