The Atlanta constitution., 1900-08-27
The Peoples Forum
A New Englander Talks.

Editor COnStltut1On-AS a native OF Olu
New England and a descendant of Puri-
tan ancestors who came to this country
In 1853, | want to give you and your
southern friends an idea of my feelings
with regard 10 that phase of the negro
question that has to do with criminal as
saults, rioting, burning and lynching.
1t IS the honest opinion of most south
ern folk that every man. woman and
child in the section of our republic geo.
graphically styled New England Is
negro-Phile. therefore a southern Phobe,
and a justifier of everything African.
from a Sam Hose affair to the calm,
good work of Booker Washington. Such
an opinion is based upon ignorance ana
Indifference. | can recall without much
casting about of mind hundred New
England men and women of my acquaint-
ance, young and old. who have very pro-
found and pronounced feelings with re-
gard TO the negro, whether he be OF the
south or of the north. These friends. all
of good station, share my views upon the
matter and their opinion is mine. For
instance. when the news was spread In
the north regarding that arch tiend, Hose.
the burning of him ard the other detallS
of him. these people did not at once pass
judgment upon the whole southern peo-
pie, nor, indeed, upon the whole negro
race: but, instead. they calmly reviewed
the facts, anu Whlle iltN hSpA A0N<A'~N -
general the assumption of law and Its ad-
ministration by armed. frenzied moOs,
they declared that any man, OF what
ever color, who should so completely
beastalize himself was worthy no inner
sentiment nor no filter punishment thah
that which befell this black beast IN hu-
man form.
The feelings of these few friends OF NINE
are not solely their feelings, nor my
feelings. but if the truth could be had,
this feeling OF trite punishment hitting
tho crime turks in the breast OF every
fond mother and in the heart OF every
true man IN country. city and town oa
New England.
When the news came of the rlot.ng IN
New Orleans, and the death OF IC"
blacks and a few whites. and whcn IL oe-
came known that the riot started by the
hand of a lawless black. did these friends
of the south in the east visit lhols'la tloH
and reyliinss upon the entire I'm
neonIa? Not 50! While they again ielt
certain regrets and deprccauons, "n!te
pride Angio-SaXon pride, coilSdtIs t uiI4s''
pride entered their hearts. anu t,e. 9,1
ed that every black man VINO L.Ated -
GaaiIv naud against a white shoeld Dc
visited with red punishment ~ VII
When he news of the riot IN New ON
reached The ears of these New Ehsi".-a
people. they We're not at 4 loss Ior an .l,,e, -
Dlanation of the causes OF the riot; Al'~y
Simply turned back the pages OF M
diaries and looked at th9 re.aolS ~ 1,bi.-n
prompted this southern lynchlIlS anu nc NC
southern burning, ana trey XIV, ~ ~
why some white peoP5ie pi5 li,r,n1arv IN MeH nnnish
visited rather milo summary Puiii "a
rnerr upon some black lolks
There is n certain neSro-chsthl@a . MA.te
woman in Boston, OF the name ol Jew w.
Sha calls herself the white negro. Sut-
Co.'s To her in her new relation. Dut t!e
southern press MAJ now, WIN SglL-
resnect. take up hvt name. In tnd1 ~
may without lesSenlnS their ulShl!ty, sSse -
gacT that while on the way to New Or-
leans. she stop in that 2reat northern - c4.S
New York the home OF many negro y ~, ~,
nathizers end less han 90 mlIes Iroil'
boston. where she is organizing her II
yading forces. l trust the southern peo7
nle and the southern press VIII IS7"tu
Miss Jewctt in her true hght, anu tor
taIa her too seriously. nor aScrlbe her
views and utterance5 to the enlfe Ne"
England people. for. indeed ana IN ruin, ~,
she is not taken very seriously sdSe ~
newspapers reporters ana corr
even in her own baiIlwlck; -, ..
And last, but not least, 1t Is the opinion
of the best bred and most supStal'imdI m
citizans of the east that 1t would DE
hetter, wiser and productive of more good
~ the other citizens of the east ana OF
the north tend TO their own matters ana
LET their southern nelghDorS ADJUST theirs
ofter their own style and in their own
time And the people of the east and the
north will have plenty to do
Inst now some of the newspapers or
New York city are making puerile at
facks upon the police force, upon Mr.
Croker. upon Tammany Han. II Is an
ontgrowth of the anti-negro riot of
few days ago. The Herald Is particular
" ambitious in its screeching- 1t wants
to know why the police cluboed lnoheh-
ei,-a ra1roes and why the riot was not
nut down more promptly. 1t has taken
under it's wing a certain negro bell boy
who was dubbed into submission Dy the
moiica II makes light of the fact that
This negro of light skin went armed with
a shooting iron and swore that he would
kill the first white man that saiu poo
70 him 'Tha first white man happened
to be a police detective who searched nm
and found upon him a revolver, and who