The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-10

tlOil VI was settled IN harmony. never yet
J was peace found this side of division!
To treat this question with expedients is
| temporizing and uselsess. You might IS
well salye a broken limb with vaseline, or
| treat a cancer with catnip tea. This is a
case of surgery-surgery heroic, hut beneti-
cent. The knife that sewers the limb, but
saves the life.
| The Permanent Solution.
On this great question stand now
where l have always stood-where Web
| ster stood and Henry Clay; where Thomas
jefferson stood, and Abraham Lincoln. and
! Henry Grady, and Council and Turner and
| the rest-where in time all men will stand
who see the light and dare to face it.
Separation is the logical the inevitable.
the only way. No other proposed solu ion
will sand the test of logic and apartment.
For no statute will permanently solve
| this problem. No auodyne of law, no
counter-irritant of legislation will quiet it
| longer than the hour of its application.
The evil is in the blood of races, the dis
ease is in the bones and the marrow and
the skin of autagonistc peoples
Religion does not solve the problem.
for the Christ spirit will not be all per-
vasive until the millenial dawn.
Education complexities the problem.
Every year of enlightenment increases the
negros apprehension of his position, of
his merit and attainment, and of the in
| consistency between his real and his con-
| stitutional status in the republic. Educa-
| ton brings perception, and ambition fol-
lows with aggressive assertion against
the iron walls of a prejudice that has
never yielded and will never yield The
! conflict is irrepressible and inevitable.
Time complexities the problem by giving
increasing numbers and additional provo
cation to the negro, and increasing dan
ger TO the struggle which logic and destiny
| render certain.
Politics complexities the problem by
bringing times of fierce cvid conflict when
the passions and prejudices of faction
may be moved to partisan alignment with
the deep and lurking dangers of the race
question!
We have come in Gods providence tc
the parting of the ways.
In the name of history and of humanity
in the interest of both races, and in tbs
fear of God call for division.
We can make it peaceably now. We
may be forced to accomplish it in blood
hereafter
The time is propitious and the country
is ripe, for separation.
There is not hope in fact or reason foI
the negro outside of separation.
| There Is no peace, no purity, no Tranquil
development, no durable agricultural pros
perity, and no moral growth for the white
race outside of separation.
1t is neither impossible nor impracticable
The elements are willing and the way is In
reach. It is not a day of impossibilities
To the genius the energy and the necessi-
ties of this age all things are possible. Ev-
cry day sees the business world. the ed
vocational world, the political world con-
verting the impossible into the possible.
The hand of the Almighty is steadily
opening the way.
One-third of the territory of the republic
is untaken and uIdeveloped, and recent
| official testimony has declared that stored
reservoirs can redeem in the West a ter
ritory equal to the maintenance of 10000
600 people. The islands of the seas are