The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-27
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER p, 1860.
irrs SIN STILL RACES,

The New York Sun continues its AMI
madversions upon social and political COM
ditions in the Southern States. In its is
sue Of last Tuesday it had an elaborate
discussion of them. In the course Of this
il says that one of the besetting weak
nesses OF the people Of the Southern States
has always been their Representatives,
touching any discussion of their affairs
we 90 not believe this to be a fact now.
at any rate, whatever it might have been
forty years ago. Certainly The Times has
nothing of 1t. The Times is as ready 10
discuss social and political conditions in
The South as ii is to discuss those condi-
lions in Germany. One other point we
wish TO note before taking up the Suns
main contention. Ii says. speaking Of the
'carpet-bagger' regime in the South, but
in general The practical fruits in law Of
that period we're valuable rather than de-
ieterious.'' God forbid that any fair
minded man. acquainted with the facts
should hold that carpet-bag rule. in the
South produced valuable consequences.
The South has made great strides since
the war. ii is true but those strides have
been due 10 the native enterprise, pluck
and self-denial of her population, and in
spite of the awful plight that the recon
struction period and carpet-bagger rule
subjected her 10. Much as she has de-
veloped since the war. We believe that if
there had been no reconstruction and no
Fifteenth Amendment, the South would be
to-day the garden spot OF this Union. the
home OF conservatism. peace and order;
and free silverisn would have less show
In the South than in any other part OF the
Union.
The main idea N The Suns article is that
The people of the South will keep up a
case of the South, whereas ali the rest
Of the nation accepts nationality and
knows no difference between ore part of
the United States anu another part of the
United States. But the sun is totally
mistaken in thinking that The people OF
the South Wish % keep up anything in the
nature of sectionalisn; they long Tor quiet
and order and q condition of things in
which the South would be looked on as. an
integral part of this Union: whose laws
and institutions are in absolute harmony
with HE laws and institutions of the I'm
ion. But It IS az the Sun says. this pes,i-
lential and everlasting negro question keeps
the South in the condition of a segregated
section. and whilst the rest of the Union
insists on backing the negro population in
is resolve 10 dominate her local affairs
what would the Sun have the white people
of The South to DO? If The editor of the
Sun lived IN Africa, would he permit the
monkeys there TO dominate him, whatever.
their majority might be? We have not nut
.he case too strongly, even by this Illus
1rs,ion. If the editor of the sun would
knew something OF what negro rule means
let him read the PROSTATE Stete," writ
Ten by one Of the editors of the New York
Tribune who WIS upon the ground and
saw what he wrote about al the tine. in
reconstruction days, when the negroes and
their carpet-hag allies controlled the Gov
ornament Of South Carolina. lie; him read
the testimony taken by the .'reconstruc
ton committee Of Congress. and published
by Congress IN foar volumes; let him read
The history of the Malone negro rule in
Virginia, as contained In w.,. L. Royals
History Of The Virginia Debt contro-
,'ersy." AMI after reading all Of this testi-
mony as TO What negro domination in
Southern communities means and must
mean, lei him ask himself If he would live
in a community that was forced 10 submit
to negro dosnination2 The Sun ;7retent,s
that il Wishes to discuss this s,,f,ec,
calmly and without feeling Let ii reas
the Testimony re have referred 10. and
then answer frankly whether anything
could induce The editor. If he be a white
man. &c submit 10 such condition of
shiagss
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