The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-29
PARKHURST'S VIEW
THE SITUATION IN THE SOUTH AS
HE SEES IT.
A VERY FAIR STATEMENT.
HE REPLIES TO GOV. GAMBLERS
CRITICISM

Neither North Nor south Like the
Negro-The Southern Man Does Not
Love Him and Says SO--The North
ern White Man DisIiI<es Him and
Lies About It-UnIimitcd Suffrage
for the Negro Serious BIundcr.
The Relations of the North and
South AptIy stated.
New York. April 2S.-Rev. DR.. Charles
II. Parkhurst preached to-day at the
Madison Square Presbyterian Church on
topics connected with his recent trip
South. He also made an incidental reply
to Gov. Gambler. who was reported as
having denounced those Northerners who
took an interest in educational matters in
the South
Dr. Parkhurst said that the party of
Northern people who recently made the
trip referred to did it not because they
had any special interest in the
South as distinct section, but
because they were conscious of the
unity which makes the North and South
members of each other. The conference
held at Winston-Salem, in North Caro-
lina he said, was characterized by the
utmost frankness on both sides and yet
from first to last, not an embitterinS
word was spoken. Referring to Gov.
Candlers criticisms, Dr. Parkhurst said
they would not have been made, "had the
Governor of Georgia, as did the Governor
of North Carolina, come into direct touch
- ~. or
for five minutes respired the atmosphere
which the conference exhaled.
Referring to the estimation in which the
people of the South and of the North
hold the negro, DR.. Parkhurst said:
''The Southerner does not like the ne
gro any better than the average North
erner does, and the two carry themselves
toward the negro with just about the
same amount of Christian consideration
only of the two, the Southern white man
has perhaps this advantage, that he does
not make quite as famboyant a pretense
of loving the negro as his Northern con-
fTere does. The Southern white man dis
likes the negro, and owns up to it, The
white man in the North dislikes the ne
gro and lies about it,
Suffrage a Great Blundcr.
The preacher SAID turtner.
'gThe uncfscriminating act by which
| the negroes had conferred upon them
| the right to vote, was one of the blum
ders that it is not easy to escape from
after it is once committed, but which it
would seem we ought to have had North
ern craftsmanship sufficiently intelligent
to prevent
"The counsel that both the Northern
and the Southern friends of the negro
are now giving him is to keep quiet upon
the whole suffrage matter. to keep out of
politics, not to talk about the constitu-
ton. not to insist upon his rights, but
to attend industriously to the work of
getting himself we'll ready-which he is
not now-for what God and the country
and the future may have in store for
him."
Present Conditions in South.
DR.. Parkhurst closed by the following
general reference to present conditions
| among Southern people:
"The South does not altogether love us,
but no one there hates us nearly as much
as il would be perfectly natural for them
to hate us. They are all glad that
slavery is done away with, they are glad
that they are i'm the Union. They ali
glory in the flag. even while in tender be-
reavement they lay flowers upon the
graves of the Confederate dead We be-
long to them and they belong to US and
every deed of kindness wisely rendered,
every word of sympathetic interest pru-
IDENTIFY spoken. every new commercial re-
lation and every interchange of hospitali-
ties discreetly arranged viii be so much
contribution 10 that perfect readjustment
of relations which shall make for the
enrich hment of Ollr common history"