The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-14
J. cuLPEPPER
Has Doubts and Misgivings About
 the "Omnipotent Nigger."


 If YOU. were to try, I don't believe you can tell how many times l have not taken my seat to write you. My neighbors are 50 habited to proprlety they never do anything of "intrust" to the outside world. We never make "blowing horn" of somebody's visit to the community. We don't get married only once in a while; we don't kidnap; we hardly ever lave lynching bee; we don't strike ile." We are just or dinary people with enough Populism as a leaven of propriety. There is good sprinkling of Democrats just across the line, but they didn't attend the last election in great numbers. l think, while they never heard of 1t, they were pretty thoroughly inocuiated with Hamlet's philosophy
 ITO bear the ills We have rather than
 fly to those we know not of"
 That fellow Hamlet made some ob- servations about conscience that ap- plies pretty well to Democrats if they had any conscience. And their great desire to be honest indicates con- science. Some very good people were of. the opinion that it was all wind about honesty. told 'em I had been a close observer of Democrats ever since before Kolb's first term and I ac- tually believed they were in earnest about wanting to be honest, so earnest that they would run the whole scale Of crime, break every moral law and de- stroy every vestige of religion to at- tain the end. The returns from some counties showed that l was correct in my high opinion of the noble Demo- crats who hunger and thirst" after honesty. I have had doubts about suc- cess, but when the party took sanc- f,.ar ay,I asnI icfa hn olo ho a ta 'unspotted from the world" I knew it was Good bye. John,'' with dishon- esty. The world, the flesh and devil' are powerless against the pulpit and partisan press united to bring about honesty. My notion is that it is not improper for partisan newspaper to advocate honesty, but it is so out of place for a preacher. Why, if we all become constitutionally honest. what If the organic law makes us honest, we can become reli- gious by statute and do away with the expense of the gospel. The preacher who is committed to the doc- Urine of honesty by Constitution need not repine when religion by statute takes the butter from his bread. Oh, the nigger, the nigger! He makes us steal from each other. He makes us dishonest. He destroys our religion. Why. only the other day I read of one of these Messengers of Peace" who, in the anticipation of an improbability of co-education. was real werlilse. How ever. the Democratic party is commit ted to the new doctrine of honesty, even at the expense of monumental in gratitude to the nigger. I cant rn- derstand the Democratic intent to de- stroy the Reserve Force of the party except upon the hypothesis of glorious suicide. If self-destruction is the cb- ject of the party I am satisfied that its last act will crown it with glory that will obscure all its errors.
 I didn't vote for but one of your nominees. Your very persistency about them all being honorable men made me suspicious. I knew you had read Marc Antony's oration, in which he speaks of a lot of rascals as honorable men," Marc had never read Dickens but I am sure he used honorable men, in a Pickwickian sense. I honestly thought you used the terms in the same sense and took the hint to let 'em alone. I'll tie to any fellow who has demonstrat- ed a courage of conviction, even when I know he is wrong. A good Democrat refused the whole batch because, he said. there were too many "Eternities at law" to suit his notions.
 Well. we'll have the Convention and we shall see what we'll see. I am "bothered in my mind" about it. I'm afraid of the Black Belt nigger when we come to ratify. I notice Governor Jones's opinion that the Convention Is only kind of Advisory Body. He also resurrects the obsolete doctrine of Sov- ereignty of the People. The Sover- eighty of the People doesn't disturb me bit-I know it's played out" The Omnipotence of the nigger lis the fel- Ter" Suppose the new Constitution is made in the interest of white people, assures white supremacy and secures equality of the whites in legislation then the black rascal is going to assert his omnipotence and reject that Constitution. Then, again, SUD- pose the black rascal put. forth his omnipOtence in the conven- tion. in which he reserves to himself the lions share in legislation, then he'll ratify such a constitution if all the while people in the State and some from Georgia vote against it. Oh the nigger is something like the octopus of the late lamented calamity howlers He reaches for us, envelops us, controls us.
 If the delegates frame a constitution without taking into counsel the auto crat of the Black Belt, they are going 10 De expensive without achieving de- sired honesty. That is, we are in this fix: The organic law must be framed to suit certain section of the State or the Nigger will rise in his glorious Democratic nature and swear by his Omnipotence that he must be supreme, honesty or no honesty. Great is the Nigger!
 Speaking of collecting news reminds me that it isn't necessary for a corre- spondent to be running around, like a chicken with it's head off. to secure items of interest. All things come to him who waits" and news is a part of all things. They also serve who only stand and wait" applies to a lazy cor respondent. I had a letter the other day from a good Democrat, whose feel tngs were outraged at some of the Gov ernors work. l. seems the Governor had made some appointments of wicked men who had lrerited reward. My cor respondent is inclined to be religious. and. like the few Democi ats who voted fin the late election, claims a desire of honesty. He thinks the Governor oughtto advise with Godly men when he goes to make an appointment. He indirectly solicited me to use my pow- erful influence to ruin this administra- tion because, forsooth, some wicked