The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-29
PARKHURST TO GAMBLER
NEW YORK PREACHER To
THE GOVERNOR or GEORGIA.
Both southern and Northern whites,
but Former Are More Frank.

NEW YORK. April 2S-The Rev. DR..
Charles III. Parkhurst preached to-day az
the Madison-square Presbyterian Church on
topics connected with his recent trip South.
He also made an incidental reply 10 Cow
ernor Gambler. who was reported a. having
denounced those Northerners who took an
interest In educational matters in the
South DIR. Parkhurst said the party OF
Northern people who recently made the trip
referred TO old il not because they had any
special interest in the South as a distinct
section. but because they were conscious
of the unity which makes the North and
South members OF each other. The con-
ference held at Winston-SaIem. in North
Carolina. he said. was characterized by
the utmost frankness on both sides. AMI
yet. from first TO last, not an embittering
word was spoken. Referring 10 Governor
Gamblers criticisms DR.. Parkhurst said they
would not nave been made had the Gov
ernor of Georgia. as did the Governor OF
North Carolina, come into direct touch with
the personnel of the conference or for five
minutes respired the atmosphere which the
conference exhaled."
Referring to the estimation i'm which the
people OF the South and those OF the North
NAA AZ htSlOs H. dlhiuIcl cdlu. Liz
Southerner does not like the negro any
better than the average Northerner 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 so
fambOyant a pretense of loving the negro
as his Northern conferee does. The South
ern white man dislikes the negro and owns
up to 1t. The white man in the North dis
EEes the negro and lies about it,"
The preacher said further: The undis-
eliminating act by which the negroes had
conferred upon them the right 10 vote was
one of those blunders that IL il not easy
TO escape from after once IL is committed.
but which IL would seem we ought TO have
had Northern craftsmanship sufficiently in
telligent 10 prevent. The counsel that both
the Northern and the Southern friends or
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
Constitution. not To insist upon his rights.
hut to attend industrioUsly TO the work
OF getting himself well r~eady-which he Is
not nOW-fOr what God and the country ana
the future may have I'm store for him"
DIR. 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 IL done.
They all glory in the flag. even while in
tender bereavement they lay flowers upon
the graves of the Confederate dead. We be-
long to them and they belong 70 US. and
every deed of blindness wisely rendered
every word of sympathetic interest pru-
IDENTIFY spoken, every new commercial rela-
ton and every Interchange OF hospitaities
discreetly arranged will be so much con.
tribution TO that perfect reimbursement OF
relations which shall make for the enrich
ment of our common history.