The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-13
THE NBw Jr1sr1cE TO THE SOUTH

THE NEW JUSTICE TO THE 0oU IL
 There is every indication that the new century will see the fullest measure ol justice accorded to the South py '"o other sections of this great country anu that out of the new conditions "i4 grow harmony and good will suCh "s never characterized the relations oA o"l forefathers with each other roi' 5'i.e before the ques,i ion of slavery loo-i4Su up to nname and divide, the East sii0ei at the Virginia dynasty anu ', powerful South was bitter ana scol ut in return while failing time ana "s'in to prescribe the slave trade as u Wao defended and practiced in Mass'eIo setts. Then the new West was se'.i0u by the South, and she thouRhI It oue ripht that her ideas should control i'll the government of her Wanderlas clii
 dren who still implored her pro.eItion m and guidance These differences put ill- famed feelings already existing anu 'iie rest grew logically and naturailS ou1 ol the seed so planted, put lhe
 public has only remembered 'he
 tenuating facts when brought to nilhu bv Hoar and Spear and HouSh III IiieSe latter days. 4,,o
 Now we find the negro orator at the Cbarleston Exposition assuring ms hearers;
 et mo say here that there is no suob tbino as social equality anywhere in the world; and that no sane Whlte man or negro should pay any attei''ron e to the chatter about soclal equalitS' ioi if is all bosh to talk about It. NO sah- sible negro aims at 1t or expects It. The Chicago Chronicle speaks punt 1v in answer to a challenge from tlle | Nashville American this lesson or eA- perience: ,,o,,
 ,No argument is now necessary even at inc North to convince the average
 man that the enfranchisement or the hIaclss was blunder and crime. Tlme l bas shown that, with the exception oL +ha ona amendment prohibiting slavery inc war legislation of the Republican ,,ortv was a failure, inspired in some | reenects by malice and in all by lgnor- ance and even as to the slavery pro hibition we now see it violated m uls- +ant land over which the nag waves but to which the Constitution does not apply" +ho
 radical difference between the ideals nrevailng in America to-day ana those of the past is admitted by Elmer son Hough. who goes to the root or the matter when he shows that other ma +arials are now present with us: Could that half million dead have risen rom the grave in the decade following thas truly cruel war the nomenclatuIe ol many a Western city would be different ] to-day, and the face of the census maps i would show a. different story. Io-uaS the whole upper portion Of the popuia- tion charts of the United states IS black with the indication of a forelgh born population. It Is the South aiohe
 which is truly American,
 r,he south has but to wait Tor US vindication unless she be already Vlhul- ! cated. At any rate, the magnanllli.S of the confessions now current ana tne fine tone of justice underlying the mat 1 ter of our history as it is written py those whose work will live must ellnli- hate bitterness from our hearts ana pre- pare us for the new and larger put not better America that is to play so large q mart in the drama of humanity TOT the twentieth century. In that fulure .the South need not be careful ot the social equality that can never exist out side Utopia; she need not be so pune tilious when all her claims have been conceded, and she can afford to be gen erous toward those who are so kindly considerate. The past is safe beyond
 peradventure-let us work in the pres ent and look to the future dawning TOT us all.-From the Florida Times Union.