The Daily soliphone., 1902-05-13
NEWMAN'S VIEWS.
Editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial
 Speaks Out.

Col. Newman, the able editor Ol the Pine Bluff Commercial speaks out in no uncertain terms on the negro pardon episode which is being now so widely discussed. We copy in part his views vigorously express ed:
 "Some hundred or so years ago the Puritans of the eastern states conceived the idea that human slavery in their midst was unholy (though they were then practiclng to nerfection diabolical, hellish witch craftry) and they settled upon the plan of selling their slaves to the people of aryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia. It appeared to them that to sell their slaves (chattels) to their neighbors for good rrces in hard money Of the realm would purge their own sins and they did it, not caring what became of the souls of the purchas- CTS.
 No sooner had this been done than these self-same Puritanical aboli- tionists had another gnawing of col sclence, and they made up their minds that these southern people should be made to give up these slaves-not for money, but without price. From a small beginning it soon grew into ponderons element that began religiouslY and irrelig- iously to make strife upon slave owners until finally war ensued, thousands and thousands of precious lives were sacrificed and the nation was a full house of mourners; tbe slaves were manumitted, the sou' b bapkrupted, ruined and coerced back into what was termed free union, the history of which is before the world and as black as he'll itself.
 The southern people submitted to coercion, to a damnable period Of ! four years of reconstruction and finally with intuitive strength began to recover from the thraldom heaped upon them by an ever-persecuting De ople--the Puritans of the north.
 Not day since the cruel war end ed has passed but that these same Puritans, with hypocfitical faces, have been waging bitter war upon the south. They have insisted that 9bese same negroes were as good socially and morally as the white peoole of the south, and they have never left stone unturned in their efforts to force this condition upon the south.
 Eu not single case have the people of the south attempted to gauge society in the north. There i, not a record of single effort on the part of the people of the south to interfere in any way with the elec- a,ons in the north. Those people have sent to congress whomsoever they desired; they have elected gov- e .nors of their own choosing and not at aay time have the southern people ever been accused of meddling with northern elections; in truth, it has aver been a matter of indifference to the people south of Massn x Dixon s line who are in what manner the states of the north regulated their moral, religious and political mat ters. deeming it not their province or their privledge or their pleasure to meddle or in any way interfere with conditions there-that each state or section knows best how to wepulate these things asd in such manner as it or they saw fit. That's right; that's just; that's neighborly'
 ,.Shall our people always bear the whips and scorn' of these Puritans without giving even the semolance of retaliation? There is reason if all things, or ought to be and since these Puritans pretend to love th' reoro better than do his southern ,whita brethren why not give then the benefit of some of their lov'n'