Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-14
Henry Watterson Thus Char
acterizes Negro Suffrage.
RESULT OF 0BSRR WALTON
Kentuckian Declares the North Does
Not and Cannot Enthusiastically
peaIs to Republicans to Have Done
WITH conceit.

y cars ~ oDRerVdtl0H eNneUieuee and
rejection always directed from
sympathetic point OF view am fore
ed to agree with the secretary OF war
mat negro suffrage is a failure. Ii is
IA failure because the southern blacks
are not equal to it. III lis a failure he /
cause the southern whites will not
have it,.
MS was the keynote of tIe address
delivered by Col Henry Wattersop al
the annual Appamattox day BANQUET
of the Hamilton club here last evening
Ehough there were many present who
did not agree with the <entucstan
they gave him credit for honesty 81
conviction and cheered him for IT,
SIR Natterson, in responding 10 lie toast
Peace between the Sections referred 10
fhe dnal responsibility of the north aud
seiith for African slavery and the war Of
secession. and to the negro question
which he said IS "a racial problem o he
solved By The process Of evolution not lit
political agitation
appeal 10 yon rs republicans. he
SAID, ana through YOU. appeal do Che
FephbiiepHs q the United States, TO have
done with the eonoaif TINT lnlegs va,
stand by the black man. tbat unless vou
continue MIN as mn issue in partisan poll
Tics injustice NH he doue him II, the
petteting pf his conditions aud In fhe ne
auistion of property with nothing lie bag
made Wendcrous progress the last five aud
tuift% YEARS. and relatively grenter pros
gIess II the sogfh than in The north ire
could not have done this without THE SYM
ptthy ana co-operafeu of the southern
whites BE has made little progress in /
the arts pf self-g0yernmcnt either north
or south, because of The agitation which
has kept him Ia state Of perpetual excite
ment. With 30 helpful public opinion TO
moderate " aud Inns been made the sport
and prey of political ex gency. always sel-
FISH, aaa with respect 90 him more OF less
gsioRagN and needless
Why Washington The Patriot.
glIe iaysteries ii prosi,le,,s.e sFe hidden
from you and me why the negro was
brought hitheF from the lviids ~ Africa
and sold into siageiy his redemption
Thence. aud all his redemption cost MS
bud, assured Thai behmd these mysteries
lay some vast design, | fsei that God has
alFays been with MS and Is With MS now
NhN washington, he Datftot, instead OF
I've the adventures Why Lincoln The
sees instead u seward. the seholar9 If
lt WAS not the VIII 81 heaveu mat The
confedenley should fail that tiie union
should prevail why were aii The accidents
81 the war With the north and against the
saNtht Tho death Of jackson. ID he erit. I
zeal moment ii the valley ~ vhgina. the
arrival at The critical moment IL tie
Monitor IN As waters IF Hampton Roads,
u it lie not the reii af heaven that We
shall carry the Ghtisti8n nessagp 81 Gree
dom and civilization 10 the end Of the
earth why did not the Lord send Dewey
home, No. no, gentlemen, as SOD was ra-
diaht IN he stars that shnne ever Wash
ngton az Valley Forge, over Lincoln ut
tiettTsburg oyef Grant in the Wilderness
oNel tue fleets IN Manila hay ana the huls
lies u front of Santiago; does his radiance
shine upon rs ltrofhers III blood AMI arts
aud arms whether our knees go DOWN
amid he SHOWS of The hawefs Tong ago
the south, fofgiring an. accepted the yer-
dict IN perfect faith Il Is for the aorth. !
torgetting all % seal II ia perfect loyes
Negro Can Never be Recognized.
The negro can never become in any
Dencicent OF genline sense. mn Integral
and recognized paft Of the body nDiitic.
except through thc forces on rYeluilpn
which arc apdouAtedly lit work, but which
exceedingly slow BlaEe there 81 Que ne
gro Sit for citizenship there are millions of
negroes Wholly unit The h6ihouse pro
cess has heap tried nld ii has tailed II.
iagekted with eVerE light enjoyed by tite
whites. thf blacks gliaing iii III Things
else have hrneght corruption into tho suf
frage and discredit upon themselves. Is il 4
not kinl Of madness furthor 10 press al
tideial methods, which, however iastiaed
Theoretically from edueatnual leokouts III
MiehigaI, Iowa and Wisconsin, fall helm
less To the ground IN their practical appii
cation 20 the seni-batharnus tollers in chez
cotton nelds and corn lands of Alabalna,
Georgia and South GHfolhae
! appeal % Won equally ID what I con
eeiFe the tfue Interest ri The blael nAeple
aiong with the white pcupie Of the south 4
nay. and 81 the north ls well, for All Of oliE