New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-22
HISS UNION WAR SONG.
Southern Society Listens TO Defence
of Negro Treatment.

Cheers greeted Dixie and The Star span
.les tZanrer- but a low r11urmur OF misses
sounded through Marching Through Georgia
at she seventeenth annual diuner OF the New"
York Southern Society. heidi at the Nsiuo'i-
Astoria las, night The negro question was dis
cuss&S freely, the speakers denying that '"e
southern whites were the enemies of the blacks;
instead they said, they were the best frienos VI
the negroes, and this sentiment Was arpiauueu
heartily l,v the southern women who throhSeu
the boxes and galleries.
II was essentially n Southern gathering the
songs OF the Southland. Dixie MafFia"u
snd NY old X :ntucky Home" were greeted
with the widest enthusiasm
Augustus Van Wick, president of the So
cietv was todstmaster. After telling OF the
sentiment clineine round the South and detail
ing her resources ex-Justice Van Wyck said;
WIN, the south needs and must have Is peace
icy ,,ee,iIisr 10 that section commonly called
he negro question. The South understands it; and
il alone il will be settled rightly ana 2us.A ~
whites ana blacks OF long standing with no idea
Of social equality IS vel know1 10 . tilo ~ he
black race is the white of the South Inc
Test ,Inor the absence OF conflict between the two
and he who destroys or lessons the anllty SO eN-
man but an enemy. Intentionally unintentional-
X to civilization Let no AmeTiean eTes Mar
of races much the subject OF peace al nome
Our nation can and must have International peace
and Of that is 10 hold ntlo!ats me ne
firmly establish the Monroe Doctrine than all
others since the DAYS Of those VINO Srea'ga u, ton
has sown the SEED OF agitation Tor ie f III asnys
from the international code Of the right OF ma
equilibrium nations in peace. when he reQuesteg
the two strongest nations of the Old World TO seio
him their psltrv bills against Venezuela for sette-
me2t making mem Itpfa IF civilizsd nations as
in riS
uriuco Il was the stroke hy master hand Mitn
10 a sense Of i5roprfety belonging our age Of
progress which circles around that central figure
IF the worlds history. the great Prince OF feaCe
By this act Mr.. Carnegie challenges tho premier
fellies Of knight errantry an ms great sduIe; Lon
Cuixotc. The constant fear Of the possible IN,
the world from universal war over the South Amer
lean controversy
4 c Rraxton Of Staunton Va. recorder of
the convention recently held Richmond, after
paying tribute to Washington Southerner
spoke on the negro question as follows:
We believe that he sreatst n. n, ageneg er for
of our country and the preservation of our gov
eminent is popular education-the one good thins
fore the state should do its utmost TO encourage
and it with all classes Of her citizens re-
After grim vissged war had closed his crimson sa!
testament but not yet srnoothed MS wrinkieo ron
while the tempestuous waves OF puo,tc fdS =;
still tossing the ship OF state about IN d
cVll hour 10y the colnbneG agenc! Oh 80 ", IN
force. the fifteenth amendment was added 10 our
Yond reason and right in one direction as slavery
had taken us in the other -. s..oo,,.,, a,.r5
mont. save theory 10 he applied TO some other
mans case The loudest advocates of its applica-
ton 10 the south stood aghast when they met ii
face in the city of WASHINGTON in the state
i is in principle it is Impossible OF eH i
IS liner y, t the negro it is corrupng to the
white to abandon that ignorant and helpless
greatest cruelty: 30 them up rulers over the
race-that produced Washington and Lee r wonid Dc
2 crime against nature and sin against GOD
The Southern people entertain not the sh;htessl
a9sg sSn ever 1f ha nfsrG IN 1 i their ctS esE
than their words In every thing that per per!
raips to his welfare : and citizen IN ms
rights Of life liberty in the acquisition or prep
fbiTt> nv ears enjoyed more in the south than
he did elsewhere in all this world since nc
SOUTH i,-doy is far better his opportunities fer
moral and material Improvement are far greater.
earth. and of The rights guaranteed to MN
stood Then adopted are either denied Or grudged
him there But Nj Chairman: while al sfis is rs
still. in tho South just as e,eIE Nnere 81 ~
The world white men are ter ,n r II man
l-s csrr rue over them their children 60 long
Their Is Int one praz to enable negroes to govern
white men. and that is first 10 kin all the white
T-tterlr Impoverished as were. We spent tens
II millions public schools Tor IN, aosan,l
nothing ami from which they gradaied , nnIy
officer the army Of blacks arfafed seiiul!
and rersiSfenrly against tho very men who were
oIucsfinc them. We endeayored to impant IN
Them ~cne conception of tho functions ei govern
men, and irnpaTt TO them some faint kno" =
edge n interest in. tho political q'lestlos OF
81 ,11e effect Of their ballots probably might
W. have sung psalms Ia dead horse
10 sooner had The Fifteenth Amendment eeNn
rrorlsfrned the negroes handed themselves To-
sether in solid: inpen'trab bic mass: and npue
To The instincts nf their race. voluntarily sunnlll
themselves 80 political bondage as
from which without any ehorr re-, Of , Lner
they had recently been l'her8teo Ln'S hsi az
rfslanx differed by the worst clements h inc
sornnnunity manned by their blind tIT!reas"nins
and filo7tghfiess followers. whom theE heraeh 10
I'D from the polls like dunn driven cattle soon
became a menace tle very CIVILIZATION OF inc
.o1u-r-- The necessary and inevitable consequence
r rhir hopeless consolidation OF the negro vote vas
the creation i'm the South Of Write man ana a
HACK mans party. which single issue of white or
in Cts consequences mat II
simply ohliterated all others
Thus it was that the persistent refusal of the
negroes accept political freedom iorSed me
white mans party, regardless Of any and all po-
herSies by which. for the time might ne
dominated. -,
dom that he had created for himself. Inc same
si,sracreGistics that hsd caused him TO submit
without resistance 10 be enslaved by every race
couspnsedly follow IN chains at the chariot wheels
Of mis- political masters.
inc f,egros defects had qualities. rather than
against his color his The details Of the
ir substance the remedy is everywhere the same,
and consists requiring something more Of
voter than merely twenty zone years of innocuols
crtstence- In most or inc southern states the
rnsn who desires participate a voter in the
control OF government must now show himself en-
titled TO Il only by age. but also by inteili-
renee by military service or the payment Of
taxes Thus again has oyerruling Providence
brought sooo out q CYL: Tot oE thS eAclsoh OF