The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-02-24
eRAxTON ADDRESSES SOUTH
ERNERS IN NEW YORK.
Virginia Orator Says Whites WiHAI-
ways Rule.

Two sentiments divi led the applause
in about equal proportion in the Waldorf
Astoria ii New York SATURDAY ui,ht
where members ui the New YORK south.
srn Society 10 the number Of 300 met AZ
Us seventeenth annual banquet. One va,
that voiced ny the presiding officer former
Judge Augustus Nau WICK. when h..
sturdily indorsed the Monroe doctrine
and cOmcemued as worthy only "of
pygmy statesmanship" the debt collect
ing exped tiors ltely INDUCED in bv the
German Kaiser. The other was the hold
utterance of an eloquent Virginian. who
threw down the gauntlet to President
Roosevelrs southern policy. berated
what he called the stupendous folly Of
the Fifteenth Amendment 70 the Constitu-
ton anu congratulated the new South
upon i1s deliverance from negro DONNA.
ton.
To the toast George Washington g
Hon 4. {. Braxton. of Staunton Va
responded. When he got down TO the
negro question his auditors arose from
their chairs and cheered.
NO white man believes in the Fifteen h
Amendment. he said, save as a theory
TO be applied TO some other mans case
The lest advocates of its application
70 the South stood aghast when they
met II lace to face 10 the city of Washing
ton, in the State Of California. and in orr
new insuiar possessions 1t l. wrong in
principle. it il impossible of enforcement
where the inferior race il numerous II il
demOralizing to the negro, it is cor-upt-
ing to the white man To abandon that
ignorant and helpless rare to their own
devices and control would be the greatest
cruelty TO set them mp as rulers over the
race that produced Washington and Lee
would be crime against nature and a
sin against God
The Southern people entertain not
the slightest animOsity against the ne
gro, said Hon. A. G. Braxton in the
course OF his speech. "They are the hes.
friends he ever had His condition in
the South today is far better, his op-
portunities for moral and material i'm
prOvement are far greater than ia any
other country upon the face of the earth
and none of the rights guaranteed to
him under the Fourteenth Amendment
a. 1t was understood when adopted. are
either denied or begrudeed To him there
Bur, Mr.. Chairman. while all this ia true
still in the South. just as everywhere
else in the world, white men are unalter.
ably resolved that, come what NAV. no
black, red nor yellow men shall ever rule
over tuetu OF tucir children so long as
time shall roll. This is the decree OF ma
tnre which no human statute can reverse
There is hut one way to make laws 10
govern white men, and that is first kill
all the white men
"One by one, the Southern States have
reliuqnished the principle offree manhood
suffrage. so dear tn them. but which they
like the citizens Of Washington. gladly
exchange for the immunity from negro
domination; have awaited themselves Of
the expadients which they have found an
thoritativeiy declared to be permissible
under the Fifteenth Amendment and
placed such restrictions upon suffrage If.
respective of race or color. that the vast
sea OF Ignorant, venal aud vicious negroes
Is safely and perpetually shut ont.
Responding to the toast 1.-The Sonth.
eerner in New York" Judge Martin !
keogh, OF the Supreme Court. made a
taetful speech that pleased his auditors.
There was no yellow streak or black
mark in anything connected with the
Southern Society's dinner. Even the
roses placed as bontonnieres at each cover
we're exclusively lilly white.