The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
SOUTH IS ROCKED BY
BILL CHANDLER.
Speaking at Unwilling Of Monument
to Chester a. Arthur, Chandler
Declares Negroes Are Be-
ing Reenslaved - Also
Attacks Roosevelt

Fairfield, VT. August Pa granite
monument marking the site Of the birth
place of the late President Chester A.
Arthur was dedicated here today.
The principal speaker was Former Sem
ator William f. Chandler, of New Hamp-
shire, who was secretary Of the navy
III Arthur's cabinet.
Negroes and the suffrages.
Mr.. Chandler said in part:
1T is not inappropriate here and now
IT, conjecture what Arthur would do, or
try to do, or wish to do if he lived IL
this beginning of new century WheA
tbs condition OF the coored race as de-
fined and supposed to be made secure
at the close OF the war for the union by
three amendments OF the national con
stitution, Is being radically and wicked
ly changed.
'"rhe thirteenth amendment gave free
dom to five millions of slaves. The
fourteenth guaranteed to the new cIu-
zens the equal protection of the laws,
with the whites. including due process
Of law when charged with crime. The
fifteenth gave them the right Of sui
when exercised, to life, liberty and the
pursuit.. of happiness.
But now so it Is that the existing ten
millions OF colored citizens are 10 live
whose advocates deliberately defy the
constitution OF the country. First, they
are not to vote. This is the avowcd
purpose of the controlling southern
whites. In some states they are kept
from the ballot box under cunningy
contrived constitutions and laws which
are In direct conflict with the fifteenth
amendment. In other states intimida-
ton and violence continue to be the
method Of suppressing the colored votes.
Two cJlnn N g m n
radical and complete by direct purpose
of the south. The fifteenth amend
ment says that congress shall enforce
the right of suffrage by appropriate
laws. Congress wholly omits to do this.
and under President Cleveland In 1894
the national election laws then existing
were repealed. The north continues TO
submit to their repeal. BY the sup
preston of the suffrage. southern states
obtain a representative in congress and
presidential elector for every 100000
Of the colored people-flfty congress-
men and fifty electors in all for the ten
millions: the power of which fifty con.
gressmen and fifty electors is controlled
and exercised by the white southern
ers. Quite likely these fifty electorS
will change the result of the next presi-
dental election. The north continues
to submit to this wrong.
Attacks on the South.
Second, er,holdtred by northern apa-
thy in reference to the suppression Of
the votes of the colored people, the south
jas adopted another principle. L he col
ored men are not to have the equal pro-
lection of the laws in the exercise Of
their fundamental rights as citizens
When charged with crime they are not
to be duly inCictee and formally tried
by jury. They are to be charged with
crime by irresponsible mobs; they are to
be found guilty by the outcries Of the
same mob and they ere to be summary
put to death by the violent hands Of the
same mob-by shooting. hanging, burn
ing; with manning, mutilation and eX-
"r*ci&t ting torture. ais is almost the
universal practice as to every colOred
citizen charged with crime OF Violence.
This principle is generally adopted a.
the south and il is ey' ending OIihWafG.
No power of the nation is eXertcd to OPP
pose it. No sincere and earnest decla-
ration is made against it by any political
party wiling TO stake its whole existence
Oh the issue of the conflict, as were the
men Of 1906 and 1866
Third, not even is the thirteenth
amendment abohshing slavery sacred in
the sight of the Oppfassors of the colored
people of America. The Infamous va
srancy laws by which in 1865 1t
sought to reensiave the newly emanci-
rated colored man, but which We're IN
1867 swept away by the rising tide o.
Northern Indignation are being reenacted
thirty-eight years later in some of the
southern states; and the practice Of
pconag e-the virtual enslavement Of coll
red iaborers-has been going forward
for several years without discovery by
the north. toi.ss quently without resist
ance
Wrongs Are Real"
mo man desires less than [ to revive
sectional issues, with the war for seces-
sion more than a third Of a century be-
hind us and a history rather than an
experience to most of the American peo-
ple-only a history to the active, influen-
t!al and powerful men who control
America today But the wrongs to which
am calling attention are real and terri
flying and they will not down because 1t
is disagrteabe for the politicians of both
parties to face the uncomfortable situa-
ton. Because the negro is black the re-
publican party has existed and practical
ly controlled the government for forty
seven years with great power. promi-
hence and profit to the greatest Amer
leans of the last half century. 1t will
rot serve for the republican party now
to find fault because the negro Is black