Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-07-20

world. England, France, Spain, Prus-
STA, Austria, heroic Hungary and pa
thetic Poland, Scandinavia, the Neither
lands, the intrepid Swiss, Greece, Rore,
the conquering hosts of Israel and the
semi-barbaric legions of autocratic
Russia have all marshalled their col
umns and marched solidly down the
war path of the ages under the banners
of unmixed, unmngled and uncontami-
mated white supremacy.
China, with her six thousand years
or more of stable nationality, who
taught astronomy, mathematics, music,
poetry and painting three thousand
years before the Christian era, is a
government of one blood. Japan, the
proudest and mightiest of the dark
races in the remoteness and fastness of
her sea-girt dominion is a government
Of one blood
Even the North American Indians,
the stoics of the woods, the philoso-
piers of the wilderness the fierce
horsemen of the plains, the poetic ora
tors of the mountains, the rivers and
lakes, fought the trained soldiers of
England, France and Spain, contesting
every inch of soil as they retired, step
by step, and mournfully persisted in the
| desperate and sanguinary effort to pre-
serve and protect their c. ude but proud
and native government of one blood.
In the morning of creation when the
stars sang together" and God AL
mighty breathed the breath of life into
his separate creations of mankind, the
government of one blood seems to have
been prime ordinance of the 0mnipo-
tent law-giver, violation of which
brings inevitable destruction to the Of
Tending races. The governments that
mix are doomed; the bloods that min
gle are damned.
Hon. John Sharp Williams ha;, in
several of his recent speeches, made
some very generous illusions to myself,
for which desire to express my q ate
full appreciation.
He has also, in the columns Of the
Commercial Appeal and in his speeches
quoted from and mildly criticised re-
cent publication of mine entitled, 1.-THE
Man, the Hour and the Opportunity.
While the article referred to is almost
literally historical, Mr. Williams insist
on putting his own Interpretation on it.
He is almost as careless in his construc'
Uion of what other people write, or say
as Sherman was with fire in his march
through Georgia.
He says the people of Mississippi
understood that Governor Vardamar
was the man" 1t may be compli
ment to Governor Vardaman if The
good people of Mississippi spontaneous.
ly direct their attention to him, for he
is certainly not mentioned in the letter
on the contrary, it is distinctly stated
that the man is possibly yet unborn
who is to lead successfully this great.
est and most important reformation o.
modern times.
do not know whether Governor
Vardaman is the ''Man" or not, to give
hopeful impulse to this movement
which must begin with the people ant
grow and expand until it reaches tn,
leaders and drifts them into the cur
rent. | know Mr.. Williams is not tn,
Man because he spends six days il
the week enumerating obstacles in tn,
way and protesting against the peopl,
of Mississippi for even asking for tn
repeal of the obnoxious amendments.
He says he will not try, and seems t
regard as political idiot any man VIII,
will make such an attempt; although
Senator Tillmah, who has recently beef
lecturing on this subject in severa
Northern states, says that he receive,
the most enthusiastic responses from
, immense audiences in New York, Mas
sachusetts and Illinois. He declare
, emphatically that ''the people of tn,
North are beginning to get their eye
J OPEN on this question.
/ The mechanical classes in the Mort
, are natlrall hostile to the negro becaus
they do not intend that he shall com
pete with them in the trades. The ag
! riculturaI people who constitute tn
great bulk Of voters, have nothinl
whatever to do with the negro: they vii
not touch him. A negro on a farr
anywhere in the North or West woul
be almost as great curiosity as an or
| ange or magnolia grove in that latitude
They care nothing about the fifteent
amendment. If it suits US it suit
them; but they are not fools, neithe
are they criminals. They are bone o
our bone, and blood of our blood. The
are amenable to reason and the appeal
of justice; they have not been directl
talked to about the material interes
and momento,s concern we have i
this legislative reformation, whicl
could not, possibly, do them any harm
Mr.. Williams credits me with claim
: ing that 'now Is the hour" to repes
the fifteenth amendment. say p
such thing. on the contrary, ADM
that it may not be done in ten years /
twenty-five, or fifty years. | say Or
is ''oniy one thing absolutely eSNere
about it" and that is, that Pertain
never be done" by men like Z WIN
who are constantly preachingaimseM
. any effort in that direction. sgains
however, most emphaticalh 90 sssy ny