The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-05-11

erence to recent communication on pul
press this. week. Mr.. Williams metho
Vardaman and others, from the stump, /
"Though / fear not God, nor regard
man; yet because this widow troubleth
me will avenge her, lest by her con-
tinual coming she weary me-
This is the text that should animate,
stimulate and energize the solid South
in presenting and maintaining an earn
est, united and persistent petition to our
Northern fellow-citizens for relief from
the menace of civil, social and political
amalgamation made possible by legisla-
lation conceived in the womb OF sectlo-
nal bitterness and brought forth amid
the passions of bloodshed and war.
Surely this great Government is not
to be the only mongrel among the great
and governing powers OF the world
England, France, Spain, Prussia, Aus
tria, heroic Hungary and pathetic Po-
land, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, the
intrepid Swiss, Greece, Rome, the con-
ouering hosts of Israel and the SEMI
barbaric legions of autocratic Russia
have all marshaled their columns and
marched solidly down the war path OF
the ages under the banners OF unmlxed,
umningled and uncontaminated white
supremacy.
China, with her 5000 years or more
of stable nationality, who taught astron-
omy, mathematics, music, poetry ana
painting 5000 years before the Christian
era, is a government of one blood. ia
pan, the proudest and mightiest OF the
dark races, in the remoteness and fast
ness of her sea-girt dominion, is gov
ernment of one blood.
Even the North-American Indians,
the stoics of the woods, the philosophers
of the wilderness, the fierce horsemen OF
the plains, the poetic orators OF the
mountains, the rivers and the lakes,
fought the trained soldiers of England,
France and Spain, contesting every inch
of soil as they retired, step by step, and
mournfully perished in the desperate
and sanguinary effort to preserve and
protect their crude, 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 a prime ordinance of the omnipo :
tent law-giver, violation of which
brings inevitable destruction to the Of
Tending races. The governments that
mix are doomed, the bloods that ming lie
are damned.
Hon. John Sharp Williams has, in
several of his recent speeches, made
some very generous illusions to myself,
for which desire to express my gra te-
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, en- titled "The
Man, the Hour and the Opportunity"
While the article referred to is almost
literally historical, Mr.. Williams insists
on putting his own Interpretation on it.
He is almost as careless in his construc :
ton of what other people write or say
as Sherman was with fire in his march
through Georgia.
He says that "the people of Missis-
sippi understood that Governor Varda-
man was the man.. 1t may be a COM
pliment to Governor Vardaman if the
good people of Mississippi spontane-
ously direct their attention to him, for
he is certainly not mentioned in the let
ter; on the contrary, it is distinctly
stated that the man Is "possibly yet un-
born" who is to lead successfully this
greatest and most important reformation
of modern times.
do not know whether Governor Var
daman is the "man" or not to give a
hopeful impulse to this movement,
which must begin with the people and
grow and expand until it reaches the
ssleaders" and drifts them into the cur
rent. know Mr.. Williams is not the
"man", because he spends six days in
the week enumerating the obstacles in
the way and protesting against the peo-
pie of Mississippi even asking for the
repeal of the obnoxious amendments.
He says he viii not try, and seems to
regard as political idiot any man who
will make such an attempt; although
Senator Tillman, who has recently beer
lecturing on this subject in seyera
Northern States, says that he received
the most enthusiastic responses from
immense audiences in New York, Mas
sachusetts and Illinois. He declares
emphatically that "the people of tn
North are beginning to get their eye'
open" on the question.
The mechanical classes in the North
are naturally hostile to the negro, be
cause they do not intend that he shall
compete with them in the trades. Tn,
agricultural people, who constitute th'
great bulk of voters, have nothing what
ever to do with the negro; they will no
touch him. A negro on farm any
where in the North or West would b
almost as great curiosity as an orang'
or magnolia grove in that latitude.