The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-05-18
The Unjust Jpdge and The Govern
ment of One Blood
By DR. B. F. WARD. w1NoNA, MISSISSIPPI.

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troubleth me | will avenge her, lest
by her continual coming she weary
me"
This IS the text that should ami
solid South in presenting and main
tanning an earnest, united and per-
sistent petition to our Northern tel
low citizens for relief from the men,
ace of civil social and political ANAL
gamation made possible by legisla-
ton conceived in the womb of sec
tionai bitterness and brought forth
amid the passions of bloodshed and
war
Surely this great government IS
not to be the only mongrel among
all the great and governing powers
OF the world England, France
Spain. Prussia, Austria heroic Hun
gary and pathetic Poland, Scanda-
navia. the Netherlands, the intrepid
Swiss. Greece. Rome. the conquering
hosts Of Israel and the semi-barbar-
ic legions OF agtocratic Russia have
all marched solidly down the warpati1
OF the ages under the banners OF
unmixed. unmingled and uncontam-
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 prordest 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-
pliers of the wilderness, the fierce
horsemen of the plains, the poetic
orators of the mountains, the rivers,
and the lakes, fought the trained sol
diers Of England, France and Spain.
contesting step by step, and mourn
fully persisted in the desperate and
sanguinary effort to preserve and pro
tect their crude but proud and ma
tive government of one blood
In the morning of creation, when
the stars sang together" and God
Almighty breathed the breath of life
into his separate creations OF man
kind, the government of one blood
seems to have been primt ordi-
nance of the Omnipotcnt law-giver,
a violation of which brings newt
able destruction to the offending
races The governments that mix are
doomed. the bloods that mingle are
damned.
Hon John Sharp Williams has, IL
several of his recent speeches, made
some very generous allusion to my
self for which | desire to express
my grateful appreciation.
He has also, III the columns of the
Commercial Appeal and in his
speeches, quoted and mildly criticised
a recent publication of mine. entitled
THE Man, the Hour and the Oppor-
tcnity." While the article referred
TO is almost literally historical, Mr..
Williams insists on putting his own
Interpretation on it. He is almost
what other people write, or say. as
Sherman was with fire in his march
through Georgia.
He says: The people of Mississip
pi understood that Vardaman was
the man 1t may be compliment
pie of Mississippi spontaneously di-
rect their attention to him, for he
Is certainly not mentioned in the lat
ter; on the contrary, it is distinctly
stated that the man is possibly YET
unborn" who is to lead successfully
this greatest and most important re
formation of modern times.
| do not knew whether Gov Var
daman is the MAN or not. to give
hopeful impulse to this movement
which must begin with the people
and grow and expand until it reach
IS the headers, and drifts them in
to the current | know Mr. VIII
hams is not the Man" because he
spends six days in the week enumer-
ating the obstacles in the way, and
protesting against the people of Mis-
sippi even asking for the repeal Of
the obnoious amendments.
He says he will not try. and seems
to regard as political idiot. any
man who will make such an attempt
although Senator Tillmsn. who has
recently been lecturing on this sub
ject n several Northern States. says
that he received thc most enthusias-
tic responses from immense audien-
ees in New York. Massachusetts and
Illinois. He declares empllatically
that the people of the North are
beginning TO st their eyes open on
this question
The mechanical classes in the
North are naturally hostile to the
negro, because they do not intend
that he shall. compete with them in