The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-02-18
gAcoN's DEFENSE OF THE SOUTH

5ACONS DEFENSE OF THE SOUTH
The following is from the esteemed
Macon News:
Every now and then we are told
that the war is over; that the bloody
chasm has been bridged; that the
country is reunited and that there
is no north, no south, no east and
no west.
And this is all very true, in SO far
as the sentiment of the people of the
several sections of the country is. con-
cerned, but the great sectional war
never becomes too remote to serve the
purposes of republican politicians
when they get into tight place or
see the continued supremacy of their
party threatened by some popular and
progressive movement. The bloody
shirt" as it used to be called, is pull
ed out and waved at need by the Roots
of today just as promptly as it was
by the Forakers and Chambers in for
mer days; force bills are threatened
for the south to frighten democratic
congressman from support of meas
ures to give the country relief from
republican oppression and no device
is neglected to stir up the old section
al prejudice anew.
But these shibt oleths and methods
have lost their influence on the north
ern mind. The people of that section
nave begun to have some experience
with the southern white mans burden
and the problem with which he has to
contend and they are necessarily COM
ing more and more to sympathiZe
with the people of the south and to
view with more intelligence and
broader appreciation any technical de-
fects that may he apparent in the
south's legal methods of preserving
the purity and integrity of it's civili-
cation. They will be in position,
therefore, to appreciate Senator Ba-
cons answer to Senator Roots effort
to inject the sectional issue into the
question of popular elections for sen
ator. The Georgia senator said:
mo people ever went through so
dark day as the southern people
when they were called upon to deal
with the question whether they would
submit to what was then the intention
of legislation of congress, that by en-
franchising the blacks and disfrnn-
chising many whites their govern.
ment should be surrendered to the
ignorant blacks.
Il want to say to the senator that
If southern people had not heroically
contended and battled for white SUI
premacy in the south; had they not
subordinated all else to that issue, civ
ilization would have been destroyed
in the south, and if civilization had
been destroyed in the south the fatal
poison would have speedily affected
the whole body polite, and it would
have been but short time before
civilization would have been practi-
cally destroyed in the whole Ameri-
can nation"
Senator Bacon has stated the case
none too strongly, as the Savannah
Press says, THE south has had some
thing more than the white mans bur
den to bear. Situated between the
mongrels of Mexico and the fanatics
of the northeast. we have had to stand
up under the weight of hostile inva-
sion. and of a more hostile sentiment.
That the southern states are not to-
day like Mexico and Cuba and the
states of Central America is largely
tecause of the heroic measures which
have been adopted in it's present
nigh position before the world. Had
the south become MeXicanized or At
ricanized it is only a question of time
before the north must follow, so that
our burdens and our victory have
been national. We have not only pre-
served the south, but, like Ogletnorpe
when he beat back the Spanish inva-
sion into Florida, we have preserved
the north and the whole country for
all time"