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THE NECRO PROBLEM.
A great many Southern papers ad
vocate the colonization of the negro,
arguing that the two races can never
live together in peaccgand the sooner
the inferior is made to exodust, the
better for the late slave-holding
slates. We have no objection to the
gradual thinning out of the negro,but
It will never do to deprive the South
ofits principal source of labor, for
the counUy would be ruined and
bankrupt before their places could
be filled. Let us induce these old
carpet-baggers, scallawags and negro
leaders to emigrate, and the rank
and file of this, race will quickly
order
adapt themselves ^to the order of
things. The whites will always be
the dominant class—the negro the
peasantry of the country. With our
thin soil and long, hot summers, and
the peculiar temperament of the
Southern people, we do not believe
that they can find any class of labor
to take the place of the negro. He
understands our people and our peo.
pie understand him.
The latest design against the ne
gro is to induce him to emigrate to
Liberia. The poor creatures had as
well be driven into a pen and slaugh
tered at once as sent to this mias
matic and savage country. Liberia
Las proven a graveyard for thou
sands of misguided American ne
groes since the war, for it is a matter
almost impossible for/a man from
ibis climate to live.and enjoy health
in that tropical country.
Bev. E. W. Blyden, an educated
negro of Liberia, delivered a lecture
the other day iu Charleston. He
gave first a most interesting account
of the conditions and prospects of
Liberia, and of the resources and
development of Africa in general,
and after reviewing the history of
the “negro problem” in its first
phase, the establishment, mainten
ance and final overthrow of the in
stitution of negro slavery, he added:
“Then comes the second phaze of the_prob-
lem—the educational one. The country is now
passing through its phaze, therefore schools are
multiplying ou every hand for the education of
ing. In the face of his most solemn
pledges he has trampled civil service
underfoot, and with indecent haste
proceeded to remove competent and
acceptable white democrats from im
portant, and responsible positions,
and filled their places with ignorant Orleans on Thursday at
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the negro. Millionaires are giving magnificent
sums to promote this object. This is the pre
paratory stage. To me the most interacting
feature—and what is likely to be the most prol-
itable feature of this phase—is the industrial
element being now generally introduced into
the institutions for colored youth. When the
second phase is past—it may take many years
—then will come the last and final phase of the
problem, the emigration phase. The indica
tions on evciy hand are that the third phase is
approaching. These indications are seen in
tnerestlessness of the negroes, thousands of
whom in South Carolina, North Carolina,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Flori
da. are anxious to go. If the opportunity were
presented to-morrow thousands would leave.
These indications are seen also in the discus
sions in which white thinkers are engaging in
books and pamphlets and newspapers. Anoth
er indication is what we see going on in Africa.
The continent is being penetrated in every
part: its possibilities are being exposed. Ev
erybody is turning to Africa, and it is not to be
supposed ihat the negro will not awake to a
sense of bis privileges and rights and advan
tages there, and to his disadvantage here. The
time is not lar off when there will be such an
exodus, not wnolesale, that will both for the
negro aud while race effect a permanent a d
satisfactory solution of this triple problem in
be history'of all the states, which neither race
ts responsible for creating.
*ioil untrustworthy negroes. He has
selected as his local advisers on
Southern affairs the vilest old carpeU
baggers and scallawags, who have
for years assisted to rob and oppress
the Southern people, and placed at
their disposal the distribution of of
fices. As a consequence, we find ne
groes now filling offices' to which
they never before dared to aspire;
and before President Harrison’s term
ends, we expect to see every position
within the gift of the administration
filled by negroes.
Talk about President Harrison
building up a respectable republican
party in the South by such a policy!
Why, he had as well attempt to or
ganize an angelic choir in hades.
We have no war to make upon the
JEFFERSON DAVIS IS DEAD-
A pall of gloom rests over the en
tire South at the news of the death
of her beloved chieftain Jefferson
Davis, which took place iu
mid
night. Around this grand old man
clustered the admiration and grati
tude ol every true Southron, for
Mr. Davis has entwined himself in
the hearts of the people as no other
man has ever done. He was the rep
esentativeof the cause and convic
tions of his country, and his name
was baptized in the blood ot our he
roic martyrs.
Even his enemies have never dared
to utter a word to detract from his
fame as a patriot aud statesman, his
alor as a soldier, or his character
as an honorable and true man.
Some day wlien the pall of hatred
and prejudice is lifted from our land,
and the wounds caused by that
bloody war have healed, then will
negro for accepting these offices. He
would be a fool to decline jthem; and
so long as he discharges*his duty iu
a respectful and decorous manner
toward the whites with whom he
comes in contact, it would be wrong
to mblesl him. It is against the cre
ator,and not the creature, that public
indignation should be levied.
future writers give the great leader
of the Southern Confederacy the
place in history his life, his work and
his character demand.
Let the people now do honor to the
memory of their beloved and illus^
trious dead.
THE NEXT GOVERNOR-
The judical ions are that the next
Gubenatorial campaign will be one
of the most exciting ever held in
Georgia, a id at this early day it is
imposible to surmise who will be
the winner. Col. Livingston has un
doubtedly weakened himself with
the Alliance bj’ working for a union
with the Knights of Labor. In speak
ing of the Gubernatorial outlook, a
leading Allianceman said to the At
lanta correspondent of the Colum
bus Enqurier Sun:
“The report that Congressman Blount will
be a candidate for Governor, must be, I think,
premature. While it is one of the certainties
now of'Georgiii politices that Colonel Blount has
an aspiration of some growth in that direction,
and hppes, perhaps, to end his political career
in the executive office, he will not t>y fot it
till he feels sure to win. If the Alliance was
out of the way he would be a hard man to
beat now.
“I do not take any stock in what is called the
Alliance split on this question. While Northen
and Livingston are both apparently man
iputating the Alliance for vantage ground in
this fight, it all seems to be in the almost good
feeling. When the proper time comes the
Alliance will present an nnbroken front.
"One of the strongest farmers in the State
has not yet been mentioned in connection with
this office, and perhaps may not be more than
casually. It is Jim Siniih, of Oglethorpe coun
ty, the biggest and most successful farmer in
Georgia lie is undoubtedly the stro gest ma
the farmers have.
“A leading issue will be, of course, the rail
road trusts, or combination. What will be the
result of that fight cannot be predicted.
“The Western and Atlantic railroad will also
be an issue. There is little doubt on my tiiind
that the road will not he leased under the pres
ent act. Too much is asked for it The mini
mum price ought to have been placed at §30,000
per month; the lessees should have been re
quired to lake all the rolling stock at a valua
tion, and the bond fixed at not higher than
$190,000.
“The temperance question may or may not
The temperance people ought to
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HARRISON'S SOUTHERN POLICY-
The President’s earnest desire was
to build up a respectable (?) repub-
be an issae.
come up to the convention and'demand
' >luuk be put in the platform against barrooms,
bod.
done, however.
Let i.he people vote on that issuc^nd let every
body abide the result. I don’t look to sec that
lican party iu the South, and we
certainly wished him God-speed in
his work. We believe he was ear
nest in this, and for a time tried to
draw into his ranks representative
and responsible Southerners who
opposed the tariff reform measures ot
the democrats. But it was like trying
to engraft a living sprout ou a» dead
trunk. The very name of republi
can was nauseating to every decent
white man iu the South—for to him
it was synonymous of negro rule, so
cial equality, official corruption and
political prostitution. There w’as a
small-sized convention of tariff re
form democrats(?) held in Birming
ham, Ala., shortly after President
Harrison issued his amnesty procla
mation, but nothing came of it. The
proceedings of this little body ofpo-
itical hermorphrodites had scarcely
gained circulation than .the Presi
dent’s acts contradicted his declara
tions. He had fallen under the dom
ination of his party leaders, who
lashed him back into the old ruts-
This, of course, drove off all the new
recruits, for thej* saw that whatever
may be President Harrison’s desire
his advisers at Washington could
The other day the country was told
that Mr. Cleveland and Gov. Hill were
at loggerheads, because, while Presi
dent, Mr. Cleveland brought upon Hill
a pecuniary lose by driving the cattle
men from the lands of the Cheyenne
and Arapahoe Indians. The Governor
was said to have owned cattle there
This story does not seem to have satis
fied all of the republican organs, how
ever, and one of them lias started
another. It is that Gov. Hill was in
terested to the extent of $5,000 in min
ing pr iperty in the west, that a hill was
passed by congress which would have
increased the value of the governor
interest to $17,000, and that when Mr
Cleveland learned that Gov. Hill would
be benefited, he vetoed the bill. This
story is about as unlikely as the other
frighten him into ad ipting any poli
cy they saw fit to map out. Thus
perished in its conception this ideal
respectable Southern republican
party.
Since the war the South has been
inflicted with many vile and dis
gusting administrations, but none
have as yet reached the depths to
which President Harrison is descend*
Some Northern newspapers criticise
Gov. Richardson, of South Carolina
quite severely for what he said in his
recent message in favor of equal rail
way accommodations for whites and
blacks, and the separation of the races
while traveling. These newspaper,
very conveniently forget that the inter
state r-ilway commission has taken the
same position, and so lias the United
States supreme court. They also neg
lect to state that the white people of the
North don’t get sandwiched between
blacks to any considerable extent.
The late Samuel Pettus, who was
killed by Mrs. Southworth, left
estate valued at about $G00,000. His
lawyers have found a will made by him
in 1881, in which he gives everythin
to his wife. It contains no reference to
Mrs. Southworth or Rosa Lloyd, the al
leged victims of his designs.
Gov. Gordon is said to be delighted
with Chicago. This is more than tlie
Southern people are, after the insults
heaped by the press of that city on Mr
Davis.
Citrons, Currants, raisins, figs
prunes, cod fish, Pickled Herring, bar
rel pickles at Lowe & Elder’s. 5-3t
THE NEGRO RACE IMPROVING.
While a wide field is still open for
reform in : our colored population,
there is do doubt that a marked im
provement has taken place in this
ace sinc£ emancipation. We can
remember, for the first few years af
ter the wav, it was a matter almost
impossible for a farmer to raise hogs>
or in fact any kind of live stock, un
less he kept them under lock and
key and guarded at night with a
shot**gun. The negro seemed to
look upon the possessions of his fors
mer master as his rightful and legit
imate prey, and never let an oppor
tunity escape to help himself when
no one was watching. While petty
larceny and other crimes are still of
too frequent occurrence, there is no
denying the fact that there has been
most gratifying diminution in such
offenses. The country is now well
stocked with all manner of farm an
imals, and it is rather an unusual oc
currence for one to be stolen.
Whether this reform is brought
about by a strict enforcement, and
fear of the law on-the part of our
colored fellow citizens, or shows a
better recognition on their part be
tween the words meura and teum
we cannot say; but it is only right
to give the negro a "benefit of the
doubt and lay it to the latter cause.
A great deal has been said about’
the insolence and trifling ness of the
rising generation of negroes.,. In a
measure this is true, but we <lo not
think that they are any worse than
their fathers. A negro is like a child
—a great deal depends upon the
while man under whom he has grown
to manhood. One thing is certain—
if a white man will stay in his place
the negro is pretty apt to remain in
his. Most of the trouble between
the races is brought about by low-
down white men, who .will drink, ca-
rouse and gamble with negroes, at
tend their parties, and disregard all
social lines. The negro joses respect
for such characters and insults oce
of his white chums, when the fellow
at once falls back on his AnglcnSax-
on blood and enlists others of his
color to come to his defense. Ninety-
nine negroes out of a hundred would
as soon think of running a hand into
the fire as insulting a whiteman who
keeps in his proper sphere—and who
holds only business communications
with them, and deals squarely and
honestly with his black hirelings.
In every community there are
more or les3 mean and insolent ne-
s groes, who seek to gain notoriety and
office by inflaming the passions of
the more ignorant class. The negro
is a creature of impulse,and is easily
controlled either for good or evil.
But the Southern people have learn
ed to manage these turbulent char
acters. They tolerate them until
remedy to keep do.vn a race war, and
will be resorted to as long as neces-
sary to preserve the lives and prop
erly oft lie whites and of misguided
negroes.
Politicians are more to blame for
these race troubles than even the
negroes themselves—and many so-
called democrats cannot shrink their
part of the responsibility. In their
greed for office, they invade the ne
gro ranks, and by appeals to his
prejudices and the use of money,
drag him from his retirement into
the heat of a campaign. Until the
election is over he is given every
latitude; but when the contest is de
cided, the very men who encouraged
his importance and insolence are the
first to call a halt when he presumes
to continue it.
The best check on the negro is for
the whites to stick together and
nominate officers, leaving the negro
entirely out. This was proven in
the late municipal contest in Athens,
where less than 200 colored voters
registered. If nominations are kept
up, in a few years there won’t be fifty
pegroes vot*ing in our city. It is
better for them and better for the
peace and order of the country.
If white politicians will keep their
hands off the negro, he is the best
labor Lhe Soath can possibly have,
and vvili work out a peaceful and
happy solution of the race problem.
r- ~
the great bulwark that stands
tween him and Ids oppressors
THE SILVER QUESTION.
It is a matter of surprise to us to
ee several staunch democratic pa
pers opposing the continued coinage
f silver. These journals are simply
lowing in the wake of John Sher
man. and playing to the hand of the
epublieau party. What does it mat
ter if the government vaults are
bursting with their hoarded wealth
of silver, does not every dollar stored
therein represent a certificate kept
n circulation, tints swelling the cur
enoy and making money more plen
tiful? The best investment that Un
cle Sam can possibly make is to
build more depositories for silver,
and establish as many mints as the
mines can supply with metal. We
are in favor of more money, and the
best, safest and quickest way to get
it is the coinage of silver.
THE FARMERS* ALLIANCE-
Never within the history of any
country has an organization grown
so rapidly, or has attained such a
firm place in the confidence and es
teem of the, people as the Farmers’
Alliance. A few years ago our ag.-
vicultural element was a disorgan
ized body—a ready prey to any one
who saw fit to take advantage of their
helpless condition. Today they pre
sent an unbroken and impregnable
front, and are in a position to dictate
terms to the world.
This is just as it should be. Every
other class depends upon the farmer
for support and revenue,and the men
who feed the world and keep the
wheels of commerce revolving,should
certainly have a loud voice in con
trolling the government and all of.
fices that effqct their interests. .
A great deal of gratuitous advice
has been given Alliancetnen to steer
clear of politics, lest they wreck the
order. We say to our farmer friends,
keep clear of professional politicians,
and see that ambitious men do not
use your honorable organization to
ride into office. But it is right and
proper that you not only take
deep interest in the politics of the
country, but use every fair and lion
orable means in your power to elect
to office men in full sympathy and
accord with the Alliance, and who
are pledged, to work for the interest
of the farmer. You have just as
much right to take an active inter
est iu politics as is.the lawyer, the
editor or any other class of people.
We believe that the Farmers’ Al
lianoe will not only work great re-
foims in our government, but will
control the uext Presidential elec
tion. The recent democratic victo
lies in Ohio and Indiana aie due to
the determined attitude of this or
ganization on the tariff issue, and the
great work that they will accomplish
has only just begun. Even President
Harrison acknowledged the danger
that this movement threatened hi
party when he went square back on
his campaign cry and recommended
a tariff revision in his recent mes
sage to congress.
So it is saen that the Alliance has
not only a stronghold in the South
but is gaining strength daily in the
West, and the day is not far distant
when the grain growers of that sec
tion will unite with the Southern
cotton producers in their struggle
against trusts, speculators and ex
tortioners.
aiinot possibly do him harm, b
j:i and will protect and ad\un
is interests.
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u PbolIdln g ° ftMr
In tll(i name of t | 1( . r
10 Ulc name of onp h e ‘ JSt (
tyred tl p a( l—in tli e Dam ' e C ^
, the name oC ;
erans and noble Southern hvi
intheoameoftfe^^
daughters of u r 1 .; 1
aiul beloved dead, w| )0 15
bathing hi. cold brow iu’thrf
we ask
ever y Southern
CHICAGO AND THE WORLD’S FAIR.
For a time the Banner was favor
able to Chicago as the place to hold
the World’s Fair. We admired the
pluck and enterprise of that mag
nificent Western city, aDd felt that
it deserved encouragement from our
republic. New York had reached
the goal of greatness, and a failure
to get tue fair would eject it but
little.
But we have undergone a change.
While our beloved chieftain was
iying at death’s door, the papers of
Chicago heaped upon that stricken
and helpless, old man every vile epi
thet and false accusation that bate
could invent and slander generate.
While with one hand Chicago was
supplicating Southern congressmen
for voles, with the other she was
heaping upon the head of Mr. Davis
—who was peacefully breathing his
last in a distant Southern city—
vilification and abuse that would
have disgraced barbarians.
And what has Mr. Davis done to
deserve these stabs upon his death
bed? He had stood by his people,
his country and their cause with that
same courageous and loyal devotion
that he had shown to the Union on
many a batlle-lield, in the halls of
Congress, and in the Cabinet of the
the President. He had never corns
thei,
hiikc the inauha tbu cm"
heapea u,» 0 of.Mr.D.vi,';' 1-
fore Urn blur *« 'MJ, J,
his remains. J
How would you f ee i „
lather in the throe, „ f
have a vindictive enemy
cover,ng from hi S(! „oeh. „ d
erately proceed to insuit J
late his quivering body? t
tacks of the Chicago paper, „|
Davis are as brutal and in fam
would be such a desecration
Jefferson Davis was the foth,
Confederacy, and the whole So
people looked upon him ti\
same love, tenderness anddeva
a child would a parent.
Not an unkind and ung
word has appeared in a
paper about Mr. Davis duri
lale illness. Let every South
gressman and senator cast hi
give that city the great Worli
certain bounds are passed, when a
messenger rids the country of these
incendiaries, when their misguided
followers at once fall into their quiet
and peaceful ways. The Northern
papers can yell about these “South
ern outrages” to their hearts content,
but every gill of negro blood spilled
in the South since the war has saved
barrels of that life-giving fluid.
The New York
Herald
estimates
the stren
gth of the Farmers
Alliani e
iu the South as follows:
Members.
Members.
Louisiana .
50.0i.i0
Virginia.
23,000
Texas
250,000
Tennessee
150,1*00
Mississippi
l'.o,000
Kentucky
20,000
Alabama...
So,000
Arkansas
80.000
Georgia.....
100.000
Indian Territory.4,0 o
Florida....
20,000
50.000
S. Carolina
43.000
Mi.-sonri.
80.000
N. Carolina 00,000
These “sanitary lessons”are the only
The Alliance was born in the
home of Evans Jones, in Dublin,Tex
as, in 1875., It was then a local or
ganization of small ranchmen. In
1887 the Farmers’ State Alliance, of
Texas, and the Farmers’ Union, of
Louisiana, formed a federation and
other states came in.
Every farmer should lose no time
in uniting with the Alliance. It is
milted a single act that would cast
the slightest stain upon his honored
name. His only oflense was that, he
was the leader of a Lost Cause—the
loyal and devoted head of a conquer
ed nation, and that nation formed
of the land that gave him birth and
of his friends and countrymen.
He accepted the results ot the war
as a brave man and a loyal citizen
should. While noblj 7 declining to
apologize for a step, that he believed
to be right, lie did not lift a hand or
voice to interrupt the will of* his
conquerors, lie retired to the pri
vacy of his home, content to spend
his declining years in the peaceful
pursuits ot life, enshrined as he was
in the love aud admiration of his
people.
While in the throes of death, it
was the leading aud representative
papers of Chicago that invaded his
retreat and like foul vultures waiting
and greedy for a feast, began their
malignant and slanderous abuse ere
the breath had left the body of their
prey. These papers did not consid
er the feelings of the loving and grief-
stricken daughters and relatives,
to whom the dying statesman was
their hearts’ cove. They did not
consider that the noble patriot they
were villifying was the beloved leader
of the Southern people, and every
thrust aimed at the drooping head
entered the hearts of his ever loyal
countrymen. They did not consider
that the old soldier they so vilely
slandered had risked his life in def
fense of the honor of that same Un
ion they so loudly prate about
All else was forgotten in their
hate of ex-President Davis and the
cause he represented. With a malice
as brutal as it is vindictive, the Chi
cago press—like the foul ghouls that
they are—tried to.blacken by slander
the character and motives of the
dying Confederate chieftain, even
before the winding-sheet enshrouded
his body. A a d the people of Chica
go—who read these b-utal and dis
gusting utterances day after day
after day without a word of rebuke
are now asking Southern congress
men to give their aid towards the
LET THE SOUTH ADOPT Tl
Ex President Davis his ] (
quest to the people whom b
so well, in his dependent wi
daughter. During the life
Davis,he refused to accept pc
aid from his thousands ot
throughout the South, who
cheerfully have divided tb
dollar with him if neccssj
now that be is no more, let
zensof the late Confederate
adopt his family as their
make it their pride and miss
they be kept beyond the
want. It is a well known fa
Mr. Davis has been in strai
circumstances for years,
simple use of his name he c<
uy have amassed a princely
but be most properly look*
this as a part of thb heritage
Lost Cause, and refrained fi
gaging in .business lull
hiies use any mistake or fi
the enterprise to besmirch ti
he held so dear. He
when he decided to lead
life of a private citizen; for
ered precincts of hU home
the basest natures wouldd:
vade. But now that our
chieftain has passed over
and rests under the shade of
let us not forget those who
hear and dear to bins.- Mr
and- her daughters are the li
resentatives of the Sontheri
eracyj and on the altarofw
patriotism and ,chivalry of
so freely poured forth its 1
Is there a heart in the Sum
that will refuse to contribui
noble a cause?
We believd
Han Away.
}fy son Jno. Nixon,
an way from his home in
ty. all persons are warned nq
contract with him under pen
law. Heis about ging**
medium height. ^ uou I
Forced His Conf*
Milwaukee, Wis.^cc- 4 ;
-A man known as vm *
has been for some time *“,
the county poor-house
thinking he was about to i
the muraer of a wowtof
ago. He was assist/“I
The bones of a man were
exact place described V
stc a,l of dying Peck'! ■«
way to recover. He >
story. The son Jane is not
term in Waupun K> r
Married ox the
novel marriage waS . • u j
Athens yesterday, *b •.
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nue, by Rev. Mr. ,|
xer wishes both
happiness through
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