Salt Lake Herald | 1890-02-23 | Page 1 | The Southern Question

THE SOUTHERN QUESTION George AY Cable Addresses the Massachusetts Cub Upon this Muchdebated Subject BOSTON Feb 22The Massachusetts club today listened to an address upon the southern question by George W Cable After a sharp arraignment of the various new schemes for avoiding the simple necessities neces-sities of free governmentdeportation disfranchisement dis-franchisement etc Cable said I men cannot reconcile their selfregard or sense of expediency to declare for equality in all public rights at once let them try a few at a time During the two years and a half before the next presidential election let it be made plain that federal intervention is not the willing choice of the republicans or any party and that what it with the whole nation most covets for every southern state is as full universal aud prosperous self government govern-ment as can be found in any part of the nation and then in the name of the common welfare and the nations honor let the word be spoken that if by 1892 any state in this union has not at least begun with a good show of completing the establishment of equal American rights for all Americans the men of this nation who in whatever party believe in free government gov-ernment will strain their every nerve and sinew to give the nation a President and Congress that will establish it peaceably promptly and forever