Would such a word of sympathy have been
more of an affront to the whites than the
appointment of a negro, to be Judge of the
City Court of Washington City?
Or the keeping in office a Republican negro
of Atlanta, Lincoln Johnson, who is Recorder
of Deeds for the District of Columbia, at
$4,000 a year—an office whose patrons are
mostly whites, and whose underlings are
largely white?
When a white man appoints a negro to try
white people in a City Court, and retains
another negro to act as the boss of white men
and women, it seems to me has little to com
plain of about the alleged Booker Washing
ton telegram.
Harris says that his letter to me was all
a mistake. I think it was.
That statement is one of me few things
that Harris could say that T would believe,
unless he were strongly corroborated.
But when a Census Taker, at $7,000 a year,
makes a mistake of writing a personal letter
to “Thos. E. Watson, Editor of The Jeffer
sonian, Thomson, Ga.,” the question arises,
Isn't he liable to make some terrible mistakes
in taking the Census (
Ts a man liable to such horrible mistakes,
worth $7,000 to the Government,?
Suppose he puts all the whites in the nig
ger column, and all the niggers in the white
column, how on earth are we to tell how
many of us are white folks, and how many
of us are niggers?
In the mean time, allow me to suggest that
Harris’ proposal to have the State lend its
credit to municipal corporations, is forbidden
by the Democratic Constitution of 1877.
