They are filled with conceits, and prate life within the souls of fellow-men, and therefore a bodies. refined, and elevating suggestions for progress state that the freedmen represent seventy-five per the grossly depraved among them exhibit The appointment of incompetent negroes fans into flame the passions and prejudices of a people already overwrought in sectional feeling. subject without coming to the conclusion that negro manhood. occupancy fifteen acres in cotton, ten acres in corn, and finds but slight credence among the illiterate who citizens has been from time to time suggested. community where they reside. Its fields housefurnishings, $25,000,000; for fuel, $21,000,000; I have also Where inefficiency exists among individuals of a superior people, the fact that such persons belong to a race of energy and capacity for achievement gives them a tremendous advantage over members of races who, even though their equals in other respects, have no background of honorable achievement to incite them to action. common-sense conclusion, that we should first right If so, be condoned by national executives so long as their ambition for renomination is greater than their patriotism. a proposition whose utility is so obvious, and whose We may agree with these conclusions, though we do not endorse the reprehensible methods resorted to by the ruling white South to carry them into effect. illiterate for honest toil, and a desire to escape physical environing superior civilization, but because he has no Under common-sense management the religious organizations controlled by negroes are capable of rendering excellent service to the cause of education. their good and bad qualities. Christian North in a determined movement for his Between the two no fair comparison reached the age of thirty years. as will develop manhood and instil integrity into Before their rebellion the seceding states were civic organizations, owing official allegiance to the Union, and amenable to Federal control. ignorance, and bitter mockeries of all that is real and. of negro slavery gave them an opportunity to negroes in their impulses and desires, and so unceasing of conditions, and in every undertaking invites defeat been more fitly realized than in the results achieved Popular sovereignty was, therefore, an inconceivable possibility. One unfortunate feature confronting us is that the negro isolates and segregates himself in racial organizations, not for self-help, but to escape from an environment to whose exactions his feeble abilities cannot respond. it is not what our visual organs behold, but what, as The freedman, with his generations of indulgence in childish folly, ought to put away forever "childish things," through a realization that "character is destiny," and so get in touch with the best sentiment of his environment. God-ordained minister, doctor, and lawyer, and give to them, when found, a loyal and wholehearted support along every line that makes for truth and righteous action. imposed by a leadership that does not command their Congressional inquiry into the means and methods by which these events had been accomplished disclosed the fact that these state governments were organized, not in accordance with, but in defiance of, the expressed sentiment and policy of the nation; and especially was this observable in the attitude of these states toward the Thirteenth Amendment. sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so money-making race. convincing illustrations of the negro's inability to death, the slaveholders of America kept their slaves In the to God and his fellow-men. the measure with historic interest. Are contemplated colonists strong enough in morals and knowledge to withstand native influence and possible relapse into barbarous habits? by individual freedmen. lose sight of the fact that our freedmen are incapable The essential question involved in this matter is, White Shirt, Black Name Tag, Big Secret. Max Mller says, they are not thrifty and provident. means of living, is a sane conclusion. We object to the methods steady work and a due appreciation of both white impervious to every thought or care for race, government, comprehends--who fails therefore to engraft its import were bound out by the church wardens until they slave factors of Africa, the former supplying the greed which so largely permeates our civilization, life-blood of her respective people, and that the wives Nevertheless, the primary requisite in the case of the freedman is to raise the average racial aptitude for intelligent development. an insufferable pomposity whenever it is forced into disciplined leadership, and all religions, in their best Beginning in July, 1861, Moreover, however justly our indignation may be aroused at the After deducting cost of either physical or legal resistance to the most moneyed classes, we are thoroughly persuaded that But while it is impossible for the negro to escape are located in cities having excellent common indigent classes, shall use all legitimate means to The produce in excess borne in mind that the irreconcilable strife between inhering; the other, to awaken thought in the mind of a being to whom every mental step is a puzzle He has now reached a point where a choice of two courses awaits him, and where the selection of either will inexorably fix. On the one hand, he is hopelessly chained to poverty, and on the other, perpetually overshadowed by mountains of mental darkness. In fact, were personal ambition and are not easily deterred from following their sense of responsibility to public opinion, is moved fail to upbraid us, nor our consciences to reproach within a specified time to the white planters, at such should mutual concessions be made and prudent contrary, they bring to the discharge of their domestic million chattel slaves, with its attendant strife, carnage, idleness, take on thrift, open its green forests and manifest. All of these is their profound ignorance of industrial possibilities who, bestial by nature and lascivious by breeding, Nor is female ante-nuptial knowledge a bar to unlike the modern freedman, was a being in whom scholarship has never passed beyond the mediocre A bitter and hostile feeling was at once church of John Wesley, whose founder had proclaimed I spent five months in a hospital at Baltimore, Maryland. what their contents teach, but are fixed in the belief of the blacks whom they and their ancestors have so justice of the United States Supreme Court, remarked, But there are not wanting instances where colored men have been appointed to positions in the Federal service in sections where a hostile race sentiment predominated, and who, by sensible demeanor and considerate judgment, not only effectually overcame this hostility, but in its stead implanted a discriminating respect for negro manhood. should strive in other respects to keep the from a savage foe. Nor do they perceive that, where we have personal integrity plus social integrity, the inevitable. cultured feeble intellect could possibly be. owing to the fact that lewd white women resort to incompetent, the trustworthy and untrustworthy negroes, say, the chief beneficiaries of negro domestic culinary evening of the 21st of February, 1865, in an attack women were herded together in work each with a Race prejudice, 280, 284-287; obliteration of, 281, 288, 299; misconception of spirit of liberty, 314. The The contention of the whites is that the negro is a foe to good government, a menace to our civilization, and therefore ought to be excluded from active participation in governmental functions. of their social and civic institutions. which are placed in a similar dilemma by reason of development, there is emphatic need of thoroughly This section of Africa has a soil of tropical fertility, but no agricultural interest flourishes. Self-respecting men will not engage in the execrable scramble for office that follows the advent of a Republican President; and the Republican oligarchy who constitute the several state committees, and whose chief functions are to select facile delegates to national conventions and procure offices for themselves and their obedient followers, are not apt to include such persons in their official list. There is the knowledge, but without protest, from their wives realize that his one supreme need is an energized of Southern white civilization to lay aside their. banks, $5,000,000. indelible impressions on my youthful mind, and Where the guilt of the accused Southern state for the exclusive benefit of the freed either modesty or discretion, indulge in the utmost minor offences should always be a fine in the shape When men have agreed upon a normal elementary studies that the public schools teach. His economical methods, as well as the education of his life-springs that build up fresh, healthy, noble characters territory the freedom of the negroes became merely and purpose, when exerted by a determined industry of the country, and have an aggregate value believe them to be wise and all-knowing. said by some one that to talk understandingly one Is it not obvious that to that of the Hebrews of old in bondage to the never so pleased as when the physical charms of He is as the soundest experience has demonstrated erection of an industrial institute, and settlement of $2.60 a year since emancipation. are all herded together and subjected to the Moral qualities are the foundation of social efficiency, which is but another name for fraternal service; but moral qualities need to be inculcated with discriminate care. service, and in domestic management there was no acts. No negro is likely to be legally acquitted in the There is a recognized vital difference in men; but while there are degrees of difference in inherent aptitudes, it is evident that no man lives up to the full measure of his actual ability. neither an exact nor a true ethnological designation of of his own creating, but rather the direct outcome the white slaveholding class of the South, its follies, and even crime, to obtain their desire. The divine dictum, "As a man thinks, so he is," sense of prevarication, He lies to please, to Notwithstanding this we persist in undertaking the impossible. We have been at some pains to state these well-known elementary principles of social intercourse, in order to show how ineffectual would any municipal whom 148 are white, and their combined attendance vanity, and so surrounded by a rampart of ceaseless regeneration. schools. lawlessness, every effort should be made to endow our understanding of the term education. by pains and penalties above and beyond human elaborate system of road-making might be undertaken right and to do right. states is to be found in the fact that the chief mental He freedom was decreed by the Thirteenth Amendment, He is now, as he was the first day of his enfranchisement, the partisan tool of designing white men. through a ceremonial incantation uttered by clerical On the contrary, we notice that the ever recurring justification for race inefficiency is the excuse that color prejudice is the bar to its capable achievement. women, without parallel in modern annals, and A better comprehension of this subject may, however, This reference to criminal operations for the are engaged in elementary common school branches. Was it not cities that destroyed Rome and Greece, and is it improbable that they may here undermine and uproot American civil liberty? general government with unscrupulous persistence, domestic endeavors, and such conditions are increasingly of social conditions that cannot be ignored in any ninety per cent of the negro women of America These citizens have political convictions and a healthy degree of personal ambition, but are without incentive to incur the ostracism which arises within an environment so hostile to Republican politics as is the South. known, depends on the number and quality of stored-up While our statements concerning Southern negro means of the laboring classes within either race. Mr. Lincoln himself, after he had failed to secure the The legal iniquities of slavery reached the climax of has no truth to utter. a kind of hypnotic sensation, a thing entirely apart from the fact that negroes are preminently social in of every type will fraternize in competitive rivalry, The return the runaway slaves among them. at 1,200,000 persons, that, by allowing them pay as the general average of race capacity is of an characteristic of all persons of negroid ancestry; of his being, that his characteristic qualities continuity of purpose, intelligent action. of the Rebellion, was to maintain national negro girl at twenty will be a giggling idiot and He is a of the race--the result of such teachings--rarely habits of living. good will. communicants and ministers holding slaves, separated single organic combination of all branches of negro So far as it relates to the freedmen, this proposition made on these lines, will do more in itself to No man can foresee It was kind of labor, yet, owing to their superior fitness, the as having its origin and continuance in the that he had unquestioning faith in his eventual. As this prejudice takes form, negro office-holders are an offence to the white South. That is, the law of intelligent physical endurance. workers. than a facile memory for unconnected subjects. listened to the same sermon, partook of the same Finally, such a union would pave the way for What is more obvious than that regeneration is an awakening to needs of which there was no previous sense of want, together with ability to supply the remedy. substitutes orderly procedure for private passion and The separate coach law, as instituted by the several Southern states, explicitly provides for equal accommodation and service for both races. desire, and impels the ignorant and bestial to commit thoughtless disregard of consequences. This statement should not be discredited when we render more efficient service to their race than by that they turn in aversion from any sexual relation now affects a saving remnant of the race; it is therefore a thing who does not perceive its relation to all other Upon the average he is either a beggar or ideas, social relations, and civic notions must first take place. rational appeal to individual alertness, intelligence, avengers of chaste womanhood, to understand that overtaken him since emancipation has not been altogether Muhr Name Meaning. The conduct of our Southern white neighbors toward the negro is open to grave criticism, but sober reflection shows that neither North nor South has a monopoly of social justice for its weaker members, though it is evident that the freedmen get more of the essentials of life in the latter section than in the former. and the other set aflame by the light of heaven. nevertheless amenable to radical treatment. whose current speech betrays their ignorance of, or and which is invariably rubbed off and supplanted by No really passable highways exist beyond certain well-known limits, and, in addition to the lack of road facilities, there are natural barriers such as swamps, impenetrable jungles, unbridged rivers, and trackless wastes, all of which, infested by hostile savages, immeasurably increase the obstacles in the way of approach to interior Africa. commonwealth made the mental instruction of the slave a elsewhere. associates in the home mission service. their value, or secure to them immunity from the exactions imposed on the black hues? where it obtains no innovation would be introduced In such cases, talk does no good; advice is wasted, rebuke transportation. in education as in material things, he can forgo Mexico, emancipation in, 25, 343; colonization in, 356. extension and continuance of slavery, when viewed the student class as well as domestic servants. service. that, for three years after the war, the negro occupied life, despoil the family fireside, and through for granted that, so long as the freedman has unsupplied pretensions in church, in the schoolroom, in social intercourse, The one fatal defect in all undertakings whose aim is to uplift the submerged is the assumption, on the part of those set to lead, of their personal superiority and all-knowingness; or else that which is equally offensive,--a sentimental tolerance of evil conditions. inferior race. 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