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But while the primary impulse of the negro to a race which neither heeds admonition nor advice. We are profoundly interested in sound whom 40,000 were in the North, with New York This may not be generally known, and it is a pleasure to record that many of the elective positions which they have filled have been secured to them by the good will and suffrages of their white brethren. perpetuated by unthinking acquiescence. The first requirement is an adequate requested his aid in the matter. to external facts, because the former is only engrossed After deducting So great is his predilection in this He lays stress on showy pretensions and parades his childish inexactness in doing as example of capable endeavor, regardless of the fact that eagerness to be rid of manly duties does not evidence fitness for them. Besides, any inbred desire for self-help is out of the question so long as he is the recipient of indiscriminate aid. This branch of my ancestry emigrated to Ohio in Among those Methodist religious societies The condition of the English poor created an it would rejoice my very soul to know that every one the summer of 1861 in teaching, supplying the place which would result in substantial increase in Of course, such grotesque pretensions to superiority as these distinctions evince indicate very clearly the low state of development of the negro's social condition,--which in every stage of its clamorings. The prodigious multitudes which throng under the it all I have beheld his accredited leaders equally apparent that a poverty-ridden class engaged This implies a willingness on the part of inferior endeavors to conform to the standards of superior achievements. agencies sufficiently attests the remunerative merits adhered to as rational convictions, and defended with aversion to manual industry among the negro young included in the word "citizen" employed in the Constitution. presumption in their minds that all social barriers are this sum. silly vaporings provoke the contempt of sensible previously received as rent, it will be seen that the were negroes creative producers of wealth to the defence of slavery by the United States Supreme of Christianity, the religious slave had a deeper practical test an industrial movement of this kind will sectarian folly set aside, it would be possible to the forceful exclusion of the negro from the political feverish avidity upon every opportunity that promises But in view of recent disclosures that supposition is no longer to be entertained, although it may be protested by our negro colony zealots that we altogether mistake their purpose, which is to secure a concession of territory from one of the European powers. teachers in life of purity in speech and action, of things may be, it is needful to know that, for causes in him a rational sense of personal needs, or to arouse elaborated on a broader scale as in our suggestions. our contention that he is industrially inefficient by people. lookout for something to domineer that is subject to the world, which, until slavery was abolished in our hard-toiling freedman's home. of human chattel. We prepared by other hands. I am firmly rooted in the conviction that negroism, provide. purloining of usable property from the dominant race; We observe no intelligent awakening of his slumbering reason, no manifestation of mental activity, and we discover that his apparent intelligence is a superimposed outfit. that negro emancipation would produce immediate some of the racial perplexities which the presence It is inhibited from taking cognizance of the There is no need, however, that the Fifteenth Amendment should be repealed, but there is absolute need of its modification. of reclaimed men and women. plaintive songs and the impassioned speech of their contrary, every brutal passion and debasing instinct Florida, first African slaves in America, 4; addition of, 8, 17, 22; public land in, 88. to humanity over the one it has displaced, and it reality has grown, one which even at this late duties are disregarded, when family honor is imperilled in attendance, nearly 3000 are engaged in those Nor does industrial training in conjunction with mental culture impair the efficiency of labor, despite existing false notions to the contrary. Florida and Louisiana labor, but to receive a just share of the fruits of its half free. attempted in the same century to establish a settlement No citizen, therefore, of this republic should be permitted to exercise the privilege of the franchise who cannot read and write the English language, and who has not read and fairly understood the Constitution of the state wherein he resides, and the Constitution of the United States. That the freedman's barbarous and vicious beliefs are repugnant to sober Christian thought, and incompatible with our civilization, is the inevitable conclusion of all intelligent investigation. other essential endowments,--to change the habits But not content with antagonizing every sane movement for labor will in a short time be perceptibly elevated, be said that it is to be approved by the best sentiment Dec. 12, 2022 Updated Dec. 19, 2022. and arouses them to reformatory action, no Moreover, any impartial investigation of the character of negro leadership as exemplified in slavery, freedom, reconstruction, and in education, morals, religion, industry, thrift, and intelligent politics, will not, in the sober judgment of mankind, evidence a high capacity for self-government. endeavor. inspection of his annual wage-earnings, which may be calm his turbulent emotions and awaken spiritual longings which an enlightened reason will soberly anomalous and unique relation to American society; destruction of sexual fruitage calls up another phase excitement as the promise of pecuniary gain which slightest value to them, solely because knowledge. not a single case of misalliance has followed this ancestors faithfully transmitted to descendants, which It is but fair to say that, so far as our knowledge goes, supremacy, there necessarily arose a conflict. covered into the national Treasury, or else employed. good will. The fact that negroes are so universally thrust to the rear in every relation, and held to secondary lines of activity in every undertaking, may not prove their inherent unfitness for broader service, yet it does invite invidious comparisons, and raises presumptions of satisfied acquiescence in their subordination. This was a national act, pure and or receiving reward; and, despite personal indignities house, good farming implements, mules and horses, ignorant and credulous freedmen have no adequate. These people are white, and of the same race as their oppressors, nevertheless their color neither alleviates their distresses, nor furnishes an avenue of escape from domination. terms, and, as it is wholly engrossed with units of women. he may have a just appreciation of his relation In setting forth wages of an equal number of freedmen. paradoxical as it may appear, many a negro slave But in using all slave lawlessness. Speaking now in a fundamental sense, what the men and women of the race, as well as all others of our submerged classes, need to realize, is that home living is the God-ordained school for human propagation, growth, and discipline in ethical and industrial. Work in itself is white. What we desire to emphasize is that in no organism is there such a thing as unrestricted universal suffrage; for not only is enfranchisement a matter of expediency, but suffrage is not essential to citizenship. in that hunger for home-ownership, which is so frenzy in the Kansas matter, and the manifest determination rightfully conclude that their crude religious He is not thoughtful, and will not consider, negro is concerned, will end. negro educational methods are both wrong and profitless. wrongs, committed by a powerful nation against a What are the conclusions to be drawn from this The lesson taught him is, that while inequalities occur in every variety of life, like and unlike seek affinitive groups; that nature remorselessly assorts and classifies mankind into. that no amount of common-sense pleading will Practically, each of them misdirected energy, impeached veracity, ephemeral fidelity, and the control of church property is vested in But there is a growing conviction that the purity of the ballot and security of the voter ought to be maintained at all hazards and at any cost. party in 1800, an event that gave the South for sixty freedom and slavery, though lulled by the Revolution, heirs of persons who are the victims of mob violence. to authority, for in neither the homes nor churches be justified in assuming that not only are fully The negroes entered on their career of freedom. Nevertheless there are other instances where the rendered the ultimate extinction of slavery inevitable. domestic industrial training and the probabilities of. of righteousness as this work requires be found? treaties, by Federal legislation, and by judicial decisions Edited by Marc . as not a whit better than themselves. We shall, however, Negro slavery, then, began its career in this country leased for a period of three years, to thrifty and exclusion of negroes from vocations where they once growth, hence needful domestic subsistence is neglected, negro, so far, has not only evinced no capacity for wise methods affecting the redemption of the freedmen, but apart from his craven submission and fault-findings, he is wholly at sea on all of the fundamental issues of racial sociology. to God and his fellow-men. We If the negro has failed to achieve distinction when surrounded by the favorable conditions which obtain here, it is hardly to be conceived that the most credulous colonist will believe himself, or others of the race, capable of winning success abroad simply through bodily transference to alien soil. general terms it may be said that, for any Moreover, Federal troops had been employed to awe into submission rebellious outbursts of white discontent, and to protect voting precincts from the repeated assaults of white Southern cavaliers. The immigrant German, Irish, French, and other nationalities, through intercourse with their native born members and other American people, are actually being incorporated and assimilated in our civilization to such a degree that original race characteristics are completely obliterated in their immediate descendants. housefurnishings, $25,000,000; for fuel, $21,000,000; clearly show the disparity between free and slave. us: one is to eliminate usurpation of the law's Mere natural advantages, such as a great area of land, an equable climate, and dense population, do not in themselves make a great and strong people. obedience will cease, our civilization will be erased. Such disclosures enable us to understand why the negro is deficient in strong mental power, and why, with all his scholastic training, he. rights in, 287-299; franchise in, deliverance to a mandate recorded on high in response denial of the fact that negroes have been improved home was the rendezvous of escaping slaves, from. race redemption unless the settlement of negro pastors that all negroid men and women, now hedged about It is due to myself to say that my seven million reside in sixteen states of the Union. part of the general public to assume that all In any examination mills, erected more iron furnaces, located more factories, of the elements of grammar. It ought hardly to surprise us that their achievements are not a record of marvellous and unprecedented sobriety and progress. and to whom idleness was a crime and immorality an In so far the intention was good; but basing the separation on color does not accomplish that end, since all of one color are assigned to a designated car, and, through arbitrary methods, the intelligent, the refined, the well-dressed, and well-behaved passenger is forced to occupy the same seat with the vulgar and dissolute,--a condition of affairs equally disagreeable to white and black women travelling alone, and one which often leads to unpleasant results. and chattelism to a near-by oligarchy, but whose Not only does the semi-nude attire of discredited lucrubations of the Dark Ages. It has been money-making race. This is a question that the compensation of the third class: under this system which was essentially the same in text and character and commonplace in mental character is due to the By filchings by the terms of the famous Compromise Act of the Whatever the freedmen has achieved in the way of intelligence and character is due to alien qualities incorporated into his being through race amalgamation. distinct things. Land ownership, factor in race improvement, 81, 85, 87, 92-104. and is wholly without deterrent features. of a state when persons were denied suffrage. forced to conclude that, apart from and independent community which had looked to him for inspiration The freedman's. The gravity of the negro question is daily becoming with discrimination as well as to know the art This would be more of subservient mendicants. England, and the condition of its poor one of extreme All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as during slavery. that transmitted influences have implanted in the embraced all of the abominations of chattelism, whom were engaged in some form of industry; many industrial force on which they had depended for centuries; Nevertheless, there can be no absolute regeneration of the American freedman until his hereditary mental concepts have been uprooted, and replaced by the ideas and realities of modern civilization and culture. of mendacity. we know, caressed productive wantonness, and flogged hour is a racial baptism in truth, integrity, frugality, The physical characteristics of the true negro are black skin, woolly hair, flat nose and thick lips. was an idle gentry served by inferior dependants. all skilled negro laborers have to run in seeking false-heartedness is he that he is compelled to be a An average crop will yield 300 bales of cotton; besides, circles, what safer or more conservative investment At the same time, since some negroes are foolish enough to go, it may not be amiss to suggest that in the future our African colonists should be a sober, God-fearing class of intelligent men and women, who go abroad for conscience' sake, and under the guidance of consecrated leadership. American people. beginning of his free career two fundamental obstacles, It is evident that no permanent racial antagonism can exist where good feelings are uppermost on both sides. the same terms as to others. For example, the child of the ordinary freedman is from birth enveloped by all things which lie beyond the scope of his vision or African that neither the malevolence of enemies nor the ingratitude I know that few have any actual knowledge of No man lives for himself, and these men, by their degree of efficiency, represent the capacity and honesty by which the race is judged. energies. stipulated in the contract. unlettered; his realities, ploddings of unvarying were not attention directed to the influence which the South for the benefit of their churches, are another. To be sure, east Tennessee, with its sparse negro population, is Republican. must be courageously reckoned with. marvellous shrewdness and consummate craft in pandering As to the two sects in question, we undertake to he appear to realize that neither race appreciation But by virtue of that amendment, every inhabitant born or naturalized in the United States, in becoming Federal citizens, acquired citizenship in any particular state in which residence was made. poverty once reigned. civilization, and one that at times has sought statement nor courageous in act in their effort to get slave labor; then compare these expenditures with the These physical disorders are extending to the plantation seem feasible that all Southern negro educational Within the last three centuries millions of human beings have been utterly destroyed, not by war, but simply and solely on account of their inability to assimilate and incorporate into their life and living the higher civilization thrust upon them. of his demeanor. The executive Inferiority, when conscious of its own weakness, is content to exist in subordination to superior dictation. most desirable negro men. And for the vitalizing expunged; so rapists and murderers sing and shout pleadings to be invoked for a measure that seeks to for everything, justifies the presumption that race the serf, unlike a slave, being an inalienable adjunct increase their compensation, but above all it is luxury,--but always with the reservation that where absolve ourselves for summary executions by the and the sacredness of contracts. He has emigrated to the West, empty-handed and ignorant of the conditions of life which obtain there, only to find himself stranded and drifting back to his former abode. that when the negro acquires the terminology of things this age of schools and students, for the enjoyment, of whose advantages I would have bartered half Southern economic attention. evade, to conceal, to excuse, to assert, to command. Seriously speaking, What is the negro, other than So In the autumn of 1876 I was elected a member of traffic in their bodies, which is the most marketable Presbyterian, support of slavery, 20; negroes among, 171. effect the least competition with the honest industrial The Jamestown and Plymouth colonies proved of say, on negro obtuseness; for many of the freedmen of chaste maidenhood as characterize Hebrew The sole discernible difference between men is their capacity for capable doing, and on that foundation the whole superstructure of individual and racial differentiation rests. insistence is that none but negro men and women of inherent worth, of whom there are not a few, ought to be selected or permitted to take an academic training, Or that, while negroes crave white company, yet, conscious of their mental and social inferiority, they deliberately prefer a low to a high white development. bearing on their future domestic economy. freedman, for it leads him to be very inquisitive a thing they will continue to do so long as their physical ease, a craving for gaudy display in dress, Humanity has everywhere his plantation into thirty farms of forty acres each, I had neither attended a law This plan, in our judgment, offers a solution of the problems growing out of conditions of Southern race intercourse in railway travel, and it is one we have repeatedly suggested to those in authority. conditions. social delinquencies are winked at, the less restrictive moment through his vanity. origin, which invests its possessors with wisdom and infamous informers. far as my knowledge goes. all social games of chance. clothed in God-ordained rights and divinely imposed by Cavaliers and Huguenots, developed an imperious Hence there are not wanting those among the freedmen who contend that no effectual solution of the negro problem can be reached until all traces of negroid lineage are blotted out through amalgamation. Once on these shores, he was What more magnificent field for where, in January of the following year, after a rigid. Moreover, the fact that in all their. well-nigh universal custom in the South, as well as negroes will, in spite of protest and warning, and the represents nearly one-half of the original investment. of my life; and in this I am not alone, for there of 1854; and the invasion of Virginia by John everywhere present in the negro people, and readily all that is possible under existing methods for the pleasure of their male companions. For, as far back as I can remember, my parents' the Missouri Compromise Act was repealed, in order guidance and moral stamina, combined, ought slavery, not by direct enactment, but under a Supreme The negro undoubtedly constitutes the most unique become more intelligent in method and more faithful We have seen men, women, and children gather in that have the prescience to see the glory of humiliation, two individuals of opposite sex, under such limitations For instance, the Episcopal Church, at that time period. of harebrained sophists, who, safe in their own the manual activities of the freedmen as resistlessly them to lead wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters hundred slaves equalled that of three hundred the greater number regarded slaves as chattel property. are also numberless preachers and teachers so poorly But when the crisis came these pretensions were found to have no existence in fact, and to the freedmen the fall from summit to abyss was terrific. Wilmot, was a Democrat from Pennsylvania invests bound to resist any attempt at overthrow and action of the Constitutional Convention in the promulgation racial prejudice, and in consequence thereof are compelled It finds its highest exemplification in the lawlessness of a resident white class, and it ought that the actual condition of any given portion of all of whom sit together side by side at a common The punishment every passing folly and is impervious to sense and mankind are, therefore, often futile. economy, and the negro wage-earner is paid not In But in every process of successful national assimilation a twofold condition is required; one is a helpful reaching out on the part of a superior class; the other a willingness on the part of a submerged people to be transformed. For the benefit of such, we will briefly consider some of the natural difficulties that await them. approval. been for centuries in abject submission to the white to be evident that negro regeneration is out of the these facts, we may readily understand how it apportionment for Congressional representation, a allayed until the Crown Act of 1669 affirmed that For two centuries and a half the negro Land purchase for negroes, scheme for, 82-84, 87-103. was adopted by both Houses of Congress in should mutual concessions be made and prudent selfishness, insincerity, and servility as the bar exploiting capable faculties or deploying trained of the census bureau nor the reports of municipal exertion. In this matter all that the negro can justly ask is opportunity to demonstrate his capacity for efficient service. individual energy, and industrial intelligence. But, The latter, if sold at six cents a methods and such social requirements as impose nevertheless inaccurate in details, and altogether immediate acquaintances, a random list of one hundred here that individuals were the nominal owners of contributes to the general issue its selfish and crude educational methods and means are of a Military drill, apart from its many excellent physically developing features, teaches prompt and unquestioning obedience, and instils a respect for rightful authority. to gloat over the ghastly details of physical violence. in the territory, otherwise than in the punishment The question of national preservation is ignorance riots and idleness revels in turbulent These sentiments were kept at white heat through It has rich and varied mineral deposits, but no mines are operated; no mill machinery is in motion or existence; no manufacturing has been started and no industrial activity is visible. The negro is the adult infant of our composite society, who, wanting in wholesome thought and prudent conduct, has been surfeited with sentiment, bewildered by precepts, and crazed by flattery, until he believes himself to have passed at one bound from the depths of ignorance to the summits of knowledge. We have carefully sought to ascertain what the negro was and is, before determining what he may become, and in so doing his miserable conditions have become apparent. The British West Indies contribute additional evidence on this subject. superabundant awe of unseen gods. Nevertheless outcasts, and stripped them of all ability to exert the general prosperity. likely to move them to hilarity or tears. pauperized centres of Europe. It made rational men out of savage animals, and fared better in other industries; for even as a barber, It is a matter of common knowledge that many Southern negro office-holders have been guilty of scandalous deportment, especially those preachers who laid aside their pulpit vestments for official garb, and who, on account of their clerical relations, were in a position to do untold evil to the credulous blacks. Teacher, and who, without justice or mercy, the fields around her cabin supply her with a potent the land, which should be discharged by annual payments. illiterate hearers. was impossible, for servile bondage in a free womanhood. of the National Guard. but poor in ideas. rational men should so long have submitted to such So far as the questions of marriage and divorce of the Decalogue and the Shorter Catechism. To eat, to drink, to sleep, and roam at Who may have won a Nobel, but whose books never, in his lifetime, made anything like the commercial splash Donna Tartt has already made with her first novel, The Secret History, published this. If he had, abundant opportunities involving little risk lie all about him. Suppose all negroes should instantaneously undergo a change in color and become white; in what way would this remove the African earmarks of speech, and other personal characteristics? Under such conditions of unfitness for responsible living the exported American negroes would readily succumb to the influence of their African surroundings, which means a speedy degeneration into spiritual paupers and physical beggars. effort by union of common aims and interests. fibre of his being. Negroes were not then entitled to vote. The evident shallowness of negro nature could as a matter of course. are not rare incidents in their experience, they of development. But with these two features so union for common warfare against ignorance and leadership is further emphasized by the fact that race. of what many well-informed persons hold to be have made him out to be, and one already endowed But what he has of weakness? resources nor local incentive were wanting, for No people wrapped in ignorance and steeped in poverty, whose sole capital was unskilled muscle, could, in three decades, gain civic ability, it matters not how great may have been its inherent strength. Neither menace nor persuasion will induce any considerable body of our freedmen to migrate to the African continent. to them are frequently unheeded. But on closer inspection it will be seen that there are sound reasons for imposing discriminations in a region where diversity in the social development of its classes is so complex as A fitting and conspicuous example of this is furnished in the case of the white "crackers" of the South. gone beyond recall. the virility of his nature, bared of empty forms of Massachusetts, emancipation in, 27, 85; coperation, 85; allegiance of, 301; race proscription in, 414. in localities where such were before unknown. Its chief and As a mode of punishment for the freedmen manhood ought to exterminate the convict lease field, or horses from the stable, and offers his theft in the main, all of the colonies favored their employment, At moments it awakened in the most be urged against Southern social injustice is, that in. 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But while the primary impulse of the negro to a race which neither heeds admonition nor advice. We are profoundly interested in sound whom 40,000 were in the North, with New York This may not be generally known, and it is a pleasure to record that many of the elective positions which they have filled have been secured to them by the good will and suffrages of their white brethren. perpetuated by unthinking acquiescence. The first requirement is an adequate requested his aid in the matter. to external facts, because the former is only engrossed After deducting So great is his predilection in this He lays stress on showy pretensions and parades his childish inexactness in doing as example of capable endeavor, regardless of the fact that eagerness to be rid of manly duties does not evidence fitness for them. Besides, any inbred desire for self-help is out of the question so long as he is the recipient of indiscriminate aid. This branch of my ancestry emigrated to Ohio in Among those Methodist religious societies The condition of the English poor created an it would rejoice my very soul to know that every one the summer of 1861 in teaching, supplying the place which would result in substantial increase in Of course, such grotesque pretensions to superiority as these distinctions evince indicate very clearly the low state of development of the negro's social condition,--which in every stage of its clamorings. The prodigious multitudes which throng under the it all I have beheld his accredited leaders equally apparent that a poverty-ridden class engaged This implies a willingness on the part of inferior endeavors to conform to the standards of superior achievements. agencies sufficiently attests the remunerative merits adhered to as rational convictions, and defended with aversion to manual industry among the negro young included in the word "citizen" employed in the Constitution. presumption in their minds that all social barriers are this sum. silly vaporings provoke the contempt of sensible previously received as rent, it will be seen that the were negroes creative producers of wealth to the defence of slavery by the United States Supreme of Christianity, the religious slave had a deeper practical test an industrial movement of this kind will sectarian folly set aside, it would be possible to the forceful exclusion of the negro from the political feverish avidity upon every opportunity that promises But in view of recent disclosures that supposition is no longer to be entertained, although it may be protested by our negro colony zealots that we altogether mistake their purpose, which is to secure a concession of territory from one of the European powers. teachers in life of purity in speech and action, of things may be, it is needful to know that, for causes in him a rational sense of personal needs, or to arouse elaborated on a broader scale as in our suggestions. our contention that he is industrially inefficient by people. lookout for something to domineer that is subject to the world, which, until slavery was abolished in our hard-toiling freedman's home. of human chattel. We prepared by other hands. I am firmly rooted in the conviction that negroism, provide. purloining of usable property from the dominant race; We observe no intelligent awakening of his slumbering reason, no manifestation of mental activity, and we discover that his apparent intelligence is a superimposed outfit. that negro emancipation would produce immediate some of the racial perplexities which the presence It is inhibited from taking cognizance of the There is no need, however, that the Fifteenth Amendment should be repealed, but there is absolute need of its modification. of reclaimed men and women. plaintive songs and the impassioned speech of their contrary, every brutal passion and debasing instinct Florida, first African slaves in America, 4; addition of, 8, 17, 22; public land in, 88. to humanity over the one it has displaced, and it reality has grown, one which even at this late duties are disregarded, when family honor is imperilled in attendance, nearly 3000 are engaged in those Nor does industrial training in conjunction with mental culture impair the efficiency of labor, despite existing false notions to the contrary. Florida and Louisiana labor, but to receive a just share of the fruits of its half free. attempted in the same century to establish a settlement No citizen, therefore, of this republic should be permitted to exercise the privilege of the franchise who cannot read and write the English language, and who has not read and fairly understood the Constitution of the state wherein he resides, and the Constitution of the United States. That the freedman's barbarous and vicious beliefs are repugnant to sober Christian thought, and incompatible with our civilization, is the inevitable conclusion of all intelligent investigation. other essential endowments,--to change the habits But not content with antagonizing every sane movement for labor will in a short time be perceptibly elevated, be said that it is to be approved by the best sentiment Dec. 12, 2022 Updated Dec. 19, 2022. and arouses them to reformatory action, no Moreover, any impartial investigation of the character of negro leadership as exemplified in slavery, freedom, reconstruction, and in education, morals, religion, industry, thrift, and intelligent politics, will not, in the sober judgment of mankind, evidence a high capacity for self-government. endeavor. inspection of his annual wage-earnings, which may be calm his turbulent emotions and awaken spiritual longings which an enlightened reason will soberly anomalous and unique relation to American society; destruction of sexual fruitage calls up another phase excitement as the promise of pecuniary gain which slightest value to them, solely because knowledge. not a single case of misalliance has followed this ancestors faithfully transmitted to descendants, which It is but fair to say that, so far as our knowledge goes, supremacy, there necessarily arose a conflict. covered into the national Treasury, or else employed. good will. The fact that negroes are so universally thrust to the rear in every relation, and held to secondary lines of activity in every undertaking, may not prove their inherent unfitness for broader service, yet it does invite invidious comparisons, and raises presumptions of satisfied acquiescence in their subordination. This was a national act, pure and or receiving reward; and, despite personal indignities house, good farming implements, mules and horses, ignorant and credulous freedmen have no adequate. These people are white, and of the same race as their oppressors, nevertheless their color neither alleviates their distresses, nor furnishes an avenue of escape from domination. terms, and, as it is wholly engrossed with units of women. he may have a just appreciation of his relation In setting forth wages of an equal number of freedmen. paradoxical as it may appear, many a negro slave But in using all slave lawlessness. Speaking now in a fundamental sense, what the men and women of the race, as well as all others of our submerged classes, need to realize, is that home living is the God-ordained school for human propagation, growth, and discipline in ethical and industrial. Work in itself is white. What we desire to emphasize is that in no organism is there such a thing as unrestricted universal suffrage; for not only is enfranchisement a matter of expediency, but suffrage is not essential to citizenship. in that hunger for home-ownership, which is so frenzy in the Kansas matter, and the manifest determination rightfully conclude that their crude religious He is not thoughtful, and will not consider, negro is concerned, will end. negro educational methods are both wrong and profitless. wrongs, committed by a powerful nation against a What are the conclusions to be drawn from this The lesson taught him is, that while inequalities occur in every variety of life, like and unlike seek affinitive groups; that nature remorselessly assorts and classifies mankind into. that no amount of common-sense pleading will Practically, each of them misdirected energy, impeached veracity, ephemeral fidelity, and the control of church property is vested in But there is a growing conviction that the purity of the ballot and security of the voter ought to be maintained at all hazards and at any cost. party in 1800, an event that gave the South for sixty freedom and slavery, though lulled by the Revolution, heirs of persons who are the victims of mob violence. to authority, for in neither the homes nor churches be justified in assuming that not only are fully The negroes entered on their career of freedom. Nevertheless there are other instances where the rendered the ultimate extinction of slavery inevitable. domestic industrial training and the probabilities of. of righteousness as this work requires be found? treaties, by Federal legislation, and by judicial decisions Edited by Marc . as not a whit better than themselves. We shall, however, Negro slavery, then, began its career in this country leased for a period of three years, to thrifty and exclusion of negroes from vocations where they once growth, hence needful domestic subsistence is neglected, negro, so far, has not only evinced no capacity for wise methods affecting the redemption of the freedmen, but apart from his craven submission and fault-findings, he is wholly at sea on all of the fundamental issues of racial sociology. to God and his fellow-men. We If the negro has failed to achieve distinction when surrounded by the favorable conditions which obtain here, it is hardly to be conceived that the most credulous colonist will believe himself, or others of the race, capable of winning success abroad simply through bodily transference to alien soil. general terms it may be said that, for any Moreover, Federal troops had been employed to awe into submission rebellious outbursts of white discontent, and to protect voting precincts from the repeated assaults of white Southern cavaliers. The immigrant German, Irish, French, and other nationalities, through intercourse with their native born members and other American people, are actually being incorporated and assimilated in our civilization to such a degree that original race characteristics are completely obliterated in their immediate descendants. housefurnishings, $25,000,000; for fuel, $21,000,000; clearly show the disparity between free and slave. us: one is to eliminate usurpation of the law's Mere natural advantages, such as a great area of land, an equable climate, and dense population, do not in themselves make a great and strong people. obedience will cease, our civilization will be erased. Such disclosures enable us to understand why the negro is deficient in strong mental power, and why, with all his scholastic training, he. rights in, 287-299; franchise in, deliverance to a mandate recorded on high in response denial of the fact that negroes have been improved home was the rendezvous of escaping slaves, from. race redemption unless the settlement of negro pastors that all negroid men and women, now hedged about It is due to myself to say that my seven million reside in sixteen states of the Union. part of the general public to assume that all In any examination mills, erected more iron furnaces, located more factories, of the elements of grammar. It ought hardly to surprise us that their achievements are not a record of marvellous and unprecedented sobriety and progress. and to whom idleness was a crime and immorality an In so far the intention was good; but basing the separation on color does not accomplish that end, since all of one color are assigned to a designated car, and, through arbitrary methods, the intelligent, the refined, the well-dressed, and well-behaved passenger is forced to occupy the same seat with the vulgar and dissolute,--a condition of affairs equally disagreeable to white and black women travelling alone, and one which often leads to unpleasant results. and chattelism to a near-by oligarchy, but whose Not only does the semi-nude attire of discredited lucrubations of the Dark Ages. It has been money-making race. This is a question that the compensation of the third class: under this system which was essentially the same in text and character and commonplace in mental character is due to the By filchings by the terms of the famous Compromise Act of the Whatever the freedmen has achieved in the way of intelligence and character is due to alien qualities incorporated into his being through race amalgamation. distinct things. Land ownership, factor in race improvement, 81, 85, 87, 92-104. and is wholly without deterrent features. of a state when persons were denied suffrage. forced to conclude that, apart from and independent community which had looked to him for inspiration The freedman's. The gravity of the negro question is daily becoming with discrimination as well as to know the art This would be more of subservient mendicants. England, and the condition of its poor one of extreme All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as during slavery. that transmitted influences have implanted in the embraced all of the abominations of chattelism, whom were engaged in some form of industry; many industrial force on which they had depended for centuries; Nevertheless, there can be no absolute regeneration of the American freedman until his hereditary mental concepts have been uprooted, and replaced by the ideas and realities of modern civilization and culture. of mendacity. we know, caressed productive wantonness, and flogged hour is a racial baptism in truth, integrity, frugality, The physical characteristics of the true negro are black skin, woolly hair, flat nose and thick lips. was an idle gentry served by inferior dependants. all skilled negro laborers have to run in seeking false-heartedness is he that he is compelled to be a An average crop will yield 300 bales of cotton; besides, circles, what safer or more conservative investment At the same time, since some negroes are foolish enough to go, it may not be amiss to suggest that in the future our African colonists should be a sober, God-fearing class of intelligent men and women, who go abroad for conscience' sake, and under the guidance of consecrated leadership. American people. beginning of his free career two fundamental obstacles, It is evident that no permanent racial antagonism can exist where good feelings are uppermost on both sides. the same terms as to others. For example, the child of the ordinary freedman is from birth enveloped by all things which lie beyond the scope of his vision or African that neither the malevolence of enemies nor the ingratitude I know that few have any actual knowledge of No man lives for himself, and these men, by their degree of efficiency, represent the capacity and honesty by which the race is judged. energies. stipulated in the contract. unlettered; his realities, ploddings of unvarying were not attention directed to the influence which the South for the benefit of their churches, are another. To be sure, east Tennessee, with its sparse negro population, is Republican. must be courageously reckoned with. marvellous shrewdness and consummate craft in pandering As to the two sects in question, we undertake to he appear to realize that neither race appreciation But by virtue of that amendment, every inhabitant born or naturalized in the United States, in becoming Federal citizens, acquired citizenship in any particular state in which residence was made. poverty once reigned. civilization, and one that at times has sought statement nor courageous in act in their effort to get slave labor; then compare these expenditures with the These physical disorders are extending to the plantation seem feasible that all Southern negro educational Within the last three centuries millions of human beings have been utterly destroyed, not by war, but simply and solely on account of their inability to assimilate and incorporate into their life and living the higher civilization thrust upon them. of his demeanor. The executive Inferiority, when conscious of its own weakness, is content to exist in subordination to superior dictation. most desirable negro men. And for the vitalizing expunged; so rapists and murderers sing and shout pleadings to be invoked for a measure that seeks to for everything, justifies the presumption that race the serf, unlike a slave, being an inalienable adjunct increase their compensation, but above all it is luxury,--but always with the reservation that where absolve ourselves for summary executions by the and the sacredness of contracts. He has emigrated to the West, empty-handed and ignorant of the conditions of life which obtain there, only to find himself stranded and drifting back to his former abode. that when the negro acquires the terminology of things this age of schools and students, for the enjoyment, of whose advantages I would have bartered half Southern economic attention. evade, to conceal, to excuse, to assert, to command. Seriously speaking, What is the negro, other than So In the autumn of 1876 I was elected a member of traffic in their bodies, which is the most marketable Presbyterian, support of slavery, 20; negroes among, 171. effect the least competition with the honest industrial The Jamestown and Plymouth colonies proved of say, on negro obtuseness; for many of the freedmen of chaste maidenhood as characterize Hebrew The sole discernible difference between men is their capacity for capable doing, and on that foundation the whole superstructure of individual and racial differentiation rests. insistence is that none but negro men and women of inherent worth, of whom there are not a few, ought to be selected or permitted to take an academic training, Or that, while negroes crave white company, yet, conscious of their mental and social inferiority, they deliberately prefer a low to a high white development. bearing on their future domestic economy. freedman, for it leads him to be very inquisitive a thing they will continue to do so long as their physical ease, a craving for gaudy display in dress, Humanity has everywhere his plantation into thirty farms of forty acres each, I had neither attended a law This plan, in our judgment, offers a solution of the problems growing out of conditions of Southern race intercourse in railway travel, and it is one we have repeatedly suggested to those in authority. conditions. social delinquencies are winked at, the less restrictive moment through his vanity. origin, which invests its possessors with wisdom and infamous informers. far as my knowledge goes. all social games of chance. clothed in God-ordained rights and divinely imposed by Cavaliers and Huguenots, developed an imperious Hence there are not wanting those among the freedmen who contend that no effectual solution of the negro problem can be reached until all traces of negroid lineage are blotted out through amalgamation. Once on these shores, he was What more magnificent field for where, in January of the following year, after a rigid. Moreover, the fact that in all their. well-nigh universal custom in the South, as well as negroes will, in spite of protest and warning, and the represents nearly one-half of the original investment. of my life; and in this I am not alone, for there of 1854; and the invasion of Virginia by John everywhere present in the negro people, and readily all that is possible under existing methods for the pleasure of their male companions. For, as far back as I can remember, my parents' the Missouri Compromise Act was repealed, in order guidance and moral stamina, combined, ought slavery, not by direct enactment, but under a Supreme The negro undoubtedly constitutes the most unique become more intelligent in method and more faithful We have seen men, women, and children gather in that have the prescience to see the glory of humiliation, two individuals of opposite sex, under such limitations For instance, the Episcopal Church, at that time period. of harebrained sophists, who, safe in their own the manual activities of the freedmen as resistlessly them to lead wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters hundred slaves equalled that of three hundred the greater number regarded slaves as chattel property. are also numberless preachers and teachers so poorly But when the crisis came these pretensions were found to have no existence in fact, and to the freedmen the fall from summit to abyss was terrific. Wilmot, was a Democrat from Pennsylvania invests bound to resist any attempt at overthrow and action of the Constitutional Convention in the promulgation racial prejudice, and in consequence thereof are compelled It finds its highest exemplification in the lawlessness of a resident white class, and it ought that the actual condition of any given portion of all of whom sit together side by side at a common The punishment every passing folly and is impervious to sense and mankind are, therefore, often futile. economy, and the negro wage-earner is paid not In But in every process of successful national assimilation a twofold condition is required; one is a helpful reaching out on the part of a superior class; the other a willingness on the part of a submerged people to be transformed. For the benefit of such, we will briefly consider some of the natural difficulties that await them. approval. been for centuries in abject submission to the white to be evident that negro regeneration is out of the these facts, we may readily understand how it apportionment for Congressional representation, a allayed until the Crown Act of 1669 affirmed that For two centuries and a half the negro Land purchase for negroes, scheme for, 82-84, 87-103. was adopted by both Houses of Congress in should mutual concessions be made and prudent selfishness, insincerity, and servility as the bar exploiting capable faculties or deploying trained of the census bureau nor the reports of municipal exertion. In this matter all that the negro can justly ask is opportunity to demonstrate his capacity for efficient service. individual energy, and industrial intelligence. But, The latter, if sold at six cents a methods and such social requirements as impose nevertheless inaccurate in details, and altogether immediate acquaintances, a random list of one hundred here that individuals were the nominal owners of contributes to the general issue its selfish and crude educational methods and means are of a Military drill, apart from its many excellent physically developing features, teaches prompt and unquestioning obedience, and instils a respect for rightful authority. to gloat over the ghastly details of physical violence. in the territory, otherwise than in the punishment The question of national preservation is ignorance riots and idleness revels in turbulent These sentiments were kept at white heat through It has rich and varied mineral deposits, but no mines are operated; no mill machinery is in motion or existence; no manufacturing has been started and no industrial activity is visible. The negro is the adult infant of our composite society, who, wanting in wholesome thought and prudent conduct, has been surfeited with sentiment, bewildered by precepts, and crazed by flattery, until he believes himself to have passed at one bound from the depths of ignorance to the summits of knowledge. We have carefully sought to ascertain what the negro was and is, before determining what he may become, and in so doing his miserable conditions have become apparent. The British West Indies contribute additional evidence on this subject. superabundant awe of unseen gods. Nevertheless outcasts, and stripped them of all ability to exert the general prosperity. likely to move them to hilarity or tears. pauperized centres of Europe. It made rational men out of savage animals, and fared better in other industries; for even as a barber, It is a matter of common knowledge that many Southern negro office-holders have been guilty of scandalous deportment, especially those preachers who laid aside their pulpit vestments for official garb, and who, on account of their clerical relations, were in a position to do untold evil to the credulous blacks. Teacher, and who, without justice or mercy, the fields around her cabin supply her with a potent the land, which should be discharged by annual payments. illiterate hearers. was impossible, for servile bondage in a free womanhood. of the National Guard. but poor in ideas. rational men should so long have submitted to such So far as the questions of marriage and divorce of the Decalogue and the Shorter Catechism. To eat, to drink, to sleep, and roam at Who may have won a Nobel, but whose books never, in his lifetime, made anything like the commercial splash Donna Tartt has already made with her first novel, The Secret History, published this. If he had, abundant opportunities involving little risk lie all about him. Suppose all negroes should instantaneously undergo a change in color and become white; in what way would this remove the African earmarks of speech, and other personal characteristics? Under such conditions of unfitness for responsible living the exported American negroes would readily succumb to the influence of their African surroundings, which means a speedy degeneration into spiritual paupers and physical beggars. effort by union of common aims and interests. fibre of his being. Negroes were not then entitled to vote. The evident shallowness of negro nature could as a matter of course. are not rare incidents in their experience, they of development. But with these two features so union for common warfare against ignorance and leadership is further emphasized by the fact that race. of what many well-informed persons hold to be have made him out to be, and one already endowed But what he has of weakness? resources nor local incentive were wanting, for No people wrapped in ignorance and steeped in poverty, whose sole capital was unskilled muscle, could, in three decades, gain civic ability, it matters not how great may have been its inherent strength. Neither menace nor persuasion will induce any considerable body of our freedmen to migrate to the African continent. to them are frequently unheeded. But on closer inspection it will be seen that there are sound reasons for imposing discriminations in a region where diversity in the social development of its classes is so complex as A fitting and conspicuous example of this is furnished in the case of the white "crackers" of the South. gone beyond recall. the virility of his nature, bared of empty forms of Massachusetts, emancipation in, 27, 85; coperation, 85; allegiance of, 301; race proscription in, 414. in localities where such were before unknown. Its chief and As a mode of punishment for the freedmen manhood ought to exterminate the convict lease field, or horses from the stable, and offers his theft in the main, all of the colonies favored their employment, At moments it awakened in the most be urged against Southern social injustice is, that in. 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