Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-06-24
rFrsu The View Tork Tines
The Negro.

4 Ii Is decreed that the negro shak occupy the
sftention Of the American people For thirty
Mars be has been the great topic Of discussion.
kis rights as a nan: hfs wrongs as q slave: bis
status among the races; bis Intellectual calibre
4;s moral possibilities: biz physiological peeuli
ssities: his hsi: and his heels; bis color and bis
GSlor; his history and bis future have been ques
TONS concerning which every man and all women
sse supposed TO be thoroughly posted and cease
itssly excited. Nay. HE body, soul aud earthly
r1lAtions were not enough for the spectators
5seeping beyond this world and into the next
fey argued az 10 whether, when be got TO
Heaven, be would occupy the same quarters a.
t5e white man. and be permitted 10 sit on the
SINE bench.
/ The questions before the public often seemed
* vary. but under and behind them all vas al
lays the same old questionable negro. There
'tas an African behind every fence. darkey 90
.lery wood pile. Without the negro Congress
zen would have nothing TO spout and shout
stout. except questions Of national development
Thtional progress and national glory; without
IN the preachers (some Of them.) would have
t.sen hard up for theme: without him what
would the newspapers (some Of them.) have
reonel But for him there would have been no
4, Southern Confederscy: the late war would
ever have been waged; our present. debt would
Ipt have been piled up. and JEFF Divs's neck
Hould never have been in danger, possibly
iSo important part has be played in our his
t:ry, that il is impossible even TO conceive wha.
oilr history would have been without him. Had
that dark bark" which was rugged with
curses" and crammed with Ethiopans. never
ttsen permitted 10 reach our shores: and had the
t3lde ended with that accursed freight. what
s<ould have been the state OF the South? what
t3e character OF our politics? what our whole
CAST careeff The subject would have been ar
excellent one for debate in young mems lyce-
ans. but it is altogether beyond our depth
Some OF the phases of the great discussion
vhich have hsrsssed the nation for years, have
been settled by the var; but Others are as fal
from settlement ever. and new phases are con
EQUALLY arising. We shall hear no more. for ex
ample OF the wrongs Of the negro as a slave
We are as far ever from having established
status among the race Of men, or solved che
oblems concealed in his physical conformation
Che vast system Of negro education has settled
tAe dispute 10 the capacity of the negro for in
tf'lectual development, at least 80 Tar as con
o4rns his capacity of achieving the three apou:
rs. reading, rteing and rithmetic," but how
0ses that help Us TO decide the tsstefulness OF
r:opriety of amsigamatonI We have bu
x,ely settled the question Of the negro 5 rgh
K be a soldier; but we have only got fairly into
tfe dispute ss 10 the wisdom Of comforting upon
h,m the franchise OF a citizen When the latter
Gases 10 be practicable and political phase o.
tie one great question, we shall have some Other
tase OF it before the country. What il will be
remains TO be seen
Beside the leading matter just referred TO. ":
ase never without exciting news specially bezring
u:on negroes To-day, there is deputation &c
tAe President of Richmond negroes; the negro
s1dier meeting on the james river; the accounts
rom the South OF the unfxed and unhappy con
cL>ion OF negroes generally. aud other things too
nsmerous to be here mentioned. IL is evident
q this whole negro question can only be GO
r of by getting rid of the negroes; and as thai
iSimpossible. we must rest content with our lot
IL the meantime. il would be well for those oil
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