American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-04-26
Ought Not the Philanthropists, So Call
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lFrom the Louisville Journal, 5th.

s per. The record is black in more sense
: than one. 1t marks the CLEAN Of philan
tbropy. so called. I'll lustrous with mis-
cry. It is the echo of the freedman
shout.
! What is true of Louisville in this re
spect is true Of every Southern city ant
village and county. The mortality among
the negroes has been fearful, upprece
dsnted. Theyihave persisted by the score
the hundred. the thousand. They have
dropped down by the wayside. in th
crowded city. and in the woods. They
have died Of species Of cholera. o
small pox. Of vice. of filth. and starva,
ton, We have seen them coming from
the plantations with their bundles upon
their backs and their children 10 THEN
arms. and crowding into improvised tents
in the neighborhood of negro camps, with
nothing to protect them from the elements
but rags and nothing to eat except what
they might be able to beg or steal. with
never thought of the future. and expect.
ing. as a matter Of course, that the power
that freed them would take care of them
II has been computed by many that a
million of these victims of secession and
philanthropy have vanished from the earth
since the war begun! We call that costly,
and. in humanitarian point of view,
horrible. II is not possible for US to re.
gard it as philanthropic work. 1t Sc Gems
TO us more like the elimination of devil
worship. 1.-THE philsnlhropists, so called
consider it work worthy of rejoicing
over. let them exult. Let The winds watt
their peans over the desolate fields of the
South. and mingle them with the piteous
means 10 which thousand old shanties,
lanes and rag houses have listened from
a million Of the sable sons and daughters
Of Africa. Let them raise a dark monu>
ment, and inscribe on one side "Philan-
thropy" and on the other Secession"
and let an index point to million of
lowly African graves, upon the rough
head boards Of which shall be painted,
Humanity and Freedom"
The phianthropists ought to be salts
fed with tho large work they have accom-
plished with the cooperation OF their
friends. the secessonists. The measure
of their ambition ought 10 be full now.
Can't they rest content with the slaughter
Of million Of niggers? Are they deter
mined to kill of the other three millions?
What have the poor Africans done that
hey should be thus relentlessly pursued
~ the Nemesis Of philanthropy? Are
hey to have no rest for their souls ex.
sept in the grave? Having feed them
1t the cost Of "A million Of their lives, the
,hlantLropic Juggsraaut seems nov de.
ermined to make politicians Of the other
hree millions, in order TO kill them of
The worst thing that can be done fol-
be freed negro at the present time is 10
1ake him a politcian-which is just b
hat the super philanthropists, so-caIled, c
re attempting to bring about. II there b
any one thing that is clear and which
dmiIs of no Lind Of doubt at all in the
hind Of any man acquainted with the
'eedmen and the condition of the South Il
t the present time. it is that the tx slave n
not nov 6t to become politician. 1t q
'ust ruin him. II rust bring upon him "
ntold miseries. Il must rouse bis pas \
ons, It must make him idle and in b
,lent, VICIOUS and dishonest. 1t must
nd to produce a conflict Of races and to fl
produce in this country upon an ex-
nded scale all the horrors Of Hayti and
lmaica. It must curse the South with
describsble curses. 1t must cripple its
dustry and reduce it to barbarism. 1t
ust impoverish the North and over
helm il with taxation.
The negro is not now Ct for politics.
e is not superior TO the W hite man-if
e super philsnthropists. SO called, will
cuse such beresy--and the white
an cannot take care Of and digest more
an one great thought at a time. The
gro is now free. Freedom is, conse.
emily, his great thought. Give him
ne to assimilate that and incorporate it
into his constitution before
rusting something else upon him. before
king him politician as well as freed
10. Hitherto, he has not taken care Of
nself. and has had a master to take
re Of him. Il remains, therefore, to be
70, first Of all. whether he is able to
mage freedom and provide for his own
nts, moral and physical. for if it
,uld turn out that he cannot do that
oh. then j. will certainly follow that
cannot d. that and something else.
be cannot manage freedom alone. be
mot manage both freedom aud politics
he same time. Let him tussle with
.dom Gr.t, and see hich will get the -
ory.