The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
The Negro Races Killed by Kindness.

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We clip the following from late issue Of the
Memphis Bulletin:
II all this Northern sympathy for the colored
people, as illustrated in Harpers Journal OF Cvili
zation, was not provoked by hatred for whites,
there would be no differences as to the measures
OF public policy affecting the condition and rights
Of negroes. No one would re-enslave them. The
end is not more desirable than possible. There
is no onmity between the races, save that
engendered by competition among laborers. This
is necessarily confined to cities. The mistake
made by Congress consists in the fact that it
bases lts action upon supposed and unreal rela-
ton of races. The object OF Trumbulrs bill is to
protect negroes against wrongs practiced by
Southerners. This may be we'll enough, since
there are bad men in all countries But this
should not be the whole scope and purpose of
Congressional freedmen's codes. The blacks
mainly need protection against their chiefest
benefactors.
Negro graves arc counted by the acre in and
around this city. When liberty first gathered
thcnl in its fold, they died too rapidly for grave
diggers. Encofined they were borne from novels
aud hospitals. Like De Soto, their uncofined
bodies found resting. places in the bosom of the
great river. There is Nc register of births and
deaths. Few are born, and infants nearly all per-
ish. We are told that twelve hundred blacks were
frozen to death on Presidents Island while agents
of civilization toiling to promote their intelli.
gerce The thousands that we're buried in single
trench at Helena, should have some memorial to
their benfactors, lifting it's form OF spotless mar
bic to the very mid heavens.
We should have "their rights protected against
all aggressors by national power" Tell US, some
sane man. who are these aggressors? The bureau
is deemed the bonefactor OF the black race II
has paved wells in Columbus, Miss, with bones
of negro infants Negro women in pursuit o
negro soldiers, abandon the helpless children and
aged parents to famine and death. If extinction
of the race be the work Of charity and love, never
was scheme of benevolence SO successful as thai
which has been practiced towards the blacks fol
the past three years.
Thus far, every act OF nominal benefcence has
been one Of barbarity. The black population o.
these States is million less than it would have
been without i; war. CiYiliZe, educate, clothe ant
feed tho negro, and then talk about his lnVestur!t
with all the rights of citizenship. But do not XII
him with kindness. He has borne enough Tor tic
present.
There are now over 500 large manufacturing
estanishments In PttsburS and suburbs, among
when are % glass factories, So oil re6neries, 81
rolling mills, AZ iron fuuudres, 33 machine shops
II boiler works, Charge steel works, 10 brass foun
dries, IL potterles cotton mills, wooden mills
9plough works, 10 establishments for heavy ftorg
ing; also number Of extensive white lead fac
tories, chemical works, saw axe, copper and othe,
manufactures of on'y the great staples of trade
turnng cut nearly SLIGO 100000 in value Of her owl
usactures, lii akipg it the largcet mauufactur
arg city oY the West.