Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-01-06
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yisitthe different precincts before the
election, unless detained from home
longer than now anticipate, When
| return home | will take great plea
sure in giving You my views ON all
tho questions likely to be acted on
by the Convention but fearing that
some unforeseen accident may detain
me here until after the election, |
have concluded, hastily, to forward
you my sentiments in regard to the
proper policy to be adopted in re-
gard TO the negroes.
The Convention must declare to
all the world, IN unmistakeable Ian.
guagc, that Texas is white mans
country, and all political power must
bcretained in the hands OF the whites.
/ will not consent to allow the cleo
tive franchise, or any other political
right to be placed in the power of
the negroes. Upon this question, |
will never consent to any concession.
The Negro question is ofthe great
est interest at present, and most diff.
ficuit of solution. His position, and
what is to be his final destination, is
the constant enquiry ofalmost every
one.
This is now and ever must be the
white mans government, The doc
trine of the universal equality Of the
races has no substantial foundation
in truth, and no two Of them so I'M
equal and unlike each other as the
white man and the negro, can live
together long at peace, without ono
or the other being more or less sub
ordinate to the other; and all at
tcmpts to make the negro what God
has failed to make him, will prove a
failure when fully and fairly tried.
Nevertheless, we may, and it is our
duty under the present condition Of
things, to pursue policy toward
them, which, in our judgement, is
best calculated to improve their con-
dition, and elevate them to such
position in society as their int"lli-
gence and moral capacity entities
thom. The usefulness Of the black
man under the new order Of things,
renders ii necessary, for his sake,
ana duty and humanity demand it
Of as. But all this falls far short of
social and political equality. The
white man may pull himself down
to the level of the negro socially,
but it will be in few and exception
able cases that the negro can be ell
evated to the standard Of the white
man, and, as Il race, it is impossible.
But they are, by circumstances and
the war, made free from bondage to
their former owners, and it matters
not now who is at fault for it, or who
is injured or who is benefited by it.
The great prevailing law OF causes,
which moves and rules the Universe
of things have brought it about, and
ii is too late now to find fault and
say that u different and wiser policy
would have produced different and
better result. The experiment that
has produced this result has been
fully made and pressed to the wall;
and the thing is done, and forever
unalterable, the negro is freed and
they are among us and cannot be re-
moved at present, and all must deal
with them as they find them in their
new relation to us--destitute, poor,
naked, hungry and cold-"not where
to lay their heads" In their for
ner position as our servants, they
were our property, cared for and
protected as such, and formed parts
and parcels of our families and house
hold, goods and chattels. But their
freedom has changed, broken up and
forever destroyed the relationship
of master and slave. And the ne
gro, who had least to do with it and
is least to blame for the change, is
made almost mono maniac on the
subject Of freedom, without under
standing either its blessings or ben
Gifts; who only knows that he is
free by being told so; is now an off
cast, turned loose upon the country
to work his way the best he can;
and from their former habits and
customs of life, they are, as a gene
raj thing, almost entirely untitled
for providing for themselves And
now, to save them from the severest
sufferings, they must be taught, by
wise and Just laws and humane
policy OF administration, that free
d ON does not relieve or cxonerate
them from work that it is the great
Jaw Of God that mankind are born
to2abor and live, and that their own
necessities, as well as the interest of
the whole country, and society it,
self, requires that they must work.
And it is kindness and humanity to
them, and justice to ourselves as
country and social community, to
adopt such a policy and regulations
towards them rs will afford them a
fs n opportunity to work under fair
aud proper experiments Necessity
demands and requires that they
be made to work. To indulge them
in their present idleness and run