The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-02-18
WIN me Negro Race Become
.'tB o1 ths Extinct?

VIII the Negro Race Become
IJaB .oa Lns sai Extinct? 'f'" o
The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial gives the
following glaecOunt of an interesting
lcone6rsation with an Intelligent color
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~ ~ ilrlfsl rya : : 10 sgru Il s. ~ ta as.aJ
oI had a long talk with a Southern
delegate who gave some startling facts
.-==atleast t0ame-eOncerning to his race.
He had been a slave in, his youths .es-
capped long before the war, i'm which he
had taken an. active bpart and had
picked up, one way and another, a
very good edueatiOns 1 asked if he
thought tuhisu people zWOHIda vote the
Democratic ticket at the South if the
masters 6ReT6 ehffanchised. 81 think
not, sir,n he replied athey- are well
organized and getting better enIighten-
ed every day." "But the poor whites
always voted With Their masters, and
/ 1 believe, I continued, sthat there is
morB RffegtiOngfOr the master OH stie
part of the coloUed man than there
ever was on the-part of the poor
whitelgT i'That Is very Fitru9. But
then tie right of Suffrage IS a precious
privilege TO- the Black man ~ more
than iteveF ,Rasl to the poor white.
He treasures It up withSalnOsb' relig-
ious venerati0n; and WflllB BeEclreful to
consuitWiti his frientsIs and bestoW
his vote where It is best for himself
and country. ''lIRtYouL say itEiey are
learning TapldIy'?p 05sYess1 There are
two things AMMAN seeksifOFr above all
Others, mt the = sSbuth.i dThP one is to
learn b0reRd, and tEeiOtheT to own the
land he cultivates. You'd be aston
ished to see men working all day,
walk five and sixzmiies9 to the night
SCHOOL, "Is it not the noveltyDf the
affair, that5WiI wear of after a While?''
81 think not, sir OF course there is
some falling Off--but this sort of
thing has gone on for some time, now,
and at this time the eOlored people
are betteTseducatBd at the South than
the whites are.'' .t1You have right,
then, to anticipate a bright future for
your race?" My friend paused a mo-
ment, and then said sadly: FcNo, sir ;
1 have no bright anticipatiOns. In a
few generations the cOlored race of
America will have disappeared. We
have taken the vices with the virtues
of the stronger race, and they are fatal
to u.s. ''I do not clearly understand
you.t4 eSWPll sir, 1t is generally be-
liBEed that the black race is a hardy
race. This is not SO, The average
duratiOnaoflife, under the whip, on
the plantations was only ten years,
The supply was kept up by the mas
ter's carein breeding 1T being his in
terest. Now this is not the case, and
while the mortality continues through
dissipation, the increase through pop
ulatioh has fallen off painfully. On
plantations and in neighborhoOds
where, before the war, children
swarmed almost, you scarcely find one
now" "Why, how do you account fol
that? What becomes of the chill
dren ?" "The mothers have learned
from New England how to kill them
You know, sir, that New England i.
dying out from lack of Yankees, anC
the poor eOlOred people have not beer
slow to learn. But while the white,
receive fresh supply from emigration
the colored race has none"