Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-10

lay OuI FOauS ana Jne IKE. ne
lands are then to be laid out in small
farms and sold to Northerners who
will settle there At Fredericks-
burgh, Mr. Greeley addressed a
large meeting of colored people. His
remarks were discouraging to idlers,
but he commended them to self-reli-
ance, to industrial habits, money
saving, education and obedience to
the moral and civil laws. He said
that his remarks were designed as
we'll for the whites as blacks-"both
races having equally fallen a wreck
to that institution of the past which
victimized all races without any re-
spect to color. That liberty which
the rebellion wrought under Divine
guidance will reverse the order Of
things and lead to happiness for all,
without respect for race or color.
But the liberty SO wrought can only
benefit the people by their taking to
industry and to orderly habits and
edueotion. By neglect of these
liberty may yet prove curse to all. :"
There has been an immense accu-
mutation of capital at Washington
and the holders are laying out much
ofitin building very costly dwellings,
stores, Offices and monuments.
Great piles of brick, red sandstone,
marble and mortar are being erected
which can never pay any income
above taxes and interest on money.
There can be no inducements except
desire for show for these extrava
gances.
The public statistics and street
shows tell that near half the people
in Washington are colored. They
| perform most of the common and
much Of the mechanic labor. 1t cans
not now be seen that free competi-
ton is denied these people anywhere,
and they are freely admitted on the
railroad and street cars from Chica>
go to Washington, and many of the
| hotels make no distinction at their
tables. Here in Washington it is
common to see colored clerks in
stores along side of white ones and
am told that some of the finest stores
are owned wholly or in part by coll
ored men. The omnibus and carriage
business as we'll as the boot backing
and news dealing trades with the law
and medical professions are now be-
ing shared by all, color and nativity
being laid aside. And such is just as
true of Baltimore practice as Wash>
ington, and | am told the same is also
the practice at Charleston, Richmond
and all leading Southern cities-the
Northern cities being not yet up to
the like federation and business
equality, though fast on the way.
Separate SCHOOLS are still supported
in these cities, but the extra expens-
iveness of these will soon lead to
unions. 1t is said however that the
colored people are quite averse to
any union with the whites in schools
and.churches, believing that by keep,
ing up separate schools their children
will derive better advantages and
that their religious interests would
suffer by mixing in with the whites.
About a third OF the Washington
city officers, civil and police, are col
ored men and the practice is to draw
colored Jurors in fair proportion with
the whites, care being taken howev-
er to fill such stations only with the
most intelligent blacks, which is to
their advantage, since in the selec-
ton of whites to fill these places far
less care ia taken-hence the saying
here that the colored men are making
the ablest and best officers. | am
advised by intelligent persons here,
and certainly some of them, those
whose political prejudices would lead
them to report against the blacks,
that these experiments from the free
franchise to cOlored official servitude
and free competition in all business
and professions, is proving perfect
success, hOlceUer hUmiliGting to the men
who ought to ruiz and who would
have ruled except for the failure of
the dear cause through Jeff Davis
inefficiency.".
And now, if it follow that these
black men fail in the race of intellect
ual, moral, industrial, and economical
progress, and allow the whites to
lead them any way, | shall be as fast
to vote them back seats as l have
hitherto been to vote them upward to
the platform Of competitor. Hence
forth [ shall exact from the blacks
even more than from the whites
for surely moro is to be expected
from people so trained as the blacks
have been, in hard toll and beneath
o prejudice that held them down, in
tellectually and in every sense ex-
cept common sense. Surely more is
expected of usefulness, patriotism
and moral worth from the white
man who was poor and oppressed
boy than of one who was raised up
in idleness, vice and impotence. And
we shall have to apply the same rule
to these blacks, so recently exalted
from slaves to citizens. The rule
may seem a hard one, but it is the
same which the Almighty ever APP
piled in dealing with His oppressed
people. "To tohom much lcaS given,
much shall be required" only applied
as between Gods people and the
heather. In this new deal of the
races, we shall expect far more from
the black man than from the proud
Caucasian" because much useful toll,
training beneath the wholesome yoke
and mild stimulus of the lash has
qualified the latter for niger civili-
cation If this new doctrine be not
square in the way of common sense
it is at least safe and sound for
white men J. G. G.
Washington, D. c.. July 81, 1869.
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sA-Governor Senter, the candidate