The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-03
TRe colorsa Fsopie nna chr TrlbuInis.

;rhe colersa ssepie ana slas rrlbuas.
The New York Tribune isexceedinely
philanthropic always to the deaSendants
of the Africane imported into This coun.
try long years since by the anoeators OF
the Northern people-poasiblyJ Of Mr.
Greeley himself. That is very well; but
the Tribune never fails to make o; fling OF
some kind at the white race while pity!
ing or encouraging the negro. This is
very bad. We do not suppose Mr.
Greeley himself does this; nor do we
suppose that those who do it in the 1rf-
Dune Office are actuated merely by wan.
ton malice. They have gotten 80 much
in the habit of this, in carrying out the
radical policy against the South, that
they cannot help it.
The Tribune has letter from North
Carolina which pleases it very muoh-a
letter evidently written by some man
who either knew nothing of what he
wrote, or who was only manufacturing u
little capital, personal or political. Take
single assertiou-thus: "About half
the coiored children in the schools of
that State-children born of course dur
ing the existence Of the patriarchal sys-
tem-are 80 nearly white that nobody
can tell to which race they approach the
closer" Who believes this? It is a
very great faslehood-a condensed state.
ment of what the North Carolina writer
communicates, and condensed by man
In the Tribune Office who is profoundly
Ignorant of the whole subject.
"But since the war has given tie
freedmen the control of their own fami-
lies, the amalgamation has almost wholly
ceased, proving that it was the whites
not the blacks-who were responsible
for it OF old" And going back in this
back handed way Of dealing out oppro-
brium, if the Northern people had never
brought negroes to this country for the
purpose of putting them into slavery,
there would now be fewer negroes here
and less amalgamation.
But this aside-who that knows the
truth does not know that this whole
statement is entirely without foundation?
There is diminution of the martial re-
lation5 amongst blacks, and q general
decrease in the number Of births of CO.
lored children, as is generally known, in
the South. Negro men are less willing
now to incur the responsibilities OF fauii-
lies than when they were supported by
their owners. There is moro liceutious-
ness amongst them than ever, and there
fore fewer proportionate births
F9ticide and infanticide, too-things
almost unknown in the South before the
war-.have become quite common. mo-
theirs preferring to destroy their chill
dren rather than support them. 1t can
not be shame, because the giving birth
to the offspring of illicit intercourse in :
spired no such feeling in former times.
Whatever may be the case in time to
come, this is the condition of things now,
and must continue to be until order
political and social, is better restored
We regret that it is SO. We state it with
no unkind feeling to the blacks. 1t is
poor way for the Tribune to help the ne
gro by libelling the white man. It is
unnecessary and outrageous. The white
people of the South are the best friends
of the oolored people. In Southern
hands, the blacks will have every chance
to acquire property and knowledge.
whilst the prejudiced and nninformed
Northern man only succeeds in making
them unhappy and slandering us. 1t
would be useful to Mr.. Greeley to come
down here and go amongst the people,
and find out the truth. He would de-
rive great deal of information that
would be useful to him, and enable him
to enlighten n great multitude of men
whom he has misled in times past.
Richmond Dispatch