The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-04-21

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new career in an inofensive and promisin
, manner, and he holds out standing offer I
the South of peaceful relations. 1t is rathe
the schite persons who are to be schooled an
educated up to the necessities of the question
before the negro problem can be satisfactory
determined and put ON conservative basis
The view should be plain enough. An,
yet, 1 doubt not. 1 will find some critics who
will distort it as they have already distorted
my article in Lippincott's, as something yer!
offensive to the nice and aristocratic sensibi
lities of the South. Such criticisms have nj
power over me, and probably not over any
one ontside of the paradise of fools. They
generally emanate from absurd and i'll condi
toned newspapers in the South, which pro.
duce nothing but silly and wearisome senti-
mentalisms from the first, and whose habltual
tone on the negro-constituting as he does
one of the most pregnant and dramatic cues
tons of our age-is that of sneer or jest.
Thus, the editor of Richmond (Va.) paper
has found no better or higher occupation
since the war than going about to agricultural
county meetings and fairs and giving bur-
lesque exhibitions CT the negro; although
en- PEASANT, the remarks which he ascribes
| to one of the sable orators of the Virginia
Convention that "the oyster has more sense
| than some pussons, case he knows when tn
keep his mouth shet," might be well applied
| to himself and to some others who think the
| wisest and most entertaining views that can
| be given of a question that is most deeply
agitating the world, are charcoal sketches,
carrica,ures, and " Humors of Reconstruc-
tion," at fifty cents a head.
NV affection for the negro is no new thing.
desire in him the real peace and prosperity
Of the South, and do SO in a solicitude that
1ofx- nar thn Snnth pr
small trafickers in sentimentalisms, or any
of those people who speak from the raw and
childish prejudices of an Matrareled or Bour-
bon existence, to impeach for real patriotism
or to challenge on the ground of a wise and
generous humanity. NV regard for the
negro has a basis infinitely broader than
political party. owe him many happy
hours in that early home of my childhood,
where not less than five hundred slaves con-
s,ituted the ancestral estate. The humor,
the tenderness, the real virtues of his race
had impressed my heart, even when he had
no opportunities Of showing these qualities
but in the hard and narrow fortune of the
slave. believe was the FIRST to invent for
these then despised creatures a poetic name.
l wrote the book "Black Diamonds" more
than ten years ago, l risked my life, even
in the days of slavery, to defend 1or,
nameless negro on the forfihcations of
Richmond from the brutality of white
overseer, whose fierce bullyi> had hitherto
been the terror of the cowardly city-that
city which has furnished assassins for its
modern heroes l fought him to the point
of bloodshed and l rescued from his savage
lash the poor, Bringing slave, whose only
claim to nv protection was that he was
wronged and stricken in my sight. My
battle with g Hagan, the King of the Chero- |
kee Nation" l am ready to renew with
whatever lawless man dares to abuse the |
negro, or any other unprotected human |
creature, in my view. l intend to stand by |
the negro in the South, and before Southern
men, ami that despite the weapons of the |
kuklux klans, or the more cOwardly sings |
Of libel and abuse. OF the male members OF
L family greatly ravased by death there only |
remains myself and brother in Lynchburg,
Virginia, and dare TO say that there is not
, negro who has ever lived in the home of
,ither Of us, or knows either of us, but
would stand by US in any difficulty or peril.
For myself, here solmenly, touched BY the
'pirit OF many reeollections of what has
passed in my life, remembering many loved
mes among a humbled and despised people,
peaking in no disposition of egotism, and
With no possible accent of boastfulness, de-
lare and pledge myself that on every occa-
ion and in every presence l shall protect
nd defend the negro to the last extremity
hat justice and humanity shall ever demand
# me. EDWARD A. POLLARD.
This is an ebullition Of true chiyalry
nd it is most gratifying indication
hat there are, among the quick and
trong thinkers of the South, men who
re alive to the necessities of the times,
nd by whose energy and courage she
nay yet be redeemed. Pollard is the
Veudell Phillips of the South fall Of
rigipal and daring ideas, far seeing and I
assessed of great moral courage. His q
iea,, as given above, are replete with d
n enlightened philosophy. They are
lesson not only to the South but TO
lie North not only to the Democracy.
u, to the Republican party. And when
Southern man, ERE eater, rebel and
I slave holder as he is, talks in such a
shion who can longer listen with pa :
ence to the driveliogs of Northern,
,ushfaced copperheads on sain bone
hnology and the inferiori,y of 1.-THE
gger?'