The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-06-13
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In the dark W OF snd bat foil -
ed the war e. bouther1 eopIe wsse
humiliated ke and "a BY the
lection Of "a who HI lived am Ig !
them. (nl I'm some Instances va
helped them to fight Tor thelf good
cause. Whenever these traitors had
acquired any special prominence,
great was the jubilAtion Of negrsd1nd
and it's dirty allies over their convert
version. /
Brownlow, the Tennessee Pafson.
was one Of the earli4s y she nAgjol
worshippers, and he was particularly
1ssosiosptab15 u Mem. III :PotbftionI
wss not exaltedy but he had command
Of q p+sA, ~asi = Vigorous, slaslaing1
writer, said'unpilatabls thiass4in an|
unpalatable way y the' whites, ind
told the negroes al many mischevi.
ous' lies MS sny one unsnsapnlous
white devil cou1o. Moreover he was
in Southern State, -face to face with
the audaeious rebs, where so few
could speak anything but treason to
tho."besf government the world ever
sAw," and shll fewer would. This
sight Of = man daring to-act and talk
counter to the all psrvsding senti-
mont Of hearty loyaltyto the Confed-
erasy was del'ghtfol TO the Yankee.
= After reconstruction had COM
mencsd, that insane policy adopted
by thS. United States government
from hats and persisted in from con.
Esistency,. the fruits Of which that
same government will one day de-
plore as England now deplores her
fatuous Irish policy Of two centuries
ago, the recrsnnts who we're blatant
in professions Of Loyalty to the Uni
ted States were required to show it
by q consuming zeal for the negro
and hin rights. Brownlow was be-
hind none in his championship Of
their newly acquired privileges. tits
not unlikely he was, or became sin
[cere in his advocacy. Men some
times think of an idea, advocate it
discuss it until they adopt it. Brown
flow maintained that the black man
and the white man were equal, that
each has the same rights that oil
must alike respect, and that consti-
tutions and laws and customs and
usages must all be abrogated when
ever they conflict with this cardinal
principle. For thus acting as negro
champion, this reckless PARTISAN and
vile blot on the Christian ministry
was thrust in the Senate to disgrace
the whole. country as he had his par
ticular section of it. 5.1b
And now the insolent aggressive.
ness of the negroes demands have
surpassed even his expectations and
provoked o his resistance. Mixed
schools have been MI along the pet
scheme of the black Jewellers. They
see that the white man can and does
keep aloof from the black. The
white woman shuns him as she would
a leper. But if they can force q com
minglement Of white and black chill
dren in the schools, they will at once
indict a blow on the pride of the
whites and enter the wedge which
shall ultimately remove the last bar.
rier between the races. We all know
the force of habit. Our own preju-
dices on this subject are mainly due
!; to that. Once accustom white chill
dren to promiscuous contact with
blacks in their studies and sports
and your next generation will eat and
drink with negroes as quick as the
late lamented Senator, whose -eulogy
has been hypocritically pronounced
by Southern men.
Brownlow wakes wrathful over this
new development. and still more
wrathful over the impertinent dar:
kies who presume to denounce him
because he is no longer ,obedient to
their .behssts. You have reversed
Taney's decision, says the despicable
creature to his black censors, and
maintsin that o white man has nc
: rights that a negro is bound to res
pect. And thus he, and those like