The daily gazette., 1875-10-23
Thus Bad Begins and WOrse
Remains Behind.
[From JIG New Or,eans Bulletin.

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Race troubles in the South will for
long time steadily increase in frequen-
cy, for the reason that the generation of
negroes who We're raised by white men
OF tho better order is passing away and
giving place to another generation rails
ed wholly by negroes. With their docile
and initiative nature they learned by
absorption much of tho white mans
language many of his ways and many
of his ideas. They knew the great su-
periority of the average white man over
the average negro in sagacity and com
mon sense, which can not be learned
from book. but is hereditary. in the
white race, and knowing, they deferred
to it. trustel and obeyed it. This defer.
ence, trust md obedience became n sec
ond nature which adheres to them now
that they are free. This nature or habit
will not descend to their children, who.
having near them exemplars, guides and
teachers OF q lower grade than their
fathers had, will naturally obey THEN
own wills and instincts more and be less
guided by common sense. Being seps
rated almost constantly from the whites,
and looking covetously and enviously at
the results of white common sense il
the comforts by which sagacity and in
dustry have surrounded them, they will
be further removed from the civilized
standard than their parents were. This
process will not stop with this genera
ton, and that following it will be still
more un0cquainted with and uninf1uenc-
ed by white ideas, and still more hostile
and envious towards the whites.
We may expect trouble always when
liberty, lacking knowledge, degenerates
to license. We may expect increased
| trouble when the present generation of
| i IL. Il. a.
knows less of the white mans ideas.
The average negro's estimate of propri-
etary rights was always rather low, es.
pecially as to pigs, pouit:y. fruit, and
vegetables. maEing Dut little diStinc-
! tion in the day time and scarcely any at
night, between the Wild game of the
woods and the tame game of the farm
-ard. This trait IS verse amcng the
young negroes who have known the
least OF plantation restraints or OF white
government.
Innu ne able complaints are heard
{ :om an sections Of depredations upon
every species of movable property. 1t
~ almost impossible to raise fowls or
2es enough for home use on any farm
in the vicinity of any large number of
negroes. The punishment of the few
wno are detected seems to have no re-
strainlng influence upon the many who
steal with impunity. 1t is becoming al
most universal experience that moth
ing can be kept unless it is securely lock.
ed or constantly watched.
TINS theft is not limits TO what the
thieves est or wef", buc extends to eve
ry thing wIlch he can s.. st ealing
cotton in the seetl ; a form of depreda-
| tion which has increa sed very much un-
| til 1t has become a nuisance and dread
! to the pll TER worse nan drouth, blight
or caterpillars. OF course there are
mean white men (carpet-bag mel chants)
who act an important part in this theft
by buying the seed cotton at night from
the negroes, in which form they can now
send 1t 70 market. From plantations
often loses a fifth part or mora 6r MS
share of the crop hy this species of
| wholesale depredatlon.
Negro robbery, for reasons above no
ted. must increase steadily even with
the more stringent enforcement Of the
criminal law. Respect for the right of
Ownership IS one of the feelings and in
stincts of the civilized reasoning man,
which he iuhelits and cannot forget
Ignorance and disregard of that right is
the characteristics of the barbarian, and
it comes to him by descent of a hun
drel generations OF sayageS