The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-27
THE HERALD LECTURES THE
SOUTH.

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the earnestness and ychemence and divine
JUNCTION of the orator disappear and be be-
comes "a miserable sinner Ike the rest OF
US. We are telling now of the pulpit prac-
tice of the New York Herald and OF good
Northern people eyefywhere.a They and
the Herad, when at remote distances,
would have us deal with the negro as they
have never done with red men or with
Chinese. At this very. hour, evsry8here
along the borders OF civilization. antagO-
nisms of race developed even III vio-
lence and bloodshed, and the Herald does
not seem deeply wounded even when con-
templating fearful possibilities growing out
of threatened pending collisions between
Chinese and whites in California. Neither
does the gody HerdH think to address ap-
peals tn frontiersmen in behalf of Fedm men
or to mollify Californians in their enmity TO
yellow races from the Orient. But contem-
plating the relations of two races more
widely separated than when ''the horrors of
the middle passage" were first bridged by
Dutch, the Bostonians and good Rhode
ganse;ts for blacks, the HeraH kindly and
patronizingiy tells its Southern friends that
They should accept facts. There i,
no use of whining over the lost cause. -
| Nobody does this. 1t is lost and
it is best for the South that it was
| lost and there Is the end Of it. Consider
| the negro as voter, and not above hav-
ing his voting power considered. Remem-
Der, above all things, that, having rescued
the negro from bodily slavery, we cannot
consent to see him reduced into political
slavery. There is nothing but defeat for
the South ON that issue. Accept the fact
that the negro has AS much right in the
South as the white man. Teach him that
his vote is a solemn responsibility and that
he should vote for honest men to secure
cheap taxation and good govern ment. Let
\ the white men of the South deal with the
negro as we in the North deal with those
who come to- live here from other lands.
| There will in time be that feeling of conf
dence between the two races without which
there can be no harmonious action for the
popular welfare. But once begin by laying
it down as an axiom that the negro is only
little better than a dog, and we must ex-
pect him to leave his Democratic friends at
the polls and go with those, no matter how
|
GRAFTON which no wise party ever yet de-
MED the class or the race which had several
hundred thousands of votes.
The North cannot consent,p y the Hefosld
says, ito Sambo's reduction to slavery"
Will the HeyaH never believe that nobody
wants slaves. We had enough of that in
stitution. Freed from evils, responsible
ties and habits incident to the system of
slavery and supermduced by it,we would
have no mole of it. In GODS name will
the North never learn the truth. Even old
and impoverished ex-slaveholders would
not consent to the re-institu ion of slavery,
and the new race of ,uthern whites have
learned lessons of self-dependence which
they would never unlearn. We also accept
the fact ''that the negro has as much right
to live and breathe in the South as the
white man." but the races cannot be uni
fed. This consummation must preeede
that blissful state of society which the Her
ald does not find in San Francisco, or
where Piutes are interspersed among whites
in Colorado. Homogeneity and the perfect
aImixture of races must precede that social
condition which the Herald sees when
Americanism in New York. The negro as
such does not disappear. In one or two
generations the German or Hollander or
Frenchman is lost in the Yankee or South
ron. Make this law operative upon yellow,
red, black and white men and then the
evils of which the Herald sermonizes and
threatens will be no more, and not till
then. The Herald would have us deal with
the African as the North does with the
white. foreigner. The difficulty does not
negroes but in. the barriers we have de-
Tended. These separate the Yankee in the
South, save him who becomes partisan
oficeseeker, much more widely than the
,utherner from the negro. But the negro
as politician adheres to the Yankee because
the latter, having here no permanent abid-
! ing place, does not object TO negro suprem-
acy in local government. The negro is not
afraid of reinstatement, but loves the
newly acquired power that wins him fiat
| tCIN III tuc ndu0S VI lOut 4 hS
Leralds reasoning hsret IN eortiee even as
Pinchback declares when be tells the negro
convention ut Nashville that universal suf-
. frage is a stupendous failure, and, as OPP
erative in municipal elections, a fear
full crime. Let the Herald then
understand two facts; when Chinese and
: Californians and Piute Indians and whites
of Colorado become an unit, then black and
white races of the South will be an undis-
tinguishable mass. But while they are dis
tinct, as God made them, the two races
, will live and think and read and be gov
erned by wholly distinct and separate in
i iluences IN morals aud IN social and reli e
ious systems. There IS not pow and viii
never be any enmity. Each race fills
its own sphere aud it is only when
brought together, impelled by wholly diff
ferent purposes, at the ballot-box, that
lhsre is remote danger of, violence Every
right, civil and political, Of the negro is
c needed as those of other colored races
are not in distant States aud Territories,
and, strangely enough, we who coneede
everything and practice the Hsrdlds pre-
eepls eysryEhere, every boar sfeaF lives,
4up,n- the Streets and-eveuain the Capitol,
visible from the window st which We write,
where negroes names are recorded with the
ayes and noes we who coneede every
thing and do everything except that which
foods laws forbid, are oeolIy lectured b
the Herald and told every right must be
conceded which the law gifesithe negro.
We do eoneede every right and deal with
him as the Nsrth with the Egifopeau sAEs
that there Is no aunaixfnrn of races This