Wilmington journal., 1876-08-04

a a0hOie State in the interest of all, i.
another
| His Excellency has chosen the role
of the partisan, at the expense O.
his official resp )nsibilty, and if ht
does not make good his oath of Office
and see that the laws are executed. LEI
him stand confessed a charlatan who
would g,mble with the dearest rights
OF the people Of the commonwealth
and barter away the fair name of the
State, to the end that d. Fl. Chamber.
| lain may continue to wear the Guber.
natorlel robes of State which he
| cannot or does not govern.
Yours. &C., NJ G. BUTLER.
Foi the journal.
1t Is not the sectional advocacy OF
auy color line policy to say that the
1ncapaclty of the negroes as a race to
govern themselves is an axiom of
political economy. 1t is no prejudice
against that race to refer to their pro-
verbal unkindness to one another in
sickness and distress. The following
case is one of hundreds of similar ones
daily occurring in the South sine, the
war, of the truth of this statement.
Upon well>known plantation, near
Rocky Point depot, in Pender county,
young negro man, who had been at
work foE several weeks there in the
growing crops was taken severely
sick. There nre quite a number of
negro families upon tie place, and this
young man was living and boarding
with one Of them. He was .uncere-
monlously and brutally thrown out of
the house i'll which, while in good
health, he had heen staying with
the negro family. He was put into a
little hut near by that had neither
floor nor roof which had been used as
a stable and there he lay day after day
without care, without comfort, with
ont covering, and, like the foxes of
the fields, had not where to lay his
head save the naked ground. No one
upon that place would minister to his
pressing wants and necessities Tt was
known to many on the place that he
was lying helpless with scorching
fever and insensible part of the time;
still, not one would go for physician.
There he remained, getting worse and
worse. 1t was well known to the
negroes of the vicinity, who had been
informed of his condition, that his
mother was only a few miles off. But
not negro would go for her in this
extreme peril of her son. In this pitt
fnl and dangerous state he remained
nearly week without any effort on
the part of other negroes for his
relief. Finally, the negro woman
upon whose premises he was thus
staying proclaimed that she would
put up no longer "with the imposition
of this boy" as she called it, aud she
procured cart with oxen to remove
him from the place. He was dragged
in his piteous and mourning state.
racked with burning fever, and at |
deaths door, and thrust into this hard |
and jolting cart, with no hat on or |
any better substance under him than |
shucks, and hauled away in the rain
too, for about five miles to neighbor's |
house who consented to take him as an
act of humanity. The same woman
who had treated him at her own house
with such savage iDhumanity threat
aned to throw him out of the cart upon
any wet and unprotected spot unless
others relieved her of him. There
never was a hog more uncean and
lnsi ghtly! than he had been allowed
20 become while thus sick and
1nable to help himself. The poor
BOY died the morning after
being thus inhumanly treated and
ragged away to this neighbours house.
But while thus neglected by those who
we're able to help him ia sickness, no
sooner was he hey ond the reach of aid
md sympathy, than these same ne.-
groes tlocked with others to sing and
pray and shout around the dead body.
And this is the cuatomary rule, in the
status of negro civilization in the
south since the war, that while ne
sroes who a1e sick and needy are pro-
neglected by their own race,
Turing such want of help, they are
as soon as dead by syarms
'f negroes who, when too late, are vo-
,iferous and unsparing in their noisy
attention and religions ceremonies.
And this same woman, who had thus
been worse than savage and brutal,
attended prayer meeting of her
church that night, and Was, as is her
,ustom, more demonstrative and loud
'r III her professions of religion than
my of the numerous members pres.
mt. Are the negroes advancing or
etrograding in civilization ? Their
southern record since the war in this
aspect is sad and mournful. The
writer has seen futhers and mothers
lang around their dying children
With brutal insensibility and even
leep when the agonies of death were
lpOn them. He has often seen
uch as this from husbands to
wives and from wives to husbands
Never before, since the emancipa-
ion of the Southern negro, with facts
ike these daily staain our people in
he face; with cases like that hereip
described constantly occurring ali over
his Impoverished and afflicted South
rn land, has he been SO often and 40
Orcibly reminded of the truth that
MANS inhumanity to man makes
oRntless thousands mourn The
southern whites are kind to the ne
,roes and have been since as we'll as
,efore the war. The sad state men,
ioned is referrable to the colored peo-
lie themselves, and Southern whites
re in no way to blame or responsible
or the same. There is a universal
by the whites of the
south of the recent Hamburg disturb"
nee in South Carolina. No where at
he North is this outbreak SO much
denounced as it is denounced through
ut the South by the whites who are
in condemnation of the
whites who figured disreputably in
hat affair. HUMANITY.
July 2sth, 1876.
BOart apSized-BOy DroVV ned.