The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-12-16
THE RACE QUESTION.

THE RACE QUESTION.
Brother Caro- D. Trlmble, clerk OF the Hi
nois Supreme Court at Ottawa, has locked
horns with flosoger Josef Medlll, Of the
Chicago TrtjuHe, on the everlasting niger
question. The fight has ragged through sew
eral numbers Of that paper, and being "A
"beaHtiful fight as it stands" deserves to be
encouraged Brother Cairo seems 10 doubt
whether the fIoSofrr is truly loyal on tina,
vital issue. All the bright hopes the truly
loil" had so fondIy cherished with regard to
the emancipation Of the down.trodden sons OF
Ham seem to be strangely evanishing. Instead
of at once taking, on being clothed with the
elective franchise, that prominent position as
the ruling class Of the south to which their
numerical strength entitled them, they are
daily sinking more and more INTO political
Ilnsignillcaace and nonentty. They are not
climbing to the top OF the heap socially, and
politically they are the non resistent victims
of the kukux and bulldozels. This is not
what the truly loyal had a right to expect;
this is not what the republican party, when II
pushed through the 18th, Nth and 18th
amendments, promised in their behalf. Ac-
cording to that brilliant promise, the Niger
ought to have his heel on the neck of the
rebel WHITES he ought 20 be voting machine
on which the truly loyal" north could al.
ways rely as a unit to elect truly loyal
presidents and to fill congress with reliable
majority OF truly loyal senators and repre-
sentativcs. Alas! alas all these hopes have
decayed. The white rebels have obtained
the mastery in all but two miserable southern
states What's the remedy? Brother Cairo
shouts, "cnfOrcc the amendmentsm and he
mpugns the filosoier's loyalty to the one
grand idea Of the great republican party be-
cause he don't stand on the rampars and
crack his throat in unison with Brother Cal
70, shouting, "enforce the amendments" On
the contrary, the filosOfer seems to hold that
worse than sounding brass and tinkling Gym
balls, should it teach HIM any such nonsense
What's the use, says he, 10 be perpetually
crying aloud, "eniorce the amendments"'
when even the niger himself don't ask them
to be enforced? Brother Caro- would have a
federal soldier with musket and bayOnet at
every nigger's side to see that he has his
rights; but the filosoier laughs at such a
quixotic idea, and wants to know what right
the government ha' to do that thing, when
the niggcrs don ask it, but actually seem to
prefer sinking into this threatened nonenity
FilOsofer Josef is true tilOsofcr, and
Brother Caro- is mistaken. 1t will take some.
thing more than enforcing the amendments
To raise the niger To state of manhood
with the rebel whites" The niger and the
white man are dSsImilar in several important
particulars. The tendency of the white man,
left to himself is TO advance--grow upward.
ship load of white convicts and mutineers,
the oti-scouring Of the earth, cast from The
the good ship Bounty on barren island in
an ocean waste, grew from their own upward
instincts into a prosperous, happy Christian
San Domingo and IIayt, after numbering the
whites and left to himself, converted a garden
of Eden into a bowling desert, and himself
from an Industrious, docilc, Christian man,
into a lazy, shiftless, vaudoo and fetish wor-
shiplng savage and brute.
The grand republican idea" in reference
to the emancipated slaves of the south is a
delusion. His highest state a,talnable at
present is that Of the negro Of Georgia, at
peace and IN accord with the white man, who
provides him With good schools, takes care
of his poor, votes the same ticket with him
side by side, gives him honorable employ
mPnt, protects him against the greed of the
northern cotton lord who employs him in his
Georgia mills, and when he rises in manhood
and education 10 the grade of a constable or
county sheriff, or legislator, sees that tie man
and brother has a fair chance. 1t is thus, and
thus only, that the niger will ever rlse--Side
by side and on friendly terms with his white
brother. Left to himself, or made master of
the white man, his destiny Is down down to-
tctishism and vaudOoism-down to San Do
mingo and IIayti.
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