The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-12-06
Tic Future Of the Negro.


Among the grave responsibilities
which viii devolye upon the Demo
cratic party, when it succeeds to
power, which event is one among the
certainties Of the future, will be the
proper care and education Of the ne
groes. Exalted as they were, with
ont any educational training or po-
litical experience, to all the respons-
Utilities Of American citizenship, be-
cause tho party lately in power,
intended TO use them as so many
automatons to make secure their con-
troll of the Southern States, they
now present the strange spectacle, Of
an ignorant and formerly servlle
class, holding in their hands the bal
ancc Of power between the two great
governing parties of the country,
easily swayed and controlled by dem
agognes, and having their suspicious
natures easily aroused against their
best friends by the meanest and most
depraved of our white population,
whose only importance in the COM
munities Of which they are resident,
arises from their cunning manipulG-
ton Of the negro vote at elections
The influence which this class ex-
erts over the negro presents to US a
strange anomaly in the negro char
Iactcr, for, whilst they were slaves
they looked with the yeriest con-
tempt upon those whom they were
pleased to stigmatize, as "dem po'h
white trash
But the day has arrived when the
negro is to be undeceived and when
his better nature is to assert itself
He will be rescued from the foul en-
brace of the political carpet-bagger
and the yet moro malignant and de.
basing influence of the scalawag, and
it is to this grave duty that the
Southern people, the democratic and
the better classes of the republican
party, alike, must address themselves
and with assiduous perseverance,
The negro of the Southern States for
many years to come will compose
their chief labor support, and he
should be kindly and considerably
dealt with. The amplest education
al advantages should be placed at
his disposal, including agricultural
schools with farms attached, where
the theory and principles of agricnl.
ture as well as the practical should
be taught him, so that he may be-
come useful in the ayocation he is
most likely to follow. The females
should also have equal advantages
and beside being taught the usual
English branches, they should be
skilled in the arts and mysteries Of
the kitchen and homework, gener-
ally, SO that they may grow up pos
sessed of useful knowledge and COM
petent TO earn them respectable
living. While therefore it is the
duty of all good citizens to aid the
negro to become good and useful
member of the community, he should
show himself worthy of the efforts
manifested in his behalf. 1t is, how
ever, lamentably true, especially Of
the few here in West Virginia, that
they are growing, yearly year, more
-thriftless, idle-an dissolute. They
seem to congregatc in the towns,
where few can be steadily employed,
and where they ut most exc out Il
precarious and scanty subsistence
The inevitable consequence Of such a
vagabond life will result before many
years in driving the negro out en-
tirely, and it is high time, if he
means to save himself from forced
migration, that he should bcstir him
self to seek permanent employment
and when he obtains it he should by
all means stick to it. In the new
dispensation of power which is about
to break with the benign effulgcnce
upon the country, one Of the lessons
which will be surely impressed upon
white and black, alike, is that there
shall be no drones in the land, that
each citizen shall contribute some
thing to the support of the body pol
itic, and that the thrifty and indus
trious classes shall not be taxed to
keep up the idle and shiftless.-
Mdninsburg Salesman.
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Col. Crittcnden, U. S. Marshal for