The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1877-08-18

forgive our enemies aid to in
jure no ore-to love our Deighbor
ourselves. Why, the railroad
strikers don't ask that much. They
merely ask for higher wages for
their labor. while the Rev. Tnr-
ner wants a whole State or 500
ships with u years provisions,
without offering any equivalent
at all.
But let us look at the matter
from a pratical standpoint. Sup
posing it was possible to obtain
a State here or elsewhere for our
people, Will Mr.. Turner also con
tend, that our people are already
sufficiently civilized and educat-
ed, to maintain Il government OF
their own ? l formerly favored Il
negro nationality myself (beinga
believer in independence to the
fullest eXtent) but since | have
seer, how i'll the governments of
Hayti and Liberia are conducted
l. have become couvinced, that
we should not think of such a
thing until we have lived with
the white people quite while
longer. Hayti has relaps into
barbarism, while Liberia, whose
population has been carefully
picked, is neither prosperous nor
progressing and rejoiceS N Il po-
licy so narrow minded that should
goStraight to the heart of the
''negro nationality" struck Mr..
Turner. A white man is constltu-
tiOnally debarred from owning
property or becoming a citizen in
Liberia, which has been founded
and kept up 10y the money of the
white people. l refrain from adj
verting to Dahomey, Ashantee
and other African tribes when
are undoubtedly "negro nationali
ties" and which l might hold up
to the admiration of the enthusias
tic ofMr. Turner. Thefact remains,
that i'll a country where but the
few are educated, continual an
archy and a condition ct barba-
rism will be the rule aud such
would undoubtedly be our lot,
were we now already, when we
have hardly enjoyed the bene-
fits of liberty for ten years, with
drawn from the ci,ilizing influen
&c of the white race.
But even granting for the sake
of argument, that prosperous he
gro nation.could be founded, has
Mr.. Turner not common sense
enough to know that acts such
as he proposes, would be open re
belliOn, and ttat the United
States Government has an army
and a navy =? Has he entirely tor
gotten that in point Of population
we stand l to 10, i'll point OF
wealth not l to 1000 /? Has he no,
considered that ii sending oul
such stuff into the: world, he col
lures up the hileons spectre OF I;
war ot Races ? Gould Mr.. Turner
put his plan into operation, be
: would surely deliver up four mi.
lions OF poor, innocent people tt
slaughter us, mercileSS, III.
when Sheridan massac.ed tlie
| Piegans. | think we are passing
away'fast enough as it is, with
out having to be exterminatet
in that way. To tell the Truth, tller,
can be no doubt, but our race OF
} this continent, at least, is doom
ed to a comparatively speedy e,
tlnction. In the first place, and
Noticed this particularly when tai
ing the last, census, the nnmbe
? of births among the colored peo
, pie Is not porportionately as larg,
as among the whites, and we re
. ceiye no additions by immigra-
ton. But the'greatestitact GRIN tn
! extinction OF our race liesin The
steady Increase of miscegenation
. which nothing seems able t,
1 check. Let us look at an assem-
l blage Of colorpd people !; we will
find very few really black people
D people ofuhmixed african descent
The balance is composed of PEI
Y sons whose complexion range
9 all the way from nut brown t,
A the purest white !;Sooner THAI
4 we think will the Ethiopian hay,
crept under the white skin of til
Caucasian and there will be II,
more 'my race, ny race W
are powerless to prevent the fine
result of this gradual bleachin;
process. Whlle it must come t
n this. end. / think wp should d
e our best for ourselves anti thos
z future generations, which wi
yet be recognized DIS "coIored.
v Let us live in friendship with tn
= rae" by whom we must be swal
up at last, let US try to becOm
e us prosperous as we CAN'T whicI
e Our Southern States afforI hv r.,