Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-07-18
ANOTHER PHTLANTRHOPIST
OPERBOARD.


They ano ~ NE best condition in sec
tons where the whites predominant,
while in regions where the black pop
ulation is proportionally heaviest they
are barely one remove from African
They speak tho English
language, and profess a religion that
is nomiually Christian, but in their
ways of living they are essentially
barbarians STILL TO gipe them political
ascendency ouer he ,chiteS irds the most
horribly grotesq'ie experiment erer tried in
the science Of government. The only
hope of their getting forward in
the path Of civilization, with anything
like rapidity, lies in the prospect that
the tide of emigration will soon be
DETECTED from the West to the South,
and the whites, reinforced by large
numbers Of settlers from the Northern
States and Europe, will become as
dominant in numbers as they are now
in intelligence. The negro appears IT.
capable Of originating and Developing
the fruits of civilisation from his o,on ma
tlue-the white man must sow the seed"
Northern people, who judge of the
negro race by the few specimens OF in
telligent colored BARRIERS and walters
they see at home, always have their
theories as to the condition and capa-
bilities of the race suddenly unsettled
when they study the pure African
types Of the plantations--ignorant,
ragged, dirty blacks, with countenances
SO brutal as to be repulsive, and per
sons and clothing so disgustingly and
odorously unclean, that their presence
is insupportable. However enthu-
siastically one may favor the principle
of equal civil rights, he does not want
to ride in railway car with such
creatures as these. Fortunately he
is not obliged to, for they 60 into the
car provided for them of their own
accord, and seem TO have no desire for
the company of the whites. Occasion
ally respectably-dressed colored man
or woman rides in the same car with
the white passengers, no one objccting,
Color prejudice appears to be slowly
giving way, but the prejudice against
close association with such dirty, bad.
smelling people as arc the majority OF
the plantation negroes may be expect
ed to continue Tor all time.
The whites at the South say that all
negroes will steal, but thisis an extrav.
agant generalization, for every white
man or woman who repeats this COM
mon saying WILL If questioned, admit
to having known colored people who
were scrupulously honest. Neverthe-
less, ii cannot be denied that the
blacks as a class are much more given
to stealing than the poor ignorant
whites. Southern prisons and peni-
tentiaries are full Of negroes, serious
agitation in favor of reviving the
whipping-post as punishment fol
theft, to relieve the community from
tho heavy burden of supporting SC
many prisoners. l have found con
vincing evidence that the heavy pre-
ponderance Of blacks over the whites
in county jsils and State prisons is moi
the result Of any unfairness on tn,
part Of judges and juries in the trial o
the former. In addition to proofs o
this given in former letters, may cit'
Mississippi State Prison, which, undel
Republican administration, had on III
rolls about one thousand convicts, only
one. tenth Of whom were whites, ant
now has about two thousand (effect o
improved administration Of justice,
but shows no change in the proportion
of blacks to whites, ten to one being
still the ratio. In most OF the ole
slave States large number, not all, o
the convicts are hired out TO contrac
tors for work on nilraods, levees ant
plantations. The system Is not gooc
one for correction and discipline, bu
the States are too poor to build prison
large enough to hold all the negroe
guilty Of grand larceny"
| Now, let Garrison, Wade d Co., ant
that school OF political midwives b
sent for and see whether they o
Smalley is crazy.
Just whenever any Of those men g
South and see the work they have &C
complished they return North, AM
those who still have little conscienc
left tell us they know why the fanati
simply returns to. bis hole horrifed a
the work he has helped to accom-
pish.