The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-05
VOL. vi.
RLIPPRR.

progressive we may Jet have ''PeIeg q.
c. Flippsr general in chief of the
armies of America" Just now Flipper,
the first colored graduate of the mill
tary academy, is only sOus-lieuten.
ant. He must belong to 0 mess and
have chums and go into some garrison
ana perforce. become. socially and
practically, a white man or lead modes
OF life infinitely more intolerable than
those Of Alexander SelkiIk. Wed not
pretend to know what will be FIipper's
luck. He deserves infinite good for
tune. His perSlstency and pluck in
pursuit of knowledge under difficulties
most Intolerabie, because most annoy
ing and such as it was impossible to
combat or resent, comnsnd our admit
ration. Flipper must be endowed with
admirable moral qualities, or he never
could have borne burdens imposed by
-.Aa-faatnEaa ia-snsiAL lifa at Wast
Point and yet what was endured
through four years may not be borne
through a lifetime. Sooner or later
Flipper must resign and become ad-
dicted to pursuits of civil life, and thus
it must ever be. God Almighty when
defining race features also gave earth's
peoples distinctive moral and inte llec
tural pcculiarities which time and
training and associations fail to eradi-
cate aud the white and col ire man are
as wide ssunder to-day as when Seces-
sionism pronounced the African free.
Lincoln claims to have issued that
proclamation, hut the sane OF ONT race
know that the deed was done four
years earlier snd Yancey and Davis and
Toombs and not Lincoln should be the
gods OF African idoIatry. But Africa is
persistently wrong headed in politics
and it is not our province to ''bcrs
it for the simples" or our readers
with discussion long ago pronounced
intoierable.
We only proposed to say that this
prejudice of race is as strong North as
South. Its development there affects
individuals; here, it besets communi-
ties. There, the Flippers are few !;
here, they constitute distinct commu-
mites. There the social and civil
power of Flipper is unrecognized; {;
here, it is often supreme, and Fiippers,
as organizers or conductors of gosern-
ment, are failures here as In Timbuc-
too and Ujiji. In very truth, genu-
inc Flipper head is round as bullet
and incapable Of setting up ideas in q
row. He cannot think consecutively !;
he provides not for the morrow and is
perfectly blest If the sun shine and q
melon ripen to-day. Flipper, If an
outright African, will never make Q
soldier. Wellington said to friend,
just before his death, that he had spent
his life, when ascending each hill, try
ing to tell how it looked on the other
side. Flippers don't look beyond the
hilltop. Therefore it is that they fail
in the sharp struggle Of life when COM
peting with the white man. West
Point and the Peabody fund will hard
ly change the shape or thickness Of
the Flipper skull or inherent qualities
of the Flipper brain power. 1t admix-
ture of races supervene, Gods law of
gradual extirpation becomes operative.
Three generations terminate the
mulatto's existence. So true is
this that, except for household
service, no planter ever bought, At a
full price, the hslf-breed. Natures
law, as well as instincts Of race, may
admit Fhpper into the army, but he
is not of the army, and no statute or
antipathy Of the North to ex-slave-
holders can inject Flipper into the
army. We see and know more Of this
impossibility than Northern theorists,
and we see the fact illustrated in every
day life here in Austin, where colored
people constitute one-fourth of the
population, that social and business
relations between Southern whites and
negroes are much closer and infinitely
more kindly than between the Northern
white man and his 'colored brother"
1t is that President Hayes may con-
less these facts that We would have
him descend the Mississippi, and il be
would see the best specimens and most
thoughtful, sober and prosperous Of
the negro race in America, he should
viMr the capital OF Texas. He has
said of TIE negro what he has heard ;
we ssy OF the colored man what We
have seen and known and asserted
every day Of all our lives. He deems
himself, as he 10 not, the truest friend
of the negro and we esteem him none
the less for his generosity and phi
lAAthropy. 1t Is proper that we say
this since he has shown it 70 be true
that while be would guard and serve
the helpless black man, he has evinced
no concurrent enmity to cur race. He
will find that the security Of the negro
is promoted and perfected when the
freedom of the white man is absolute.
and that in no city or village or eoun-
ty is the colored race prosperous ol
we'll clad or addicted to schools Oh
gathering wealth where it is the dom.
inaAt power in the community. Here
IN Austin the.e is prosperous negro
polls and here the race Is to be con-
graduated for rts industry, sobriety,
growing wealth and intelligence. Lei