Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-12-31
The Negro Question.
THE CHARACTER NOT TEE ClLoR. OF THE Me-
GRO, THE REAL DIFFICULTY IN TIE
SyUTUERS pROBIpM

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GRO, THE REAL DIFFICULTY IN TIE
SJUTHERE PROBLEM
Ii is said it takes twenty yGars 10 heal a breach
in g Christian church, II will tako more than
twenty PEARS TO neal tho breach 10 sde in tho M.
toral .ito by tho late war; because there sre SO
many men who car talk, And are ambitious Coz
p!sco and power. who think u Is for their inter
eat to keep the No:Lh and South IN srtagon;gm
and SO arc s'|8ys renGT TO 2AnersliZ; the PAT ,
tlcEisT acts OF individuals ii:c principles &C con
duet OF the whole people.
BE tae dap gesr or distant whaI She North
and South ahs!l BIZ uni; ! ono sren, stem hes
peer t2Een towards that 'ioT when tho : mer:-
csE d missionary Association, II tho thirty thi;d
year q lts history, snZcs tat tho raai eli
Guilty III the Southern problem il in the ctui'ac
ter not ia the color or party If he negro.
iooclo. Strictly, the Secretary Of the American
Missionary association, at IT'S snLual meeting,
lately held in Cbicsgo in his address On Proyi.
d9lNa! Gale. spoke 81 follows:
bu! snow 2ou another picture l. carries
u: back few gears. Ihc Legislature OF South
Carolina is IN session. It's mombera %ra mostly
ni"ck men. They hsvo generally no property,
AID par no :aXcs ct they have taxed thai
sirCady impoverished SLa.o 10 the vcrro Of de-
s:Fuc;on, not ior public improvements but to
lavish 1t upon themselves il suppcrs, wines,
persOnsl perquisilos, in jobs and in railroad
SCHEMES y @ Tcc8 scentaiQus or rock lass riua-
der;2c # public treasury hes aVer /. @ prac
t!Cei II Amorica. srd !hat IS saylEg II grest deal!
Wy l: ihis little hnrdIHil OF mock leeislstors
SLOWED 10 DC thus? Why do not the people
rush in upon teen a:d burr them rom tho
plsces they 80 dishonor? Why Simply because
there steEds, sa guard, fla OF United States
soldiers, hot themselves sufficient in numbe to
be Formidable but representing tho netioaa
government snG It's suthcrity. and to touch
in N is to Touch il
'Ita scout is Indignant, DEF, mined, and Go
you wonder? TIE troops are now gone, the
Giack i 8islsi"rs are dis erSed, and white tsx
pagers ere in their pisces; snd risih2 above sill
0 hel considerations is the purpose OF Lhose tax
payers Inst a: whatever cost and by Whate7ar
needed methods, De it by tissue ballots or By
Sho. guns, these Irresponsible piundarets sbAll
naGIr come back again iuiO Eo|sr, You blanc
them bG. tea- you would do the 81 m your
se.7tH Under llEe pTovoc@.ior. If the general
goyerL meDt. by means of hloodT wsr, shculd
:ucdue tbs Western Ststes. ard then enfranchise
In any ono Stste enough Indians to outv0te the
whites, ind those lndisns should re. enact the
piundcrnEs OF the Co umbis i,exislature how
!oTg W )uld he West besr i'll suspect ia { il
Wouid not os long Till ivory Indian would be
conVcrted into good iud!sn. but it would be il
Inc = esLern sense: he wouli Big dead Indian.
6rethren of the Forth. make the case your
own Put yourself il your Southern brothers.
place. and Judge m By Jour own impulses
Whist then is the true remedy for this crest
eVl4! 10 snsWer this We ucust honestly cou-
slider whist The real evil is These South Csro-
lisa tsx payers do not crush these black voters
because they arc b ack They would 10 the
sarne TO The poor whites if they, having the nu.
peric. force, should enact the ssme wrongs,
Nor IL it because they srs Republicans. ii
would be She ssme thing if they called th.m
selves Democrats aud did the same things. The
trouble Therefore. is net with the mnn's color or
party, bat With ste man hi1,self. with his ighor-
anco, mis- degrl dstion snd pis f.: iiisy in HANG
u=ed SIS tn, tool Of designing men"
lie iemetJ, then, il not to change his color
ms ,n,.*r;y, but his character. Boston Oh is