American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-16
TO THE COLORED PEOPLE.

in the CITIZEN, wherein we' mao
spoken of the negroes fitness Tor
labor and the humber stations OF
life, and of their utter unfitneSs for
and politics. Levy
said 'this showed the animus OF
the Democratic organ of Madison
sc. To show that We
have no objection to his reading our
articles to the colored people, we
will now write another, intended
for them, and as Levy is
to the CITIZEN, we hope
he will read this at his next gath
ering. If he will do 60. his next
speech will embrace more good adj
vice, more wholesome truth, and
will be more calculated to benefit
his race, than any or all of the
sreeches he has heretofore made
during his career as q demagogue.
First, let us say, any and every
attempt to set up the negro race in
authority over the white race, no
matter by whom made. must fail.
Admit that you have the numbers,
not all the powers of evil could undo
thework of Omnipo.ence,wh which has
placed upon the negro andiall simi
lar peoples the sign of infer iority SO
unmistakable that he who runs may
read. In no period OF. the worlds
history has that race risen superior
to the Caucasian. The preponder-
ancc of intelligence, morality and
virtue, is so greatly in favor of the
whites, that even the vast strength
of the Federal armies and the UNI
paralleled usurpations and audacity
of the Northern leaders sufficed to
maintain it in its unnatural, ineert-
ed position as the dominant class
in this country. only for such time
as was necessary for the bewilder-
ed and astounded white people to
realize the absurd aud mOnstrOus
change that had been thus violently
onght and then they arose in
their majesty, and with as much
ease as lion shakes the.dewdrops
from his name, they hurled the me-
groes from the high places, and re-
duced them to their ncxnal cOndi~
ton.
Second. No man is a friend to
the negroes who will eDdeavor to
make them think they have the
right. by means of their numbers,
to subvert the present status OF
political affairs in this country. An
attempt at this, could Ouly end in
disaster, perhaps death, Co those
Engaged in it. Experience surely
teaches this. The Federal Gov,
ernment, during the period of its
Reconstruction experiments upon
tho lives and property of twelve
millions of people, after arousine
all the worst proclivities OF the ne
groes' nature, after arraying them il
enmity against their natural friends
aud allies, abandoned them, ana
its emissaries, the carpet baggers
deserted them and left them alOD'
to meet the vengeance, of a iustl,
lincensed and indignant people
How they met that vengeance. ant
with what a heavy hand it smot'
them, all who read these lines vii
remember.
Third. We believe the blacks ant
toe Southern whites ought to be-
and would be, if wise counsels pre-
vaiied-joined together by til
strongest ties that ever united tw
dissimilar peoples. These are, tb
ties OF country, of association, G
memories and hopes in common
such as can only be felt by person
born OF the same soil and expectin
to rest beneath the same turf whe
tife and its tolls are past. -sGo
moves in q mysterious way, his wor
ders to perform" and some of tn
; worlds wisest pub!icists and mos
, ldevout theologians believe that the
can clearly trace the hand of bt
neficent Divinity in all the event
by which the great mass of the un
! fortunate children of Ham wer
brought through various phases {
, bondage, in many lands, and place
3 here to await The edict that fnall
set them free. The negro owes |
: tue Southern people, under Coz
whatever degree Of civilization an
religion he enjoys. He was set fire
+, by the Union armies solely as
military necessity; AMI whateve
ideas of religiou,i of spiritual an
!. intellectual enlightenment he no
! has, be received through the Chris
\ Itian kindness of generations I
!, Southern whites to generations {
, their slaves. The London Standdr'
! perhaps the highest criterion
/ British journalism, says that tb
7 white men and women of thes
r n an