Richland beacon., 1880-04-10

LETTER FROM A CoLORED MAI


LETTER FROM CoLoRED NAN.
Editor Morgan City Review:
As representative of my race, especially in
q religious sense, and as a citizen Of this (St.
Nary parish. and also a subscriber to your
valuable paper, respectfully ask space in its
| columns to promuigate few Of my sentiments,
which believe will conduce to the interests.
No man is more interested in all that pertains
| TO the welfare and heighest deve lopme mt Of the
colored people than myself have tired to
teach my people that it is their Christian as
well as poIiecal duty 10 make friends with the
white people OF the South, among whom they
live. This can lie dc ne without sacrificing any
principle Of manhood in iactt Southern peO-
pie dJn t ask coiored people to compromise
single right But every intelligent ian who
| resides here sees the rat importance Of a full
| aud manly reconciliation between the two
races This can be done by unanimity of the
several representatives. and leaders Of the cOiord
people. As soon as this is reached, we will
cease to be objects of osiracisn and bones OF
contention. Both parties will then treat US
with due respect. lake tins parish, for in
stance the white people are as friendly to
those coIored people who behave well as they
are anywhere in America; the most friendly
feelings exist here between the two races.
What we who are interesed in the great cause
of humanity are endea vorlng to do. is to break
down all color lines and altogether forget the
war, the past history OF the Democratic party
and its vitupera,ions, and 20 On to higher and
broader Christian brotherlnod and attainment,
LeIeve the white people of the South are
true IN the professions they are making
do a al,
will stand by all the results of the war; they
are in the Union to 90 Out no more forever;
they are laboring nobly in our State for public
educatior, without regard to color have
every right IN this parish that | have enjoyed
in the North. They are dong all for the col
ored people IN a benevolent way they can do.
They contribute largely to benevolent and
religious building purposes, and are always
ready and willing with means and advice to
help us in anything they see we need. Now,
in the face of all these facts, do not think
them very dangerous. Since they have had
control Of the Southern States, they have not
attacked by legislation, any night enjoyed by
the coored people, either civil or political.
Just word about carpetbaggers. The
people abroad have no just conception of the
amount Of trouble these people have given u.s.
characters in the North-men as bad as crime |
is capable OF making them; men who were
and are negro hsiers in the North, have come
South and taken advantage OF the ignorance
Of the colored people and have been elevated |
to places o! high trust in our State and Ma. |
tonai government, for the sole purpose on |
their part to plumber the public. This same |
class Of men have arrayed the colored people |
against the whites for political purposes, and |
when trouble comes desert them. All the |
mObs which We have had have been gotten |
up by bad men. l confess we have had some |
bad and lawiess men among the whites in tie |
South, bu, the good people must not be blamed
for their acts. There are bad men every
where.
THIS wild and fiuitess contest has been 90.
ing on for years, aud who are the sufferers
he colored men, being the weaker party,
always lose ground, and must at las, 20 to the
wall if the fight Is kept up. The negro of the
South mus, go under, if the policy Of the las,
few years is to he continued. He is now
passing thru Ugh the most critical period Of his
history, and his destiny for good or evil will
We sealed by his actions. Ii he arrays him>
self against the white i.eopIe, he must sooner
or later be ground to powder. There is no
natural antagonism between the two races in
the South: the whites and blacks were born
aud brought up together, and must live and
die together. The many troubles which have
occurred ia the South since the war have not
been the result OF any III feeling on the part
Df our home people, but are rather the result
IL the actions OF ball men who have come
S"n'h and kept ur from year to year the most
bitter CONTESTS. aud have used every effort 10
keep The whites aud blacks from making
friends.
One of their principal means now is the
exodus Ia Kansas, place to wb:ch the God
Of nature never intended the Southern negro
Or any Other negro to go to live, because it is
not adapted to his Inbred habits and manner
ri living, etc. The South is the black mans
home, and he has done as much to beauiify il
rs anybody; besides lie ought to remain here,
- no other place is as good rs the one pros
vidrd by nature, and he should not be deceiv.
ID and persuaded by any false inducements
held out by inscriptions men, who tell him
h. is going TO land of political glory and
happiness; but they fail to tell hi tina, the
country to which they are decoying him is
filed with the same class Of bad men that
have caused SO much trouble and i'll feeling
between him aud the Southern whites, and
hat these men in the North will take advan.
age OF bis ignorance for selfish and pol tcal
purposes as has been doue in the South.
B J. DCNNELL.
Franklin, La, March 23rd, 1880.