American citizen., 1880-06-12
We have no ga agei

fifteen years. We have no "agrh-
cIes of rapid or slow deterioration"
in our mid>t-all arc tmployed--
even negro can .sTcrly be tnund
TOR day labor at high piices, aud we
have had no ex dus iIUm our locaIl
Iy. Many of our Young mtn labor
at making cotton, and we presume
but few intcst the town "she>
bangs" yet they do not relish the
prospect of IA long lie of toll any
more than some more favored Iudi-
viduals would, and they desne just
such class of laborcrs as the negro
To rent lheir lands TO. or work them.
The negro is tar from being the
"crceping meniaI" he is described
as being even now, aud in the future
he will continue to improve. We
want him AS an Intelligent farmer TO
tenant our landt-he, as race will
ever remain Inferior to the race OF
white men in the great aims of life,
yet he has already accumulated
property rapidly, and will continue
to do SO. The doctor admits the
negro here has evinced IL capacity
for education, and yet says he must
ever remain Il 'creeping IN .nial."
We have always held that educa-
tion emancipated one from menIal
ism, and the facts prove that the
negro has advanced from IL state OF
dependence to one of Independence
in the way of teachers for their
schools, and as renters OF land i'll
81 cad Ot Share-crO,ppers.
1t behooves the white people of
Mississippi to look well to their
lau,els oi wealth and education, OF,
hey will be Outstripped by the me-
gro yet. Ii the negroes are SO in>
telligent, useful and rich, i'll Libe-
Tia why force our 'cI eeping merials'
upon them I But the doctor wants
them to go as farmpIs-he is afraid
-iis supply of coffee will be cut off
MississIppians are more interested,
and will be for the next quarter
century III raising cotton at home,
and developing their own resources
than in raising cnff-e in At,ica. Ii
however, we are to wait one hum
dred yrars for the mule of rrOsress
turned loose by DR.. Marshall to
kick us to death, we are not in much
danger from that mule. he says
he best Young men 60 WPst-we
have known many tn go West, and
many have staid at home, and prov
I'd to be the best, and do the best.
Tire man that cannot make money,
and grow rich in Mississippi need
not go anywhere else.
How will the best young men
leaving our State effect the emrni-
grant2 Il pains the doctor to know
/ that white men don't work enough,
and depend TO, much uron the ne-
gro. Preaching is easy, practice lie
more difficult. Any man who can
of others, is certainly justified in
so doing. Twas the doctor's old
I friend I4aban who was white, and
swindltd his white sOn-in-law out
of fourteen years lab ". These ia
ceS Of white men were damaging to
each other, and Jacob had to g-t
even on the spotted cattle. Moses
married AN Ethiopian woman, and
must have multiplied mixed blood.
DIR. Marshall says he did not intend
"A reply to oui article. Then why
publish his ariicIe here III your pa>
pert being full of distoi ted quo
ratiOns FROM our ar icle, and lneu-
Toned Our nom de ,tMme four times.
The choleric writer must have i'm
tended to stir up the "spIeneiic and
spitefuP Progress. We will put a
twig in living against the forthcom
ing address to Mississippians, a.
this article will not admit of full
scope discussion.
Doctor, you once sought, and ap
preciat+d our services-so here is
orr ''bOnest name"
b. F. PASSMORE.