Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-20
The Negro Slave and Free.
A Mississippi View of the Race-A Propo- sitfon to Send Them all to Africa.
 From the Meridian (AIiss.) Mercury.l

Mississippi View of the Race-A Propo-
 sitfOn to Send Them all to AfrIca.
 From the Meridian (AIiss.l Mercury.l
 The Northern Republican papers are passing around passage from the Meridian Mercury garbled and torn from its connection to about the effect We would like to engrave a prophecy upon stone, to be read of future generations, that the negroes in this land will be slaves again or nothing An idea was ex- pressed in the same connection that the negroes would yet seek refuge from extinc- tion in normal condition of slavery when thrown upon the same soil with this Western family of the Anglo-Saxon race, the most domineering race of mankind. As we remem- Der 1t, 1t was purely an abstract philosophical proposition with some brief arguments rather suggested than drawn out * Wehold it to be self evident proposition that the negros servile disposition and fitness to be slave has made him the slave of all men who are ranked as his superiors The achievement of negro has always been so easy of accom- plishment that thare was never any glory in it-it was all profit. mere sentiment in these United States has freed him for the present; when 1t passes away, he may and will be re-enslaved if there is profit in it. The negro has only figured in the worlds great achievements as slave. In the cis-Atlantic would he grew the sugar in the West Indies that attracted the ships and tra- ders of the world, and demonstrated that the
 
 to clothe the world. As a slave he was a somebody's factor in the worlds progress; freeman in these United States he is nobody but a voter and a fomenter of riots and 8 corruptor of the ballot When his shackles fell he was honester, better, and more useful man than he has been since or ever can be again until he returns to his normal contition. And still the editor of the Mercury would not re-enslave him if he had plenary powers. We confess to the sentiment of the times that abhors the thought. In this he represents the feelings of the great body of the Southern people, With the re- collection of their great troubles on account of African slavery fresh, they would spurn it. We feel for the negro in his present awkward position, but upon the same political plane with race so far his superior that they could return him to slavery any day, to fight out his destiny in so unequal contest he IS bound to sink down and down. sad future is be- fore him. And those who try to make capital out of our remark noticed in the beginning of this article, might better prove their hu- manity by uniting with in a dispassionate consideration of the negro's precarious situa- ton in this country and some device to help him out of his difficulties before really he will be compelled to seek refuge from extinction in slavery. We advocate sending the negroes all back to Africa if 1t take two hundred years to accomplish it., And these negropholists who are snapping up our disconnected thoughts here and there about the poor negro to make political capital of, can under stand from this how far we are from meditat- ing his -enslavement, and consistently should go hand and heart with us in our scheme of putting the broad Atlantic between him and those bad Southern men they i'm agine would put him back into slavery but for fear of Federal guns and bayonets