Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18
Aavanesmen. Of the ooIorsa race

/. An address by General w. Y. G.
HuInes in Memphis, before the
graduating class of the Lemoyne
q Institute, is worthy the closest con-
! sideration. The Leinoyne Institute
: is a school for colored teachers, and
) was founded by the old doctor who
! distinguished himself by building a
+ crematory in Western Pennsylvania.
!. General w. Y. c. Humes was con-
federate soldier. We quote from
his admirable address passages that
we are sure will be read with great
satisfaction throughout the country
1.-THE present generation of color
ed men and women of the south
enjoying the benefits of education
as you have, are placed in extraor-
binary circumstances with reference
to your race and your country. At
the close of our war in 1865 four mil
lions of colored people in the south
ern states were exalted from state
Of absolute slavery to a state of alb
sOlute freedom. In a few years they
were clothed with all the rights and
j privileges of citizens of the United
States. The great American repub-
lie perpetually guaranteed to your
race, equally with all others, her
citizens the right to enjoy life, liber-
ty and happiness under equal and
impartial laws. In obedience to
and in harmony with the laws of
the Union the state OF Tennessee has
| ,r,nIdo,J hav Ioo,l la xryc On o., 40 90
cure to the colOred people all the le-
gal rights enjoyed by her white citi-
zens. The same laws of marriages
and those governing the acquire
ment of and title to property, real or
personal, its transfer and transmits
sion are alike applicable to white
people and cOlored; the same rights
of suffrage exist for all the same
right to hold Office is secured to all
the equal benefit OF the state school
fund and the city public schools are
! enjoyed by the colored children and
the white children; all stand alike
upon the same footing before the
law. / can go further, and say the
white people of Tennessee as COM
munity, harbor no malignant or
jealous feeling toward the colored
people; but on the contrary hold |
them i'm the kindest regard, and will |
rejoice at every step the colored peo-
pie advance in the acquisition of |
property, intelligence and moral |
worth.
"No fact exists i'm the past or the
present, no reason appears in the fu-
ture for hostility between the white |
people of the south and the colored |
people of the south. On the contra
ry, controlling facts in the past and !
present, and auspicious hopes in the
future all conjoin to urge us to cher
ish only kindly feelings toward
each other.
"More than two hundred years
ago slavery was introduced into the
United States, and for generations
it had formed one of the hereditary
institutions of the south. A strong
attachment had grown up between
the owners and the owned. This is
not the place nor time to argue the
truth of this proposition but sim
gle fact proves it overwhelmingly,
and can never be forgotten by the
white people of the south.
"In the late war the white men
of the south were nearly all called
away from their homes to the bat
tle-field they left their children
dependent not only for support, but
for protection, on the colored peo-
pie. The latter knew that their lib
erty was involved in the struggle,
and that the success of the Federal
armies was freedom to them, while
success to their owners meant sla-
very to them yet ii may be stated
as general, indeed, as an. almost
uniform fact, that they were kind,
faithful and true to the unprotected
wives and children of southern SOL
diers left almost wholly at their mer-
cy, and that they labored, as for
merly, to supply them with food
and with clothing. This historic
truth has secured to the cOlored race
of the south the lasting gratitude of !
the southern white people.
'The freedom of the colored race
was the result of contest between |
the two sections on questions of con-
law and states rights, |
neither originating in, nor embitter-
ed by any sanguinary uprising or !
cruel acts Oh the part of the emancl- \
pated people.
"While the latter are indebted to I
the government of the United States \
for the precious boon of freedom
and the full rights of citizenship,
under wise and impartial laws, the \
white people of the south owe to
the constitution and principals of \
that government, as framed by their s
fathers, a boon no less beneficient [
and still more striking in the histo- i
ry of mankind. II is this: n
"At the close of the war the white u
people of the south were in a militia $
ry point of view, as PROSTATE before G
the north as the SaXons OF England e
were in the year l0Qd before the O
NOrmaps under WILLIAM the Con- [,
luerer. Engendered by the war, bit Z
ter animOsities always following n
such contest, and there We're not 4
wanting those who sought to i'm +,
lame and perpetuate these aninos- n
ties for their own purposes. q
Rut, Notwithstanding all this, the g
southern people were, In ten short e
pears restored to their full rights v
Inder the laws and constitution of q
he Union, and placed on the same b
plane of civil rights as our North Ii
'Iu DIotucLSS anticipating Squdily ID
n the control and direction of the @
rational government by their own b
chosen representatives, and the full d
possession of their own local state B
governments. a
"This we owe to the healing, Wig fe
'rous, and invigorating principles a
If republican liberty created, plant G.
ID, crystallized into constitutional Il
aw by our fathers a hundred years @
lgo. They saved US when we could a
lot save ourselves, After armies of Il
DraYe soldiers had failed by the n
most brilliant courage and devotion el
o achieve southern independence, Ia
lad ceased to battle, and had melt II
d away, those indestructihle prln. q
.iples of constitutional law came to d
,ur rescue, and restored US TO our o
merrights as equals of the north "
,rn people in the Nation. This "
wonderful result could not have oc- Ii
lurred In any other country, or un- d
Ter any other form ofgovernment." d.
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