The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-07-30
THE NEGRO.

The Baltimore Gazette, in leading
editorial on the negro problem. sug-
gests that the black man is so closely
connected with the industrial econ
omv of the nation, and so necessary
for the production OF some of our
most important crops, that it would
be difficult TO get along without him.
It SAYS positively that he can no more
be taken cut of the country by colon
Izs.ion han can toe Indian:
Attempts hsve been made in that d.
reetion-attempts stimulated BY genuine
philanthropy and benevole ce-but they
have produced very Insignificant results.
| The Indian will remain on the SOL of
this Continent until bus race passes away;
and the Negroes future is lndissolub y
connected "itt the history of The land In
which h now walks as Il fir, emSn.
AS the negro is u permanent fixture
here, pertinent question arises: hat
part will h be abe TO take ia the futu e
development Of the country? S,nce The
termination Of the civil war DO Pissed
into a new condition., and for that
change he was totally unprep-red By
habit, custom. educatiol or natural abll-
ity. Neither the Individual negro nor
his race has ever performed great deeds.
He has not shown Capacity for moldlDg
his fortunes. He has never manifested
a comprehension of those great laws
which stimulate and control national or
individual progress. The savage tribes
of the north who plOwed Rome and
narrowed Greece contained in their indi-
Vidual members and 10 their several na-
tionalities elements OF advancement which
enabled them to appropriate what was
good and grand and noble in the systems
Of the countries which they subdued and
settled, and thus soon became part of
the body polite. Not so the negro. He |
has not in his nature that element by |
which the laws and literature, all the So
cisl habits and refined and elevsting Gus
toms of a country are appropriated by
individuals or races, snd both raised in !
the scale of nationality. Africa stands
to dsy where she stood when the Cloths
and Huns first put foot upon the soil Of
southern Europe. The negro is the same.
His descendants are bondmen still III all
the ell ments Of dependence which con-
stitIte essential slavery. Yet the descend
ants of the hardy saVsges Of the north are
among the lords of the earth, and their
brain is giving laws and their stout arms
are furnishing physicsl energy to the
whole white race
iris is the history of the negro when
compared with that Of the white man.
Still he has his sphere Of usefulness, and
his future in this country may be made
productive of good to himself and the
white race if calm judgment and broad
not passion and party pre-
JUDGE, are allowed TO lead the move
ment for his advancement. The condi-
ton Of The negro cannot be made better
5yinhammatory apps ais TO MS passions
and addresses calculated TO widen the
breach between him ard the white race.
The later is and always will be the gov
Brning element in this republic. The
white man will make the laws and shape
The social customs Of the country, and il
the negro is to be bettered in his new
it must be by the efforts Of the
white man In this connection we are
glad TO chronicle the fact that the best
men OF the southern states are speaking
to the negroes with good sense and honest
In regard to the future that IS /
before them. The future of the negro de-
pends largely upon the white men of the
southern states. In proportion as they
are wiling to educate, counsel and guide
the dependant race will the latter ad-
vance aid be useful to thu nation. The
men of the north have proven that they
do not understand the negroes of the
south, and if they did they are partially
By their temp per to guide the
footsteps of the freedmen in |
that p>th which, properly pursued, would
lead them to comfort and happiness.
While, therefore, they cannot or will not |
aid in the true elev alton of the negro, let
them not hinder those who are attempt
ing to prepare him for future beneficial
alike TO the white man, the negro and
the nation.