The bee., 1882-06-24
THE BEE SYMPOSIUM.


corridors of the United States Capitol
some days ago, l had the good fortune
to oyerhear the following remarkable
remark by a Southern Republican
''The next generation of Negroes will
not be as refined and cultured as the
present generation, because the present
generation has had the advantage OF
learning what they know from those
who once held them in bondage" This
is the substance, though not the exact
language used by the distinguished
member from the South. It is enough,
however, to commence sermon on,
which shall proceed to preach right
now. Without any desire to reflect upon
the morals or the intelligence of the
present generation, 1 do not hesitate
to say that we have been apt scholars.
Our efficient instructors in ante-bellum
days did their level best to solve the
social problem, and there are living
evidences of the strenuous efforts put
forth in that direction. When I was
coming along it was q common thing
for the highly moral white men of the
South to have from four to six wives,
the majority of whom were colored
women. I know white Negro in this
city whose father was his master, and
that Negro, or nondescript, is disgrace
to his instructors. True, this is an iso.
lated case, yet there are hundreds of
them which can be brought to light for
the mere asking. The Southern chiv-
airy were q hcentious and lewd set in
their day, and they are not much better
in this enlightened period.
The victims of their adulterous and
contemplate practices can not reasona-
bly, be held accountable for what has
happened; they are here, and they rep
resent the civilization of other days
the guiding and restraining influence
of Anglo Saxon .rule-the vice, immor.
ality and lewdness of the Christianity
men of the Southern Oonfederacy. The
virtue of our women under that peculiar
institution was neither spared nor re-
spected. The passions peculiar to the
white men OF the sunny South had to
be appeased, and the fruits of that un.
holy and barbarous union were in many
instances disposed of on the auction
block, or sllenced in death by the hands
of the fiends who gave them existence.
And this damnable page id the history
of the South will ever remain to curse
the demons, the fiends incarnate, who
in open defiance Of the laws of God and
man, polluted, outraged, disgraced and
abandoned defenceless black women,
who were incapable of resisting their
vile and inhuman efforts. Man can
never forget, earth will never forget
them
No ! the next generation of negroes,
let us hope, will be more intelligent
than the present or the past, more de-
termined and persistent in thee opposi-
tion to the guiding and restraining in
fuence of Anglo-Saxon civilization
which has done so much toward mixing
the races and disgracing both. There
are yet few of our women who would
rather be white mems concubines than
the lawful wives of respectable colored
men. The ruling passion strong in
death is being manifested daily, and it
is drawing disgrace to the instruct RS
and the instructed. Southern white men
ought to put capcine plaster over their
mouths or never talk about what the
intelligence or civilization of the South
has done for the Negro. Self interest
and the qualification of their lustful
passions were at the bottom of all they did
for our women. and they know it. could
c10Se coIofed relatives some In Wash
ington and others in my own State who
have vainly yet silently said, "out,
damned spot, out" But the mark is
there and will ever remain to curse the
miserable dogs who put it there.
Southern civilization, forsooth ] The
South is but little better than Utah,
with this exception, the Mormons marry
their women by the dozens while the
Southerners, when they had the power,
which thank God has been wrested from
them, married themselves. Let the
South purge itself first, and then boast
of its civilization. It is too soon to
talk of it yet.
If filling the lard with illigimate
children and husbandless wives IS any
evidence of its superiority over the
people of other sections of this couutry
in point of morality, virtue and chastity;
then let the South rejoice in the fact
hat it has produced more 1legitimases,
broken more hearts, ruined more virtu-
ous women, and done more to disgrace
and demoralize the Negro than any
,ther people on the face of the earth. |
Now, shut up Mr. Secesh
JOE BUNKER.