The Osceola times., 1883-09-15
THE NEGRO PROBLEM.
From the Standpoint Of a Colored
Bishops and Ex.Congressman.
A Problem Distinctive and Pscuiiar--A
Destiny Grand and var Reaching--ro the
Tropics.
Coo, go Inter Ocean

Bishop X. III. Gam, ex-congressIn5i
from South Carolina, delivered an elo-
quent lecture last night at Bethel Meth
odist Episcopal church on "The Negro
Problem" The Bishop prevented many
of the characteristics of his race in this
lecture in such ridiculous light that
the audience laughed continually.
The following is the substance of his
remarks:
regard it as essential TO the negro
that he shall seek TO establish his race,
his quota of dignity among the nations OF
the earth He has problem, place a
dignity. Ii belongs to him per sc. 1t
belongs to each nation to have a prob
lem of it's own. All nations should
have an idea to maize their race work
up TO. believe there are distinctive
places in Gods economy. Nations of
men are distinctive in place and COM
plex in their dispositions. All nations
have clannishness. The Scotch, the
Irish, the French are clannish, and we
have peculiarities among ourselves. The
negro problem is distinctive and pecu-
liar. The German has problem of his
own-the English, the French have
theirs.
HOW THEY CAME HERE.
The Europeans came TO this country
knowing something of the arts-some OF
the European nations came highly cul-
turcd-but the negro came to this coun-
try unlike them. lie came chained, out
ragged, wronged-a crouching slayc
chained in everything that pertains to
manhood, chained to everything
that pertains to womanhood. He
was chained $50 years,
There seems to be no sunlight, no bea-
con light to cheer him on. He was
made the galley slave. The school was
closed to him. Education was a sealed
book. The church was closed against
him. Thus, for $50 years this race was
solving the problem of the negro. Yet
with all of this he has thriven. There
was not bondage enough in the system
to crush cut all the manhood of the me-
gro man-not bondage enough to crush
out all the womanhood Of the negro
woman. simultaneously with the tramp
of the warriors h, has emerged from
bondage.
The south found him an integral part
of the government find him as find
all other nations, bringing wealth and
power to the country. Democrats and
Republicans are in fierce contests as to
who shall have the negro's vote. He is
becoming the balance-wheel, as it were,
in the politics of the country. The same
is true in the financial and the CONNER
cial relations of the world 1t seems the
army could not conquer the south until
the negro had put his big black foot
into il, if you please. lie had become a
warrior and sailor before the nation
acknowledged him as an integral part OF
it. The German, the Scandinavian. and
every nation. what not are part of it.
and it could not be true mongreai ma
tion without the negro. You say it was
n great blessing to come here; we learn
cd the arts which we could not in Africa
All! we never learned to lie till we came
here. We did not steal. Yor could
drop your gold dust anywhere and nc
danger
BLACK VS.. WHITE.
Professor Gilman in The Popular
Science Monthly says he is afraid tho
negro will over-top The white man il
this cou ltry, that in 1850 at the present
rate of increase of each race, the two
will stand 10000 900 blacks and 10000,
600 white. The Irishman comes here
with shilalah and soon lays it dowr
for the shovel and the hoe. The Frencf
man comes with police literature they
all have something to bring. But they
change and become Americans. The
great question is how to make America
stand out in bold relief. ! like thu
Americans. ! like the sturdy tramp o
the German. A good deal is said of hin
but the German keeps on taking sour
kraut and succeeding. like the China
man with his Wiling, whang, whunp.
like the negro, for he makes the cottoI
and the sugar If you please. You could
not have made the EnelishmaD docil'
and Paddy he would have turned th'
field upside down if you had tried to
make slave of him.
The redeeming quality in the negr'
character is his love of the right. Yot
do not know one negro who struck hi
mistress during the war. Yet the slav'
al Il N