The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-04-18
TIE NEGRO sAGALN-A BUNDLE
or MISTAKES. 90

with the toiiOWlhB EiSh anu a~Ny
contribution to its editorial Columns
marked to attract our particular at
tention:
Governor Bate Of Tennessee has APP
pointed a cOlOred man as assistant sup
erintendent Of Public INSTRUCTIVE, and
by such action dTa n the fire If severa'
news papers bicb are top-heavy with
c..lorphobia The fellow who edits tn
MoRRIsrowN Tenn } GAZETTE opposes
the appointment with the candos OF an
honest man and the lCgic of a lunatic-
In fact, this fellows sOphistry J. Of
kind with all that bOsh which emanates
from that portion of the press OF the
South which believes hat God met the
SHOWS of the NarIh) made he white
man white, and the Devil mot the fierce
sun of the tropics) made the African
black The tlp heavy sophis' of the
GAZETTE uses this clincher AS argument:
our Negro admirers may retnrt upon us aud
s.y that ought to get rid u "ur Prejudiess
Perhaps might do IL II We would try, Tor
'-~berr thexe's viii aheres way" the age
says. But We nj want 10 get rid % them IN
this
IL is = shame that the State of Ten
nessee-which has repudiated its honest
obi ations, which r eks To condone the
robbery of its funds by its Treasurer,
which has Just pensiOned its veterans
who lost the u Of AN Op &c IN defend
treason and oligarChy-it Is shame
that the State of Tennessee cannot ind
a Liche in its uuatic asylum for ich
hopeless case as the top heavy fellow
who stands in the wheel-house of the
MoRRIsTowN GAZETTE. III he were
denizen of the State of New York he
would be accommodated IN fifteen min
utes. Alas, for TENNESSEE
With no intention or desire to be
drawn into a controversy with our
sable New York contemporary, we
give him the particular attention his
marked paragraphs seem mutely
to ask at our hands. And we begin
by saying that, though there appears
to be something, if not of " the wis
dom" yet of other well known fea-
lures, of the old serpent-mueh in
deed-about his attack, and al
though the devil may have had a
hand, indirectly, in bringing him
into this world, and bringing him
up in it, yet we most emphatically
deny the belief he imputes to US, in
common with the great bulk Of our
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the whole
country, that A." God made the white
man and the devil made the negro.
Such stuff may do for has readers
keeping up, in the negro heart al
least, the heat OF prejudiee-but
there is no shadow of truth in the
assertion in its application to any
body in the South. We believe the
Bible and that teaches US that God
made both the white man and the
black man and the red man, "of one
blood" He apportioned TO Ham
the younger son of Noah, the lanc
of the Niger and Congo rivers-nOt
that he might be changed by the
/" fierce heat of the sun there into {
black man, but because, as his name
implies, he icdS black. But we
do not propose to enter into the
discussion of this subject. Let III
confine what we have to say to thu
matter in hand And we need no
20 beyond the Globes assumed factI
which are almost without an ex
ception laundering mistakes-in or
der to verify our criticism already
made. or to Justify what is 10 follow
He starts out by stating that Gov
Bate of Tennessee has appointed ;
colored man as assistant superinten
dent of public instruction, which
will be news To our readers. Yet h,
: had, or seems TO have had our artl
Gle in his hand
AS TO the imputation cast upoI
our "logic" we have only to say tina
il is a very common weapon In th'
hands of those who have no othel
way to repel truth, or preserve theil
equilibrium of error and falsehood
The compliment to our " candor
and honesty" we regret not beihl
able to reciprocate. Nor can we say
to our New York contemporary tina
if he were in Tennessee we coulC
provide him an asylum with our I'm
T fortunate citizens who are cared fol
by the State as being non compo
mentis. He is evidently a smart ne
gro-smart enough to have gradua
ted at Beecher's feet-and as dis
honest as he is smart, if we may
, Judge from his slanderOus assault
upon our State and people, and upol
the noble bUt MANNED and mutilate'
veterans of the Mexican WAR 70
whom our State legislature-in tn
absence of such provision for then
by the government they served
has made some timely provision b.
State law--and last and least, bu
none the less marked, in his attemp
to make us appear very silly, AM
himself wondrous wise In tn
ewes of the colOred' world, by tn
garbled sentences he quotes iron
our article that introduced an argu
ment. or redSyn, for our antipath,
to black skin, which it did not sui
+ his purposes to give to his readers
But though for the reason assigned
his smartness we could not get {
\ ticket of admission for him into tn
Tennessee ONE for the Insane, We
if he were here perhaps with lit
4 tie help on his part in the way o
honest confession, which would b,
good for the soul, and which coul'
be made before any one of our hon
est and incorruptible courts of Grim
inal law, he might easily obtain ad
mission for a "term of years" int
another of our public institutions 10
Gated at the State capital--a grea
reformatory institution where h'
| .-.,,TI ed his notion of GO equal