Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
"Reminiscences of Nat Turner's Iasur-
rcctlon In Virginia.
The Grim Black Who Was Terror
Fifty Years Ago.
Kenneth RaSnor's Fortunes -Tl:o Post
Boosted by Boycotiing.
Ky Man ANA relosmph.


Ily Mall and Telegraph.
Washington, November l4.-Why
do You make mo say OF Mr.. Inrersoil
that his father OF all shareholders
'wasn most exacting aud most brutal.
| ! wrote that his 'fdthcrS Wtre,n for
they were the owners and masters OF
ships engaged in the horrible, phastly
African slave trade, They were the
men who, In the federal constitution.
al convention, refused TO put n period
To the African slave trade, and ex-
tended ittwcnty years against the votes
OF every representative of the South.
This happened ninety years ago. A
century, you must remember, Is only
u day In the lifetime of nations, aud
even before the sunset, does one OF the
children of men who Injected Africa
| hy the ship load into the South and
| thereby the hundred thousand hy
means of local prospective onancipa-
ton acts, pronounce iiercest mnlcdlc-
tons against those who unhnppily
owned slaves. by the way / have often
heard II said that "there must be fire
where there Is much smoko.n have
been saying, petsistently, that 10y forces
aud agencies of parttsnnship operating
through eighteen years steadily, and
each year more and moro Violently,
the two races in the South have been
more widely separated from one nm.
other. by unwisr laws, like the civil
rights act, and by lncurable prejudices
OF color, and 10y cRrpet-baggcrs and
bureaus, aud internal speeches and
newspapers, the two races, whore their
numbers are approximately equal, are
made 10 stand face Ia face hating one
another and ready for u how TO be
| struck
NAr TURNER'S GHOST.
is the collision coming? Is There n
smouldcring hidden lame whence
smoke assembled not many wocka ago
near Terrell, Texas, and were there
| hot cmbcrs beneath ashes In Milan
county when Gov. Ireland called out
the militia, aud were there no live
Goals TO Hight the fires OF possible con-
| ilagretiou when The white people of
| Marshall were recently startled by
vague runors of "negro iusurrection?F
Then tile llames leaped forth at Dam
Vile, Va, and now comes up tho
startling story that Nat Turner's
ghost stalks abroad In Southnmpton.
How II made the gray hair stand erect
| ON the heads of those bent old mon
aad women of Virginia who can re-
cali vivid memories OF tifty years ago.
! Tho only procOncefted. widespread
| icueil1u Of southern slaves h known
In history as
MAT TURNER'S iNsuRREcrIoN.u
II involved the blacks of whole
country. But lts dangers and extent
were greatly exaggerated. White pco-
pie always measured ncgro's pas-
slons, aspirations and resentments by
their own. They know well enough
what would bu their own action IL
they were slaves. aud therefore
exaggerated hundrod-fold the dan
gers OF negro rcVolts Janea Hnrper.
of Hnrpef Brothers, la 1861 wrote to
his Magazine or Weckly from New Or
leans Tint Southern farmers lived I'm
perpetual terror of their slaves; that
they concealed axes hnd scytho blades
ot night, fearing the negroes. Mr.
Harper was humbugged. From Nat
TURNER'S time TO 1901, negro slavery
had been wholly Transformed aud II
was negro servitude Mr. Harper would
have seen If he had studied the instl-
tuition as II was and had become after
MAJ Turner was forgotten.
The relations between "master
and sorvnnp enabled Jefferson Davis
10 Withdraw from counties Ia the
Gulf states, In which blacks out
numbered whites us five 10 one, tho
whole R1nsbearng white popula.
Ion and leave old men and women
aud children, through four wears mt
the mercy % these servants, aud this.
too, when war ragged involving, us the
negroes knew, thclr liberation. No
man or woman or child wAs harmed
by These negroes, practically free.
EiGTHfEEN YEARS huo.
Then Ia 1865 intcr-raco relations
were more kindly. Every Northern
soldier IN the South used To speak
Of the friendly lntor-
course and close iutinlucies subsisliug
between Southern whites and blacks
IN 1865. The negro had been already
free. lie was not shocked
when the Inst evidence of emancipa-
ton enabled him ITO get npaud DUST
and be "dusted'i and " Sill dusty
"eXodusterU
But since 1865 politicians have
taken charge OF the negro and hi
whole nature IN perverted. u
Is imbued with the PASSIONS
and prejudioes 10 which Bob Ingersoll
and the Republican hourly pander.
lie has learned 10 linte the on,y people
who have aughi socially or personally,
here or elsewhere, to do with him.
and more aud more widely each day
do the races diyerge frorG one another,
until whole states go armed To the bal
lot boxes, and until the smoke rises In
spiral tcll-tale columns from many die
trlcts OF the South, showing that
fires OF hatred have been kiDdlcd rem
ierlng the separation OF the races per-
hnps an imperative necessity.
PI,ACI: WILL ENDURE ~ TEXAS.
Happily for Texas, IL II only here
ana There that enough negroes are
found 10 excite any appfeciablc anita
gonisnis OF race or OF partisanshlp.
Sixty thousand negro votes In such G
commonwealth signify nothing, and
-hen the white Is augmented with ten
old the rapidity characterizing The
progress of the black population, and
whatever the fortunes OF races in other
,iutes, peace Il the irrepealable Law VI
rcxng
IeENHETh liAsARh.
IL would be n most grateful cQnees.
Il ,,.f q. NJ A1talh Of