The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-06-06

graveyard, and when Gabriel blows his
horn can rise from the dead with 'em
without any fear that it will destroy the
hilarityof the occasion, as Gen FoUnTbs'
SAYS. ! love these old-time darkeys, not
as my equals, but as love my children.
love 'em because they love me, and are
dependent upon me. The relation be-
tween the white and the black race is
by nature one of protection on the one
side and dependence upon the other,
and when it ceases to be that have no
! use for the niger. 1t is always a
| pleasure to me to befriend 'em when
| they want my friendship and my help,
| but when they aspire to be my equal
and put on independent airs, I've got no
further sympathy. | have been raised
to look upon negroes as children, child
rem in youth and in manhood and old
age. | did not have any hand in max
ing 'em that way. 1t is their human
nature and they can't help it, and |
have a sovereign contempt for any effort
that our people are making to change
their relation to us, for it can't be done.
The Slator fund and all other funds
may try it, but it won't succeed. The
education of the niger is q hnmbug
| so far as to make him better citizen
1t has been tried already and has proved
failure. His best education is one of
contact, close contact with the white
race. If we will let the negro alone and
keep him out Of politics. he will get
along very well and there will be no
problem to solve. There never would
have been any problem if he had been
let alone. He has no business with
Office orin the jury box or in the Legisla
ture and he never will have. This is a
white mans government and the white
man must govern il. The Anglo Saxon
is the dominant race. We don't want
the Cinnamon or the Indian to make
our laws. As labOrer and ser
want and dependent | had rather
have the negro than any race upon earth
/ and that relation to us Just suits him,
and when you try to lift him out Of it
you make him fool and vagabond and
render him unhappy. don't want him
slave any more, for his slavery was no
advantage to us. | had a lot of 'em my
self and know they were no profit to
me, They were no profit to anybody
except few exacting masters who made
slavery all the foul blot" that ever was
in it. There is no problem to solve I'M
less we make one. Mack Richardson is
getting along mighty well in Rome, and
everybody likes him and respects him.
Mack is cOntented and happy | wish
everybody may be happy-and why
cant Mack's children get along the same
way Well, they can, and they will, if
the politicians will let 'em alone. The
white folks can't all be Vanderbilts nor
Jay Goulds nor Joe Browns, and the
niggers can't be white folks. Let us all
be content with our destiny and not be
fussing around because somebody else is
better off.
Let us take things as we find EN- and
do the best we can. Folks are very
much like horses. If YOU breed 'em too
fine they are not fit for the wagon or the
pillow. We have got to have different
sorts OF folks, and nature knew it, or she
wouldn't have made 'em different. This
morbid sympathy for the poor negro is
wasted. Why not have it for the Indian?
We robbed him of his land and run him
OIL and have been cheating him ever
since. He is by nature of Il higher
order OF humanity than the negro. He
has more pride and more emotion. He
has more revenge and more gratitude,
Tor these two things always 20 together.
but you can't wean him from the forest.
for that is his nature. The negro loves
to depend upon the white man and the
white man loves the homage of the negro.
1t suits and fits both races and | hope
1t Will stay so. Fred Douglass seems
powerfully concerned of late about the
negro, and says they have got to be col
onlzed or amalgamate. Well, they have
tried the one, and the other will never
6e Tor 1t Is against the order of nature.
heard an old physician say that he had
never seen a greatgrandchild that de-
Scended from mulatto parents in mu-
latto succession. The crossing of races
has never improved them. Not even
VIII the jew and the Gentle mix with
harmony. John Randolph boosted Of
his Pocahontas blood, but / reckon Il
run out in John, for he was the last of
IT, History makes no record of two
races living together in peace unless one
was III state of dependence upon the
9ther. Our modern pllilanthropists are
,decolving the negro when they fatter
nm with capacity, equal to the whites |
IN fitness to invent, Or to govern. or Il
raise to the heroic or the sublime,
Why don't these philanthropists OK. |
erclse themselves little about Cobe's
children and thousands of others inst
IKE him. reckon il one Of orr nil. /
ilonaires was to die and leave his money
Tor the education Of white children 4
would be- violation Of some of the con
sttutlonaI amendments. We want to
iheip the negro, but we want him 70 hpln
himself first. He has got to work ont
az ms own advancement by industry and
by saving what he makes before ednca.
tlon VIII DO him any good. Dr. Mayo
OF boston, is the superintendent of ein.
catlon III that State, and he soys .sTha
negroes must be told that no people IN anv
; ;dllu was ever so maryelously led bv prov
iuehce as they have been for $50 years
indeed all the good there ever was IL
slavery was for them. 1t was that scvera
sehool OF regular work and that drill II
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