The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-08-09

up, lest should receive some insult. What
would you Pontypoolers think II, in walking
past a cottage and looking at some one you
saw at the door, you were greeted by an in
sulting grin or personal remark To say
you would be disguised is to tell only half the
truth-your whole frame would Jingle with in
dgnation. Yet they who thus behaved to you
would at least be white. But when you add
to the insult black SOLDERING face, with re-
pulsve brown and thick course sensual lips,
you get picture slightly heightened in color
and oiiensiveness. l came here be-
lieying the negro to be imam
and brother.S To-day honestly
believe there is more Of the animal about him
than Of either the brother or the man. A more
complete revulsion Of feeling think | never
experienced. Nor am alone. think about
every Englishman and Englishwoman have
met out here shares my feelings. have heard
expressions made use Of by English people
here, on the negro, too harsh for me to write,
and yet believe they were very near right
Ii is notorious that those who speak most Bit
terly against the negroes are English people
and Americans born in the Northern States.
Whyf Because the negro they had known by
reputation was a far different being to what
they find him in actual life. The negro is
most surely unfit for social equality. It is
wrong to iniiot him upon white people, and
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day be a terrible war between the two races.
We all remember Hamlets request to his
mother "Look on this picture and on
that'-and his following words. The quota
ton can be used now most telliugy to illus
trate my remarks as to the difference between
the white and black here. The future OF the
negro race is a puzzle | can hardly try to
guess. II Darwin's doctrine Of the survival
Of the httest is true, one would imagine the
white would crowd out the blacks. |, how
ever, believe speak by the card when | say
that population statistics tend to show that the
blacks are increasing faster than the whites,
and Il so then it seems only question Of time
for the whites to go under. Yet this seems
impossible, too. But this continent in the
long future will have to grapple with and set
tie many a problem the older continents will
never have TO deal with. When this land is
packed full and settled up, and people have
lived in that State for a few generations, so
that the blood Of all the separate nationalities
is thoroughly mixed and a new race is the re-
suit, what will it do and what will it be,
Coming back to the negro-for this appears
to be a negro letter-there is another thing
that is problem. They vote, as a race, for
the rich mans politics. There are two politi-
cal parties here-the Republicans and the
Democrats. The Republican party liberated
the slaves. The negroes vote the Republican
ticket. But the Republican party contains the
bankers, the railroad kings, the money lend
ers, the bondholders, the monopolists, and, in
short, all the classes that thrive by the labor Of
the people.
In the North Mr.. Kendall was a Republi-
can. In the South he is Democrat, for
Democracy is popular in the South, and
he writes as a Democrat. 1t is manifest
to any impartial reader that he does the negro
an injustice. The general tenor Of his argu-
ment has been answered many times, and there
is no need whatever to say anything further
upon it than to state that it Is wrong in pria-
ciple and fact. The LIGHT knows something
Of the opinions of English people in Texas,
and is sure that when Mr.. Kendall represents
the English people here, or elsewhere, as be-
ing opposed to the negro he states what is
not correct. Englishmen have always been
the supporters Of the negro's cause, and be-
lieve in his ability TO rise and become use
full and intelligent citizen. The burden Of NJ.
Kendal's complaint against the negro lies in
the last part Of the letter. He votes the
Republican ticket aud tina, in itselfs sufficient
to condemn the negro in the eyes OF Mr.
Kendall and his Democratic friends. II
would be interesting to know whether Gov
ernor Ireland shared the opinions OF his sub
ordinate upon this important question.
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