Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-05-03
COLORED POPULATION.

COLORED POPULATION. '.
The colored race are attracting I'M
Usual attention at the present moment, =.
and the generally expressed sentiment
about them is. that their progress in
knowledge, culture and morality does
not keep pace with their numerical
increase. Liberated from bondage,
endowed with all the political privi-
leges of the white races, and admitted
to the enjoyment Of nearly all their
advantages, the opinion is rapidly
gaining ground in the North, as well
as in the South, that the continued
presence of the African IN this coun-
try is fraught with the gravest conse-
quences to its future welfare.
The st. Louis Republican remarks, |
that after twenty years of freedom
and sixteen years enjoyment of the
voting franchise, the colored race
exhibits no encouraging evidences OF
growth in its capacity for the stern
duties of government, and very little
Of a capacity for making Roadway in
the struggle. The line OF separation
between the races is as strongly drawn
and as distinctly maintained as it was
before the war /; the blacks do not rule
nor attempt to rule in the three south
ern states where their superior num-
bers might be held to entitle them to
the privilege in the south they are
expected to remain a peasant class,
and in the north they are not permit
ted to hold responsible offices, and,
at Washington, even under political
administrations most favorable to
them, they have never been allowed
to hold a recognized social position,
and they have well nigh lost all official
position. These facts which can Meth
er be denied or explained away warns
US of the presence and constantly in
creasing importance Of = negro prob
lem of the gravest interest.
In treating Of the same subject the
New York Sun says: sit is the ne
groes who now display race prejudices
and draw sharply the color line. Tit
negroes make it evident they wish tt
keep by themselves. They even wan
to be recognized politically, and en-
force their claims as = people whom
politicians must consider, and TO
whose favor ofice-seekers must worl
as for voters who do not belong t.
the republicans according to the as
sumptions of that parry, but 60 wher
they think best and where they wi
be best treated"
1t is becoming more and more evi
dent every day that the negroes car
little for the whites except as employ
ers and for business purposes. The
desire to maintain themselves IS
separate and united class, not only j
politics but in education and religion
Everywhere they prefer schools taugt
by colored teachers, and churchs
presided over by colored preacher
1t is impossible any longer to den
the fact that the overthrow Of SLAYER
and the reimbursement Of the n
groes has made the color line mo
decided than ever.
The necessary consequence OF
this il, that the colored race is CO
tinually escaping from the infuenc'
of the teachings and examples Of Il
white race, and commencing . pa
in the history of its own which, it
indications do not point to wrong co
illusions, will at no very distant t
ture involve our populations in dit
culties. Here in Mexico some Of t
consequences of the tendencies allu
ed to have been realized in the gus
rels the colored people are involv
in with regard to their schoo
churches and preachers, and t
charges and recriminations of part
in them against each other.
These matters claim and should
ceive the fair. full and unbiased
tention of communities and their G
ponents, for while they are compal
lively harmless at present, If I'M
tended to and unprovided for, th
may BOO become positive and I
ayoidable dangers.