Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
which Suggested the Fatliomless Apys'
Between the Races.
r,oorlcs of Fred Douglass and Pra cti-
cal Talk OF Texas Darkcy.


pIIaao,,t dressed aristocratic senator,the
e,,vv Of nil rustic senators, with whom
Tar1 George Pendleton most delights
60 drive down Pennsylvania avenue
,vben thronged with failest women OF
tha canital--this self same Senator
Hazard became the victim of the wiIes
of fhe winsome Langtry. The Bayard,
the cheyalier Bayard, who never coil-
fassed In his heart that the ghostly
salisbury toted an atom OF the state
hood or dignity of Delaware, was tne
softest victim OF the Langtry. lie m
Jucted her into the senate
chomber. he introduced her
no crave and reverend senators,
aud you should have seen the BLOOD
rush to the musty face OF Edinunus'
ohaorbod. ut the moment, in the
eonhistical mysteries of the race qnes-
finn when the tall and graceful Bay
ard commended to his admiration the
fall and graceful Langtry. Here,
thoupht Edmunds, when he had re-
covered from profound abstraction, is a
nroyidential exposition of the bottom
facfs of the Mormon problem, and II
was the violent sudden mental transit
tlon from the contemplation OF Sanloo
10 that of Bayard's Venus that shocked
the sturdy old Nermonter. Langtry
aud an e6on.skinned, gizZard-iooted,
grinning typical African danced min
nets before Edmunds' mental vision
through the day ormonism and
mIscppeuation-an Edmuuds con-
fessed that civil-rights bills are empti-
Ell delusious. The country owes Bay
ard thanks for this d5yunentHm dd
hoB,inem thus thrust into Edmunds'
face.
FRED DOUGLASS.
Edmunds had before him at the
moment, and was coming over IN
tently, the fierce sentences OF Fred
Douglass recent speech i'll Philadel-
phia, in which Douglass cOdiiied bis
old original abolition harangues of a
bv-gone ape. The sum aud substance
OF IL was that shareholders were most
cruel aud brutal aud tyannical; that
their authority was maintained by
relentless cruelty; that blacks hated or
feared their old masters; and then
Douglass did utter one single truth,
which every eX-slageholdHr will APP
prove, THAT the crines of the
are and country crowned the crimes
and vices of Interstate war with the
blackest of crimes, when the black
race was suddenly liberated, and,
helpless. ignorant and pennies, was
sent forth naked and homeless, each
an untutored child, TO fight the battles
Of life, with no friend except him
whom Douglass describes rs his worst
enemy-lis sole marster.p The negro
was promised forty acres and mule.
He wandered away from his cabin for
Il time to search for this tabled para
disc. His local attachments were
strong. He went to his original
home For many months after eman.
cipation lie "traInped' aimlcssly and
dreamfully. He returned at last To "de
ole plantation and slowly became u
tenant, instead of Il slave. Cities and
villages and loyal leagues were over
run by them. They lived as pillerers.
Hcn-roOsts and pig styes and cattle
pens were their larders, and portable
property was valueless. To restrain
this universal predatory habit and
necessity, and as an antidote To
loyal leaguers, ghostly ku-kluXlsm
sprang into being, and then Thad
Stevens howled. The North heard
only one side of the story, and black
rngues were deiiied and white ku'
kluX, gowned and masked that
~
10 restrain African wanderings by
night and put period TO the pilag-
ing Of farms and houses, because ghtst-
lest demoniacal appnrtons. In
many districts of the South, farmers
were driven TO desperation by the pill
felings practiced by the numherless
blacks traversing the country in all di-
rectlons by day and night. Two-thirds
Of the blacks lived by theft. 1t Is d
wonder that they werenot massacred
If they had inhabited "A Northern stat,
their poverty and helplessness would
never have been recognized rs an apol
ogy for their vices. But every judg,
sent down from the North will attes
the fact that juries, constituted of eX
Shareholders, could hardly be Induce,
TO punish blacks for these ofIen ses
Southerners could not understand hoy
theft perpetrated by negro could h
criminal in the laws eyes, and South
ern juries refused TO punish ofiensc
on which those OF the North wreake
direst vengeance. 1t Is further tru
that not only negroes, but attorne,
appointed to defend them, always s.
leeted Jurors who had been slaveholt
ers. Let Mr.. Douglass inquire of an
Northern lawyer or Judge or citizen +,
the South, and he Will confess the un
versatility of this fact. Negroes alway
objected TO negro or Northern jurors {
those who had never owned slave
And yet Mr. Dous lass would hay
Senator Edmunds believe that inera'
icable ever-lctiye enmity subsiste
especially between ex-slavo holde
aud tn c freedmen. On the contrnr,
the races are only more and mo-
widely separated from one anoth'
with the extinction OF those OF oth'
races who had maintained the relation
10 one another of master and slave.
NEGRO ELooUENcE.
The most touchingly eloquent Al
effective speeches ever made in Il
legislature of Texas were pronounce
by two negroes, and both of nut
the same general import. Both J
counted the story OF negro devotion
''old marster and misstiss." VIII,
one OF these natural orators, hims,
an old man, extended his great blai
horny hands aud said, "There can
no race enniity between us. II
cannot come while my old marst
aud missiles live. No, nor while Tho
children and mine survive. III
were kind and generous TO me.
KNEW no Wauhos W-uny " e"io W. '
morrow when was their propert
Look at these wrinlSled rough hant
They tell the tale. They tell how
toiled for them. And the story IL n
ended. They are old and helpls
now and live MS once did, In IA lii
cabin, and still toll for thei
send them half OF every doll
] drnw from the state treasur
and when their daughter, q beautii
and good girl, whom used TO ear
when she was child In these stro
arms, was married not long ago,