Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-06
VOL. I. NO 3o6

the inhuman traffic at once and Inrer-
soils fathers voted To protract II twen-
| " years that they might get out ofthe
business without loss. 1t was during
these twenty yeats that lngersoll's
] inthers fastened the institution upon
the country, and when lngersolrs
state finally discovered that its pocu-
liar crops required only three or four
months. service of slaves, and that it
cost less TO hire than To
own labor, lngersoll's fathers enacted
prospective emancipation laws, un-
der the operation of which they
sold their slaves TO Virginia and the
South. They coolly pocketed the
money and then began the row 10 rob
the new owners OF their slaves and
of theirpoperty. They have done it,
and never refunded penny, and
boast of the dishonesty, while of
course they do hate those they
nave robbed, and II Is this
hatred of Southern whites rather
than love of blacks. which animates
lngersoll and his followers in discns-
sing the extinction of the negro civil
rights law. He repeats his speech on
this aubjcct, and all Africa in WASH
ington howls and prostlates itself be-
The latter statesman il as unlike lg,
gersOll in moral qualities, as was Me-
dusa in physical charms unlike Venus.
lngorsoll's morai and personal quail
Ties aud impulses are US admirable ~
his religious and political faiths are alb
horront To the multitude, and therefore
IL IL argued that faith doesn't make
the man. Ii only shapes the angel,
and Bob aud Ben are u delicious pair
of them.
a PROPER THING FoR ron AND BEN.
But was going To remark that the
repeal OF tue cotton patch 10y the
south C0rolinan who picks, with
and II half bales of cotton
per diem, is n revolution wrought
involving infinitely more deeply the
fortunes of races in America than the
bonelicent action of thesupreme court.
lngersoll Is generally In error No
court ever did II people u greater ser
vice than when the civil rights bin
was annulled and simply hecaMse
legal distinctions were thus oblitera-
ted, People might have forgotten diff
lerences of color and habits and pecul-
iarities, but the law would not suffer
IL and society was in a perpetual state
of revolt and Samho was the sufferer.
The supreme court has put u period 10
this condition of Southern social life,
and now comes this inventor VINO
utterly oblitcrates the COTTON patch,n
Never was such u blow delivered.
Sambois crushed 10y it. Twenty ne
groes lose employment for each one
hencefnrth given tasks MS cotton pick
ers.p How infinitely cheaper than
ever before becomes labor in the
South, Cotton mills must rise up In
the midst Of those redundant cotton
fields. Massachusetts is undonc.
Lowell and Lawrence must be trans.
lerred to Birmingham, Memphis, At
lanta and Fort Worth This cotton
picking machine makes negro
labor cheaper than That OF
the poor girls of the mills
of tile East and the wealth aud
industry and machinery of the East
must be transferred 10 the South.
Salubo ns slave enriched New En-
gland; Sambo us n freeman will destroy
New England-,iust wait and see, and
Bob, lngersull, IL II practical rather
than sentimental philosopher, would
discuss this aspect OF the irrepressihle
negro question,
THE PRESS.
The Republican newspapers nre
vainly employed ia gathering up in
stances of cruelty TO negroes and IT.
seems that the bloody shirt banner
will be the standard of the Republic
cans In 1881. But Emory Speer hns
consigned the Inst of the lsu.kiuS to
the Georgia penitentiary aud this VIII
put a period to toe Vice.