The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-19
HE MEAT ON WHICH OUR CESAR FEEDS.

iHE MEAT ON WHICH OUR CESAR FEEDS
A correspondent of the journal recently re-
ferred to the persistence with which the
pulpit, the press and the schools of the South
teach the doctrine of hate toward the North,
laying all the blame of the war upon North
ern shoulders and educating the people to
still cherish hope of practical triumph,
though defeated by physical superiority. We
need not add that this triumph is to be Sc
cured by solid South uniting, by some ac-
cident, at some time with enough Northern
States, through the Democratic party, to Sc
cure the control of the government long
enough to make return to those who have
conducted it these twenty-three years i'm
possible. Apropos to this we again give
an excerpt from late interview
with the venerable Bishop Pearce, of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South. It
was on the occasion of the celebration of the
golden wedding of that eminent man, and it
was obtained by special correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution. After recounting the
grievous wrongs of the Methodists of the
North against their patient and long suffering
Southern brethren which caused the secession
of the Southern Methodists, in 1914, and de-
nouncing the Methodist Episcopal Church for
its meddlesoineness in sending teachers and
preachers, and establishing schools, colleges
and churches in the South, speaking of the
negro, he says:
''The negroes are entitled to elementary ed
ucation, the same rs the whites, from the
hands of the State 1t is the duty of the
church to improve the colored ministry, but
rather by theological training than by literary
education. In my Judgment higher educa-
ton, so-called, would be a positive calamity to
| the negroes 1t would increase the friction be-
| tween the races, produce endless strifes, ele
vate negro aspirations far above the station he
was created to fill and resolve the whole race
into political faction, full of strife, mischief
and turbulence. Negroes ought to be taught
that the respect of the white race can only be
attained by good character and conduct Their
well-doing and well-being all right-minded
citizens desire, and would rejoice in. Agri-
culture and all the mechanical pursuits are
open to them and in them they might find
lucrative employment. In these direc-
lions they may support their fam
lilies, get property, and become valuable citi-
zens If negroes were educated, intermalliage,
in time, would breed trouble but of this l see
no tendency now. My conviction is that ne
groes have no righton juries, in Legislatures or
in public Office. Right Involves charactSriand
qualification. The appointment of any colored
man to Office by the government is an insult
to the Southern people, and provokes conflict
and dissatisfaction, when, if left as they ought
| to be- in their natural sphere, there would be
/ u11iat opA oOn1 Or1ap Tho xybifaa
tamely and without protest submit to the in
| trusiOn of colOred men into places of trust and
| profit and responsibility. There never can be
stability and good order except when inteli-
gence and virtue preside and direct the affairs
of the country. The negro ought to be pro
! tected in all his rights of person and property
by the righteous administration of the laws
He is entitled to respect and kind considera
ton in all his pursuits and wants while he
himself is upright and industrious and we'll
| behaved"
After reading such sentiments from so ven
cradle minister as Bishop Pearce does any
one wonder at such brutal massacres as that
at Danviue, Va, or Hazlehurst Miss.Y This
is the intellectual, neral and political pabulum
which breeds the wholesale slaughter of ne
groes and those who dare to sympathize with
them. This explains why not single relg
ious ~ paper of the South has ever uttered
one word of condemnation of the numerous
wholesale slaughters of the colored people in
the South and the unprovoked murder of
hundreds of white men, Negroes ought to
be taught" to let politics and preaching alone
except such as their superiors dole out to them;
and the shotgun is the teacher They may
graciously find employment in agriculture
but higher education is calamity to them
This accounts for the persecution of the
women who have gone South as teachers and
the killing of many men in the same employ
ment. "The appointment of colored man
to an office is an insult TO the South" and
provokes conflicts. Negroes have no right on
| juries or in Legislatures, and of course no
right to vote. And yet the venerable Bishop
says that he never heard Southern preacher
talking of politics!
| If the people of this nation are willing to
indorse such bloody doctrine as this coming
from the senior bishop of the church which
furnished more rebel soldiers than any other
they are at liberty to do it. 1t is this power
that now rules in the House of Representa-
tives at Washington and with which the
Democratic party is in sweetaccord 1t is the
Democratic party.
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