The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-01-05
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
"lno Solid Aoulh and lts Cause"

lengthy communication entitled "The
Solid South aud is Cause" Seeing that
the article Ia what It is we are surprised 10
find at the end OF tho date Charleston,
West Virginia. The writer is Mr.. John s.
Swami, q well known citizen Of Charleston.
Mr.. Swami finds the negro to DO the cause.
Following this limo the following extracts
will BIO understood:
Republican domination at the South turns
our people oyer TO the rule and domination
OF an alien; ignorant, aud bsrba!ous race,
and that class Of men who court the support
and use them for purposes rninotls 10 every.
thing. The South will mako any sacrifices
aud voc.
Tho white man nowhere on earth will will.
+ ipgly submit 10 equality OF any kind With
the yelnw races, mitch less with tho black
race. Nature has placed between them in
sepnrable barriers and an abiding prejudice
which cannot BIO and ougrt not to be re.
moved.
Those OF the Northern people who are will.
log 10 see their OVID race, blood, and brothers
. IuL Ou vi tluuliby VIII bub VI ybIloW
races are governed by q mawkish sen,imeE-
.ali,y unworthy oil them and revoltiDg 10
those high instincts that make the grandeur
( and the glory Of the white men, and they ore
making war on Gods lava for the moBgrel
pesishGs.
The political privileges given the negro
!. have done him no good, but vast burn, and
Z have demoralz,d the South terribly-so much
no that our statesmen, both Democrats and
Repub!icans-for we have among us many
Christisn gentlemen who IRE Republicans
are left at home, and we ale represented most
oftsl by the inferior msn-msIe politicians
tunitin.
The States Of this Union arc likely 10 re.
main together for a generation or 60. If the
country were solely under the government Of
the white man, and each eection aud Slate
felt that tho Government YVES a fostering
paront, the States might remain under one
; cantral government for an indefinite period.
Tho negro has never wanted for bread,
shelter, or clothing in the South either before,
(, during, or sincs the war, fave for that dark
period when come oil The Southern States
Z were under bis rule mad the rule Of the low
/. adyeuturtrj who plundeted him under the
Y
continued until now those States would have
been bankrupt and disgrace 10 civilization.
Bstter-iar better-the shotgun and the
kukiu1 than such horrors.
Tho negro OF the Sou,h, ss q dependent,
: will eyer recsiye the fostering kindness OF
the white man, and will be fully protected
: In just so much liberty as bis nature calls for.
AS o political rival and equal, you may rely,
{ on 1t, he will be made TO feel the power and
supremacy oil the white rece in some way.
Our fair and beautiful land will receive the
protection OF the white race, and We mean 10
preserve our honor, our purity orr gu.
premacy. our glory, q. any cost.
x. What has aroused our accomplished fol
Z low.citizen2 There is no negro supremacy
in West Virginia and no race question con
fronts us in this State. There is no negro
supremacy Southern State. Through.
out the whole South the white man, il he
a Democrat, is supreme, superior numbers
to the contrary notwithstanding That is
what Solid South means. A champion
OF that Solid South and tho methods by
which It is made solid and kept solid ought
to hesitate to speak of barbarous race ia
the South at time when murder for opin.
IONS sake aud wholesale lynehing are at
tracing the worlds attention. These are
Horrors" which abide in spite OF "the
shotgun aud ku-klux" which Mr.. Swami
thinks better than the rule Of the majority.
The honor, purity and glory Of a race can
not be maintained ut 80 irightiul cost,
though supremacy may be and is SO main
tanned.
It is no "mawkish sentimentality" which
demands for the negro his rights under The
law. Southern men may regret that equal
ity before the law has been conferred upon
the colored msn along with freedom and
the ballot, and they may even band to.
gether to rob him Of his right, but tho law
stands, and the hickory sapling and the
shot gun do not repeal it.
~ And the law does not say that the
negroes Of the South are to be allowed ''just
so much liberty as his nature calls for";
for in that section it has never been
thought that any liberty was good for him.
It cost a war to establish the fact that the
negro is q man and that it is his right to
be free. Social equality is a question en-.
tirely apart, but the Southern whites who
arc bound to rule at any cos. make no dis
tinction.
The reader who believes that human
right and Law arc to be held above mere
prejudice and partisan advantage will find
agood deal mora that is revolving in the
above extracts. Such aletter should never
have been dated from. West virginia-Ya-
100 City or Copiah county, Mississippi,
would have been far more appropriate.
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