The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-22
Out-Heroding Herod.

We are very glad to meet these state
ments (from the Detroit Free Press, in
this definite and rnis5aEable Form.
Plainly stated and without unnecessary
verbiage, they amount to tFis:
1. The ee-o was spoiled as laboTer
by freedom.
2. Education is an inju' to the col
ored race
3. The Vi ,Ie of the nea,o woman is
corr upted by education.
If these statements are true, then the
writer's conclusion is correct, that
"some way must he found of manag:n
the neg.O." Il is also lie that, if these
statements are coI,'ecJ, TIE very best pc =
sible way OF managing the negro" IS
the state of slavery from whic he W, =
relieved through tae mistaken ideas Of
men who supposed lioetty to e always
preferable to sci tide. We do rot prt :
pose to discuss the question furshec. For
twelve years we have labored assiduous-
ly to convince our countrymen that the
qrestion of the fu IRE of the A "rican in
America was not decided bv the war.
We have demonstrated in eve : form we
could devise the fact chat mere phvsic i
freedom was not hber y. We have
warned the nation that Only intell' gen, g
could male the neg 70 se'f-suppoI IT ;,
self-d;~cctipg, and self ptotecthe. Nay,
we have gone fr' her, ard Sven or.
strength 10 tie establishment of the idea
that or'y education can make m safe
and reliable factor IN our government.
Now we are met wiGh the del; ,ation
thet such education orly makes the race
more deprayed. 1t is unlike ali othe.
races, we a-e told. T 'eedom demo.cI-
res, education CO., 1pts, ard opportunity
deg iade5 it. If tbs be IfIe, slavery is
the o-ly state Ctat is at all suited to lis
capaci5 es. Perhaps it is aboCt time that
We recast all our ideas Of the pasG qrsr-
ter of a centdy. Already we have gone
so -ar tnat TIE war is rege~ded es an un
for.Jnate accident, mere]y-a sor5 of
family qua, eel in which both parties
were l'ttle in farlt, and the North es-
pecial!y blameworrlly. To intimate that
the MOI III was light and the South
wrong. is to SCR up S, 'ife and i'l-ceeling,
which no man ought to do. AS the war
was only an unpleasant incident. of
cout5e lis results are not worth falling
about Our Socthern friends SO managed :"
the ne3 20 very well In slave-G mes; hey
have always claimed to be his especial
friends, and if liberty and education are
to have such debasing influence upon
the race, 1t is, of coOrse best that the
institution snail be restored. We have
been accused of al sorts of enOrmities
foe en;es oain;r and e. pressing the idea
that pow that they are free and voters
and a pa t of or governmental force,
perhaps The best ding that con be done
with them might be 20 educate them
enough at least 10 enable them TO read
the'r ballots. If ibis writer and those
who endorse him are COZ 'ect, however,
it is the vel 7 worst thing that could be
done; a1d it is cer,ain that If he IS not
to be educated, the best aud kindest
thing to do with him is to put him
where he can be managed" once more.
If education should keep on cOrrJpIipg
and debasing him, as it is alleged to
have done hitheryo, the only safety not
orly fof the county but for the pegto
himself WI be ii slavery. If the edu-
caied ne9o expects to live on what he
can steal, be viii have hard time
among the Southern whites VINO are as
stodtly opposed to labor as he can be.
AS we know, the whites are all impover-
ished by the wa, and have been grow
ing poorer and poorer all the tine since
in the vain effort of lying to keep tie
voter from Starving. There is evidently
no possible CHARGE foc toe negro race bot
to keep education as far from them IS
possible, and work them back into a STATE
where they can be "napaged" just as
fast as circumstances viii allow.-The
Continent.
Andrew ,5ohnsOu'S GunerSfifinu