The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-01-23
Newspaper HumoP.

san PEDRO, Texns, January 20, 1880.
Newspaper Humor.
Wooden goods are quoted quiet be-
cause OF their nap.
The first negro criminal was the origi-
nal "Black Crook"
The most humorous member Of dog
Is the wag Of his tail.
The foot notes of any good medical
work ought to contain cures for corns.
A pert miss says she wears bangs be-
cause she doesn't want TO look so fore.
head.
The berries have each their season o
fruitage, save one; Thou has all seasons
for thine own, o, bribery.
"Thank heaven" exclaimed a fond
father, as he paced the floor at midnight
with his bowling heir, "thank heaven
you IRE not twinsi"
Some one has been writing on show
to dress a window" Ii Is simple enough,
take a sash big enough to hold the pane
and fasten IL up gracefully.
A member OF the Massachusetts, Board
OF Education made the remark the other
day that pupils nowadays study so
much that they don't know anything"
any watch is gone" exclaimed Tod
dleskins, emerging from n crowd.
well, it's been going for good while,
hasn't 1t ?" was the unfeeling remark OF
his chum.
After all, there is a vast deal Of COM
mon sense in the remark of the deserter
when he said: "I'd rather be coward
all my life than be corpse 10 minutes"
The Great Question for the South.
We quote the following from the open
ing paragraphs Of paper, by Mr.. Geo.
W. Cable, in the January Century, enti-
tied "The Freedman's Case in Equity"
in which the relations OF the races in
the Southern States are treated with
much frankness and suggestiveness
"rhe late Southern slave has within
two decades risen from slavery to free
dom, nom freedom to citizenship, passed
on into political ascendency, and fallen
again from that eminenoe. The amend
ed constitution holds him up In his new
political rights as well ne mere oonsti-
tuition can. On the other hand, certain
enactments Of Congress trying to reach
further, have lately been made void by
the highest court of the nation. And
another thing has happened. The pop
ular mind in the old free States, weary
Of strife at arms length, bewildered
by its complications, vexed by many
blunder, eager to turn to the cure Of
other evils, and even tinctured by
that race feeling whose grosser excuses
IL would so gladly see suppressed, has
retreated from Its uncomfortable dicta-
torial attitude and thrown the whole
matter over to the States OF the South.
Here Ii rests, no longer q main party
issue, but a group OF questions which
are to be settled by each of these States
separately in the light of simple equity
and morals, and which the genius of
American government does not admit of
being forced upon them from beyond
their borders. Thus the whole question
becomes secondary In party contests,
has yet reached period Of supreme i'm
portance.
Before slavery ever became grave
question in the nations politics,-when
II seemed each States private affair, de-
veloping unmolested,-i had two differ
ent fates in two different parts of the
country. In one, treated as a question
of public equity, IL withered away. In
the other, overlooked in that aspect, IL
petrifled and became the corner stone of
the whole social structure; and when
men sought its overthrow as a national
evil, 1t first brought war upon the land,
and then grated into the citizenship of
one of the most Intelligent nations in
the world 6,000,000 of people from one of
the most debased races on the globe.
"And now this painful and wearisome
| question, sown In the African slave
| trade, reaped In our civil war, and
| garnered In the national adoption ofmil-
| lions of an inferior race, Is drawing near
second seed-time. Fer this is what
the impatient proposal to make 1t dead
and buried issue really means. 1t
| means to reoOmmit II to the silence and
conceealment of the covered furrow.
Beyond that incubative retirement no
suppressed moral question can bepushed,
but all such questions, Ignored In the do
main Of private morals, spring up and
expand once more into questions ofpub-
lie equity; neglected as matters of pub
lie equity, they blossom into questions
of national interest; and, despised in
that guise, presently yield the red fruits
OF revolution.
"rhis question must never again bear
that fruit. There must arise, nay, there
has arisen, In the South itself, desire
to see established the equities Of the
issue; to make 1t no longer question OF
endurance between one group OF States
and another, but between the moral de-
bris Of an exploded evil, and the duty,
necessity, and value Of planting society
firmly upon universal justice and equity
This, and this only, can give the matter
final burial. Ii Is still question between
States; but only seoondarily, as some
thing formerly participated In, or as II
concerns every householder to know
that what is being built against his
house Is built by level and plummet. II
Is the interest Of the Southern States
land, to discover clearly these equities
and the errors that are being committed
against them"