Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-01

Interwoveh with waftttses of wild s,ea-liberties
drifting.
Came through the Tapped leaves sitting. sitting
Came to the gates of sleep
Then my thoughts, in the dark of the dungeoIi-
keep
OF the, Castle of Captives hid in the City of
Up-started, by twos and by threes assembling:
The gates of sleep fell attending
Like as the lips of lady that forth falter yes
Shaken with happiness.
The gates of sleep stood wide.
Laniers dialect poems, though moving
upon the lower levels, rs all plantation
dialect lines must do, are scintillant with
wit, and are marked by an originality that
cannot be mistaken. So, too with his
backwoods and frontier dialect lines.
Neither of these are numerous. His
Power of Prayer" in which poem he was
aided by Clifford Lanier, is the very closest
approach possible to the true dialect and
superstition ofthe old-time plantation negro.
BLACK AND WHITE; Or LAND, LABOR AND Poll
TICS IN THE SOUTH. BY T. Thomas Fortune
Editor of the New York GLOBE. New York /:
FordS, Howard 4 Hubert.
The book is by colored citizen very
favorably known in journalism. He dis
cusses the race question in very vigorous
affirmative for the right of his people to be
permitted to advance to their highest posi-
bilities. He holds, with practical philoso-
ply that commends Itself to consideration
that every laborer is interested in the eleva-
ton of every other laborer aud in the bet
tering of his physical and intellectual
being. Logically, from this premise, he has
no difficulty in proving that degradation of
the labor of blacks at the South. and
their deprivation of educational advan-
tages, works injury to all men wAS
earn bread in this country. He holds that
it was not the fault of the colored people
that the ballot was placed in their hands
before they were prepared TO WELD ii
wisely; nor are they TO De reproached for
incompetence or lack of courage because a
counter revolution wreSted that ballot from
them. As surely rs history marches for
ward will they possess it again, and with it
the position, influence and rank which
they as people earn Tor themselves He
fuliSinto the error ofSome 0fthc moreradiCal
labor reformers, evidently adopting theories
out OF hand But so far as his treatment of
the question of the political status of the
South is concerned, he states the case rs
the best testimonies give it. He proves
clearly that the relics of the theory of alien
ship still clinging to the negro in the South
must fall off if ever q stable condition of
society is established in that section of our
IOtiilli II 10 " JC I6lttN lildt
in a book with so much of good i'll it, so
vigorously written, and by one capable of
a correct analysis of the state of the colored
people, there should be so many merely
fanciful ideas about the relations of capital
and labor, government and the necessity
for officers and guards against the vicious.
A profounder student of the social econo-
my would never be guilty of expressing a
willingness to condemn civilization be
cause coordinate with it there are vice and
crime. Nor would better-read writer or
deeper student have expressed the thought
that something must be wrong in the social
system because society requires so large
body of police as is demanded III New York
to preserve the peace. In all ages society
has been driven to protect itself against the
assaults of the vicious and as a matter of
fact the restraining power is less in Amer
lea, and communities are kept in peace,
and life and property guarded with lesser
number of non-producers doing duty as
guards, than in any other land where an
active and progressive people dwell.