The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-02-05
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dices. to their cupidity, to all their base
qua lities, not as ambitious politicians d'
in the North, and there is grave DANCE
of thus inaugurating general sweep o
political decentralization in both races
The Southern people possess just the
same human nature that any other people
possess. They are likely 10 be just a:
ambitious and as mean in promoting
mean ambition as the average American
pnli,ician in every section of the coun
try, and with an immense colored vote
nearly equalling the whites in all the
States, and superior in numbers in South
Carolina and Mississippi, and in the
lowest strata of ignorance, idleness and
superstition, what must be the harvest o.
the obliterarion of the race line in South
ern politics? This is the most serious
race problem the South has ever attempt
ed to solve, and share the arprehen
sion of the more intelligent Southern
people that the last stage of the race
issue will be vastly worse than any oi
the past.
THE NEGRO NORTH AND SOUTH.
There is much unreasonable miscon-
ceptiou in the North of the relative
condition of the blacks in the North and
in the South. The prejudice of caste is
just equally strong in both sections of
the country. The black man can no
more sit at the table of the most blatant
Republican in the North than he can sit
at the table of his old master in the
South. The same social laws govern all
peoples, and they are immutable. Poll,
ticians theorize differently in election
campaigns, but there their theory ends.
The prejudice of race is fve-fold stronger
in the North than in the South. The
Northern people have no love for the
black man, and even those who battled
for his freedom and enfranchisement, as
rule, cherish vastly more profound
prejudice of race than do the Southern
people. While the North maintains its
deep prejudice of race, the people of the
South have a general and strong sympa'
thy for the negro. Nearly all of them
have played with the negro in childhood,
have been nursed by the black "mama,"
and have grown up with more or less
affection for them. Classify it in what
type of affection you may, it is none the
less an affection that tempers the hard,
unyielding prejudice of race that prevails
in the North. The distinction between
the Northern and Southern people on
the race question will prepare the public
mind in the North for the dissipation of
another unfounded sectional rr judice that
is deeply rooted there. The educational
facilities for the blacks are better in the
South to day than they are in the North.
in proportion to. the facilities proffered
to all. South, Carolina employs and pays
out of the State Treasury more black
teachers than are employed in all the
States of the North, and Alabama EN-
poys l,1O0 colored male teachers and
500 colored female teachers. And they
provide the best means for fitting the
colored people for teaching. The nor
NAL schools for whites and blacks in both
Alabama and South Carolina are exactly
equal, and The treasury of State is large.
ly drawn upon to qualify the colored race
fur teaching itself. North Carolina,
Georgia. Mississippi and indeed most OF
the old slave States, each sustain more
colleges for the blacks than d, Pennsyl.
vaDia or Massachusetts; and just as
educational facilities have increased for
the whites, whether in common or normal
schools or in colleges, they have heen
equally increased for the blacks so far as
Siale appropriations Lave aided them.
In Georgia The colored University ranks
with The white University, and even in
Mississippi, presumably the most Bnur-
bon Of Southern States, the State does
much more for the collegiate education
of the black race than dues Pennsylvania.
have heard Southern men complain of
many features o! their local governments,
but have yet to hear the first one to
complain OF the equal education of the
two races. And what is true in the
matter of education is equally true of
the recognition Of the black race in
Southern politics. I found four colored
Democratic members in The South Caro-
lima Legislature, nominated and elected
mainly by white votes, and in Mobile
and New Orleans the black policeman.
appointed by Democratic authority, is
met on every street, and has worn the
insignia of police power for years before
Democratic mayor in Philadelphia first
recognized the colored voter as entitled
to wear the star and blue. In South
Carolina alone there are more black
Democrats in representative ufhces than
there are black of all parties in all the
States of the North. Pennsylvania and
Philadelphia, where the black voters
hold the balance of power in both city
and State, could not elect a colored man
to the Legislature or to any other honor
able or lucrative office, in the strongest
Republican district; but South Carolina
Democrats elect him to Office, with all
the lingering prejudices of the relation
of master and slave. The intelligent
and dispassionate Northerner who closely
observes the relations of the two race-
North and South, is forced to confess that
with all our boas,ed superior devotion to
the black race, and with all our assaults
upon the South for the oppression of the
blacks, the negro is better treuted by the
South than by the North. l regret tn
make such confession but it is the
plain truth that we theorize about the
elevation of The black race with little
practice in accord with our teaching,
while the South theories little on the
subject and practices more than it teach
es in the considerate care nf the emanci.
rated slaves.-Leftcr Of Col. Il. K. Mc.
Cure to PHILADELPHIA Times.
Dying in Strange Positions.