The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-01-09

An Ist~lligens Ccrr~~pondens's IdeA Of
the social Qsessisa In : Great ssashern


An rssellixeas cerr~spoaasns's rdea Of
State.
Joaquin Miller. In a recent letter to
the New York Independent descriptive
Of a journey through the State u Mis-
sisSippi, speaks very pleasantly Of the
State and is material resources. and
indulgcs in some hopeful speculations
As to is prosperity when it, waste
places shall be occupied and cultivated.
and the immigration. which the people
desire and expect. shall have become
an accomplished fact. With respect to
the social question Mr.. Miller says:
Here is 4 State with a tremendous
majority Of negroes. And yet this State
insists on remaining tremendously DEM
ocratic. And because il does. the poll
ticians. the political press, the North.
almost in body. insist that the black
man is bullied; and ergo there Is race
Of bullies here
This foolish accusation does the black
man greater injustice than il does the
white man The negro i not bullicd;
and what is most important fact he i
getting 10 be too much Of a man 10 b.
bullied. As for the white man here.
find them race Of gallant Christian
gentlemen. Let me call your attention
to one fact have sat NJ many mems
tables here. have been nj dinner in a
great number Of houses here in the
State Of Mississippi. that Of the Govern
or in the Mansion House included:
and have sat ut no mans table where
| the head Of the house did not offer
| thanks OF course suppose there are
| exceptions TO this rule: but grace nj the
| table is the rule here. In the North it
| isthe exception
"Tell me. Senator. how ii is that the
negro votes with you. who were his
| former MASTER
.-Well. sir. il il because he j. an aflec-
Tomato and well-disposcd fellow-man. =
HE must be. else he had burned YOU
out during the war"
True. sab; fact. sab; great fact.
sab. and we will never forget il. The
southern men went TO war and left
their homes. their wives and their
children all behind them. and at the
mercy Of the blacks. This trust was
never betrayed As for my own slaves.
one Of them was wounded fighting Al
INV side. and there i not one Of them
living to-day that viii not vote for me.
No: YOU men Of the North do not do the
negro Justice. You think him treach-
erous migrate You think he ought e
turn from Us and against Us He viii
never do IT."
s.And you tell me here at your owl
table that the black man votes entirely
n he pleases-"
Entirely. True. we tell them how
we want them to vote They often ask
n But we do not persuade them
because. YOU see, our majority i g
great we do not need TO do so. II the,
wanted TO outvote US and turn Us on
and put in the carpet-baggcr again the,
could do so any day. No danger o
that. sab. They have had enough Of Il
WHY. sab. when Governor Ames. tn
son-in-law Of General Butler. was her
rcarly half Of the State was deserted
Enough Of this State had lapsed back 4
the Government on tax forfeitures 4
make another Massachusetts; and tn
negro was wretched- But now. afte
we have driven the carpet-bagger out
we are all prosperous together.
And you feel confident that tn
negro win always be with you?''
confident He i orr friend; an
we are his. His children 60 to school
he i INDUSTRIOUS he has little farm
!, in many cases. mule. a COW. plenty q
/ pigs. chickens, turkeys. and j. happy.
..And honeSt?'
s.St0p minute. In the general uT
setting Of things here he got an exac
gerated notion Of liberty. The libcrt
to take other peoples property cam
within the scope Of this and made muc
trouble. In our States prison ther
are more than = thousand conyict'
Eight hundred are blacks"
1 give the above as an example Of tn
many talks / have had here in this con
parafiyely unknown State on it, soci;
and political order Of things And wer
IL not for the awkward dialect Of I'll
: uneducated negroes l would here =
/, down conversations had with some
' them; for l have broken bread wit
them often. and seen much Of the
I simple and tranquil ways But II wosJ
!, b. waste Of time; for the drift Of the
talk i after the same fashion Tt
negro j. hero worshiper; he must loo
9 must not Js Negro.
r think you have the social and poll
a ical problem here in nutshell. A n
e gro likes good white man better tina
y he does a good negro. He has moi
confidence in him. He thinks him mol
honest and better able to help hin
= And you may set II down a. fact, tn
y il negro and n white man. both COOS
r honest. and Of even ability. were cal
didates tomorrow. with everythir
le fair and even and equal. the viii
p man would come out long way ahca