Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-24
THE WHITE RACE PROBLEM,

NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 23.-tor many years
YOUR correspondent was greatly exercised
over the negro problem. But during the last
year or two that question has settled itself
in his mind, and he becomes deeply con-
cerned in the future of the white race in
this country. He is no longer in doubt as
RI what is to be the ultimate fate of the
negro race in America. While, here and
there, few will prosper, and rise to re-
spectable position in wealth and learning,
MEMORABLE fate has decreed that the great
mass ofthe negro race shall 60 deeper and
deeper into sensuality and animalism, until
forbearance shall cease to be virtue, and
they will be either summariy exterminated
or expatriated, and that, not from pecuniary
interests or race prejudice. but from the
demands of the law of selfpreservation.
Build for them school houses, academies,
colleges and churches, as you may-seEd
them to school OF the expense Of the poor
white race as long as you choose; preach
morality, virtue and religion to them through
white and black ministers and missionaries,
year in and year out, and the predominant
characteristic Of the race will become more
and more conspicuous, until rape, rapine
and murder will follow in their wake, and
no lady will venture to be alone for an hour
even in her own family home, much less
promenade in her yard or stroll in her fields.
For months past, scarcely a paper falls
into my hands in which is not mentioned q
rape or o murder committed by negro.
Probably the proportion of these crimes has
at least doubled with each succeeding year
since the restraints of mugiSterial discipline
were narrowed by the issue Of war. But
yet, in the face of these glazing facts, a
greater and still increasing amount of money
is annually raised for their education, and
greater and greater efforts are made with
each revolving year to chrstianiZe and
elevate them. But all-all in vain. As surely
as water runs down grade so surely will
the negro race lapse into state of sensuality
so low and degrading that civilization itself
will become outraged and astounded in its
presence, and seek to rid itself of the foul
contamination. That man who has lived
among the negroes all his life, and has
closely observed their course since tho war,
who can't read these prophesies in the
Handwriting on the WALL" must be blind
indeed.
race, while this problem is being solved {?
percentage Of deaths, is increasing in q
learfully more rapid ratio than the
white. The race prejudice is cultivated
by them with Jealous assduity, and yet
they come into daily competition with
the whites in the fields, the workshops. the
navy yards, and even the army. What
with the low wages at which they can be
procured, and the vast accumulation Of la
Dor saving machines of every description
where is the laboring white man to find EN-.
ployment, and at what rate of compensa
ton? A negro can live and prosper on
half Of what would be necessary for a
white man. He often procures the
necessaries of life by appeals to the gen
erosity and confidence of the whites, and
never dreams of making restitution. He
pays no taxes or doctors bills and yet he en-
joys all the benefits ofgovernment and med
icine, without feeling their burthens. Lost
to honor and to shame, feelings which all
the advantages of scholastic education have
failed to awaken, they appropriate the
earnings of others ]abors, without hesta
ton or remorse. Endowed with such char
acteristics, impeled by such notions, and
| capable of such deeds, how can the honest
poor white man compete with him in labor?
And when he turns his attention TO other
fields ofindustrious enterprise, in which the
skill of the negro can never compete with
him, he is met by cunningly devised ma
chinery Of every sort, which can perform in
an hour more and better work than he can
do with his hands in n week.
Despite these startling facts, there are
thousands of socaled philanthropists, call
ing themselves republicans" who weep
floods of tears over the down trodden
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and exterminate every honest poor white
man in America, il it were need(ul TO give
room and supremacy to the negro. These
men have no computations of conscience in
sweeping the Indian from existence, to APP
propriate his lands for the use Of spectators
and railroad kings, or Of butchering the
Chinaman who has sought an asylum and
a home in our land, rather than he should
come in competition with the whites, while
every encouragement possible is given to
the rapidly accommodating negro race, who
are the real rivals of the caucasian race,
in the fields, furnaces and mines Of the coun.
try.
Instead Of aLpropriatng millions upon
millions, as is annually done, to educate and
(anaticise the negro, the day is not distant
when all good men will gfieve that all this
and millions more, had not been appropri-
ated to colonizing them in comfortable
homes, upon the banks Of the Lualaha, the
land of their fathers, where they may work
out their own destiny, without conflict or
competition with the whites, and where
they will even be protected from the incur
sions Of all other races, by the burning rays
of a tropical sun, which they alone can bear
and enjoy. More anon. HANOVER.
NEWS OF THE DAY