St. Paul daily globe., 1886-02-16
Which Southern Republican Sees Over
hanging American Institutions From
the Negro Race.
scathing Arraignment of the Blacks for
Incapacity and the Lack of
Every Virtue.
vices of Two Races Inherited by
Children no More Intelligent Than
Their Savage Ancestors.
DisIranch1sement Openly Advised I'm
remarkable Open Letter TO Vir-
gtnia's New Senator.
Future ofthe Negro.

oiautOh OuHcdn OF THIS city mas addressed
an open letter to John W. Daniel, the new
United States senator from Virginia. in
which he discusses at length the future of
the negro race in the United States. He
refers to the civil, political and military his
tory of Virginia. and expresses the hone
| that Senator Daniel viii consider the needs
of the South apart from any party view.
de asserts that the question which pre-
dominates and darkly overshadows the fu-
ture, not only of the South, but of the en-
TIRE country,is the social, moral and politi-
| cal condition Of the negro race in cOnnec-
ton with the white race He terms it a
.calamitous danger which threatens direct
destruction, asserts that it has no precedent
in history of an inferior and
A SUPERIOR RACE,
living together in equality, saws IL ia an
anomaly which must bear bitter fruits. He
proceeds as follows: Senator Sherman
| and other great Northern leaders have an
nounced that they intend to make their
oattle-cry hencefOrward Reduction of the
Southern strength In congress- and in the
electoral vote to accord with the number
OF negro votes which are yearly counted
out and diSfranchsed.' They state the omen
secret that in hundreds of localities in the
| Southern States there has not been fair
count and fair election within the past
ten years. That means agitation and fanat-
lcisR In the North and excitement and in
citement to bloodshed aud violence
throughout the South. To abstract from
| the Southern vote by legal enactment that
they shall not have the negro counted
| IN, would require a constitutional amend
ment which the Southern states, If so In
elined. could easily defeat. The allotment
Of equality and the
FRANCHISE OBJ THE NEGRO
was never legally accomplished, 1t is done
by the sword and the declaration of carpet
Dagger legislators, not expressing the senti-
ment of the Oyerthr0wn Confederate peo-
pie. 1t is not any more legal to-day than
| any enactment which through the same
lnstrumentallty should have transferred the
| title of all the lands Of the defeated whites
to their former slaves, and vet we are DOW
| erless to set that outrage aside. The South
ern negro race twenty years ago was
scarcely more fitted for self government to
appreciate the duties of citizenship. the pur-
! ity OF the ballot than were the kangaroos
of Australia or the inhabitants of Central
Africa. In two decades there has been no
| progress mentally, morally or otherwise.
To-day they are mass of PauPers nat one
/ In hundred rising above the common herd.
and, if left to themselves for ten years,
would retragrade to the status Of
THEIR SAVAGE ANCESTORS.
Col. Duncan then goes on to say that It has
| taken ten generations under the most fa-
vorable circumstance to make the Northern
negro what he is, immeasurably the SUPER
ior of his Southern brother, and that tha
latter, owing to his vastly superior numbers
and the different circumstances, cannot be
brought up to the same plane in 800 years.
| If ever. He proceeds to give various rea-
sons for his belief, among them are the
following: That the Southern whites have
neither the means nor the inclination I'd
| cultivate the minds and morals of the ne
/ gro; that the attempt would be useless, as
| they would come under the curse of God
against Kain; that education alone would
do them no good. and will only result in
making unscrupulous leaders of the brighter
ones among them; that as mongrels in
| hert the vices of both races, the growth Of
any large proportion Of mulattoes, the off
| spring of whites and disolute negresses,
the situation would be so much the worse:
that the blacks
| CHERISH RACE HATRED
and would be ready, if able. to light the
fires of San Domingo holocaust; that
they love whisky and care nothing for
homer. virtue or religion; that they cannot
| appreciate kindness, are best treated like
/ degs. He adds: What should the real
statesman do when radicalisn proposes te
reduce Southern political strength? Meet
them more than half way and suggest re.
turn to the only legal status of 1860, wheI
| Southern citizenship was confined to the
white race. Accept the proposition OF
Northern men and let the Southern people
resume their legal rights, and restore the
franchise where it belonged before revoIu.
| tionary methods struck down sovereigH
| states. Reduce the vote and strength sim,
/ ply to the representation of whites. L6
| the South voluntarily place 1t beyond per-
/ adventure, that its voice shall shape pOlitis
cal contests, and let the North, with its in.
| telligence and manhood, act as it will theG
| do when
| FANATICISM AND FAsEHoOD
shall have lost its power to keep the UnioK
intact and its people harmonious and in
concord. The South in national councilt
after performing such abrogation would
| have teEfold influence Our statesmen
would WELD magic wand. What is the
| excuse in Southern localities for unfair elecs
| tions? That the negro is a brute, untitled
l to rule or select the servants of the people,
| and if granted the power would destroy not
| only the property and blot out their civili<
Zasion of communities but Danish perforc(
| in time the white unfortunate enough to be
| there resident, unless massacre should b(
preferred" Mr.. Duncan then quotes from
Rev. j. T. Tucker Of Jackson, Miss, as to
| the
SOCIAL AND MORAL STATUS
Of the Southern negro, which he pictures as
| of the lowest and most degraded character;
he afiirms that there has been no improve
ment in their mental and moral conditions;
| that they will steal from each other while
at PRAYERS. That in a county which there
should have been 1.2o0 marriage licenses
among the blacks in a year. there were only
three; that the marriage relation is scarcely
known among them, and that they are not
| true to their miStresses. The writer then
takes up the successive Northern influences
exercised On the negro in the South by de-
signing men for political influence. First
as Republicans, then as Democrats. These
men, he asserts, scruple at nothing to re-
tain power, live i'll coneubinage with
negresSeS, and
OPENLY DEFY THE LAW.
After further quoting from Rev. Mr..
Tucker to the effect that negro parents are
willing purveyors and that even white men
there have been known TO barter their mu-
latto daughters to other white uien. Col.
Duncan says, The Mormon question has
agltated the mind of the Christian and the
moralist as the foulest in the Union. The
Mormons have intellect, education refine
ment, wealth, and yet M0rmOniSm IN its
extent and scope and danger is but rivulee
| in comparison to the mighty gulf OF iniqnlty
| and immerality and fearful consequences
which impend over us from this negro prob
| lem Mr.. Duncan frankly admits that he
| cannot suggest remedy, and asks the peo-
/ pie OF the North to put themselves IN the