St. Paul daily globe., 1886-02-16
Which Southern Republican Sees Over
hanging American Institutions From
the Negro Race.
scathing Araignment of the Blacks for
lncapacity and the Lack of
Every Virtue.
vices Of Two Races Inherited by
children no More Intelligent Than
Their Savage Ancestors.
DlsIranchfsement Openly Advised In
remarkable Open Letter to Vtr-
gtnia's New Senator.
Future of1he Nsurn-

Blanton Duncan of this citv has 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 hope
| that Senator Daniel will consider the needs
OF the South apart from any party view.
| lie 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
caIamltouS danger which threatens direct
| destruction, asserts that it has no precedent
IN history of an inferior and
A SUPERIOR RACE,
living together in equality. says it is 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
pattle-cry hencefOrward, Reduction of the
southern strength in congress. and in the
| electoral vote 10 accord with the number
OF negro votes which are yearly counted
cut and diStranchised.' They state the open
| secret that in huadreds of localities in the
Southern States there has not been a fair
4 NSOAiA anu ldlI tltCLlOu NllUln Ele D1SE
ten years. That means agitation and fanat-
icisR in the North and excitement and in
citement to blOodShed and 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
clined, could easily defeat The allotment
OF equality and the
FRANCHISE OF 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 OyerthrOwn 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 yet we are pow
erleSS TO set that outrage aside. The South
ern negro race twenty years ago was
| scarcely more fitted for self government. tn
| 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 PanPers, not 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 IA
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 hayS
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
| herit 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 tha
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
dsgs. 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 rsvoIu.
tiOnary methods struck down sovereigE
Pa1uoa fha cfr ,orfb boir,
ply to the representation of whites. Le
the South voluntarily place it 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 UnioE
intact and its people harmonious and in
concord. The South in national counciI(
after performing such abrogation would
have teEfold influence. Our statesmen
would WELD a magic wand. What is tho
excuse in Southern localities for unfair elecs
tions? That the negro is brute, untitled
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 tS
the
SOCIAL AND MORAL STATUS
of the Southern negro, which he pictures as
of the lowest and most degraded character;
he affirms that there has been 10 improve
ment in their mental and moral condition;
that they will steal from each other while
at prayers. That in county which there
should have been 1,200 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 mistTesses. 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 cOncubinage 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-
latte daughters to other white men. Col.
Duncan says, The Mormon question has
agltated the mind OF the Christian and the
moralist as the foulest in the Union. The
MOrmols have intellect, education. refine
ment, wealth, and yet Mormonism in its
extent and scope and danger is but rivulet
in comparison to the mighty gulf OF lniquity
and immerality and fearful consequences
which impend over US from this negro prob
lem Mr.. Duncan frankly admits that he
cannot suggest a remedy, and asks the peo-
Dle of the North to put themselves IN the