The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-05-13

What the end will be we may not know.
But Southern people are the most hopeful
people in the world and they are expect
ing great and good things to come to pass.
ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD.
copyrighted 1851
From the Colored Mans Point of View.
Mr. w. II. Crogman, ST., member of
the Faculty of Clark University, at Allan
ta, in answer to the inquiry what effect
the Cleveland Administration has had on
the race feeling in Georgia, writes as fol
lows:
ATLANTA, GA, May 5, 1886.
Mr. Cleveland's election brought un-
bounded JOY to the whites, and correspond
ing depression to the blacks. The former
regarded it as the triumph Of long cher
ished principles and the dawn of better
day after anxious watching and waiting
To the latter it portended nothing but
evil In the transferal of power to the
Democracy the negro felt-and may ne not
be forgiven for SO feeling that he had
again fallen into the hands of an old enc
my, into the hands of party which had
opposed alike his freedom and his enfran-
chiSement. Some of the more ignorant
even expressed fears Of being remanded
into slavery. The existence, however, for
| nearly two years of a Democratic Admin
| istratiOn at Washington, has had the effect
| of allaying to some extent these apprehcn
sions, and of convincing the negro that
| the time has arrived when parties may
exchange places without producing any
| radical change in his own condition.
| Doubtless, the class of colOred people most
| directly affected by Mr.. Cleveland's Ad-
| ministration are those who have been hold
ing Office under the Federal Government.
1t is true, of course, that there has been
! the usual occurrence of outrage and muir
der at different points Of the South; but
these Outrages were as numerous under
Republican as they are under Democratic
rule, and the former was as powerless as
the latter may be unwilling to punish such
| crimes.
At the time of Mr. Clevcland's election
the Democracy was loud in its assurances
to the colored people that their rights and
interests should be protected. Could
better opportunity be given to redeem this
pledge than the one offered by the recent
terrible murders in Mississippi? That
| State being under Democratic rule, a
| speedy apprehension and summary pun
ishment of the Carrolton murderers would
lead the colored people to have faith IN
Democratic promises. Up to this hour no
arrests have been made. The Governor of
the State is reported as saying that every
thing is quiet A part of the Southern
press has, it is true, vehemently denounced
the tiendish act, and part, it is just as
true has made attempts at a justification
of it.
That the most cordial relations do not as
yet exist between the two races of the
South, these frequent outbursts of violence
are proof
AS to the remedy for these evils, | am
inclined to think it will never be found in
politics, never in Administrations at Wash
ington, whatever their name, never in par
ties, constituted as they are to-day. All
parties are more or less inclined to use the
negro as tool, and cast him aside after
the using. This they will do just SO long
as he is poor and ignorant and immoral.
Moreover, party to elevate the life of a
people, to give it higher conceptions of
citizenship, must itself be permeated by
some high moral principle. For such a
/ principle to-day we look in vain to either
of the dominant parties.
Now there are two things which would
reduce the friction between the races
First, christian pulpit that will preach
christianity pure and simple, without mod
| ifications to suit the tastes and prejudiceS
of anybody; secondly an efficient common
school system, a system that will furnish
instruction for all the people, not for three
months in the year with six weeks average
| atteQQanCe; Out IOI HlHo uOutuS. lHo ie
, suits following the adoption of such means
would be on the part Of the whites, :
quickening of the sense of justice, and OF
the part of the blacks, speedier cultiva
ton of self Prospect and genuine manhood
When these two ends shall have beer
reached, it will be of still less importance
to the negro, who sits in the chair a
; Washington. W. H. CRoGMAN, SR.
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