The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-06-12
contest with his former master. This
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him slave, and his first duty to obey
was not prepared TO exercise hispolitica
rights against his former master, who
was accustomed to control and govern
and was entrenChed behind power
wealth, and education. The contest wa!
unequal. There could be but one result
Ignorance and poverty had to go dowr
before intelligence and wealth, rs it has
always done the world over.
NATURAL AND LOGICAL CONDITION.
The general condition OF affairs in the
South, since the war, has been natural
and logical.
The war left the two races in theil
changed conditions op the sane soil
under the same skies, and in the same
homes and places. Neither race could
get relief by retiring. In these new and
trying circumstances, for which neither
was prepared, in open antagonism, they
were forced to begin the work OF solving
the race problem. History furnishes no
parallel to n situation SO difficult for
both sides.
The black man deserved the profound
est sympathy-the white man consider
alton. In the humiliation Of defeat, loss
of property, and everything he had
fought for and held dear, the white man
brooded over his losses. He determin-
ed that his humiliation should not be
deepened by allowing his former slave
TO be his social and political equal, and
in making laws for his government.
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threats and indirection in others; and
often by State laws passed in his own
interest. Federal laws were unavailing,
Even where there was Federal or State
law that might favor the black man and
was sustained by the courts, there was
no public sentiment behind either that
could enforce it. There is whole en-
pire OF questions in our domestic con-
Germs that statute law cannot reach, and
where natural laws are supreme and
govern. In the tiercest civil war,
in the long night OF battle
and blood which hung over the
land, when the liberty Of the negro was
in the balance, his conduct was marked
by no act Of violence or revenge, and he
remained the true, tried, and trusted
friend OF his master and his family, who
were fighting to hold him in slavery.
There is nothing in all history equal to
this example OF affection, forbearancc,
and charity, on the part OF whole race.
This splendid fact should stand out rs 4
bond between the two races, and it is
hoped, in time, will be a gentle memory
that will draw them closer together. The
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two hundred years. The South needs
the black man. The white men in the
South could not get on well without
him. They understand each other, and
generally agree on all but social and po-
litical questions. Already there is Il
better feeling between the races. The
negro is making substantial progress in
education and in the accumulation OF
property.
The negro, not equal in intelligence
and education to the white man, being
constantly associated with him for
guidance in Local colcerns, seeing in
him the model after which he is to
shape his own advancement, generally
Obliged to rely upon him for employ
meut and the means of gaining n sub.
sistence-is it not natural, as time goes
on, that he should be largely influenced
by the white man, even i'll matters OF
political concern?
There should be the same law over
both South and North. Violation OF the
rights OF citizenship, suppression OF
votes, frauds in elections, are dangerous
to liberty and Tree government, and
should be punished everywhere. Any
section that COuntenanCes and upholds
these wrongs is its own worst enemy,
and sooner or later retributiOn in some
form will follow.
RACES SHOULD DIVIDE on ECONOMIC CUES
TIoNs.
In theory and practice, in the inter
est Of the healthful progress and purity
Of free government, of its safety and
preservation, every citizen should be
protected in all his rights, should be
allowed to vote as lie desires, and his
vote should be counted us cast. This
cannot be denied. But to attempt TO
change the situation in the South by
Federal law has not succeeded; to try to
effect it in the interest OF the black man
by outside agitation has proven useless.
So long rs political parties are divided
in the South on the lines they are, and
the people, both black and white, are
made to believe everything depends on
the whites being in one party and the
blacks in another; so long as prejudice,
passion, hate and revenge shall be en-
couraged by selfish leaders for their own
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, the situation between
the races in the South will remain un-
changed. ...s.
The true solution Of this question will
come when both races divide on econ
omic and industrial issues and distribute
themselves between the two great par
ties. The black man will then have the
sympathy and support OF his white
neighbor and get all his rights under
the law.
APPEAL FOR GOODWILL HErwEES Ali.
SECTIONS.
When hostile guns were turned upon
the capitol of the republic, with his life
threatened and in danger, Lincoln said
to the Southern people:
1--WE are not enemies, but friends.
We must not be enemies" Later on,
Grant said: "Let us have peace" AT
this great distance from the conflict,
shoull not our wise men on both sides
heed the voices OF these immortals and
echo their plea for peace? Prejudice,
passion, hate and revenge cannot live
forever-and no man should wish to
keep them alive. Upon no such founda-
tons can anything good orlasting in so.
ciety or government be built.
tits in the order Of events in the path
OF certain destiny that the people OF all
sections through the whole country
shall be friends. Then let us wisely an
ticipate the work OF time, and of oblivion
and the reconciliations Of our children
by few years and be friends now.
When the race question in the South
shall be settled, and shall be no longer
the football OF politics, the Union will
in the best sense, be restored.
The people OF the whole country will
enjoy that peace and repose that friend.
" feeling and good will for each other
which are so necessary to the highest