Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-12-09
THE RACE QUESTION.

An Indiana correspondent Of the Jill
cinnati Commercial Gazette, who signs MN
self ga Republican," recently advocated
the colonization of the negroes, taking the
ground that his scheme was the only way
TO break the solid South. He thought
that when the negroes moved out millions
of northern whites would move in. DE
said:
What is TO hinder the new administrator
from COlonizing the negroes IN New MeAocTY
head OF a family forty acres OF grounu, NUT
and the necessary implements for the cultlVa-
tion of cotton and corn, with cheap mouse,
etc, if they would emigrate 70 New a M 1bair
children and when enough have moved 70 that
country, admit them to statehood. Throw Tue
protection around them necessary 70 give tnein
fair start in life, and we venture one sSowinq
that viii not only do honor to themselves ou1
also the great Republican party. Snch PLos
vision viii take large majority OF lne SoiO Iii
people out of the solid SCUM, ana tuey WI WI
baya TO brinz in laborers of another race, anu
the probabilities are there would soon De
smash m in the solid south" that wouio not
ONLY nefit the country at large, put Le InIS
themselves to such an extent as 10 creae of
DrOuucIlN6 anu uldlluloCtULAhAS NN~~@
of the Mason and Dixon line. .-l,;,o
This, of course, would be expensive for awhile.
but we are paying our millions yearly " suPpo;;s
the "poor Indian" with no prospect OF tneiE
ever becoming civilized ana alter .bnir otVS
resources, without home or education, Is y not
the duty of the nation to protect them NJ least
as well as protect the American INDIAN ~
The Southern white people Will never SUI
NIT tn have the Ignorant black people rule
over them aud collect and dlSouise tnSii
money. and the Republicans in the Nortn WouIu
not allow such state OF affairs 10 exist e'tIe Nc
were they similarly situated, II seems W ne
that colonization" is the only plan 10 oreak Up
the solid south.
Commenting on this pan, Southern
exchar GO says: ''It will strike most peo-
PIE that the advccste Of this magnificent
project has not considered the difficulties
in the way. There is great deal to
hinder the new administration from colon-
ling the negroes in New Mexico and Arl-
iona. The government would not be do
Jog Justice to the whites in those territor-
les if it made an effort to force or persuade
TIE blacks to move there, and it has no
more right to drive the blacks from their
present homes than it would have to drive
the whites away"
Our Southern contemporary after show
ing that, nevertheless, such plan would
be practicab!e-Spain in the sixteenth GER
tury having transported 500, 600 Moors ex-
PEELED by the goyernment-proceeds to
condemn it in these wo:ds:
"Tke colonization Of the negroes is prac'
ticsble, if this government is willing to
pursue tyrannical and unjust course,
This is not to be thought OF. The next
thing, then, for the advocates of colonies
ton to do is to tempt the ntgrces to seek
new homes in another country. 1t would
be hard matter to persuade 100000
people to sell ont and take up their line OF
march to an unknown land, and it would
be unreasonable to expect it.
'It is a little singular" it adds, 'tbat
the Northern Republicans should be 80
much worried over the race question. In
the South the two races understand each
other very well, and tier relations are
amicable and satisfactory except when an
occasional agitator from the North endeav-
ors to stir up strife and bitterness. Per
hsps there would be no negro problem If
outsiders would let US alone, and attend
to their own affairs"