The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-06-07
SOCIAL EQUALITY.
THE RALE PROBLEM IN THE
SOUTH.
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Who Have we to Blame for the Dangers
that Threaten US but the Whites
Themselves.
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But to come nearer home. In
Wadesboro we find negro children and
white children attending the same
Sunday school, in the same church. at
the same hour, all bearing floral offer
ings, and all going in and coming out
at the same door. This is not only a
step, it is very decided leap, on the
highway to social equality. If the
most aristocratlc, the most exclusive,
body of Christian believers in the
South says, ave will hold our CHURCH
conventions together, forgetiul of race
distinction, and we will let our chill
dren, white and colored, meet together
on common plane of religious equal
ity, once a week." who sit that can
rise and say the Southern people are
not drifting, with torrent sweep, into
the maelstrom of social equality
! miscegenation, amalgamation This
is the size of it. Who asserts that the
picture is Observation-Disclosures In
teXgsnfer.
The above is an extract from an
editorial in the last issue of the Intel
Hgenrer on the Episcopal Convention
recently in session at Salisbury, N. c.
We were greatly surprised to learn that
social equality, even to the extent
mentioned, had found an abiding
place in Wadesboro, and we should
have hesitated to give credence to the
statement had we seen it in almost any
other paper. AS it is We must believe
it bue our opinion of the denomina-
ton which encourages it has suffered
back set.
We believe it to be the Christian
duty Of every ecclesiastical denomina-
ton and of every individual to aid in
the education and elevation of the
negro race. As an order OF beings in
every way their superlors, it is the duty
of the white people to guide and di-
rect them, and to lead them to a higher
plane of existence. How far and in
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tended is 4 question upon which there
is much diversity Of opinion; but no
one but fanatic will for a moment
entertain the proposition that the STAN
dard of the Anglo Saxon race must be
lowered in order to equalize the two
races intellectually and otherwise and
to put them upon the same plane So
cially and morally. And that is the
only way by which the TWO races can
be equalized. God Almighty created
the negro with black skin and with
an intellect inferior to that of the
white race, and it is our honest, firmly
rooted opinion that it was His inten-
ton that the two races should remain
separate and distinct and that the
superior race should govern and guide
all things.
II this be so, the denomination
which receives negroes into its Sun
day. schools and church assemblies on
an equal footing with the whites is
treading on dangerous ground. 1t is
but short step from the church to the
hearthstone from the Sunday school
chapel to the week day school room.
Youthful hearts are tender and suscep
tible to affections which maturer age
would spurn, and attachments formed
in the Sunday school, under the sane
ton Of tanatical parents, eventually
lead 10 social relations, and then =
m,scegenation, amalgamation! The
deterioration of the white race and Z
corresponding elevation of the colored
God forbid that such curse should
come upon the South. Rclegate tc
the realms OF obscurity any religion.
fanatic who would blight the manhood
of our brave and chvalrous boys wht
would tinge the blood OF our fair anc
virtuous and lovely girls, and wh'
would jeopardize our cherished lnstitu
tions and scatter ruin broadcast owe
the land.
But how far and in what way ar
we to aid the negro? "God help
/ lIlO5C WIZ uSI II th1fiioSi'So. -''1~e .'.~
go step further than that and he'll
those who manifest no disposition 4
help themselves? Surely no one VII
, say so. We can aid them 10y buildinI
school houses and churches for them
and by giving them all the advantage
necessary for their advancement. Bu
let them be maintained separate AM
ap1rt from those of the whites. Th
negroes have the mental capacity &
/. vastly improve their intellectual an
; moral condition, and as they improv
they will establish among themselve
; condition of society which will CIV
to those who deserve them all th
: blessings and pleasures OF intelligence
and civilization that are vouchsafe
to white people. Can they. or any
the white fools who are so clzmorot
{ for the "elevation" of the negro, as
for mose2 When they are educate
and elevated" to the extent of the
. | cspacity they must still be greatly bt