The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
ONLY PEAOEFUL METhODS.

ONLY PEACEFUL METHODS.
How remarkably SOLDERING has been
the effect of the late election or few
editors. How tranquiliztng it has been.
Yesterday we saw the evangelist OF .
force bills, gag laws and military pro
consulshfp for the south, Murat Hal
stead, talking in dulcet strains about
peaceful methods, or ''the ways of
peace" as he termed it, of dealing with
that section.
There was no more talk about ap-
pealing to the bayonet and the sword,
to force and coercion. to BalfOur's bru-
tai methods or 20 military satraps. No,
none of that, but instead. he preferred
to indulge in wholesome "reminiscences,
and inquired what would have been the
policy toward the south Of Lincoln
had he lived, and to insinuate that it
would have been different from ths
violent reconstruction measures adopt
ed and carried out. The supposed
peaceful policy of the martyred presi-
dent, policy of Cancellation and for
bearance. is what Mr.. Halstead now
To-day we lind Joe McCullagh of
the Globe Democrat going to an extra
ordinary length in the direction out
lined by Halstead. taking for his text
remark made by Bishop Arnett Of
the African Methodist church of
South Carolina in which he said that
''it made no difference who Is presi-
dent. provided the incumbent is an hon
est, God-fearing man, and administers
the law fairly and impartislly." The
Globe editor proceeds to lecture the
colored people of the south and to
tell them that "their salvation is in
their own hands, and that ''theY can
not expect to have miracles wrought
in their behalf He tells them
plainly that 1.-The republican party is
under no obligation to make life easier
for them than for the majority of the
white people," and that to their own
efforts their industry, frugality and
perseverance" must they stand in
debted for getting ahead in the world.
''They must rely upon themselves, -
he says, land not upon any party or
political scheme of relief or progress. .
To bring the matter home to
them, and impress upon them the ideas
quoted above, he says in these plain
/ and out-spoken words.
Over twenty years have passed since
| slavery was abolished, and the freed
men have had all that time in which to
| adapt themselves to the new order of
things, and to learn the philosophy of
| self-support and self-defense. If they
have not qualified themselves by this
long experience for the task of compe-
ting with other laborers and gaining a
| fair share of the rewards which come
everywhere to honest and determined
endeavor, then nothing that the repub-
lican party is permitted to do for them
can enable them to get along any bet
ter. They have outlived the evil influ-
ences of slavery by this time, or they
are incapable of ever doing so. The re-
publican party sympathiZes with them
and wishes them to prosper and to live
contented and happy. But it cannot
undertake to legislate them into q sort
of colored paradise, any more than 1t can
undertake thus to create white para
/ disc for the millions Of northern peo-
pie for whom it feels an equal sympathy
and would be quite as CHAD to deliver
| from all adverse conditions. The time
has long since gone by for pleading the
/ wrongs and sorrows of the slave sys-
tenn as an excuse for laws and policies
designed to help one class over another.
| 1t is the duty of the cOlored people to
rely upon themselves and not upon any
party or political scheme of relief and
1 progress.