Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-29
ssBlessed Are The Peace. Ma
kers."

Christianity and craftsmanship
should unite to allay and blot out
these evils, making the bonds IF
friendship and peace stronger be-
tween all men. The Chattanooga
Times takes wise and sensible view
of the situation and its editorial on
the recent disturbance at Wahalak,
Miss, is worthy of the serious con-
sideration of all, and the spirit of it
the approval of all right minded peo-
PIE. We give it entire, as it reflects
a noble spirit which is quite at vari-
ance with too many Of our white con
temporaries which set themselves up
as leaders and moulders Of public
sentiment.
The Times Says,
every time few drunken white
men and a squad of belligerent ne
groes have collisi N and some Of
both sides are wounded or killed,
several newspapers are seized with
panic and exclain that extermina>
ton or colonization'are the only ways
of finally settling the trace question
in the South" The common sense
of the Southern white man, however
is not moved by this scarecrvw. The
average Southern citizen has noted
the considerable progress Of the ne
gro during his twenty three years of
freedom, We have seen him rise
from the ignorance and sloth Of a
race suddenly manumitted from a
state of slavery to something like
steady industry, with good deal OF
thrift intermixed. The race has a
becoming fondness tor acquiring
knowledge. Their schools are usu-
ally well attended. They now pay
taxes on millions Of dollars worth Of
real and personal property, and own
other millions exempt from taxation.
Whereas they we're, from 1855 on,
for three years, almost entirely de-
pendent on the national authority
for guidance and largely for support,
they are now almost entirely self
sustaining. They have, of their own
vvuet. ,.vviv.., ,..-.ny guud soi.ools ..,'L
handsome churches. They have
became in all ways better and more
useful citizens, more lawabiding,
have clearer conception Of their
duties to society, and are gradually
acquiring the integrity that wins men
credit and consideration. Where
there were hundred collisions be.
tween the races in the late sixties and
early seventies. there are not five
now. The relations between white
and blacks have steadily improved,
more rapidly than ever. The catas-
trophies arising out Of race differen-
ces, like that at Wshalak, are spo-
radio, and usually precipi'ated by
bad men Of one race or the other. In
thai case we hear that the peaceably
disposed negroes are running away
from the scene ofstrife and slaugh
ter, and the peaceable ones will be
found in a majority Of five to one
of the disorderlies, when bottom
facts are arrived. But the point Of
chief importance is that the occur
renee is not characteristic; it grows
out Of local and not general causes;
probably mean WHISKY is at the bot
tom of the whole m after.
Why shall we bother our brains
over experiments with such sltua,
ton? Why torture neighborhood
row into "war Of races?,, Why
make a trifle of that sort basis of
planning the separation Of races
numbering millions of each and
whole interests are SO int~rwoven
thrt to pull them apart must cause
ummeasurable misery and loss, and
set back the weaker race toward the
night of barbarian from which it is
slowly but surely emerging to
light Of civilization?
We do not treat similar ou tbreaks
between natives and foreigners in
this panicky, unreasoning fashion,
Because few anarchists raise sheol
in one Of our cities on small scale,
we do not cry out that all foreigners
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