The Washington bee., 1888-02-04

than persuasive kind, in which the
shot gun and rope figure conspicu-
ously and the night time is more
conclusive for his plan than the
day.
He says that the general opinion
is that "the country negro is the
embodiment of dishonesty, laziness
and craftiness and he must reform
or CO." Every man who reads
newspapers and has a grain of COM
mon sense knows that every
movement looking towards the i'm
migration of the negroes from the
south has met with stout resist
ance of words, but those engaged
in persuadIng the negro to leave
the south have been threatened with
personal violence if they persisted
in it. AS to the negro's "dishOnesty
and craftiness," the former he must
have learned from the southern
planters who keep the cross roads
groceries and works their land on
the shares, and counts in the fol
lowing chaste and beautiful langu-
age: caught is aught and tiggeTs
a fgger all for the white man and
none for the niger" AS to his
lazlness let Zeno read the account
of the wealth of the southern ne
groes lately published in a New
York paper; that account answers
his base slanders more eloquently
than words of mine could do.
Zeno ought to keep himself
posted or the world will think he
is a fool as we'll as liar. He
further says that "his main object
IN life appears to be to rob the
white man whom be cordially
hates, yet fears" If his object
has ben to rob his white bro'her
he has 80 signalIy failed in that
direction that even ZeDo might
console him for his mislaid plans,
oh! no Zeno, you and yours have
got i'll your work with such deft-
ness that nothing is left for u,
and the wonder is, how so abe d
logician(?) as Zeno could have fal
len into So palapable an error. As
for hatiug the white men, though
the charge is not true / will admit
it, and ask has he not cause
enough to do So? In some local.
tiles In the sJuth, have they not
made his life hardly worth the
living? For over two hundred
years have they not systematical
ly robbed and subjected him to all
the indignities that human mind
could devise? Have they not
outraged his wife, mother, sister
and daughter? And yet, despite
this array of charges the
negro has not given blow for blow.
Had he hated the whites and
wanted an opportunity to mani
fest that hate, the war present, d
| it. He could have wreaked his
veng, ance on their wives and
children, burned their houses and
| laid waste the fair land of the
south, aud in q measure been just
| flied too, but he didn't. As to the
negroes cowardlce [ have no ne I'd
to aLswer thai, but will refer
Zeno to the War Records where
he will find that the colored boys
| in blue left a stainless record for
bravery that even Zeno cannot
sally or destroy.
"The licentiousness of most ne
gro women stink in our nostrils. %
Were this statement true and had
| Zeno one iota OF that true christian
charity that enters into the COM
position of a gentleman, he would
never have SO dishonored good
steel pen, nor pure white paper
by writing the above. Such a re-
mark could only have it's origin in
one whose very soul has been steep.
ed In the mire of filth and obscur-
ity; brave Zeno! worthy Zeno ! il
there is no other name to call you
by, let US call you devil. They
say that the devil is tne father OF
liars, surely you must be his first
born and all of his malignant hate
for every thing pure and holy
must have descended by right oil
heritage to you. Zeno you have
written yourself down an ass.
take comfort in the fact that the
thousands of pure, cultured and
refined colored matrons and maids
our mothers, wives sisters and
eweethearts will suffer nothing
from the rawlings of this arranI
knave, and the mere fact that the
statement emenated from Zeno is
enough to stamp it forever as g