The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-19
TWADDLE AROUT TIE NEGRO

lcctunlly; 20 inquire anxiOusly what we shall do
with him-iu short 10 regard him In the light of a
perpexing problem which II is the business of the
white man to solve at the expense Of all the mid
night OIL H. the market There Is nowhere TO be
found more nnuscatlng mass OF literary rubbish
than these peculiar people have hcnpcd together
Thirty years ago they were telling MS that the
negro wasn't quite man, and that II he had any
soul II wasn't Of much account They were prov
ing from the Bible that he was intended by the Gre
ator to be n slave, and assuring rs that he could
neither nmulglmate with the whites nor survive In
association with them In state Of freedom, but
must inevitably die out In any other state than that
of slavery. When he was made free, and persist
entity refused 10 die out according 20 the program
Notwithstanding NIL the cxtmneous assistance In
that direction which he received, the same lugu-
brious philosophers begun TO point out the dread
Jul consequences his proGrativcne,S They told
IN that he was going Ia drive the white, out Ol some
states aud make exclusively negro States Of them
and shmnk bnck appalled, asst began to dawn upon
them that II the blacks should go on multiplying
faster than the white, they would In time crowd
the latter OF the continent entirely. Every little
while some one Of these philosophers will break
out In n new spot, ~ one has lately done In the
Popular ScisHcc Monthly, nud discourse sCcnth.
erlly about what the negro Is, what he can do
what he IL capable OF being and doing, aud what II
the best thing TO do with him.
In the midst Of all this sckening gnbblc Of shall
o" s , p o'os rvs " "oI. o%o'
bic Of seeing thing, In something like their true
sn' ama sc,,lns %t o, lnc S sn pSlu"c0 ana
The TiaD from Memphis the other day and was
hsari Yesterday morning !, came rom a farmer
,rrIbcd, who are lust now asserting with all their
usual dognniism mat ths negro VIII never be "
Iiying wItnc..c, 10 bear me out. says the farmer.
Il was slave owner before the war, aud can say
,ro clrrnms,snc,s made morn mid nroJrc,, Than
the negro II left alone he will work out his own
N' PAU y, r,,,, .o Il, a,,,.
that has bccn written by the philosophers above
mentioned io1 inc las.tnlry years S'ye inc n'sroa
thing YOU oan ,hfnL of to hold him down. and YOU
will no longer have an excuse Tor writing profound
rt,,c that ne can new, r,.c .boyr The po,i,ion Of
a menial-without getting his head cracked by
yon r,n ,ns" dlrss, x"", .c'en,,gc 'nc",,r,e. a.
cdy upon the wrtchcd Monaghan. whom it is
c uu, nov. !" ,I ,"I' ""p """v' m''"o"a ,.n'
n"o'
IL Is true inc negro question Is wrapped
up IN 'ho WORDS OF the tennessee farmer
above quotcd. III left alone, he 1.-THE ne.
groJ VIII WORK out nus own S'Vat'oh' lie
mas proven th's ny he progress no mas
maze SINCE inc war; NO race OF people,
says our hhtner' poS'u'e'y, ms nhuer
'ne cifcuii's'aheos' maue more rapid pro
s''Ss 'n"h 'no negro inis' 100 s "ue'
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