The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1889-06-20

ceptlOns, is lmprovident. If ne
has a house to shelter him, a sack
of flonr and a side of bacon, he
wants no more, He is then at
peace. That is true Of the negro
both North and South. Take it
i in the oldest settled districts in
your own State, and under the
most favorable circumstances,
the progress of the negro has not
been at all gratifying to these
most interested in him. He don't
develope. Suppose that such a
class of voters, without educa-
ton, without the least knowl=
!, edge IN the world of how a gov
ernment should be run, was
turned lnose in the great state OF
Ohio? Suppose, again, that that
class was5sthe dominant power
and should fill the Legislative
halls from its own ranks, and
supposlns also that there was no
possible hope of escape from the
evils that would naturally arise
from such a calamity? How
long would the taxpayers stand
il? You know the temper Of The
people IN your State better than
| do. and leave You 10 answer
"fhe people Of the South do not
consider the negro an equal in any
sense of the word. 1t will take a
century to rid him of bis crudities
and even If he was rid Of them to
day we know of no reason why he
should be given preference over the
white man. Admitting that ma
jorlty of the people want to see the
negro advanced. Will the best
people of the North any moro than
the best people of the South agree
to make certain that end by ad-
mitting him as equal to their homes;
by making his children the associ
ates of their children at their SO.
cial gatherings ; by giving in mar
riage their daughters to his sons !;
by taking his daughters as wives
for his sons? Not to any great extent.
When that time comes the negro
make hope to be the controlling
power in legislatures and in the
halls OF Congress. Not before.
1--WE treat the negro laborer bet
ter in the South than you do III the
North. We know him. We know
his pecullarlties and are less liable
to drive him. 1t is the Northern
mans WaF to -arive-hIs work. tte
does not wait for it to drive HIM.
If the negro does not meet the re
qulrements, If he will not stand to
be pushed, he must make way for
ono who will. Here he taxes his
time, and usually does his work to
suit himself. 1t is his way.
"There Is another thing about
you OHIO people that looked
strange, but it was not SO to me
When you had done away with
your colored schools, and the edict
went forth that white and colored
children must mingle together, the
strongest protest went up from
those centers having the largest
colored population. Why WAS
that? Was it not because the peo
pie in those centers had had bet
ter opportunity to study the negro,
and knew that no good could come
to their children out of the assccia-
tion of the two classes q That Is
the way ] look at it.
1--WE think our friends in the
North will come to understand in
time that it was necessity that led
to the d!sfranchisement of the ne
gro in certain sections of the
South, and will agree that if it had
been their fortune to have been
placed III the same position, the re.
suit would have been the same"
That is what a Southern man
had to say. We Will now see what
the colored man has to say for h!m
self. the following being taken
from the salutatory of u paper
called the Nesv SosstA. just issued,
and edited and published by ne
groes. at Charleston. S. e.
"We believe that the future of
the negro depends Infinitely more
upon his own efforts than upon
any other agency at work in his
behalf. There is no railroad for
the negro. He must ascend the
ladder of intellectual development
as other races have done. and it
seems to US that il is high time for
him to cease following the lgnus
fatus of politics and begin the work
of development upon those lines
only upon which real progress is
possible. The politician has long
since exhausted his storehouse in
the negroes behalf. In the light of
constitutional provisions, statutory
enactments and legal decisions he
sta nds to day the peer of the most
highly favored race in the land.
There is no right that is claimed by !
the white man under the constitu-
tion and laws of the country that
is not fully guaranteed to him also.
He has bean elevated to seats in
both branches of Congress, and
freely admitted thereto. and Tecog-
n,zed by the Chief Executive of the
nation in no small degree.
"These are familiar truths, and
yet 1t is o fact only too we'll known
to him that he is denied the actual
enjoyment of many rights under
the constitution and laws that are
exercised by others Indeed. un
der the laws in certain sections Of
the country, he is almost anything
but a freeman--a parlah in his own
country. Whatever else may havc
consp,red to produce such condi
tinn of things, every intelligent.
self-rcspecting negro knows and
freely admits that the main cause is
an unfortunate moral. material and
intellectual condition, a legacy
nf more t!Ian two hundred and
fifty years OF slavery. Until that
is materially changed
no proper recognition Of Ih" race
:an reasonably he expected. A