The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-10

ceedlng years. LII it had chosen q wise
policy then it would haye divided the
South. When elected Governor of
Mississippi in 1869 there was large
white vote east for me. and when
Ames defeated me in 1873 l received
%, 900 more white votes than he did.
He was earpet-bagger, aud the peo-
pie wouldn't have him and overthrow
his administration. If Grant had
gu stained me At the time of nay cleo
ton there would have been white
Republican party which would have
held the State.
"The Southern people will not hAYe
Negro rule. The Negro is not
white man with black akin. He 10
rule civilized people. His head is
covered with woOl; be 10 a sheep.
The white man has straight hair like
lion. The Negro is an infaut. He
has the fat nose, the retreating chin,
the prOtruding lips of an infant. 1t
will take centuries of development to
thoroughly fit him for civilization.
"Take a dozen white babies and .
dozen Negro babies, put them in .
room where there is fire, and cover
them with a sheet. You can tell the
white from the cOored without see
ing them. The colored children will
work around till their heads are
toward the fire: they want the warmth
and the warm air; they are tropical.
The white children will have their
| feet to the fire and their heads away.
They want the oxygen of the cooler
air. 1t is . racial difference and the
strong race will rule"
And all this from 4 man who has
squeezed the political orange of his
state dry, used the barbarian and
sheep" as he pleases to characterize
the Negro, to elevate himself first to
the Gaberuational chair, thence to q
seat in the United States Senate.
Now that old age has overtakon him
aud the grave, he should have filled
long before this, is yeArniDg Will
eagerness to receive him, and had he
filled it, the race that has SO honestly
served him would have been spared
his ungrateful inhumau expressl ona
and that hole in the ground which
will be dishouored soon by the hatreC
remains OF the ungrateful thing who's
name is mentioned above and who's
; record, would to God, could find III
F space in the history of even that be
, nightcd state of Mississippi.
The separate school system obtain
here offense, aud race prejudice run
! higher, than it has ever been my GOO
fortune to experience before. | haV
) often wondered how = Negro Cal
work himself up to his usual pArioti
standpoint. Here at the Capital
! the nation we find one hundred nice
ly educated school teachers of >
. grades, Professional men. mechanic
J and endless number Of clerks an
. such, with the leaders of the race tn
for, HouglesS, Lynch, Bishop Brown
ct al, ct al, nleekly submitting to
! diScourtesles, aud, if we are TO Judg
from things a. sure, all are cyideutl!
: satisfied aud happy 10 be know
!. simply rs residents of the '(1ty
). magnificent distances" and race prc
iudice, Color discrimination hole
i sway here. By that, | mean that II
fernal South Carolina Innovation
which essays to brand me as beln
inferior TO one of the race, fairer
: complexion than |, aud possessed 9
!, better hair, | will say here, that
:, ia one o. the, in fact the, inhuen(
which was aud which is Operatlu
against the progress of the Negr
and il persisted in should eternal
deem him who shares in its perpetu
fl ton. Our leaders should be big 81
- bold enough to rise and crush i Q
IA instead of fostering the reptile VIII
:, is sure la turn to sting them all
death.
y One of ,he youag aud intelligel
< colored clerk i'll the Adjutaut lie
p erals Office was dismissed on yestt
'e' day. The removal came OF mlsu
a Outstanding with his chief. II
SY brings 10 IN nd that Ghvernm me
81 clerk is little less than a stone; tr
ia they are paid well, but the red ta
e. incident 10 clerkship almost owe
W balances the compensation; but {
- same do not 90 begging The u
- fortunate.:y Dung man was Ar. Ed~s
BARby, ct Indiana His friends he
'in for him 10 be rein-tated.
i'e The lion. j. Ill. Stuart who b
YET spout couple of weeks in this CT
Ter left last night for New \ lrk, thel