The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1889-10-12

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He said the question was settled, and
exhorted his people not to deceive them
selves and waste their strength in
lorIorn fight against the inevitable.
EDUCATIONAL AND PROPERTY QUALFICA-
mad been proposed, but to his mind
there were two objections to any such
proposition, either OF which was fatal.
First, to attach such conditions to the right
to vote would dsqnaliiy tens cf thou
sands of the best white men in Mississ
ippi without whose active aid the State
never could have been redeemed from
! the rule Of ruin, and cannot be held now.
ISecond, the imposition otsuch conditions
does not meet the evil by which we are
confronted, and which comes from race
diversity that the laws of men cannot
remove. He was not opposed to the ne
groes acquiring either property or
knowledge. In sympathy with the pol
icy of this State which bad been fully
illustrated by the liberal application OF
the taxes we impose on ourselves for
the negro's benefit, he favored his ele-
vation by such means, or any other that
does not tend to drag us down to his
level but race prejudice, right or wrong,
is older than our laws or institutions,
and we car rnot remove it by SO simple a
process as teaching the negro to read or
his owning land or goods.
There are those among us, and many
of them, who will never consent TO take
the ballot from those who fight the
country's battles as volunteer soldiers
because they are too poor to. own prop
erty, or from those who help to pay
the country's taxes, as citizens, because
they nave been denied the advantages
of education which we have enjoyed.
ANY such proposition will produce dlvls-
ions among those whose safety depends
upon their concert of action and CO.
operation IN all essential things.
RACE SEPARATION
is another proposition, but this is simply
impracticable and absurd in view OF the
immensitv OF the undertaking, and OF
the history OF past abortiye efforts to!
! colonize the emancipated blacks OF
America, when by reason of the lncon-
siderable plumber the undertaking was
not one-hundredth part as stnpendons
as it would be now; it is also absurd IN
view OF the want of power in the Gov
ernment to send free negro to MeXl-
co or Cuba against his will, even II we
owned the country, and of the absence
of any inducement to the negro to lorm
separate State government ana cut
loose from the white nah, whose taxes
support the government he lives under
and educates his children, and OF the
lack OF any temtation to leave our rrai-
rie and valley lands. the richest in the
world, to take his chances in any other
quarter of the earth
Another proposition is
A DIVISION OF THE WHITE PEOPLE
upon public questions, to be followed, il
is claimed by corresponding division
of the blacks. He argued that such a
division CT white people would simply
commit the balance of power to hands
confessedly unfit to WELD it. 1t would
lie found that the whites would divide
on reason, and the blacks be united on
race. II, as the speaker thought, ou'
chief trouble comes from race diversity
, | it conlG not be removed by the reorganl
ZatinU Ol jaititS, w ''O h'>'S
ment OF party lines.
, WHITE IMMIGRATION;
many believe is the certain cure, ant
while it promises more, after a llttl'
while perhaps, than the remedies h
had been combating, the process Is to-
slow for it to be effective as presen
remedy.
Northern capital is coming here ant
many valuable citizens from the Norlf
have come to make their homes amons
r us. and we have given them cordla
welcome. But Just now negroes arr
coming in faster than white people, tax
? ING the whole State over Without pur
! suing the subject further, he said, i
: must be plain to all that this is Gu
: problem and we must solve 1T lor our
I selves. None, not here among us, car
8 help us. except by letting us alone an(
J if we fail to act wisely, the consequence
D will come home to us. Time and car
' and patience and concerted action ar
} making the best and the most out Of tn
: situation of which it is susceptible, ant
! he believed we could.
HOLD OUR STATE AND SAVE OURSELVES
as long as we are united even thougl
, some harsh Congressional legislation
q which is threatened, should be enacted
: So believing, he had openly and earnest
:. ". here and everywhere, exhorted tn
+ men of his race not to let their suprem
a acv be endangered, for on that the safe
:. tv of both races depends. The speake
4 closed with an appeal to the whites t
v suffer no consideration Of personal nd
2 vancement or supposed private advan
!, tage, nor ambition, nor the Temptation
4 to nurse delusions or try experiments
nor anv other canse or consideration t
g break their sloidity, but to stand b
y, each other to save themselves and thei
civilization till better day shall dawr
b The peroration OF the speaker wa
$, simply grand.
o During its delivery he was the yer
e impersonation of patriotism. His tac
II glowed and his eyes flashed with tn
1t fires OF intellect and courage, kindled b
l. truth and scorn Of wrong. His manne
was earnest energetic and impassionet
At times the fervent words, burnin
,f with elouuence, leaped from his liz
n each crowling upon the other, yet s
il distinctly enunciated that they forme
i short, sharp, clear and concise sentence
u which impressed his hearers that the
,- came from the soul OF Il man inspire
r by love of country and filled with syn
.y pathy for the condition Of his people
10 1t was indeed a great speech, delive
p cd before an intelligent and appreci