Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-19

ton to its simplest form. The man VINO
dreams of Hayti in any portion of the
Union is blind to the history of the world,
to the cruel he pelessness of looking to a
Democratic inferiority, and to the sig
nificant warning of white cohesion in the
refusal of the white man to admit to citi-
zenship any other colored man than the
negro, and him only under the
whip and spur of partisan tri-
umph, partisan necessities and partisan
malevolenee. A Northern paper takes
the same view of the question as that on
several occasions expressed by THE GA
zErrE. and in its discussion the Chicago
Herald says:
The negro question reduced to its last terms
is this: Shall the white man or the black man
rule? Law or no law, section or no section
demagogue or no demagogue, politics or no
politics, will a township, county or state OF
America ever, in any likelihood, be perma-
nently controlled by a body of black men, no
matter how numerous the blacks, or how sparse
the white population? If white men remain on
the soil, viii they dominate that soil?
This question of race, rising above law, ethics
and reason. if need be, now pushes upon the
Southern people. The laws of reconstruction,
putatively backed by the power of the United
States. declare that the state of Louisiana, pos
sessed as it is by majority of colored inhabit-
ants, shall be ruled by the majority. The state
of Georgia, similarly embarrassed, shall De SIM
ilarIy managed Agitators in the North, whose
personal conspicuity has arisen from the woes OF
their country, look to those woes for contlh-
uance of place profit and favor. 1t Is, therefore,
an effort of self preservation in these agltators
early to pit the tide of natural events against the
hastily conceived statutes of the nation me
negro has the statutory right to rule in Louisiana
and Georgia; now let him rule This IS the I'M
potent edict of Chandler, Blair and other \ ORTIZ
ern legislators whose racial adherence OF the
negro far exceeds the repulsion felt IN the breast
of any true Southerner.
There is no arrogance so great as the arrogance
of the popular ex-slave. He not only con-
ceives himself to be the equal of his former mas
ter, but publishes a sense of superiority. orgeu
to extremes by firebrand statesmen OF the North'
the black spokesman of the South have lately
sounded the trump of race war. The oIacK man
has been invoked to rise and establish ms statu-
tory rights. Given the sympathy Of the North'
the negro editors believe the war would not go
against the blacks.
Judging carefully, and resurveyIng SITUATION
of which sensible people have but one Vlew' the
Herald is free to state belief that the laws Oh
the United States will change before human ma
ture will change If the black and the white can
notIive together in the South as the white Is Will
ing to arrange, then contemporary residence
therein for both races is entirely Impossible
The North, in proxysm of sectional brutality
might reinaugurate negro rule and might tenn
porarIy again support it at the point OF the bay
onet and for the edifcation of another genera
ton OF Pinchbacks, Kelloggs, Warmoths, Cham-
berlains, BuIlocks; but time would again de-
veop a brood of whites before whom the lgno-
rant field hand the vicious hybrid, and the white
carpet Dagger would either vanish or surrender
This is the negro question. The South Is IN
alarm. 1t fought well against white conduerors'
Does the North believe the South will defend 1t
self less bravely against Ethiopian thraldom.