San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-02
AUSTIN LETTER.
The Emigration of the Negro Dis
CUSsed.

Since we last wrote we have wit
missed many important events touch
ing many problems. What hos been
| done concerning the great scheme to
migrate colored people from Texas
| to Mexico? / have never, and can see
no good reason why should, advo-
Gated wholesale immigration of col
ored people, especially out of the
United States. There is nothing in
these ephemeral sensational outbursts.
l believe the American negro is as
good an American as any who trav-
erses our free American soil. His con-
dition has been altered, by the behest
of God and the fiat of the noble heart
and brain of the American
people and when legislative acts
and congressional endorsements
could not meet the emergency, the
American people showed the courage
of their convictions; that the Union
could never be preserved with govern
ment half slave and half free. That
noble ensign of freedom and harbin-
ger of peace still waves over the
homes of the brave and land of the
free. This noble ensign strikes ter
rCr to hearts of despots, foreign and
domestic. [ have faith in God and in
our institutions, and guided by divine
lightI firmly believe every American
citizen, however humble, will even
tually enjoy his every guaranteed
right, the negro not excepted. We
believe all problems, real and imagin
airy, will be solved; good many would
now stand forever solved, if the law
less and idle despOts were restrained
and the majesty of law was bravely
upheld by the sons of immortal sires.
Trace the history of the majority of
men who have been the terror of any
community or section of the country,
and you find they began by killing
negroes or poor white people less able |
to protect themselves against mob
violence, or other acts of cruelty, but !
when these miniature Neros develop |
into tull-fiedged despots, like ferociOus |
beasts, they make no distinction.
The people of Llano have partly COW
cred themselves with glory by offering |
the handsome reward for those dread |
full dynamiters, who blew up the house |
where dwelt a negro family. That |
little dreadful band, just want to get |
their hands in then the thing will |
have pay in it for them. A commu-
nifty is in great danger as long as such |
run at large, though they
such cruelty upon negroes.
This giant man, long crushed by
usurpeIs of the divine right to live |
in peace in his own house will soon
fling off the Etna from his mangled |
breast. His limbs are not yet drawn
from under the quaking and groan-
lug fire spOuting mass The habits,
civilization, religion, moral and in
tellectual developments, and any
other good qualities of which the
American negro is possessed emf
mates directly from American in
stitutlons and the literature and
The text books now in use.
Will science herselfdestrOy her fav-
1rite sons, because they are ebony
lued?
will she here undo the noble heart her gen
ius give the finai blow.
And plant the wounds that laid them low
Like the struck eagle, stretched upon the
plain.
70 more through rolling clouds TO soar again,
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,
Which winged the shaft that qutvered in his
heart"
Educated black men will very
likely have the ambition, and aspira-
ions and inspirations of educated
white men. Rich black men will
act just like rich white
men. And why? Answer, because
hat in man, that which is so
susceptible, is coIorless for aught
know. Mr.. Editor it will injure
he cause for your correspondent TO
ay, it requires only common sense to
nable one to take this view of this
important subject. | am glad that
President Harrison has no southern
,olicy, but so far posts himself as a
rue American statesman. What he
5 doing in making federal appoint
nents will be better understood in
he future when prejudice be laid in
is open grave. think he did a wise
hing when he appointed Mr.. \. w. ]
,uney to the collectOrship at Calves
on. Men who have stood by the re-
publican party through all the trying
'ast should be recognized when they
POSSESS necessary qualifications, re
'ardless of color, etc. The howl
this is white mans coun-
ry," is horn of twin parents,
namely, He'll and ignorance
30 one living, nor any one to be born
hundred years from date will see
america ruled by any particular race
# men. 1t is out of the course of HUI
nan events and against the divine
lecree; then why hear We him who
caches the contrary doctrine? No
nan who will give it a moments
bought but can give an intelligent
eason why negro voters vote with
he republican or other parties, more
than they do with the dem