San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-26
AUSTIN CORRESPONDENCE.
The Separate Railway Coach Act
The Necessity of Educating
the Colored Race for
the Future,


the Future.
AUSTIN, Tex, January "a, 'S9.
Editor LIGHT.
1 have RETAINED from writing 6
long time, hoping some one would
touch upon all things which stand
out In bold relief before the public
eye. Our legislature being in session,
is known the world over, SO need
not dwell upon that subject, except
to notice its proceedings, anon
which is a bill offered by Senator
Pope to set apart separate coach for
colored people, which has caused
great alarm among the thoughtful.
There was a meeting held by some
colored citizens to formulate their
ideas, and present them to the legis-
lature, praying them not to pass this
bill. T know not what was done, as
was not present at the meeting.
We cannot see just,,w hat is aimed
at, and why the colored people should
thus be Disseminated against. We
know ignorance, the relic of slavery,
was our legacy, left to us when that
institution went down to rise no more,
and it is hoped that feudal system,
will not be substituted therefor. We
cannot believe the negro is the most
dreaded individual in the community,
though some affect to think so, and
thereby intensity and increase their
hatred toward him. If that be pro-
gress, we are not able to determine
of what sort it is. The affable editor
of the Austin Statesman, in an edito-
rial says he doses not agree with Sena-
tor Morgan, of Alabama, to move the
negro out of the south.
Texas cannot be injured by her ne
gro population. We need them on
the sugar plantations, and to till the
soil in the Miasmatic regions of the
sta to where white men can hardly
live. From the tide of immigration.soon
to set in, in a few years, the negro
will not count in Texas, more than a
drop in the bucket, and the white
people of Texas will not dread him
any more than the white people of
New York, or Ohio do. If he is not
dreaded, then what reason for special
and race legislation in Texas Neither |
of the above states seem to care so
much as to try the expediency. If this
bill, on internal improvement(O be-
come law, it seems that three
parties would be injured. viz: 1st,
the negro, for no railway coach of
ordinary construction can be parti- !
toned off, and be equally cOmfOrta-
ble." End. White people of Texas,
or of other states, who might attempt |
to have their negro servants to ac-
company them on their expeditions
by rail in Texas, if allowed to GO in
coaches intended for white people
only would say to strangers,
our Texas negroes are not capable of
good morals and manners, as else
where, unless they are to 60 as SER
wants. 3rd. The railroad companies
operating roads in Texas by being COM
PEELED to so construct coaches for
Texas people could find but little use
for these pigeonholed or honey combed
coaches beyond the limits of Texas.
Today's Statesman has a clipping
from the New York Herald, and COM
ments on the same distressfully, of
the Human sacrifices of Hayti." The
in its six-columned article,
showing the civilized world what free
dom has done for the negro, after two
hundred years of enjoyment. VoOdoo-
ism, and the dreadful scenes of
fanatic, heathenish diabolism need
not, as history repeats itself, grow,
nor flourish in Christian America, I'M
less we prove equally as derelict to
duty as the eX-slave masters of Hayti
seem to have been. We have no rea-
son to believe as long as
right, justice, mercy and pru-
dence reigns, that such evils
can take root in American soil nor
dwell anywhere in her lofty noun
tains, nor stalk over her wide extend
ed plains. "For God the sun must
forever reign and scatter night away
and shine one eternal day" Let
Christian effort be doubled and pre-
vent the spread of all the doctrines of
the devil from South Carolina and
Louisiana to other portions of the
south. Mr.. Editor, have nothing to
boast of, though am an extraction of
two of the lowest races on earth. viz:
the Black Creek Indians and
pure blooded Africans, so the
old folks say, but so far as
| know am not affected by these
things. If the anti-christian spirit
which opposed the christianization,
and true education of the enamel
pated negroes of Hayti, should sue
coed in making the emancipation of
negroes of the south farce; the same
proceedings might be repeated here
in America two hundred years hence.
Let the responsibility of such a con-
dition rest upon the shoulders and
souls Of the guilty. The inherent
powers which lie dormant in nations
to lift them up to the higher plains
and walks of civilization, must be
touched by other powers and infiuen-
ces, to stimulate them into wakeful
activities. These inherent powers
are more clearly seen after external
power has done its work most effect
tally. The ex-slave masters of Hayti
nay be credited with the present