Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04

blacks, as the only adjustment that can
possibly promote harmony and establish
peace and prosperity
As the adjustment to state Affairs con-
templates q minority representation for
the blacks in the legislatures, they must
take their chances in helping to elect
United States senators. But in order
absolutely to secure voice in the ma
tiona1 senate for the eolored people, it
might be provided that they may elect
from the fourteen states at large two
senators, representing exclusively their
race, and selected by them in the gen.
eraI elections every fourth year.
These suggestions are crude, but 1t Is
believed they contain the germ of thought
which in full elaboration may solve
THE MOST PRRPLEXING PROBLEM
of the century that has so far defied all
other solution, and can perhaps never be
settled until the fundamental idea of in
equality of the races is recognized and
applied to the adjustment OF the negro to
our political system.
Whatever is done must be done, of
course, by constitutional amendment.
The reconstruction of 1865 must be re-
vised as far as black suffrage is concern
ed, and the political relations of the two
races in the South must be readjusted on
new basis, and that basis must rest on
facts and not on theories.
But viii the negro be satisfied with this
adjustment? viii be asked. Apropos, an
anecdote: j bereaved husband, mourn
ing his recently deceased spouse, informed
q sympathetic friend of her death i.
NANCY died last night, he said .
''IVas she resigned? inquired the SYM
pathetic friend She had to be, - was
the sententious reply. SO with the negro.
HE HAs TO BE- SATISFIED
with whatever adjustment of his rights
and privileges may be made by the ruling
race. The white people liberated the
negro from the most abject bondage by
the fiercesb war recorded in history :,
fought on The abstract idea of human
rights; With their own blood and treasure
they raised him TO the full stature of lib
erty without even an aspiration on his
part strong enough to nerve his arm to
strike q blow III his own behalf and now
if the general welfare of both races de-
mands q new adjustment by which he IS
put on probation until future conditions
admit the full restoration of his rights,
he ought to be satisfied. And what is
here proposed to be given him is more
than he can wrest from his imperiouS
NHlJe DEOtueI III d Squire COHJeSl VI ItCC
rivalry.
Will the white man be satisfied with
the adjustment? is the final question
He ought to be. He is made secure in
his supremacy for all time to come.
HIS SENSE OF JUSTICE
is satisfied with Il fair minority represent
tatIon TO the weaker race. The ever
menacing danger that forces white solid
ity IN the South is removed, and we
shall al be left free to work out our COM
mon destiny III peace and harmony.
There win be no more irritation be-
tween North and South ON the ne
gro question; there win be no pro-
vocation and no aggression on this grave
sectional issue, that has kept the country
in turmoil for half a century Both
races i'll the South may vie with each
other to advance the material aud moral
progress of the republic without elashiug
of prejudice or passion; our parties will
no longer be divided on the color line,
and we shall all be Southerners in the
best meaning Of the word, loyal in love
and duty to the great republic, whether
we are Democrats or Republicans.
CHARLES j. C.. PUCKETTE.
Waco, Tex. Jan. l /, 1888.