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

geographical advantages, the mild eli
mate, the staple and the timber at hand,
the enterprsing people, the daily in
creasing transportation facilities, and a
few more years OF prosperity will give
US the Capital which hitherto has been
our only need.
After some remarks upon agriculture
as the foundation of our country's great
power and influence, he said that he re-
joiced to see that the agricultural popu-
ation all over the land were organized
into strong, but conservative combina,
TONS to free themselves from the letters
of monopoly and to assert the independ-
ence and exert the influence in the al
fairs of their country which rightfully
belong to those who create the basis Of
the country's wealth and power.
At this point the speaker looked at
his watch and discovering that he had
spoken an hour,and said that there were
some other questions be would like to
discuss before them, one of which was
THE RACE PROBLEM
as it affected our agriculture, but
that he would reserve that for some fu-
ture occasion, and would not now longer
trespass on their patience and courtesy.
just then several voices cried out go
on. 90 on" and the call becoming gener-
al, Senator Walthall thanking his friends
proceeded to say:
1t was public question far more
momentous in its import to US than that
he had been discussing. Like the tariff,
it bears directly upon all agricultural
interests here, and in much larger de-
gree but more than tariff or public fl
nance. or internal improvements, or
civil service or public lands, or pen
sons-more than all these and all else
combined, it involves not only the
progress and prosperity and property in
terests OF all classes Of the people here,
but involves their civilization and safety
as well. He alluded to it as "that aw-
| full problem which the war left us to
solve" that endless problem of the races
which every day seems to present some
new feature of danger and of difficulty.
| Distasteiul as it. is, we should not shun
its constant and anxious consideration
should not be blind to its supreme i'm
portapce, and should not delude our
selves with the hope that there will arise
some new and simple remedy for its
evils and its perils.
He said that lately the condition OF
the South had produced considerable
discussion in public addresses and in the
public prints; much of it more or less un-
profitable. Some of it has come from
Northern men unacquainted with the
condition here incompetent to deal with
the problem they would discuss by reason
of their remoteness from the scene OF its
practical workings, and disqualified
often by prejudice to treat it fairly.
Some of it has come from ultra South
ern men, who discuss from 80 extreme
Southern standpoint that what they say
meets no response in the conservative
sentiment of the country, North, ol
South, Some of those in both sections
who discuss "the negro question" wholly
ignore that
NATURAL AND INERADICABLE DIFFERENCE
| BETWEEN WHITE PEOPLE AND NEGROES
: which Mr.. Lincoln recognized, ant
; which must be considered and allowed
! for in any plan Of solution or relic
t which is rational or feasible. These las
2 hlindlv refuse to take into account
= deeu-seated race prejudice-whethe
we'll or ill-founded, matters .not-w
is known to exist under natures laws
= and which we can neither alter nor re
=. peal-as if the settled prejudice OF tn
+ people were not stubborn realities to b.
e dealt with like any other important eX
e isting facts Therefore, much of th'
c discussion has served but little purpos
# except to excite public interest in th
r subiect and disclose the difficulties OF tn
s case, without suggesting any remed
G which is not practicable, misleading o
d delusive.
It These political doctors, who have tn
If South's case in hand, underestimate tn
# serious disease which attlcts our bod,
polite, and treat it as a temporary dis
order to be cured by single prescrlp
ton, instead Of what it is-a permanen
IT maladv which at best can only be ale
n waited bv constant and careful, sensib
q and systematic treatment by those VIII
: are present with it. There is no neN
e remedy that meets our case. There Is q
e present safety for us save in the absc
q lutte and unbroken unity OF the body c
'r our white population.
e| When the day comes when politician
q shall cease to work this dangerous er
v eineery for party uses; when both th
l. the great political parties shall realiz
'e that great race-issue presents no part
n question, but is gigantic social pro(
le lem which can never be solved until
n is lifted high above the plane OF mer
q, partisan warfare, then something broaC
II er and more permanent may be evolve
le and accepted. But now cur only safet
Us is in our unity, and the nostrums of tn
et day, which simply serve to divert Il
10 and delude US, should be discarded an
~ discouraged.
II The speaker took up the varior
~ so-cALLED "REMEDIEs' AND SOLUTIONS
,e which he said had been proposed wit
TO more or less confidence by their author
re- and argued that none could be made
m work any practical, lasting good. In Il
is limits of this report but little more tha
his conclusions can be given, and n
the processes by which they We're reacI
ed. He said
,d DIsFRANCHISEMENT
g, had been proposed in vague sort
re wav, but was the more misleading O
d. that account, as those who proposed
be would not discuss, because they cou'
C. not dispose Of the obstacles, which rise
in the way to make disfranchisement yju
ee possible in this age. Any such schcu
en- would run directly counter to the pow
IN and known policy Of those responsib
" for negro suffrage, and they little undo
IL stand tbair tpinDpr who imagine fin,