The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-09-01

the SoutherneTS. But | undertake to say
that no Southron in all the hoary regis
ter of time ever committed wors'
breach of manner Tor morals either) than
this same Mrs. Garfield, wife of the eX
chancellor of the Kansas University
Why, even the Arabs, the descendants o
Ishmael, whose hand was against every
man, recognized the sacred rights of hospi
tality, which this Kansas female hateit'
| has violated. Even the robbers of tht
desert hold inviolable the persons ant
characters of those with whom they have
| tasted salt. But not SO with Mrs. lsh
| mael Garfield. There she was an hon
| ored and petted guest of the generous
and cultivated white ladies OF tamou:
Southern city-her husband one of thu
chief officers in the great National Teach
ers' Association. Entertained III home:
of elegance by people of culture, she
| writes from one OF these homes that She
| has bccn after the manner of Captain
! Cutie, making notes" of things, whiCl
in general way is laudable perform
ance But what is the particular thing
she notes with gEce-that the negroes are
increasing faster than the whtcs-than
her own kin, race and blood
rejoicing at fact, which, if it be fact,
must of very necessity, bring sorrow to
the heart of every lover of his country
and his kind. Bur what else? She hopes
to live to see the blacks i'll the majority;
and if this, her blessed consuinmation
cannot be fully accomplished i'll her day,
then she hopes-what? Certainly the
StrangcSt and most unnatural hope that
ever dwelt i'll human heart or found ut
terancc i'll any Of the languages spoken
by the children of men. She hopes to be
permitted to look down from corner in
Heaven! Think of that Oh! christian
people from corner in heaven The
Heaven of peace and love and righteous
ness and behold what? "BlaCk heels
revolving conception that woman must
have of the doctrines and teachings Of
the meek and lowly Nazarenc-whosc
central thoughts were love and charity
and forgiveness Who declared that
people must become as little children
before they could enter the kingdom Of
heaven! What an amazing picture she
draws of hcaveu-a place i'll which she
will be provided with an eligible corner,
from which she will be enabled to CRAFTY
her inhuman prejudice and to safe her
unnatural hate by gazing with gloating
eyes upon the unutterablc Suiicrings and
incffable agony of the children of the
very people whose gracious and elegant
hospitality she was at that particular
moment betraying and abusing. Tell it
not in Cath. Proclaim it not in the
streets OF Askalon that the qualification
of malice shall be one of the Cmployments
of the saints i'll heaven. 1t appears to
me that royal Tom Hood must have had
Mrs. Canfield's prototype before him,
when he wrote
''Alas! for the rarity
Of christian charity
Under the sum-
Why, the old Morse idea of heaven as a
place where we would forever drink our
selves blind drunk out of the skulls of our
enemies slain in battle was superior to
Mrs Can6eld's-for how, by even the
most latitudinarian construction can the
white people of the South in the year of
our blessed Lord and Master 1889 be
considered as the enemies of this Kansas
woman? Her hopes are as revolving as
the performances of Mrs. Tarquin, Lucre-
tia Borgia, or Mrs. Macbeth. Even
Herodas demanding of her husband the
head of John the Baptist on charger
docs not equal this wholesale hate of
Mrs. Garfield, for Hcrodias did have a
cause ofquarrcl against John, and Mrs.
Garfield has nonc-can have none,
against the white people of the South.
Macauley in closing his essay on Bar
rerc boasts that he has placed the igno-
ble Frenchman on a pinnacle of intamy
from which no succeeding writer will be
able to take him down. think that
Mrs. Garfield, of Kansas has performed
the same feat for herself
If she is so much in love with 'our
brother i'll black, she might, with profit
to all concerned, eXpatriate herself and
take up her abode in Hayti or Africa.
And, then, in her next letter, she might
adopt to the cxigencies of her own case,
these lines from composition by certain
citizens of Botany Bav:-
True patriots wc for be it understood
We lett our country for our country's good
1t is certainly to be hoped that, con
science stricken, she may be induced or
mpelcd to take this course.
To us up in Missouri, where the whites
the blacks ten or twenty to
one, such insane drivel, such unrcason-
ing malignancy as Mrs. Canlicld's only |
cxcitcs our disgust; but, down here,
where the negroes arc as plcnti- |
ful as the CaucasianS, such gush
as hers causes feeling close akin
to alarm Since the days of Ned tor bred
or Nattl Turner and old John Brown,
negro insurrcction has ever been before
the eyes of the white people oi the South.
To-day the fear of African domination
stalkcth abroad at noonday. 1t may be
a pleasing prospect to Mrs. Garfield and
her ilk, if indeed she is not the only one |
of her kind, which is to be hoped; but it |
is dreadiul-that' the only word to eX-
press ito those who have had a taste
of it and know what it means. Like
BanQuo'S ghost it will not down at any
bodys bidding.
The whites and blacks of the South I'M
dcrstand each other far better than Mrs.
Garfield can ever understand either. 1t
is a tremendous task they have before
them-to work out common destiny as
distinct races and equal before thclaw, i'll
the same country. DeToCqueville, the great |
French philosopher and historian, said
that superior and an inferior race OF
people could not live together perma-
nently as co-cqual citizens, and many
people believe him. He Furthermore de-
clared that in such a case a war OF races
to the death was inevitable. Some peo-
ple believe that But here these people,
both white and black, "are confronted by |
a condition and not a theory" and so tar
as can judge the vast majority of both
races-the Industrious, intelligent and
patriotic portions-are endeavoring hon
estlv and faithfully to work out the great
problem for the good of all. The part OF
wisdom and dccency and philanthropy is
for outsiders to let them severely alone,
fnr nntsiders can't solve the question or