The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-15
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agitate them and work upon their credulity
and sympathy on the one hand, and affect
their industries their social peace and
their political status on the other. Lord
Salisbury, the present English Premier, in
a speech on the result OF an election held
some months ago in the lIolborn Parlia-
mentary District, for which an Indian gem
teman, IN English landed proprietor,
stood as n Liberal candidate in opposition
to Conservative, made use of the words
''black man" as term of reproach and
badge OF race inferiority. This Mr.. Glad
stone very properly denounced as an insult
put upon the 100000 0O) people of India,
all OF them British subjects or tributary to
Great Britain as lieges through Britain's
suzeraintles. Stung by Mr.. Gladstone's
timely robuke, Lord Salisbury, few days
ago, in second speech delivered at Scar
borough. attempted to explain his appli-
cation Of the Objectionable term, and in do
ing so plunged deeper into the mire OF race
segregation. He said:
"Mr. Gladstone says ndnlgcd In contcmptuous
dcnunclatlon Of the people of India aud that did
10 because | used the term black man about II
certain gentleman. We'll. now, In the first place. |
deny that the words black man necessarily In.
yolye a contemptuous denuncintlon. such ! doc
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large portion Of the human race, portion which
contains some OF the finest members OF the mce.
The people who have bltn Gphting NJ suakim and
happily conquered are among the finest tribes Of
the world aud many NJ them are ns bl ck ns my
hat But that + a small matter. What deny y
that sal anything about the people of India I
INDUCED In no c0nicmptuOus denunclntion Of
them, and In no dcnuncalon II any kind | dld
not mention them The people Of India Is en-.
tiUly supplied by Mr. Glalst0nes own mag.
inalion; and II, ~ no says they will resent
the insult, II is nn insult they have received
from him aud not from me. Al did was 90 point
out hat you could not un1tnand the meaning oi
the llolblrn election of iN,i unless you nmem.
bercd that the Liberal candidate was not only Of a
distant rncc-widcly separ ltc1 from us--but that Il
was marked by his complexion that Il was No, ~
that the whole constituency know Il. and that Ia
the existing state Of Enslsh opinion was very
strong factor IN thc decision which they gave.
whether It ought 10 have been strong factor OF
not did not ut that time enter on. My own fun.
preston l. that such cindldhtutcs are homogeneous
and unwisc Tho British House Of Commons. with
IL traditions and vnde rtandngs, having grown
| mp lifted 10 the people, aud grown out of their
daily life Is a machiae too peculiar aud too deli
cato to be- managed by any bat those who have
been born within thcsc l,les."
II this last sentence means anything Il
means England for the white man aud
that Lord Salisbury is not willing to share
the Government, OF the Empire with its
subjects in India who are by 100000, 900
in the majority. II means that the Eng
lish are as much opposed 10 the natives OF
India, descendants Of the Aryan stock
though they be, ~ the people Of our
Pacific Coast States are opposed 10 the
Chinese, descendants Of the Turania stock
which the AIyans have always had the his
toric antipalhy Of superiority. It means
that the English people have a dislike OF
all races with black skins, and that they
will no, allow them 10 share in the Gov.
eminent OF the Empire, just as the white
people Of the Southern States object Ia
being governed by the negro, which
in all history up 10 the close Of the
civil war in this country was q
subject and subordinate race. aud even in
Africa has ever been a slave race. Is there
no, In this lesson worthy the study OF
rresidcnt-clect Harrison. who Is anxious
20 rc-arouse race hates in the South by O
bugle-call to the Republican party when
once he has been indicted into Office? Is
II not lesson TO him and TO all like him
that there Is n law u the blood, Of the
race that is superior 10 all others, and
that having survived the changes aud
mutations Of time, from the earliest
Egyptian records 10 those Of our own day,
Il cannot be suppressed, much less blottcd
out by mere partisan beat and zeal or sec
tional passion and halo2 The negroes OF
the South owe all they are TO the white
people Of the South; md u the latter arr
not inicricrcd with by the Republicans,
may have to owe still morc-io owe their
entire manumssion from ignorance aud
mere race environment In politics.