Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-01-20
T,he Rfnfrn nffhe NEGRO.
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A few days ago I saw an article from
your paper headed the Negro IN Poll
tics - like its general tenor and con-
illusions. The idea Of political equality
without social is vain and preposterous
and social merging with the negro is re-
pugnsnt 10 the whole Of the northern
Ststes. / have 10 prejudice against
color, but / have legitimate objection
against it. ] prefer ny own race and
wish 1t TO he kept white and tie negro
ought to prefer HE, and wioh 1T to be
kept pure and black. This certainly IS
"higher law. - Charles sumner con
tended for "equshty before the law.
which is well but he Was silent about 1t
behind the law-a and this latter condition
is what the black man wants in Boston,
at least, though many negroes deny IL ia
words but not in act. am hepuhli-
can, md was acquainted with Mr.. -. j..
Garrison. bat never sympathized with
him in bis hopeful notions Of negro
equality, and he never took very pract-
csl steps 10 bring them about. WITH
other races than the intensely colored
we may fuse, as education and time
give them unity but with the negro
it - asking too much. We cannot
eliminate color Yet he demands this
social comminging, and seeks al oppor-
tunities TO marry white wives, thus ~
uoring what is due 10 bis own race,
which he seems 10 despise. Very many
facts now come 10 mind showing thst the
blacks IN Boston las well az elsewnerel
do not properly respect and sustain
Themselves. do not say the negro 10
interior to the white race IN thls coun-
try but Frederick Douglas says me IL
AT present aad he would give the freed
men twenty years to test their worth ana
honor taeIr freedom.
An intelligent or cultured mulattO of
Boston observed to me lately that ANAL
Qanaton between the two races would
bc auch to the advantage Of tire whites
by the infusion OF more vigorous bioot,
and that the nation would sink II 10 we're
not accomplished.
Charles summer said at his death that
negro suffrage was faiiure aud go sald
Wendell Phillips, and this probably be-
cause it had not come up to the great
expectations Of their warped judgments
anu heated imaginalIOn3. HERE are
thousands at the North who call for IA
Tree negro vote who would not live under
negro government They probably
think, and perhaps rightly, that human
nature Is more potent tnan and hes be-
meath the Declaration of ludepcnaen &c.
The late Salmon J.. Chase sought to
paiiato nero suffrage bv saying that
tAs black man would vote Tor tine white !.
How could he and be free The north
orn States, however are free from negro
government, -, conn arauyeiy there 10
10 colored constituency.
thought at tie time Of the emancipa-
ton proclamation tuat while the stotCrY
question was settled the l~UD question
was not Whether Tie blacks Of the
South are educated or not il viii no. srye
some Of the States from negro rule, yet
CIVILIZED rule is preferable 10 barosrous.
/ lave heretofore believed that some
plan Of voluntary colonization was tho
Test thing for tho colored population
both North and South, as 1t would APP
peal To their pride Of seii-goyeument 4
not OF race. Yet l may be mistaken.
The nero. however, IS not cOnten'ed.
What can he honorAbly aud safely done
for his relief? Abraham Lincoln once
ssid that tno country could not hold to-
pelber part slave AMI part Tree. Can II
bold together with a population part
white and part black BOsiO'.