The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-09-21
The RACE PROBLEM
AS Viewed by an intelligent,
Progressive COlored Man
of the SANITY City.
Able Arguments Advanced.

Able Arguments Advanced.
ST. PAUL, Sept. To the Editor:
The peace of a great nation is again
shocked with the bloody scenes and
tumults of the second trace war; and
we do not see the application of any
remedy. neither practical nor theore-
tical, advanced by the enlightened
masses of the North. It is the out
breaking OF the same old disease that
mas existed in the morbid brain 40 they.
have amy of 70, certain element Of the
seuthFfor successive 1deeade s5,s.
/. For any journal to assert that two (N
nations cannot live peaceably together,
as man and man, in a civilized country,
is infinitely apsurd. There is, perhaps,
no nation in the world but what has
dumped its refuse upon the shores of
America. so that there has never been
q time when this republic was occupied
by but two nations. More than two
centuries the colored man labored jun-
der whip and lash, under the fetter
and chain that ate his flesh, and the
trickling blood enriched the soil that
he titled! No people now living upon
American soil have done more for the
development of this country from the
reign of the first of the Stuarts, until
the military necessity" when more
than one hundred thousand were put
under arms to prevent dissolution of
this republic. ~ = -. ~
/ am colored man, son of a soldier,
and, as such, have the welfare of my
suffering brethren at heart. This per-
picking state of affairs grow more
complicated as the years go by. and
long ago merited national interference.
The government made no provision for
the maintenance and welfare of these
newly made citizens; it did not even
remove them from under the iron heel
OF oppression! They were left in the
very heart of rebeldom, unprotected,
unprovided for, and, in numerous cases.
subsisting for years after upon their
former masters, with whom it seems
they were left to compete. Thus the
ex-slave was exposed to all the hatred
and fury and vengeance that the insti-
tuition of Southern bloodhounds and
their brother rebels could wreak. With
great efforts tho masses of the colored
people have acquired an education.
They know that they, too, are entitled
to ssllfe, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness,o and they chafe as sensibly at
an attempt to abridge these right
though the thing were reversed. For
years the rights of colored men as citi-
zens were totally ignored. But, awaken
ing to their real condition, and smart
ing under any attempt to deprive them
OF their natural rights, a disposition to
band together for mutual protection
strikes alarm and terror to the coward
ly Southern ambushed murderers.
The South Tor that element of it,
should know by this time that the
policy she has adopted of trying to
compel free people to subservience
by an utter disregard of life and law
will not work, and must bring upon
her head the vengeance of freedom.
Nature and custom have endowed the
colored man with constitution almost
impregnable to hardships, and he is
therefore peculiarly adapted to the
culture of certain Southern products
which to the white man would mean
miasma and death: but oppression in a
free country is unbearable. A practical
remedy for our grievances would be a
vigorous and popular move looking to
the emigration of at least one million
of these people from the South to the
new states of the Pacific Northwest.
These states have boundless timber
and farm lands, and the climate and
other conditions are equal or perhaps
better than the South. ...
The law of evolution operating on
the white man south of the Mason and
Dickson line presages aretarding effect
and seems to carry him steadily, but
surely, back to the awful abyss of
barbaric night! No man is the equal
of the one he robs! These recent
race troubles are but the murmur-
ings of the terrible storm hat is sure
to break; they are the menacing
Nemesis that will bring retribution
swift and sure upon that section which
revels in lawlessness and crime That
governments no adequate governments
at all that is powerless to defend the
defenders. We have heard talk enough
about solving the trace problem but
there is no race problem to solve!
When the balance of Harmony existing
between all the races that compose
this great republic is disturbed, then.
and not till then, will there be q race
problem to solve.
Justice holds out the scales and
metes out to every race composing the
American people their dues except the
eolored man. No instance is recorded
in which the colored man has carried
in his bosom the devilish, spirit of
revenge for the unspeakable cruelties
and the monstrous outrages against
the rebels who owned him. Husband
and wife We're parted on the auction
block; babies sold from the breasts of
mothers by the fiendish hand of greed
and relentlessness, and still the colored
man seeks no revenge. There are no
svirdlent feelings in his heart against
his tyrant master, and, if such a feeling
exists, in ana state Or stafos IN 4l,a