The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19
TIE NEGRO AGAIN.

To tho Editor OF The Appeal:
You have had great deal 10 say lately about the
negro and have made some earnest appeals for the
white mans consideration OF him. What do you
think Of the demands recently made at the Jackson
Convention by the negroes assembled there?
MANY SUBSCRIBERS.
TIE APPEAL thinks the statements
and demands OF the Jackson Conven-
ton mischevious, because they arouse a
feeling with many negroes that can never
be satisfied or gratifed. Education and
Contamination is what the negro needs.
Social equality, oven in the least degree,
is out Of the question. No railroad COM
pany in the South would attempt 10
force negroes into the same cars with
the white people. That the white
people would no more tolerate
or permit than they would mixed
schools or mixed churches. There is a
pride OF race, as The ArPEAL has often
stated, that governs the white race in Its
maintenance Of a superiority that needs
no wordy assertion to prove II. This pride
Of race operates ON the white man instinct
lively IN tho West Indies, in Africa and in
the islands OF the Pacific, wherever he
comes in contact with tho negroid type Of
man. II even operates in tho East Indies,
where the English are brought in contact
mainly with the Indian OF the Ayan
stock, Of which he himself is a descendant
Equality in any social sense between the
white man and the negro is totally
and utterly out Of the question, and
the negro leader who proposes II is
simply playing tho part Of a demagogue
with his race and injuring 1t by arousing
the latent prejudices OF tho white man.
The State Of Mississippi has provided by
law that negroes paying first class fare on
railroads shall have separate flst class &c.
commodations, just as 1t has provided first
class schools for negro children, that are
as well appointed and equipped as those
for the white children. This is just and
iair and is in accordance with the spirit
that has always and that will always DO a
Characteristic OF the white race growing
out Of race repugnance and the necessity
for race preservation. The best negroes,
those who have carefully observed the
tendencies OF things and tho ro-
suits Of the last twenty.four years,
are satisfied that their race must
mako its way on separate lines dis
tinct from the white race, but under the
protection OF the law that guarantees the
negro in his political and personal rights.
In this lac will DO helped by the white
man, who will continue, as in the past, to
maintain public schools for him. lilo will
also be helped moro strenuously than
ever ia his churches by tho white man,
for that is IN c declaration of all the Chris.
tian bodies that have been in convention
this year, and is tho declared purpose Of
leading ministers OF all branches Of the
church. Thenegro has his own school Ia.
siitutes aud normal schools, and furnishes
teachers for his own public and private
schools, and thus is making and will
make his own way in civilization. helped
in the work OF education and Christianiza.
ton by the superior race. Aud In time
all cause OF collision will disappear. The
negro demagoguo will cease to excite his
fellows by demands impossible OF fulfill.
mont, aud the two races working side by
side will accomplish what is possible 10
them for the advancement OF the best In.
forests Of the country. The negro com
pared with the white man Is In the main
as a child is 10 a iull-grown man OF expo
Renee, Of trained power and education, and
II Is a criminal act Of folly in any man,
white or black, to attempt an assertion Of
equality for him with the white man in
any way socially. The negro who does so
Is an enemy Of his race and is a hindmncc
TO the continued existence Of the comfy
and good viii that should be iosiorcd be-
tween tho races for their mutual good,
their safety and their peace.