The Opelousas courier., 1889-07-06

Some Opinions Upon the Race Questio

From The Birmingham tA1a.) Age Herald.
Those who urge the education of the negro
as "a remedy for the disorder are chimericai
and show ii meager knowledge and senti
mental conception of the conditions that pre-
vail in the Southern States.
In the first place, everything that possibly
can be done for negro education is being done.
The white people of the South tax themselves
to their utmost capacity to provide public
schools for him. He has the benefit of the
Peabody fund and numerous philanthropists
of the North have given and bequeathed large
sums to establish negro schools and colleges
But ali II this a making but little impression
Oh the mountaiH of illiteracy under which he
is buried.
Bus if it were practical to educate every
negl child in the land mere know ledge OF
the spelling book and the multiplication table
| wonld not bring that moral elevation neees-
sary to fit the race for the functions of good
citizenship. 1t would be as practical to un-
dertake the civilization of a section of Central
| Africa by sending school books and teachers
| there as it wonld be to elevate the negro OF
theSouth to the level of.theswhite man by the
| education of one generation.
The remove from savagery to civilization
has not come of book learning alone and no
hothouse process can do for the negro that
| which the gradual evolution of centuries has
| done for the white race.
| The negro and tflA Anglo-Saxon constitute
the antitheticai genera OF the human fam
| iIy. They will not amalgamate aud they can't
i've together on equal terms 1t would be
| every way best that they should separate,
and segregation would not prove Impractical
| if the entire country should determine on it.
DeSoto Democrat.
| Much is said by the press of this State about
| 50 white stipremacyn That is a foregone con
clusion and should not figure at ALIVE will
have that whether or no" even it we have te
resort to force. The real question is which
i shall prevail, intelligence or ignorance, and II
is a mere matter of expediency as to wha
plan must be adopted to secure the desired
end if our people remain united. Many plans
have been suggested, but the most ifeasibi'
one, to our mind, is an educational qadHfea
ton to the right of suffrage. There is no doub
hut what the State has right, and can maxi
such a constitutional amendment, and WI
urge onr able representatives, Messrs Jenkn
and Harris to endeayor to have such al
| amendment submitted at the next session o
the legislature, without regard to race, colo
or previous condition" This will distranchl -
a nout 25 per cent of the whites, and about q
ner cent of the blacks and will place thi
yexed question at rest for ever so far as "
! are concerned This matter is left ent1rel
'aEith the people of the State and 1t Is Wit
Ethe.n whether they will exercise this priv
. lege or not.
t w. b. II. Sugar Planter.
) The n w Orleans Pieayune has a theory IT
t garding y5,e eventual solution OF the rae
: Sroblem here in the South. 1t is that the III
proes. or at least a great majority of then
: following the Instinct of self preservation
. VIII will gradually migrate to the thinly settle
a regions of Mexico, Arizona and New Mexic
there to work out their own destiny, aioI
# aud uuaided. This is a plausible tAeory, an
; there is. perhaps, as much in it as i'll the a
: erage solution of the question offered by tt
g newspapers.