The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1889-09-07
GRENADA, MISS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER I. 1899.
die with Christian hope of heaven
the reward of well spent life.

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negro suffering from remorse, except
when caught in crime F.; he then seems
penitent and if allowed to escape rum
ishment, promises to sin no more. The
explanation is easy. The negro was
slave recently rescued from barbarism.
The business ola slave is to obey his
master, not to judge between right and
wrong. A discriminating conscience
would either have made him rebel or
miserable conscience accusing wretch.
A man cannot serve two masters. SO
having no use for conscience it perish
ed for want of exercise, or still remains
in an undeveloped state. Degraded in
morals and destitute of intelligence, with
out selfrespect, and incapable Of having
noble aspirations, the northern armies
broke bis letters and made him an
American citizen. They gave him the
ballot ana taught him to hate his mas
ter, and consider him his worst enemy.
Why did our masters do this, and what
did they expect? We are to judge of a
mans motives by his intelligence, by his
surroundings, and the state OF his feel
ings. This is readily answered by the
estimate our enemies placed upon them
selves. They claim to be the most en-
lghtened people in the world, the
wisest and the most penetrating. They
knew the negro well, but they knew us
better. They knew we were a people
who had in concert with themselves Sc
cured our liberty by our valor and blood:
Like Bunyan's Christian, we had passed
through the valley of Humility and the
city OF Destruction on our way to the
land of Beulah. We had defeated
Apollygon in the person of kings when
with advance swords, they strobe in our
road. We had defied the lions aud had
escaped from Castle Dangerous. We
were now in the land of Beulah, rich in
flowers, sweet with the music of birds
and rich in grapes-and drinking from
the waters of liberty-would we share
these blessings on an equality with our
former slaves, liberated by our enemies
and taught to hate and annoy us :?
Could we
IT is evident they did not expect us to
submit. In our revolt, they expect re-
venge worthy of the humanity OF Nero.
| If after the war the negroes had been
kept in disciplinary probation, prepar..
atory to giving them the privileges OF
the ballot. we would have been content !;
for eyerv soldier knew that defeat meant
the end of slavery. There would have
been no surrepders if we had known
that our wisest men were to be disfran-
chised and the ballot given the negro to
crush us. But our enemies thirsted for
revenge, and the ballot was given the
negro as a means of enslaving or exter-
minatipe us. We were given the choice
of two roads, either OF which led to dis
truction. They told us in our conflicts
with the negroes we might appeal to bis
conscience or his intelligence, but we
must use no other weapon. They ex-
pected the negroes would be crazy with
| his unexpected liberty. They expected
his heart would boil with revenge at the
memory Of his wrongs. This opportu'
nity was given him to satisfy his revenge
Like the enemies OF Daniel they expect
ed to see us destroyed by the lions-they
rested in patient pleasure to hear the
music OF our wailings, were DIS
appointed when the trap fell and Their
game had escaped. An unseen hand
had bound the mouths of the lions. The
negro did not dislike his master unit
taught to do so by our masters. BY ma
ture he was not revengeful,, but ne
i, gloried in voting, and it delighted hin
to triumph over his master. With this
! spirit he elected to office the greedlest
I most abandoned thieves that ever picket
r the pocket of helpless people. W.
!. had patiently reasoned with him-w'
4 had appealed to his conscience in vain
9 We at length discovered he had neither
It The time had come for change. W.
It felt like Xenophon and his 10000 vet
q erans. surrounded by the treacherou
It Persians. we had nothing to gain b
e delay and appeals to the humanity {
l. our masters. Xenophon determined
/ return through ice and snow to Greece
n and we meant return to our lost llDert!
'1 AS the Persians trembled, admired an
retreated when they saw the Greer
Of burning their surplus baggage, befol
al thew began their eventful march-s
It. did the negroes, We had found a ne
ID approach, and in carrying the citad
Mt we saved ourselves, the negro and tt
ty country from disgrace.
What our valor won, our courage W
a hold. Till the leviathan submits to tt
he hook and the rhinoceros to the yoke,
h. will submit no more to Northern dict
i'll ton. We mean to hold the citadel
is our liberty, and be worthy OF tho
ty northern friends who helped to resc
les us from the depths OF dispair. 20
IL science is a delicate whispering gale
tut fitted with two ears. one to catch t
an whisperings OF justice, and the other
he public opinion. l think the ear OF j
ms tice in the Republican party has be
ty' deaf icr a long time. If you can get
ICE frierd, DR.. Shep Rogers, OF Memphis
lie inject some Of his elixir OF Lie into
hin possibly it may recover its hearing.
on. It be lost hope to catch the tones
ere humanity, possibly it may be aroused
es, catch the notes of shame. l have
ste remedy to recommend for the relief reIlN1
cry our white Southern Republicans. IN
en-. are dirt from without and within. +
on nv paper is already too long. ! had M
CO. to say touching some interesting TAI
ent but unwritten history, and posslb
the NAV saw something at another time.
the Respectfully.
de. C.J.F. MERlwETHER.
mas Swan Lake, Miss, Aug. Is, 1889.
at | I,nJJprS Meeting.