The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-02-13
gravates whatever of trouble is inaict-

gravates whatever of trouble is inflict- !
ed upon them.
Such is the nature of man. We
prefer to do things of our o1n voli-
ton that we ould refuse to do at the
dictation of these who have no right |
to. order. Within my memory as a
child there was strong and growing
anti-slavery party in North Carolina,
headed by many of our greatest and
most honored citizens some of whom
sat in these seats before me. Orations
against slavery and its consequences
were freely delivered, and with ap
plause, before the classes of our uni
versity. This cause, under the infiu-
ence of its great advocates, would soon
have claimed a majority of the voters
of North Carolina, but those fiery
zealots Of the North, who, as Carlyle
says, were so anxious to serve God
they took the devil into partnership
with them, began their interference.
A crusade against slavery and slave
holding, in defiance of legal rights,
was begun and kept up until so far
was the cause of emancipation over
thrown that twenty-five years after
these same great and honored North
Carolinians would have suffered in
suit and violence for repeating their
orations. Men will not be bullied even
into doing right. Know, therefore,
that every speech you make,eYery law
you enact denunciatory of or punative
against the Southern people, with q
view to subject them to the rule of
their emancipated slaves, defers indefi-
nitely that state of cordial harmony
between whites and blacks which Is 30
necessary to both. =
There is another way by which, in
my opinion, you also do the negroes
great damage by your constant inter-
ference. You do nothing to increase
the cordially between them and their
white neighbors. You know that their
well-being depends upon their being
on good terms with their landlords and
employers more than upon anything
else; yet you are constantly endeavor-
ing to drive a wedge between them
and to push them further apart. You
endeavor to make them look altogeth-
er to you for help. You have coddled
them so long and made them SO many
promises that they have ceased to RELY
upon their own exertions and have
come to believe that it is the duty of
others to provide for them. No great
er injury could be done to any people.
The historian of the Spanish con-
quests in America, Arthur Helps, re-
marks that the considerate and gentle
regulations provided for the Indians
of the Pearl coast by the benevolent
Las Casas "proved sad restraint up
on the energies of the race, as no man
leans long on any person or thing
without losing some of his original
power and energy" You have legis-
lated and amended constitutions for
him, denounced your neighbors,. and
glorified the negro officially, wept
over his condition until you have to a
very great extent made him "dod
der" parasitic animal without sup
port in selfrespect or self-reliance, q
class of men which Of all others is
least desirable in a progressive com
munity. 9
"Any new set Of conditions" says
the philosopher, Ray Lancaster, "oc-
curing to an animal which render its
food and safety very easily attained
seem to lead, as rule, to degenera
ton" .e.
Applying this principle in nature to
the moral world, Henry Drummond
says: s :.
"Any principle which secures the
safety Of the individual without per
sonal effort or the vital exercise o.
faculty is disastrous to moral charac
ter.
Suppose you trust the Southern peo
pie for awhile? You can not believ,
that any considerable number of then
desire to do wrong or to treat the ne
groes unjustly ? If you say you trus
them and withhold yonr interference
public sentiment, with a power thA
can not be resisted, will. soon enforc,
State laws and constitutional amend
ments in a manner that will satisfy al
honest men; not perfanctorily, bu
with cheerful zeal.
| 1 regret exceedingly that I can no
support the bill of the Senator from
South Carolina. Ny objection to it i
on the ground of impracticability. L
would result in no relief; few negroe
would go from the country under it
provisions and those would probably
be the best. 1 can not say that
have any desire to attempt in AM
way SO great and unhistorical tasl
as removing whole people, amount
ing probably to 100000. Thei
presence among US, of course, I regret
| should be happy to know that ther
was not one of them in the Unite,
States to be the unwilling cause o
everlasting contention between ou
i people. But they are here, and 70
one am willing to do my best to liv
with them in harmony. I can wei
see, however, and appreciate the mo
tive of the honorable Senator in tax
ing this action. know how his Stat
has been weighed down in the past b,
this incubus and how dark the futur
J of his people must appear under tn
ever threatening danger of a recul
. renee to the carnival of corruption
and misrule of 1868 -'69 and 1870. :.
So far as the evil may be capable q
! remedy by removal of any kind, :
; would suggest that it is perfectl
, practicable to induce these people t
, settle in the various States of thi