Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01
TREATMENT OF THE NEGRO.
1t is difficult nowadays to pick

1t is difficult nowadays to pick up
a newspaper North or South which
does not give prominence to the So
called negro problem OF race issue.
And yet there is no more in it than
there ever was, and there is no more
danger to be apprehended from the
growing complication OF the rela-
tons between the white people Of
the South and the colored man and
brother than there ever was. We
have simply let or Northern politi-
cal foes force the question into an
unjust and undue prominence and
to put us in false light. We have
suffered ourselves to be put on the
defensive in regard to our treatment
of the negro and have wasted too
much time uselessly in denying
charges Of mistreatment of the col
ored man and IN defending our
course towards him. The Southern
people do not need to Justify their
treatment of the negro, and the
whole so-called race problem will
have been settled when the negroes
of this section learn that we are
their best and kindest friends, and
when the intelligent, honest and
fair minded people of the North
cease to be influenced by the bloody
shirt fanatics, hYpocrites and IN
principled politicians who trade on
and make unholy merchandise out
of the color issue. In time the re-
publican party will throw off the
mask, when it finds that 1t can
not further use the negro for its po-
litical gain, and then the colored
people will see who are their friends.
Already therepublican organs are be-
ginning to speak up against the ne
gro and to justify the party for not
according him greater political rec
ognition on the ground of his inferi-
GRITTY and incapacity, although they
have for years past been seeking to
Africanize and to foist negro rule on
the Southern people. The Evans
vile Indiana) Journal, one of the
most rabid of republican sheets,
which is ever ready to arraign the
white people of this section for the
suppression of the negro vote, justi-
fes the action OF its party for deny
ing recognition to the colored man
in that state, Notwithstanding that
without the negro vote the hoosier
republicans would be hopelesslY in
a minority, by such expressions as
the following: mo ore coloreG
man out of hundred is fit to hold
Office. They are ignorant through
no fault of their own. Occasionally
you will find one Of them who by
means Of native talent has risen SUI
perior to his surroundings, but the
great mass of them are not only IN
lettered but in many cases de
graded. No matter how kindly 1e-
publicans feel toward colored peo
pie, they cannot hand the destinies
of the community over to ignorant
rulers. If they do, they lose the
confidence of thousands OF voters
who are not governed by sentimen-
tai considerations. This country
must be governed by its virtue and
intelligence, or it must degenerate
into barbarity.' The foregoing is
but another illustration of the fact
that it makes powerful sight of
difference whose OK is gored. AL
that the Southern people and the
Southern editors will need to do
hereafter will be to carefully scan
republican papers, clip out suca ex-
pressions as this and paste then in
their hats for future reference.