Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-07-12

unihtdsuIeu terms Ills wicked
ness. hAe
"Then, said the q. az Won
VIII not buy Them YOU melt
Ihem down Tor me- Melt them
DOWN." said the siiversmitb
that is quite an matter. .
He took the chalic nd crucifix
with pair of topRs ppad them
into the crucible, mel them. and
delivered the bullion % thief and
received his five pisto payment,
and the thief decnnip, rhe vcs5fno
servant stared at ranssscffon
while his master gra resumed
My son, take war; bv that
sacT'ilegeous knave, an ke example
by me. Think whet N Of OriiIf
hes on his cor ~ ls,t A. to
me. yor saul - ,.,5,.I1 fhe
stolen goods. snd1 thrive in
fear of God and man b tnrn an
honest penny.
EXTENUATiNe uRcU rANCEs.
This phenomenal ltusaness os
morals evinced by DO ION of our
people may derive soI.e nalIiation
from circumstances over which the
present generation had IN control
and to that extent they nav he on,
titled to our commise alton. hnt
not to our completely In the wrong
they propose.
Men will have defects OF hasr mali
ties, and the latter are the pvoduct
of the time and evironn MT WM.n
is explicable by nothing sss than ali
his history, " said the " q Emerson
The principles inlaid IN he charac-
ter of a peopls by no 'hL IsIred wears
OF the culture of habit, tim,ght' and
education can not be rabjra tetl IN n
single generation. Ii Ii IN immuta-
BILE law that decay OF facil Inv will fol.
low disuse of function. A neonlp who
shut their eyes to justice for two
hundred years can not regain their
vision in one generation.
The conditions imposed bv the
institution of slavery caused the
character of the superior race TO
undergo notifications which greatly
enfeebled their moral faculties
blunted their moral sense. and
made cruelty and oppEession and
denial OF right to Others Seem to
them quite compatible with GOOD
moral conduct. The moral insens;-
bility which made it Possible for
them to buy, sell, task, and wb;n
human beings before the var. made
it easy for them after the war to
countenance the burning of the
houses of Negroes. butt4nSrinr them
In their beds, or hn-s~;s,g them am
the nearest tre. irbumanitv
that enabled them bssol .. Gar to
believe that an institp5inHi which
dispensed with the domestic rela-
tions, abolished the holy words.
home, family, wife, child, father
mother, brother, 'aRdsister. andwith-
held legal sanction aud moral obi
CATION from the relation which these
words imply was OF divine sanction,
was quite equal to the task after
the war of instituting q system of
merciless prescription, which spared
neither age nor sex, to terrorise the
Negro and rob him OF his ballot.
THE NEGRO IN THE coNFEDERArE
ARMY.
The same moral atrophy which
qualified the clergy of the Confeder-
ate States of America in 1868 to
issue an address to the Christians
throughout the world, in WHICH
they declared:
vs. testify Il the sight q God that the relation
bic with our holy Christianity and the presence
Of the African Of orr land Is en- OCCASION Of graft
fuae on their behalf before Hea.
The practicable plan for heneatting the African
rece must be the provIdeptiai plan. the script
Arai plan We adopt thar plan In the South.
Made the Congress of the Con-
federacy in 1866 capable of passing
the bill known as the Negro soldiers
bill.
! qnote the first and last sections:
Abill to increase the military iorce Of the Con,
federate States
i. The Congress Of the Confeierate States of
America do enact that in order Ia provide add,
tipnal force ia repel Invasion, maintain the
FlghttuI Possession Of the copIedefats States.
institutions the Rresdsnt s and ns i hs renew
authorized to ask TOR aud accept from the owners
led Negro men as he may deem sxpedsent for and
during the war. to perform military service hi
whatever capacity he NAV direct.
5. That nothing IN be construed
to auteSc--irss a changef 81 the said
slavae.
What Ask man TO fight for
your liberty; to gather into his
breast the daggers aimed at your
country's heart; to carry his own
life in his hand into the imminent
and deadly breach, that your flag
might float, and reward him with
chains and slavery Great Godl
Is there any depth OF inhumanity
beneath this depth7 Ia this not the
incarnation of diabolism? Yet the
act was passed and approved by
Jefferson Davis. / never heard OF
but one protest against it. To the
credit of the human race it NAV be
said that this rayless night of insen-
sibility to the claims of gratitude
which seem to shroud this people
was penetrated by one beam of
humanity from the heart OF General
Robert f. Lee, who writing TO a Con-
federate Congressman, aequiescing
in the propositions to arm the
Negroes, added:
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