The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-16
SENATOR 1AMPToN's SOLUTIONS
How the Negro Problem in the South should
he Met and Settled.

Senator Wade hampton N&s an al
ticle on the race problem in the July
Arena.
He declares the conferring the
right of sufisege on the negro was q
violation OF the constitution, and ne
quotes General Grants message as
follows to sustain that position:
"a measure which makes at once
four millions of people voters who
were heretofore declared, by the high,
est tribunal in the land, no citizens OF
the United States, not eligible to be.
come so, is indeed measure OF
srander Importance than any one
other act of the kind from the toun-
dation Of our free government to the
present day" ;,
He also says the Republicans admit
that giving the negroes suffrage was
mistake, though they cannot afford
to say so in public, because they
would lose the negro vote. He also
says an overwhelming majority OF the
people of the country would vote tor
the abregation OF the negro.s right OF
suffrage # it was submitted to them,
but as it will never be submitted, ne
thinks the next best thing il deporta-
ton of the negroes by their own con-
sent. and with lavish appropriations
by the federal government for their
help.
He asks why the right Of suffrage
should be gwen the negro when 1t IS
denied the Indian and the Chinese.
ssThe former" says he, 'was Ger
tainly q citizen of this country until
it was wrested from his hands, and
the latter can boast much higher
civilization than negro has ever or
Will ever attain. and yet il his case
the most brutal laws have been en-
acted, not only to exclude him from
citizenship, but to drive him from the
country, in violation of solemn treaty
stipulation. Such has been the IN
consistency of the Republican party.
In their senseless advocacy Of UNI
rersal suffrage, they have not only
thrown wide open the doors leading
to American citizenship, admitting
thus the anarchist, the communist,
the nihilist and ell other. scum OF
European nations, but they have IN
iected into our body polite millions
of ignorant, meducated blacks, who
have no more comprehension of our
system OF government than their
African forefathers had. And all the
evil resulting from this fnghttul
crime falls on that portion OF the
country where. but 8 few years ago,
these newly enfranchised voters were
salves. The crusade made against
slavery was on the ground that the
condition of servitude brought men
to the level Of beasts, uniting them
to discharge any OF the duties of
manhood. But when the direfu exs
igencies Of the war forced the North
to call the colored brother to its aid,
to escapse lefeat, as reward for MS
eminent services, he was clothed with
all the attributes of American citizen
slip, thus giving him the power to
take possession of those States In
which he had been for centuries .
slave. Now, if slavery had debased
: him to the condition of a beast, he
was scarcely fitted to assume rule OF
great, free and proud mmonwealths;
If he was fitted to do so, then slavery
had done more for his race than all
l. u 1oI
generations IN Africa to rescue him
from barbarian and savagery. Our
friends whose chief polaical capital
is the negro, may choose whichever
horn of this dilemma promisesto gore
them least. But we must meet the
fact that thenegro, whether rightfu1y
or Wrongfully, is citizen and a
voter, and this fact gives a right and
significance tothe race proBsem which
threatens such disaster to the country,
and ITO all of it's most cherished IN
stituions.
ssOne solution of the question has
been alluded to, that OF revohng
negro citizenship, but it has been dis
missed as impracticable, because our
people have not the courage to face
this issue which would rectify the
greatest wrong ever inflicted on a
free people.
:sAs this remedy cannot be applied, |,
we must turn to the next best thing,
and in my Judgment that would be
the deportation of the negroes, OF
course by their consent, to some
place where they could work out
their own destiny, free from contact
with the white race, and where they
could prove their capacity for self
government, if they possess it. Thous-
ands Of them, and many OF the best,
have expressed wish to try this ex-
pertinent, and our government should
aid them, not only with a hoeral, but
a lavish hand. Let US help them to
establish a nationality for themselves,
when they can show to the world that
the lessons they have learned here
have borne good fruit, and that the
savage who was brought from Africa
is now a civilized, law-abiding, self
sustaining man, fit to take his place
among the nations Of the earth, and
to be recognized in the great family
of eiaazed peoples. Africa, the ma
tive home Of the negro, still sends
forth her Macedonian cry for relig,
ion and civilization, and here the
negro of America could find ample
field to redeem continent from bar
'harism."
A Gruesome Hour.
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