Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-01
It 10 ImprActicable.
Kansas City Globe.


Kansas City Globe.
Senator Butler proposes to settle the
race question by shipping all the col
ored people of the United States 10
Africa. TIE "hero of Hamburg" did
not consider the time and money that
would DO required to put his little
scheme into execution. There are six
millions of these colored people. They
compose about half the population of
the old slave states. All the ships Of
the republic could not furnish trans.
pOrtation for this great host In fifty
years and the natural increase of the
offensive race in that time would pro-
long the period of deportation indef-
nitely. No. Senator Butler, your
scheme won't work. Il has not the
first element of practicability in it.
You forget in the first place that the
negro is no longer q chattel. He Is
not property, but has the right to &C
quire and hold property. Before the
law he stands a citizen Of the great re-
public, having the same rights under
the constitution that you do. He has
much greater right to demand the
protection of the flag than you have,
for he never betrayed It. And what,
pray, could you do with the negro?
You wouldn't Danish him If you could.
You would sooner part with your re.
naming leg. lie furnishes the solid
subs,ratum OH which all your ec0nOm-
ic and industrial interests rest. You
couldn't do without him and you
know it. There is but one thing left
for you to do, and that is 10 recognize
him as a man and n brother. You
will be obliged to do this by aud by;
not, perhaps, by any legislation fore
ing You 10 do so, but by the voice Of
universal humanity. Better thou
sand times do it of your own volition.
You know all that is requisite TO the
establishment of peace and harmony
throughout the length and breadth Of
the south is the establishment Of jus
tice aud equity. This done all fear Of
q conflict between the races vanishes.
All fear of an uprising among the ne
groes of Louisiana and South CarOli-
ma is born of u guilty conscience. The
white man knows what he would do
If he had the provocation that the ne.
gro has, but fortunately the negro
does not possess the heart of the thug.
He Ia not by instinct an assassin. He
loves and enjoys life Notwithstanding
all he has been made to suffer, and
what Is so precious to him he has no
disposition to take from Others. Com.
pared with the Buffers of the south
the negro is a moral hero and the civ
ilized world will ultimately see to II
that Justice is done him. We have no
disposition, BY enactment Of congress
or otherwise, TO establish prOtecto-
rate over the rights Of American, citi.
zens in the south. We had rather, Z
thousand times, see this whole ques--
ton settled among themselves, but we
beg leave to suggest that the north
cannot be expected to see the southern
half of the union represented in con-
gress, year after year, by thirty MEM
bers whose constituencies are allowed
to have no voice in electing them,
without protest. It would seem that
southern gentlemen themselves ought
to see the improperly of this state of
things. Coercion is a feature in our
government that never should be In.
voked except as a dernier resort, and
we have no desire to zee 1t applied to
our southern friends, but we do ex-
pect them, ultimately, to see the Who'll
" untenable nature of their present
position, and rise, of their own ac-
cord, to u broader and more patriotic
comprehension of the situation.