Huntsville gazette., 1890-11-01
HUNTSVILLE ALA. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER /, 1880.

ern States. When it talks of Negro ignorance
and of Negro supremacy. 1t means this aud
simply this, aud only this. 1t uses the word
Negro simply as means to the end of awaken
ing popular prejudice and enlisting its in
fluence in favor of its bad cause, cause for
which they have shown themselves capable
of committing frauds the most scandalous.
and cruelty the most barbarous. We all
know that the Negro problem would vanish
into thin air, would utterly disappear like
the mist before the morning sun, if The in
teiligent Negroes of the South would re-
lounce their connection with the Republican
party and support only the Democratic party.
What the South wants, aud what it means to
have, peaceably if it can, or forcibly if it
must is solid Democratic party South.
There is not an intelligent man at the South
that does not know this an there is not an
honest man at the South, who, if he would
speak candidly on the subject, would not con
fess this. he trouble is that the people of
the North do not see this in its true light.
Honest themselves, they cannot readily be-
heve that others are rot alike honest They
have never believed i'll the story of outrages
committed against the Negro voters of the
South, because they themselves would not be
guilty of such outrages, and have been easily
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supremacy professed by the South.
But let me be more ineligible. My idea
about the problem business is this: When q
case has been in litigation before q court of
highest resort and that case has been sol
emnly adjudcat in that court, that case is
finished and all the parties to it must submit
to the decision or become law-breakers and
criminals. The case goes into history hence
forth res adjudicata. 1t is settled. II this
benifcent rule did not exist there would be no
| end to litigation and no repose for the public
mlrd.
7 o make my meaning still more clear:
| When i'll England few years ago Northamp-
| ton saw fit to send Mr.. Bradiaugh, an iuidel,
to represent it in the British House of Com
mons ard he was not allowed to take his
seat, the admission of an inddel to the House
of Commons WAS problem; but when he con-
! tinuel to knock at the door of the house till
he was finally admitted, the infde problem. so
far as the right of membership of that house
was concerned, was solved.
Again, we are not the only people whose
rights have been denied on the ground Of
race. Our brother Shem has hal a taste of
| prescription as we'll as ourselves. No Jew
was at one time eligible to membership in
the parliament of Great Britain, but after
long years of agitation of the question Mr..
barring an eminent Jew. was admitted to a
seat in parliament. The Jewish problem,
when Mr.. Barring was seated, was ended.
| mean this: When the American people de-
| clared their independence of Great Britain
aud made good that declaration by victory in
It seven years war; the problem of American
| independence was solved. and there was
never anything afterwards concerning il
which could be called pr 5blematical. 1t was
| q yo5 far and haG until
and W I'll remain Sd, ! trust. forever.
I There is a grand agitation now in progress
in Great Britain for local self-government, al
the head of which are Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.
Parnei. If Great Britain shall grant home rule
to Ireland, the Irish problem will be solved,
and it will be nonsense thereafter to speak OF
it as an unsolved problem. Our American
women are asking for Il sixteenth amendment
| to the Constitution whereby they may vote.
They ought to have it, If the American pee
pie shall adopt such an amendment the
woman problem will cease to exist.
IL like manner, when the Negro was de
clared free by the highest authority in the
land, when the whole system Of his bondage
was broken up, when he was invested By the
organic law Of the land with the title, dignity
and immunity OF American citizen. and
when it was declared that any discrimination
race or color was unlawful, hold that his
race condition could no longer be considered
| Il problem. The thing was done; it was fin
ished. he nation had taken its position, and
and all the parts of the nation must ultimately
adjust themselves to the whole. 1he indiyd
ua states may be great, but the United States
is greater. The mountain will not and cannot
go to Mahomet, so Mahomet must aud will in
the end go to the mountain. Herein is the
ground of my hope. The trend of cviliza
ton the power of large bodies to attract sma
ones the force Of national greatness the gen
Grafton Of patriotism by the idea Of com
mon country, and the inclination to the
strong rather than to the weak viii ultimately
bring the individual States in line with the
Federal body. l affirm that while tne Ma
tional Government shall remain in the hanGs
o. the Republican party and under the prin
cipies of that party, no State will or can per
manently disfranchse any Of its citizens be
cause Of race or color or previous condition
Attempts may be made to do this but the race
problem i'll that respect is solveI, and the case
cannot be reopened.
Eut am asked, what of the future? and
will the various people of this country ever be
thoroughly assimilated? or. to speak more
plainly. will they intermarry? My answer is
| "Suffcent unto the day is the evil thereof
We should not cross that stream till we have
come to it. Whether such marriages vii
ever become common or not Is no matter oi
vital concern to anybody. 1t is mere specu
| lation and is utterly without practical import
ancc, so far as the tights of the American
people are concerned. 1t touches no question
Of politics, states nanship or religion.
Individual interests. personal preferences
public sentiment, may be safely left to regu
late tie relation of the races in respect Of in
! termarriagc. Such, think, is the view that
common sense will take of it, but such does
not sc I'M to be the view ta6en of it by some
of our eople-white, black and mixed. There
n seems to be Il fascination about the subject
which makes it impossible for men 70 lei
alone They thrust it into our faces OH All
occasions in season and out Of season, and
seem distressed because we cannot solve the
problem for them. Some Of them say that
the rcpugnance of the whole race for the
black makes marriage between them inpos
sib.e, aud yet they proceed with great
warmth and eloquence to denounce IL as 3
thing to be closely watched and guarded. anc
by no means encouraged. If the thing is i'm
possible to happen no one should be afraid
| that it will happen.