Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
THE NEGRO QUESTION.
Southern View of the Race Problem-The AT.
rican Ha no Moses. --......

For the Gazette.
Any effort to secure the happy adjustment Of
relations between the white and black people Of
the south must take cognizance Of two rather
disheartening, but incontrovertible facts: l.
Our race has been always, and promises to be
for a long time to come, brutal enough and row
erful enough to have its own way with every
other race. Our motto is: Our own
way-by right methods II eonven-
Methods ou The p SMe African negro is the
only numerous race who has never of himself
and Tor himsalf wrought out high degree of
civilization. He has had no Moses, no Joshua,
no Ezra, no Solon no Cromwell, no Washing
ton not even a Mehomet. Is is possible to make
whltewash strong enough 70 penetrate MS
vitals and reconstruct hi natureY Our business,
however, is not TO answer this question in words
but 10 attempt an answer by xperiment-faith-
full, afectonate and persistent.
The history all enduring civilization shows
them to be results. They have not been created
at once. They are developments from gradual
culture of the heart, brain and ma nd. These fac
tors OF civilization have gotten names at last.
They are the school and tbs church, backed by
force.
We are a Christian reople We have the in
heritance of all history. Let US apply to the
problem here and now the only factors that have
been Influential in solving the difficulties man
has faced in the past. Let US use the school and
the church, but let US divorce them from bTuts
force. Let US apply them intelligentIy. largely,
bravey, faithfully, affectionately and persist
eutly-''wavering not through unbelief.'' Then
let us leave everything to GOD and the future.
Give God time and leave Him free, and He viii
fix the phase and form Of the solution as it
peases Him. Utin ately it will please us.
One form of this application mig 1T be after
this manner. Waat is known as the ''Chau au-
qua system mi hit be modified and made to
suit the necessities of our special problem. At
some central point in every state in which the
negro is numerous, gather together the aCk
leaders (teachers and preachers) for purposes of
consultation and instruction. Make whatever
arrangements are necessary to secure their
presence. Hold them in three daily services for
ten days. Fame a course OF instruction in
volving the ethics of law and religion-pure
morality applied to civil and religious duti s
of daily life. Secure the cooperation of the
strongest and most righteous and influential
Southern men in civil or ecclesiastical life. Get
the brainiest and wisest AMI best of the
North. Exclude all Grants. At the close of
each address give opportunity before questions.
Then the negro leaders may return home to
preach and teach as they have heard, with their
purpose to do this Streng thened by the knowled[ 20
that all the rest are engaged in the same task.
Watch results. Six months later do it all over
aFain, with your plan mod fed by Developments
Keep it up twice year in all states having
large black population until there has to be
from the special schools devoted to their train
ing. Make your first experiment with single
gathering at some commercial, edu cational and
religious center like Atlanta.
In the meantime, let US say to the politicians
North and South: You can't make capital out
of the distresses of the situation If you attempt
it will ballot your political head of the first !
chance we get. See?
WM. HAYNE LEAvELL, Meridian, Miss.