The Critic and record., 1891-04-15
crnnrNr rI,rss OPINION.
MIR. Proctor wnl Accept.

Fiom TIE Nsw Fork TtibuHG
While not announcing himself as
candidate Mr. Proctor says that if the
place is offered to him he will accept it,
There is no doubt that the country at
large will heartily approve this selection,
If It is made while with euual hcartiness
regretung Secretary PrOCtOr's retirement
from his present office, which he has
filled with distinguished ability.
The Men Of 1851 Not In II.
From ne chicago TtHss.
But if in the near future the United
States should be engaged in foreign war
the veterans of the civil war on either
side will have little to do with it. A
younger generation will bear arms. The
surviving veterans of the civil war have
passed the meridian of life Theirnumber
Is rapidly diminishing, and they would
have TO leave to younger and more robust
mcn--the youth of the republic-prO-
lection Of its integrity and punishment Of
its enemies. Age can not endure the great
priyations of an active military campaign.
The Union veterans who twenty-seven
years ago marched from Atlanta to the
sea, carrying their guns and ammunition,
canteens and blankets, are not in physical
condition for such an undertaking to-day,
and the survivors of the rebel hosts that,
quitting Richmond, moved rapidly north
ward, crossed the Potomac and fought at
Gettysburg, would not be able, now that
age has stiflened their joints and time has
tempered their ardor, TO encounter like
hardship and meet like danger.
The average age of the mel who fought
the civil war was at the time of enlist.
ment little more than 81. And in the
highly improbable event of another war
II will be found that the men OF so or
over who enter II as volunteers will be few
and far between. In such an event the
men of the South who will volunleer will
not bc the men who were arrayed IN arms
are over. The volunteers will be young
men who were not born when Richmond
was evacuated.
The West on the Negro.
From ne S. LOUis Republic
The individual negro who, by initiating
the white people, taking advantage OF
their methods of education and adopting
their habits of life, raises himself far
above his race must be content for the
sake of his race to remain with il, to de
vote himself to its development and not
seek TO desert IL by using IL to its detri-
ment to obtain power for himself. The
work of the present generation is not to
force the, negro forward into rash and
necessarily 1fuiJleSS attempt 10 govern
others, but to teach him TO govern him.
self. Only by learning that lesson can he
obtain any real equality, in politics or
anywhere else.
AS vet he has only begun to learn.
Even the negroes who have the best edn-
cation in books have little or no idea of
moral force, or of the means of employ
ing 1t over themselves or others. Such
aggressiveness rs is in them belongs
almost entirely TO the animal side of
them. The instructive common-sense
recognition of this fact constitutes what
| Is called prejudice against the negro"
| 1t is simply taking for granted that the
| negro has as yet almost everything 10
learn in learning howt to govern himself
| The future of the negro in the United
! States cannot be forced Every attempt
at forohing 1t by thrusting the negro for.
ward on the white puts him against odds
and in the reaction he is forced further
back. He must develop, and this develop
ment should be assisted by doing every
thing possible to secure him in harmo
nious and helpful relation with the people
whom he must initiate; who must be hi:
instructors and his examples in the con
duct OF his life