The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-07-21
OLD FRED DOUGLASS,
SOUTH-HATER AND WILL
FER.
A Sample of His Falsifying State
ments Made in a Recent COntribu-
tiOn to the North American Re-
view.
Raleigh State Chronicle.

view.
Raleigh State Chronicle.
This is what Frederick Douglass
wrote in the July number of the No,t2
american ReUtezU::
"It is notable fact that it is not
the immortality or the enormity- of the
crime itself that arouses popular wrath
the emphasis is put upon the race and
color of the parties to it. That is the
real ground OF indignation and alb
horrence. The appeal is not to moral
sense, but the we'll known hatred oi
one class towards another. The
device is used with skill and effect,
and the question of guilt or innocence
becomes unimportant in the fierce
tumult of popular passion"
He was writing on the subject oi
lynch law in the South, and seems to
have had no more regard for truth
than to unhesitatingly publish state
ment which is SO palpably untrue.
Such negroes as Douglass, who pose as
the philosophers of their race, are
doing that race great deal of injury
by writing and publishing what is
calculated to excite against it the
prejudices Of the whith race. They
ought to know that the negro must
live in the South, if ne continues to
live in this country, because of climatic
influences, and OF the friendship which
exists for him among Southern whites
to a greater extent than among the
whites of any other section of the
Union. The facts are conclusive that
the Southern people have watched the
progress of the negro race with in
terest, and have spent their money
and taxed themselves to ameliorate its
condition. 1t is true, also, thai
wherever the negroes have been lei
alone by Northern politicians they
have prospered under the guidance O
Southern policy. Douglas had SC
little hope in the blood of his ract
that he found white woman who had
no more decency than to marry him
The old rascal wanted to cross the
African breed with a Saxon, and hi
libels Southern whites for killing thos.
of his race who attempt to follow hi!
example by torcible means. But lie
figures speak in behalf of the relation
between the whites and blacks in th'
South:
"Twenty-seven years ago there wa
not negro child at school in th'
South; now, according to the censu
OF 1890, there are 228,239 negro
children in school. Then there wa
not a single colored public schoo
teacher; now there are 10000. Their
are in the South 66 academies ant
high schools and seven colleges pre-
sided over by negroes. Three of th'
college presidents were once slaves
Counting in the institutions aided b.
Northern help, there are $50 school
for the higher aducation of Afro
Americans. The Southern States them
selves have raised $4,000, 900 70
negro education. Twenty-seven year
ago how many of the colored preacher
could read or writer Now there are
taking the country through, 1905
college-bred negro ministers. At tn
close of the war there were two news
papers edited by colored men, nov
there are 154; there were then tw'
negro attorneys, now $50; three
physicians, now 749. In European
universities there are at present "a
colored students.
But it is the acquisition of propert.
that speaks most for progress. Twenty
seven years ago the entire taxabl
property of negroes in the Southern
States was about $4,000: now
amounts to S264,ooo,ooo. The Cap
itol savings bank at Washington ha
for its president a colored man, ant
its board of directors represent a hal
million dollars. Building and loan asso
Citations are being successfully organ
lied by the colored men Of Hampton
Va, and elsewhere. The president G
a bank at Chattanooga, Tenn, wa
formerly slave, as was the presiden
Of bank in Birmingham, Alabama.
The above clipping is from tn
Springfield Republican, fair and abl
Northern journal, and the facts ad
duced show conclusively that fh
progress made by the colored rae
since the war could not have bee
made if there was any foundation fc
the charge made by Douglas agains
the whites of the South. The Rebut
Hean says:
"The Southern negro and exsla,
is great deal more apt to put SLAYER
and former wrongs and the civil W.
where they belong, among the thing
that are quarter Of country b.
hind, than do many Of the negro
anxious political friends at the Nortl
who are more anxious for partisa
victory than tor any personal rights I
, wrongs of his
And the misfortunes that have owe
, taken the negro since he attained /
=, freedom can be traced to the meddl
. some proclivity of his "anxious poli'
cal frienda at the North 1t
, known that Douglas himself, when
United States minister to Hay
proved nan bersona grdhs to the neg