The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-30
THE RACE PROBLEM.
Some Phases of it Discussed by an Oh,
Citizen.


Citizen.
CHESTER, FLA, May 27.-Editor Norm
ing Ne,OS: Many years ago, shortly after
the prolonged Indian wars of Florida,
crime was so frequent that many good peo-
pie regarded the common legal process of
punishment too slow for the'emergency,
and they organized themselves into regu-
lating parties in various sections of the
state, whose object was to deal quick pun
ishment with whip and rope to thieves aud
murderers, and the state was soon freed OF
bad and disturbing element. We say this
not in advocacy of mob law which all good
citizens should condemn. Yet there are
crimes so heinous in their character and so
revolving 10 their nature that good law
abiding people become exasperated and
deal justice swift and terrible to the perpe-
traitors, regardless of color, religion or polls
tics. There is no doubt that of late there
has been an unusual proportion of crime
committed IN the south. Our state, Flor
ida, has had its full share. Our officers in
the execution OF the law have
been ruthlessly shot down. Ladies,
both native and those soiourniug among us,
educated and highly refined, have been
criminally assaulted by burly brutes, and
children mutilated by heathenish mortals
There lies now in our county jail NASSAU
county. Florlda) burly negro under sem
tence Of death for assaulting and mutilat-
ing a girlish child of his own color and
surely had 1t been white child, Mr..
Douglass and his delegation would have
added another negro 60 the list of the
lynched. The embittered feeling that the
negro Frederick Douglas has always mani
Tested toward the southern whites no doubt
originated in the days OF his slavery. His
late master, Mr.. Floyd. was a strict discip-
linarian, and enforced obedience to his
I FNrAV IL
many other negroes of the old plantations,
Mr.. Douglass absented himself without leave
or in more common parlance, he ran away
from the boss and no doubt was advertised
as runaway negro with stick aud wallet,
the same as you see them advertised In the
old Massachusetts newspapers. His effu
sion in Chicago regarding what he terms
southern outrages arises either from evil
| associations with lawless foreigners in that
noted city, or from an Authorization of the
senses, such as is witnessed among negroes
south when applying to physicians for love
! powders or powders TO bring their spouses
back that have run off with some other
party. Surely the charges Of cruelty to the
negroes are erroneous, for they would be
| the most irrational OF all beings TO live in
| oontentment and happiness among a race
that robs them of life, liberty, property
and even the election franchise when they
| have all the privileges of immigrating north,
east and west to better their condition, the
same as foreigners come to America and
the same as our people goes to Oklahoma
and other states to better their condition.
Some negroes have gone north and more
have returned; indeed they appear not to
like 1t. Why notthe people north show their
faith by their works inviting them when
they go to bring their families where bacon
and -four is cheap and where they can
enjoy all the privileges in the land of the
free. The truth is the colored people in the
south appear to be instinctively impressed
that the white man south is the white man
north, east and west He is the same in
education, the same in refinement and the
same in all the native instincts that has
caracterized the race in al ages past or
present. Other races must do as the white
| race bids them. The yellow man was too art
| full and avaricious, aud he was excluded. The
red man was too revengeful and treache-
Gus, and he was secluded. The black man is
passing an experimental period. The whites
are lacking here higher degree of civiliza-
ton upon which the proper solution Of the
race problem depends.
| G. HARDEE.