The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1893-07-01
MUST THE NEGRO co?

The following sensible and pertinent
article on the negro question is taken
from Once A Week, an illustrated week.
ly newspaper published in New York
City, and which we commend for care
full perusal. It shows very clearly
what some intelligent people in the
North think on this subject:
Ex-senator Ingalls,, Of Kansas, pro
posed, in a recent article, to remedy
the ills Of the negro in this country by
migration to Africa; and though Mr..
ingalls, is very reluctantly out OF pollt-
ical life Ind seems rather Over-anxious
to keep himself before the eye Of the
newspaper-reading public, his undoubt-
ed ability in point Of original sugges-
tion will always insure attention to
anything he has to say.
But, in the first place. the ills OF the
black man in this country are more
apparant to the rest Of US than they are
to the alleged sufferers. The negro is
not complaining considering the treat
ment We all claim he is getting, not
only down South, but up here. White
children will not play with his children
and the negro repines not. They are
educated in separate schools and wor-
ship in separate churches, yet there are
no colored Indignation meetings.
They are buried in separate cemeI
teries, yet no uneasy black apparl-
ton haunts ours or knocks for ad-
mittance at unreasonable times while
the grave-digger sleeps. II they settle
in a neighborhood, real estate there Is
depressed-whichi is. on the whole, not
a bad thing for Sambo. immigration
avoid contact with him, and the negro
falls back on his pride as an American
born citizen-that's all right boss
"Places OF trust, honor and emolu'
ment," says Mr.. Ingalls,, ARE shut
against them inexorably." The same
places are shut against millions OF
whites,a and the negro can stand It,
surely, If the whites can. II the ne
groes arc under a ''bondage whose i'm
perceptiblc manaclcs are forged ant
riveted by the tyrany OF Nature there
Is, at least an equal number OF whites
under the same tyranny.
And vet the black man is not unhap
py. He is occasionally lynched TO
heinous crimes; so is the white man
His votes are counted out sometimes
it is alleged. in the South; there ar
cases on record wherein white met
have done that to one another in tn
, North. The negro can work in tn
cotton-felds of the South, the barley
, fields of the North and the Pullma
a car of the American Union: one
. these and largely another are barre'
q against the white man. The coiore
= man is not pcstorod with bad whit
e neighbors. as the decent white man il
= Why should the negro 60 to Africa:
. The fact is, the negro question
). bothering some of the whites MOI mo,
T. than it is bothering the negro. IN
a black man is, in general, contcntct
:. What is the nature of the menace
. the American Union that calls tor NJ
# Ingalls, African migration remedy tt
- =, the negroes? They are not. confessed
,, ". part of what is called naupt
, labor. They do dot ridicule America
- institutions, as some of the "bettt
# class" Europeans are in the habit
~ g doing. They are grateful, as elias
q for the blessings they enjoy here: II
~ ~ wounds of the South are well-nlg
i, healed, and the black man is needt
y" down there. Ex-senator ingalls,.
Kansas should let the black man alon
and try another advertising dodge.