The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-06-01
can be doubted.
WOULD NOT HAVE THEM BACK.

The New York Morning Advertiser,
which is just now engaged in the cheer
full task of disappearing and malign-
ing the South, reaches the climax of its
morbid and intense m~alevolence when it
says that the South would re-establish
slavery if it could. The great &. A. r.
organ says:
We are indebted to a World correspondent
who writes from New Orleans concerning the
removal of the body of JEFFERSON DAVIS, for
the information that the southern people es-
TEEN most highly those negroes who are i'm
pressed that they would be better off if they
were held in slavery than they are now as
freemeD. This fact was made clear to him by
a "bluf old southern gentleman" whom he
quotes as follows:
Referring to the negro race. the old gentle
man said the best negroes were those who
loved their masters. and who would rather be
slaves again to-day than freemen.
That the southern people hold to these views
is not precisely in the nature of news, and yet
it seems significant that the occasion of the
reinterment Of the bones of the man who led
a bloody and disastrous war to perpetuate
human slavery hOuld be taken advantage of
for its emphatic reassertion.
The old spirit, selfish, cruel, brutal and bar
barOus which justified slavery is still alive in
the south. 1t is this which impels men to
hunt down negroes who attempt to vote,
which seizes upon every pretext ard excuse
to burn them at the stake, shoot them down
and keep them in a state of terrorism. 1t
makes itself manifest whenever it dares. And
behind it's bland palavering about the negroes
"WhO would rather no SloVnC aOain 70 6aU tbap
freemen" is the cOwardly desire to restore
them to that condition.
People at the North who have been
South and who know anything at all
about the feelings of the Southern people
on the slavery question, know that the
above statement is as utterly absurd as
it is malicious and untrue. They know
that the New South, freed from the
burden of a system which the North bad
established and which, finding unprofita.
bic, had thrust upon it, would not again
be thus encountered for ten times the
value of ten times the slaves which the
whole South owned, and but for which
we would not to-day be dependent upon
the North for articles which could be
manufactured better at home and which
in a few years the South will so far mo-
nopoliZe as to drive the North out of the
field. They know that the average slave
owner in the South enjoyed fewer luxu.
ries-fewer of the ordinary comforts of
life, than any other people of the same
rpnntp1 mpanc on tho rlnho on,J fnr +ho
simple reason that the cost of caring
for the aged and imbecile so reduced the
profits on the labor of the young and
.able-bOdied, that when all was said and
done there was very little left for the
master, who was compelled to provide
for them no matter at what personal sac
riice.
No, the south would not have the
slaves back if it could. 1t would not
again assume the responsibility which
the north, with its shoddy cloth and
wooden nutmegs, pushed off on US for
money with which to buy white paper to
print its ridiculous lies.
As for the southern gentleman" quoted
above, he no more represented the south,
the intelligent and progressive south of
to-day, than Tie Morning Advertiser
represents the north-the intelligent,
fair-minded north of to-day, when it
makes such wild statements regarding a
section of which it is quite evident it
knows nothing.
If the northern press is so violently in
favor of free thought and free institu-
tions, the south might be let alone and
allowed TO enjoy the inherent right of
every human being" in the way which
suits ii best. The fact of the business is,
The Advertiser would be in better BUSH