The Washington bee., 1893-11-04
NEGROES WILL LIE AND STEAL

SO SAysIAN ADvENTURRR. The Ed
IToR's LETTER TO THE POST RE
FUSED PUBL1CATI ON.
Dear Mr.. Chase:
We reret your com
unication is not available by US and
it is returned with thanks.
Truly yours,
''Fhe POST
Editor OF the Washington s'post:"
In your issue of the Post Saturday
October Fl you published an interview
of DR.. Carl Peters On the negro race,
| to the effect that two of the principal
characteristics of the negro are
that he will ''lie and steaP' and again
he is unreliable and trecherous."
This gentleman claims to be a scien-
tlst and further boasts of his profoud
knowledge of the negro race. That it
is surprising to him that the American
people should be such fools as to grant
the negro race the elective franchise.
1t is an evident fact that Dr. Peters is
ignorant of American institutions and
the American negro. 1t is also an
evident fact that he has not been in
this country long enough to know the
value or the importance Of the Ameri
can negro in the body polite and his
fidelity to the American While people
during the war of the late rebellion.
This man has been educated in a
school of prejudice and has nursed
from the breast Of ignorance whose
teachers have been selected from the
tribes of the ancient barbarians who
know nothing of American civiliza
ton. The southern white man, prior
to and during reconstruction, who has
had the negro to nurse his children,
to guard his family, his home and
himself will testify that (the neg
roes ignorence and condition were
no fau t of his) he found him honest
and faithful to his trust. If he was
addicted to theivery it was to satisfy his
starving condition, if he lied it was
to shield his master from the invasion
and the assaults of yankee soldiers.
The negro was brought up in
A SCHOOL OF SEssEssIoN
whose tutors sympathized with tie
doctrine of rebellion, who fought for
a lost cause. The negro knew no master
but that of physical slavery. His punish
ment was the lash, the thum screw and
the like.
The school of slavery was dis
grace to the American Government
and a mockery to civilization. That he
has progressed since his emancipation
no one but this learned(D scientist will
deny. The most prejudiced southern
democrat who has fought for political
power and pretiage would II OF utter
such a adeclaratlon as DR.. Peters Who j.
the better Judge OF the negroes capabli-
itles, honors and integrity, the southern
white prOple who have schooled the
n. groes or this distinguished adventurer
Ii the white people of the south saw no
the Legislatures every year make large
appropriations for his education?
| SUFFRAGE A MISTAKE
asserts the foreigner. AT one time if
may have looked so this view is enter
tanned Cat this time) by some of our
white republicans leaders. The opposite
party thought SO several years ago also,
but since the negro has emanc,pated him
self from political slavery the democr3.
TIC party especially in the south where
] the negro has been mostly oppressed
! has about concluded, negro sutierage a
G0d--send, that slavery was all wronr.
No man is doing more to eliminate
race prejudice in the South than the
honorable Secretary of the Interior
| Hoke Smith. There is no man in the co
untry better acquainted with the need )
and condition OF the souther negro th II
secretary Smith. There is no man from
the south holding the high position in
the Cabinet of Mr.. Cleveland that has a
higher appreciation Of the worth and
capabilities of the SO uthern negro than
this learned southerner.
| Every day the negro demonstrates to
the world that all he needs is chance to
. SHOW IHdG lie is capdDle OF DONG, and
equality before the law. Perhaps when
this gentleman visits Washington he
will be given all opportunity to converse
with negro men far his superior, not on
ly men learned in the science of govern
ment but men learned in law, the Hber-
al arts. oratory, in medicine, men who
manage and contrOll one of the lar
gest and best medical school i'll the
world, DIR. &. 3. Purvis, men like Hon.
b: K. Bruce, once a senator from one
OF the greatest states in the union and
authority on the negro problem in Amer
ca, On political science, system of govern
Inent and literature; he will be given a
chance to show his ability when he
meets Prof. James Monroe Gregory. If
he is OF the opinion that the negro is
Ignorant in politics and negro suffrage
is a failure, Hon. John Mercer Langston
will give him a descriptive lesson and
when he gets through with the sage Of
Anocostia he will know that there
is difference between uncivilized Afri-
cans and cultured American negroes.
| Very respectfully,
w Calvin Chase -.