The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-05
A GREAT RACE QUESTION.
The Future Of the Negro a Puzzle to
All Interested.
Deportation Not a Bishop
Hagood of Georgia Is Satisfied
That the Negro Is Here to Stay, and
Must Be Treated as Man.

Hagood of Georgia Is Satisfied
That the Negro Is Here to Stay, and
| Must Be Treated as a Man.
From the New York Advertiser
| There is a negro question and not sim
ply matter of adjustment of relations
between two classes of the same race, as
of landlords and tenants, employers aud
employes-all being white or black, but
of men aud women of two very different
races, holding business and other relations
I to each other and living together in the
same communities. Whether the race
element makes difficulty between white
! and black in other countries does not
count, so far as facts go, here. In the
United States it makes difficulty, and in
the south chiefly, only because most of
the negroes are in the southern states,
A few negroes have gone north as a few
northern people have come south. How
| do these get on together? 1t is a question
of facts only. Northern people and ne
| groes when brought into relations get on
| together just as southern people and
their negro neiRhbo do, with unques-
tionably this difference, southern white
| people are more patient with negroes
they employ than northern people are
hAN' III POI oOIoA lCldbAOho' al Z lIlOLG hluu
to them.
1t is essent TALLY, at bottom, a race cues
ton in all parts of the United States of
which l have had personal observation
| from Ohio to Texas, and from Massa-
| chusetts to California. 1t was question
before and since the war; a question
whenever and wherever these two peo-
| plies have been thrown together. 1t is
race question now and will be so long as the
two races live together in this country
Doctrinarians of many schOols-striving
strenuously to force facts into nformity
| with their theories-have told US how to
solve the race question that very day and
| hour demands our consideration. And a
! very emergent and important question
| it is.
! There have not been lacking theorizers
who have trusted in what they first called
''amalgamation" afterward ''miscegena-
| ton" A few have seemed to gain a sort
of pleasure in contemplating such a solu-
! ton. 1t is a very mOnStrous and brutal
way of looking at 1t. But it is as silly as
it is revolving. One, Bishop, spoke Of it
| as bleaching" process
Every informed person in the south
! knows that the tendency to miscegenation
| grows less and less every year Eimauci-
| patton strengthened in both races revolt
| at blood-mingling by these dissimilar pco-
| piles. The negro question will never be
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| though we wait a thousand years The
mulatto will gradually disappear. This
| negro question inherited from our fathers,
we will hand down to our children.
In seeking the best solution to any dif1-
cult question: 1t is often very helpful to
| find out what cannot be done. Let us
| eliminate from our thinking the element
| of miscegenation.
| We may as we'll eliminate solution by
| deportation. In what follows on this
| point must run the risk of being charged
| with dogmatism. One who has received
impressions concerning any matter from
| his infancy may well enough have con-
trolling reasons for conclusions he cannot
| give to another lacking similar knowl-
edge.
| One of my conclusions is: The negro is
here to stay-concerning which opinion
one might write a book without getting
to the end
Bishop Henry NJ. Turner of the Afri-
can Metho dist Episcopal church l have
known since he first appeared in recon
struction politics-the like OF which the
sun never saw before, and never can see
, again-in Georgia generation ago. He
is man Of great ability and of intense
convictions. His whole soul is set on en-
igration to Africa as the one possible So
luton of the negro question. If he had a
| loo years TO live he would give nine cen
| turtles of his expectation of life" to see
his hope a reality.
No man knows better than Bishop Tur-
ner that the negro question in the United
States is race question: believe he thinks
| ii permanent question: l do most GER
tainly. He has made many most eloquent
speeches, seeking to fire the hearts OF hi
people with an invincIble desire 10 find
homes. opportunity, freedom and en-
I largement of life in Africa. He has
| despalred of their finding these great
boons here. If he could found, or see
founded, a great Christian republic in
Africa he would be the happiest man in
the world. he is, am sure, most con-
scientious in all he thinks and says on
this subject
But he awakens among his own people
more antagonism than favor when he
urges them TO colonile the dark continent
The newspapers gave much prominence
TO such movements as Cartons; a ship
load of southern negroes going to Siberia
from this country some mouths since
As if twice so many negroes we're not
born the day they sailed!
AS affecting the negro question, such
ill-managed enthusiastic escdpades
amount to nothinR The few who go are,
IN the opinion Of the multitudes who stay,
only freaks Whether colonization be
advocated by white or black men, doc
trinarians or philanthropists, it is the
same thing, the sum of the result is anger
and distrust
The fundamental reason for rejecting
colonization in Africa as a solution Of our
pro olem is a very simple and conclusive
one The negroes do not wish 10 go, and
they do not intend to 60 Moreover, the
great body Of the white people do not
wish them 10 90 away. History shows
that great epoch-making miRrations re-
suit from some deep impulse urging the
race that moves. and not the desire Of
| some other race That does not move. A
] people, dominated by another race, might