The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-26
MORE FROM THE OLD ABOLITIONIsT

We quoted yesterday from the Globe
Review, published in New York city by
an ante-bcllum abolitionist, William II.
Thorne, and from an article in IL by him,
in which he declared that. in his opinion,
the negro must either be re-enslaved,
driven from the country, or killed. We
quote again from that article this morn
ing lie says:
ITO me, civilization means character,
culture and refinement, in accord with
the best moral ideas OF history; and by
this standard my Italian barber is more
of gentleman than Millionaire Wanna
maker both of whose shops are in the
same city and within q stones throw OF
each other. To me the old negro ser
wants of many old southern and northern
families We're FAR more highly civilized
than any freed and educated negroes that
have come in my way during the last
thirty years. and | have talked with
negro graduates of our new universities
till their insufferdDle mOuthings have
made me swear.
Under proper restrictions. negroes are
the best servants in the world. but when
strutting or striding In the garments OF
constitutional equality with white men
they are more disgusting than the apes
in our geological gardens. More than Il
generation ago my indignant synlpathies
time and again moved me to leave the
horse-cars in our cities when l saw ne
grOes elected therefrom After thirty-Odd
years of experience with these people ia
hOrse-cars. steam-cars. steamboats,, ana
elScW here | am wholly in favor OF fore
ing them TO ride in cars or steamboats,
by themselves. or in portions set apart for
themselves. and ! am utterly opposed TO
all laws and cnactments that give them
a position of equality with white people
in our restaurants and hotels Why?
They are simply insufferable. In an Ordi-
nary restaurant IN New York, negroes OF
the same classes of white men that re-
sort there do not act like quiet and order
~ white men, but are always the noisy
buffoons that nature has made them. 1t
is not a question of charity and of saw
ing negro souls it is simply a question OF
esthetics ana OF social pleasure; and no
negro owns all the car or all the steam
boat or all the hotel into which he may
by some chance have been admitted As
a servant he Is weil-behaved as a citizen
he is an unmitigated. irritating, insulting.
obnoxious, and disgusting clown; and
again | tell YOU that you must re-enslave
him OF export him TO save even the trou-
BILE of killing him.
With this opinion of the negro enter
tanned now by this old abolitionst, let
us see how he thinks the negro com
pares with northern white people. He
continues in the same article:
'You call this civilized country. where
mere shoddy. shoD-keeping money-makers
can buy Cabinet positions; where vulgar.
hard-featured, nasal-voiced. screaming,
tern agant women and loafing, ignorant
negroes are the equals of men and wo-
men worthy the names of ladies and gem
tlemen. But this great area of the
North is simply feeding and overlooking
tens of thousands OF wealthy and shoddy
white families who would be infinitely
benefited by the refined manners and the
good cooking that used to prevail among
the coiorcd household servants in DAYS
previous TO our civil war
This gentleman has certainly made i'm
mense progress. But II is not necessary
TO 20 10 the extreme lengths advocated by
him Repeal the fifteenth amendment. so
that each State may put such restrictions
upon voting as it pieases. and there will
be no more negro question. All white
men will be allowed to vote, and eacl.
negro as he reaches certain standard.
This is local self government. upon which
all permanent institutions must rest.