The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-07-31
The Negroes Hope.
From the Greenpizke Ne,ra.

We received the other day letter for
publication from colored man, evident
ly we'll educated, at Williamson. He
wrote of the lynchings at Williamson and
Greenville and ended with call to the
Negroes to leave this country and 60
away where they may be safe and at
peace.
This man is right. The editor Of The
GreenviUe Neps wrote an article which
was published in HarperS Weekly ten or
twelve years ago urging that the race
situation in the South must end in one of
three ways-amalgamation, extermina.
ton or separation. Since then many
thousand of people of both races have
been forced to the same conclusion, as
every man who studies the subject hon
estly and fearlessly must be.
There is no reason why the white man
should hate the Negro. No race Of peo-
pie in the worlds history has been 10
cruelty used as the Negroes or has been
compelled to endure 30 much wrong and
oppression. Remembering the disadvan-
tages they have had to struggle against
they have done wonderfully well in NOR
ais, in progress. in general behavior.
But the white race is master race. It
has always been 30 and will always be so.
It will rule any country it lives in and
any other race it meets or will die in try
ing to do it. No other people have ever
lived at peace with white people except
as slaves and chattels. The Negro can
not do 1t.
Many white people have warm, kind.
ly feeling for the Negro, are glad to help
him in every possible way, have pleasure
in his happiness and progress and resent
every wrong done him. Yet blood is
thick and the race feeling is strong and
the moment the race issue is made or the
color line is drawn white men forget all
other considerations and stand together.
That is their instinct. It is the strongest
reason for their mastery of the world.
The Negro may find that on occasions
like the lynchings at Williamson and
here the sympathy of good white people
is with them and against the lynchers.
Yet when a conflict comes or Is threatened
the whites will unite solidly and stand
together right or wrong.
There Is and will be no peace or justice
for the Negro in this country. The
higher he rises, the greater progress he
makes, the stronger his rivalry with the
white man becomes, the heavier and fer
more desperate the resistance will be to
his claims of equality.
His hope is to establish himself some
where in country of bis own where he
will not be in contact with the white man
but will be protected from oppression and
interference. We haYe long believed
that it would be good and humane
investment for our government to buy
enough territory in Mexico for three or
four States and give it to the Negroes to
establish their own governments and
work out their own salvation. The first
article Of the constitutions of the Negro
States ought to be that no white man
would be allowed to live or own property
or vote in them.
It will be amalgamation, which no
white man can consider with patience, ex.
termination, which is too horrible to be
thought of, or separation, which is easy,
merciful, practicable and necessary. The
two races were brought together by un-
natural methods. They were not made
or intended to live together and the Ion
ger they try to live 80 the worse 1t will be
for both. The best hope for the happi-
ness and prosperity of both, the only
hope the Negro has for developing and
raising himself, is for the races to be
separated, tor this white mans country
to be owned and occupied by white men
and for the black man to have, live in
and hold new country of his own.