Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-07
IN WHITE AND BLACK
Is This Picture Drawn-Look Upon It and Realize the Full Measure of
 Your Duty.
To the State Herald:

To the State Herald:
 Aside from impoverished homes, aban- doned lands and @ tenantry system Of serfdom and slavery of a once proud peo- pie to the gold standard and shylock class, there rises before me another pie ture of ashen wastes, lurid flames, the fiendish glare of demon eyes in the night of despair, red with the passion fires of lust and rapine. In the shadow graft of this spectered ruin I see the countless skeletons of a race exterminated.
 This Picture
 must rise in the night of his dreams to every man of ambitious birth in whose veins pulses the tide of an inherited. im- pulse to our upward and higher, purer and nobler civilization.
 Pride of Race
 is an inherent force evolved through ages of attrition-ages of life and death in which mans nobler aspirations were transmitted through higher forms With power to achieve them. The wish or to- day was realization tomorrow and the law of heredity became a garnery of gentler instincts, moral purpose and higher aims-a casket of silver with fruit of gold.
 The ceaseless guard and war of centu- ries against debasement has made
 The White Race
 dominant and civic forms of government respecting the rights of person and rights of property had birth and origin among them. The white nomadic tribes were the first in mans history to formulate a code of laws and fix common rule of human conduct by which licentiousness was restrained and crimes were punish ed. Along the line of his transit from an obscure past he has left monuments of art, crude at first, to mark his steady advance towards present of embroider- ed skies and illumined earth
 The Negro Race
 among us is too fresh from the jungles of the cannibal to adapt themselves to their environment, except In normal way. Homogeneous in ambitions which build up governments and establish states? They have never founded a gov ernment which commanded the respect of mankind, but no one challenges their ability to destroy.
 Homogeneous. He is of different wool and warp, and the looming was with the gods; the cloth of one is of gold, of the other wool. He has been on trial, and though when he emerged from slavery he was fully armed with the ballot, he has not shown an appreciation of his armor. His intent to be loyal to those who con- ferred it upon him was virtue, but in the execution of his purpose he showed. an absence of discretion and judgment.
 1du tucIc DCeh Q ". c.~eAoii VI AoA Soo between the-negro and the ballot suffi- cient time has elapsed for him to have shown 1t. Instead, however, of using 1t to his upward climbing, he was content to remain in statu quo, and opened his arms to sub-stratum class of whites, who found 1t easy to drop down a short distance to their level. Descensus est avernium facile est. Now we are con- fronted with the problem how to avoid politically .<sE-.3 ss. s,-s->s-s-i.... --. .-.-
 Race Ascendancy
 for the next four years in Alabama. Are we ready to vote for ballot equality and the logical sequences which follow? Han he climbed up to your level? Can you confer and reason with him about the highest and most important of all your affairs, tine administrations of the laws and the holding Of of1ce7 Would he not he an adviser of GvodWyn if elected gov-