Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-04-17

THR Richmond, Va. TINES, in its is
sue OF the 18th inst discusses THE
Passing OF the Old Time N gro"
1t says:
Tue old tim. "fore de war" Negro is
apidly passing away, and 1t will n
De many years before he will be ex-
met DE- is not by any means to b.
:onfounded with the modern product
FOR he is distinc. genus Ne hav.
The highest regard for him. and see
lim passing away with profound sor-
row He is insaparsby asso-iate'
With Southern society OF ante-bellun
iays, and the history OF the South i,
y no means complete with the Mgr,
and his characteristics, and especially
his relationship with the family t.
which be belonged omitted.
AID again:
These things are little understood
~ the people of the Narth, and no,
much better by the young folks OF the
South who hear the Negro calico
mister" instead of uncle" Tom
Page and Polk Miller and others OF
that school who. as they say, w,r.
raised With niggers," have preserved
TO us the Negro dialect and many OF
subject that has not been committed
o print. We refer % the religious
-eaching OF the Negro by their mis-
resses the wives and daughters OF the
men who owned him.
1t speaks of Rev. EDw.sD L. PELL'r
efforts to secure data for history OF
he South for the moral elevation o
the Negro before the war, and says:
Not only did the churches OF the
South spend large sums of money in
missionary work among the blacks,
ut it was not uncommon for those
who owned large body OF slaves e.
ave a preacher employed for their
| >pecial ministry. Moreover, every
white church had its contingent o.
'olored members, who had q voice in
the management OF church affairs, and
81 sacred was this tie that many of the
;olored people continued their mem
nership in the white churches, ever
Ifter they were emancipated.
The South has need to show Up this
side of the question, for the immorali.
~ practiced by colored people during
he two hundred and fifty years CT their
bondage was due to the ou,r .geous
eachings and practices of the white
nan. Herded like cattle, they wer,
told Ito replenish and multiply the
earth"
That there is bright aide to this
question is as gratifying to the Negro
IS it is to the white man. One thing
we know-there are thousands; yea
ems of thousands Of cases where col
ored women placed virtue above al
.lse and refused to yield to the british
lusts of those who owned them Why
J not some one follow REV. PELL's ex
ample and tell of the m raj side of the
colored women. even though it was
cultivated and encouraged by the pa
, triotic, God-fearing white women o.
the South?
? The TINES says:
|, All this is nothing, however as com
pared with the work done for the Ne
gro, by the women OF the South. Tn,
idea that the Southern women war,
q made heroines by the ate war II IA,
from the fact. They were heroinei
rom the beginning, an they had beer
in training from the time that tn,
slaves came into our possession In
sIead of the many public charities il
which they are engaged to-day, the,
J. devoted their time to the instruction
OF the slaves, and the amelioration o
their condition. Seek any old Negr,
: snd ask him where he got his religion
: instruction, and he will almost invari
,, ably tell you that he owes it all t.
I'Ole Miss" who had him at the Gre
House" on Sunday morning. read T.
n him and his companions selection from
t che Scriptures, and eIpcunded thei
y meaning
+ We make no denial of this, sir, but
e far greater service was rendered t
n the "blacks" by "ole Miss ehildrel
who taught the colored girls to rea
and did what they could to improv
the condition Of the ''ole black Nam
mY's" children.
Il There are instances of sublime de
/: votion, sir, on the part of the white
= Of the South, the white men and VIC
men of to-day, and this CONSTITUTES
n and still constitutes the bond @
e union, between the white person an,
Z the black one of the Southland.
. This too was the cause OF the remark
}. able condition which brought abnu
chat love and alteration between thes
: peoples even when southern whit
men slave owners were as mean a
: "you make'em" and would do wha
they could towards the discontinue O
: the black servants.
p When the white men went to war
the black ones took care of their wive
3 and their children. No instance O
rapine or murder is recorded Tn,
n Negro is grateful, where there shoult
T be no gratitude. He is friendly wher,
> shere should be no friendship. He /;
2 wing where there should be no affsc
I tion.
How much more then would he h.
, in favor of the southern families wha,
notable instances existed where tn,
white children and their mothers haf
befriended him.
Let REv. PELL write it all Let hin
tell the story as H. is. Let him explain
how thousands of colored people wrot,
their own passes under the instruction
OF miss AIMS children" and enjoyed
? condolences which the parents to thi
> day have never ascertained
\ On with the persecution of us. bu
p forget not that in q war Of races. i
ever such a calamity should tax,
; place, colored folks will stand up TO
4 white ones, and whits ones for colores
ones to the discontinue of the rAbid
, incorporating elements on boil
sides.
, This, SIT, is the cause of the "b nc
7 of union" between the races in tn,
: Southland.