The age-herald., 1897-12-02
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 eomplished in the very midst of the
 Black Belt that comparatively few per-
 sons realize it's vast import or appreciate it's tremendous significance. The race
 problem is being solved so am.cably just
 here in this section of cotton and corn
 fields between the former owners of shares, their descendants and the negroes
 that the politicians of the north have not
 yet awakened to the remarkable fact.
 Enmsty and bitterness are passing away
 like mists beforsi the rising sum- and an-
 other and bstter day is coming to the
 south, for labor and capital, the employer
 and the employe. the white man and the
 black man are adjusting thsfr divers in-
 terests upon a broad and honorable
 basis.
 For more than half a century the ire
 pressible conflict has ragged in American
 politics. The arTogant insolence of north ern abolitionists for many decades has
 disturbed the peace of the country, and
 forced ths southerners to a policy of self
 defense. Way back in the past, Harriet Beeeher Stcwe, who went to her death
 with her hands crimson with the blood
 of brave men on either sids, threw, like a
 burning torch, Uncle Toms Cabin''
 broadcast over the land, and kindled a
 flame that was only quenched in a ssa
 of blood. To deprive southern men and
 women of their honest possessions she
 told a half truth that was accepted as
 holy gospel by eagsr, Ignorant readers.
 The wife, daughter and sister of minis ters of Christ, sine became a leader in
 the struggle to deprive a people of their rights and their property. She was a willy anarchist, a cunning communist, under the guise of Christian woman hood. She was one of the bitterest most dangerous enemies the south ever had, yet she lived to deplore her misjudgment of the people of this section, and to re- gret the part she had played in stirring up fratsrnal strife.
 During the past half century ther, have arisen men of intellect and men without intellect, all bent upon the sanIs
 purpose, and that purpose the placing of the white and black people of the south at enmity with each other. They have
 striven to create an anlagonism between
 these two races by every possible m.ans,
 whether in open political campaigns or
 in secret incendiary gatherings.
 T'he northern republican has posed for fifty years or more-under various
 aliases-as the friend of the negro simp- ly because he was che en@my of the southern white man, and until of lslte the outlook has been disrnal and we'll night hopeless. But now, under the guid- ance of an All Wise Providence, darkness is passing away and the race problem iss being settled first in Alabama, and set tled according Ilo the wishes of the white men of the south and the leaders of tht negro race.
 The recent gathering of Presbyterian
 m,ndsters-both white and black-in this city evidenced the faol that the leading rpsg gro preachers of this denomination
 were in full accord with those other re- markable Alabanga negroes, Washington, at Tuskegee; Williams, at Tuscaloosa. and Council, at Normal, whose labos s | for years havia been directed towards the promotion of the kindliest feeling be- l tween the two races at the south ard the llpbuipding of their P.ople to that plane | where they can a,ltain success and ma | perial comfort They recognize that the | south is large enough and bread enough | for both Wf1t and black; that it Is bound | ito be the home of both; that ITO real nrosperity to either race can come while arJyagonism exi9ts, and above and beyond l all else. that their interests be upon diI- l ferent but parallel lines, and taat they are interdependent one upon the othef' 1 The ocnvocalion at Tuskegse laEt Tues l day marked an era in the history or the | ,,agro of ,the south, and should arouse
 aba nation ito a realization of that fact, l which cannot be denied, that the work | of Booker T. Washington, w. H. Coun- | cln and Edward Parker Williams IS ac- l oomn1ishine, more for their race th9n every effont of abolitdonists and repup- 1 Means for more than half century has l d,ne These northern politicians were | dangerous. theorists and ineeHidiarses, with the one desire to interfere with other peoples rights and property in- | different to the necessitiss of the negro, | and regardless of that decree of the | Creator making classes and distinctions. l
 Alter the suffering, the poverty, the I humiliation brought upon the souh by | her enemies and detraEt1rs, she IS r.5- | ing glorlously out of it all, and is show ing to the world that she is the t1uest, I most dependable friend the negro has, | and with the assistance of such men as | Washington, Councill and WilNams, she | is proving thalt the race problem can l and is being solved, without the neei | of proclamatiops, force bills or any | other iniquity from political antago-
 nists. During the past few years, just | here dn Alabama, by southern men, | white and black, more has been done | for the real good of the negro than was l accomplished during the preceding half l century by the arrogance and iLcendi- | arism of every aboEt.on.st in the United States. BALL,