The Washington bee., 1898-09-10

more, but because he loves ncie
sam less. Spain, sore over defeat
and loss of territory; France
apathetic and distraught as the
holder of worthless Spanish bonds;
Germany defiant, splenetic and
jealous of our acquisitions IN the
Pacific, and each and all nagging
the negro to declare his independ
ence and offering him material aid,
it would be for the future historian
to say whether the negro received
or pushed away the crown.
This is very remote, yet it may
come.
The southern press is eager to
assert that the animositles engen-
dered by the civil war are dead;
that the southern man is the best
friend of the negro. But facts
tell. What is the record!
Here is a sma portion OF It:
During the National Drill in this
CITY. several southern companies
withdrew from the line of march
because colored soldiers were IN
line. The southern soldiers abso-
lutelv refused to attend the Chica-
90 drill until they had written
Guarantee from the managers that
negro troops would not be allowed
in line.
At the Indianapolis drill the
southern soldiers attacked the ne
groes on the streets and one negro
was manned for life. At the
reunion in Philadelphia a few
months ago the southern ex-Con-
federate veterans refused to march
because colored veterans were in
line.
At Camps Alger and Thomas
the southern soldiers refused to
salute colored officers. In Georgia
a southerner announces his candi-
dacy for Congress and advocates
the lynchlng of negroes. In Texas
they burnt negro at the stake and
Texas member of Congress justi-
fies the act.
In South Carolina, Mississippi
and Louisiana the negro has been
deprived of the right of franchise by
constitutional enactment. In North
Caroliaa the democrats bodily claim
if they get control of the leglsla-
ture and the State they will de-
prive the negro of his ballot. In
South Carolina a negro postmaster
and his little babe are murdered,
his wife and daughters sever ly
wounded and his home burned by
southren whi e men.
In South Carolina, Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama southern
white men swear that they will not
give testimony againsy white men
which would result IN their suffer
ing capital punishment for tie
murder of negroes. In theSouth II
negro is charged with having
outraged a white woman he is
lynched. In the same section if "a
white man is charged with having
outraged a colored women he is
never brought to trial and
the negroes in the community
are warned, on tain of death, mol
to talk about the affair. Statistics
show that over 100000 colored
men, women, and children have
heen murdered since the civil War.
Yet the Post says these southern
ers are the negro's b-st friends.
Ye gods who are his enimies? The
Armenian massacres, the butcheries
of Weyler in Cuba, fall into
insignlfcence when compared with
this horrible record And all for
what Simply because the south
ern white man is opposed to the
negro holding office, If the negro
will not aspire to an office of profit
or trust, but will be content to
allow the white man to fill them
from Governor to Constable while
the darkie picks the cotton; or all
offices in the army while darkie
does the fighting, then the neg,o
will cease to be a "rapists," "a
"burly brute a ''coon." He will
be the antithesis of everything vile,
vicious and mean, and the esteem
ed Washington Post, together with
the whole southern press, will sing
praise to his name and rejoice in
the return of old black "mammy."
Such is the influences of the south
ern propaganda in America. Thus
will 1t be In Cuba and Porto Rico
if the Post and the Santiago Times
can convince the American people
that the negro soldier is fit for
nothing more than high private
In the rear ranks.