The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-03
BOSTON ON THE RACE PROBLEM.

scholarly North Carolnian now in BoS-
ton, sends us a collection of opinions Of
Northern men on the race problem, as
published in the estimabe Boston Globe.
That DR.. Horne has taken an accurate
measure of the Northern solver of the
race problem is shown by the following
extract that we take the liberty of MAX
ing because of its extreme pertinency:
"You will note that where their solution
differs from that proposed by
Southern men, it is due 10
their partial, not to say total, ignorance
of the facts under consideration or to
their inability TO appreciate them. The
Northern man is the sentimental. while
the Southern man is the practical friend
of the negro. " Every well-wisher
Of the negro will assure him !"
that his sure reward, whether in the
protection of his life and property or in
the education of his children, or i'll politi-
cal preferment, will follow in the line
of his merit and just desert This is
that practical justice about which
there has been too much sentimental
can't"
The gentlemen who place their opinions
at the disposal of the Globe are Thomas
w. Higginson, Edwin G. Walker, Henry
Il. Lowering, Henry b. Blackwell, and,
of course, William Lloyd Garrison. No
Boston symposium would be complete
without Billy Lloyd no lutte without
a rift if Billy Lloyd were not string.
~ of h
crn opinion is just is shown when so
enlightened a man as Col. Higginson can
say: TT is common TO say the South
understands the blacks best. These late
events prove the contrary" Neither
can Col. Higginson understand that the
negro is not always entirely docile and
peaceable.
Mr.. Z. G. Walker, who is quite well
known in Boston, proposes this solu-
ton: "A government which struck from
the negro the shackles of slavery is
strong enough to prevent any and all
crimes against the colored citizen of the
South. If this was done with strong
hand, the South would get tired of
standing in the way of fate, just as it
succumbed to the inevitable result of the
war; Exit Mr.. Walker to the strains
of martial music.
Mr.. Garrison is much rent by the
recent expansion, but manages to give us
his opinings with equal parts of tears,
slobber and Whittier's poetry: AS
Stunning that negro supremacy is some
thing that white men ought not to be
TO the republic than the actual murder
and violence now rampant" with
Anglo-Saxon blood coursing in the veins
of the freedmen and their children, in
eNtricably united in the social fabric,
their interdependence is decreed."
Whether it is the freedmen, or their
children or both or Anglo-Saxon blood
that is tangled up in the social fabric
and in Mr.. Garrison's mind is not quite
clear. Neither had been observed in
these parts, however. Then the Sob
PITY also is due the white survivors of
a system whose savage brand takes
generations wholly to erase They. too
are in the tolls" We are not folks. il
will be noted, but merely survivors of
a system with savage brand. THE
common cant that it was Il mistake 10
admit the freedom to suffrage indicitt, 8
sham democracy. / hold that history
will yaunt the 10th amendment as the
browning service of the great war
S.Lth.' Which is quite enough of VIII
liam Lloyd Garrison.
From such maudlin driyel and incche.
rent rant it is restful to turn to Col.
Lowering, who alone of the writers
seems to grasp the true situation:
Everywhere the political party now
dominant i'll national affairs haG con.
troll it was always Ii question how to
control the colored vote and not permit
its representatives to be elected TO f.
flee.
Here in Massachusetts upon one oc-
casi0n IN recent years the co'ore ! can
| didate CHANGED to be elected, much 10
| the chagrin of the party with which he
had always affiliated.
My point on this is, that positive dis
| like to being governed by our colored
brother does not appear to be strictly
confined to any one particular locality
or political party.
After all the years Of experiments
and experience, if appears that, even in
communities presumed to be most fa-
vorable for the expansion of the colored
man socially and politically. the white
man can be brought to give equality to
the negro in the theory only, and that
he reverses his policy when it comes to
putting his theory into actual practice.
a. 40 Nattxy x.