The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1898-01-08
LAFAYETTE DEMocRAcY's
THE WRONG or NEGR0
SUFFRAG E MUST BE
REAIEDIED.

REMEDIED.
Daily P,cayune.
The most monstrous political an
social crime ever committed in -th
history of the world was the disfran
chising at the close of the Ameri
can Civil War of the great body o
the white men Of the Southern
States of the Union, and the freeins
and investing with paramount poll
tlcal rights of two million negro
slave men in these States, and plac.
ing them over the whites.
This shameful crime was perpet-
rated on white men, by white men.
When any enslaved and oppressed
people are able, by their own cour-
age, enterprise, force of character
and intellect to rise against their
masters and free themselves, and
show by their achievements and
conduct that they are worthy of
citizenship and fit for self-govern-
ment, they will always deserve sym
patty and assistance. But in the
American slaves, it was not done
because of any worthiness on the
part of people stepped from the
very dawn Of history to the present
time, in their own country, in igno-
rance, superstition, moral degrade
zion and hopeless savagery, and i'm
bruted in this country by more than
two centuries of slavery. They
were not converted into f,eemen
and citizens with the intention of
benefiting them, but with the diabo-
lical object of humiliating and tram
ping under foot the white people
of these Southern States, whose
power had been overthrow in
colossal war
This unparalleled and unuttera- ;
bic outrage upon civilization has re- .
colied upon the people who perpet- s
rated 1t, and those of them who re- I
cognize the wrong they committed, {
and the blow they struck at the po- q
litical, moral and social welfare of +
their country, do not hesitate to
acknowledge the fact. A very strik- t
ing expression to this effect is made e
in the Globe Quarterly Review for p
December, 1897, by it's editor, I
H. Thorne. Mr.. Thorne, h
n an article entitled, "Must the D
Negro Cor" argues that the negroes t,
ire a demoralizing and degrading Ia
Incubus and curse upon the white u
'eople of the American Republic, a,
nd declares that it is the concur in
ent opinion of prominent white bl
nd negro philanthropists that the lii
egroes must go, either out of the d.
ountry or into a virtual state of d.
ondage, lest worse befall.
Mr.. Thorne, who was an original We
bolitionist and negrophilist, writes flu
rus on the subject to which atten- gr
on has been directed:
During the spring of the year 1905, and ne
ter more than thirty years of sincere and
fashioned abolition sympathy with the ~
gro race, made two visits to several of an
Southern States, with results as follows:
First--All my old abolition sympathies. the
lich had been weakening for over ten go,
ars in view of the insuffera6le selfassertion -
our negroes since the day of their -eman- the
'ation, vanished like so many scattered
ohistries. for which had no further use
oecond-On returning to New York I :
blished in the next issue of the Globe Re
" my conviction that. in spite of emanci- Gu
ION and our so-called education of the ne p h
and perhaps aided by these absurdities ~
he negroes of this country were more Oh;
;ne.,,hie ~ sn. . INT. immoral and
2, and unworthy of American citizenship. tive
any lonnsr wr;,;ng ~ m .;nnG matters. quiz
IS OF sympathy with the negro, L was con- per
ed that inside the next thirty years the f,,,,
th would be obliged to 'sreenslave, kill
xport the bulk Of its negro population. ), For
VI. Ihorne has come to under
nd that wherever in the West NJ
hes, or any other part of the ceiy
Id the negro or half-breed has car