Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-11-23

1" the Editor Of TIE Evening Star:
Please permit me to publish in your col
INNS few words in reply TO Mr.. p. !.
q Briens article that appeared in last Sat
urdayS Star.
Nhen the white man imported the Afri-
can he did it because he made money at
the business. When the southern white
People purchased them they did it because
they knew that these imported Africans
We're a source OF great revenue to them,
The trans lction was Il business of dollars.
Proht and convenience to them. and moth
HS else. Inere VI not the slightest mo-
tive of philanthropy in the business The
business was prosecuted with zeal and
southern slavery was pushed as a pawn Q.
investment. When President Lncoln'S
proclamation declared four million slaves
to be freemen no shout for Joy went IN
from southern threats. but they did send
up the agonizirg cry that they had been
robbed OF their property and made poor BY
Pres IdCnt Lincoln
During slavery the co]0rc1 man p,ac
logged until the last vestige of manhood
was thought I" have disappeared from
MN. until the last bit of muscular working,
force had been Wrested from him and I'M
til his last drop of lfe-blood had bee,l used
Tor the benefit of the southern white man
Morals had 10 place in the life of the slave:
peculiar submissive DOliteness for -.
master class was taught at the end of a
IdSIi hltD"tt-t!Et OF the English llUgl;.Isyf
was acquired by reason Of contact, not be
cause of any succi4l teaching There was
very little teaching about God to the slave
The most Important thing taught was ser
wants. obey YOUR masters" Today the re-
suit of their imperfect Christian teaching
Is shown by the fact that many OF the ex-
slaves sem to think that Christianity
me&.s to go "a church on Sunday and do
the devils work on Monday. The slave
cleared tht. forests drained the Swanpc
built M cities, cultivated the plantations
and amdsSeI wealth for the southern white
man for a period of TWO hundred am! fifty
years. The southern white man never pa
i cent Of the principal or interest Of the
sum justly duo the slave for this work
end when the civil war opened slave labor
had 50 enriched the south that the people
We're enabled to wage destructive war
against the Union. Colorcd people have
not retarded the growth OF the south but
a war that devastated the country ana de-
strOyed millions Of dollars Of property has:
and this. together with the present mob
rule that infcs.s the south, making life.
property and capital insecure, will continue
to retIrd its growth.
Have the southern white people ever
taught the Colored people anything except
unconditional submissive obedience to them
in all things? Who ever heard of a south
ern white man or woman voluntarily Civ
ing their services as missionaries to teach
in colored schools? They prefer to give the
cOlOICi people 4 chance to get a bottle of
rum. aid them in an opportunity to in
dUlge in some of the meanest and lowest
vices Of civilization. 1t is about as impOs-
siblc for southern white man to teach 4
cnlorcd man de"ds that are manly it IS
for camel To 20 through the scripturaI
eye Of a needle. TIE Christian white peD-
pie of the north went south missionaries
after the war. often without pay, and
taught the ex-slave education. and today
we have coioret doctors. lawyers. dentists,
some intelligent ministers. business men
and an army of school teachers as the di-
rect result of their labor. The best col
orcd people Of the south have sprung from
the handiwork of the good white people Of
the north. and not from the labors of south
ern white people. Southern whites are al
ways ready and willing to teach the col
ored man how to be a good servant for
Them but nothing more.
JOSEPH II. STEWART
November 81 1898.