The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-11-29
| AN EXHIBITION
OF IGNORANCE.
A Meadacions Attack on Southern
Slave Owners in a Negro Organ.
WOEFUL LACK OF INFORMATION.
The Relations Between the Master and
the Slave In tho South are Not Un-
dcrstood by Those Who Have
Never Lived Among Them.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2s.-Speclal-The
relations that exist between well-behaved.
seIf-respecting negroes and the whites OF
tho South are not generally understood
by those who have never lived in the
States South of the Mason and Dixon )
line Especially IS there general lack OF
Information with respect 10 the relations
oe.Ncen the SOutherners and their slaves m
general. For hopeless ignorance or willfu
,oer.Iacitv. however. nothing Ike the fol-
lowing has been seen for some time. IL
is an extract from a letter written 10 the
afternoon negro organ Of this city. IL
IS only necas sary 10 quote few pas
sages 70 cause feeling 0f pity TOT Inc
creature who wrote Il:
4 HORRIBLE TALE.
.eDuring sls.very the colored man was
TAGGED until Tue last vestige Of manhood
was thought o have disappeared from
him until the List bit OF muscular work
ing force had bee n wrested from him. ana
mill his last dro.g OF life-blood had been
used for the bei Nnt OF the southern
white man. Morals had no place ln inc
life OF the slave; peculiar submissive
polltness for the mas ter class was taught
at tho end Of LASH knowledge or lhe
English language was acquired by Tea-
SON of contact. not betvuse OF any spe-
cial teaching. There was very little
teaching about God 20 she slave The
most important thing "a ught was ser
wants. obey your master.N' To-day the
rcstilt Of their imperfect Christian teach
inc Is shown by the fact Mat many or
the ex-slaves seem to think that Cnrls-
fianiiy means TO go 10 churrh on sun
day and do the devils work IN MONDAY.
The slave cleared the forests Drained the
..ff
plantations and amassed wealth Tor the
southern white man for period or Two
hundred and fifty years. The southern
white man never paid cent or the pilh-
cipal or interest Of tho sum justly que
tho slave for this work. and when the
ri..n var opcned slave labor had so en-
richod the South that the people were
enabled 20 wage destructive war
AGAINST the Union. Colored people nav"
not retarded the growth OF the South-
but a war that devastated Inc country
and dostrovcd millions Of dollars or pro-
oertv has. and this. together with tne
nresent mob rule that infests the South,
making life. property and capital lnse-
c,,re will continue 10 rctard its growth.
HOW IS TFIS2
.uIave tho Southern white people ever
Taught the colored people anything except
unconditional submissive obedience 10
them I'm all things Who ever HedIu ~ q"
Southern white man or woman No'"n-
toril,. giving their services as misHiona-
r.es 10 teach i'm colored schools? They
prefer TO give the colored people a chance
10 eet n bottle OF rum or aid them IN an
o,nortunitv 10 indulge i'm some OF the
meaneet and lowest vices Of CIVILIZATION
II is about as impossible for q southern
white man 10 teach a colored man deeds
that are manly as II is for camel 70
90 through the scriptural eyeof "a needle
The Christian white people OF the Norm
went South as missionaries after ine
war often without pay. and taught ''
ev-alave education. and today VIZ h'. |e
colored doctors. lawyers. dentists SON,
INTELLIGENT ministers. business men ana
a. orrn,, of school teachers as the direct
result Of their labor. The beSt coloreu
neople Of the South have sprung from 'he
bondiwork OF the good white people OF
The North. and not from the laoors OF
Southern white people. Southern whites
are always ready and willing 10 leach
the colored man how TO be good ser
want hut nothing more.