The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-25
THE RACE PROBLEM.

To the Editor: 1t is the behoof and
duty Of the white people of the country
to give this question a fair. dispasSion-
ate. earnest and positive consideration
and decisive action. Volumes of theories
and suggestions have been superabun-
dant and will be proftless without ac-
tion. | think it was Andrew Jackson
who said weigh well a question then
go on, or words to that effect
Criminal assaults have in the last year
multiplied so rapidly and so agitat-
ed the public mind that the hour of de
finite combustion and action confr0ntS
us. With the Northerner it is theory
with the South it is condition with
all its narrowing. sickening details-but
it is condition which has to be met
deciSively. 1t would be Il profitiess review
to 90 back and narrate how through
the inSatiate cupidity of the lustful
Puritan the negro was torn from his ma
tive jnnglcs and furtively sandwichcd in
To our classic civilization where for half
century he has been its most potent
and disturbing factor. and unwittingly
the cause of Il conflict Of unparalleled
severity and dimenSions-des of
million of lives and billions of treasure
but the order now is TO face present
conditions The North having sown the
wind leave us to reap the whirlwind
wrart i'll the ranoply of its blinded eg0t
ism and vague theories, descants Justify
upon the duties of the Southern Caval-
Ter upon whom he has imposed burdens
which is beyond Yankee capacity to com
prehend. or his ability to eradicate
therefore let the South and the negro
arrange their own autonOmy-too num-
erOuS now to make eXpatriation practi-
cable or desirable let lis help to develop
him mentally, morally and in material
progreSs-aS a race they are dOcile.
tractahle and useful. Keep him out of
the clutches of unprincipled adventurerS
and he will bound forward to Il perma-
nent prosperity Make them valuable
adiuncts to our Heterogeneous civliZa-
ton? Certainly and tentatively by lift
ing them to higher plane through cor
rect education and moral suasion-teach
them it is their hehoof and bounded duty
to cooperate with the white man to eX
terpate the Pariahs amongst them. to as
Sist i'll bringing them to speedy Justice
not to mob violence for lynch law will
debase and demoralize any people who
petous youths of the country with scenes
of cruelty which will ultimately produce
IL race of heartess bandits antagonistic
to common sense and divine mandate--a
blot upon. and bar to the success Of any
christian nation.
For as we all well know scenes have
been enacted under the blazing light Of
our hoaSted christian civilization which
would almost cause the blush of shame
TO mantle the cheeks of Comanche In
dan-if the powers that be are ordain
ed Of God. it is proper TO them we should
refer it. only demanding these powers
should make the work short. sharp and
decisive through courts of immediate
proceedure--but once break down respect
for constituted authority you at once
rclegate us to harbaric conditions and
annihilate every vestige of true man
hood. When the negro comprehendS that
politics is to him more of Il curse than
blessing--that he is only the tool of the
white Pariahs-that material progress
is infinitely more desirable than political
supremacy. then the reign of Self-rcspect
and happiness will he inaugurated with
him.
JNO. ID. THORNE.