The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-21

posed TO DestoWlng the n LtiODal DatroD
age upon the negroes, while Senate,
Pritchard, Hon. Harry Skinner ana
many leading Republicans in NORTH
Carolina favored it Now behold tn
results: Race prejudice has been
greatly intensified, and many aesart
that unofending citizens have been
mRssacred.
Now in the face of all these tbino.
will 1t not be better for the negroes ..
a race, to curb their prurient desires r.
hold Office and press themselves for,
ward into prominence among the Whit
races Would it not be better for them
as a race to bend all their energies. t.
acquire property, improve their minds
their physical and moral condition,
and thus better ft themselves to dis.
charge the duties OF citizenship, in rba
freest, happiesC and greatest nation Of
either ancient or modern times2 All
who know the race we'll, must confess
that the great mass of them do not
we'll discern the difference between
liberty and license. Their unhtness
for the exercise of the ballot has often
been exempliied by their voting for
corrupt men and often against meas.
ures that would greatly benefit them
and the coercion Of those of their own
race who dared cast a vote differing
from their party leaders. Their views
and opinions upon the subject of free.
dom seem to be more in accordance
with those Of the Latin races, rather
than those of the Anglo Saxon that il
giving light and liberGy TO the world.
The negro is incapable of grasping
the idea Of liberty as advocated and
held by the Anglo Saxon race in the
United States, who are the ~descendants
the Angles, Saxons Celts and Gaelic
races, now welded into a homogeneous
mass constituting the MODEST race of
people on earth-the descendants Of
tribes and nations that the R man
Empire with all it's power was never
able to thoroughly cor quer. 1t took
ages for the Anglo Saxon race to attain
It's present high state of civiliz alton, to
wre from Fendal barons, lords and
kings the great charter of liberty and
establish it on a solid basis. 1t should
not be expected that a race of people
STEPPED in the darkness of heather
superstition for thousands of years
should suddenly emerge from a state
OF ignorance and slavery into the full
civilization, light and freedom of the
Anglo Saxon race and be able to dis.
charge the duties Of citizenship. Gods
chosen people Israel, when they
emerged from a bondage of 400 years
duration, from among the most en-.
Ilghtened people of that age, were
found to be unfit for freedom and, IN
stead Of being put into the ownership
Of land, were compelled to drag out
forty years of marching and counter
mar ching in the wilderness, where the
bodies OF all, with W. exceptions from
twenty years old and upward were
buried in the desert sRn0s while Che
survivors under the MILITARY lDstruc.
lions OF Moses were taught obedience
TO law and order, and under Aaron the
dlsVlDctIon between clean and uuclea1,
molly and unhOly, ana were titus pre-
pared under the Ghunders of Sinai and
Tne awful manifestations of Ids
power and wrath for the exercise Of
freedom
Historians tell US that the rise and
progress, of learning and the arts was
slow and followed in the channels Of
trade and cOmmerce-LhaG civilization
first appeared in the far east that
was far in advance of most Of
che ancient nations of the earth 10
CIV IL 4tlon-but it's south ward prog.
ress was checked by the Liby an aud
Sa nara Deserts, that all hey ond was
unknown land. In this unknown land
the negro rtc9, shut out from
the ciVlllzlng Influence of trade, con-.
MERGE and intercourse with the other
OF the earth, and instead Of
emerging from, rather sunk deeper
ignorance and barbarlty, where
they remained for thousands of years.
Now all Christian people will admit
that God in His Almighty power could
have endowed this people with all
knowledge but this is not the D vine
method IN dealing with the human
race In the advancement of it, GOd
Hs providence uses human agen'
Giles The negro race, shut u Dy
natural barriers from the channels OF