The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-10-15

and attention of my life to the inter
continental railway project.
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/ Il prefer 10 have my fame resi- upon
that great undertaking. which IS sure IL
come 10 pass before maay years. ra.her
than upon the book which wrSte so many
years ago. Then / am rather out Of SYM
pathy with the descendants of the N5rth-
I ern abolitionisls on the negro question,
] just as was ont Of sympathy. to some
extent with Garrison, Greeley, Phillips
ana Mrs. Stowe, in The years before me
war They welcomed me as ? Southern
aboli,lenisI, but still coula net regard me
as anything but hereto N MY views on
the negro. Mr. Garrls n said 10 ne:
/ fou do not regard the negro as bro A..
eT, ana this WAS true. 4.d NOT. ! wr5Ie
my book net for the beneht OF the ne-c.
but TO benefit The whites OF The Soazh
THE Northern abon,ionists set up he
dogma Of the equality Of the negro. This
Is something which people may talk abau.
until the end OF time. ami no equality viii
( exist The day the world ends The negro
race VIII be inferior 10 he white. TINS
Is the testimony Of etanologis.s, and The
profound conviction of everybody who has
been intimately associated with the negro
Left TO himself he sinks back nto bar
harism- The only solution Of the negx.
problem which l can recommend today. is
the one advocated Ia lS5T--@epor,a alton N
Africa ! do not even want him IN ,-e
Yves; Indian islands. II could have SEES
the first slave trader who ev.g landed on
this continent and could | have hAd the
power. would have killed him an1 also
ms captiVes, The former for The horrible
crime OF man stealing and the later for
the weakness which made it poss bic FIR
him to be slave.
Il have known great deal about the
slave traders. knew intimately man
who made Isl trips from Africa ,o-riis
continent After emancipation here. h.
carried MS cargoes stealthily INTO Brazil.
he USED 10 tel. me how they captured
negroes Three men from the ship would
90 on snoie 10 native village OF per
maps 1893 people: they would fire Their
guns few times IN the air and Tae
negroes would run for The woods ike
rano!ts. leaving their women ana children S
aeienseless. Had they stood their ground
ana fonghi for their homes, the race
would never have remained enslayed The ?
descendants Of such people are pc r stock. :
Ahl the whole country Will sooner or later
una u out, All these rapes and rayish!ngs I
"hlen are going or every day in the South.
could see were coming thirty years ago
4hey Will grow verse instead OF BET
eF' II VIII b sad day for the North IL |
here is any considerable negro migration
n'.asr' You may travel the world over.
ma any city with large percentage Of =
,esso population Is liable to have trouble. a
,srhaps somebody viii think Up a better =
nan IMAM deportation, but have never !.
zen able 10 see that anything short OF :,
nay would settle the problem. Jefferson ;.
aerstood this, He declared the principal !
vi OF slavery to be that Il induced the !
~pia multiplication OF the negroes.
ave been rather saddened by the inaDti
aue OF my eonntrymen 10 take a corr
lenensiye view of this question. one
reat American that knew was not mis- X
iken IN Il was Abraham Lincoln. His
oras may be searched In vain Tor ans a,
.laence o. the equality theory OF the Il
Tgto' which is still perslstentIy urged. i,
lna you, DO not hate the negro: / pity a,
m, ! regret that he Is incapable OF al b,
ni.iaion into any b dy polite which a,
oald exlS, IN civilization. aahor "a 81
ass'y, and did what little could fer az ID
, -. but have not been In sympathy ga
IN the negro policy of the country since "a