The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-08-03


as was the case in the South, being
treated humanely with the view Of
making citizens Of them, have beer
finally absorbed by the citizens, anC
are making even better citizens thar
the Spaniards. More progressive anC
more accumulatite in the wealth Of
the world. Just the opposite has
been the treatment Of the Southern
Negro by the superior race" Of the
United States. Since his emancipa-
ton he has been left to his fate by
the men who set him free Enraged
over the fact Of his freedom and de
termined that he should never be
aught else but menial Of the worst
type, the Southern white man has
murdered, maltreated and miSused
the Negro until he has succeeded in
making of him a revengeful, spite
full and retaliatory being who never
loses an opportunity to do white
man harm, when he can do so with
out fear Of detection. He was lead
into politics by one class of white
citizens and shot out Of politics by
another class of white citizens, and
both classes belong to the race that
is now denouncing the unfitness Of
the American Negro for citizenship.
The men who set him free and then
rode him into political battle have
folded their arms in perfect content,
while the men who scourged him as
a slave are now shooting him as a
freeman. Had humane course been
pursued with the newly emancipated
race instead Of a bruttish one, as has
the Southern Negro been subjected
to since 1868, the South would now
be one Of the most prosperous sec
tions Of this country, for the Negro
would have taken to improvement,
civilization and education hundred
per cent. more rapidly than he has
under the circumstances, and that
is saying a good deal. The Negro is
naturally docile, and, if he hase be-
come vicious, as he is now accused Of
being by the whites Of that section,
then the white man himself is solely
responsible for the same. The Ne
gro's women folk has been brutaliz-
ed, robbed and divested of their yir-
tue by the licentious white men of
tie South, with the lavish use of
money and means and with intimida-
ton and superior race" cajoleries.
While this was and is going on the
black men are but silent spectators,
for any interference to prevent such
meant sudden death to them. If it
occasionally happened that the out
ragged feelings Of the Negro found
vent in retaliation on some -unfor-
tunate white woman, then he became
a most dangerous adjunct to the
peace and happiness of the commun-
ity, and the neighborhood, from the
cradle to the grave, were summoned
to witness the burning of a vicious
Negro at the stake. Nothing has
been so instrumental in bringing
about the present chaotic state Of af-
fairs in the South than the barbarous
way the Negroes have been treated
by the whites, who have been even
more inhuman to them than were
the Chinese Boxers to the mission
aries. Pray, how much worse are
the reports from China than those
from New Orleans? Who would
think that human beings living in
Christian land, and far advanced in
the modern art Of civilization could
have ever committed such atrocities
as are daily reported from the South
as being perpretrated upon the de-
fenseless Negroes by the cultured
and Christian white citizens? One
day, unless there is change, the civ
ilized world will be moving against
the United States, just as it is today
against the Chinese empire, to pre-
vent the further slaughtering of the
Negroes within our domain, and per-
haps the slaughtering Of whites as
well on the part Of Southern crimi-
mails, for crime begets crime, and
when one becomes stepped in it there
is no telling as to where it will end.
ILLITERATE White Voters in NC
Now that the political fate of the
Negroes in North Carolina is hang
ing on a brittle thread, with a fair
prospect Of the thread breaking and
the man at the lower end being
plunged into a fathomless abyss be-
low, it might not be out Of place to
say a few words as to the situation
and cause which have prompted such
a retrOgressiye step. 1t has been
given out to the world by the whites
of the South in general that the Ne
gro was an illiterate, ignorant per-
sonage and totally unfit to have the
riOb+ Of SuffraOn in hic nOccoccion