The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-05-17

| c"nnoC cure IDo SITUATION Dy CeAslnR tC
educate. But while continuing to urge
education, | would not have you under
,stinate the task that is before us.
The negro ls not the equal OF the white
man; science ami history alike pro.
claim this truth. Ills skull Is thicker
"u4 his brain smaller than the white
mans and Prof. Cope tells us that the
sulures OF the skull which promote
growth Ano expansion, usually grow
up, us they do not in the white mans
AT about the age OF II years. The nc
gro has never civilize cd himself. He
mas always been a savage in Africn
N Haytl and San Domingo during a
century Of government he as ret
r0graded In the British and Danish
West ndies he has made little pro.
grcSS.
| The moment OF emancipation was u
critical period in tho history OF the
southern negro. He had not been
taught " provide for the morrow. Lib.
erty brought responsibilities for which
ne was utterly un, Yual: and false
teachings Just EOw might do him in
calcuiablc injury. Abraham Lincoln
knew that the negro, who had never
learned to take care OF himself, WAS
not competent TO aid in taking care OF
the State And so MIR. Lincolns plan
oi reconstruction was to bring back
the seeded States into the Onion with
only such voters as wure qualified un-
der the laws OF the several States. MIR.
L!ncon had prepared and read in his
cabinet the proclamation for the re-
babliitatiOn OF North Carolina, which
WAS the bnsis OF Preside .Johns0ns
Dsars. Tnis is testified to by Secretary
McCullough and Gen. Grant. II Lin.
coin had lived, the speaker thought he
would have been able to carry cut his
plane. job nson failed because he had
no tact and no influence.
Never vas there such Is h.undur as
IN the theory that suffrage W uuld help
educate the negro. What tho ucgrO
wanted above all things WAS TO know
how TO take care OF himself 50 that he
might develop. He necded sympathy
and tutclagc and this he would have
mad, especially from his old master, on
terms that would have been advau.
;a2eOuS to both but he was luurht
that he had no friends NJ. Ut among
those who wanted his votes. II wa,
The CARPET baggcr VINO drew LIc uUl,r
line. When We consider the feelings OF
the young negro OF the present genera.
tlUn towards tbG white man, let us re-
ms nbcr the false teachings unu The
bitter and unsuccessful struggles for
power from which he has ideas. It il
because OF this same bitter feeling that
the present generation o; white mon
dislike the negro. w. II. Council. an
Alabama negro, IL IN able article in
The Forum said. wv hen The veterans
who followed LIE TO Nppu,DatrX shali
DC gathered 10 their graves, the negro
"lii nave lost his D;:sL friends"
But There Is moro encouraging Wow,
and you will consider it, Is not the
nero distinctly and Clearly improving
in Lhe white counties whore white men
pr@domiDate Is not the negro GRIMM.
oIoEy largely due 10 poverty. want Of
educaL0n and OF home training? Is not
the system OF industrial education AZ
taught at Iuskegte by that remarh able
Nn-i5oOker WashinEtolr a keynote
to the situation ? And are there not so
many thousand instances Of negroes be-
coming orderly and faithful citizens rs
TO lead Us TO the conclusion that much
O1 the evil we now see IL Lic result Of
miscuucatiOn an0 that in the establish
menl ol more harmonious relations be.
tween the races aud better training for
the negro We arc u look for the solu.
tl0n OF the problem
Another question relates 70 Inc purity
OF the ballot box. Why Is nciLhcr life
nor liberty safe in the little States Of
Central America The answer is, be-
cause there Is no such thing known
there as pure elections. Every admin
istration is the creature Of revolution
or Of an election dominated Dy force.
No one has any respect for the titlc by
| which any Official holds his place, and
go revolutions come and go and there
neither is nor can be prosperity. II in
! The Southern States VIC have departed
| from the teachings Of our fathers in
| this instance, 1t was from the necessity
OF preserving our civilization. But, Us
we have found, it is Just one step from
delrauding tho negro to dcfrauding the
white man, and we know that ns long
rs matters remain as they are now we
never can have, as we Wish to have,
two respectable parties in these South
crn States.