The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-08-29
NIEGRO'S#GOLGOTHA.
Treatment Of the Race Not Justified
at ANY Time.
THEIR BRAVERY IN WAR.
unwillingly Brought to the United
states-All Should Study the Law
of Toleranee-auestion no Longer,
Of the South, But Of the Whole
Country. 'Be

"!And they bring Him unto the place
Golsotha, Swhich5i is, being interpreted,
the place o.. a. skull.
When General Grant. with enemies in
the rear and enemies In front, was con-
Quoting the siege of;yicksburs, negroes
freely. willingly, cut the wood his en-
barrassed army needed. They picked
the abandoned cotton in the fields, that
was subsequently sold for the benefit
OF the national treasury. On April %,
1868, 1t was a colored man who gave
the general the key to the right road to
Port Gibson. The batteries which he
threw up for the Siege We're partially
constructed by negroes. Colored
troops fought first at Milliken,s Bend
against the Confederacy, and the gem
eral wrote: "They behaved well...
When the first mine was exploded be-
fore Vicksburg q colored man was shot
upward with the blast. When he came
down he, was asked: Y
How far did you2go up?"
He answered.:
Dunno, mussa, but t'ink bout tree
miles,
This man ,afterward served with Lo-
gan. All through the civil war the ne
gro who was anxious to do right, an
xlous to be Intelligent, eager to hold his
headsas erect INT the light of the dawn
as the white man; gave evidence OF his
ability to be true to first principles,
writes H. 1. Cleveland. in the Chicago
Tlmes-Herald.
80 Sublimely Heroic.
Later, in the Indian campaigns of the
frontier, he was at times sublimely he
rolc. II you hesitate to believe this
read the story Of the forced march OF
the colored regiment. without water or
food, through the desert to the rescue
OF the survivors OF the Neeker massa-
ere in the White river country. After
this he was in Cuba with the Tenth-at
San Juan and before Santiago. He de-
monstrated that, treated upon lines de,
manded by his racial origin land his
treatment by white people for genera
tons preceding the civil war), he was
strong and faithful soldier. More
though. than his career as soldie,
has been his git of strong intellects to
the world. He has not given many-the
time has been so short But the tolera-
ton preached by Fred Douglass. the
educational labors OF Booker Washing
ton, the religious precepts taught by
the bright minds of the colored Metho-
dist church. are examples e4ltficiently
luminous to indicate that; the spirit Of
light Is no more foreign to the negro
mind than It Is to that OF the China
man. or the Filipino. or the Monaghan.
or the hundred and one other colored
races. who, after all is said. came with
the white man from the same primeval
woman.
Recent Race Riots.
The recent race outbreaks in New
Orleans, the riot In New York City. the
incipient one III Chicago, the outburst
in Akron. the Acknowledgement OF the
negro in North Carolina, the proposal
to have similar legislation in Alabama.
suggest that the time has come when
the mob" and the politician should be
led up the stony way to Golgotha-not
the negro. I care not what justification
Is pleaded in the south for the lynchlng.
burning or Acknowledgement OF negroes.
That Justification cannot stand In the
light OF facts. 1t is the justification
offered by semi-barbaric man in the
dark ages. There Is not large jail in
the country IN which annually more
white men arc not confined for the very
negro oftenses complained OF most, than
negroes. The process OF the law Is suf-
ticlently good for the white offender
The blind, irrational, invariably wrong
spirit OF the mob is the punishment for
the negro. Perhaps 1t is true of the
negro, as Is written OF the ChInnman,
at never will be possible for him to be
one in thought and spirit with the
white man; al antagonism must al
ways exist until the composite man Is
produced" but this does not alter the
present stuatior-the negro was I'M
willingly brought to the United States;
in the early history OF slavery he was
an unwilling subject; his freedom, his
franchise and his property rights were
given him by the white man, and his
removal or determination are physical
impossbil!ties.
Dnrtrire ~ roJar,o,a
In this hour OF the fnecting Of the
Grand Army Of. the Republlc-thIs time
when the presence OF the blue means
something more than pensions, some
thing higher than factional politics.
something more precious than COM
memorating. mere battling for land nos
sessions-is 1t not well for southcrner
as well as northerncr to pause and
study, anew the doctrine OF tolerance
In the course It Is pursuing In China
the United States Is setting every ma
ton in the world an example OF honor
able dealing with foreign race such
as history has seldom Witnessed Can.
not the citizen OF the United States no,
the same example In his relations with
the nearly 100000 az not morc) blacks
In this country? The negro Is not ppr.
feet; in many respects he Is ye, in the
fifteenth century OF intellectual devel.
opmcnt. We naturally look with horror
upon any attempted fusion OF the two
races, although II cndeavor was made
to analyzci the emotion It might be DIFF.