Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-03-24

shoe W1I OBu VIC lGhIu lEOu one An0Bn-
er. Though we cannot figure cut that
much good will come OF this confer
ence. the object sought TO be accom-
plished, perhaps, iustifiss the expert
ment."
And again:
The Acknowledgement of the freed
man under the circumstances in which
that so-called boon" was conferred
was the monumental blunder, not to
say crime, OF the age"
That 10 matter OF opinion, and you
will pardon US il we note that is is
very poor opinion.
And again:
"The first reform aimed at ought to
be the undoing of the mischief. The
Federal Constitution ought to be
amended so as to relegste to each
State entire right to prescribe suf-
frage qualifications; but we are not
visionary enough TO imagine that such
an amendment as that could be car,
ried now. The Negro vote ia too i'm
portsnt TO Republicans in New York,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to Justify
the expectation that the party would
support proposition to repeal the If
teenth amendment"
1t says further:
1--WE know that among the conserva-
tive classes of the North there are
many persons who now realize the
magnitude of the blunder in question,
but generally speaking, those persons
are not active in politics. So far as we
have seen, not q single movements has
been made by political body in the
North which encourages us to hope
that they would vote for eonssitu-
tional amendment such as we have
indicated. Many scholarly and philo-
sophical men of the North are with
US. but we should be foolish to reckon
upon them unaided by political sup
port"
1t continues:
"Our recollection is that Bourke
Cochran himself gave utterance to
some sentiments on the race question
during the last presidential campaign
which were very often sive to the south
ern people. Perhaps he has received
new light upon the subject. At any
rate, such is his reputation as an ora.
tor that whatever he says at Montgom-
cry will receive close attention"
It says:
THAT the southern whites and
blacks are farther apart than they were
ten or fifteen years ago is unquestion.
ably true"
You pass laws putting them further
apart and then ascribs it to natural
conditions. But here is the picture
that this Negro-hater draws:
"The attachments formed between
master and slave are nearly all brok sn !;
broken in multitudss of cases Dy death.
The new generation of whites and the
new generation of blacks scarcely
know each other. Their lives are
apart-separsted by conditions which
widen the distance year by year. Ne.
gro servants and farm hands nowadays
too often refuse so much as to live up
en- their employers premises. Alarm
ed by monstrous crimes done by Ne
groes, vexed at the untrustworthines
of the Negro laborer, disguised with
him as q voter, what wonder ia it that
the predominant desire of the south
ern people should be to restrict his
suffrage, so far as they may, and be
more economical than heretofore in
expanding public money upon colored
! schools?"
What an advertisement this is for
Virginia. What sn inducement to the
immigrants If this picture do not
drive away capital, what Wilt
On one hand, it is charged that we
desire to mix with and force ourselves
upon the white people and on the 9th
sr that we desire to get away from
them.
For inconsistency, the Negro hater il
the greatest acrobat of the century
1t concludes:
at looks very much as though the
southern people were done triflinc
with socslled race questions" ano
were prepared to deal with them hero
ically. We shall not soon get help
from the North, but we believe they
are more ready than ever before to &C
quiesce in. measures we of the South
may take to deal with the problems
which disturb us."
The above language is akin to tina
used by TILLMAN of South Carolina. L
is not only ineendiary, but revolu-
tionAry. With all Of the offices, in tn,
Southland, with all the courts, will
all the rights of franchise, with all O
the "blind in one-eye" decisions OF tn,
United States Supreme Court, it nov
appeals to the North, the section t,
which the Negro has been looking ant
asks for aid in settling its ewn CUES
tions.
It has been said that mo question 1
ever settled until it is settled right.
This is true of the case of the citizen O
color and threats Of heroic treatme n
do not disturb the equilibrium of To,
Negro, aud cause him co pause even
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