Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1901-03-13
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, write something in my weak way on
the right of suffrage.
MIR. Editor, | believe the time has
come when the color line must be
drawn, If this old Commonwealth il
ever TO be what she was In the fif,ies.
Judge Harlem, of the u. ). SUI
preme Court, said at the close of the
Civil War, that the right of suffrage
given TO the negro was the greatest
curse ever perpetraied on the coun
try, and not Ouly for the country but
for the negro. just thluk of il :
-Four millions of negroes given thing
that they DO not know what il means.
Now, has not experience proven it to
be the case. STATISTICS Will show that
the lails in the State OF Nirginis cou
taius five negroes to the jail. As We
have one hundred counties we must
have one hundred jalls. aud that
makes the sum total five hundred ne
grOes at forty ceutS per day, making
an expense of two hundred dollars
per day besides expenses of the courts
all of this 10 be charged up 10 the
taxpayers of the State. Aud great
many OF these are trIlle offeuses which
could be gotten rid of if we bad the
whipping post law. Whip both black
aud white for petty Offeuses.
This Is not all; the white people
have to do something aud do it quick
ly if there Is anything to be made
out of him.
| write this letter with no malice
IN the world; will do ANYTHING !
eau for the negro; look upon him
with eyes of pity; | will never forget
the old negro's kindness during the
Civil War behind the lines, aud To
the dependent white families that
were left in their charge.
But this Is a new generation We
have 10 deal with today. and one thai
does not seem to appreciate the man,
kindnesses to them by the Virginia
people.
l have talked to several MAYORS of
towns and cities in this Valley, anu
they tell me that three-fUurths of thu
violation of the law is by the negro.
l am more than persuaded hat tn.
negro Is ignorant aud We will have L.
take his right of suffrage away anu
start him on some other line befor,
ne will ever be u worthy citizen. W.,
have 1900 negroes in the peultentia
~, anu 1t Is SAID that the peuiteutiar,
pays dividend to the State. How
about the expense Of getting then.
there:
If we can do anything by organi,
law to prevent crime We should doit.
| hereby quote DR.. +. b. Barrluger
chairman of the faculty of the I'm
Versity of Virginia. He says, as TIA,
negro has grown in crimiualty auu
physical depravitv since receiving
what he has of education, that kind
# education is surely failure
Moreover, he has used this educa
ton given in compassion as an arm
? # defense, as Il weapon of politica
'ffense against those who gave it
Under the circumstances there is ,
natural and growing sentiment in tn,
south demanding that we give hin
} Inly the pittance that he hrsel'
produces as II taxpayer, and then lr
MIN shift for himself. The educated
lass of the South cannot endorse ,
policy which will certainly promot,
racial warfare.
There was never before on tn,
-arth people more l-w-abiding, pa
Gent or long suffering in the face VI
great temptation than the white voc
marry of the South. Our peOpl,
nave been brought down, but the,
still have the Saxon virtue of cour
age that dal es refrain. Do not press
hem.
DR.. Barrlnger contrasted the la
IOr of the white aud black In the re
:eut progress of the South, and de
Jared that the negro "in the func
ion of the new South, in manufac
-ure, he has no part"
In Charlotte n. c., he had beer
cried in the clothing factory aud il
The cotton mill, aud had failed il
Zach case. Lack of moral response
| 'Dllll WIS dllllOulcN DC tue cause Vi
the failure. The negro has not KEEP
pace with his opportunities. He /,
still the lsborer aud common me
chanic. Hence it would be folly fol
my state TO enter upon the indus
trial training of its deficient rae,
while the labOring class of its hi heI
race equal to any training and any
Effort. We can not equip both, anG
to equip the negro to the neglect OF
The poor white would prove grave
political error and al economic crime.
DR.. Barringrr urged the need Ol
moral training for the negro with
with simple training III agriculture
and the domestic arts. Tie denied
that education has raised up for the
race its Own leaders aud declared ali
education that makes leaders at the
, expense of the led to be failure.
Every negro doctor, lawyer and