The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-27

ama1pamnto inha bit the SAME tet
there never has been, and, IN INC Aoee.1
Of thjnrs there never can be a n.,,,;ot
government, in the broad sense ~ these
You use the term. ne stio1lee MI i5aa
! races viii form the oligarchy. ne iuee !,
that weEhave a democary in the oro o,l.
sense 10 absurd to those who Know tiu
existino conditions. a democracy ~
which an entire race is eliminated I'm l
participation in the government ana iL, ~.
troll Of the country is one of which hous-
seau and jefferson omitted 70 uesei ,,,s
the theory Your claim was that !. /"
be unjust to withdraw the aid Wnicl W. W.
negro was receiving from the N. .,r.1,,ises
| accent YOUR deductions from our pi e4i.isl :,
and invite YOU to show the injusuce' -
We're practicable. in requiring each a..
to SUPPORT its asylunls, &c.
say, however, that the white ia,t ~
to rush the negro through Gel
civilization in a half century mas oolo
| more to make negro insane ass
necessity than all other causes com ,l "a
We are told by those old el'ousii ~
member that there were ic" WE ,s' DO not
groes before emancipation we W NJ
care to discuss theology, but we ieler ~
history IF The Times will take a pencli
| and sit down in one column all the col-
vcrts that white missionaries nave lilaoe
among the black, brown, red ana ye!io"
races and then set down IN announcer coi-
! urnn those of these various races WHO
have been slain directly ana indirectly ny
having come in contact with the "hlee
man and his Christian clllvllaton' we are
OF the cpi,l;ou that Christian CIVILIZATION
would show more deaths than conversions
to it, credit. Where are the Indians, the
Maoris, the Hawaians? Figure up the
slain in China and Southern Asia and IN
Africa and compare them with the NIUE
handful OF so-called conyerts!! IS this
humane?
Has the progress Of ages been along
hur ane lines? Is not history a success
sion of cruelties? Has not the stronger
| always risen to greater things upon the
crushed remains Of the weaker? Has not
the spread Of religion itself followed in
the wake Of conquering armies? 1t is not
that we are inhunane, but we cannot
! shut our eyes to these facts, nor Go we
believe that it is wise and prudent to
run counter to the lessons they teach.
The Times conviction is we'll founded:
That we cannot degrade the black man
without degrading the white man, and
the only difference between us is as to
the time and manner of enecting this
degradation We hold that the initial
degradation occurred when we first i'm
ported negro slaves and that holding
the negro in slavery was more dana glnS
to the white than to the black. The sec
ond degradation occurred when the white
man tried the foolish and utterly impos-
siblc experiment OF having the negro and
the white man live in the same country
upon terms of political equality. The
third degradation occurred when the
white man taught the negro the philoso-
ply that ignorance and vice were the
only obstacles to his elevation to equal
ity with the whites. What then? Shall
the negro have no hope? Must he be for
! ever tied down to the treadmill and made
a newer of wood and a drawer of water,
regardless of his natural abilities to do
higher things? This would indeed be the
quintessence Of inhumanity. but it is
nevertheless the thing that he must do
if he prefers to live in a country pre-
dominated by the white race. The only
alternative left him is to rise superior to
the white race and force it to occupy the
position that it will surely give him.
There is only one solution that is con-
sistent with reason. justice and humani-
ty and that is to set apart a land for the
black man and give him autonomy. In
this land every avenue will be open to
him and he may rise to the eminence to
which his talents entitle him. He can
then be wise, great and good if he can;
then will education and moral improve
ment be of untold benefit to him. If this
were the end in view we would favor the
education of the negro, we would advo-
cate giving him not only justice but much
more besides, but If he is to remain here
permanently the education of the negro
is simply fastening the day when a con-
flict tco horrible to contemplate will
more than likely eventuate. Is it inhu-
name to try to avoid the coming storm
If SO, we are most inllumane.
y. f. THOMAS.
Lynchburg, Va, Nov Goth.