Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-06-14
lyman A660fS'S Views on rhe
South.

affairs in the Southern States, and
the negro in the South Of course
occupies "a prominent position in
the discussion. 1t is encouraging
to note the many Northern men of
intelligence have been visiting the
South and have carried home with
them much valuable information.
Among other tourist the Rev.
Lyman Abbott has gathered some
facts which he told at public
meeting in Brooklyn the other day.
Dr. Abbott called attention to the
fact that while the North has sen
$4,000, 900 to the Southern States
for the education of the negro. the
Sout h itself, out of its poverty, has
spent S120,000,0OO for that purpose.
Ii there is any prejudice against
the negro IN the South, or any
hostility to him, this does not look
like it, as DIR. Abbott Justly remar-
ked. The war and reconstruction
left the South bankrupt and it took
years to recuperate. For this condi-
ton of the negro the North was res
ponsible. The North gave the
right OF suffrage to the negro and
then left mainly to the white
people of the South, bankrupt a
they were, the burden of educa>
ting him for the ballot. The bur-
den the North should in justice
have shared to a far greater degree
than it has.
Discussing conditions in the
South DR.. Abbott said: "The negro
in the little log cabin in the South
is better OIL than the negro in the
North in a tenement with fifty
more Of his kInd.7
LET us get away from the no
tlon,' he added, "that the South
can't be friendly to the negro as
We think they ought to and as we
would not regard the negro if we
were living surrounded bv them
as they are. We must get rid of
the idea that all men are equal and
that every man has an equal right
to vote and an equal right to
place in society and an equal right
to stand where everybody else
stands"
Many other gentlemen of IN
telligence who have visited the
South In recent times have gone
back to the North and have told
the people there these same things
and the newspapers have published
what they said. \ correct under
standing may be slow in ceming.
but it will come finally. There
has been talk III the North among
the politicians about punishing
the South for DISTINGUISHING neoroa
Maryland even was threatened
with the loss of "A portion Of ITS
representation in Congress and its
electoral vote because twas be-
lieVed that difficulties had been
put IN the way Of the illiterate
voters, Notwithstanding that the
right of Massachusetts to disfran.
chise its illiterate vote absolutely
Was conceded. But nothing has
come off all these threats, wise
counsels so far have prevailed. T.
may be that the idea of bniId,po
up a Republican party in the
South is n delusion. But ono
thlng is certain. Whatever the
people of the South may think of
high tariff and expansion and shin
subsidies, there can be no Repub-
llcan party in the South as long as
Northern Interference makes the
race issue paramount and renders
II necessary for the white people
TO unite in order to prevent a
return of the reconstruction era
and negro domination. Self
preservation is the first law: after
that is established then people
may have time to talk about tariffs
ana Observation-Disclosures Sun.
Hon. Jacob Yost, L. l.. Lewis and
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