The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-02-08

f'.'tA' IT, iNlAll TIE EItHI I
Fl sinians Of the past. and had Norther
or aholitioni.ts let Virginia alone. sh
" would have freed the negro long befor
Fl 10 was accomplished, a. the result d
De- 'he conflict on the question OF Stat
" rights, her legislators having com
within two votes Of emancipation il
# la5Z. That It was mere result i
d proven by the fact that il was under
p stood that when Mcclellan was befor,
Richmond, that If his army becam,
lubued with the idea that the war wa,
Tor the purpose Of freeing the negro
no power on earth could hold il TO
gelher While on the other hand. il
Is understood that General Lee was fol
freeing the negro and then fighting
80 much then for the credit or the
blame, for the condition Of the race
question, at the end Of the war In
the colder sections occupied by the
English speaking people owing to eli.
mates Industrial pursuits and public
enterprises, the negro, as slave. had
become Improbable, and this proba.
bly, more than any other reason. led
to- his gradual amanci, alton. 1t would
require too much credulity to believe
that rs the negro was freed i'm these
lection the profit was not saved by
selling him further South, or where
slavery CONTINUED As a result Of this |
process negro slavery became congest.
ed IN the Southern States, and then the |
war: Ending by throwing the sins Of
The whole Anglo saxon race. as TO
slavery, on the people Of the South.
then too impoverished to take care Of
Themselves.
mere are some serious things that
one civilized nation may inflict upon
another, as the result Of conquest. but
history furnishes no parallel where a
CIVILIZED people have placed their foe
under lhe control of am ignorant aud
oar0arous people That this was the
intention, cannot well be denied, as the
great numerical superiority Of the ne
gro permitted no other result, unless
30 was accomplished by force or fraud.
aud certainly the OWNERS Of the fif.
teenth Amendment did not intend to
permit that. The argument that in
IsIIectual aud moral qualities will rule
is true; but for it to rule peaceably the
conditions must be natural and not +
have been brought about 10y force. +
would be well for the good sense \
li those responsible if the indictments "
ended here. But the intention and n
'Xpectati0n went still further A peo- {,
Pile from whom had been taken every y
ioIiar they possessed, absolutely impov- b
.r-hed, except As To those things fur
iished by nature, were expected if not n
creed, % undertake to educate their h
Inferior masters aud to bring them to
high standard Of civilization. What y,
compliment to people that a hope p,
0u.d be entertained. IA
The expectation or hope, as it may "
~, has not, will not, cannot be realized. II
lac task was too herculean for any NJ
eople IN the present state Of civiliza- ia
ION. The deterioaiing influences Of "
)ntact with an inferior race, under ct
lch condition, are too insidous. One
r the other must possess the country. ST
alenl, energy and refinement will nc
'oner or later leave such an atmos- tn
here. an
twenty-five years ago one could have IN
uud a dozen men on any court green OF
Southside Virginia, qualified to lh
present his section in any convention an
the world Then the difficulty
ould have been to have selected from Ol'
nong those Of high intellectual and col
oral altainments. Now the difficult WI
is 80 great that it Is seriously pro- II,
'sed TO select one hundred men from he
e State at large, claiming that some NJ
ctions have not the men qualified tor an
e position of delegate to the Consti-
tional Convention. bu
Why is this so? There are two rea- wi
rs sufficient to account for it, and COS
ere is no doubt Of their being true M
,sons. In the first place, to accom- ao'
sh anything in such a convention, crl
g must not only have the native in. rae
icct 10 discover defects, but he must the
So also an education sufficiently LID SD
q % know when and where to apply ha'
e remedy. And this education the I'VE
lple of Virginia have been too poor sou
give the present or the rising gener- I
on. The other reason is that those con
lo have been able TO acquire the ed VIII
i'ioE have NOT been willing 10 accept is q
. clud ti0us we have referred 10, and u4t
n1w high officials and leading ciu- To,
.s 200 other lands. Has not the her 10
gs oftne children Of the free woman lool
'u given 10 The children of the bond ano
man? rest
is somewhat singular that no sep lab
Ne report is made Of the cost Of edu. L
ing the different races. The Super ont
-ndent of Educttion, at pres ent oc- aloi
wing that position. has not bad the pla,
D. . %