The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-23

| or the bingham school at AShevlie ~ G,
! The entire article originally appeared In
the European edition OF Harpers Monthly
| Magazine;
Heretofore the race question In the
United states has been local. sectional and
! more or less sentimental But now IL is
one Of the most Important National oues.
| lions before us; and the necessity of deal,
] ing with the black man aud with the rem
| nant OF the red man In continental Amer.
| lea, but with the Hawaiian, tAc Japanese.
| the Chinaman and the Filipino in our
| new Pacific islands aud with the mixed
! races In our new West Indian islands,
makes It q highly important question.
That history Is philosophy teaching hy
example Is saying as old as Cicero. Let
us look at the history OF our contact With
other races dispassionately aud take les
sons calmly FOR our future from what mas
| occurred Ia our past.
! suppose that Gail Hamllton's conteu.
ton win be admitted that III God made
! tue white man white, the yellow man vel
| low, and the black man black. lie IN.
tended for the white man to remain white.
/ the yellow man yellow aud the black man
black He prevents the loss Of species In
! In the lower animals hy the mfocundlty
| Of hybrds. He seems TO have protected
| the iptcgIity of race types among mon hy
race antagonism At any rate race ','e an M
| tagontsm Is a patent aud potent factor
s wniTh must be TeeS3ned with in any pmlo
OF race antagonism, visible everywhers
and always whenever different races come
~ contact Is no where more Visible than
races.
Those who look at the matter only In n
sentimental way may say that, although
the negro In the South survived he sur.
viY2d as q slave and that existence I'm
slavery is scarcely existence at nil But
early In the century there was deem ana
strong movement among the slave owners
against holding slaves ana but for the az.
ssaJiou lnaus9rated by the abolluonists,
some Scheme for the gradual emancipation
or the negro would In all probability have
hteh worked out and this might have set
So gS t1 " negro question pe9cea6y; My
e he relieved Of the burden ana rcspon-
slDihty OF slaves, hut he found the con.
dition Of the African tn the Northwest
worse than I'm slavery Everybody m the
south knew that the condition Of the ante.
nelum Tree negro among MS was worse
thah that OF the slave, though the free
negro had the rlgh, of suffrage In North
Carolina TIL 1875. My father offered his
nurse her freedom and support Tor term
q years, In Liberia and she declined the
oner; Many OF the slave holders IN the
South telt as my father did, ana Il hill Tor
96e, gradual e eI Of the slaves
the early '30s by only one vote.
~
It Is safe TO say that We of the South
! dealt more successfully with the negro
: w to 60, when he was taken from our
hands, than our race has ever dealt with
any other race on the same soil sluce the
dawn of history. He came into our hands
from over seas, by the action Of the peo
pie OF New England chiefly, not by our
g own. MS we did not own single ship.
He was a savage Of low type. nn1 "a
some cases at least he WAS ClnuihaL
2 One of the most respectable and trust
/ worthy negroes | know, man Of about Gl,
told me that his grandmother. who came
81 tAl IN 81 hoy
that she had seen her people engaged ln u
e cunnhal feast before she was put on ship
. ana taken away from home.
Under our treatment this savage was 80
developed IN the arts of civilization IN d
. little more than century thar he we'
: deemed worthy by the people Of the Norti
grent republic, and this boon, which wa
given by law TO every adult negro malt
In the South, IL stll denied 10 tlliterate,
Of our own race III New England, and n
this year Of grace 1900 IL has ben denlel
. TO iIiterate brown men and yellow meI
d IN the new Territory of Hhwali by act o.
! republican congress, approved by a re
publican president.
] As the negro advanced SO rapidly unde
our tutelage, IL may be well for thos'
whose ancestors united with ours IN eXtet
= mmatng the Ceit I'm England aud the Red
4 man In America who have excluded ~
a yellow man, who have not succeeded witt
$ the black man since they took charge o
I him in 80 as well as we mad done hetor
o 90, and on whose success with. the bfoWi
- man Judgment must he suspended, u ma
. b@ we'll FOR the people Of the North e
take our diagnosis Of the case OF the negr
into careful consideration.
And Il may he well Tor the people OF IN
North to realize that IN the nature o
things we, are better qualine9 20 m AK,
i to treat It intellgently than they are; y
@ tbe whole North only one'siXueth OF IN
' people arc Of African blood, and there ar
+ many people In the North who never say
a negro In their lives - 49,,
But In the South AZ whole, one, thir,
s 90 lhg Il hfoth he former slave states three
! | ,ifths OF the people are OF African blood
E aid there are localities IN ~ we b hpE nee
: he are Of African blood and II can hqrd
i " be denied that those who nave . dietal
c with only a very weak soiutnoh %, dnai
l. With II nj mi. are less competent 60 JUG
c Il Intelligently than those VINO nave yen,
!: with a saturated solution OF IT, SO TO speuh
! all their lives
There is one proposition to which ever
g Intelligent man in the South, whetner
Northern or Southern birth, VIII give hehrt
assent. and many Northern people VIII
have never been In the South are beln
J, brought 10 the same conclusion by IN
h iogIc OF events. This proposition Is ina
a great mistake was mnde against " "a
q negro by armng him with the ballot VIM
y he was still an lnteneclurrl, niotA 60. ~
Y political infant. we are teuton ,.,o -, w ~
a kings of mer. But every step toWara IN
q higbest freedom was won In the lest bloc
:. Of our race We freed ourselves hof
'e Seudai vaSsaiage to the Plantagenets an
Y. established the principles Of the Marsn
y ChaFta In blood.
p The people Of the United States seem
e be only beginning 10 realize that the wa
y between the states was more a race wa
"a than anything else, not Of saxon again'
IS saxon, but Of the free laborer OF the Nor'
;, against the slave laborer Of the south wh'
by a strange set OF conditions, not OF ~
White mans own choosing, was protecte
by 100000 men Of Anglo-saxon bloo'
The contest began. not for the purpose
~ freeing the negro. but for the RltP44ssee,
r. excluding slave labor from the iefFitp ~,
n lest e6upetition against the whlte lapoI'
. In localities up 10 that time NOT oSculls
T. M ali should be insugurhted ~ ~ W.
= known that the negro "a not toiefateu Y
~ tho farm laborer. mechanic miner; Lai
~ road employe, or by any othef hhhe
AZ craftsman IN any Northern or Mestei
~ state as he is tolerated as yet ever 49,
NJ In the South today; and " Was We.
~ the handi-eraftsman Of me gfeat nj NJ y
AZ west who settled the question ~ lhs pun
he OF the bayonet against slave laoori l 80
or protected by the men or the A.sip- 49, -.
blood In the South No laborer OF aug tns
and least of ali no negro laporer' has w y,
been met or the border on eoatnti'
STATE as the negro was met OF tne W ~ "
Of Illinois recently, Win psies ~ s1rths,