The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1901-09-27
The Negro.
Water Valley, Tex,
Sept. 16. 1901.

lew lines IN your paper concern.
ing the negro
1t seems that Mr.. J. M.
Slaughter of San Angelo is de.
termined to relegate the negro
race, root and branch, to the
brute creation without even the
least claim to be called human.
and that because a few indivi.
dual negroes allow their brute
passions, passions shared alike
by the entire animal kingdom
including the Godlike(Pl Caucas.
ion Of whose creation in the
image Of God Mr.. Slaughter has
not the slightest doubt, to get
the upperhand OF them and
have com mitted heinous, un-
nameable crimes on innocent
white women.
believe in giving the Devil
his dues, honor to whom honor
is due, consequently cannot see
the justice OF condemnirg
whole race because q few indi.
vidual mem bers of such race
so far contradict every princi.
pie of justice and humanity as
to put themselves on u plane so
low that they are disgrace TO
the brute creation.
Do not understand me TO up.
hold the rape fend, for | con.
slider no punishment too severe
for such perverted brutes. But
not the entire negro race are
rapists. There are thousands
OF negroes who have not com.
mitted any graver otfonses than
half the white men And what
is more. there are white men
who have committed crimes as
black and heinous as any that
negro rlen were ever burned at
stake for.
/ shall not try to prove that
the negro is an offspring of
Adam, nor that he has q never
dying soul.
1 will only say that he has hu.
man traits and characteristics
not possessed by any Of the lower
animals with which | am famil.
Jar; that he has u religious ma
ture, however distorted it may
be, that gives him q reasonable
claim to immortality; that, in
my experience. / have found the
whites possessed in varying de.
grees with the same british in.
stlncts that keeps the negro
from being perfect; the same
passions that drive the negro
to assault and outrage innocent
women and girls.
With these general remarks,
| viii conclude by asking Mr..
Slaughter a few questions.
If Adam and Eve were the
first and only created human
beings, ard ifthe white man is
the offspring of Adam and Eve;
and, if, becauseof his color and
other racial characteristics, we
exclude the negro and say he is
not human, that he is not the of
|. spring of Adam then what are
we to do with the MOngolian,
: the Malay and the North Amer.
lean Indian, whose cOlOrs and
: other racial character i S t C S
: mark them as distinctly from
= the white race as the negro is
I, marked? Shall we say they are
brute beasts too? or shall we
) say that God created more than
. one pal! Of human beings and
D failed TO give an account of il
in Holy Writ? For Mr.. Slaugh
O ter makes ii evident that they
, are not the offspring OF
> Adam. /. because the negro
h is guilty of rape and other
i. heinous crimes we say the
10 race is not human, that he il
|. only a brute beast, what are We
Il TO say of the white race, OF our
+. selves, if you please, in the face
of the fact that white men are
guilty OF the same revoltine
d crimes? Shall we carry GU
n. conclusions a step further ant
,r say that we cannot be human
ID That we are only brute beasts
y and thai there is none good
e. no not one?"
10 Would also ask Mr.. Slaughte
TO let us know in some futur
issue of the Press where TO fin
4. the passage in the Bible whic
TX says there is u beast whero,
%. man can associate and r .odn,
lie offspringY do not sav il ism
L., there, but have no recollectlc
ne OF such passage and lind I
p reference to Is ID my CONGO on;1
al Respectfully,
p. A READER.
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