The colored American., 1902-09-20
HON. JOHN Q D4NCY.
Rruce Grit's Opinion Of 6he Po-
litical Of North Carolina's FaV-
o~ite Son-Holds Keyto Solution
Of 66e Southern Problem.

the race III the South, whose education
along the lines which make for real
nr.gress among the blacks cannot be
said To be detective. To be able to
spe with clear vision the end from the
beginning is given few men. John g.
Dancy is one of them.
Conditions in the South in so far
As the Negro is concerned, are not tC
be remedied by harsh or drastic meas
urcs or by irresponsible iteration and
aUpeals TO the passions and prejudiceS
of the blacks who have to live there
while the problem tinkers tinker with
the problem and exploit their various
views and opinions as to how it is to
De- solved.
The speeches, resolutions and edi
torials that have emanated from these
sources of wisdom for the past thirty
wears have failed to accomplish to any
appreciable extent the object at which
they aimed The Negro is still OPP
pressed and is even more oppressed
in some quarters than he was in the
first ten years following the close of
the war of rebellion. lie is a vOteless
nOnentity in nearly every Southern
State. and his chief diversion in the
North where his vote is counted, is
en- his influence in the great game OF
politics about which .le seems to know
as little as a ten-year-old boy. The
Southern Negro when he did have the
elective franchise had sense enough to
use it to elect men to Office who subse
quently abuseI his confidence, and
when he discovered their rank treach-
cry either remained in the South to
become democrats, or came North to
pose as martyrs and enact the role OF
critics of a system made OdiOus to
their duplicity and double dealing.
John Dancy belongs to a class OF
young men in the South who under
stand these conditions and who are
not ignorant of the fact that remedy
is not to be found in words merely.
but in deeds That the braves who
spout with the greatest show of learn
ing and eruditiOn about the depior
able situation in which the Negro now
finds himself in the South, are a set
of unmitigated towards who could
die with their boots on if they had
the courage to go South and attempt
eu to disseminate their views as boldly
as they express them from the rOs-
trums of the North, and through our
race papers.
After all we can but have the great
est respect for any man who is far
sighted and wise enough to consider
The interests of the helpless and de
fenceleSs when they are confronted
with a condition which refuses to pass
muster as a mere theory. The men
and women who have to bear the brunt
OF the oppressive and repressive laws
which operate against them in the
South and the wisdom of prudence
dictates that in dealing with these
conditions there should be no false o.
diScOrdant note that would tend tC
excite the passions of either race III
their struggle to find the happy mean
The pacification of the races at the
South cannot be accomplished with Il
bIudgeOn, nor sophomore editorial ut
terance. 1t is up to the discovery OF
the solution to first demonstrate thelI
ability to solve the problem as 1T re
lates to the Negroes of the North, be
fore they attempt to apply the remedy
at the South If the intelligent and
progressive Negroes of the North with
all their opportunities, advantages, anC
facilities for doing. do not enjoy per
feet civil and political equality it vii
be we'll for them to apply themselves
ar once to the task of securing FOL
themselves and their posterity the
blessings of liberty and equality whicf
they prescribe for the Negroes of the
South. In nearly every Northern
State race prejudice exists in a moe
or less pronounced form, and Negroe:
Supinely submit without a Strugg!t
10 indignities over which they go int
of