The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-26
THE CAUCASIAN AND THE NEGRO. !.
The Caucasian and the Negro. BY vii
liam II. Calhoun. no n r, r,-

The Caucasian and the Negro. By viii
IAN 4; Calhoun q The r. T.. Bryan Co,
the Caucasian and the Negro in the
United States is the title of a small vol.
ume byrWilliam F. Calhoun Of South Caro-
ness of any attempted solution Of the race
problem at the South, which, as he saws. Eis
growing more intolerable and sooner or later
destined dest to break out into an armed
Will be annlhllated He says: st is use
less now to discuss slavery, or who is re-
sponsible for bringing the Negro from the
facts confronting us create grave issues
that require careful consideration. we
have no precedent to guide us in handling
the matter, as it is a situation that has
never before in the history of the world
confronted any people or any government
In this he Is somewhat in error as the
history OF the world is feplete with social
situations analogous to that existing now
in the South. Brazil liberated 100000
slaves a generation ago land they are get
ting along very we'll in that country, which
doesn't appear to be vexed by any '.rac e.
Mr. Calhoun s. ancestry were slaves. for
several centuries under the Norman con-
querors, and lived side by side with them
they, too,. We're subjected to every species
Of ~yillainy and outrage through which, the
Negro is now passing 80. s. !: - IS
tory of Prescribed Races he will find that.
the Cagots of France, even so late as 1889,
were in exactly the same relation to the.
French people as the Negro is to the peo-
pie of this country. q #& ..-~. t~'%. r -
The nobility of England and France
looked down upon the common people,.
who Were really the bone and sinew Of
than that which is. now being showered
upon the Negro in this country. In fact.
the history, OF antiquity. furnishes many
in this eoantry The pIeb Ss of Rome
who, like the Negro at the South, support
ed the social superstructure of the aris
They were denounced as interiors, incapa-
BILE OF self-government. hopelessly besotted
and degraded. They however, did not lose
courage, but continued their struggle for
and political liberty. -
The author again says: "Slaves in for
mer ages have been freed, but they were
ters and there v was Naturally no great risk
in freeing them.' One can hardly believe
that Mr.. Calhoun is IN earnest when he
makes such an inexact statement as this
unless less ne means ans by it that al men belong
We generally observe the common ethno-
| logical classification. Thus the Jews were
to- TO Se ee he TBs Heos
Sparta were of a different tribe and race
to those superb giants Rome, with her
100000 slaveS counted nearly every race
ancestors in Great Britain were a people
as distinct from the Normans as the Cagots
| of France were from the French. and their
wretchedness was so abject when Julius
| Caesar saw them that it is related that
Caesar shuddered at the memory Of their
degradation when recounting his adven-
He says: 'we make every effort to
! keep the Chinese from becoming citizens
! of the United States; yet they are superior
| to the Negro and much nearer to our own
not stand inspection in view of the fact
that the Director Of the Census in an
| article published in the December Forum
! on Suffrage North and South says that
the country classified as white in the pres
cnt census. Besides, at least so per cent
| of the so-called Negroes has more or less
Caucasian blood in it's veins, and large
percentage of the people known as '''white"
are of mixed blood. " -...,-- /.
| The author. in speaking Of the Negro as
etc, says: LAS long as he remains in
| these mental positions and never asserts
himself. he need never fear i'll treatment
at the hands of the white man, but in those
| callings he must remain and never aspire
| to any higher. To our mind this is hard
| ly short Of absurd, in view of the fact that
all over the South there are Negroes occu-
plying exalted posts under the Federal Gov
ernment, high places in, the colleges and
| schools of that section, responsible business
! men controlling an ever increasing volume
Of trade and hundreds in the learned pro
| fessions. and thousands more now prepar
| ing to swell each of the above mentioned
| ranks.
The author: descants at great length on
! Reconstruction period in South Carolina.
and says that this proves the incapacity
of the Negro to exercise the right of suf-
| frage. On this point We would say that
much ignorance existed in South Carolina
l. at the termination of the War of the Re-
! bellion. The Negro had been. kept in en-
forced ignorance and darkness during three
| centuries, and the poor whites" We're lit
| tie better off, and it was natural that
| there should. be rascals who, appearing
| upon the scene Of the PROSTATE Confederacy,
schemes Of pillage ana plumber: But: the
money stolen from South Carolina during
the Reconstruction period is hardly a: drop
| in the bucket to the successful municipal
| raids which have in recent years been &C.
complished in New, York, Philadelphia, Chi
| cago and other Northern cities and yet no
one talks about DISTINGUISHING the men un-
der whose rule these corrupt practices were
| organized.
LINCOLN's PLAN OF RECONSTRUCTION.
-Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction. BY
| Charles H. Mccarthy 49, New York :
Mcclure, Phillips & Co.
! A great deal Of literature has been pub
! ern states in the years Immediately sue
! ceeding the great Civil War. It was a
period Of problems of fierce sectional and
ing epoeh f IN It'll lit history Of the . United
States for the4 historical student and
writer. The questions which arose, in that
ct i the Of two AID
construction had to do with three elements
OF the Southern population, who had resided
as distinct socially and otherwise during
the 17th 18th and 10Th centuries as though
they had been Inhabitants of different coun-
to solve, out of the very depths of ignor-
Plan Of Reconstruction BY Charles II. Nc
wherein one expects to be made familiar
with the policy Of the Great Emancipa-
ton respecting this condition. :. :.
ii peruSal of the chapters in this valua-
BILE contribution to the literature on this
subject of reconstruction discloses many
/ hitherto obscure incidents in Linooln's POI
icy prior to the
light upon all the great actors and events
of that stirring and critical period in our
In writing Of tennessee the author says:
In no part of. the late Confederate states
was he slave interest more feeble than :in5
nessee and lives eraphie deserntian
OF the stout resistance put up by the people
Of that section Of the state to the secession
cause Many prominent men of that part
Of the state were prosecuted, assassinated
and thrown into jails, but these outrages
did not stamp out loyalty for the Union.
President Lincoln, in writing a letter to
Gen. Buell. on Jan. 6, 1862, among other
things said: But my distress is that our
friends in East Tennessee are being hanged
and driven to despair. and even now, / fear,
are thinking of taking rebel arms for the
sake of personal protection. In this we
lose the most valuable stake we have in the
South. y z.-7-s-5
Then follows detailed description Of the
0utrages perpetrated unon the loyal Union
people of this section by the Confederate
troops and 5sympathizers. Gen. Buell. failed