The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-05-03

lima. The author assumes the hopeless.
ness OF any attempted solution of the race
PROVEN at the South, which, as, he says, is
Gestlned TO break out into an armed con-
hlct between the two races, when the Negro
viii viii be annihilated He says: 1T is use
less now TO discuss slavery, or who is re-
sponsible for bringing the Negro from the
jungles of Africa to the United States. The
tacts 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, replete with social
situations analogous to that: existing now
in the South. Brazil liberated 4,OOO,OOO
ting along very we'll in that country, Which
aoe does 4, appear to besvexed by race
Mr. Calhoun's ancestry were slaves for
several centuries under the Norman. con
querors,: and lived side by side. with them
after the disappearance of Feudalism, and
they; too; were subjected to every species
Negro is now passing .h7 ~... --...-
If he will read FRANCOIS Mfchers *His-
tory of Prescribed Races he will find that
We're in exactly the same relation to the
French people as the Negro is to the peo-
pie of this country. --.". =
TN. The nobility Of ): England and France
IL,
who were really the bone and sinew of
the land with infinitely greater contempt
than that which is now, being showered
upon , the Negro in this country In fact,
analogous situations to that now existing
in this country. The Plebeians of Rome,
who, like the, Negro at the South, support,
tocracy. is another analogous situation.
They were denounced as interiors, incapa-
Die OF self-government. hopelessly besotted
| and degraded. They, however, did not lose
courage, but continued their struggle for
$50 years before they obtained their civil
and political liberty,
The author again says "Slaves in for
of the same race and blood of their mas.
tiers. and there 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 he means by it that all men belong
to the same race When we speak of races,
we generally observe the common ethno-
later to the Babylonians. The Helots of
Sparta were of different tribe and race
to those superb giants. Rome. with her
of men among them. Mr.. Calhoun's slave
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: 1--WE make every effort to
keep the Chinese from becoming citizens
of the United States, vet they are superior
to the Neg1 gro and much to
not stand inspection in view of the fact
that the Director of the Census in am
article e:s published il the DECEMBER Forum"
there are over 800OOO> colored people in
the country classified as white in the pres
ent census. Besides at least SO per cent
Caucasian blood in its veins, ana large
percentage OF the people known as white
are of mixed blood 49, sr..
The author. in speaking of the Negro as
coachman, drayman, fireman, butler. cook,
ETC., says - ::As 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 10 our mind this is hard
ly short Of absurd. lin view of the fact that
plying exalted posts under the Federal Gov
eminent, high places in the colleges and
schools of that section. responsible business
| men controlling an ever Increasing volume
LESSONS. and thousands more now prepar-
ing to swell each of the. above mentioned
ranks. E.sE. e ~s= ~ - o.. ~.
/ The author .descants at great length on
! the official corruption and scandals of the
Reconstruction period in South Carolina,
| and says chat 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
| at the terminatiOn9 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 were lit
tie better off, and it was natural that
| there should be rascals who, appearing
upon the scene of the PROSTATE Confederacy
| used many cOlOred men to further theiI
schemes of pillage and plumber. But the
| money stolen from South Carolina during
the Reconstruction period is hardly drop
| Ia tine 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 nc
one talks about disfrancf. sing the men un
der whose rule these corrupt practices were
| organized. ~. e. .-. a."
| " e. # IT.: H.. N.-.-.
LINCOLN.S pLAN OF RECONSTRUCTION
Charles II. Mccarthy. So. New York
Mcclure, Phillips & Co. ~ - h.. -
lished about the RECONSTRUCTION of the South
ern states, in the years Immediately sue
ceeding the great Civil War. 1t was a
racial hatreds, and one of the most interest.
| Ing epochs in the history of the United
States for the Historical student and
| writer. The questions which arose in that
time of chaos We're the results of two and
one-haIf centuries Of human slavery. Re.
| construction had to do with three elements
Of Of the e. Southern population, who had resided
side BY side for centuries, but who had been
as distinct socially and otherwise during
the 18th: 18th and 10Th centuries as though
they had been Inhabitants of different coun-
to solve. out Of the very depths of ignor-
ance, il1iteracy and. depravity. sLincoln' s
c caa Of Be- fa IS By Il book M
wherein one expects to be made familiar
with the policy of the Great Emancipa-
ton respecting this condition /!
bic contribution to the Literature on this
subject of reconstruction dscloses many
hitherto obscure incidents in Lincoln's poi
ICY OF reconstruction prior to the cessation
of hostilities in 1865. and throws a flood Of
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 the slave interest more feeble than in
the thirty counties comprising East Ten
nessee.' and he gives a graphic description
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, assasslnated
ana thrown into $jails. but these outrages
d u H., not stamp out loyalty for the Union.
Cen Buei Mfislng letter TO-
Things said But my distress is that our
friends in East Tennessee are being hanged
ana mo ariven to despair and even now fear.
sake OF personal protection In this we
lose the most valuable stake we have in the
South. ''s So So -.
Then follows q detailed description Of the
outrages perpetrated unon the loyal Union
people Of this section BY the Confederate
troops and symDathizers. Gen. Buell. failed
20 accomplish the military movements plan
ned by the president as necessary step to
Inc permanent safety Of this Union senti-
ment, but the genius of Gen. Grant fur
nished a solution TO the problem by. his vic
tory at Fort Done1son, and tireless move
ments afterwards when he caused the evac-
uatlon Of Nashville by the Confederate
troops. s 80 B
. Andrew Johnson was then appointed MIL
!! tar! governor of the state. and thus was
instituted Lincoln's plan of reconstruction,