The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-02-18
NOT A WHITE MANS COUNTRY

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DR.. Newell Dwight Hlllis, pastor
of Plymouth church. Brooklyn. sue
cessor to DR.. Reecher, does not be-
lieve this q white mans country.
From his pulpit last Sunday at the
close of sermon on lessons from
the Birthday of Abraham Lincoln, :"
he prayed that we might be Saved
from this new and damnable heresy
that holds that this la a white mans
country"
While we do not care what the
reverend gentleman's opinions are
on this subject, 1t would be interest
ing, from q sociological viewpoint, to
know how he arrives at the con-
clusion that this is not white
mans country All the truth of
history appears to be against him.
The black man nor the yellow ever
reclaimed a single acre of its domain
from the savage. The black man
nor the yellow ever wrote a line of
The black man nor
the yellow have ever defended the
nation in time of peril. On the con-
trary the black man caused the loss
of more blood and treasure to the
whites and to the nation than all
our other wars combined. In ad-
dition to this he was turned loose
on the South at the close of the
Civil war, invested with authority,
backed by bayonets in the hands of
men as vile as he was ignorant, to
dOmineer and trespass on his former
masters. The ballot in his hand be-
came an instrument of oppression,
and his crimes of violence, rapine
and murder grew IN number and
atrocity so long as the bayonets of
his mistaken Northern benefactOrs
stood behind him. When deprived
of that support he fell of his own
weight and the white man again
took up the burden Of rehabilitating
the commemorative his ignorance
and vice had destroyed, and afford
ing him the protection of wholesome
laws. The black man has been, and
is still, totally unable to raise him
self one stature intellectually or
He is a ward of the white
race and those among whom he was
born best understand his needs and
his characteristics, and are, there
fore, better qualified to deal with
him.
If this then be not a white mans
country whose is it, pray?
BY the enactment of the national
congress we have excluded the yell
low man. The black man is here
through no choice of his own. He
neither helped to redeem the country
from savagery or to protect it from
invasion. He has never contributed
to Its achievements or its greatness.
He has been and is being educated
on money from white mems pockets;
the unfortunate of his race are cared
for in eleemOsenary institutions,
provided and maintained by white
men; his want is relieved by white
men, and white men throw about
him the same protection of personal
and property rights that they them
selves enjoy. He is citizen by
right of constitutional amendment
adopted by fraud, but as race he
has never risen to the dignity of the
position and never can.
DR.. Hills may know something
of theology, but as a sociologist he
is a miserable failure. He may know
how to preach Christ to dying sim
ners, and if he does, we would sug-
gest that he confine his efforts TO
that line. This is a white mans
country, and he can steer the ship
of state quite satisfactorily and care
for the negro problem at the same
time if mistaken preachers and
social-equ ality cranks will hands-of.