The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-31
NC CLURE'S MAGAZINE

By far the most important feature OF
the January McClure's is Carl Schurz''
timely article on the Negro Problem il
! the South. Probably no living man 10
day is more capable of "a thorough an(
impartial analysis of this vital subject
than Mr. Schurz The facts given i,
his article are largely based upon hi,
observations while on Il tour of investi
cation in 1850, at the request of Presi
dent Johnson and again in 1865, on hls
| own account. fail to see how the
most rabid advocate of slavery O, Of the
present reaCtiUnary movement in the
South could take Il single exception to
Mr. Schurzs article on any such
ground as impartiality or prejudice, o:
even ignorance.
Mr.. Schurz knocks on the head II
good many pro slavery catch phrases
and ideas particularly the one that the
South should be let alone to deal
with the subject in it5 own way; and
the other one, that education spoils "A
nigger". He throws new light 0n the
conditions which led mp to the confer
ring the franchise on the colored race.
1t had been my opilion that this step
had been taken by the Northern Repub-
leans more us Il party snbterfnge than
through any desire to alleviate coudi-
tions; but Mr. Schurz shows pretty
conclu5ively that it was the honest be-
lief among sincere and thinking men
at the time that the move was the only
one to obviate certain imminent dan
gers such, for instance, as the pract-
cal re-enslavement or annilaton of the
negro.
in conclusion Mr. Schurz advocates
the honest following ont the provisions
of the constitution rs the surest and
safest way ont of the dilemma He
strongly favors the education Of the
negro and believes that if the people of
the south enter heartily and earnestly
ililO iilIo W VI n VIC ~ J'''l'S hiii ltt''
antipathies will gradually disappear
He remarks:
They would hc able to hanish the prcpos-
ferrous bug bear Of social equality which
trightcu- Ho many otherwise sensible persons,
in spite of the cvdt mt truth Of Abraham Lin
coin famous saying that il he respected and
advocated the just rights of the black man it
did not follow II at he must therefore take n
black woman for his wife
They might at the sumo time punctnre th0s"
curious CONGREGATIONS Of that dread social
equality which exhibit themselves in such
childish fOIltrr ~ the attempt to make Il
heroine ont of a ally chamhnrnad who
thought She did a proud thing in refusing to
make Booker y Washington bed
They may expose ta the proper pathological
Ii ht the Mysteries which seemed to unscttlc
the minds Ot "A great many people when the
President greeted at his table the same dis
tii guzhrd citizen, who had already been re
cciyrd by Queen Victoria at tea at Windsor
Castle aud who Is known and admired through
out the civilized world as man Of cxtraord-
nary merit. but whose presence at the prr-i-
dent $ board was frantICaliy den unccd a. IN
insult 10 every viii citizen of this republic.
ana as a.daugrruu- 5iow at American ovilila-
zion
They may with great effect dcscribc h W
civilized mankind would have laughed NJ the
America gentleman who might hnv,, refused
10 Sit M table with Alexander Dumas tho ~
der, one of the greatest uoyclist- of all ages
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