The colored American., 1903-05-09

u-hita man aSscribed his superiority
mental and moral, over the Negro the
doctors Abbott's of that day saplently
and wiseiy(?) affirmed that we were
the descendants of monkles or DaDoonS,
that we were there fundamentally
and eternally inferior to white men
and doomed by an all wise Creator to
he the servants of servants, ETC., ect
The wise NegrOeS-the McCUneS,
Smiths. the DeLaneys, the Whippers,
the Hollys, Harpers, Corys, Douglasses
and scores of others met these 1DeIS
with arguments as incontrovertable as
they were forceful anad proved that
Negroes who knew how, could tear TO
tatters the piOuS rot of men calling
themselves Christians and Servants OF
God.
The 'Hbug bear" Negro domination
has gotten the white South so
thoroughly frightened, that it actually
cannot count straight; every orator,
every writer, on the problem" either
makes his own, or diStOrtS the omc1al
statistics, as to the numerical strength
of the Negroes of the South. DR.. Alb
bott probably got his figures from
| Southern gentleman.
Henry w Grady, the idol of the
South, Southerner by birth and
gentleman by profession, speaking to
d
short time before his lamented death,
gave this disreputable mob or To-
| OOO, 600 ignorant, dishonest intemper-
ate and vicious Negroes discovered by
Dr. Abbott q pretty good reputation.
| He said: 1T is claimed this ignorant
| labor is defrauded of it's just hire. L
present the tax box of Georgia, with
shows that the Negro twenty-five years
ago a slave, has in Georgia alone, s1O,-
0OO, 900 Of assessed property, worth
twice that much. Does not this re-
cord honor him and vindicate his
neighbor? We give to the
world this wear, crop of 100000
bales of cotton, worth $3.50, 900, 900, and
| its cash equivalent in grain; grasses
1 and fruits: And the school
house itself bears testimony. In
Georgia we added last year $780,
| 900 to the school fund, making a total
of more than a S1,000,00O and this in
the face of prejudice not yet con-
quered, of the facts that the whites
are assessed for 1868, ,00O, 900, the
| blacks for 100000, and yet 40 per
cent, of the benefciaries are black
children; and in the doubt of many
wise men whether education helps or
can help our problem. l assert here,
| and bar as intelligent as the bar of
Massachusetts,, will solemnly endorse
my assertion, that the Southern courts
| from highest to lowest, pleading for
| life, liberty and property, the Negro
has distinct advantages, because he is
a Negro apt to be over-reached, op-
pressed, and that this advanta ges
| reaches from the juror in making his
verdict to the Judge in measuring his
sentence. Now, asks Mr.. Grady per-
suas1Vely, Can it be seriously main
tanned that we are terroriZing the peo-
pie from whSOe willing hand come
every year a $1,000. .0OO, 900 worth of
| farm crops? or. have robbed a people.
who twenty-five years from unrewarGl-
ed slavery, have amassed in one state
alone, s20,000.00O of property?' This
is quite sufficient for my purpose,
since 1T furnishes to Dr. Abbott some
testimony as to the value to the South
of this 15,000,0O0 of ignorant. dishon-
est, 1ntemperate and vicious Negroes,
whom he fears will become a menace
10 society, while did not at the time
swallow all that Mr.. Grady, theaUdunt
courier of the Army of Apologists,
VINO have since followed in his wake.
SAID, and do not now believe that his
oeauJlful word pictures and fervid elo
quence should be taken as Gospel truth
IN the light of events and circum-
stances then existing as I now know.
ana felt that as a white man a