The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-09-22

Is not the chief attraction q the book
What holds you from start to finish Is rs
picture of the bleeding, Impoverished
South rising from the ashes OF defeat, re-
building her civilization, overthrowing
the black terror which had fastened at the
throat and driving from her borders the
thieves who we're despoiling her. i
While making this criticism. I need
hardly sav hat with one OF Mr. Dixons
ruling ideas on the race question, / am
in most hearty accord, which is that social
equality between the Anglo-Saxon and the
negro means race amalgamation; and at
that door the Southern white stands arm
ed 10 keep il inviolable forever.
Nov | do not deny that a race war.
resulting in the partial determination OF
the negro. j. a cloud which must for gen
e~rations to come lift It's ominous shadow
above the Southern horizon OF these
United states.
There he will see portrayed IN all its
grislv terror the black peril that i pon
US. If the negro shall grow IN intelligence
ana wealth and not in grace and humility,
and the white man shall increase IN num-
bers and power without the love OF Christ
and Of human souls.
Though in this connection. it may be
well to say that it is one thing TO crItI-
cize. and another thing to be able 70
write this brilliant, powerful. but awful
book
The criticism so far as read by me inn
presses one as to its candor and lntelh-
gence. The writer is much more OF a be
lever in the negro character and posi-
bilities than are most Southern men OF
j education. Not over two or three years
ago a minister Of the gospel took me to
task for conceding IN an editorial that
there were 50 per cent. of the negroes in
: the South who were trustworthy and ca
pable Of moral and intellectual elevation.
| am satisfied now that l put my figures
much too high. | would not put them to-
day above 40 per cent, if so much. The
revelations of the last census as to the
negro in the North and in the South con-
corning retrograding and growth. in
criminality have found a decided change
, of view. They are most startling and con.
yincing. Mr.. Lapsley should study them
: The minister referred to just now said &c
me that he was born on a plantation
) whore there were many negroes, that he
had been with them all his life, and had
/ had much connection With them since
| their freedom. and he was forced to con
/ 8 Guide tQaJ Only ABOUT ~ per cent. were
t reliable or desirable people to have among
US. So even Southern preachers will diff
fer as to the true character and value o
the negro. 1t is said of the more than so
!. negroes who nave been graduated" IN
Ger Booker Washington IN Alabama. on1!
y some three or four have actually adopted
as their pursuit in life the particula
< things they were instructed IN, but haE,
gone into other fields, and none into tn
7 corn field. Some go to teaching, other
to preaching, some read law or bccom
n doctors and 50 on. | have a work by
Southern Episcopal clergyman whose con
a tention is that the negro is not of the AID
yanced Race. It Is not new but significant
d Tor a century other writers have urge
e this view. The President of the creates
University in Canada has a 600 pag
II octave volume on the same subject, tax
ing the same view, as learn.
THEODORE BRYANT kINGSBURY
IS! Wilmington, n. c., Sept. II, 1903.