Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-16
THE FATE OF HAM
Richmond Christian Advocate
Discusses the Negro

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sinking his dead negro camp SER
wants in the rivers to prevent their
kinsmen digging them up and
feasting on their carcasses. Official
data and the books of tri velers
agree in representing the African
as a brute pure and simple, barely
above the gorilla, and go he has
been from the earliest record. The
nation Of art, science, and letters
Egypt-neighbor to him, never
quickened his mind or elevated his
ambitions. Carthage, with her
splendor, in full view of this bes-
tial race, never inspired the dull
animals with desire for improve
ment. For centuries and millen-
NUNS, these ebon savages wal
lowed in their pig sites and welt
cred in filth, ignorance and pools
of moral pus. They, in a native
woods, are below the big babboons
in courage and cleanliness. They
seem born to be hereditary bonds
men.
The American has common
sense. He will play the fool for n
few years, but gradually he swings
hack to balance in brains. Igno-
rance and the fad for "freedom"
made him lose his polarity. Mil
lions Of contented Africans in the
South, redeemed from the horrors
of cannlbalism, tribal throat.cut-
ting, fetish worship. and slavery
were turned alOOse. Missionaries
Of hate were sent among them to
inhame them against white neigh
bors. The Anglo-SaxOns in mill
tary districts, once sovereign
States, were the victims of these
serfs, these in dominant majority,
at the polls.
Unless a negro has acquired
habits of industry before his
majority, he is loafer and thief
for life. The public school has
been IA curse to him and to society.
No farmer in Virginia who knows
the history Of negro families in
the neighborhood will hesitate to
assent to our affirmation. This is
not all. The young negro is a
vagrant. His mother, if cock. is
IA rogue, to feed him. So our
people are taxed to school" this
litter of rascals a.d also must feed
them in idleness. They eat, but
earn nothing, therefore they prey
on the industry of the white pOpu-
lation. Our people are aware Of
this double robbery. They submit
like "dumb, driven catt!e." And
their statesmen never lift a
nnSvt rvtIvvc THEM. 80 -.
pardon, the people Of certain
States beyond the Roanoke are
forcing the demagogues that in
fest the State houses to take on
decimal Of sense.
In one Commonwealth there is
law that any fellow who cannot
show how he gets an honest living
must "break rock on the public
roads. While visiting small city,
we noted the absence of the swarm
of negro boys that annoy Lassen-
gers at our depOts and that q Their
at street corners in Virginia. We
asked the cause of such scarcity.
The answer was that the police
would arrest and send to the chain
gang every drOne who could not
prove he was earning his living.
1t was set down as certain that if
he was not at work he was steal
ing or his mother or sister was
thieving for his benefit. The up
shot was that negroes contracted
by the year. The police made it
disagreeable in towns, and there
fore the planter had better sup
ply of labor. One feature of the
law is that the crop was " God
for the wages" The laborer
must work or go to the 'rock
heap" If he worked, ne had II
lien for his services. When cook
quit, the police was notified. She
must have n good reason for break
ing her contract or 90 to the work
house. If right in ! aying, she
must not remain idle too long.
The system of peonage in tie
South made the best peasantry in
the world. The evidence was the
loyalty of the negro to the planters
family. The Ignorance at the
North of this relationship was
shown by the expectation of in
surrection and murder throughout
the South. Note the change. The
New Negro without the self
restraint inculcatod in his peasant
ancestor by the system that
wrought so much for the Congo
heather. will soon be hunted, like
the Red Man, till exterminated.
North and South are nearly agreed
as to this "Aew Negro" Like
the romance that for IL while hid /
the hidden pleasures of the savage,
so the Uncle Tom" glamour il
fast fading from our view. The
tillage has closed, the briars,
scorpions, and malaria of the /
native acres come again to sight.
How shall the field be recIaimedf
Is Hayti sinking deeper and
deeper into its bloody mire or ris-
ing? There is an annual carnival
Of butchery between "General'
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