The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-03-27
Advice Prom a Negro.

chief executive deign to read it hs
will learn something to his advan
tage that he does not know, because
the colored man states correctly
the Southern white mans attitude
IN the matter, Explaining who the
Southern man is this colored mar
SAYS that Z. be is the true American,
the son Of the patriots of ITO, and
he is brave, proud, dictatorial and
Loves and honors his women and
home with devotion which makes
him superior to all other races
of mankind. Again, the Southern
er feels his superiority, because
he knows it, and he will not submit
to be ruled by any inferior race.
Again, the Southerner is the most
generous of men, and is charitable
to a fault, and cares nothing for
wealth, but loves honor with a
devotion sublime. Again, the
Southerner is the only man in the
world who truly knows negro lido
syncrasies, and he knows how to
treat and handle the negro. The
Southerner is the negro's best and
only friend, and has done more and
will do more for the negro than any
other man living. All the land
that the negro owns in the South
they bought from the Southerner.
aud the worthy negro is just as Sc
cure in his political rights in the
South as a worthy white man is IN
New England
The reason why Southern men
are opposed to negroes holding
office is explained as simply be-
cause when he (the Southerner) has
to look to negro officials he (the
Southerner) is; placed in an unnatu-
raj position, and he is made to look
up to what he has been taught for
ages to look down upon. The
Southerner is opposed to negroes
holding Federal appointments in
IN the South because he (the South
erner) knows that the majority of
negroes are in a degraded condition,
and that the negroes who are COM
oetent to hold Federal appointment
should be patriotic enough and have
owe sufficient to make them dedicate
heir competency to the lifting of
heir degraded race into useful cit
zenship, rather than have political
before they exercise some
perspiration. The South
,rner is opposed to negroes holding
Federal appointments in the South,
because Southern education and
aste are insulted every time ne
no is given Federal appointment
n the South, and the Southerner
.nows that the South is the negros
chool house and that chaos reigns 8
1hen the scholars run the school. Y
Me Southerner knows that the
est element of the negroes in the
outh do not aspire to political
retirement, for the best class of :
egroes are land owners, and they
re raising industrious sons and ,
irtuous daughters, and building !
families. These aspire to S
e good and useful, and this class c
negroes have the help, sympathy, t
and protection of the l
outherner; while that class of
egroes who aspire for political,
retirement are the dudes aud fuagi =
the race.
This is about what the. deepest .
linkers and the best friends of the .
egro, both white and black, have =
cen saying for 10 these many days. a
President Roosevelt is anxious "
} assist theInegro this member of is
the colered race tells him how to Fl
, it. Hessays that the President F
lould tell the negro to go to work OF
nd become a useful citizen, and az
lie President is assured that if in
IS Federal appointment he will u
oror and respect Southern taste r
Id Southern sentiment the South ~
ner will continue to do what is ~
st and what is wisest for the =,
gro. Raynor concludes: 'Sir, al
n member of the negro family, te
i'd | am willing and want my flu ex
re destiny managed by Southern re
atesmen, and 1 will be treated yo
silly, and I know that every time al
u appoint a negro to any position al
the South you, to some extent, ~
ralyze the friendly feeling the ~ ~
has for the negro and -
1der the good.work the Southern he