The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-06-18

caption in anything like satisfactory
way. When we attempted to con-
slider the ravages and demoralizing
effects Of war, it becomes
"A monster of such fearful MAIN
To be hated, is only to be seen. -
The political differences originating
with the various factions north and
south, developed into open contention,
and we soon found it to be more than
a riot, OF mere insurrection, but a
rebellion, revolution, which bid fair
to involve propersous nation in the
throes of bloodslled, Death and demor-
alization, and the sequel proved it to
be such. A riot is nothing more than
a momentary outburst of unrestrained
human passion of few men in breach
OF law, to soon be quelled by civil
authority, but the war between the
states was more than riot, for ''Di-
rectly after the guns of the rebels had
turned upon Sumter, the several
states of the south, in convention as
sembled, inaugurated series of move
ments which took out from the union
divers states, and as each was at
tempted to be taken out, the riots, if
such existed, was no longer found i'll
them, but they became insurrection-
ary, and the administration, upon the
10Th of April, 1861, dealt with the state
of affairs as an insurrection and called
on the militia of the United States to
suppress an insur1 ection. -
| Such was the demoralizing effect Of
the above unhappy condition of things
that in December 1860, oongressmen''an
senators, north and south, parted as
friends, to meet in 1861 as bitter en-
emies. Butler parted with Davis De-
cember %, 1860, on terms of friendship
and brotheIly love, to read on Decem-
Der %, 1861, the proclamation, as is
sued, for Butler to be hanged at sight
AS have said in former letter, the
negro was from the beginning the
principal bone and contention, and
continued to be till the great calam
ityof civil war overlook and drench-
ed our fair borders in fraternal blood,
and left the negro stranded on the fair
beach of southern industry, and today
there is nothing standing SO directly
in the way of national brotherly love,
and general good feelings between the
north and south as the negro con-
ditions as they now exist; a problem
about which SO many other wise in
telligent people seem to know SO little.
We southern people have the black
elephant on our hands, and God
alone knows just what we will do with
him. A poor, weak, ignorant, de-
pendent race in the main, and like the
sons of Ishmael,'' every mans hand
seem to be against him and everybody
kicking him; like the Jews, hated by
all nationalties, and can only live in
the south among what few friends he
has, he himself doing out his life
imperfect African Incidence and negro
happiness, crowding our thoroughfares
in all the hooks and corners of our
towns and cities; and in this black
and copperskins form nuisance on
every sidewalk. look upon the ne
gro condition of things now as one of
the greatest demoralizing effects of
the civil war, not that I am in favor
of the perpetual slavery, or servitude
of any race, but because of the clumsy
way in which our government has
handled him. Then the process of
amalgamation which is continually
going on Mr.. Mig is not responsible
for all of that) in the south, is SO
odious that even the mind of the most
reckless fanatic recoils in disgust end
shame, at the intermingling of the
pure Anglo-Saxon blood with the
African race; where will this great
sin against God and man, and when
it is worked out to it's last analysis
The negro problem is to be met from
a practical as we'll as theoretical
standpoint, he must be handled and
yet left alone, if not the white race
will suffer disintegration more or less.
If the south doesn't manage the negro
wisely he will keep the better class
of people in a continual turmoil of
disquietude and work up contention in
all the fields of our civil industries
1t is said that sWilberforce and Ma
caulay did not even intend to abolish
slavery in the West Indies when
they begun their struggle fof negro
rights so they said--and they scout
ed the idea with horror that their agi-
tation would lead to servile war. And
yet, when the shrieks of murdered
men and outraged women1 went up
through the hot air of confiagration
through those lovely islands, the rag
ling demons of lust and brutality bore
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