The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-08-14

ISLANDERS, for / know Il was In the
main a humane institution, and n the
niger Is any better on now than he
used 10 be, I can't see The whites
are better of. a long ways, but the
niger amt I've great respect for he
old time darkles / know lots OF em
would fight for. IT. / was 10 see a
man imposing on my good old faithful
friend. Tip, / would fight for him like
/ would fight for my children. love
these good old darkies / am willing
TO live with EN- and die with 'em, and
DO buried with 'em In the same grave
yard and when Gabriel blows his horn
can rise from the dead with EN- with.
out any fear that It will destroy the
hllarity of the occasion, as General
Toombs said.
Loves Old Dari<ies.
/ love these old darkies, not as my
equals, but as / love my children. /
love them because they love me and
are dependent upon me. The relation
between the white and black race Is
by nature one Of protection on the one
side and dependence upon the other,
and when It ceases to be that / have
no use for the niger II Is always
q pleasure to me to befrlend EN- when
El,sy want ny friendship and my help,
but when they aspire to be my equal
and put on independent airs. I've got
no further sympathy. / have been
raised to lock upon negroes as chill.
dren, children in youth, and children
in manhood and old age. didn't have
any hand in making EN- that way. It
Is their human nature and they can't
help 1t, and have a sovereign con-
tempt for any effort their people are
making to change their relation TO Us,
for it can't be done.
The education of the niger is q
humbug so far as to make him a good
c5.izen. II has been tried already,
and has proved a failure. His best
education is one Of contact, close con.
tact with the white race. II we will
let the negro alone and keep him out
Of politics he will get along very we'll
and there will be no problem to solve.
There never would have been any
problem if he had been let alone. EI8
has no business with Office or IN ile
Jury box or in the legislature, and he
never will have. This Is a white mans
| government and the white man must
govern it. The Anglo-Saxon Is the
| dominant race. We don't want the
Chlnaman nor the Indian to make our
laws AS a laborer and a servant and
dependent had rather have the negro
than any race upon earth, and that re-
latiop to us just suits him, and when
you try to lift him out of 1t you make
him a fool and vagabond and render
him unhappy. l don't want him a
slave any more, for his slavery was no
advantage to US. | had lot of EN-
myself and know they were no profit
to anybody except a few exacting mas
tiers who made Of slavery all the foul
blot" there ever was in it. There is
no problem to solve unless we make
one.
The white folks can't all be Wander
bits and the niggers can't be white
folks Let US all be content with our
destiny and not fuss around because
somebody else Is better off. Let 'Is
take things as we find EN- and do the
best we can. Folks are very much
like horses. If you breed EN- too fine
they are not fit for the wagon or plow
We have got to have different sorts OF
folks, and nature knew it, or she
wouldn't have made 'em different.
Parallel Of the indian.
This morbid sympathy for the poor
negro is wasted, Why not have 1t fol
the Indian? We robbed him Of his
land and run him off and have been
cheating him ever since. He is, by
nature, of higher order of humanity
than the negro. He has more pride
and more emotion. He Las more re
venge and more gratitude, for these
two things always go together. YOU
can't wean him from the forest fol
that is his nature.
The negro loves to depend upon thC
white man and the white man love!
the homage OF the negro. 1t suits anC
fits both races and hope it will stay
so. heard an old physician say tina
lie had never seen a great-grandchilC
that descended from mulatto parents
, in a mulatto succession. The crossin'
of races has never improved them
, Not even will the Jew and the Gentle
mix with harmony. John Randolph