Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-04-01
THE NEGRO QUESTION.
An Able Presentation of this Lying
Issue.

for purpose of Incompatible impor
ance, and the restoration of the spir1
of manliness and independence whic
I has suffered under the endurance c
hopeless repression form many disas
Itrous years. This is the worst effec
of subjugation. Men grow listless un
der evils which they cannot resist
they become more and more iudiffel
ent, and IN the later stages of the de
moralization iusensible, they ar
tempted to indemnify themselves b,
Illicit indulgences. They fame int
violence on certain gross prOv0cations
and when particular crime has been
avenged, sink into the old listless tenn
per-a policy which makes the repeti
tiOn of the crime. not merely possible
but certain. A grand fixed and or
ganized purpose, will tone up thu
moral of the whole people and keeI
the watch fires continually burning
1t will educate the whole race into {
temper and habits which will safeguard
the rights and liberties of the land of
our love.
Another advantage will be the pre-
paration of the people to meet possi
ble emergency in the future which the
ante bellum craftsmanship of the
whole country, north and south. pre-.
dlcted as the inevitable ultimate re
suit of the unconditional abrogation Of
slavery. A specimen of this state of
opinion can be seen in the celebrated
debate between John Quincy Adams
and john G. Calhoun, when the sub.
ject of abolition petitions was first in
troduced into the federal arena. Three
of the consequences predicted by the
southern statesman have already been
fulfilled. The fourth only remains to
be accomplished. That was that the
ultimate result of abolition would be
a war between the races, and either
the determination of the negroes, or the
expulsion of the whole white race
from the entire tier of the gulf states.
A servile war in all likelihood will be
the outcome. The signs are already
beginning to glow ON the distant skies.
This result must be STAYED off, if pos
sible. The league of the entire white
race will either prevent it, or enable
the people to be prepared tor it when
it, comes. There is but one thing
which will finally and fully remove this
awful peril, enable justice to be done
to the blacks, unite the whole cOun-
try as it never has been. and never can
be, as long as the menace which now
overshadows the country continues,
and restore the affections of the Amer.
ican people to real good will, and the
interests of the country to stable
prosperity. That policy is the re-
moval of the black race to land ex-
clusively their own. To this great and
salutary end there will be an ultimate
agreement on the part of the entire
p pulation north and south, white and
black. The project has already been
ventilated moi only by some of the lead
ers OF the negro race, but discussed in
the press Of the country. The chief
objection has been Its supposed impos-
billty. 1t is a great work-greater
than the exodus of ancient Israel from
Egypt. That was done III spite of the
opposition of the Egyptian govern
ment. The removal of the negroes
may be done blythe government of the
| United States. That was done in
spite of the wishes of the Egyptian
people. This may be done with the
hearty consent of the people. The
government and people of the United
States can do what they please to do.
| Many years may and ought-in order
| to do justice to both races-bs consum-
ed in the enterprise. But it can be
done. The Importance of the 18TH
mian canals sinks in the comparison.
More than one plan might accomplish
it. To give the negroes a territory
with a view to statehood in the Union
would postpone the ultimate effects,
and show the ultimate settlement up
on distant posterity of the American
people. The natural increase of the
negro race would ultimately overflow
the bounds of the assigned territory,
and renew the problem. This would
neither be just or generous to either
lace. The Philippines have been sug-
gested as capable of absorbing the ell
tire black race. If this be true. it
presents solution at once. The Uni
ted States are III possession of the is
lands; its soldiers are already there to
police the black emigration; the pro
consuls of the United States civil ad
ministration are already in supreme
lcontrol. A great fleet OF large emf
grant steamers would soon show how
the dark and menacing tides of the
black peril were sinking lower and
lower. The repeal of the Chinese Ex
clusion Act so far as the southern
states are concerned would supply the
labor drawn off to the east. TO a ma
ltlon so rich, so powerful, so energetic
land 50 resolute when they have
made up their minds-the enterprise
vast as it is, entirely practicable. II
would be in some respects-in the short
ened distance, and the increased mum
ber of annual voyages-more practica
bic for the government to secure a ter
lritorv in the heart of the African con
tinent, to build a railroad to its east
ern border, put the whole under th'
control of an American administration
until the negroes were fairly afloat OF
1.-THE experiment of self government, ant
then leave them to work out their owl
course.
In the profoundest convictions of