The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-08-04

way lines ana SlllCe we COulQ uOl pre-
vent the one we should not be so foolish
as to decline the other.
THE RACE PROBLEM.
That the solution of the race ques-
ton (if such be possible) is one of the
most important political and social
questions before US today, if not the
most important, I do not think any
thoughtful person will deny. That I
was a prophet during the recent cam
paign, when I took position in favor
of the repeal of the fourteenth and fif-
teenth amendments to the Federal Con-
stitution is proven by the action of the
recent Republican Convention in the
adoption Of the plank in their platform
looking to the introduction of another
Force Bill" I thought that I knew
then, and the Republican Convention
has proven that there is still purpose
en- the part of the Northern Republicans
led by Roosevelt to maintain the reins
of the government through the agency
of the negro. The adoption of these
amendments, while the Northern mind
was still inhamed over the issues of the
late war, was the greatest political crime
ever committed in this country, and
there can never be lasting restora-
ton of peace between the north and
South so long as the race question re-
mains unsettled. Notwithstanding the
interest of the Republican party, through
the agency of the negro route, we must
still remember that blood is thicker
than water and that justice and right
will finally triumph if the Northern
conscience is persistently appealed to in
the proper manner. The more and
more that the Northern conscience is
made to understand the negro and his
instincts as he is, the more and more
the North will be willing to admit the
crime when it was committed when it
undertook at a stroke of the pen to
make the negro the white mans equal.
AS the years go by and the Northern
mind and heart is made to see and to
feel the crime of the adoption of these
two amendments, such men as Roose-
welt and Crumpacker will lose their
power and prestige in the Republican
party. Incidents like the attempt dur
ing the recent Republican Convention,
lnstigated by the man on horseback
president Roosevelt) to force social
recognition as we'll as political equality
of the negro with the white man when
the little Georgia Nigger" was put
upon the Republican rostrum along
side of pure and delicate little
white girl, on terms of equality, will be
resented by the great conscience of the
American people. Such conduct will
create race pride, both north and
south that will force mutual agreements
looking to race preservation that can
only come through the repeal of these
two atrocious constitutional amend
ments. An educated head and an
educated conscience among the white
people of the nation is the first step
necessary to the accomplishment of this
end but an educated head, together
with the vicious heart of the negro,
daily increases the difficulties of the
race problem. AT present the negro
holds the balance Of power in the nomi-
mating conventions of the Republican
party, as we'll as the balance of power
in the halls of Congress, since he al
ready holds the balance of power in
Congressional elections in thirty of the
border districts. At the present rate
of the education of the Southern negro
it will only be few years before he
is able to control the elections of the
South if protected by the provisions of
these vicious amendments, and we will
no longer be able to pride ourselves as
having "The Solid Democratic South"
My solution is practically endorsed
by the Democratic party in its St Louis
platform in that it advocates a peaceful
solution and condemns the Republican
effort to arouse anew race and sectional
prejudices. If We inaugurate this
movement with judgment and discre-
ton, we are no longer dependent upon
the grace or mercy of the Republican
party, but will be able in this way to
build up the Democracy of the North
and West, and thereby accomplish a
two-fold purpose, to-wit: the ascend