The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-10
A Southern View of Race
Destiny.
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est arm and the bravest heart, has
conquered them ALL
What but q struggle for life and
death between two mighty races made
il necessary for the peaceful Puritan
to carry his musket to church and
for the wife at home to keep the
danger horn ever ready to summon
her husband to protect home and
babes against the lurking savage.
Fired by this spirit in that early
day, the sons of Carolina and the
sons of Massachusetts, with axe in
one hand and gun in the other braved
together the dangers of the forests
built forts and trading posts, drove
the savage man beyond the Great
River, and settled the Indian ques-
ton once for all.
Would to God that the same might
be said of another problem, the agita-
ton of which in 1880 by John Quincy
Adams led Mr.. Jefferson to say that it
fell upon his ears like fire bell in
the night. Until the ballot was placed
in the hands of the negro there was
no question of clashing between the
white race and the black race. There
was no race conflict until Mr.. Lin
coin as a war measure, freed the
slaves. Previous to our civil war, this
was a domestic and social question,
but it is not so today. 1t is a ques-
Destiny, the result of which can be in
no doubt. But this question is to be
solved, not by force or violence, but
by the best thoughts of men, how two
races can olive side by side in peace.
Civilization is civilized warfare, but it
is warfare, nevertheless. Never, sir,
has such a task been given to mortal
stewardship. Never before in this Re-
public has the white race divided on
ri OH tC Of al no
man was cut down as a weed, because
he hindered the way of the American
citizen. The yellow man was shut
out of this Republic because he is an
alien and an Inferior The red man
was the owner of the land, the yellow
man was highly civilized but they him
dered both sections and are gone. But
the black man affecting but one sec
ton is clothed with every privilege of
government, and our people COM
manded to make good at any hazard
and at any cost his full and equal
heirship of American privilege and
prosperity. 1t matters not that every
other race has been routed or en-
cluded. 1t matters not at whatever
the whites and blacks have touched in
any era or in any cline there has
been irreconsilabe violence. 1t mat
ters not that no two races, however
similar, have lived anyhere, at any
time on the same soil with equal
rights in peace. In spite of these
things we are commanded to make
good this change in American policy.
to make certain here what has else
where been impossible between white
and black, and to reverse, under the
very worst conditions, the universal
verdict of racial history"
And what has been our progress
"a q
stewardship? Let the contrast in the
present conditions of the Indian race
and the negro race be our answer.
The Indian looks from the sun
scorched plains of Arizona back to his
home among the hills of Carolina,
the negro looks from the hills of
Carolina, back to his haunts among
the jungles of Africa. Can there be
aught but sadness in the heart of the
one as he dreams of his old hunting
ground never more to be seen! Can
there be aught but gladness in the
heart of the other as he realizes the
opportunities of his present life. The
South alone in the history of tho
world has brought race from the
jungles of savagery to the very doors
of civilization.
And while there may be some men
who would condemn us, yet, sirs, tho
slant, so unselfish, that it gladdens
our hearts to believe that no well-in-
RACE DESTINY-TWO :. 80.
formed man, North or South, would
have the Southern. States act toward
the negro in a manner different from
what they have always acted.
What other course is open to us?
Shall the toe of the negro gibe the
white mans heel? Shall there be-
amalgamation between the races? Go
with me to South America or to Cuba
and see the result of such folly--a
nation of half-breeds and degener-
ates, men that are but the forms of
men--and then say to me was not
and is not the South everlastingly
right In fixing an impossible gulf BE-
tween white and blacks"
When the ten thousand Greeks
were beginning their memorable re-
treat from Asia to the sea, a council
of war was called and in the midst
of those brave mer there stood up
one fellow, Appollonides by name,
with flannel in his mouth and said
that as they were far from home
without food, in the midst of enemies,
nothing remained but surrender and