The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-24

more entertaining to a person of in
telligence and culture than most of
the novels of the world, fills ~ pages.
The most delightful, admirable, in
structive essay on Joseph Addison re-
uuires 81 pages. AS l have said be-
fore. this third volume, beginning with
Give and ending with Chatham, is the
most engaging, the most animated, the
most eloquent volume OF essays IN the
English language, and L nave read
nearly all of the British Essayists from
Hazlitt to the best Of the present time.
In clearness, and felicity of narrative
I know of nothing to equal 1t.
Few know that Sir Richard steele,
more Familiarity known in literature as
"Dick Steele was expelled from the
British Parliament. The Tories dld
il for Dick was a strong Wing he
wrote a great deal in connection with
Joseph Addison, but he was Tar below
him in the highest qualities or pfoduc-
ton. If you would enjoy discussion
of Steele read Thackeray's sharp cri-
ticism in his most original and unrlV-
aled Lectures on English Humorlsts.
An important lesson for free peo-
pie, for republics and limited mon
arches, may be constantly learned by
tory and French history. Probably
no country since Rome was ever worse
governed than France. Read Hon.
Tom Watson'S extremely interesting
two large volume history he calls "A
Story of France" Read "The Causes
of the French Revolution" by Prof.
Dabney, and then read some of Ma
caulay's essays and you will learn
great deal of the role of despotism and
I1n of Nic i11t1
ality, robbery, oppression and prosti-
tuition. For nearly eighty years be-
fore the French Revolution began in
1888, the most venal, vicious, oppreS-
sive of governments, lorded with
high hand in France, plucking, de-
stroying, killing, expressing at will.
The evil deeds brought forth at last
terrible harvest. The people became
finally desperate, and were ready for
revolution or anarchy, or destruction
of all old orders. Lord Macaulay
wrote: Tyranny may last through
ages where discussion is suppressed"
1t was so in France. Louis XIV was
nearly always at war Probably he
had wars for more than fifty years of
his long reign, and to fill his armies
the people were driven into the army,
and homes We're left desolate, and
hundreds of thousands, perhaps a
carry out the bad kings cruel, life
destroying policy. France had neither
a free press nor a free discussion, and
the final result was terrific explosion
that shook the empires of the world
Macaulay says that "despotiSm and Ii
cense, mingling in unblessed union,
engendered that mighty revolution in
which the lineaments of both parents
were strongly blended. The long
rnc,t., ion ,1i sshn
rope saw, with mixed hopes and ter
ror that agonizing travail, and that
portentuouS BIRTH" There must be
free discussion and free printing if
there shall continue freedom for the
citizen.
In the atlantic Monthly" the best
Boston Monthly, Mr.. A. IL. Grimke has
found out that to disfranchise Sambo
is very bad for him and for the South
and for the entire country. Wonder
full. But fudge He is only another
of the many ignorant, silly writer's in
the North who scribble with the negro
as the theme. No man of sense can
say that to deprive an ignorant, inlet
tered negro of the right of suffrage can
possibly injure the whole country or
the South or any locality in the South
or the Union? There are seven or
for illiteracy and for non-payment of
taxes. Grimke is indeed very hard up,
but it is from ignorance. Think of Il
fellow not in a lunatic asylum COM
planning that to cut the negro off from
the ballot is to make him a Wanderer
and an outcast, lazy and discontinued.
And stupid fellows, editors and others
agree with Grimke and show how
very little they know of the negro and
L, IL
With asses in the North to tell what
they do not know of Sambo and the
ballot, the outlook is pitiful. Grimke
ought to come into the South and
abide for five years. He will then
wonder that he was ever such a fool
as to write the stuff he writes in the
negrophiliist magazine in Boston. With
that class of writer's in Yankee doodle
dom ignorance is bliss, tbs folly to be
wise" The Review of Reviews Of
New York ought to know better than
to copy such rot and spread it out for
corrupting and misleading ignorant
people of the type of Grimke. Re
Gently | saw an extract from Colonel
Thomas w. HigginSon, one of New
England'S most favored and capable
men of letters, that is is a disgrace to
any Yankee with Il white skin. / in
tended preserving the delicate, most
fragrant moroccan, but l have failed to
receive it. L would be glad to lay it
before my readers that they may see
how this cultivated, scholarly Yankee
Colonel of a negro regiment in the
Vandalic war, regards the well beloved
negro He forecasts the future, and
prophesies that the time is coming
when the whites and blacks will freely
intermarry without race prejudice or
hesitancy. 1t will all be so natural
a, 81 e
things / can only hope that his fond
est hopes for New England may be
realized, and that he may have troops
of kinky-haired, thick-lipped, fiat
ncsed, dark-skinned, half and half lit
tie Grand children, boys and girls, to