Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-04-27

and Homers and Goethes, whose Bacons
and Christliebs, whose great discoverers
and inventors, and whose great philoso-
phers have made the civilization of the
world and will continue to make it,.
TBEAThRNT OF NEGRO.
"Now, gentlemen, the two things you
cannot do arc these: You cannot defect
us, 40 . party, from live, pending issues.
Do not try it, The next thing you can
not do In this: You cannot mako us for
get the importance of maintaining the
purity of the white race. You speak
about human rights. Yes, men have
human rights; they belong TO the genus
homo. And so certain animals have
equine rights; they belong to the genus
equus; but the fool who turns thor
oughbred loose to mutual hybridization
of jackasses and xebras, would expect
them to do the same work, would be q
fool indeed. We are going to treat the
colored man in this country In the very
beat possible way that he can be treated.
Now and then unfortunate things will
occur. They will occur up North; but
they. are occurring less aud less, hope
and believe; and one thing we are going
to remember is this: That God has given
us q trust toward this race of people.
ut may be o trust to act as a school
master rather than as an equal. We be-
lteve 1t is, but 1t is q trust, and we are
going to exercise the trust to the best
OF our ability and perform our duty to
the best Of our ability. We have already
made more out of the negro than he has
ever made out of himself in his own
habitat, free, and with the ability to
develop along his racial lines, according
to his race traits and tendencies, and we
are going to make more out of him yet;
but we are not going to have ahybridized
South, we are not going to recognize,
however mistakenly and however inno-
Gently man may take the position, any
man as friend of ours, or of the race
which we represent, who would have us
have mixed schools, social equality, or
negro domination.
Now, Mr.. Chairman, to some little,
extont have fallen into the very pitfall
that was set for us and against which l
was aelf-warned; but have tried to fall
into 1t In such way as that the country
ing upon that particular subject as a
Southerner. The very best friend the
darkey has ever had in this world or
ever will have is the Southern gentleman.
He has taken care of him in sickness.
He does it now. He has taken care of
and buried him when he was dead. He
does it now. He treats him kindly
and 95 per cent of the negro race in the
South is dooile, we'll behaved, and kindly,
also,
Now and then when one breaks loose
he becomes, ii seems, more fiendish than
white manaof like appetities, and there
is on our eide, as in every people numeri-
cally inferior, surrounded by horde of
veneered savages, or by race for the
most part veneered savages, a disposition
now and then to resort to the rod rather
than to reason. That cannot be helped;
1t cannot be eradioated from human ma
ture--not now, at any rate, though it
may be after q while.
"And when time shall have gone on
and the negro race shall have developed
to the level on which we stand now, If it
ever does-and by the way, If it does, it
will develop because its men will have
become as brave and as intelligent as our
men; it will develop because its women
will have become as pure, as chaste, as
housekeeping, and as Intelligent as our
women-if that time ever comes the
white race will be even then just as far
In advance of him as it is to-day, because
the real progressive race of the world ia
not going to cease to progress. While
we help him up, rung by rung, we shall
20 on ahead of him, rung by rung."
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