The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-10
Letters to the Editor.
SOME PLAIN TALK.
Hut On q Subject That Demands
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But On a Subject That Demands At-
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 Editor Advertiser.
 It is with surprise and humiliation that the good people of this county read in our daily papers of the crimes produced by the white men having ne- gro paramours-the homicides brought the only offences that there are any effort to punish, and the other offence that of white man living, eating anl sleeping with negro. woman is not only tolerated. but smiled at. not only by the officers of our county who are sworn to enforce the law, but by the people: men with wives and children offence of miscegenation to be carried on by their neighbors and right under their noses. and the number of hybrid negro children now living in our coun- ty shockingly attest to this wholesale despicable crime.
 Our forefathers enacted laws prohib- iting the marriage. fornication and adultery between the two races, and also made 1t an offence for a probate judge to issue a license or for a min ister of the gospel or Justice. of the peace to solemnize the rites Of matri- mony intermarrying a white person and negro. Our ancestors realized the fact. that marriage is the most impor- tant in it's nature of any in society the homes of people are created, those homes in which, ordinarily, all the members of all the families of the land are, during part of every day, of the household get rest and cheer. and reparation of strength from the tolls and cares of life. and where. in versation with them, the young be- come imbued with the principles. and animated by the spirit and ideas, which in great degree gives shape to their character and determine the manner of their future livs. These homes, in which the virtues are most cultivated and happiness most abound. are the itors saw the evil of Introducing into their most intimate relations, elements so Heterogeneous that they must nat urally cause discord, shame, disruption or family circle and estransement or
 Why the Creator made one white and the other black we do not know, but the fact Is appare1t, ana the races ns are and following the peculiar law Of Its constitution --conceding equality, with natures as perfect and rights as sa- cred. yet God has made them dissimi- lar.
 The natural law, which forbids their intermarriage, and that amalgamation which leads to a corruption of races, Is as clearly divine as that which im- parted to them different natures.
 Marriage of the two races is wholly abhorrent to all fitness and propriety Manifestly it Is for the peace and hap pinesS of the blacks as well as the whites that such laws were enacted prohibiting their intermarriage. Know ing, without question, that the felo- nious intercourse of the two races, is by divine and human laws prohibited why is it that the county and city au- thorities and the people allow such for nication, and practically marriage, to go on unpunished and undisturbed when we have penal laws adequate to the enormity of the offence and to its insult to public decency.
 In our fair city, known to the police and city authorities, there are places kept by negro women where only white men visit and In our county, in all sec tions of 1t white men openly keep ne- gro women and half bred negro chil- dren populate our lands. Isn't this serious part of the negro question? And can't this shocking crime to all decency be stopped? Should the grand Jury and the people, do its swori. duty and indict some of the prominent of lenders and the solicitors prosecute the indictments vigorously would not this felonious adultery be stopped?
 Then the white men of the county would take unto himself wife and be man, and we would cease to see the mulatto children in the farm yards, but instead we would see pure blooded boys and girls, and we would read no more accounts of crimes, the outgrowth of the illicit felonious relations.
 Raga.