The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-12-01
GEN. JAMES B. WEAVER
On the Negro Question of
Today.
HIS SPEECH DELIVERED At SHILOH PARK
The Distinguished Federal General
Says the Negro Is Fast Becoming
More Distasteful to the North
than to the South.

Gen. James b. Weaver of low;
who was one Of the braves who wOr
the blue in the Civil War, in an &C
dress recently delivered at Shilo
Park, emphasizes the spirit of low
now developing between tie Mort
and the South and touchingly refer
to the diSemboded spirits already OF
the other Shore. Below is Il part 0
the Shiloh address:
I'VE live in eternity. We cOun
what we call days and years by tn,
rising and setting of the sun, the re
currence of the seasons and the re
turn of the eQuinOXeS. But neither
sunshine nor shadow, darkness no.
light; neither the seasons nor the
movement of the heavenly bodies car
separate us from eternity in which we
live and move, and which Ga most
comforting thOught) is also the dwell.
ling place OF our Almighty Creator
and loving Father. 1t seems to me
that the armament above our heads
is full of the diSembodied spirits of
our old comrades. The Blue and the
Gray are at peace over there, and l
fervently thank Almighty God that
their surviving friends, now cOnSti-
tuting united and mighty nation are
at peace alSO-peace among them
selves.
If our eyes should be opened as
were the eyes of the servant of the
Prophet Elisha we would behold the
air filled with chariots and with
hOrSemen. They are certainly all
about US. and we can almost feel them
tanning our 'browS, hear the rustic of
their celestial garments and can al
most grasp them by the hand"
In speaking Of the problems that
grew out of the war and the negro,
among other things, he said:
But when race of lower order
Of development is dOmiciled with a
race of superior development must the
race Of inferior growth be allowed to
dominate the superior? A Thousand
times no. 1t is contrary to the
natural order. 1t can never be. One
of the errors both of emancipatorS
and the apologist of slavery is that
having developed one truth they have
too often failed to reason on to another
cognate truth. They stop short in
their investigations and think there
is no more truth beyond. They see
one star through rift in the clouds,
and conclude that it is the only star
in the armament.
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/ observe that the Hon. John S. |
Williams, in a recent utterance, ad- |
viSes the people of the South to i'm
port white labor to take the place of |
the present industrial force. This is |
most excellent advice, and should be
acted upon in every Southern state at |
once. But it does not touch the
alarming situation that confrontS the
Southern people. 1t will not touch |
the real dilemma that cOnfrOntS the
whole country, and that concerns us
all-what shall be done with the
Negro?
l realize that the question to which |
L am now addressing myself is un-
queStionably one of the foreshadow-
ing contentious ef the age in which
we live. 1t is the second and COM
pick phase Of the controversy that |
precipitated our Civil War. | cannot
at this time treat the subject fully
simply suggeStively. But why tenn
porize? 1t must be met. We must |
look squarely at it and settle it Justly |
and quickly.
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But if all men are created with |
equality of rights, and at the same
time this is a white mans govern
ment, what is to be done with the
Negro? Did you catch Paul's mean
ing when he said that God had created |
of one blood all the nations and de
fined the bounds of their habita-
tions?" America is not the Negro's
habitat. This country is not within
his habitation. God never domiciled
two nations of men together. Heav-
en- loves peace and commands Justice.
When one nation inyadeS another, you
have war. When the MOngOlian at
tempts to crowd in upon US, there is
trouble, and they are excluded by law.
Commercial relations are natural and
tend to peace.
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I'VE of the North are too far from
the storm center to be properly SYM
pathetic with our white brethren in
the South, and they are too near to
have an accurate perspective of the
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They cannot, in any considerable
numbers, be diffused throughout the
North, for they are fast becoming as
distasteful to us as they are to the
South. i
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LET the whole negro race in this
conntry set their faces toward Africa
and a Black Republic. / would have
the colored schools and colleges make