The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-12-07

and then set il apart. II the "South-
ern domain objected, 80 much the
worse for the domain. lfthere should
be lack of votes necei ,sary to pass a
sixteenth amendment defining the
boundaries Of the negr O domain, those
States in the "SOv thern domain"
which objected could be put under mill
tary rule and then counted in favor Of
the amendment.
But we agree with the Sun in ask
ing why the dom ain set aside should
be in the South. The Sun well says
that the great city Of Philadelphia is
clamoring for negroes. They are use
ful in the multiple voting done there
by the Republicans, especially since
the cats, dogs and dead people have
been DISTINGUISHED. The Republicans
have never profted by the negro vote
to the extent they calculated upon
when they made him a citizen in the
south. They had calculated with GER
tainty that they could make the South |
perpetually Republican by aid Of the
negro vote. But they were hanged by |
their own rope. so it is due the North /
and the Republican party that the
negro should be Of more use TO them.
We do not agree with the Sun that
Philadelphia should have oil Of them.
Up in New England are large num-
bers OF deserted farms. Magazine ar
ticles and books have been written
about the deserted farms Of New
Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut and
other New England States. What is
to be done with old farms and homes
Already French Canadians are buying
some Of these farms; and so an infe-
rior class is settling on that sacred
soil. right next to the New England
conscience. This should not be. Let
class Of people equal to the New
Highlander take this place of those
who have moved in a benevolent
spirit to other parts Of the country and
are now trying to assimilate all that
the elastic New England conscience
will permit. Let the downtrodden
brother in black be segregated in New
England with Thomas Wentworth
Higginson and all the native popula-
tom and let the French Canadians
and Irshmen be driven out if they
object. The necessity Of complete sep
aration would thus be avoided. In
the Southern domain separation would
be necessary; not so in New England.
The nine million negroes in the South
would be met at the New England
front gate with open arms, and would
receive every attention as long as their
money held out.
And what more fitting than that the
negroes should find their abiding
place i'm the land Of Governor An
drews, who was elected on platform
the violation Of the COnsii-
tuition and applauding the attempt Of
John Brown TO incite murder, arson
aud rape in the South? Why should
not the negro feel that he had at last
come into port in the land Of Sumpter,
and would thenceforth have the OPP
pOrtunity 10 prove the contention Of
Sumpter, Higginson, Hale and others,
that all the negro needs to make him
in every way equal to the white is a
proper environment? On the spot
where Garrison burned a copy Of the
because it tolerated
slavery, the negroes and New England
ers could erect a monument, the form
er in recognition Of Garrison's deyo-
ton to abolitionism, the latter to COM
the frequency with which
they have nullified the Constitution.
And there on the soil which has been
made sacred by the burning of witches,
the murder and robbery of Indians,
persecution, notification, and
abolition, the negro, living un Ter his
own vine and fgtree, could gather his
crops and sing the harvest Home.