The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-11-30

mildly amusing
Gradually bu, surely the Norm IL, ~
canning to- lace negro problem VI ~
own. 10 ha, indeed settled 'lle $50 -,
of fine negro ndus,nalA ny lu''i,e
him ont of 500 the skilled liSues, ,a ~
H.. not welcomed as mason, paluVv,
tinSmith. pruier carpenter, 40
s,,,itf, ar ni.tormau. bat he may uis
,,rs,.s. and ee,-uool~, and wait ON 'i.e
taiIe Iu.t noN 10 9 Kansas tlial Il
....s-,,fel with It's negro problem,
Nsevervone knows, from the uay "
e. ot,,,f...,Y s- a state, until Wlliih
.,'..,e.t fem wears there has scarcely
leen any other state OF group VI ~
nile who have ~uppoIte" ,ioiO
tbaficqllv the civil rights oi wy
pro,- and FOB general their e4uali'y j."
g. .ooiol and political fabric. hecehl-
Il. thtra has been "a considerable III
DIM of NEGROES into Kansas, anu iilo,e
,.SrficuiarlN into Che eastern ana SOUTH
lr, cCnrti,-. With the increasing
,'1mbers the problem OF separate
...b,,,ls aro-e. and 10 is interesting 10
go, tbot fine strength of the demand
i.s. i.asn etervw here i'm proportion 10
t. IL
ttennn,ber of negro inhabitants anu
...SooI children. The state Supeiih-
,,..,le,,t of Public schools Is IN FAVOR
~ .erarata~ch schools. The Kansas news
,,,,,ers declare that wherever the ne
gro appears in "a White coiilii'"iIi'S
fhere Tie negro prblem VIII DC, aIu
they admit mautully enough 'ua' ny
r,ncorou, Northern criticism OF the
-o,,tb for its attitude on the negro
.ne.fi d I'm many of its phases Is uue
j., ignorance of the subject ana a lah-
ure fo Judge human nature cOffec'ly'
Irsa long lane that has no turn IN
81 Vet the turn i'm the lane has not
,,et heen reached. 1t will be reached
only when the negro problem gets
acnte I'm New England, Pennsylvania
Kansas and a few other states. There
l. 81 God i'm the heavens, even in these
,nateriali.tc. days, and He has pro-
INDICATED the eternal truth thata man,
community. q state, and a nation
will reap its own sowing. That elias
tle thing known a, the New England
conscience can get around everything
else but il cannot escape that.
ont of New England methe forced
continuance of the slave trade until
1so, when Virginia tried to stop it in
17s7 New England was laying her
great fortune at that time by stealing
NEGROES from Africa and selling them
to the south. and 10y making rum.
After ls0s slavery gradually became
unpopular I'M New England-there was
no longer money n it. Pennsylvania
furnished the greatest scourge the
South ever had. one of the most
constituencies sc0undrels that ever
discraeed tine halls of Congress-Thad
Stevens. Ohio. New York and other
States deliberately violated the Con-
stitution of the United states by pass
inc their personal liberty laws, which
would not permit am owner OF slaves
to recover runaway slave. Kansas
sent ms John Brown, the anarchist
who came TO Virginia TO incite an in
surrection and Who was aided and ap
plauded 10y Massachusetts.
And through all these years, aitel
the South had been rayished and rob
bed. and left helpless and bleeding
she has had the burden Of the negro t'
carry: has had to fight of the efforts
of Northern fanatics TO humiliate The
whites. and al the same time has hac
TO give millions out of her poverty t'
educate Isle thcnegro. For all thes'
efforts TO elevate and educate thii
race she has received the bitter abuse
and criticism of the North and the in
gratitude and growing hostility OF thu
race she was trying 10 help.
The true history Of the South is We
10 be written. That which has beer
written by the North will be worth
less two generations from now. There
will be viewpoint then-new an'
vet old-new to the North but old t
the South. The North-and Kansas
let us hope-will be face TO face will
the negro problem. 1t will have
golden opportunity to carry out 1t
beautiful theorie, of social and pollti
cal equality. When that time comes
as come il will the South will watci
the situation with interest, if not will
amusement; aud certainly with con
tempt. But she will not think o
offering advice TO those who alread.
are wiser ON this subject than sever
men who can render a reason.
But we are piously informed tina
"the Kansas newspapers admit man
fully enough That the rancorous North
ern criticism of the South for its att
tude on the negro question in man.
Of IFS phases is due TO ignorance OF
the subject and a failure TO judge hu
man nature correctly" 1t is yer.
manful TO admit a fact after it ma
been rammed down your throat b.
force Of circumstances. But all In
manful admissions of the present o
future cannot bring back to the Soutl
the four billions of property destroyed
cannot bring back The tens Of thou
sands of her noble SOILS who gave al
their lives To- defend their hearthstone
and 10 keep back the wave Of New
England fauatIci,m that would hav
placed our mothers and daughters il
the embraces of -ervile race; canno
heal the broken hehrt, OF repay th
awful suhering- of the mothers an'
wives and daughter, who saw thei
sons aud husbands and brothers shO
down by the ruthless invader; cannO
wipe out the bitter days of Reconstruc
ton, worse if possible than the day
of war; cannot bring back the lost op
pOrtunities tO The tens of thousand