The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-27

In no state north OF the Potomac
and Ohio Rivers have they the Jim
Crow cars or separate schools or any
provision looking toward the Separa-
tion OF the races, SO far as l know,
except, possibly, in Indiana. There
of the races. The North fought four
years and spent billions of dollars to
free the negro, the only monument
they have, of their success is six hun
dred Thousand dead and crippled and
the freedom of the negro. To ask
these people now to repeal the tif-
teenth amendment appears to me to
be an absurd proposition. When they
have separate railroad coaches, separ-
ate schools for white and black and
laws against inter-marriage between
the races, it will be time to hope fer
relief at their hands, but from pres
ent indications the Republic will have
passed away before tins becomes even
PLAUSIBLE. A constitutional amend
ment, very mild on the suffrage ques-
tion, was defeated in Maryland few
years ago by large majority. The
| Constitution of Oklahoma is still
hanging fire and this has not even a
separate coach law.
While the negro has not voted here
in ten or fifteen years it has not been,
as enormously supposed by some, on
account of the constitution of 1890.
All, or very nearly all, of them can
read and write, he had virtually quit
politics in the latter eighties. The
coming Of the constitution and the
going OF the negro from politics was
coincidence and not cause. We are
dependent on the negro for labor and
he on us for protection. The white
man must look for some other remedy
than a political one for relief. The
invention Of the cotton gin preserved
slavery for it made it profitable by
| enabling the cotton to be handled in
large quantities. The coming of the
cotton harvester and other improved
| farming implements will free the land
owner to a great extent from the
slavery of hand labor. 1t occurs to
me that immigration judiciOuSly Sc
! lected aad properly directed in con-
nection with improved cultivation is
our only sane and reasonable hope of
relief. In my humble opinion, poll
| ticianS TO the contrary, nOtwithStand
| ing, there is no connection between
the ballot and crime. Here the negro
| does not vote and some OF them are
criminals. In Ohio he votes and some
/ are criminals. If a bad man is edu-
Gated he progresses in crime from a
common miSdemeanorant to felOn.
he forges. wrecks banks. etc. If he
is a good man he yields to the polish
Of learning and becomes better as he
advances in learning. This, / take it.
applies in a general way to all man
kind. Racial intirmatieS may be
| SmOOthed over on the surface, like
veneered gum it may look like walnut,
but it is still gum, so with bad man
I whether he be black or white he is
still bad man regardless of educd-
tion or the right to vote. think it
unfortunate to make an issue where
we have no chance to win and much
to lose. We may provoke the 10th
amendment or may have the 14th and
18th enforced by act of congress: At
present we are having no trouble with
| the latter. 1t seems to me that n
the senate of the United States,
which is composed of less than hun
dred members, said to be the most
dgnited and sedate body of lawmak-
ers in the world, is about the last
place for simple, reckless and perpet-
ual AGITATION. My understand
ing is, when you speak there you
speak to some question. The repeal
Of the obnoxious amendment has been
tried several times and has never got
ten beyond the committee and was
not even considered there. So long
as the white people of Mississippi are
true to themselves and let their pri-
mary settle all their political differ
ences we shall have no trouble. | do
not think it wise or good policy TO
hold out hope and promises that can
not be made good, nor does it
seem to me to be wise to array one
race against the other This is the
negro's home as well as ours. The
races are mutually dependant on each
other. The negro did not come here
as an invader The Yankees in con-
nection with our forefatherS brought
him from his native land a captive,
transplanted him, in a state of bond
. age, into these United States. He
, did not rise when John Brown went
into Virginia. He fed US four years
during the war between the States.
suggest that he is entitled to fair an6
reasonable but firm treatment. Those
r that commit the uncomfortable crime
should be promptly hanged, those
that behave should be absolutely pro
, tected. The great bugbear OF negro
+ domination has no terror for me. W.
are all subject to and governed by tht
I, law of the survival of the tittest.
, J. J. SLACK.
3 No home is so pleasant, regardleS
3 of the comforts that money will buy
) as when the entire family is in perfec
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