The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22
A pELPHIc UTTERANcE FROM NEW
ENGLAND.

President Charles w. Ello'' VI ii"'
ward University says;
or we had large negro element
here i'm Boston, we shou'u ,,l'l 49,
separate schools for them, teeing 'ha1
II would be better for them. II more
than half the students In HaNaiu Vi.
Isye were negroes we should think OF
senarating the majority from the mi
noritv. There are now twenty per
hans thirty. negro students AT mar
vard hut they are absolutely lost III
the mass of 5000 whites, and they
have no influence Of any sort Tor eNil
mn the mass Of whites. There Is a
great deal to be said for separation In
the South Of the negroes rom Tue
whites i'm the schools and colleges
ON the two races living together IL Is
vastly worse for the whites.
What dark cloud has al last obscured
the rare atmosphere Of Emersonlan
thought that has for fifty years en-
circled Boston? Why this delphic Ut
terance Who is disturbing the pipe
dream Of your New Highlander whose
two long suits are his capacity to give
abstract advice to other people and ms
eve for the main chance? What rude
nightmare is this that dares TO jolt the
serene contemplation Of a Harvard
professor?
There's a concrete niger IN the
woodpile, evidently. And this time
he is in the New England woodpile'
Nav his shadow never grow less IN
that quarter, and may his tribe IN
crease until New England attempts
separation. Meanwhile we OF the
south can afford a grin Of anticipated
joy.
"There is a great deal to be said for
separation in the South in the schools
and colleges" says President Eliot.
Certainly a great deal has been said
about separation in the South" by
New Englanders, but very little from
that source has been said for It. For
fifty years the buzzing bees OF adverse
comment from that section have been
annoying and singing us. The poor,
downtrodden brother in black has
been hailed as a martyr; has been re-
ceived with open arms, literally and
figuratively speaking; has been petted
and coddled and spoiled; has had false
notions Of social equality implanted
in his heart; and after living in Bos-
ton for a while has come to the con-
clusion that he would like to be
equal to Southerner and is quite SUI
perior TO Yankee. Hence the Bos-
tor negrO's hatred Of a Southern white
man and his contempt for a Northern
one. He hates the one; he despises
the other.
Time was when the negro IN Bos-
ton was less rare than he is now. The
son Of Boston, who is ever preening
the feathers Of his own conceit, and is
contemplating and admiring his good
ness, took the son Of Ham to his boz
som; made a great TODD over him
exhibited him TO the gaping public,
and assured him that the land Of the
free and the home Of the brave was
open to him in the pure atmosphere OF
New England. And 50 both have
lived in this FOOLS paradise, to the de-
generation Of the white and the utter
ruin Of the black. For two genera
tons the New Highlander has hitched
his wagon to a star and given the ne
gro the choice Of seats.
But how now? The New England
negro is both more numerous and
more offensive. He is becoming die
tatorial. He is demanding his own
rights and other peoples, also. The
shoe begins to pinch in Boston; and as
your New Englander rarely rises above
expediency to the plane Of principle,
he is beginning to chafe. 1t suited
him to become the savior Of the negro
from 1850 to now. 1t was expedient,
and therefore right. 1t is ceasing TO
be expedient and is therefore ceasing
10 be right. And so there is now ga
great deal to be said for separation in
the South"
But we trust this delphic tone will
stop with an admission. We can
stand New England's abuse; it has be-
come amusing. We can stand even
tardy admission Of error; it is always
taken at its face value. But we can
not stand praise from that source; it
arouses our suspicious.