The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-01-24

Wiling ndnQS. BAD people, SlOLnIu
people, get on nowhere; but nowhere
on the habitable globe has the liber-
ated slave Jared so well, nowhere has
he so fair an outlook, as in the South
ern States of North America.
THE LOCAL AFFINTTIEs.
Why? Because we know one anoth-
er and because, no matter what any
body may say to the contrary, there
is a common bond of association be-
tween us. Never can the white man
of the South forget what the black
man did during a war waged for his
freedom; and what he might have
done. Never should the black man
of the South forget that he is the
weaker in the race and for a long time
must look to the white man for help
of nan kinds. 1t is through these
reciprocal obligations and interests
that the two races will reach some
institutional system Of living and do
ing entirely satisfactory to both.
Nothing is to be expected from the
rushing dollhouse process, or from
any artificial arrangement; every
thing is to be hoped from nature left
to herself-unveXed by misdirected po-
litical considerations, u%ninfuenced by
outsiders teaching false PHILOSOPHERS
simple justice and kindness presid-
ing over the ordinary laws of common
honesty and common sense.
The Negro in Africa has scarcely
burst the chrysalis of the primitive
state of man. In America he is yet in
a state of racial childhood. AS he
realizes this, the faster he will grow,
the quicker he will learn, the sooner
he will reach his racial manhood. In
less than half a century he has
achieved wonders. Before the cen
fury we have just begun is half over,
he will have achieved greater still.
He has yet and upon an extensive
scale to learn habits of method and
order; habits Of tenacity and acquisi-
ton; habits of sustained industry and
sobriety without which no race
white, red, brown, or black-or any in
dividual = get on and prosper.
Il LIE hELlNlON VI DhOl
He is a bad white man who will not
{ help his neighbor black man when
that neighbor black man shows the
spirit to help himself. He is a bad black
man who cherishes hatred in his heart
against the white man because he is a
t white man. He is a foolish black man
who thinks because the mirage of So
: cial equality, which would prove a
l curse rather than a blessing, is denied
him, that the white man hates him.
) Social questions the world over create
their own laws and settle themselves,
They cannot be forced. 1t is idle any
l where for anybody to contest, OF quar-.
rel with them. No man should wish
: to go where he is not wanted; true,
self-respecting men dismiss the very
thought of it, going their own way.
| hoeing their own row, and giving
praise to God that their happiness is
within themselves and beyond the
e reach of any man, be he white, OF
black, king or vassal!
And now, my friends, | have said
S my say. l beg you to go hence this
!, night believing these imperfect
e thoughts and poor words the honest
s emanations of one who has journeyed
much, and far and wide, in this great
s land Of ours. | was born and grew III
in the National Capital, contemporary
with the veXed slavery agitation.
saw the Union severed and made
whole again. Since then | have beer
in every State and Territory of thar
e Union, and | have yet to come away
from one of them, North, South, Eas
or West, where | had not found some
thing to make me proud of my coun
S try.
l know that the provincials of Fiftl
Avenue, like the boulevardiers o
Paris, think themselves exceptional
b They are as a matter Of fact chief
e ly exceptional in their ignorance o
everything outside the great whit
S way" Their boaster superiority i
largely the idiosyncrasy of clothes
They should study geography an,
learn that New York's Western eS
! tremity is not New Jersey. They neel
to travel more on this side and les
e on the other side of the Atlanti
ocean; to learn something Of thei
e own people; the most homogeneou
e people on earth; differing only in eA
ternals, in local conditions and hal
It it's; Massachusetts and Mississippi a
h to every blood essential c%onvertibl
It terms; six months, and a change o
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