The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-06-23

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.ondly because D ann descended from
a good old Quaker stock and always
display more strength when ! writ"
or speak a. the spirit gt,eth utter
lance
Last Saturday was the day the ne
eroes observed in commemoration of
THE emancipation proclamation by
the terms of which several million
human beings were freed from physi-
'cal bondage
The emancipation of the slaves
was one of the most important
.epochs in the United States history.
1t was one of the most colossal
strides toward a higher civilization
ever taken by any people or potentate
known to profane history. To look
hack scarcely a half century and see
human beings held as chattels in this
'so-called enlightened land seems to
1.-THE young almost increditable. They
wonder how an enlightened people
icould be so dead to every sense of
justice and humanity as to traffic in
and drive human beings as they
would cattle The answer is found in
the one passage in holy writ, The
love of money is the root of all evil
The more humane realized the wrong
Of the system and sometimes went to
their pastors for advice. The gentle
men of the cloth realizing that the
more slaves a brother had the more
he could afford to give to the Lord,
turned back to the book of Genesis
and read them that passage which
relates the circumstances attending
THAT little lag Noah took on after i'm
hibiDg of the unfermented juice OF
the grape and called their attention
to the fact that Noah pronounced
1.-THE curse of slavery on the defendant
Iof his son, Ham, because it amused
him to see his father make hog OF
himself Many of the ministers
lowned slaves themselves. SO they
lhad ready historical references to
prove that il was according to the
idivine plan of providence for chris
titan people of the Sth and 18th CEN
,turies 10 go into the jnngles Of Afri-
lea and select such specimens OF man
HOOD and womanhood as suited them
and break them in to cultivate thv
cotton and the the cane as we would
young mule and with as little re-
igard for their family ties. The system
developed an aristocracy as naughty
, though | believe, hardly so Grim
inal in their practices as the trust
ibarons of the present day On a
great many plantations the rule of
1.-THE masters was rather patriarchal
than otherwise The better class of
masters realizing they were wrong
and being associated with their
lslaves had a strong affection for
them and while the system was indie
lfensible in morals it was the cradle
Iof civilization to the negroes them
Iselves and may result in their teach
ing their brethren in Africa the way
ioUt Of heather darkness if the greed
Iof England. Portugal, ct al, does not
Iconsume them before our American
negro learns that if he ever develops
Into the full stature of free and in
' l,,, l,gs 1G,t T4n1 ~ i1n
lin a country suited to his peculiar
mature and where he will have the
fun responsibility Of self-govern-
ment | am not so sure that the doc
trine of the survival of the fittest is
altogether true but that since time
began the strong has dictated to the
weak and will so continue until that
day whenever it may arrive when
every one will do unto others, etc.
The negro within the past forty-five
years has made rapid strides. He is
,still being rocked in the cradle of
civilization; in fact, is beginning TO
walk. ! believe it is the duty of the
white race 10 aid him and encourage
his efforts and to impress upon him
1.-THE fact that no race can fully devel-
iop unless given all of the privileges
OF citizenship and social eqaulity
with his neighbors. These he can
never attain among the whites nor
should he have them, for nature
never intending race amalgamation.
For the races to mix is a disgrace 10
the negro next to that borne by the
whites. I believe every friend to the
negro will advise him to move off to
himself where he can have a govern
ment of his own and it may be the
sooner he does it the better for |
notice number of scientists and
theoiogians are trying to prove he
is beast. Whether they are descend
ants of those who said he was a son
of Ham, who having failed on the
Ham dodge are irving another | can