The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31
The EDolution of The South

erable or high toned in the perform ance of his duties.
 Yes, that shadow did Peach as far as Texas," it even reached Its farthest borders. and throughout the nation. He favored the growth and expansion of his country. the South not excepted, He did not believe the South should De hemmed in or circumscFihed to sting itself to sieath." The Southern people. he believed. deserved to be treated as members of the union, with equal rights Co all other members. and the father who would teach his chil- dren less, deserves to be branded with that same infamy which he would heap upon his ancestors.
 Rlghts of the Bonth.
 Now as to that other claim: that we are growing out of poverty and isolation, into . prosperous and en- frightened community because we have abandoned our ideals. Oh mel What sympathies have been extended us? what conciIiatory measures have been adopted, unless 1t Is the fifteenth amendment aided by a continual ef- fort to raise the negro to defiant position by the establishment of cole | ieges and donations for high schools for negroes in the South, all of which makes our burden greater. because the negro must be carried after all--yes. he must be controlled by exterior force. Educated, he becomes great big bundle of sophisticated gas. eharg- ing and bubbling and exploding in an effort to initiate.
 Every efrort to lift the negro into classical pursuits is an effort against nature.
 Let him alone. and he is happy l enough in his subordinate position, enough in his subordinate position. and he yields without protest to the guid- ance and direction and control of his superiors. There he lives in a little world of peace and enjoyment all his own. There he perform, however im- perfectly, his highest mission on earth. There he develops his best truest. his best. his highest destiny. If you disturb him there, you disturb the natural order of things--you drift him out into unknown seas without q compass.
 For the Negro.
 What the North has done for the South tfor the negro). taken together with what we have gained in this boasted march from the shades Of John c. Calhoun has only made our trials harder. It has only made the HCBEV Au lIICcOuCllAOAC civilization. It Is not fact that the friction between the races is growing less and less with each succeeding year" We may have yielded some what to the natural instincts of the negro to the detriment of both our selves and him, and in so doing we are only lowering our standard of life to- ward that of his. and the man of true ideals must feel a keen regret at every step. If ever we should be- come one homogeneous people. a dark shadow will have fallen over the once proud mantle of Southern manhood, compared to which the shades of John c. Calhoun would be as a shining light.
 Of course we have prospered even though handicapped as we have been. That belongs to thes Anglo-saxon race. I. for one, do -ot exult in the pro- gross we are making from "The moorin8s of John c. Calhoun" Be- cause all along. in our brilliant jour ney. we have left much of our glory behind US.
 Bach in that glorious old time there was pride of character. a pride of manhood and of statehood. and a pride of, citizenship. now sadly lack ing in our civilization.
 Back In that glorious old time mOoring.
 Goshen. January 25.