The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1911-06-16

that are not mt Tor freedom. We
have innumerable numbers of men
and women that we are compelled
to confine in institutions and keep
as wards Of the state, or they destroy
themselves and everybody else.
IF slavery were an unutterably evil
institution, with no alternating fea-
cures, how are we to account for the
fact that when the Confederate SOL
diers were at the front fighting, as
they thought, for their Independence,
the Negroes on the plantations took
care of the women, children and old
people, and nothing like an act of
violence was ever known among
them? ] have seen in Charleston, S.
c., a monument erected by former
shareholders and their descendants in
grateful acknowledgment of the f.
deity of those slaves who remained
upon tina plantations and cared for
their women and children while they
were at the front, and | understand
that the Confederate veterans are
also to erect another such monument.
Certainly, such kindly feeling be-
tween master and slave shows that
there must have been something good
in the institution of slavery. Ger
tainly that is the plain implication
of Uncle Toms Cabin for the very
noblest characters in the book, Mrs.
Shelby, Eliza, Uncle Tom, st. Clare
and little Eva, were all the offspring
of the institution of slavery and
nourished on its breast, and certainly
an institution that In itself was es-
s~entially wicked and diabolical could
not have produced such noble char
acters.
so, we should not look back upon
slavery as a reign of u~nalleviated
w%ickedness and horror, but remem-
Der that it had within itself, in
spite Of its many abuses and intol-
cradle horrors much that was good.
"But it is forever past, and the
two races must now dwell side by
side. no longer master and slave, but
as fellow-citizens, in the same repub-
lie. That the proposition, We be-
lieve that men arr created equal
was iagrantly violated by the slave
power and by the Institution of slav-
cry, finds tacit acknowledgment in
the fact that Alexander H. Stephens,
in addition to saving that the South
ern Confederacy had the peculiar ex-
cellerce of being the only govern
ment, so far as he knew, that had
made slavery its foundation stone,
also aid that for the erroneous pro-
.position of Jefferson, All men are
created equal must be substituted
toe undeniable fact of the inferiority
of the Negro to the white man, and
that his only possible relation to the
white man must be that of slavery
or subordination of the inferior to
the superior race.
"And into this conflict you must
go and take your part. Your people,
since the emancipation, have made
praiseworthy, and, on the whole, rel
markable progress upward. But, new
ertheless, there r sections of your
people that lag behind, as might be
expected. They must be raised, for
if there is to be friction between the
two races. it will be between igno-
rant whites and ignorant blacks.
Education is the only possible solu-
tion of the problem. Your people
are to find their place in our democ-
raoy. not as a people, but as individ-
walls. for in the long run, though you
develop a culture of your own, as
you certainly will, in exercising the
right of suffrage, as citizens and be-
fore the law, you are individuals.
For the right of suffrage and of citizen
ship in our republic, founded on the
great principle, we believe men are
equal must be irrespective of race,
color or social condition.