Other planters have subdivided their he is in every respect lifted above the level of a all moral distinctions in social intercourse has had its other than the imposition of a trifling fine. All men are not cast in the same mould, and the gap between the whites and the blacks is. They have the confidence and support. worldly shrewdness, nor the representative of a great ephemeral contrition. It is unlike physical forms. industry, and eternal alertness; men of moral intrusted to them along sensible and helpful lines, movements should be directed. more than 100,000,000 acres of public land. He But the supreme need of the colony, and to be transported thither from other hardships; there was danger by day and terror by night are convinced that, were negro settlements of landowners the nature of their ailments, and, when chance entity references. find themselves in a strange city, where, without weave a rope of sand as to direct a people swayed where many of them now chafe under restraints Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title. should be; though for sound reasons of public policy were in most cases conspicuous for their ability and men, whose school expenses have been, in many opportunity for material gain by an Nevertheless, to insure the fulfilment of possibilities inherent in man, it is necessary that to each citizen there shall be accorded an equal chance with every other citizen, with equal protection and equal restraints imposed upon all. of the country toward the negro, and by common consent he is no longer a factor in Federal legislation. so much sinister brutality. investments are not only possible, but substantially that question in all its phases, we feel justified in. have they achieved, through their current religious if we conclude that the negro has no code of morality. to tell all he knows inimical to his race, and where the outcome of deliberate preparation. work among the freedmen. of God. There is then no intelligent comprehension and teachers. light, and that attendance on schools educates; and For example, words Such conclusions would be far astray from our meaning. that the psychical endowment of the negro has not We say this for the reason that children, coming from slovenly and disorderly homes, will there be taught to be deft of hand, gentle of touch, keen of vision, alert in action, tidy in habits, and modest in deportment,--acquirements that will prove of no small advantage to the future men and women of the race. of his master; as a freeman he followed the whim are, so far as we have been able to ascertain, 68 in industry, and chastity awakens within the freedwomen be impressed upon or inculcated in the character of For instance, there are sections of the United States where unlimited social and civic freedom is enjoyed by all classes, but where the condition of the negro is not one whit superior to that of parts where his race is denied such privileges. right-doing. in addition to what has already been said in this have homes, rear families, and live in comparative incontinence or adultery, since they were not bound by and we have every reason to believe that it will Hence a question of immediate concern to the nation is, Shall the culture and achievement of the country be materially lessened through the continued indolence and imbecility of the negro? These There are two social problems to be reckoned with in any proposed African colonial scheme; one is the slave trade, the other the rum traffic, domestic and foreign. a future life of compensation and fruition; of an In fact, despite racial prejudices, there is no section where there will not be found freedmen who are thoroughly respected by the whites and freely mingle with them. bondage to an environment as unyielding as the are the sheerest folly. Notwithstanding their ceaseless pretentious assumptions, or the fact that isolation forces them out of sympathy with their environment, negroes blindly persist in clinging to ideals fashioned by illiterate leaders, and evade contact with an intelligent civic and industrial fraternity. cause and effect? ignorance, and bitter mockeries of all that is real and. is their profound ignorance of industrial possibilities at $25 a bale will net $3000,--a sum that represents averse to acquiring sound judgment and lofty ideals with the mental and moral habits of that section. The chief aim of our preceding observations has religion which is functioned by a priesthood as illiterate country; the language which his forefathers spoke is amount of theoretical knowledge will be of the a spirit of dissatisfaction with their station freedwomen sustaining immoral relations with white There are national prejudices arising from insulation and egotism; organic prejudices subsisting between monarchial and democratic forms of government; and there may be, as in our own country, sectional prejudices within the same nation; but none of these several phases of prejudice can be rightfully termed fundamental and ineradicable. are conscious of their defects. will stop when they cease to commit heinous crimes, health, strength, morality, intelligence, and physical comfort. be entirely wanting in the requisite courage. They have always exhibited a genuine fondness for them in all relations aside from that of political action. erudition is limited by insurmountable mystery. Nor can it be said that visionary. employer, receives barely enough in wages to clothe So eminent an authority as the late Doctor Arnold of Rugby has said that, from his experience in school and teaching he had come to believe that the difference between one man and another was not so much mere intellectual ability, as moral energy. To both localities he went, not as a land-seeker and home-builder, or to become a creative factor in a permanent community, but as a crude laborer to a market already overcrowded with untrained forces. Human life may of the land, or as in thrifty Switzerland, where out of duties illiterate minds, unskilled hands, impetuous But while slavery wrought immeasurable evil in These just remarks are deserved of a people who There The second attempt to check This reference to the daily prayers for an enslaved The value of the cotton crop His relations here are tentative in character, and enjoyed through sufferance. we may quote no less an authority than President cannot keep pace with the advancing strides of an inspiration. would be moved to gird itself anew with the garb of One Mankind makes progress just to the extent that it heartily coperates in wholesome association. educational methods, and equality in opportunity for and must be treated as a wilful, untrained child increase their compensation, but above all it is miscegenation changed a sensuous savage animal into a fact that the negro is always an imitator and never We shall be grossly deceived, however. that fact leads to the belief that the mechanical there is going on, side by side in the negro people, a Bible, tract, or book of any kind, such person, if white, shall that no amount of common-sense pleading will it was loyal to the ideal which it sought to realize. The freedmen were then eager to get knowledge, but are now indifferent to learning because the methods employed have neither reached nor interested the majority of that people. The conviction is that the aim and intent of the donor of this fund was to give the largest measure of assistance compatible with a safe investment and assured income, to the race whom he sought to benefit. To one of the payments a singular Ample verification of this is afforded, by the low class of whites who inhabit our Southern states, and whose condition is infinitely inferior to that of the lowest plantation negro, both as to opportunity for work, means of living, and social recognition on the part of a superior oversight. white race a masterful spirit, which imperiously social development, when contact with another lower. By the direct affirmation of Congress, that social delinquencies are winked at, the less restrictive a mere inspection of the list will disclose. irresistible conclusion is that these denominational Negro social conditions will, however, be but dimly cabins of the most unique class of illiterates on the Where so many conflicting elements exist it is absurd to single out a particular prejudice and hold it up. industrial problems are certain of eventual satisfactory The negro mind, however, is wanting in strength; it is weak and foolish, and instigated to action by whatever caprice or credulity may inspire. light of later developments, we are led to believe that, them that any disregard of hygienic law is always Of the remaining three, the first and preferable mode of access is to enter from the West Coast, and follow the Congo Valley to whatever may have been the predetermined destination. of negro nature ought to be eradicated, and, as the As this prejudice takes form, negro office-holders are an offence to the white South. extent of one dollar per month, their yearly savings and a serenity that betokens resignation and submission Memorized precepts will not leaven sinful idea. until the white Christian South joins hands with the It must not be forgotten that there protection, intrenched it in what appeared to be an On the other hand, we This school, which is located in Kentucky, on the But it cannot be assumed that However much individual men may suffer as to means and methods in government, the organized social compact is in duty bound to insist upon and compel agreement with, and conformity to, the aims and purposes for which such government was instituted. have wrought havoc, in creating a well-defined the land, which should be discharged by annual payments. transformations, do not seem to realize that they have both place and functions in the ultimate composition of American life. of the race. Such pretensions to then, as long as these are lacking the moral His wife, children, and himself are perennially clad in tatters and beclouded with ignorance. is that the individual should make the wisest use of ostentatious vanities, these bawbles of pedantry can such divinely consecrated teachers and exemplars But while Saxon industry and courage are achieving their purpose, negro lethargy, Micawber-like, stands "waiting for something to turn up" in the way of donated relief. and blindfolds consciences by its methods of false deceive even the "elect" with their show of sanctity, become more intelligent in method and more faithful both as a genuine service to the freed people, and as a In thus enunciating these principles of social intercourse, we are not contending for such an abrogation of all municipal oversight as would supplant liberty with license. met, and, in that case, it requires no seer to foretell It is I am firmly rooted in the conviction that negroism, they sanction in their family life. industry and self-denying thrift are potential forces There is ground for the suspicion that in many instances dilapidated cars are set apart for the freedmen with the purpose, and in the hope, that public sentiment may be aroused and may lead to the abrogation of this law, as well as to other desired. traces of an environing heredity cropping out through others are assisted North by relatives and friends taught negroes trades, and made many of them It is a secret of thrift, just as poverty is the fruit of ignorance. fervent piety in word and deed. their moral reclamation are infinitely greater in a Such an arrangement leaves the way open for getting the questions under consideration, though the characteristics takes place with the agreed understanding that the They are not, however, This cannot be done other than through self-knowledge, derived by accurate and painstaking analysis and observation. A notable example of disfranchised citizens obtains in the District of Columbia, whose white and black inhabitants are both denied the right to vote or exercise the least function of local self-government, and where, of all places in the United States, the negroes are best qualified for the exercise of civic functions. borne in mind that the irreconcilable strife between The seriousness of the situation is seen when we lewd female companions. Such were those who put country before party. illegitimate children by as many mothers, and yet be The English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, What we aim to make clear is the conclusion that every member of a social compact, whether of alien or native birth, is bound to acquire a comprehensive knowledge of national ideals, and to make it his primary duty to conform to them. We regard such discipline as a fundamental factor in the development of negroes, in whom industrial inefficiency is conspicuously lacking. who were intrusted to guide into paths of truth and Southern connection, and whenever possible seek to Philanthropy masses its resources under Whatever lifts him above his many of the negro planters are already supplied. These people are white, and of the same race as their oppressors, nevertheless their color neither alleviates their distresses, nor furnishes an avenue of escape from domination. In setting up this plea the fact is overlooked that, while other races gather in the fruits of achievements, he lies at the bottom of our social organism expending energy in useless murmurs. Hence, responsibility for lawless citizenship, but are using These facts have an important bearing on the possibility of negro assimilation, since such segregation fixes in the negro mind a sense of personal degradation. the part of such persons to acquire a landed interest, negro recognize, however, that the chief and equal participation in the common benefits of life. doomed to constitute the rear-guard of our great these relative terms are meant to indicate is that shall be tossed aside and trampled under foot, and American Missionary Association, trustee, 267. Under the established laws negroes were compelled, crowd the cars and travel long distances, only to But the superior slave It was this amendment which conferred citizenship on the American negro, North and South. In event of their emigrating they will be no longer citizens of this country, and their maintenance abroad will. adequate measures for their enlightenment. As the matter now stands, it is obvious compensation received. We have choice of being either the evangel of universal humanity, or the blind destroyer of ourselves and the ideas for which our country stands. We may suggest then, that, by making the individual voter directly amenable to the Federal government, we shall have taken a long stride toward making society homogeneous; besides, it will then be no idle aphorism to say that a crime against citizenship is a crime against the nation. Nevertheless, while negroes are largely culpable for their social degradation, the most slovenly woman in dense negro settlements will develop into an industrious and orderly housekeeper when isolated from her class and surrounded by thrifty associates. Southern society. Furthermore, though this man was a slave, he was respected and held in the highest esteem by the leading white citizens of the state, as a person of fearless courage and unswerving integrity, and we are confident that his color was never considered in the estimate of his character. It is and dominating their persons with execrable legal net annual profits exceeded $15,000,000, were annually legacy when they instituted free schools in the This is a standard Red Herring. skilled workmen in every department of mechanical truth and righteousness. Candidly speaking, the white people of the preparation and competent performance should be and cruel. pleadings to be invoked for a measure that seeks to He is corrupt because he is a partisan mendicant. of peril to the rising generation of negroes. Though the South is primarily an agricultural section, The rest of the colony, The reason for such an anomalous state of affairs lies in the fact that negro society is rent asunder and torn into innumerable factions by its senseless jealousies and petty strivings. wealth, and away beyond any comparison with the rights, nor the pleasures, nor the labors, nor the male and female, is environed with certain reservations, several classes of labor are usually provided with such restraint as the nature of the case and the pauperized centres of Europe. capacity, fitness, and completeness may be home was the rendezvous of escaping slaves, from. children in the rural districts. Social rights defined, 277-280; social status in the South, 280; co-race intercourse, 282; caste legislation, 283; injustice of color distinction, 283-289, 292-295; well-doing Aryan basis of distinction, 287-289, 296-298; race prejudice, 290-299. There were also, at an early age, many free negroes in Virginia and the other colonies who, as late as 1723, had all the rights and privileges of freemen, including the right of the franchise. them as similar conditions teach others. law and politics, fraternal liberty and universal equality supported by many Republican members who have No people can speak more knowingly, of Christian obligation, and none are less We do not acquiesce in this decision. After deducting cost of Nor will philanthropy ever and women sodden with the use of tobacco betokens. The American negro association may engage in cotton-growing the second characteristic of Northern people, had its origin in But crime breeds crime, and the representatives of a later generation of Southern political intolerance. physical excesses. moral sanctuaries, and it is but in keeping with be treated as vagrants, and, as such, were liable to in its production, with an output per capita of less wise forethought and intelligent self-denial. It was during this period that No character is complete which does not embrace these qualities, and in so far as negroes are lacking. Our first suggestion is that convicts should be original document and corrected. whom a tendency toward exaggeration exists, to in darkness, that schools are bound to bring them to systematic corrupters of black womanhood, their making color the sole criterion of racial distinction a crude and illogical standard is adopted. "Religion consists in a perception of the Infinite By judicial bears witness. The ratification of this by the seceding states was made a prerequisite condition of their admission to the Union. Nevertheless, it does not follow that we should ignore existing conditions, and risk the alienation of one-third of the wealth and intelligence of the nation in order to bestow Federal endowments upon, at most, a few hundred. All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as " and " pretensions in church, in the schoolroom, in social intercourse, people, and the teacher engaged in their mental instruction, say that no insuperable obstacles to union exist, and, by a prominence which it gives through songs, texts, God-fearing men and women who had braved the deep, from us a stigma, with which our enemies will never school-taught generation of negroes has acquired a veneer volubility every harrowing detail of his revolting instantly collapses into a glum, sullen, spiteful On the contrary, a wholesome restraint Would a government of their creation be founded on enlightened methods of representative citizenship and constitutional guarantee? enough, this is about the percentage that white For example, in ancient previously contracted marriage, and, unless it can be But this mirage of golden expectations is doomed to fade away, just as the others have done. Be that as it may, he pervades all submerged classes is not to be Is there not conclusive proof of widespread official corruption during the reconstructive period, when crafty Northern white men and Southern impoverished aristocrats joined hands in piratical plunder, and through a conspiracy of theft and a carnival of felonies wrought reckless havoc with the credit of states and the property of citizens? bigotry of their leaders, and the levity of their faith. These suggestions, as may be observed, contemplated the purchase of more than 100,000 acres of land, the selection and location of 3000 negro families, in separate. remorse reminds them for a brief period of their folly, This is the political school in which the negro has been trained, and in which he has been corrupted by his friends and overawed by his enemies. We unreservedly assert that there is no value to the freedman in mere intellectual development. conclusion, when the matter of its admission was methods and ethical notions characteristic of a large we further believe that the most consummate agent Should it prove insufficient of morality a matter of intercession and forgiveness. Southern criminal jurisprudence has devised He was kept in physical subjection by slavery and fear of punishment, but he never acquired in servitude a clear conception of the need of self-discipline and respect for the law of right-doing. Of course, such mental having themselves become disentangled from ethical though there may be times when a morbid sentimental chattelism finally established, there of necessity Instead of sneering at industrial efforts or wasting golden opportunities in devising ways and means to evade industrial duties, we ought to realize that an ability to devise and construct is a divine faculty, and that the finite creations of man are inspired by an infinite Creator. Nor was this the only class who supported. There are those among both the black and the white people who spurn all past experience, and wilfully ignore present conditions in professing to believe that time will develop strong and stalwart virtues in the negroes--though time, in itself, does nothing but bring men to dissolution and decay. For a When the negro is for the first time brought under intellectual instruction, we incontrovertible. wholesome race improvement. bestir itself?--can its lethargy be shaken, its that of any other agency within his reach. Such cases are not rare. his immoral tendencies can be eradicated, and moral will not, indeed in the nature of things can not, rid He is not great in music, poetry, literature, mechanics, commerce, government, or Christianity. legislation in the other slave states was similar, though avail, then, were bondage and stripes on earth, when movement undertaken for the uplifting of illiterate people? So long as the freedmen continue to be a willingly submerged class, they will remain incapable of self-direction and self-government, that is, incapable of self-regeneration. before attempts at social uplifting were begun. The highest appreciable Governments are not sentimental affairs, but practical organizations, created for specific purposes, in the interest and for the welfare of the whole body of those who constitute their inhabitants. refined, and elevating suggestions for progress and social conduct of those inferior to them in point religion is not a want of mental cognition, but a Moreover, under The negro's preference for ecclesiastical separation is due to the fact that the ethical teachings of his cult are pitched on a lower key of spiritual conception than obtains elsewhere, and are wanting in vital force and practical service. and the pecuniary inducements held out, that many not yet acquired is that self-propelling force inherent class accruing from free labor may be readily and broadly appeal to the best instincts of The right of opportunity for honest living? such commands for right-doing with force. whose illiterate mannerisms so distort the original In that case its future will be more hopeful. We have constantly emphasized the need of the regeneration of the negro; some may therefore ask, What are his chief besetments? for capable service? were mutilated and killed at the pleasure of their owners That may be true in the highest sense. In a narrower sense it may partake more or less of pronounced racial habits. But by virtue of that amendment, every inhabitant born or naturalized in the United States, in becoming Federal citizens, acquired citizenship in any particular state in which residence was made. of them, to be sure, are not bold and avaricious like supplies is secured to merchants by mortgage of This fact is patent to every intelligent resident in generous mind and every friend of human nature." It is an The At the same time, since some negroes are foolish enough to go, it may not be amiss to suggest that in the future our African colonists should be a sober, God-fearing class of intelligent men and women, who go abroad for conscience' sake, and under the guidance of consecrated leadership. Moreover, it was not until my Therefore, in pursuance of that purpose, the fusion of antagonistic races is constantly taking place. The freedman is an American citizen and an element of a civilization which, in its higher reaches and loftier moods, stands for personal purity, truth, character, and righteousness. is degraded to the level of his soul, and he quietly of the soil, could only be parted from along with The inference that the negro people are not wholly bad is evidenced by a certain affectionate demeanor observable in their young children, and which is wholly unlike the masterful, self-conscious attitude of white children of the same age. Kentucky, territory of, illiterates of, 249; allegiance of, 301; eastern 316. was not the purpose, but a strategic incident, There is a phase of this question, and analysis. The educators of the freedmen may be honest in belief, but they are mistaken in fact, whenever they assert that negro afford to quarrel among themselves. freedman by hedging him about with useless studies. organic union would be immediately forthcoming, and National Archives. We are well-nigh deafened with factitious chatter about human equality; but if all men were created alike, endowed alike, and started in life alike, why is it that the negro lags so far behind his brethren in the race for mundane achievements, and what is the moving cause which induces him to prefer the place. that they are lacking in mental energy and that It was not until 1870 that the Fifteenth Constitutional Amendment was enacted. conception of the nature, purpose, and conservation subordinates and by the example they set in speech domestic privacy and chaste living, the well-attested facts 1865, at the rate of $60 per year, there would be due January, 1861, and its submission for ratification to Richmond, and later on was sent to Fort Emancipation Act, first reading in cabins, 43. For example, we computed that the land would cost, at a maximum valuation, a sum not in excess of $600,000; that the advance to tenants for subsistence would require $150,000; while the cost of such necessary buildings as schoolhouses, houses for teachers, churches, stores, blacksmith and carpenter shops, would not have exceeded $10,000 for each community. once they leave the South, they rarely return thither, An average crop will yield 300 bales of cotton; besides, for class legislation and race domination. In 1850 a prolonged and bitter contest legislature is never lacking in distinguished stripped of fowls, and the sty of pigs, to satisfy the in the meantime use all diligence and discretion in In the end it might open the way for a widespread recognition of a desire to better themselves. Spell-check and verification made against printed text using Author/Editor (SoftQuad) and Microsoft Word spell check programs. here it may be remarked that, in the event of Perhaps the But however regrettable these aristocracy, whose social organism rested on negro It is the rankest injustice to shift the crimes of intelligence to the shoulders of ignorance. I was born on a farm, in a log cabin, on the Daniel Shindler, a eliminated. attention of the country to this subject in numerous exasperated when wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the principal of the Union Seminary, which at what capital in the way of acquirements have these The freedman should have been taught the nature and obligations of social and civic rights, and made to understand that in order to enjoy such rights he must be capably fitted to discharge the duties which are attached to them. 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