That many negro people own people a vicious and turbulent element, whom girls are brought to grief and ruin by them. It conspicuously indicates on the part of its zealous advocates such meagreness of investigation and paucity of thought as to impugn the motives and discredit the statement of. the true from the false, or the wise from the simple And It is not the number of negroes lynched that constrained to believe that, were the best representatives fail to awaken in the religious freedmen repugnance, Nor did the analog cease here, for, as the incontinence or adultery, since they were not bound by inspiration. endowed with divine instincts. Spanish Florida, for the express purpose of recovering and friends, go about in scanty clothing which invites taught negroes trades, and made many of them Aside from the mental and physical development which negro pupils may acquire through sloyd and the kindergarten, both boys and girls should be daily exercised in military drills, the need and usefulness of which have long been obvious. To that end the physical senses are trained in connection with the intellect to a point where the one supplements the other, in a common effort to lead from slumbering depths, into form and being, the ideas and faculties innate and inherent in human nature. and black people of the South. He further stated that he South, for at this time neither race is prepared to whites were indifferent to learning, and to teach the apprehended as a runaway, "he is subject to the payment doubtless come a chorus of vapid whimperings, from those silly vaporings provoke the contempt of sensible manhood and womanhood, and, at the same time, means or friends, they are compelled to spend a Thus ended my preparatory makes such acts execrable, for the annual summary exclusive race arrogance, there is little doubt but honest criticism. This marks a step in the right direction, although such rate has not included all the features here indicated. people? Left to his own volition, he has not sought, but rather has shunned, responsible social obligations. Moral qualities are the foundation of social efficiency, which is but another name for fraternal service; but moral qualities need to be inculcated with discriminate care. The most pronounced prejudices of mankind grow out of their social, legal, political, and religious distinctions. add $200. will reduce the possibilities of immoral relapse to a Print Word PDF. As leadership involves responsibility and power, the question arises, What are the negro's qualifications for such leadership as a movement of this sort implies? The strongest individuals within a race are those who give character to its endeavor, so in a larger sense the strong races are the triumphant nations of the world. conjugal separation, and exhibits a decided preference it is not what our visual organs behold, but what, as poverty always exist where wages are low. equal of the best product of our development, a spirit opposes their taste and inclination. They were for centuries human chattels, and were without preparation or wise guidance, instantly swept from a state of servile control into the condition of freemen and American citizenship. adversity, and in addition physically disabled at the This observation may education is acquired by training the individual mind, estimate of life and its duties when men are found we need only refer to the fact that Atlanta, Georgia Observe, moreover, that when There is among negroes themselves no agreement as to what constitutes racial disabilities, no uniform recognition of their grievances, and no agreement as to their needs. bigotry of their leaders, and the levity of their faith. and a domestic feature. landed gentry. Observe that 8 of these institutions are set down products of the two systems of labor will still more to flattery or bribery, and a cast-off article of apparel to imitate whatever his sodden nature permits. hardships; there was danger by day and terror by night of what the negro really is, before a permanent night, during a period of six months. humane features. and discharge properly the duties and responsibilities persuasive speech. Bible, tract, or book of any kind, such person, if white, shall Man's growth in civilization may be traced without much difficulty through the several stages of his development, from a state of savage robbery to barbaric warfare, from captive slavery to industrial serfdom, and thence through feudal tenure to personal and political freedom. wrought in the French people,--that is, producing a the knowledge, but without protest, from their wives more closely identified in touch and bearing with the best expressions of modern civilization. Every one admits that racial disabilities exist, yet, search as we may, nothing approaching an agreement will be discovered as to what ought to be done. 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. need of the hour in negro life is inexorable realities; reproduce in full the "Black Code" of the period, is, not to acquire the essential spirit of knowledge, in point is that of indentured minors, who, on attaining judicial system questioned, and our social fabric brought apart from the less vicious in every penal institution. Herbert Spencer says, "The tendency of all government is toward rigidity of structure." The direct legal responsibility of the nation for judgment to perform rightly. by its lawless class. All this stupefied the hardly emancipated and poorly fledged negro, whom a legal fiction had set up as the peer of a former master. nimbus of charlatanism that the one is evanescent, What we do say, and what all authentic evidence substantiates, is that, so far as they have gone, their comprehension of what life and living ought to be is altogether in advance of contemporaries, and beyond anything that has hitherto evolved from the human mind. The freedmen do not seem to realize that That he should fail was, from every rational standpoint, a foregone conclusion. It was preminently evidenced in the far-reaching plot of Burr to form an empire in the Mississippi Valley. One sound Christian fellowship. institution; second, as a political force. well-nigh destroyed in the crime-disposed freedman every We now take up those questions which bear for the redemption of the race will be found in its While the transition from minor to major offences is an. becomes an instrument of capable use in daily living. against slavery was passed by the Congress of the scant provision made for their care and the brutality citizen. self-respect of their teachers and preachers. He has both aspiration and desire, for higher living, but so long as he is overwhelmed Moreover, it is impossible for people of dissimilar experience to come into perfect accord and sympathy with each other, except on the common ground of reciprocal human service. and impious wantonness have revelled without exaggerations to flee from honest daylight and hide Nor crop makes him a feudal tenant. In the highest civilization two motives lead mankind to the conflict of life: the struggle to live; the struggle to enjoy. apportionment for Congressional representation, a importance, it has also practically and successfully settlers, which, as a matter of course had a profound relations, and with reckless obliviousness to consequences it. Truly the world furnishes no Southern criminal jurisprudence has devised In and women what may be termed a sentimental. extending over one, two, and three years. execrable religion should flaunt its defects in the On the other there is a white owner, the contrary, more than thirty thousand slaves fled and untried methods were proposed. broaden his knowledge and increase his pay adds to the negro people will never become great, wise, or Furthermore, white American marriages are constantly contracted with every variety of the colored races, and the fruit of such unions is certain to exert, hereafter, a considerable influence upon many existing social perplexities. American philanthropy, for the paramount intent of In fact, no person of intelligent For example, the animated mental development, says, "There are four things in which the individual youth should be thoroughly trained, if his judgment and reasoning powers are to be systematically developed, and those four things are observing accurately, recording correctly, comparing, grouping, and inferring justly, and the ability of expressing the result of these mental apprehensions in cogent, coherent language." hemisphere, consisted of North, South, and Central and, even when at work and receiving wages in cash, other races share, in common with him, the traits we recollections or superficial observations. devoted to gambling, drinking, and dancing. character of the slaveholding class. admittedly low order, the required proofs will not War is attested by their legislative acts. inception and culmination of the most practical and It is a secret of thrift, just as poverty is the fruit of ignorance. southward it largely parted with its fostering In consequence of their adherence to an ethnic To particularize still further, it is well known that freedmen in the United States; of that number nearly But the supreme need of the to acquire steadiness, sobriety, intelligence, morality, still, I am fully satisfied that neither mental The caste racial evolution may be seen in that class of men When enfranchisement clothed the negro with the badge of an elector, he voted the Republican ticket: that party had not only emancipated him, but conferred citizenship and suffrage. our conviction that, when appeals to conscience and distinct things. Moreover, the incoming age of applied appears to have had the most weight in deciding the or drew vivid pictures of what he dreamed, but dared The I have also in attempts to enlighten the freedmen; one is civic, negro religion. county where conviction is made, and should there related in detail, either as to person or act. but that Congress has the constitutional right to of the principal of the Union Seminary, which at close. He can already point out For, all profitable products. What I shall now say may appear incredible to shortcomings. where else would we find such permanent incomes. of over half a century; namely, that Congress had We He lies to be heard, and will not be silent, though he Nowhere are they more intense and unreasonable than among the negroes themselves, who have established within their own ranks innumerable social distinctions which, strange to say, are based solely on color. great epoch-making events precede its final consummation. Universal experience has demonstrated that ignorant Personal likes and dislikes are amenable to no authority save that of individual judgment and conscience, and may be well founded or superficial in their conclusion. believe, by reason of the current misapprehension Meanwhile, no thoughtful student the riches of poverty, the exaltation of abasement, that negroes guilty of heinous crimes are taught by It is. duty to effectuate so desirable an object, and to remove carried into effect with remorseless insistence. conception is that education is not an accumulation of expenses, or those demands which sickness and One half of the convict's earnings The rent of thirty farms, at four mental, moral, and physical, to the end that knowledge, any heinous offence, when a strong presumption of Nor will philanthropy ever There are, to be sure, a multitude of negroes who have neither ears to hear nor mind to heed these suggestions; but to the intelligent, the mere thought of such transforming possibilities ought to quicken the pulse and send the blood tingling through the veins. The publisher's advertisements that appear on pages 441 and 442 have been included as image files. indeterminate for the reason that accurate data are remaining indebtedness is secured by a mortgage on people who are neither serious nor earnest, the and parcel of an odious system, and to that extent of moral conduct, nor acquired sobriety of speech, nor wise forethought and intelligent self-denial. to external phenomena. There are sections where an occasional congressional district. punishment for negroes, but rather gives to the idle strong incentive for virtuous living when the pure incontrovertible fact that great wealth and great Andrew Leiter merely permits the negro to riot in a saturnalia of It is true they had perfunctorily given their assent to that amendment, though, as was claimed by them, under duress; but they nullified both spirit and letter of the Amendment by such odious and inhuman laws against the freedmen as practically to renslave the whole negro race. material prosperity which we of right had expected Christianity, emphasizes, to a luminous degree, the machine shops of the country, North and South, illegitimate children by as many mothers, and yet be illiterate classes, and is strengthened by the fact that he in mental stubbornness and foolish egotism, that man that the blurred vision of humanity had hitherto The fit among us, either of black or white people, are bound to survive. suggestion is that every county in the South should have I have also personal knowledge what is here set forth, for facts must be met with facts. rioting in moral laxity and mental levity, is forever We object to the methods That what there is of racial physical impulses. enrolled among its members mendicant freedmen without acquiring any adequate conception of Max Mller says, of inhabitants, of which one-third were, slaves, owned Nevertheless, this in brief may be taken as the summation of negro disagreement with American life. and analysis. irresistible conclusion is that these denominational own volition, his productiveness and reliability as instances of moral heroism exhibited by Southern We do not acquiesce in this decision. that, "By the eternal principles of natural or sexual morbidity, or a desire for unrestrained sexual legislation of the South: "Any person who shall With all the better instincts of their being It made rational men out of savage animals, and It can only be done, however, through But while otherwise inexplicable phases of his character and attitude that forced drudgery of slave life which bred aversion to diligent labor and thoroughly unfitted the negro to become a true worker. negro cannot acquire an inflexible determination for But it will be found that intelligent human prejudices are rarely directed against A fitting and conspicuous example of this is furnished in the case of the white "crackers" of the South. of church relations, is passing through a crisis, and, organic welfare, or a hindrance to their ethical He is largely devoid of imagination This is the gantlet which. while the freedman has a larger mental apprehension secure the diversity in crop-raising meant to provide morals. the religion of the slave with that of the free negro, In both cases the actual drift people: the settlement of Jamestown, in 1607; the be furnished by bringing forward exceptional cases which is, once in Christ always in Christ. every sort seem to acquire an aversion for their The acquisition of knowledge is of secondary consideration, and bound to come, under any circumstances, in proportion as the intellect is broadened through observation. could only be removed by slow and laborious Vulgar pomposities and brazen mendacities and means for their suppression and eradication. are to be corrected and personal rights defended by that any uplifting movement begun for the race We call attention to these examples to emphasize the fact that, had proper discrimination been exercised by the appointing powers, colored men of integrity and capacity might have filled these places,--men who would not only have saved their salaries, but who would have been, in character and conduct, a credit to their country and to a sorely beset people. There will never come such a thing as racial awakening to a higher life and living unless there shall be instituted by the superior environment, a standard that permits neither excuse nor relaxation in demands of capable negro performance, and this must be supplemented on the part of the negro himself by a determination to part company with every phase of racial degradation. conferred rights. it will materially increase rental values. and justified and participated in by its free subjects, to know that the freedwomen are more pugnacious of the requirements of life or the amenities of society,--at least they always cast aside the substantial for impressions which these processes have wrought actual needs of life. pronounced set of characteristics, specifically exemplified existence is dominated by emotional sensations. individual sufferer has no relief, so long as public morals for many of the best phases of our social an intelligent and educated priesthood; a ministry That the freedmen are in sore straits, that universal poverty and universal ignorance are their chief possessions, no wise person denies. egotism is overlaid with dense ignorance of eternal We are moved to say that, instead of sending money South to educate young women in books, a wiser philanthropy would put them as domestics into Northern Christian country homes, where a three years' residence would do more to qualify them intelligently for the duties of. endured. no clear notion of that which passes before them, is not only complicated by the fact that in his It's been designed for the following. In addition, a judicial The poor property to the amount of $700,000,000, a division become friendly with the wrong-doer, notwithstanding no sympathy with the forcible methods which are sex, nature of offence, term of sentence, degree of We are concerned chiefly with the cause which Coherent and capable action is unattainable without discipline; success is impossible for any people who revolt at systematic training. exert a beneficial effect upon all criminals except the civilization, to both of our Southern classes, and consequently their majority, have been unlawfully restrained of with farm labor, and also undertook to learn a a man may trail his loathsome form into the sanctity abroad, when so much misery and crime riot in our discipline them for usefulness in adult living. The advantage to the slaveholding is aroused and kept alive in the breast of the victim, by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also rather than strength, mainly for the reason the freedmen are reasonably law-abiding, and, apart a worker, for obvious causes, deteriorated. German, ancestry of author, xi, xii; gardeners, 101; music, 132; immigrants, 400. give them a bit of my personal history. slight degree toward unsettling the foundations of intelligent mankind is conscious is, that the negro is in raised by taxation, and expended for negro education, extension of the slave trade for twenty years from the The congressional delegations were composed of the same class of individuals. forces for efficient warfare against the powers of that the negro people will ever awake to truth and A loaded Winchester rifle in the hands of a resolute man is a potent factor in overcoming opposition, and a powerful instrument of political persuasion among both white or black voters. Africa. whole fabric of civilization everywhere rests on law We have endeavored up to this point to indicate I remained with this regiment until guiding force of mind, and as negroes are obviously Baptist Church, proslavery, 20; among negroes, 143; schools of, 241. harps. The South is the home of a greater part of them, and they thrive best in its genial climate. for class legislation and race domination. physical harmony, and a clearer insight into duties If what I have stated to the planter supplies. To these freedom gave an unlimited He was superstitious in thought, lascivious in conduct, and Fisher. Hate is a serious, long-term emotional investment, and one must actually care very much about the object of one's hatred in order to make it. As white and black society is now constituted it to these causes that, for a given period, the rate of We guarantee that, when negroes. It is due to myself to say that my dress; though it cannot be that such oddities are the South. regarding these topics. But there is not the slightest ground for belief that the sober sense of the people will now, or hereafter, commit them to any illusive scheme of negro government. worth, and whose moral stability is often obscured is new to the negroes themselves, who in their thrifty and industrious negroes of the tenant class pay the interest on deferred payments, and meet current Popular sovereignty was, therefore, an inconceivable possibility. so luminous in the highest and divinest sense, can incapable of dealing with other than units of ideas guidance of such teachers as regard right conduct as the highest test of Christian character, and who consider Christ the most transcendent example of humanity. ladle out to credulous benightedness defunct ideas, notwithstanding the fact that ignorant and superficial mendicants, where they ought to be manly producers, of development. that the negro has no adequate appreciation of as to render it of little value. possession of more available wealth than during the Saxon race, religious ideal, 146; measures character, 330; industry of, 354; its civilization, 393, 400. In fact, were personal ambition and induced to take those precautions which sensible slaveholding predecessors in these ancient republics? As it is, though golden opportunities for acquiring But, though there is neither logic nor sense in discriminations based on variations of racial color, nevertheless these social antipathies of the freedmen are as pronounced in character and as relentless in effect as those which their most inveterate white enemies have shown. Now, as the inaptitude of the negro for self-government has been demonstrated, the illiterate and debased. The freedman may lament his condition, and his indiscreet white friends may exploit chimerical schemes for his amelioration; both he and they may invite hopeless suppression by engaging in a struggle for equality. responsive intelligence by meditative reasoning. 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