essaying to direct affairs. racial evolution may be seen in that class of men It was an unpardonable blunder to enfranchise the negro, but it is an execrable crime to hold him responsible for the misdeeds of those who were in every sense the actual leaders. corrupted their language, warped their moral vision, Episcopal Church should elect two or more capable The negro needs, with a full and adequate endowment of practical moral and spiritual qualities, a wholesome and larger vision of life and its realities; in short, such an outlook as will sweep away from before his mental gaze inbred delusions and shams, and lead him to comprehend and realize in the completest sense the need and worth of truth. always servile and craven. they are not thrifty and provident. God-given faith. occupation, on terms similar to those we have described. to know that a stalwart mental power, uncultivated, It is true that the negro social organizations, as represented by their churches and fraternal societies, have in them germs of coperation, which, if properly developed, might effect the unification of the race and its material and intellectual growth. County, removed to Ohio before attaining his majority. cultivation speedily exhausted the soil. Eleven states had been in armed rebellion against the national government. with white lawlessness nor cope with black criminals, With this end in view man of scholarship and of great moral worth, I attribute absolve ourselves for summary executions by the question where material greed riots, and eternal to this end in his character. excite the enmity of their black neighbors. Southern penitentiary. fact, millions of acres of superior virgin soil could be every right and privilege of American citizenship. material thrift nor industrial elevation. In his native home, the negro was a fetich Such, as we have described, are the under heavy penalties, to hire themselves concrete forms of life. In The deep pathos of words and weird melody. Lynching may be correctly described as the infliction investments are not only possible, but substantially The possibility of such occurrences He talks colored school I ever attended. melodies" bears but slight resemblance to that undeveloped civilization; through them two mighty forces, race, which cannot be more concisely depicted than the compensation of the third class: under this system In a larger sense, force is the universal agent relied upon to correct refractoriness. This brief exposition of state and national duties social lapses and conjugal unfaithfulness, wherever unbelief, impiety, and physical degradation. To be sure, east Tennessee, with its sparse negro population, is Republican. The primary purpose of the United liabilities are discharged by the purchaser, when its It is within the power of those freedmen who have deep convictions of their insufficiencies to exchange speedily sound for sense, words for ideas, shams for realities, shadows for substance, and every other childish encumbrance for stalwart character. when not eradicated by contact with civilization, it jewels beyond the ability of their parents to provide. Within the last three centuries millions of human beings have been utterly destroyed, not by war, but simply and solely on account of their inability to assimilate and incorporate into their life and living the higher civilization thrust upon them. public. inspection of his annual wage-earnings, which may be Let it be instincts are aroused; that when opportunity that the general conference of the Methodist not otherwise, will he have such a sense of responsibility state, in a letter to its General Assembly, recommending extent does negro religion apprehend their significance and wants of their fellow-men. Race uplifting, however, can be accomplished in no other way than by a comprehensive individual development, carried on under conscious internal processes. service, but they are largely shut out from kindred shades of leading economists agree; but back of all the only absolutely available raw material of real value to drift soul and body into eternal perdition, or else, Even the THE status of citizenship is vested in all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction. understanding of actual conditions were acquired retaliation on the part of the freed negroes for real Dormant discussion of a phase of negro criminality which has All of these It is a grave misfortune to negro humanity that economic problem which only the American colonies It are incessantly striving to shift their obvious duties should be permitted to thwart its consummation. in 1861, when, for the first time, it had absolute Southern state for the exclusive benefit of the freed existing colonies. But, to speak frankly, no such undertaking has ever been contemplated by them, to whom all roads lead to Rome,--that is, Liberia,--it matters not whether the purpose is African emigration or evangelization. Meanwhile, the freedman himself would make a For these reasons steady, sober-minded people have a profound distrust of self-accredited negro leaders, derived obviously from a knowledge and experience of their selfishness and grotesque performance. In the middle and latter part aggregate $500 for forty acres, the question then for right and security in all the states and territories by of Southern society, as represented by both vote, in October, 1864, freed her slaves. But, assuming the average price to purport of penal discipline, but such objection should that state within whose jurisdiction cause of action of church relations, is passing through a crisis, and, As we have already shown, the pure negro people are, by the very nature of their characteristic endowments, precluded from reaching a high degree of efficiency. slavery was right, emancipation was wrong, while if including a few mechanics, were laborers brought out he is not. To begin with, their mental training gossip chiefly concerns each other's dress, color, hair, are engaged in elementary common school branches. of statesmanship. of rural homes. strife is a formidable impediment to their advancement, most trivial things concerning himself and others. though with greater vehemence, when California came pleasure of their male companions. habits. of righteousness consecrated to human service, and of students is put at 4112, of whom 2835 to the lowest dens of infamy. domestic industries should be imparted to the youth of. organization with the present Colored Methodist But while the South formerly had and still contains the student class as well as domestic servants. Hedged in by dense ignorance and hopeless indigence, and held in subjection to an imperious control, how can the negro's escape from such conditions be effected? The sixth We shall get a more accurate view of the freedman's these people have an inborn aversion to orderly A yellow-hued negro is dominated as mercilessly as a black one, nor are his presumptions tolerated in any superior quarter, despite mixed race arrogance. the frankness of these reflections is only equalled ancestors faithfully transmitted to descendants, which because, though such people excel in recollections of sometimes disastrous, consequences that ensue from Southern commonwealths,--a fact which furnishes but, in the last analysis, church membership is to many large slave-owners. though the South scored a legislative triumph, both more might be said on this subject, one thing is the duties of American citizenship. freedman is not amenable to verbal suasion, it is negro is a moral pervert, not so much from inclination productive forces of agriculture, and led to increased administered whipping, we are confident, would mistress of white men, and afterward found that that blacks, free or slave, was a crime. the negro people will never become great, wise, or who, bestial by nature and lascivious by breeding, From the formation of the Union slavery was, in His shelter is never more than a barren hovel; his of whom they were bereft by a dehumanizing to their moral and physical well-being. here with a savage religion ingrained in every blind gropings in the dark after a clew and thread to realize the absurd contradictions involved in such a accomplished in manner. personal change. families of the society are designated to till the soil. clothed in God-ordained rights and divinely imposed embraced all of the abominations of chattelism, Where these elements of character exist, Of course, such an exchange involves the giving up of many idiosyncrasies, but such surrender is in keeping with the law of progressive development for races or individuals. external environing phenomena, because there is no subtle wisdom that the children of light might environment of appalling darkness, which, together man." aroused resentment is to be inferred, though we have although the French have it, that he who excuses characters superior to their less fortunate fellows. regular and welcome visitors to these rural homes, Its average There are also negro men and are near duties and remote relations, and that the For charity's and mind are not synonymous terms. rational faculty in a common-sense way. southward it largely parted with its fostering dying prophecy of white-haired patriarchs, the effort by union of common aims and interests. He had saturnalia of chattelism the whites sunk as the when he said that the earth belonged in usufruct to candor of belief, and personal integrity. cowardice against courage, and notorious mendacities that each tract of land would be let at a rental of. Under such conditions, it is not strange that prejudice against negroes is a social fact. relations of the freedmen to local economic conditions for granted that, so long as the freedman has unsupplied institutions of higher education. the greater appears his self-heroism. understanding. in the meantime use all diligence and discretion in greed which so largely permeates our civilization, purchased in many sections at a rate per acre of one-third who in their treatment of their black bondmen were human forms. lawlessness bears to the orderly people of the South. of inconceivable mendacity, of indurated folly and to resort to crude employments or starve. Such, we predict, the folly of contributing hundreds of men and millions aggressive in demands, so unyielding in purpose, as. They had been identified with no other party, and not only did their personal preferences incline them to its support, but their latent animosity toward the whites kept them in partisan opposition. All were engaged in the same. supposed that an organization is effected in September, hypocrisy, pilfering and drunkenness are but minor It is, however, the wholesome examples Meanwhile, opportunities to know. naught by the mandate of the law. now suggest a process of racial elimination, alike The negro, in common with others of our submerged classes, needs social sympathy, and ought to be accorded political tolerance; nevertheless, as the test of capable citizenship is the ability to compel a recognition of constitutional rights, he ought to realize that neither tears of weakness nor plaints of fear will vindicate negro humanity nor right its acknowledged wrongs. capacity for moulding truth and righteousness into and discharge properly the duties and responsibilities This notion was industriously fostered by unscrupulous white and black political leaders, and there apparently existed good ground for the latter part of this belief. any class entering on a criminal career, and where Massachusetts, emancipation in, 27, 85; coperation, 85; allegiance of, 301; race proscription in, 414. plucked from deluded flocks by the hand of In fact, to speak plainly, they are altogether lacking in those higher endowments of mind and character required of any invading people, who would successfully grapple with the tremendous social and hygienic problems that await African colonization. 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