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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
APRIL 23, 1903.
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-THE NEGRO AGAIN
Mlaaesot Corretpondent U Word to
Say In Reply to Mr. Da Hart
- Editor Independent: In a recent
Independent was an article written by
one Jno. S. De Hart of Jersey City,
N. J., on the race question or negro
equality. Slavery in this country was
sectional and was the bone of con
tention for many years. The Missouri
compromise and the John Crown raid
were the chief causes of bringing on
the war of the rebellion. After four
years of bloodshed, deprivation and
high taxes, peace was restored. The
negro was free. The army was dis
banded and the war veterans returned
to their bosses each to follow his
peaceful pursuits.
, Now, after the lapse of 40 years and
the experience of a bloody, cruel war,
we in the north and south are still
haunted and perplexed with this race
question. We had slavery ever since
the formation of this government un
til the time of the emancipation proc
lamation. The children of Israel served
in Egypt 400 years,-and yet I never
heard of them having the right of fran
chise, but they- wandered in the
wilderness for 40. years In order to
make themselves fit subjects for the
promised land.
Only a few years after the war of
the rebellion there was all amend
ment to the constitution of the United
States, articles 13, 14 and 15, making
the negro a full-fledged citizen of the
United States. Article 15 put him in
the ballot box along with his white
brothers. Some say the negro of the
south is as" capable of voting as many
of the poor whites. In a sense this
may be .true. But why add more
ignorance to the ballot box? Had the
"negro not been the dupe and tool of
the republican party, he would not
have been granted the right of fran
chise at that time.
Mr. De Hart say3 In 1876 there was
a question as to who was elected presi
dent, Hayes or Tilden. Mr. De Hart
says ncbody was elected by the peo
ple. Several years after this presi
dential election, Hayes and Tilden, a
vote on this question was taken in
the house of representatives at Wash
ington and by a large, majority vote
Hayes was voted a usurper and was
recorded on the journal of the house.
He says a commission was created.
Yes, a commission 7x8 seven demo
crats and eight republicans. What a
righteous act! Louisiana' and one of
the other southern states were de
clared for Hayes, that never went re
publican. Mr. De Hart says the democrats can
govern the southern states in their
own peculiar way all the time. But
they - cannot govern the northern
states. As black as the democrats have
been painted by many of the chief
apostles of the republican party, they
never openly, in broad daylight, in the
face of the priesthood, and an open
Cible, stole a president of the United
States. Ifthey think this a worthy
heritage to leave (heir children, we
say, Amen.
Mr. De Hart says there is something
in democratic civilization that does not
find favor in the north; it is the treat
ment of the negro and the tariff ques
tion. He also says if the democratic
party should come into power again,
would set the whole north against it.
I would like to ask Mr. De Hart if he
was ever ten miles north of Mason
and Dixon's line? He lives down in
the little state of New Jersey where
they manufacture trusts from $20,000
to $80,000 a piece. By their shifty
business they can afford (and do) pay
their state officers more salary than
we pay our state officers in the great
state of Minnesota.
As to the negro up north, he has all
the rights and privileges he is entitled
to, and sometimes a good deal more.
Then Mr. De Hart mentions the
tariff and says the democrats want tar
iff for revenue only. This cry about
high protection, claiming it was for
the benefit of the laboring man is a
lie from the mouth out, and any man
who can keep himself outside of an
insane asylum should know better. It
Is wholly for the rich manufacturer to
make money.- There has been more
trouble with the laboring class under
the McKinley and Dingley tariff law
than ever before. Thousands of poor
men have been made to believe that
high protection was for their benefit
and nothing else. Poor, foolish men;
they need pity.,
Mr. De Hart seems to think more of
a black skin than any other. For my
part, I prefer my own color and the
race to which I belong. The negro has
his freedom and he should be given a
chance to get a living; but when you
talk about social equality among the
two races it can never be, either south
nor north.
Our president knew the feeling in
the south in regard to the negro ques
tion and should not have appointed
those negroes to any federal office, it
only 'helped to make a bad matter
worse. ,
My friend says Blanche IC Bruce,
once. a member of the United States
senate from Mississippi, was the peer
of any white man in it His taste may
be good, but I do not admire his
judgment. He says the public schools
must be kept open to them. Education
is the cure of all evils. Wonder where
my friend found that old proverb?
Education is a good thing when right
ly applied, but is of little use to peo
ple who have no practical knowledge
or common horse sense, and the ma
jority of the negroes are deficient in
both these. Their former condition,
being In servitude, partially made
them to; and they are pajrtly so by
nature. It will take several genera
tions for. them to make much of an
improvement on themselves.
We think the best way to get along
with the negro is to let him alone as
much as possible. In many respects
he seems to be unfortunate.
J. H. M.
(Race problems are always grave
and should not be approached in too
dogmatic a manner. The negro pro
blem In the United States Is certainly
serious enough, and will give us plenf
ty to do to solve it in the years to
come, without adding to our perplexi
ties by having also a Filipino problem
even more perplexing. The Indepen
dent does not desire to devote too
much space to this negro discussion,
believing that the real problem is hu
manity without regard to nativity or
color. But it gives space to the ar
ticle above and the ones following, and
trusts that the incident may close. Mr.
De Hart seems to have aroused the ire
of several gentlemen but his heart
will be found to be in the right place,
even If his views of the negro ques
tion are attacked. Associate Editor.)
Editor Independent: Northern peo
ple, ignorant of existing conditions
at the south, are puzzled to account
for the apparent hostility to the negro
race, and though peculiar sensitive
ness of the people, whenever the sub
ject is touched upon by a northern
sectional partisan press, andjbe poli
ticians, whose subsistence and politi
cal power depend upon keeping the
public mind (north) inflawed against
the south.
I . am an ex-confederate soldier a
South Carolinian from a state whose
sons have ennobled business, social
professional and political life and
whose patriotism has never been ques
tioned. In the struggle for a separate
independent government we failed
"accepted the situation," and went tt
work rebuilding our fortunes. We re
gard our four years' heroic struggle
with pride, and leave the record to
our children, as a fiecious heritage.
The negro, for four years, stayed at
home, upon the farm, and faithfully
worked to support our women and
children during our absence at "the
front." There was a bond existing be
tween master and mistress and the
slaves, which, through generations,
had become strong and tender. We
had many instances among us of
cruelty, but these exceptions were al
most always foreigners or Yankeeized
southerners. I wa3 a , participant in
the memorable battle at Hilton Head
and Bay Point, S. C, November 7,
1861, when the union fleet forced a
passage through to Beaufort. There
were many transports with the ves
sels of war, containing soldiers, mu
nitions of war, civilian tourists, art
ists, etc., as well also a heterogen
eous company of so-called educators,
whose mission was to teach the young
negro mind and heart all things nec
essary to become a "Bostonese."
. Their miscegenation theories pro
duced their fruits. The older white
denizens of that section of country
know that many of those moral phy
sicians first experimented upon them
selvesto demonstrate the beauties
of "benevolent assimilation." The
confederate soldier, upon his return
a physical wreck and in rags, received
a loving welcome from his former
slaves, and together they started to
build anew. But, during the eight
years of reconstruction the seeds of
variance and strife were industriously
sown by the buzzard element of the
north, from governors (God save the
.mark!) down to the "school-marm"
whose absence from their native wilds
wa3 hailed by their respective . com
munities as God's special blessing.
Everything that the white man as
pired to be among his people was open
to the negro to become among his
people. The lynchings that have oc
curred since reconstruction were from
among the "new issue'? of negroes,
grown up since the war, who, instead
of listening to and following the ad
vice of sensible leaders like Booker
T. Washington (in our opinion a bet
ter man than Roosevelt), Bishop Tur
ner and a host of others who are try
ing to uplift the race, prefer to be led
by the teaching of Henry Ward Beech
er (he of the spotless fame), Harriet
Beecher Stowe, John Brown (whose
soul is still "matching on" through
Plutonian shades), Roosevelt and De
Hart, et al.
Let the negro problem at the south
alone! ' The southern white man is
the negro's best and only friend, and
he, assisted by the good men and wo
men of the negro race, will solve the
problem to the lasting benefit of both
races. When we of the south dis
cover that the republican party and
their president are anxious to see the
lucrative, honorabls government posi
tions at the north filled by the ne
groes, then we will reverse our opin
ion of them.
I am a democrat (not a "still" one)
and believe in the truths which you
and other populist papers are preach
ing. Cheerfully bidding you "God
speed" in your labors for a govern
ment of, for, through, and by the peo
ple. I hereby extend my hand to
Mr. Alex H. Vance of Milford, Neb.,
for his manly presentation in answer
to Mr. De Hart's vicious article. I
beg to thank him in the name of our
people. E. J. BENTON,
Once "High Private" in Co. G, 11th
Reg't S. C. Vols., Hagard's Brigade,
Hoke's Division, Longstreet's Corps,
C. S. Army of Northern Virginia.
Macon, Ga.
Editor Independent: If ever there
was a time when the best effort for
the cause of the wage-earner1 shouH
be made, it is now. When I think
of the faithful who have stood for the
principles of right, since the green
back party was formed at Toledo, O.,
and all along the line till now,, and
have stood for the right of the labor
ing class, and with the education that
they have received from the few men
that own the coal fields, they will see
that the public utilities belong to the
people and will so vote to secure them
and place them in the hands of the
people where our fathers placed them.
I have read with a great deal of
interest the pros and cons in The In
dependent in regard to the negro
question. First, they were not to
blame for being here; they were born
here; consequently, are acclimated to
their climate. Now, the question is,
what we shall do with them? There
are those that would like to see them
amalgamated with out 'white families;
but they are a distinct race from us
and should let them go by themselves.
Now, when the Indian was in the
way, we transplanted him to aterri-
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$1,740,694 insurance and paid
$27,710 in losses. They paid in
losses more than four times as
much as the combined payments
of all other hail insurance com
panies doing business in the
state.
Good, reliable representatives
are wanted in every township.
United Mutual Hail Ins. Association,
n6 So. loth St, Lincoln, Ncbr.
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tory of his own. Why not be as
liberal with the colored man? We
have territory enough. The educated
colored man could then exercise his
capacity in bringing his race to a
higher civilization. Of course, many of
them will remain as laborers in the
several states, but to those who have
no homes it would be a blessing and
it would dispose of the vexed ques
tion. S. G. SHEFFER.
So. Haven, Mich. '
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