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Athens Southern Banner (Newspaper) - January 18, 1881, Athens, GeorgiaSouthern Banner extra Athens ga., Jan. 18,1881.<&. By the re tire of toe negro i toe i his party. And until the contrary is i condemned but when once in anger by Howell Conn. A a from the Chri Tun Union dec. 22. The country has spoken decisively by the ballot. The protracted excitement and intense anxiety incident to the election of 1876 will not be repeated. We All can and do rejoice at this result. Business is quietly resumed the Republican can est his thanksgiving Turkey rejoicing that Garfield a elected and the country has quiet. The Democrat roust rejoice that we have present quiet and the pledge of the Republican party that peace plenty and Prosperity shall not be disturbed the next tour years by any reactionary political legislation for party purposes. The time seems auspicious to consider the future of the negro in this country especially in the South. Just now the Northern mind will be occupied with the wants of thu Solh a you Are pleased to term this negro question in a recent editorial written on the eve of the late election. Will Yon consider what i say before form ing and acting upon your opinion a to the pressing needs of the South ? 1 Hope to for our Oom Raon Good Moro especially the goed of the negro. I think All will admit the voice of the country As uttered in the late election has no Uncertain sound in one particular a leave Well enough whatever other sounds Are blended with it this deep undertone is unmistakable. Peace at Home and abroad Prosperity present and prospective prompted this utterance. And it was the pledge of the Republican party not to disturb the causes which led to this Prosperity which secured it Power for the next four years. Other causes doubtless of get rated upon the Public mind but All will admit that this Wab the decisive cause which induced or. Garfield selection especially in new York. The business interests of the whole country demanded quiet. The Republican party pledged itself to a sound financial policy to Domestic Tranquillity and to abstinence irom All disturbing political legislation la re Ray ends. In the Light of its past history the Republican party has assumed no More grave responsibility to the country than that involved in its policy for the next four year touching the future of the negro in the South. _ from a Southern standpoint the Voic of the country on this question is in Rantasa ble. The business interests of the whole country demand quiet throughout the land. Four it ears of quiet under the administration of president Hayes was the result of rest from Pani an political legislation legislation a up i Italy Jire oled toward the South. This four years rest from political inter meddling Ite Iween the White and Black Man of the South together with continuous abundant harvests throughout the land a brought the whole country to the High Road of resuming Prosperity. Disturb the Industrial interests of the South by a repetition of the political legislation incident to the Laic recon Quot struck Ion Days or Kindred legislation Lor similar ends and you will Check the returning Prosperity of that Section. The Shock will inevitably react upon the East and West. And there cannot be conceived a More potent cause single cause to tiring about a re it edition of the ruinous financial manic of lh73. The country has condoned the Blun 1 dvrs of the Republican parly among them the political legislation touching the negro incident to the , uncertainty and perplexity of the a Lay _ of emerging Trout War. The renew de lease of Power to that party a been secured by Small majorities in Many of the Northern states majorities which May Eaily he made minorities by any unwise use of i lower. These close is ales of the North wi-1 Buhl the Republican a Triy to a strict and faithful compliance with its pledge to the country not to disturb the peace and growing Good will Between the sections of the Union so. Needful to the Harmony and Prosperity of the whole country. Thus understanding the late election i see nos it Ecial cause for to tin. South. If it portends evil at a All it is to the whole Union and the a Iju with in common Only with other sections of the country. I acc it the result therefore with the firm con. A Ion that or. Garfield a administration will be memorable in the an a reals of our country for a u is e Tange of policy Oft lie Republican party to Ward the South. This is a Golden Opportunity to that party to atone for past blunders which the country. Ii a condoned. President Hayes con fronted a democratic Senate and house., however Well inclined he a May have been his position subjects him to the a criticism that other policy was not open to him. Or. Garfield Quot will however begin his adm Nistra. Quot. To a d Whit the House certainly Republican and possibly the Senate. Hence the Golden Opportunity to Dinton. Irate the sincerity of or. Hayes and that the Pacific policy of Bis and. Mini Starlion represented the spirit of the Republican party. 1 believe or. Proven by its in tire conduct toward ated he acquiesced in and even Fos the South i cannot believe that the tired in the vain Hope that peace Republican party will by an abuse of would _ ultimately be the result of the Power now Given prove suicidal i what Bis reason and instincts fore to its own future treacherous to its warned him must prove unending pledge to the country and ruinous to strife the Only peace of that p Liny every interest of All sections of the Union. We have bad a period of passion followed by a spasm of gush. Now the sober second thought of the interests of Trade prevails. This will abide. The in tire of the negro in the South however is too momentous a question to be decided by simple consideration of either the passing business interests of the country or the temporary Power of any political party. The question of the negro in our midst involves our Industrial and political future and these should he considered in dealing with him but there Tiro deeper considerations and higher obligations involved in his presence Here than the Mere use of the negro tor Industrial or political advantage. These Are Only incidents to the higher duly to him in the full development of his latent Mazullo d. The sudden emancipation and sul sequent enfranchisement of the negro imposed a difficult duty opon the South. Mark my words upon the South. For upon the South Pri Manly rests the responsibility of solving the a Oblein imposed by the changed condition of 4,000,000 negroes a problem involving every interest of the South social Industrial moral and political a problem not of theory or speculation hut u vital fact the solemn fact which the South has to face and handle is 4,000,000 slaves freed in her midst in a moment 4,000,000 freedmen in one mad moment made citizens and voters Only one condition unchanged ignorant to fully ignorant and depraved. The primary duty of the South to he negro and duty of tiie North to the South in her Effort to discharge her obligation to the negro in her midst. I will discus in Ano her communication. This is already too Long Athens ga., nov. 6, 1880, was death. What was the actual re sult distrust alienation Meagon i god reigns Over the South that the ii. Some. Yet through Faith we live in the Hope that even this Continuo of chastening though for the Lime it 8ecmeth grievous will eventually yield the peaceable fruits of righteousness. No one Oan deny that we have been sorely exercises thereby. If the North will recognize that from the com Limi Guiou. Dee. 29. I said in my first communication this subject that primarily the duty was imposed up it the South to develop the latent manhood of the negro. It is needless now to consider who was responsible for the Suddet. Thrusting of 4 000.000 Negros upon the South uts Lerly unfitted to discharge the duties of citizenship unfitted alike in in Al licence Ami moral character. It is equally useless to inquire who is responsible fur the negroes Low condition mentally and morally. The Only practical tiie Suriou is upon wet it it a r its the obligation to liberate him Spee to in Trout the Thra Dom of ignorance and to Ete Yale is moral character. A cot reel Appel pension of this Obliga Ion is alike vital to the negro and the people of this whole country. I maintain that this duty devolves upon the White Man of the South that he maybe trusted to discharge the duty and that All other Aid to the negro must he through that Channel. 1 heir common domicile interests and destiny impost this duly upon the Southern White. The interests Industrial social moral and political of the White a impel him to give to the negro citizen in his midst every Opportunity for the full d be Lupeni of Bis manhood. Higher however than Mere interest is the Chi stain obligation of Man to his neighbor. The White Man of tiie South is the negro s nearest neighbor and Lii Taw imposes primarily upon tiie s Hern while the Chri Lian of ligation to id tiie negro in his struggle tor moral and intellectual development. Conscience Aud cult Iest unite in constraining the White mar. O the South to the i charge of this duty. The future of the Uchio involves the tut ure of the White. Under girds Providence their interests Art inseparably linked together. Any inn since to the negro i i inevitably react upon til. While. In Industrial Pur uits the interests of the White compel if his conscience did not strict jul Tice to and fair dealing with the negro. Their Mutual de Ien Deuce imposes Fidelity upon each. In politics the debauched negro voter will Debauch the White. The negroes Only Protection against to i it result is in menial and moral training. The salvation of the White is in the Elevation of the negro character. The negro cannot go Down Aloizie. He must drag the White Down to his own icel the Protection of the negro and the White alike from nil tical degradation is to he Tutund alone in the full development Paliy Aii a Nio rally o the negro. And the speedier the Elevation of negro character the belter for the Southern White any conduct of Lite Southern White toward the negro repressive in Ita effect will inevitably react Deti a mentally to Bis own inter est and character. Bear with me Here for at this Point the vital errors of the past were made by the nor a. The hatred of the White Roan of the South to the us Gro citizen was assumed an inevitable conflict of races waa assumed and logically legislation was enacted bringing to Bear the Strong Arm or goes eminent to protect the negro against the while enemy. This was or. Ism where Trust Union co pm mrs in was essential. A the politic in revolution of 1874 gave a Check to the in i Ive policy., what is the re ult the a Bush in common with the North is enjoying returning Prosperity. The two races Are making strides Towart cheerful co of Craig it in accepting the situation and working together for their Comuni a weal a Industrial educational moral and we tical. Let the North least then from facts that any Aid by political legislation or otherwise i off. Re 1 the negro other than through the medium of the Good will and in to motions of the Southern White Man is Short lighted and must prove detrimental to. The common Tutere to u euro Hud the Whit Wimer. A ii Aljier c urse must retard and not Bast i the negro growth. V f a. This then is the first great want of the South White and Blat Kyfor the North to be convinced Aid to act upon the convict Ion that the while Man of the s uth is the Only medium through which the negro can he aided and that will make him a willing recipient or every Quot Aid proffered. This work May. Appear slow lint it will prove suit an i permanent. The incisive p Licy in any form engenders antagonism Bate and pursued relentlessly must end ii chaos. The policy i indicate is the Only one which will cent of the two people White Aud Black and give tor the a a Luti sofa problem at Best difficult and Lull of friction. It is not pertinent to suggest i he prejudices of the White tin unequal Chance of the Black Etc. All this granted Only emphasizes the truth that the White a Man and the stack of the South must lie friends. Co operation is their Only he die. Antagonism produced and continued he the Stroug Arm of the up vermin Nehru to be Token to Lite Tan Lene Hill one of two ends. Remove this foreign pow. R Lii Eli sustains the negro in the unequal struggle and instantly st ii a or intelligence a wealth Ami Sharac or part Van i. Continue the Powe to its certain end Nind society will h subverted. Strife will Only end thus in desolation of the South. The Sou her ii White Man however in left to work out this problem with the Friendly co operation of the negro would use every Effort to develop the negro into Stu intelligent Lionet virtuous permanent citizen to old a Ami him All his equal rights As a citizen would permit i u to reap i i with tiie White iii Gibot the Tiu is of their mixed Industry court encourage a property owner with its conservative a it wer would educate and elevate him morally so that he May appreciate Aud intelligently discharge All ids duties As a citizen and would have grow As speedily As practicable to Tiue manhood nor airy mentally Aud politically. Another great want of the South South has a conscience guided by a Christian Faith that the primary duly to the negro devolves upon the conscience of the South that interest unites that the duty of the North to the South is to leave the White Aud Black Man. To work out together under god their common destiny that any Aid from the North which May he needful must be proffered through the White Man of the South through the institutions of the South born of the conscience and interests of the White then the future welfare of the negro in the South is assured. The White and Black citizen of the South will remain friends forever. They were never alienated in her that by unwise Aid negro tendered by t to North directly to the negro upon the false As a tiption that enmity of the White to the Black citizen existed. Do you still doubt the Wisdom of trusting the negroes future to the con science and interest of the South ? god ims so trusted the negroes future. Sound Philo Ophy and experience to it his Only Hope lies Here. Will the North assume to he Wiser than god will the North Turu deaf ear to argument founder on Faith in god and sustained by philosophy and tact let ult see what the con tence and interest under go i of the South has done and is doing a Diin trily. Ill Georgia a negro College Al a Albinia ga., permanently endowed by the Constitution d convention of 1877, we it the ino stage p Licy was dead a comm ii school system being steady ily perfected throughout the state of Georgia with equal privileges and facilities to the negro and White municipal common schools in Savannah Augusta Macon Atlanta and smaller towns in the slate with equal privileges to White and the impulse frit in almost every town in the state to in aug pirate com Raon so tool systems with equal privilege to White and Blacks no outside pre sure hut the voluntary action of the conscience Aud interest of while citizens of Georgia. W t o pays the tax ? the White bears nearly the whole Burden. Has god trusted the negro to barbarians Trust the negro under god to the conscience and interest of the South ill his future in the South is hopeful. Could. Not afford to wait till i this changed of itself the North was prosperous the South poor the North had free schools the South none. And the first thing for the North to do was just what it did a a go. Into the South without waiting for an Fevo invitation and carry its free schools and Plant them there a but this time has passed. Quot there is not a Southern state now. That Bab. Not something of a free school a there is not a state that would not a so a mat Nuriu Uii be glad of a better system. To Tere is not one which As a state is opposed to the rudimentary education of the negroes. To Day the thing for the North to do is to work with and through Tho South. The 8onth May Lead a a she will Ard we will follow. A the nation ought to Nitako National appropriations to be expended by the. Southern states. The Northern missionary associations ought to Scuito the Aid and Fellowship of Southern work a Era in their missionary schools. If we Are not mistaken they Are working in Liia direction. They a have stopped planting primary schools and Are maintaining Vonnal schools. That is they Are helping the South to help herself and or. Cobb and All those who with hint Are. Prepared to Hope and labor and Pray Lor a now South May depend on it that the great body of the Northern people Wilt be Only it a a lad to act on his principle and with the South for Lite negro just As fast As the South will give us the Chance. Offer us the partnership nod see if we do not accept it. But do not wonder that we do not twit tor the offer. The North owes a duty and loyalty impels it. The North treed the negro freed him in spite of the sword and the Bay Ouel of the South. The North gave him the. Ballot gave it him in spite of. The protests not always gently Phr used Ami resistance not always legally or constitutionally carried out from the South. Whether it was right in free a Inge Tbs negro whether it was right in Goyit Tif him the ballot we need not hero discus. But having assumed. This responsibility loyalty to the negro loyalty to the South loyalty of the nation requires it to go on and help to tit the negro or for. Edom at thak Law we a Hod in right a a tilt up Ltd inaugurate an incisive a Toloy political he Fale assume is that the North learn to believe and act upon tiie belief that god reigns directly Over the South is Well As the North. The North mus lie convinced that the South is not intelligent co science mid is not abandoned by . To i it want which is the greatest need of the South i will discuss in my last a a on this subject. Athens ga., nov. 6lh, 188u. Or other based upon the troit that he must lie protected Aguinal the White Matt of the South and itis future is it palest the first will guarantee free and full development to the engr Row a latent manhood. Let re la cot id will Etta in the repression of the Tegro or desolation of the soot it. I have purpose in disc sed this question Trum a Uon political stand Pont. It is Loo grave a Miller to rest upon m. Re business interest or political advantage. The True View of it is seen it try from the standpoint of the ballot. We had Quot no right to take him from the Protection of his mister and deny him our own no rights to give him the ballot and make no Effort to educate him to use it no right to thrust on the South a system of free labor and tree voting which requires also free schools and Given no Aid in planting them no right to sacrifice thousands of lives and millions of Money to destroy slavery Ami do nothing to rebuild free institutions where slavery a ruins lie. Tho North has put its baud to the plow and will not look Back but it will Welcome every such hand a that of Quot or. Howell Cobb stretched out to unite Irith it in it work too Large and Loo important to be other than a work of the whole nation and in it who love sheif Counley and their fellow imn. A the South the North. And toe editorial from the Southern Bannor a. Under this caption the Christian Christian Charity the duty of Man to Union of new York has an editorial Man under gob s Law hat Ling up n in its Issue of january 12th, Lii of we All Mankind. Transfer to our columns this morning. If 1 ant Correct in inv conclusions is spirit is open Manly and Lintern and Aid proffered the negro of the it one Point it �8 in error Viz a when South other Timnit though the Channel a the War closed there was not a single of the Good will Anil co operation of the Southern state that had oven the ruin 111. From the Christina Union Jan. 5. I propose to Dicu a in this communication what i stated in my last to he the greatest want of the South in 8olv-Ng the problem it the tut Ore a if lilo negro that Waul is that the North i i Roii Iio cd that god Ivion directly Over tiie South. Tho Northern mind must lie dish us a of the impression that god is the la Rovi Deuce of the North and the North under god the in Roth hence of the South. It is st1 auge that the North cannot see god in All this negro question. The South recognizes god presence in All ibis trouble. God i ways Are not our ways and the South does not understand All his providences in the negroes presence Here hut the fait ii of the s Mill accepts nil As of tin in White Wilt la unwise Mil detrimental. And and a lit Cal legislation for party ends Altio i gain antagonizes while and Black will he an us pardonable crime. In tray not be out of Placevk say in conclusion that there is one great want of this whole Union All Section. It is this we should in All things cons , the Good of the whole Union. K Tell Citize n owes a More i reel duly to his it amedale Section. A a do the duty which lies nearest to Yon a is a Wise Maxim. The aim and wish Paramount in every Section How Ever he to promote the Good of Tho whole Union. In would be Well it we could forget there was any North East West or South save to remember that in promoting the interests of either we Advance the corns a nou welfare of at. The seed of a h be free school but let this pass. The great questions that have been pending be a tween North and South have had Little. Or nothing to do with free schools. They have been far deeper and More. Vital than education. Had there been a common school system in every Southern state it is not Likely that a the i sentia principle of Northern in Quot Lerner once with Tho affaire not Tho South would have been other than it the last paragraph of the editorial s not quite in keeping with the main Bly of Tho unions article. No Douht the North Tell itself under obligation to help a tit the negro for Freedom and Hayes was a Noero and i Trust he Tes Beecher termed he drive policy a presented the court it diag Aemi ment of policy which his heart Aud head alike the South firmly god overruled the coming of the negro Tran Atrio to America Bis slavery Hera he Drifting Taal genial Soith Ern comte the political agitation about slavery the War the desolation of reconstruction More wasting than War the slave suddenly for. De and then enfranchised. In All this the South bows submissively to the Wili of an overruling god. The Christian Faith of the 8 Gnu b explains tier res Sig nation her patient endurance her cheerful adaptation to changed c us Vitious her hopeful spirit her activity anti desolation. The South through exercise of this froth has even lome meekly the charge against her by the North that All this patient resignation nope Ful spirit and Active Industry c evidence the perverse cunning by wilful Bai Pels that at times this last i infliction of Providence. Is very irk the Sun Stu toe North and toe negro. Editorial from the Christian in on the Point in or. Howell cob he a Southern View of the negro question As presented to the readers of the Christian. Union in its last three numbers is it we us Dora it and him aright that the North should work with Aud tii Tough. The South in for the negro. The general a a e for Prin Siplo is a sound one. The eign missionary societies Are beginning to learn it we Cao never christianize China a tour Hundred millions by sending missionaries to convert them. All. We must help China to help herself. We must educate chinese missionaries to preach the gospel to the there Are exceptions to ibis general principle. When the War closed there was not a single Southern state that had even the ruin or the seed of a True free school system. In most of them teaching the Labouring classes that is the negroes bad been a penal offence. Their were May communities which is help a tit the negro the if a Man get his Friend into a new and difficult position for which that Friend has not the slightest and for which moreover. In has been utterly unfitted by All Bis a antecedents it is certainly a proper on the Mere ground of humanity that he should stand by his Friend and see him through a the untried Hazard of the and so Tho North was in duly bound to a a help the negro. On ibis Point judge Cobb made no Issue. The Issue presented by the judge was As to tue True Way the win was the statesmanlike Way and above All the Christian Way of managing the a a help Given to the negro this and to iii ohly was he matter under discussion. The policy adopted by the North to a a help the negro has proved to be not a a a help a but an in Metis hindrance and furthermore it has been a most grievous wrong to the White race of the South. Nothing but the Interpol. Rivion of Providence by Mineana of natural instincts and organic Laws instincts and Laws beyond the reach of unwise legislation has kept the scheme of a a help from being total to both races in the Southern state yet this is in the past and let it All be of gotten. A hotter Day has dawned. North and South can Only to Wise and a amp did not even know what a free school True by being a Sise and True together itch bad been Sedal-1 and in this spirit we heartily Recipko was others which 1------------------------r,--------�?r- Boualy taught to hate it. The nation Cate the kind temper of the Union % in

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