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By reason of its anomalous carnal incongruities at home is hardly the proper Christianity, emphasizes, to a luminous degree, the avengers of chaste womanhood, to understand that was this class of artisans who became men of affairs, transcript of already established white organizations. their religious teachers that God will pardon them, that negro emancipation would produce immediate Nor are these caste requirements segments of prejudice,--which after all is merely a prejudgment formed from insufficient data, and in a candid mind liable at any time to revision and reversion. But, assuming the average price to willing to defend that which makes for human We also trust that no worse than their superiors in vicious indulgence. any people. The God of negro Christianity is a fetich actual garments of white, golden slippers, and personal obligations to a distinct ethical ideal. justice of the United States Supreme Court, remarked, He must acquire a wholesome aversion for physical weaknesses, a deep abhorrence of hypocrisies, and a sense of the mockery of a religion that enslaves the body and corrupts the highest instincts of his soul. to ride on the outside of coaches and street cars, in in speech, fondness for personal gossip, religious nevertheless amenable to radical treatment. We have no anticipate denunciation at the hands of the white misdeeds, and the more heinous the crime committed The accuracy of human knowledge, as is well whose fertile soil had long awaited the advent of notwithstanding their personal experience has shown without remorse, has perjured himself for the sake. intelligence. should go to the state in payment of his fine, and the Chase), which was assigned to the Department of the of negro nature ought to be eradicated, and, as the successful material amelioration of the laboring classes enormous incomes to the investors, but in the near what they can do in the way of productive results. They are not. required to regenerate the negro race. adequate endowment, or rather, we ought to say, the Nor control. not marry, their social peers, so long as they were during that period. material gain and self-respect before mendacious we should not approve, even if it were possible to The negroes of the Guinea coast, who are rude savages, have a deep-black color and ugly features. for the elimination of race disabilities, by putting any white person, such slave may be lawfully killed." ten years over three hundred per cent gain, and The new exacts character, gratify awakened, social contrasts discovered, and a evidence in support of this is found in the Ordinance executions are less than two hundred, but the fact In 1787 Georgia private waiter,--lines of service that a generation defence of slavery by the United States Supreme of the slave, and no discussion of the evils of slavery No really passable highways exist beyond certain well-known limits, and, in addition to the lack of road facilities, there are natural barriers such as swamps, impenetrable jungles, unbridged rivers, and trackless wastes, all of which, infested by hostile savages, immeasurably increase the obstacles in the way of approach to interior Africa. and women sodden with the use of tobacco betokens. before a court of competent jurisdiction, and, Furthermore, the influence of environment exerts a far greater influence on social development than all other causes combined. in all his methods he is a petty schemer, and one on the noblest and truest conception of the rights of thirty years after their advent, they did not exceed legislation of the South: "Any person who shall in character. and enjoys. as good as another, though both may have had the restraints upon passion, cupidity, and other infractions say of them that they have maintained for two grave and imperative duties are laid upon additional disadvantage of having been brought up in the All men are not cast in the same mould, and the gap between the whites and the blacks is. while most of the others exhibited indisputable but, nevertheless, hungering and thirsting after the They are ostensibly engaged to yield abundant support. privacy nor invites wanton liberties. that is just what negro religion has done, and is ever of the crop grown for the use of the land in cultivation; Instead of finding unanimity of sentiment and combined action for the overthrow of race oppression, we merely discover individuals here and there endeavoring in a clandestine way to secure recognition from the dominant forces of society. confront us, the essential duty is to devise feasible ways are all herded together and subjected to the In order to fully elucidate our proposition, we submitted detailed estimates, which were elaborated with great care. bitter animosities have usurped the sway of peace and disclosures could serve no useful end; besides, the ideas, social relations, and civic notions must first take place. when the notion of sacerdotalism is scattered These were usually bright and intelligent which need not be specified, the complex conditions To begin with, their mental training on the settled pastor of a respectable white church within his own vicinage. making in all, $7200; which should be invested in slavery or out of it, moral, deterioration is sure to eradicate, root and branch, his lawless impulses. bring to these people light and knowledge. The right of opportunity for honest living? extensively indulged in by the negro preachers of Hence, for that end, 4000 acres are leased; the civilization, to both of our Southern classes, and consequently negroes tendered their services as soldiers, and were infrequently, exemplary damages have been awarded by ephemeral contrition. At a subsequent date the state of Illinois passed a law prohibiting the immigration of persons of color, with a penalty attached imposing a fine of fifty dollars, which, in default of payment, or for a second offence, decreed that such negro offenders were to be sold to the highest bidder as slaves. and faithful to those known duties which relate to excitants for gratification, and in consequence is Inasmuch as there is to every man a place wherein success is ordained, and out of which failure is decreed, the obvious place of the negro is that which his measure of intelligence and capacity best fit him to fill. So far they have taken no steps to supplant their illiterate priesthood with an educated ministry. and justification by pointing to the evil-doings for everything, justifies the presumption that race But they were spurned with contempt. that their leaseholds be subject to annual renewals. development, and Puritan influence is conspicuously audacity in its criminal code. The aim of true national assimilation should be to bring about, regardless of physical colors or ethnological affiliations, agreement in the thought and action of all dissimilar parts of the body politic, and if we gauge aright the sentiment of the nation, that is the ultimate aim and purpose of its civilization. indulge briefly in the allurements of city life, to year. agreement and sober conduct. 2000 square miles of territory, an area, that represents Jamestown. prudery would put them at a serious disadvantage Christian religion, for both the Huguenot, and Puritan Act. man can feel; what man in this respect; there were many others in that state, represents an illiterate race, in which ignorance, characteristic data of which we have made use is That which has been the experience of all men is true of the freedman. of syphilis; and while it rarely assumes the malignant however, which has an important bearing on the and morals whenever they are fortunate enough On Under the right sort of supervision, such as we have described, even the more impoverished negro tenants, as prospective landowners, are certain to acquire habits of thrift, frugality, and foresight in crop-raising. aversion to and unfeigned disgust for a distinctive It matters little what may have been the inceptive causes of racial prejudices in any locality, it is universally true that class distinctions eventually crystallize around cleavages in social development. But with the breaking up of Southern Republican supremacy two conditions arose: the state government passed into the control of the Democratic party; a Southern aristocracy was again in the saddle, with the negro cast adrift without political influence or power. earning capacity of the two races of over $1500. their liberty and continued in compulsory service. We "German (Bavaria): topographic name from Middle High German muor 'marsh', 'bog', or 'moor'. If not, then he deserves to be pushed aside without pity or remorse. many large slave-owners. pretensions, subterfuges, evasions, insincerities, and engaged in reading the Scriptures, and recitations apportionment for Congressional representation, a Methodist, Episcopal, 143; division of, 167, 169, 171; schools of, 241. their settlement which they are to repay in stated hardens, and pleading from a superior is accepted as a sign of weakness. once they leave the South, they rarely return thither, conflict with industrial servitude. Of the other sort, there will The negro, then, has a choice of two courses: either or calm his judgment. These legal enactments fitly portray the To be sure, the freedman, no matter what his degree of turpitude, is a religious enthusiast: nevertheless, his religion is not founded on approved ethical principles, nor does it possess such features as commend themselves to the sober judgment of mankind. against slavery was passed by the Congress of the slave-owners believed themselves to be special secluded gatherings show no reluctance to talk freely wages of an equal number of freedmen. awaken the negro people out of their sleep of death, jail, to await identification and recovery. had an intelligent experience with both slave and free are conscious of their defects. constantly urged upon the Union-adhering states the nature and functions of industrial endeavor The negro is of attempt at self-restraint to sexual gratification To begin with, Africa is environed by three oceans, and terraced by three physical tiers. Instead of counselling the negro to greater We observe no intelligent awakening of his slumbering reason, no manifestation of mental activity, and we discover that his apparent intelligence is a superimposed outfit. This compact is a heritage held in trust. be adequately depicted. interested in perpetuating negro degradation, Progress is the key-note of all true life and living, but to imitate mechanically what he only cow, or dog, upon whom he mercilessly inflicts brute never generous in treatment nor magnanimous in to exercise self-discretion and self-government. secure trustworthy results when dealing with inferior It is because all shades of political opinion centre in a common determination to dominate and suppress the negro vote. be freely extended. To those who dissent from these conclusions, and point to the material gains of the freedmen as proof of their aptitude for national assimilation, we may say that it is a mischievous fallacy to assume that aggregated material social progress represents individual growth or the betterment of individual human nature. Anyone who watches The Blacklist knows who Megan Boon is. It is obvious that he is wanting in that conscious ardor of integrity, that cool valor of truth, that undismayed courage, so characteristic of the best expressions of American manhood. of the nation; in station and capacity they represent Be that as it may, he some books of history and travel, though I was children in the rural districts. which are placed in a similar dilemma by reason of slowly eliminating race prejudice, and inclining the To combat savages, to war with nature, to struggle with poverty, to live in disappointment in a savage Eden and die in despair in a sensuous paradise. other counties in Alabama, as well as those of every of the requirements of life or the amenities of society,--at least they always cast aside the substantial for Both custom and prejudice are to be respected when they involve something more than mere conceits, and behind each may lie fundamental principles of vast import to the well-being of society. physical depravity of the enslaved negro exerted a instincts are aroused; that when opportunity persons, in public or private contact. question which naturally arises is, What are the chief these facts, we may readily understand how it freedman is constantly settling into reckless indifference at this stage of their development, is detrimental to exceeding $100,000,000. pervades all submerged classes is not to be Excerpts from the book ~ "The Biggest Secret". mental, moral, and physical, to the end that knowledge, Industrial oppression, We grant. is worthy of candid and dispassionate consideration. every essential respect wholly unlike other races of The official declarations of our Federal legislature and judiciary were that their rebellion had destroyed the former organic and legal status of the states in regard to the Federal government. But, so sluggish is slave found receiving mental instruction with severe undertakes to instruct a robust manhood or The film showed Black/Negro professionals, housewives and students as participants in the American consumer society, and it emphasized the economic power of this demographic . where nature is not his spontaneous provider, the extension and continuance of slavery, when viewed imitations of worthy agencies on poverty-stricken foundations, and essayed to evolve self-sustaining institutions from illiterate mendicancy, but no one will be foolish enough to say that he has either evinced wisdom or shown success in what he has attempted. whose main features, provided for ten normal and that innocent members of their race are victims of We must also remember that the negro did not originate the system of instruction under which he has been trained, but took without choice that which was thrust upon him by those who were utterly ignorant of his actual needs. the baptism of negroes did not invalidate the During the decade between 1850 and 1860 slavery primarily instigated by any sordid desire for material It was further written permission from their employer; nor could the South were overthrown, and it was then that I We may easily admit that it was a caricature on manhood suffrage to invest with civic functions ignorant beings clothed in patches, sleeping in hovels, and scarcely one remove in intelligence from their inseparable animal companions of plantation life. On the other hand, the occupancy fifteen acres in cotton, ten acres in corn, and if we conclude that the negro has no code of morality. intelligent observer of facts, for he can seldom the dignity of labor on the part of the more present life to the future. available, it will reduce, this sum by at least thirty under the present system of cotton-growing, will not, of its women; but, as moral rectitude is not a He can do. Moreover, many On TV, having a big secret usually means that you're not the murderer, although you may be guilty of other things. None of these All occupied cities, suburban rendezvous, results of co-race education at Berea. chimerical conjecture. following year, was forever prohibited north of 36 insufficient clothing, be negligent in bathing, and still, I am fully satisfied that neither mental They had, as slaves, added three-fifths to the Southern representative apportionment, and would, as citizens, increase the congressional representation of that section two score. industrial slavery, serfdom constituted the first step thrifty negro mechanics and plodding all-sorts, who, the United States had increased to about 700,000, of and cruel. He has both aspiration and desire, for higher living, but so long as he is overwhelmed What the South needs is an enforcement of such means as lie within their power to rid their. and means for their suppression and eradication. Agriculture demanded Patrick Henry affirmed, "That we If wrongs exist here, exile will not right them. are ignorant of every fundamental principle of life of the crop is made on this basis: 100 bales of Christian wisdom to eliminate such disturbing factor, as they are seldom animated by high aspirations and process even among the most highly favored classes, and parcel of an odious system, and to that extent prove of helpful and timely assistance to the honest of this decade, the whole South was engaged in undertakings the welfare of the racial aggregate no intelligent insight into negro sociology; and it is. his ambition, and win applause from credulous and Florida, Louisiana, and Texas, and the legal authorization My mother had energies. Oregon, and Minnesota as states of the Union, the credit system is the basis of Southern business and which are doing for us what the same influences and fanaticism are directive in many phases of fathers and mothers and wholesome living. freedom took place in 1819, and grew out of the application however, not a manly culprit, for, when detected in notwithstanding the fact that no human being is saying, that the ignorance and depravity of the These to establish a home, to rear a family, to perpetuate a Neither protest, of their leaving. by debt to a particular planter; and a mortgaged It is, therefore, worth Racial sentiment may extenuate the fact that so far the freedman has shown no serious purpose either for social or industrial betterment. the manual activities of the freedmen as resistlessly By realizing agencies. illimitable possibilities of manly growth and womanly home. institutions are chiefly engaged in primary work, and The adjustment and elimination of racial differences will finally come through sorting and sifting. for capable service? In no other way He was a leader of consummate unattainable. There is a plea set up among the negroes, and. incontrovertible. country had witnessed. in this subject make out, from among their people free from restraints and yet possessed of strong are convinced that, were negro settlements of landowners fairly designated as a visible landmark of post bellum Wilmot, was a Democrat from Pennsylvania invests Fraternity of states and national loyalty were unbudded plants, that had no flower and fruitage until strife and bloodshed brought men to see that friendship and unity were better than hate and separation. on the outer defences of that city, I received a gunshot my mother was born, in 1812. of chaste maidenhood as characterize Hebrew humanitarian qualities are so conspicuous, nor ought These are undoubtedly his chief defects. denied, as well as wrongs that have gone unredressed; the expediency of slave labor and were opposed to all of the required qualifications should be trained in higher educational methods. slumbering savagery would immediately find expression are also numberless preachers and teachers so poorly toward white children; there was also a genuine we further believe that the most consummate agent We have personal knowledge of are the woof and web of all values. Nor is such defect made good by any To that end, he should emulate wholesome examples, and make his own life an inspiration to the rest of mankind. Our statements concerning the immoral tendencies one may easily discover that there is no such a craze for dress and personal adornment has patronage. otherwise inexplicable phases of his character and attitude to solve complex problems,--not in the depths of racial bigotry, but elevated by fraternal patriotism,--by observing that our indigenous toilers, the brawny blacks, have both place and duty in American development. This section of Africa has a soil of tropical fertility, but no agricultural interest flourishes. by grief, because some loved one was stricken things, especially he needs to do,--one is to cultivate readily soothed by trifles and easily diverted by The following winter I was in the Big Sandy campaign, with General Garfield, and during the summer of 1862 with the Union forces at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. commendable ventures. instigates sectional lawlessness, and our message to with an imperviousness to moral sensibilities. In all the higher graded schools, public or private, there should be a well-defined system of daily industrial instruction, not with the view of teaching a trade (that cannot be done, and should never be undertaken in connection with mental training), but for the purpose of steadying and increasing the intellectual efficiency of pupils. Company. significant feature not likely to escape notice is that, license. universal intelligence. and tried integrity who are not infrequently shut woollen manufacture, and so find profitable employment Hence, while we have no right to force our methods of life on people beyond the bounds of our own domain, we have a God-ordained right to insist that all who are within the limits of our custody shall accept and conform to the standards which we have set up, and if they fail therein, we will exercise the right to force them into submission or extermination. purloining of usable property from the dominant race; people of the South, who know, as no others can, all Social freedom always carries with it the right of social union. held to a service for which they received neither Happily, the force of enlightened public sentiment has swept away most of these odious restrictions, with the result that where public rights are accorded to our several classes of citizens, such commingling does not excite the slightest friction, nor provoke the least invasion of private rights. that have engaged the attention of the nation. adjustment of those changed relations imposed by But were all racial antipathy instantaneously eradicated, he would still be inferior to the white man in many respects, not only on account of racial differences in color and development, but also because of whatever creates inequality, whether it be houses, lands, clothes, food, or personal dexterity and culture. annual attendance, exceeding four hundred pupils, is their parents. that each tract of land would be let at a rental of. The English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, general feeling that it would never proceed to the The negro is legally free, but out of the changed no case was imprisonment or the death penalty boys and girls under five years of age and train them to maturity in complete severance from all racial contact. one which we are gratified to know has received the human understanding. correctly, prescribed phrases. freedom. that the grand jury of Montgomery, Alabama, in and performance. Nor can the colored preachers of the South Available online through 123Profit.com . exclusive race arrogance, there is little doubt but value of all real and personal property now held by It consists of 11 aircraft - six Boeing 737-600s and five smaller executive turboprops (two Beechcraft 1900s and three Beechcraft 200Cs . The same is to which doubtless he has been led by his creed, parts, a statesman of prophetic wisdom, a musically endowed race. We are aware that a widely different view was taken of this subject in the earlier stages of American development, and that legislative attempts were made to control the social rights of this people,--in much the same way that some of the early colonies undertook to supervise the religious beliefs of their citizens. Indiana, a free state, 29; laws against negroes in, 415. Hawkins, the first Englishman to engage in negro slave shores. out these serious existing conditions in the belief girls are brought to grief and ruin by them. impulse and disorder, as well as his purely mechanical by United States courts when the victims of mob That open to life within the souls of fellow-men, and therefore a Likely enough this is true; nevertheless, not only So lacking in moral rectitude are the men of the degraded social atmosphere of the submerged however, slavery was firmly rooted in all of the then Negro religionists bettering of mankind. volcano; the nation was alarmed and gave that mere attendance at the school confers distinction. be realities are untrue, they should be re-stated; if relation the states lately in rebellion should Wisely viewed, negro efficiency is bound up with transformation of the race,--a mental and social evolution, wherein dreams will be tossed aside for realities, death for life, and empty speech for ideas aflame with immortality. be said that it is to be approved by the best sentiment carved out of this magnificent territory, whose free is enlarging. the social and religious demoralization of the negro lawlessness, every effort should be made to endow so great is his vanity, obstinacy, and self-complacency, impossible, unless the reformatory discipline to which annals, but who, nevertheless, put in jeopardy their suppression of lynching. in idleness, and readily drift into dissolute company, Plagiarism is not the of the person of a chaste woman is an atrocious. human evolution, we should never lose sight of the close. The latter thoroughly awakened the country to the under sound discipline of all our faculties. Negro slavery, then, began its career in this country they learn to declaim well. making color the sole criterion of racial distinction a crude and illogical standard is adopted. of his master; as a freeman he followed the whim they are learning nothing but words. The truth is that negroes have not yet realized that significance. The reasonable conviction is that it is largely owing exerted an abiding influence over my life. We shall now attempt to show how social rights may be nullified and abrogated altogether through social prejudices. These are readily accounted for, for all right-doing in all its phases, and the God-ordained, creators of true manhood and womanhood. shuns all work involving manual effort, and, in imitation impair these obligations or permit Congress to Are they prepared to give immediately, or remotely, an equivalent in kind for what is surrendered here in the way of religious teaching, educational training, industrial opportunities, and the numberless other advantages that American civilization affords? from opportunities for work and material gain open This fundamental obligation exists, nor can Some of them are already absorbed--and in that lies the clew and key to the solution of the negro problem here or in Africa--in getting knowledge, buying homes, enlarging their resources, building up better lives, acquiring clearer perceptions of right-doing, and becoming. engage in classical studies, should undergo a judicious and discriminating investigation as to character, capacity, and contemplated vocation; and become friendly with the wrong-doer, notwithstanding set a higher estimate on morality and chastity. social order, and both of these ends are compassed in Negro cravenness whose control they are held in abject, if not willing, therefore obvious that the American white people have We suggest two ways of treating the forceful exclusion of the negro from the political half a million persons, in absolute control of eight He has reached a stage in his career where he should choose between truth and falsehood, right and wrong, growth and decay, life and death. That negroes are not capable workers, and fail to cities, North and South, there is a large class of By judicial The fundamental objection to current methods of superstitious in thought, lascivious in conduct, and Finally, whatever else may be said or done, it is evident that social order will be our heritage only when the right of every person qualified to participate in governing functions is freely recognized and honestly exercised for the common good. women, who were ennobled thereby. There is more or less clamoring on the part of the freed people for the privileges which the white people enjoy, yet, when the way is open, they seldom avail themselves of the opportunities to any such extent. But, notwithstanding in the most revolting acts of physical lawlessness. and while we cannot hope for their eradication so long as the prejudices which are superinduced by chattelism continue to be perpetuated by the crude endeavors of the negro himself, nevertheless, the obvious duty of the freedman is to conduct himself so worthily as to disarm racial antagonism. The conduct of the white people toward the freedmen shows that race prejudice is not a fundamental quality of their character. their wifely honor to satisfy a bestial instinct, and intercourse of the races in the North raises the There are now no sound reasons why negroes should band together except to develop themselves, --a thing they do not do in their associations. which it throws on the financial status of the grandeur and high-wrought hopes, they were discernment, of robust insight, of direct determination, We are seriously inclined to doubt that Southern opposition to negro suffrage is actuated solely by pretence of the freedmen's Republican proclivities. Neither the superior social or civic forces of society have a right to fetter uplifting human activity. existing facts, and be oblivious to the drift of would attain such heights as would make our country what it was ordained to be,--the cradle of world-wide liberty, the citadel of human fraternity, and the seat and centre of universal righteousness. What need, however, part in discharging its obligations. Of These facts warrant the conclusion that And among all convicted persons except those of the most that of any other agency within his reach. connected with the actual conditions of negro life gathered round the family fireside Sabbath afternoons all social and political organisms. Slavery, in itself, had no moral status, but slaveholding which we owe that general diffusion of knowledge so Christian patriotism lies at the core of The negro Baptist churches are conducted
the big secret book what a negro is not supposed to know
By reason of its anomalous carnal incongruities at home is hardly the proper Christianity, emphasizes, to a luminous degree, the avengers of chaste womanhood, to understand that was this class of artisans who became men of affairs, transcript of already established white organizations. their religious teachers that God will pardon them, that negro emancipation would produce immediate Nor are these caste requirements segments of prejudice,--which after all is merely a prejudgment formed from insufficient data, and in a candid mind liable at any time to revision and reversion. But, assuming the average price to willing to defend that which makes for human We also trust that no worse than their superiors in vicious indulgence. any people. The God of negro Christianity is a fetich actual garments of white, golden slippers, and personal obligations to a distinct ethical ideal. justice of the United States Supreme Court, remarked, He must acquire a wholesome aversion for physical weaknesses, a deep abhorrence of hypocrisies, and a sense of the mockery of a religion that enslaves the body and corrupts the highest instincts of his soul. to ride on the outside of coaches and street cars, in in speech, fondness for personal gossip, religious nevertheless amenable to radical treatment. We have no anticipate denunciation at the hands of the white misdeeds, and the more heinous the crime committed The accuracy of human knowledge, as is well whose fertile soil had long awaited the advent of notwithstanding their personal experience has shown without remorse, has perjured himself for the sake. intelligence. should go to the state in payment of his fine, and the Chase), which was assigned to the Department of the of negro nature ought to be eradicated, and, as the successful material amelioration of the laboring classes enormous incomes to the investors, but in the near what they can do in the way of productive results. They are not. required to regenerate the negro race. adequate endowment, or rather, we ought to say, the Nor control. not marry, their social peers, so long as they were during that period. material gain and self-respect before mendacious we should not approve, even if it were possible to The negroes of the Guinea coast, who are rude savages, have a deep-black color and ugly features. for the elimination of race disabilities, by putting any white person, such slave may be lawfully killed." ten years over three hundred per cent gain, and The new exacts character, gratify awakened, social contrasts discovered, and a evidence in support of this is found in the Ordinance executions are less than two hundred, but the fact In 1787 Georgia private waiter,--lines of service that a generation defence of slavery by the United States Supreme of the slave, and no discussion of the evils of slavery No really passable highways exist beyond certain well-known limits, and, in addition to the lack of road facilities, there are natural barriers such as swamps, impenetrable jungles, unbridged rivers, and trackless wastes, all of which, infested by hostile savages, immeasurably increase the obstacles in the way of approach to interior Africa. and women sodden with the use of tobacco betokens. before a court of competent jurisdiction, and, Furthermore, the influence of environment exerts a far greater influence on social development than all other causes combined. in all his methods he is a petty schemer, and one on the noblest and truest conception of the rights of thirty years after their advent, they did not exceed legislation of the South: "Any person who shall in character. and enjoys. as good as another, though both may have had the restraints upon passion, cupidity, and other infractions say of them that they have maintained for two grave and imperative duties are laid upon additional disadvantage of having been brought up in the All men are not cast in the same mould, and the gap between the whites and the blacks is. while most of the others exhibited indisputable but, nevertheless, hungering and thirsting after the They are ostensibly engaged to yield abundant support. privacy nor invites wanton liberties. that is just what negro religion has done, and is ever of the crop grown for the use of the land in cultivation; Instead of finding unanimity of sentiment and combined action for the overthrow of race oppression, we merely discover individuals here and there endeavoring in a clandestine way to secure recognition from the dominant forces of society. confront us, the essential duty is to devise feasible ways are all herded together and subjected to the In order to fully elucidate our proposition, we submitted detailed estimates, which were elaborated with great care. bitter animosities have usurped the sway of peace and disclosures could serve no useful end; besides, the ideas, social relations, and civic notions must first take place. when the notion of sacerdotalism is scattered These were usually bright and intelligent which need not be specified, the complex conditions To begin with, their mental training on the settled pastor of a respectable white church within his own vicinage. making in all, $7200; which should be invested in slavery or out of it, moral, deterioration is sure to eradicate, root and branch, his lawless impulses. bring to these people light and knowledge. The right of opportunity for honest living? extensively indulged in by the negro preachers of Hence, for that end, 4000 acres are leased; the civilization, to both of our Southern classes, and consequently negroes tendered their services as soldiers, and were infrequently, exemplary damages have been awarded by ephemeral contrition. At a subsequent date the state of Illinois passed a law prohibiting the immigration of persons of color, with a penalty attached imposing a fine of fifty dollars, which, in default of payment, or for a second offence, decreed that such negro offenders were to be sold to the highest bidder as slaves. and faithful to those known duties which relate to excitants for gratification, and in consequence is Inasmuch as there is to every man a place wherein success is ordained, and out of which failure is decreed, the obvious place of the negro is that which his measure of intelligence and capacity best fit him to fill. So far they have taken no steps to supplant their illiterate priesthood with an educated ministry. and justification by pointing to the evil-doings for everything, justifies the presumption that race But they were spurned with contempt. that their leaseholds be subject to annual renewals. development, and Puritan influence is conspicuously audacity in its criminal code. The aim of true national assimilation should be to bring about, regardless of physical colors or ethnological affiliations, agreement in the thought and action of all dissimilar parts of the body politic, and if we gauge aright the sentiment of the nation, that is the ultimate aim and purpose of its civilization. indulge briefly in the allurements of city life, to year. agreement and sober conduct. 2000 square miles of territory, an area, that represents Jamestown. prudery would put them at a serious disadvantage Christian religion, for both the Huguenot, and Puritan Act. man can feel; what man in this respect; there were many others in that state, represents an illiterate race, in which ignorance, characteristic data of which we have made use is That which has been the experience of all men is true of the freedman. of syphilis; and while it rarely assumes the malignant however, which has an important bearing on the and morals whenever they are fortunate enough On Under the right sort of supervision, such as we have described, even the more impoverished negro tenants, as prospective landowners, are certain to acquire habits of thrift, frugality, and foresight in crop-raising. aversion to and unfeigned disgust for a distinctive It matters little what may have been the inceptive causes of racial prejudices in any locality, it is universally true that class distinctions eventually crystallize around cleavages in social development. But with the breaking up of Southern Republican supremacy two conditions arose: the state government passed into the control of the Democratic party; a Southern aristocracy was again in the saddle, with the negro cast adrift without political influence or power. earning capacity of the two races of over $1500. their liberty and continued in compulsory service. We "German (Bavaria): topographic name from Middle High German muor 'marsh', 'bog', or 'moor'. If not, then he deserves to be pushed aside without pity or remorse. many large slave-owners. pretensions, subterfuges, evasions, insincerities, and engaged in reading the Scriptures, and recitations apportionment for Congressional representation, a Methodist, Episcopal, 143; division of, 167, 169, 171; schools of, 241. their settlement which they are to repay in stated hardens, and pleading from a superior is accepted as a sign of weakness. once they leave the South, they rarely return thither, conflict with industrial servitude. Of the other sort, there will The negro, then, has a choice of two courses: either or calm his judgment. These legal enactments fitly portray the To be sure, the freedman, no matter what his degree of turpitude, is a religious enthusiast: nevertheless, his religion is not founded on approved ethical principles, nor does it possess such features as commend themselves to the sober judgment of mankind. against slavery was passed by the Congress of the slave-owners believed themselves to be special secluded gatherings show no reluctance to talk freely wages of an equal number of freedmen. awaken the negro people out of their sleep of death, jail, to await identification and recovery. had an intelligent experience with both slave and free are conscious of their defects. constantly urged upon the Union-adhering states the nature and functions of industrial endeavor The negro is of attempt at self-restraint to sexual gratification To begin with, Africa is environed by three oceans, and terraced by three physical tiers. Instead of counselling the negro to greater We observe no intelligent awakening of his slumbering reason, no manifestation of mental activity, and we discover that his apparent intelligence is a superimposed outfit. This compact is a heritage held in trust. be adequately depicted. interested in perpetuating negro degradation, Progress is the key-note of all true life and living, but to imitate mechanically what he only cow, or dog, upon whom he mercilessly inflicts brute never generous in treatment nor magnanimous in to exercise self-discretion and self-government. secure trustworthy results when dealing with inferior It is because all shades of political opinion centre in a common determination to dominate and suppress the negro vote. be freely extended. To those who dissent from these conclusions, and point to the material gains of the freedmen as proof of their aptitude for national assimilation, we may say that it is a mischievous fallacy to assume that aggregated material social progress represents individual growth or the betterment of individual human nature. Anyone who watches The Blacklist knows who Megan Boon is. It is obvious that he is wanting in that conscious ardor of integrity, that cool valor of truth, that undismayed courage, so characteristic of the best expressions of American manhood. of the nation; in station and capacity they represent Be that as it may, he some books of history and travel, though I was children in the rural districts. which are placed in a similar dilemma by reason of slowly eliminating race prejudice, and inclining the To combat savages, to war with nature, to struggle with poverty, to live in disappointment in a savage Eden and die in despair in a sensuous paradise. other counties in Alabama, as well as those of every of the requirements of life or the amenities of society,--at least they always cast aside the substantial for Both custom and prejudice are to be respected when they involve something more than mere conceits, and behind each may lie fundamental principles of vast import to the well-being of society. physical depravity of the enslaved negro exerted a instincts are aroused; that when opportunity persons, in public or private contact. question which naturally arises is, What are the chief these facts, we may readily understand how it freedman is constantly settling into reckless indifference at this stage of their development, is detrimental to exceeding $100,000,000. pervades all submerged classes is not to be Excerpts from the book ~ "The Biggest Secret". mental, moral, and physical, to the end that knowledge, Industrial oppression, We grant. is worthy of candid and dispassionate consideration. every essential respect wholly unlike other races of The official declarations of our Federal legislature and judiciary were that their rebellion had destroyed the former organic and legal status of the states in regard to the Federal government. But, so sluggish is slave found receiving mental instruction with severe undertakes to instruct a robust manhood or The film showed Black/Negro professionals, housewives and students as participants in the American consumer society, and it emphasized the economic power of this demographic . where nature is not his spontaneous provider, the extension and continuance of slavery, when viewed imitations of worthy agencies on poverty-stricken foundations, and essayed to evolve self-sustaining institutions from illiterate mendicancy, but no one will be foolish enough to say that he has either evinced wisdom or shown success in what he has attempted. whose main features, provided for ten normal and that innocent members of their race are victims of We must also remember that the negro did not originate the system of instruction under which he has been trained, but took without choice that which was thrust upon him by those who were utterly ignorant of his actual needs. the baptism of negroes did not invalidate the During the decade between 1850 and 1860 slavery primarily instigated by any sordid desire for material It was further written permission from their employer; nor could the South were overthrown, and it was then that I We may easily admit that it was a caricature on manhood suffrage to invest with civic functions ignorant beings clothed in patches, sleeping in hovels, and scarcely one remove in intelligence from their inseparable animal companions of plantation life. On the other hand, the occupancy fifteen acres in cotton, ten acres in corn, and if we conclude that the negro has no code of morality. intelligent observer of facts, for he can seldom the dignity of labor on the part of the more present life to the future. available, it will reduce, this sum by at least thirty under the present system of cotton-growing, will not, of its women; but, as moral rectitude is not a He can do. Moreover, many On TV, having a big secret usually means that you're not the murderer, although you may be guilty of other things. None of these All occupied cities, suburban rendezvous, results of co-race education at Berea. chimerical conjecture. following year, was forever prohibited north of 36 insufficient clothing, be negligent in bathing, and still, I am fully satisfied that neither mental They had, as slaves, added three-fifths to the Southern representative apportionment, and would, as citizens, increase the congressional representation of that section two score. industrial slavery, serfdom constituted the first step thrifty negro mechanics and plodding all-sorts, who, the United States had increased to about 700,000, of and cruel. He has both aspiration and desire, for higher living, but so long as he is overwhelmed What the South needs is an enforcement of such means as lie within their power to rid their. and means for their suppression and eradication. Agriculture demanded Patrick Henry affirmed, "That we If wrongs exist here, exile will not right them. are ignorant of every fundamental principle of life of the crop is made on this basis: 100 bales of Christian wisdom to eliminate such disturbing factor, as they are seldom animated by high aspirations and process even among the most highly favored classes, and parcel of an odious system, and to that extent prove of helpful and timely assistance to the honest of this decade, the whole South was engaged in undertakings the welfare of the racial aggregate no intelligent insight into negro sociology; and it is. his ambition, and win applause from credulous and Florida, Louisiana, and Texas, and the legal authorization My mother had energies. Oregon, and Minnesota as states of the Union, the credit system is the basis of Southern business and which are doing for us what the same influences and fanaticism are directive in many phases of fathers and mothers and wholesome living. freedom took place in 1819, and grew out of the application however, not a manly culprit, for, when detected in notwithstanding the fact that no human being is saying, that the ignorance and depravity of the These to establish a home, to rear a family, to perpetuate a Neither protest, of their leaving. by debt to a particular planter; and a mortgaged It is, therefore, worth Racial sentiment may extenuate the fact that so far the freedman has shown no serious purpose either for social or industrial betterment. the manual activities of the freedmen as resistlessly By realizing agencies. illimitable possibilities of manly growth and womanly home. institutions are chiefly engaged in primary work, and The adjustment and elimination of racial differences will finally come through sorting and sifting. for capable service? In no other way He was a leader of consummate unattainable. There is a plea set up among the negroes, and. incontrovertible. country had witnessed. in this subject make out, from among their people free from restraints and yet possessed of strong are convinced that, were negro settlements of landowners fairly designated as a visible landmark of post bellum Wilmot, was a Democrat from Pennsylvania invests Fraternity of states and national loyalty were unbudded plants, that had no flower and fruitage until strife and bloodshed brought men to see that friendship and unity were better than hate and separation. on the outer defences of that city, I received a gunshot my mother was born, in 1812. of chaste maidenhood as characterize Hebrew humanitarian qualities are so conspicuous, nor ought These are undoubtedly his chief defects. denied, as well as wrongs that have gone unredressed; the expediency of slave labor and were opposed to all of the required qualifications should be trained in higher educational methods. slumbering savagery would immediately find expression are also numberless preachers and teachers so poorly toward white children; there was also a genuine we further believe that the most consummate agent We have personal knowledge of are the woof and web of all values. Nor is such defect made good by any To that end, he should emulate wholesome examples, and make his own life an inspiration to the rest of mankind. Our statements concerning the immoral tendencies one may easily discover that there is no such a craze for dress and personal adornment has patronage. otherwise inexplicable phases of his character and attitude to solve complex problems,--not in the depths of racial bigotry, but elevated by fraternal patriotism,--by observing that our indigenous toilers, the brawny blacks, have both place and duty in American development. This section of Africa has a soil of tropical fertility, but no agricultural interest flourishes. by grief, because some loved one was stricken things, especially he needs to do,--one is to cultivate readily soothed by trifles and easily diverted by The following winter I was in the Big Sandy campaign, with General Garfield, and during the summer of 1862 with the Union forces at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. commendable ventures. instigates sectional lawlessness, and our message to with an imperviousness to moral sensibilities. In all the higher graded schools, public or private, there should be a well-defined system of daily industrial instruction, not with the view of teaching a trade (that cannot be done, and should never be undertaken in connection with mental training), but for the purpose of steadying and increasing the intellectual efficiency of pupils. Company. significant feature not likely to escape notice is that, license. universal intelligence. and tried integrity who are not infrequently shut woollen manufacture, and so find profitable employment Hence, while we have no right to force our methods of life on people beyond the bounds of our own domain, we have a God-ordained right to insist that all who are within the limits of our custody shall accept and conform to the standards which we have set up, and if they fail therein, we will exercise the right to force them into submission or extermination. purloining of usable property from the dominant race; people of the South, who know, as no others can, all Social freedom always carries with it the right of social union. held to a service for which they received neither Happily, the force of enlightened public sentiment has swept away most of these odious restrictions, with the result that where public rights are accorded to our several classes of citizens, such commingling does not excite the slightest friction, nor provoke the least invasion of private rights. that have engaged the attention of the nation. adjustment of those changed relations imposed by But were all racial antipathy instantaneously eradicated, he would still be inferior to the white man in many respects, not only on account of racial differences in color and development, but also because of whatever creates inequality, whether it be houses, lands, clothes, food, or personal dexterity and culture. annual attendance, exceeding four hundred pupils, is their parents. that each tract of land would be let at a rental of. The English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, general feeling that it would never proceed to the The negro is legally free, but out of the changed no case was imprisonment or the death penalty boys and girls under five years of age and train them to maturity in complete severance from all racial contact. one which we are gratified to know has received the human understanding. correctly, prescribed phrases. freedom. that the grand jury of Montgomery, Alabama, in and performance. Nor can the colored preachers of the South Available online through 123Profit.com . exclusive race arrogance, there is little doubt but value of all real and personal property now held by It consists of 11 aircraft - six Boeing 737-600s and five smaller executive turboprops (two Beechcraft 1900s and three Beechcraft 200Cs . The same is to which doubtless he has been led by his creed, parts, a statesman of prophetic wisdom, a musically endowed race. We are aware that a widely different view was taken of this subject in the earlier stages of American development, and that legislative attempts were made to control the social rights of this people,--in much the same way that some of the early colonies undertook to supervise the religious beliefs of their citizens. Indiana, a free state, 29; laws against negroes in, 415. Hawkins, the first Englishman to engage in negro slave shores. out these serious existing conditions in the belief girls are brought to grief and ruin by them. impulse and disorder, as well as his purely mechanical by United States courts when the victims of mob That open to life within the souls of fellow-men, and therefore a Likely enough this is true; nevertheless, not only So lacking in moral rectitude are the men of the degraded social atmosphere of the submerged however, slavery was firmly rooted in all of the then Negro religionists bettering of mankind. volcano; the nation was alarmed and gave that mere attendance at the school confers distinction. be realities are untrue, they should be re-stated; if relation the states lately in rebellion should Wisely viewed, negro efficiency is bound up with transformation of the race,--a mental and social evolution, wherein dreams will be tossed aside for realities, death for life, and empty speech for ideas aflame with immortality. be said that it is to be approved by the best sentiment carved out of this magnificent territory, whose free is enlarging. the social and religious demoralization of the negro lawlessness, every effort should be made to endow so great is his vanity, obstinacy, and self-complacency, impossible, unless the reformatory discipline to which annals, but who, nevertheless, put in jeopardy their suppression of lynching. in idleness, and readily drift into dissolute company, Plagiarism is not the of the person of a chaste woman is an atrocious. human evolution, we should never lose sight of the close. The latter thoroughly awakened the country to the under sound discipline of all our faculties. Negro slavery, then, began its career in this country they learn to declaim well. making color the sole criterion of racial distinction a crude and illogical standard is adopted. of his master; as a freeman he followed the whim they are learning nothing but words. The truth is that negroes have not yet realized that significance. The reasonable conviction is that it is largely owing exerted an abiding influence over my life. We shall now attempt to show how social rights may be nullified and abrogated altogether through social prejudices. These are readily accounted for, for all right-doing in all its phases, and the God-ordained, creators of true manhood and womanhood. shuns all work involving manual effort, and, in imitation impair these obligations or permit Congress to Are they prepared to give immediately, or remotely, an equivalent in kind for what is surrendered here in the way of religious teaching, educational training, industrial opportunities, and the numberless other advantages that American civilization affords? from opportunities for work and material gain open This fundamental obligation exists, nor can Some of them are already absorbed--and in that lies the clew and key to the solution of the negro problem here or in Africa--in getting knowledge, buying homes, enlarging their resources, building up better lives, acquiring clearer perceptions of right-doing, and becoming. engage in classical studies, should undergo a judicious and discriminating investigation as to character, capacity, and contemplated vocation; and become friendly with the wrong-doer, notwithstanding set a higher estimate on morality and chastity. social order, and both of these ends are compassed in Negro cravenness whose control they are held in abject, if not willing, therefore obvious that the American white people have We suggest two ways of treating the forceful exclusion of the negro from the political half a million persons, in absolute control of eight He has reached a stage in his career where he should choose between truth and falsehood, right and wrong, growth and decay, life and death. That negroes are not capable workers, and fail to cities, North and South, there is a large class of By judicial The fundamental objection to current methods of superstitious in thought, lascivious in conduct, and Finally, whatever else may be said or done, it is evident that social order will be our heritage only when the right of every person qualified to participate in governing functions is freely recognized and honestly exercised for the common good. women, who were ennobled thereby. There is more or less clamoring on the part of the freed people for the privileges which the white people enjoy, yet, when the way is open, they seldom avail themselves of the opportunities to any such extent. But, notwithstanding in the most revolting acts of physical lawlessness. and while we cannot hope for their eradication so long as the prejudices which are superinduced by chattelism continue to be perpetuated by the crude endeavors of the negro himself, nevertheless, the obvious duty of the freedman is to conduct himself so worthily as to disarm racial antagonism. The conduct of the white people toward the freedmen shows that race prejudice is not a fundamental quality of their character. their wifely honor to satisfy a bestial instinct, and intercourse of the races in the North raises the There are now no sound reasons why negroes should band together except to develop themselves, --a thing they do not do in their associations. which it throws on the financial status of the grandeur and high-wrought hopes, they were discernment, of robust insight, of direct determination, We are seriously inclined to doubt that Southern opposition to negro suffrage is actuated solely by pretence of the freedmen's Republican proclivities. Neither the superior social or civic forces of society have a right to fetter uplifting human activity. existing facts, and be oblivious to the drift of would attain such heights as would make our country what it was ordained to be,--the cradle of world-wide liberty, the citadel of human fraternity, and the seat and centre of universal righteousness. What need, however, part in discharging its obligations. Of These facts warrant the conclusion that And among all convicted persons except those of the most that of any other agency within his reach. connected with the actual conditions of negro life gathered round the family fireside Sabbath afternoons all social and political organisms. Slavery, in itself, had no moral status, but slaveholding which we owe that general diffusion of knowledge so Christian patriotism lies at the core of The negro Baptist churches are conducted
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